Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-05-28
NEWS Il EMS.


state that the sculptor, Crawford had been in
London little over week, ander the care of
DIR. Fell, his medical adviser. Mr. Crawford
had endured great pain during his journey from
Paris, but his family are encouraged by the as
surance of the physician that, without prom.
Using cure, he should not have recommended
Mr.. C.'s coming to London, unless he had good
reason to hope for one. A few weeks, the Doc
tor says, will decide the case.
THERE is curious fact said to exist a few
miles south of Greencastle, in Putnam county,
Ind, where there is family of six all having
the same birthday. The father and mother are
each thirty-ave years old, the children respec-
lively, fourteen eleven eight and 1--WE years old.
Their birthdays come on the 18th of Nay.
Sixty persons were poisoned by eating ice
cream at fair in Spencer, Mass, last Wednes-
day night, but by the prompt aid of a physician
no deaths cnsued. 1t is supposed some poison
ing substance was accidentally placed in the
cream.
ABOUFtwelvs thousond negroes left the Uni.
ted States for Africa during the last year. More
than half of them were enancipated for the
purpose
III. ZENoLER, of the New York Medical Col.
loge, was blown out of his room by an explo.
sion, and everything smashed in the laboratory,
where he was attempting to fill large India
rubber bag with oxygen gas. People in the
neighborhOod hearing the noise thought an ar.
irving steamer had fired a gun
J. s. JENKINS, U. 8. consul at the Navigator
Islands has been arrested in Washington and
thrown into jail, to await requisition fromthe
Governor of New York, on charge of piracy
in forcibly seizing and selling, at Alps, the val.
uablc cargo of the ship Eudorres
HENRY 0'RELIY, Of Geographic fame, offers
to the U. s. government to build, at his own ex-
pense, telegraphic line to the Pacific, if mill
tary protection against Indians be afforded.
TAG Washington Union has an article on the
Diplomatic appointments, in which applicants
for those prominent berths arc warned that nine
out Of ten must be Disappointed, while all are
cautioned to preserve patience, the time of the
President being so much engrossed that he can
scarcely do justice to half the demands that are
made upon him.
JOHS FaANkESsrEIN, the artist, has been COM
missiOned to make a marble bust of the dis
tinguishsd Judge Mclean.
TnE chief reason why the appointments are
not made at once is, that Mr.. Buchanan is up to
his eyes in personal pledges to his numerous
friends, which could not be redeemed, even if
the number of offices, Diplomatic and Consular,
were quadrupled.
ORsON PRATT, the Mormon Elder, has been
killed by man named Hector, whose wife he
had seduced. The occurrance took place on the
14th inst, near Van Buren,, Arkansas.
A oESrLENAN of this; city, says the N. Y.
Mirror, celebrated the sixthfnnniversary of his
marriage on Thursday, by sending his wife
beautiful basket of flowers, and a deed for
100000 house on the Fifth Avenue.
New ORLEANS papers, of Tuesday of last
week, contain Galveston dates to the 18th inst
General Houston had declared himself a can
didate for Governor of Texas, and commenced
stamping the State.
THB Executive Committee Of the Kentucky
Horticultural Society reports, that the fruit
crops generally in Kentucky will exceed the
average yield, but the crop of peaches will be
light.
THE steamer Circassian brought to Portland
a company of about two hundred persons from
Wales, bound to the State of Tennessee, where
they have purchased lands, and intend to To-
cate themselves. They are accompanied by
their pastor, Rev. Mr.. Roberts, who is the chief
of the party.
'HOw many dcathsP" asked the hospital ply
stefan. mime" "Why, 1 ordered medicine
for ten" eyes, but one would not take it"