Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-05-14
NEWS IlENIS.

Az Instruction occurred at the Sing Sing
Prison, New York, on Sunday last, which but
for the prompt and efficient action of the Off
GERS, might have resulted in the State losing the
services of some thirty or forty hardened rus.
calls
COLLEGE, of agriculture has been established
in Michigan on a handsome farm of 700 acres.
1t has an endowment Of $56OOO, and in each Of
the last two years the Legislature has given it
$4,000. Students arc admitted without fee,
but are obliged to labor three hours each day.
In Richmond, Va, on Sunday night, wooden
stable was discovered to be on fire, and before
the flames could be extinguished, some twenty
horses, contained in the stnble, together with
the building, were reduced to ashes
THE disagreement of the jury in the Dalton
divorce case, appears to have been contrary to
the expectation of the Boston public 1t is the
subject of much comment.
TaE Pennsylvania Legislature have just in
corporated the Strect-Sweeping and Fertilizing
Company company which proposes to use
machines for cleaning the streets of Philadelphia,
and at some convenient location beyond the city,
to convert all the street ofal into manure
GovEl&oR WISE is out again in a letter strong
salvation of Yirginia-financially that is-by
means of n tax on oysters and Oyster-boats.
TIE New York papers suggest the propriety
Of the city authorities Offering large reward
for the murderers of DR.. Burdell, now that the
trial of Mrs. Cunningham is concluded and she
has been acquitted.
Heavy rpin-storms and freshcts have occur
red at various points South. The low lands on
the Roanoke River, in North Carolina, are bur-
led under water to the depth of from three to
twenty feet. Crops, fences and every thing arc
swept away by the current The rise in the
river is thirty or forty feet above the ordinary
tides. Several of the South Carolina and Ala
bama rivers are also swollen by freshcts.
A MEETING has been held in Bastrop, Texas
for the purpose of raising contributions for those
citizens of that and the adjoining counties who
are actually suffering for bread There are
many inhabitants entirely destitute of subsist-
ence of any description.
The Mercantile Bank of Hartford, Co., has
discovered defalcation of 3d. 200 in the &C.
counts of the late teller, M Dwight I.edgwick,
who has gone to California. The loss falls on
the teller's bondsmen.
GOVERNOR KING, of n. Y. has issued his Proc
lalnation, offering reward of $4,000 for the
detection and conviction of the persons, or any
of them, who set fire to the buildings at Se-
guine's Pointon Wednesday.
SEVERAL unsuccessful attempts have been
made, in Baltimore, to get up meetings to express
sympathy for and furnish aid to Gen. Walker
and the cause of fllibusters in Nicaragua. One
was called for Saturday evening, at which the
attendance was small.
BRIDGE on the New Jersey Central Railroad,
Musconetcong River, was burnt on Saturday
night
LIVING in Kansas is costly at present. Board
is said to be 50 and in some cases 50 per day.
NATIONAL TyPoGRApnlcAL USrOS.-This body
assembled at New Orleans on the 4th inst, and,
after transacting preliminary business, elected
the following officers for thccnsuing year: Will
liam Cuddy, of St Louis, president; NJ. C.
wisncr, of Chicago. vice-president; E. H. Mum
day, of Philadelphia, second vice-president; H.
II. whitcOmb, of n. o., secretary and treasurer;
a. W. Hyatt, of Baton Rouge, corresponding
secretary. About twenty delegates were pres
ent.