Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-04-21
NEWS ITEMS

NEWS ITEMS
Tue Halifax JosrFal Of the 9Th instant, says
that salmon are beginning to make their appear,
anee in the market, and adds that 81 were paid
for one last week.
from an officer Of the army stationed in Arizo-
IA, New Mexico, which states that Arizona pos
sesses one Of the finest climates in the world;
and is rich in gold and silver mines
THE advices from Rotterdam by the Niagara
state that the spring sales of Coffee at ANS
terdam amounted to 239,GI6 bags Java, and
brought an advance of la2 cents.
FoREsT, the tragedian, declines an invitation
10 play in Chicago. He said good bye to that
city once, and it would harrow his feelings to
repeat the farewell. Besides he mas the govt,
which must be a serious inconvenience in tear
ing passion to tatters Only imagine thejealous
othelIO limping about the stage with swollen
toes
Rev ASTOIyETTE BRowS, more recently Rev.
Mrs. Blackwell. seems to have made failure in
her first pastoral The church at South Butler,
y Y, over which she was settled, is dis
solved and the Westinghouse closed
TnR- new British Parliament is the fifth of
Queen Victoria, and the seventh of the Re
formed" Parliaments. The average age Of the
+ last six has been about four years. The shOr-
test, elected in 1882, lasted one year and eleven
/ months only the longest, which in 1871, placed
{ Sir Robert Peel in power, lasted five years and
eleven months. The late Parliament, elected in
( July, 1852, wanted few months of being five
/ years old on the day of its dissolution. No
ID n, IL,
death, as defined by the SeptenniaI Act.
/ Mr.. SPRINGER, student in the Illinois Col-
/ Iege at Jacksonville has raised great stir by
/ speaking of politics in coIege-piece of deela-
nation. The faculty rebuked him and would
not listen to his defence. Failing to find redress
within the walls of the college, he went outside
and published a statement of the case. Then
the Professor of Rhetoric made counter state
ment, but was put down by the class with con-
temptous misses. Next day, the offending stu
dent was expelled. The excitement in the col
lIege was intense, ard the young men are in
transports of wrath.
VIZ regret to have to announce that there is
no longer any hope of the recovery of Thomas
Crawford, the American sculptor, \ letter
from Paris, dated March 29th, says: Mr..
CFGwJord is A0psLessly beyond 6unaan aid" 1t
also states that the physicians have discontiu-
ued their visits, and all that can be done now
lis to alleviate his suferings as much NOS
In IIraI result This intel
lligence will be received with grief throughout
the country, and the loss will be severely felt
in every part of the world where genius is APP
preciated.
Tue iron interest of Pennsylvania in 1855 is
thus summed up: 4s9, 1s6 tons of iron made, of
which 27s,941 tons were anthracite pig iron,
66,9TO hot blast charcoal iron, 81, 225 cold blast
charcoal iron, $3.50 coal iron, II, 50Oraw btu
ninous coal iron. OF finished iron there were
manufactured 227, sS7 tons, as follows 12l $50
tons Of nails, rods and bars; s. 107 tons of rails
i21 500 tons sheet and plate; ., 6T5 tons ham
mered bars
THE General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States 20. 81 meets in
Lexington, KY, On the 2lst of May next The
n 5. Assembly will meet on the same day in
Cleveland, Ohio.
Brsuor HuGHEs, of New York, has library
containing 5000 volumes
IT is rumored that the Hon. Samuel Houston
win bea candidate for Governor of Texas. in
opposition to the Democrats candidate.
A GENTLEMAN from the rural districts, accord
ing to the Memphis Bulletin, came to that city
anxious to know if 'Jeemes Buchanan was
elected President, and upon being replied to in
the affirmative, he swallowed down a tumbler
full of the genuine red eye pronouncing it
''all right" He had not been in town for seven
months, did not read the newspapers, and was
in consequence not fully posted.