Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-09
NEWS ITEN1S

A LARGE number of travellers who were SNOW
ed in on the railroad near Lancaster, Pa, last
week, after passing resolutions of Indignation
towards the railroad managers, amused them
selves by making visit to the President elect
at Wheatland.
CALEB B. ADKINS, late teller of the Washing
ton Bank, Boston, who embezzled $500, has
effected a compromise with his prosecutors, and
legal proceedings are stopped.
TnE Erie Gazette says petition is in circula-
ton asking Congress to appropriate $4,000 to-
wards the erection of monument to the MEM
DRY of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, in the
Erie Cemetery.
SOME graceless scamp in Albany, during the
fire of Thursday night, stole three co6ins from
cabinet warerooml
An order has been adopted in the Massachu-
sets House of Representatives making habitual
drunkenness n cause ofdivorce.
3 SoME. waggish chap who don't appreciate ride
from Ogdensburg to Rouse's PointN. Y, on the
Accommodation train-through in IL hours
ofthe time tables, at Douglass's Hotel-"Passen-
gers are not permitted to leave the cars to snow
ball, ,oeite going on do'On grades."
JOINS G.. SAKE, the funniest Of the funny, af-
ter severe sickness of nearly year, has re-
covered and is again employed in his customa-
ry avOcations.
ALI the men who have been elected Cover
nors of New Hampshire since 1sSsare alive, and
all before that period are dead.
TuE Almanac says that between the 4th and
10th of February we are to have the Coolest
weather of the season. ~
The first full list of the Episcopal clergy in
this country was published in I7TT, and it in
cuded the names of only six Bishops. The
list OF 1850 contains eighteen hundred aud sixty
six clergymen, including thirty-nine Bishops.
TnE New York press cries out loudly for pro-
lection against the scoundrels who infest their
city; some journals even go SO far as to advise
every citizen to carry arms, and shoot down the
thieves like dogs.
WHILE the funeral obseqnies of the late Pres
ton s. Brooks were proceeding at Washington,
on Thursday afternoon, there was unpacked
from the express freight of the California steam
er at New York, splendid cane, inscribed:
''To the Hon. Preston s. Brooks, Washington,
d. c. Presented by the citizens of Tehana,
California.
TuE Bellevue Gazette (Nebraska) states that
one of the members of the Legislature refused
to sit down when ordered by the Speaker. but
called upon an Omaha crowd in the lobby to as
sist him, while they, nothing 10th, sprang over
the railing and got up general row.
n. HuNBoIDT, in his Personal Narrative
states that in the thirteenth century the habit
of eating human flesh prevailed all classes of
society.
Tue Legislature of Michigan has passed reso-
buttons affirming the Jeffersonian doctrine of the
right of Congress to legislate onthe subject of
slavery in the territories.
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Singular CASE OF MARRIAGE.-A corrcspou-
dent of the Abingdon Yirginian, writing from
Marion, Smythe county, relates singular case
OF marriage He says: We have within half
mile Of this place, an individual who has re-
manned in one position fat on his back } for 10
years, or more. His joints are as stiff as though
ho had never had any; be can move his head
slightly, can move his hands little, is unable
TO eat a single mouthful, unless put into his
mouth by another person; is fat, very hearty
and cheerful; and within the last two years
has married good looking and hearty girl, and
is yaising family ofchildren. The clergyman
who married this man, said he had some sCTuples