Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-19
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wall around our borders and sliEeto ourselves"
GaEAT DECLINE II, EIiE Pace; OF CoRS.-Sincc
the news of the opening Of navigation in the
Western rivers corn has declined in this market
40 to 80 cents and was selling yesterday 1T 60
to % cents per bushel.-N. o. Data, 5b inst.
E WE learn that on Saturday two Virginia gem
tlenen, Messrs Stodwell and Lee, of Isunenburg,
met near the residence of F. p. Blair, Esq, in
the vicinity of Bladensburg, and after exchang-
ing several harmless shots, returned to Wash
ington, a reconciliation having been effected by
the Intervention Of friends.
Az exchange says; at is curious !act that
the collections taken in the churches, last Sun
day, were almost entirely composed of deprcci-
ated Spanish coin-charity, with oper cent
OFF,
Is the interior of Peru there has been discoy-
cred beautiful tunnel UNDER a river, the work
of the old Inca Indians, and lasting proof of
their civilization.
n. P. WINS gravely, announces that snow
birds viii not leave their NESTS, even to eat,
when the thermometer is below zero
a FRIEND in describing the sulpher waters of
Virginia, says they taste more like a strong de-
coction-of leather brooches that any other drink
that tic Is acquainted with.
BuFrNLo and Montreal have been pittcd
against each other in an elegant but friendly"
struggle for canine supremacy a celebrated
fight came off at tile latter city on the 9th inst,
between two dogs from the two cities; for $500
side, and after struggle Of o;c. two hour:,
Butlalos champion was slain.
A WOMAN iii Troy, Pa, recently becoming
annoyed by the mysterious disappearance of her
butter, adopted the plan of poisoning it, in or
der to detect the thief She accordingly inn
pregnatcd batch with strychninc and placed it
where it would be stolen; and in a few days
thereafter several of the boarlers in an adjoin-
house fell dangerously i'll. The woman was
arrested, and at last accounts was in Jail await
ing trial.
The Kansas Land Office is to be opened at
Lecompton, within few weeks for receiving
payments on presumption claims. T
An INGENIOUS SELL. '-''Ehe greatest ass is
the greatest spiritualist" The Spiritual 7ele-
graph, of New York, publishes poem purport-
ing to be from the spirit of boy ten years old,
the first letters of each line of which compose
the above quoted sentence!
TnE last Cumberland Cictliaa says, that, as
you pass along the street, you may any day hear
men exclainl, as they lean against the wall, with
their hands in their brecchespockets, that Cum
5erland Is. finished; that there is nothing for
any body to do there; that poor man has no
business there.
The Richmond ErGmiHer says that ''as mo-
happy North, they pub!iSha yolurninous detail
of the Burdcl murder" What philosopher!
AuoEsE-DEALEl,, describinga used up horse
said he looked ''as he had been editing daily
newspapers"
Mn JAMES b. CLAY's fine Dutchess bull, Roy
al Duke, died of disease Of the heart, near Lex
ington, Ky, last week. lie was thought by the
best Judges to be one of the finest animals of
his species every brought to Kentucky.
PARIS was recently thrown into intense excite
ment by the announcement that the imperial
baby nose was stopped up with cold, which
it was feared would settle in the head. orlean-
lists and Legitimists' stock Immediately took a
rise. s
TnE noted Morgan horse, known as Champion
Black Hawk, formerly owned by Messrs, Ladd
of Richmond, Ohio, has recently been sold to n
party in Illinois for $1,000.
a BUFFALO paper says the following method
of Garroting has been introduced into that city.
tits said to be painful:
"As u gentlttnan was abont leaving house
in the fashionable quarter of the city, where he
had been spending the evening, pair of white
arms were thrown around his neck, and his lips
sthed. The suddenness of the attack deprived
him of all powers of resistance. As usual, no
policemen were to be seen"
THOMAS JENNINGS, one of the carriers of the
Baltimore Patriot, has been robbed of $500,
his hard earnings for many years.
IT came out on a recent trial in New York.
that the business of the Manhattan Gas Compa-
ny doubles every three years. The Company
has now $4,000 consumers, and $500 street
burners.
A WAsuNGToS letter in Saturdays Tribune
says Judge Daniel has intinated an intention to
resume his seat this week on the bench, which
has been vacant since tiie fatal accident that be-
fcl his wife. As soon as he appears the Court
will proceed ut once with consultations in the
Missouri case, which has been suspended, owing
to his absence, and deliver the decision within
few weeks. aa Hsa ssaf.1z
IHE case OF MISS Salle stafford, oil New I orK,
against Mr. B. n. Barton, for rape, has been
concluded, and Mr. Carton, acquitted, the young
woman being in high state of nervous pros
tration, having been overwhelmed with confu-
sion in court The prosecuting counsel-in the
case, made wrathful speech consuming the
counsel for defense for allowing the reporters
the privilege of copying the private letters of
Miss Stafford to her friends in Philadelphia.
G. ". KENDALL, the former well-known edi-
tor of the New Orleans Picayune, nuw resides
uear New Braunfrls, Texas He owns \ cattle
ranch, where he has fine stock of mares, horn
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