Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-24
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New York, continue very large, and the eyes OF
those who control our banks all over the coun-
try, indeed the eyes of all who know any thing
of cause and effect, are watching the d0sor0iag
Ioperation there with the liyeliest interest. On
Monday evening the depository of the govern
ment at New York, known as the sub-treasury,
held ncarly fifteen millions Of dollars, being an
increase in one day over the payments of over
ono million of dollars This is an amount un-
heard of since VIC were government
/ TnE Winchester Yirgiaian says:-Appre-
tensions of considerable injury TO our staple
crop in this quarter, donot seem to besustained.
| On limestone lands the wheat seldom looked bet
ter this season. On lighter soils the frost has
done more mischief From many portions of
Eastern Virginia the accounts are very gloomy
Mn. WILKINSON, of Smithfeld, R. l., led out
three fat hogs to be slaughtered, and while he
and his assistants were butchering one, the two
others mysteriously disappeared, and nothing
could be found of them for six weeks; Mt length
they were discovered within forty rods of the
spot They had subsisted under the snow upon
what they could find there, and upon their own
fat, of which each had lost about one hundred
pounds.
| A SEW prohibitory law has been reported in
the State Senate of New York by majority of
the select committee upon that subject Itmakes
it misdemeanor for any person to sell intoxi-
eating liquors rs beverage, punishable by fine
and imprisonment, and makes it an offence pun
ishable by fine to be intoxicated in my public
place.
Mr.. ELIAS conDs, in New York, has sued
Horace Greedy for libel. On the eighth of March
last an article was published in the Tribune, sta
ting that Combs had been escorted home few
evenings before by female committee from one
of the porter houses in the vicinity of Mr.
Combs residence The defendant lays his dam
ages at S., 900.
/. OK Tuesday, the wife of citizen of Peters
burg gave birth to a child with two tongues
Both parent and child are doing as we'll as can
be expected
TuE Legislature of Michigan has adjourned
sine die. Among the acts passed by that body
was one for Banking Law, granting aid TO
Michigan cmigrants in Kansas, and organizing
an Independent supreme Court ReSoIurlUnS
lin favor of admitting Kansas as a free State
were also adopted.
TnE Legislature of Pennsylvania has before it
bill prohibiting the circulation in that State of
any bank note issued by any bank, incorpora-
ted company or association of persons not loca-
ted in Pennsylvania
PAPERs from various quarters unite in pro
nouncing the fruit crop uninjured thus far
There is abundant opportunity for its destruc
ton yet. Late Spring frosts are as fatal as win
tcr's cold.
TnE highest single passenger fare in the world
is 9l65, (ss25,) which is the sum charged by
the Penninsular and Oriental Company for
passage from Southampton to Shanghai.
A STORY writer says "Florabelle clasped her
wide white brow with her two hands as if to
still the thunder Of thought booming through
her brain p How her head must have ached
with such noise in it.
To SUFFEREns.-A decayed gentleman, who
has for many years been subject to attacks OF
creditors, is DESTROYS of making known the
means by which he was cured Letters enclos-
ing postage stamp can be left under the door
during the nisht.-Rarttord Free Press.
MArrAEw KERR died few days ago in st.
Louis, aged eighty years He had been resi-
dent of that city for half century, and was the
first American merchant settled there.
TnE local editor of the Buffalo Commercial
(who is physician, by the way) is advocating
the publication of births in the newspapers
He thinks them of moreimportance than deaths,
for the reason that when man is dead he is
done with, but when he is born he is only, begun
with.
AccorSrs from Salt Lake state that Brigham
Young is fast declining towards the grave. His
two hundred prospective wives are already pre-
pairing their mourning fixins for general cry.
| Tue New York Mirror says that Miss Heron
is almost too naturali in her delineatiOns-that in
her '.sick scene" in Camille she picks her teeth
with her fingers, and draws up her knees and
clasps them in her hands in most inartistic and
shockingiy natural manner.
II is said that, in consequence of the scarcity
of apples, tho people of Sunapee, Newberry,
and other towns in Sullivan county, n. H., have
introduced the practice of setting raw turnips,
carrots, etc, on the light stand in the evening,
in lieuof better fruit"
THE Annapolis Gazette states that the mum
Der of bushels of oysters taken from that city
during this winter is immense. The boatmen
have counted up their gains, and show hand
some pile. Some of them have made as much
as $40 per day; and but few have made as little
as S. to So per day.
If UTAu hasits saints, it also has its sharpers,
Brother Brigham Young, High Priest and first
President of the Mormon Council of Latter Day
Saints at Great Salt Lake City, and hold over
Governor of Utah Territory, thus denounces
some of the carnal minded of the brethren:
1--WE can pick out elders in Israel right here who
can beat the world at gambling who can handle
the cards, can cut and shuttle them with the
smartcst rogue on Gods footstool can pro.
duce elders here who can shave their smartest
shnvers, and take their money from them. We