Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-17
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Parliament to meet at Toronto on the goth of
the present month.
Mr. SIXoSroN, having overcome his reluctance
to testify before the corruption committee, has
answered the interrogatories put to him, and
been discharged from the custody of the Ser
geant.at-arms of the House of Representatives.
His notions of the Obligations of honor seem to
have been modified by the prospect of fine and
imprisonment, in case he continued contumaci-
Gus.
TnE Democratic press in the Middle States
rem duty on iron. The New York Neps joins
in with the Philadelphia Pennsyloanian in de-
crying any change or reduction. There is now
q very protective Tariff feeling running among
the Middle and Eastern State Democracy.
OPPOSITION TO TUE "TnuNDERER." -The Lon
don Atlas says that the National Newspaper
League Company, whose object is the publica-
ton of first class daily journal, to be called
the Dill, has already disposed of shares to the
amount of between 100000 and $4,000.
TuE cold weather has injured the sugar cane
in Louisiana. In Florida, the cold has benin
tense. The Apalachicola Adoertiser says it is
feared that it has greatly injured,if not entirely
killed, all the orange trees, and other shrubbcry
Indigenous to that climate.
TnE Illinois Central Railroad Company has
appointed clergyman as superintendent of
''track literature" TO suppress all magazines,
newspapers and books having an immoral ten
dency.
TnE Washington correspondent of the South
Side Democrat says that .'Mr. Hunter, of Vir-
ginia, has the offer of Premier, and eoiU accept
it, should the other members of the Cabinet
meet his views and approval.
EDWARD EVERETT still continues his noble ex-
ertions for the purchase of Mount Vernon. He
has already placed in the hands of trustees $12,-
600 at per cent. interest, and $500 at per
cent interest-the proceeds of his oration-for.
the benefit of the Mount Vernon fund.
THE lady of one of the Chicago railroad kings,
recently gave, at the fremont House in that city,
a donation party for the poor. The charity box
was at the end of the hall, amid the festivities
of one of the gayest of dancing parties. 1t told
its own story.-People were passing to and fro
near it; no one knew who gave and who did not
give. There were no solicitations from any one
in the room. Upon opening the box it contains
ed 1915, all given in secret
Hon. WM. a. HARRIS, formerly of Yirginia,
is named in the St Louis Leader, as suitable
candidate for Governor of Missouri. Mr.. Har-
ris was minister to Buenos Ayres, under Presi-
dent Folks administration.
TnE LANCASTER BANK DIFFICuLTY.-Mr. B.
c. Backman late President of the Lancaster
Bank, has been bound over in $4,000, to an
swer the charge of cmbezzlement.
DEATH OF Mn.LIoNAIRE.-Joshua Sears a
well known merchant of Boston, died there on
Saturday last, aged 6S years, leaving an estate
worth one and half millions of dollars.
SOME very funny fellow on train of cars on
the Wabash Valley Railroad, last Friday, thrust
a red hot poker into the hand of the conductor,
which was extended for his ticket burning it
horribly. a brakeman soundly thrashcd apor-
ton of the fun out of the fellow, and he was
then kicked into the gutter at the side of the
track and left to his reflections.
The RURAL New YoRKER reminds farmers that
the wheat fields will need their closest scrutiny
during portions of both February and March.
When the weather is mild and thawing, see
that the surface water is provided with the
will be bushels in the granary after harvest.
Tue Pennsylvania Legislature has adopted
resolutions instructing her United States Sena-
tors and requesting her members of Congress
to vote against any law for the repeal of the
duty on railroad iron.- Good.
Miss TnoRNHILL died in the Eastern Va Luz
natic Asylum lately, having been an inmate
there for forty-five years.
MUNlFICEST DoNAr1oSs.-E. e. Porter, of
Memphis Tenn, has donated 10000 acres of
Arkansas land to the Presbyterian College at
The donor had previously given 10000 acres of
land in the same State to the Methodist Synod
ical College at La Grange, Tenn
THE last number of the Richmond Enquirer,
proposes that the people of our State, should
eject by force, or otherwise, all the Northern
pedlers, who come within our limits. We as
sure the Enquirer that they shall be attended
to here in the Panhandle.
The amount of swindling exposed in the cvi-
dencc elected by the contested election for Dis
trict Attorney, in Philadelphia, is sickening to
contemplate. Naturalization papers and tax
receipts were forged by wholesale, men voted
two or three times on assumed names, and cleo
ton officers stuffed the boxes or made out false
returns
A WASHINGTON letter writer says that Major
Heiss made sec, 600 on the Washington Union,
and then lost $40, 900 on the New Orleans Delta.
The remaining 5000 will last about eighteen
months, if he starts his contemplated new paper
in Washington.
Mas. FANNY KEnBIE, having been chargedan
exhorbitant hotel bill, at Milwaukee, publishes
copy of it in the Sentinel, with the following re-
marks: al think the person who has made the
accompanying charges for one one weeks board
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