Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-10-08

TUE Cantharis or Spanish fly, is native of
California. Large numbers Of this insect were
observed some days ago on the island" beyond
the Gnadaloupc, Santa Clara county. They cnn
sometimes be seen there, it is said, in clusters
of swarms, large enough to fill n pint measure.
They nre as easily caught as any other beetle,
and rs the powder of cAnthardies is sold in our
drug stores at n very high figure, there seems
no reason why these little bugs should not be
remarkable commodity.
y CORPORAL with six recruits was on his way
to New York on the cars the other day, when
ns the train WAS going under full Roadway, near
PoughkeOpsie, n recruit leaped off the TRIM
Quick as flash the corporal lcaped after him
and caught him. Strange to say, neither of the
men were badly injured, and the train having
stopped, both resumed their seats.
OuR readers may remember the singular case
of an Irish clergyman. the Rev. Mr. Beamish,)
marrying himself some two or three years ago,
and that the validity of the act was acknOwl-
edged by the court before whom the question
was brought. An appeal being taken, the de-
cision has been lately affirmed by majority of
six to five judges.
a YOUNG man, answering an advertisement
for situation in a Boston store writes that he
resides among the granite hills of New Hamp-
shire, the home of Gen. Pierce, and the birth
place Of the great Webster; and says he Po-
sesses common English education.
| YOuNG married women have been arrested
again in Boston for swindling by the mourning
dodge They were suddenly called to attend n
| funeral and procured black wardrobes>from
sympathizing people.
| Mis- GRAVES, wife of n conductor on the Con-
4 cord and Montreal Railroad, wnS on n visit to
Wells River, vt, the other day, and as she had
never seen the inside of telegraph Office,
visit was paid to it, and the first message that
/ came willie she was there, was one directed to
/ announcing her husbands death.
TuE Panama Star states that Mr. w :'irey
4 Jones had left San Jose, and was in Punt Are
mas OH his way to Nicaragua. His business with
the Costa Rica government still remained mys-
terry; but it was said that he left the capital on
bad terms with the government.
.'You call that good, don't your" said Mr.. Fun
shaw, offering So note on Providence bank
at the bar of one of our hotels. so yes" re-
Piled the attendant, 'it's good undoubtedly, but
like Deacon Cranston's piety when he gets
swearing mad, it is not Immediately availablel"
, KELLEY Low, pastor of the African church,
Augusta, Georgia, was originally slave, but his
people bought him some years ago, and, as lions
Aduooate says: ''he is their servant pecuniarly
as well as spiritually" They allow him salary
! of from $500 to 1000 per annum.
! Eli &. Niehuls, "a young man Of respectable
connections, has been arrested in New York, for
$ embezzling letters containing subscriptions to
Portcr's Spirit of the Times
: Colonel I. b. Thropc, tho "Bee Hunter
stump speaker, editor ofLrsiies Illustrated News
a and Contributor to Harper's Magazine, has lust
n set up his shingc in \. Y city, aud been adj
United to the bar of that State
: By the Star of the West, we have intelligence
of the death, by cholera, of Hon W. E. Venn-
u bic, U. 5. Minister to Guatemala, ON the 22d of
August Mr. V. was a native of North Carroll.
ma, but resident of Tennessee, where he leaves
0 q widow and six children
c REv. NJ. D. CONWAY, late of Washington CITY.
F now of Cincinnati proposes to lecture on Wash,
=. llnston-ltS Congressman, clergy, lobby mem
hers, &c, 6e.-this winter.
: n. P. WILLIS, who has been excursionizinr
. and lionizing lately, at Nantucket, Cape Goa,
8 adj, ALI along shore, has returned to his home
e at "Idlewild" for the winter
s. TaE Nntehez papers say that never before
n has the corn crop been so luxnriant as at pres
ent- Ears Ii inches long, and inches round,
have been exhibited.
OK Saturday about noon, the Star of the
West passed the dead body of a man floating
: upon The surface supported by life-prescryer
! 1t vas OIL the caPes of Virginia, and the Sea was
o rough at the time. It was supposed tn he one
Il oil the passengers Of the Central America.
\ TINS MOrmons do their own coinage and :.
might be expected their $40 pieces arc worth
SOUR fellow says that he always looks nm.
cSr the marriage head for the news Of The ,seGI