Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-09-04
SUMMARY.

WHILE the exercises OF Amherst College COM
mencement were in full progress, the Express
there tells us, 3 sedate bachelor Was SO enraptur
ed with the charms Of the young lady whom he
had escorted there, that he commenced vigor-
Gus courtship in whispers so loud as to be dis
tinctly heard by not few who sat near. Not
withstanding sundry slight rebuffs, which serv-e
ed only 70 increase the ardor of his attentions,
he at'length popped the question, and was re-
iected. The verdict OF those who overheard
was-'served him right
PAKEER H. FREycH has taken French leave Of
California. He has had varied experience
Within eight years he las kept a tavern down
east been a stock dealer on the plains, editor of
a know nothing organ, fiIlibuster in sonorn,
diplomatist in Nicaragua, applicant at the ma
tional capital for plenipotentiaryship, real es'
tate operator in Minnesota, and lastly an editor
at San Francisco.
THE new Mormon alphabet IS Phonetic. Two
or three good photographic reporters are in
Utah, and the sermons which appear in The
Deaerst Nesns are reported by Photography
Phonotophy is now taught as means Of learn.
ing 10 read our ordinary print in number of
achSols in Ohio and Massachusetts In Utahit
is about to be introduced for its own sake, and
the power Of the Elders will. no doubt, cause it
TO be generally adopted to the ultimate exclu-
sion Of the old type
HuAE, the spiritualist, has not succeeded we'll
in his late attempts He pretends that the voy-
age across the ocean has modified his power
He continues none the less, however, the great
lion of high life society. In order, if possible,
to change the tide Of the fluid, he il about to
take up his residence for month or two at
WieSbaden.
! Tue city Of New York alone sells three times
as many "pure, imported brandies, = and four
times as many "pure, imported wines, annual
~, as all the wine and brandy producing coun-
tries export Somebody, it is clear, drinks a
spurious article.
THE English papers state that the venerable
John Hicklng the last ofthe race Of Methodist
preachers sent into the work by Mr.. John Yves
ley, and who is now in the Goth year Ofhis min
istry and the 09d of his age, preached in Liver
pool at the recent ses sion Of the Wesleyan Con
ference in that city.
The merchandisetr transported across the plains
annually from the States for New McxicoHmount
in value to between sir and aeceR MitiioRs q
.lollarsl This is independent Of the vast stool
and overland travel 70 California, and tie yalu'
of the Unitod States mil e
Iris stated ''by authority" that new fashion
is about to be introduced by the ladies' Of Bufa
lo-no less in fact than an immense calaSlrwhcl
is to be attached to tho waists Of the dear crca
lures, to be raised and lowered at pleasure, lik
the top Of buggy Buffalo papers franticalI!
ask ''what next r.
YEsrENDAYs Eastern papers state that Mr.
Ludlow, cashier of the Ohio Trust Company. ha
been arrested in New York, on the suits Of III,
Merchants Bank of Wheeling and the Farmers
Bank Of Virginia.
a Sew use has been found by the Chinese Eo
sugar cane II makes ''first rate whisky, with
out the aid Of stFYchpine. It is sail, too, tina
an invention has been made iurvtystSFliainS tn
syrup by a simple and perfect process. aud tina
the production Of sugar from tile cane viii b
greatly facilitated
Two young females Of HarTisbursh elope,
with some OF the men connected with Eldred'
circus, on Monday night last, and have not since
been heard from.