Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-20
NEws rrEMs.

NEWS ITEMS.
MADAME ocEAxA, the largest-limbed woman
in the world, is in the museum at New Orleans.
lshe weighs 51J pounds, is 9 feet two inches in
circumference, measures 90 inches around the
arm and SO around the calf of her leg, and wears
No. shoes. She halls from Kentucky
"A FAMILY in this city, says the Springfield
Republican, "were all made seriously sick, this
week, from eating of a chicken pie, cooked in a
yellow glazed crockcry dish. The glazing of
such dishes is poisonous, and is absorbed by the
food that's cooked in them. They should be ut
terly discarded from use
Is the course of an article in the London
Times of the 22d of January, upon the British
executive, and the mystery so carefully preser-
vedin England with regard to ministerial affairs,
that journal takes occasion to contrast the brief
explanation by Minister'S in Parliament with the
full and complete reports cmanating annually
from each of the executive departments of the
American government.
! The War Department has received intelligence
from General Wool, dated Benicia, California,
january Sd, saying that peace and qniet prevail
Throughout the department of the Pacific, and
that he has no doubt but what it will continue
as long as the Indians are treated with ordinary
Justice.
a cgLEBxATED D. D. was assaulted by street
robber night or two since, in New York, aud
politely requested to stand and deliver" The
clergyman, quite after the manner of the world,
drew from the folds of his shawl pistol, at
sight of which the Extraordinarily dispersed.
! THE Central American Treaty was discussed
for several hours on Monday, by the Senate in
Executive Session, when its further cOnsidera-
ton was postponed by five majority until the 9TH
of March.
The Senate ratified the Extradidon Treaty be-
tween the United States and the Netherlands.
A MAcHrNisr at Memphis, Tennessee, has con-
trived what he calls marine locomotive, which
| he is confident can be constructed so as to make
thirty miles an hour. The invention consists in
using two huge parallel hollow screws in place
of the present keel and revolving them by
means of steam power, SO that they will cut
their way through the water as common screw
cuts into wood
| THEY deal sumnarily with reniss policemen
in Savannah, Georgia. During the present
week one of them was charged with not being
at his post, going off his ''beat," and using sour
rilous language He was, fined 80 for the first,
| $50 for the second, and suspended for the third
offence.
II, is noticed, as circumstance of some in
terest, that Archbishop Hughes has taken from
the imprint of the Fceeman's Journal, the stand
ing announcement there that it was his official
Organ5"
| MEssRs. wISFrkID scorr and JEFrERsoS DA-
Wis, arc about publishing new work, entitled,
THE Black Guards Manual of orthograpy: a
system of cpistolary tactics adapted to the Bill
lingsgate Rangers"
A GERMAN in st. Louis, named Lieze, has
been fined one hundred dollars for lifting lady
across muddy hole in the street She did not
thank him for his politeness, constituting it into
an insult
The Washington correspondent Of the Journal
Of Commerce thinks that the bill which has pas
sed the House, providing for wagon roads and
post routes to the Pacific, will supersede any
railroad project for years to come The mail
service, under the proposed contracts will COM
mence year hence.
The last foreign arrival brings intelligence of
the death of the Princess de Lieven, who was
married to NJ. Guizot, the distinguished writer
and statesman. She died on the night ofthe 26th
January. She is described as having long been
the center Of Russian political influence in the
French capital.
srxA1oR BRoDERIcr, of California, is stri-
king illustration of the saying of Talleyrand,
that nothing is successful in this world but sue
cess. Mr. Broderick left New York, some six or
seven years since to seek his fortune in Califor-
MIA, after having made an unsuccessful attempt
to be elected member of Congress. He had
been a stone-cutter, porter-house keeper, and
foreman of an Engine Company.
/ The Irish "Corzonians and " Fardowns, .
Judging from accounts, had nice bit of row
at Bergen Hill, New York, in which some dozen
or 50 were killed and seventy or eighty wounded.
JrDGIxG from the articles in the New York
papers, Miss Matilda Heron is outrivalling Mad
anne Rachel in the personation of great tragic
characters. They one and all accord to her the
first place on the American stage.