Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-12
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llargc amount for home supply. It quotes Off
cial figures from the New York Esonontisttand
says: .sThe resources of the country arc being
husbanded in such manner that we feel GER
tain that prices must come down"
HosAcE GREELEY declines being addressed as
an Memorable" like other ex-members of Com
gress, and requests that he may be addressed as
/ simple Horace Greeley Correspondents will
please remember it, and address their letters
';Simplc Horace Greeley, Tribune Buildings,
New York.
a MAS who sits up for an oracle Of the wea-
ther, in these days, runs a frightful risk of be.
ing set down for fool Even the illustrious
Merriam, who boasts Of having aired his legs
every hour of the night for the last fifteen years,
confesses that his observations have been
Stoves labor lost"
WE notice by the papers, that the sands of
life of that retired physician who has been adj
ycrtising in every paper, including the Iatettt-
geacer, are still running, although they had
"neariy run out" AS the boy said about the
molasscs-let them run.
LOLA MoSTEz whose chief claim to immortal
iity rests upon the fact of having been the mis-
tress of king, commenced, few nights ago,
an engagement at Albany. She is said to be
there influencing certain members of the Leg
stature, and has the reputation of being almost
as good politician as a danscuse.
AN interesting volume will DC put to press in
few days, entitled 'rThe progress of Rufffan-
ism in New York City"
Nh T. L. ClMGXAN, who comes from Bum
cornbe, North Carolina, one Of the most sterile,
impoverished and poverty stricken Congress
ional districts in the United States-where the
people drink yapon tea and pay for all the lux
uries they enjoy in turpentine, lightwOod, top
fodder and corn shucks, raised himself on re-
markedly tall pair of stills in the House of Rep
resentatives, few days ago, on the resolution
about the Coolie trade.
IT has been remarked by those who were ac-
quainted with Mr.. Brooks, administration had
become confirmed vice with him since the
Sumner affair. He had seemingly attempted to
drown conscience in the wine cup.
The first number of paper welding the
sweeping cognomen of ''77e Sledgs Hammer Of
Truth and Battle A1s Of Liberty" has made
its appearance in Springfield, Mass, where it
will be regularly issued hereafter. The fabu-
Ions newspaper titles of down east tales are
collapsed.
Tue German emigrants who have settled in
Texas, are now estimated to number $4,000, of
whom 25, 900 are settled in the German and half
German counties of Western Texas
IT is not often an editor of daily paper should
venture upon classical quotation, for when he
does he is pretty sure of finding it thoroughly
murdered by the types. An exchange, in an
article on divorce, astonishes its readers by dis
coursing of ga rineu7a matrimonii"
IT is said that on the Fejee Islands, from 3d.,
900 to 10000 are daily brought under the teach
ing of Christianity. The grass has grown over
the ovens where human victims use to be pre-
pared for food and thousands assemble every
Sabbath day to hear words whereby they may
be saved.
In one of the cantons of Switzerland, ma
jority Of the Catholic Grand Council has de-
creed, in spite of the resistance of the bishops
aud priests, to merge the Catholic schools into
mixed public schools, open equally to Protest
ants and Catholics. c
Alfred Mcdonnell, of Bath, N Y, failed to
keep his word to Margaret Kniffn, in the mat
ter Of little arrangement by which they were
to be made bone of one bone, whereupon MIR
garet sued for and won $3.50 damages.
The Utica Herald states that one of the daugh-
ters of Mrs. Cunningham, who is implicated in
the murder of Dr. BurdelI, when pupil at the
Female Academy in that city, was expelled for
theft
TuE Richmond Wing will make the public ship
er, by its announcement that Lieut. Maury, who
has been pryinginto the mysteries of the season.,
gives us to expect some thirty or forty more
winters as cold as the present and the last,