Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-21
NEMs1TEN1s.

a CLERK in aigrocery store in Troy, N. Y,
last week took an incurrent bill, which his en-
ployer refused to receive. The clerk therefore
took it to broker to get it discounted, when he
was.informed that if he would purchase a lot
terry ticket the bill would be received at its full
valuation He reluctantly did SO, and thought
no more of the matter The other day he drew
aprize of sos.
TnE matter of tho elopement of Moses W.
Hawkes., of Chicago with his business partners
wife, will be remembered. 1t has since turned
out that Hawkes. also took $4,000 worth of
other icwelry, from hispartner. Griswold could
get along without his wife, but he couldn't spare
the remaining $l5, 900 worth.
a CASE, like which, none was ever before
known, probably, has occurred in Saratoga. 1t
is the actual deatt of a mans leg-not paray-
sis, but death-so that decomposition had set
in and Tic leg had become offensive. No cause
for the cessation of the circulation is known,
andno means adopted by skillful physicians
could restore it The leg was finally amputated,
andhopes are entertained that the patient will
like recover.
Tue New York Herald says that last week it
consumed zone ton of ink ana thirty-one tons
of paper as well, doubtless, as an indefinite
quantity of gas.
Six young ladies received the veil in Philadel-
phia, on Wednesday of this week.
Two land warrant forgers were lately sent to
the penitentiary in Maine.
TnE prices Of teas in New York are still tend
ing upwards.
TnE Legislature of Pennsylvania has spoken
out emphatically in condemnation of the pro-
posed removal of the duty upon Railroad Iron.
TuE Senate has passed by largo majority a
bill granting about two and half millions of
acres of land to Minnesota to aid in the construc
ton. OF railroads in that Territory.
LETTERS from Asia Minor announces the death
of the Rev. c. N, RICHTER, the Agent of the
American Bible Society in the East. He died
on the 10th of December, at Diabikar, in Asia
Minor
4 NEWSPAPER writer saysth Mr.. John w.
Forney was some years ago in the habit of car
rying his hea,l and cooking his eyes precisely
aftei. the fashion of his distinguished exemplar
and patron, Mr.. Buchanan. II is possibly that
the result of the late Senatorial election in Penn
sylvnnia may have done something to correct
the visual and jngular obliquity from which Mr..
Forney used to suffer.
a DISTINGUISHED writer, in speaking of Mr..
Webster, says that, with his astonishing mem
tai and physical faculties, he might, with moral
principle, have upheaved the universe y
aTnE American Almanac has been prescribed
in Mobile, Ala. because one of the fy.leaves
contained an advertisement of the n. Y. 7ri-
hume.
As ingenious writer in BlackwoOd's Maya
zine, started theory, that ono of the uses, de-
signed in the order of Providence, of dreadful
accidents, murderers &C., was to furnish para
graphs for thenewspapersl he contended that
as newspapers were necessary to civilized men,
it was necessary that they should be supplied
with fair quantity of the dreadful and horri-
BILE, to give them interest and piq&gaey. If
this be so, the public Journals have fallen at
thistime, upon;an unusually bountiful season.
TnE Inauguration ball room in Judiciary
square, Washington, covers an area of1s.ooo
square feet capable of accommodating Ave thou
sand persons Sixty performers viii compose
the orchestra, and six hundred gas burners
viii dispense lightupon the brilliant scene