Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-14
THE INTELLIGENCFR
NEWS SUMMARY.

Gov TAos. FoID, of Ohio, long known as
powerful political speaker, has been converted in
the revival. On Wednesday last, he appeared
at the Union prayer meeting in Columbus, and
made a statement which IS reported as follows;
He remarked that for long years, the world had
been his master; !or it he lad lived; to it lac
had given his strength and heart. But now he
had chosen uIIother and ., better master, the
Lord Jesus Chiist He spoke with humility OF
his ;nwortliness, and aSciibed his hope of sal
vation wholly to the grace ofGod. lie said that
when first he yielded his heart to Christ he felt
inclined to keep the matter tn himself and the
circle of his most intimate friends. But snon
his conversion was published in ihe papers, and
that not only Gods eye, but the eyes of the
world were upen him. that it would be his dnty
in all his ways to exempIify the power and
blessedness OF tbe religion Of the Gospel. He
was determined hencefor;h to bear testimony for
Christ, and live for his glory. Mr.. Ford's man
ner was earnest but subduci and humble; and
his address brought tears TO many eyes.
Il any Of our readers ever heard Of the origin
of "April Fool,n they have the advantage of US,
as we certainly never did until our eye fell up
on paragraph purPorting to come from t,e
"Pu6lic -i9certisl,,' printed April 18th, 1863.
1T is said to have begun," says the print in
question, from tine mistake Of Noah sending
the dove out Of the ark before the water had
abated, on the first day of the month among tine
Hebrews, which answers to our first of April.
70 perpetuate the memory of this deliverance,
it was thought proper, vino ever forgot so re-
narkabe circumstance, to punish them by
sending them upon some sleeveless errand. sim
liar TO that Intellectual message upon which the
bird was sent by the Patriarch" Tracing this
foolish cnsiom back to Noah Is certainly de-
gree Of antiquity we had not anticipated for it.
FRoM the celebrated experiments of Chossat
on inarimation, it appears that death arrives
whenever the wastes reaches an average pro-
portion Of four-tenths. That is to say, suppo-
sing an animal To weigh one hunrired pounds,
it will succumb when its weight is reduced TO
sixty pounds. Fishes and reptiles were found
by ChosSat to perish at precisely the same limit
nf ,vAisht ,ra-,,, Lian,led animals. bat they
require period Of three and twenty tunes rs
long to do It in; thus if the experiment be tried
Of starving bird and frog during warm
weather, although both will perish wheI, their
loss o. weight amounts to forty per cent, the
ono viii survive q week, the other IIIree and
twenty weeks.
TIE grand jury Of Philadelphia have found
true Hills against Mr.. Allibone, late president,
and Thomas A. Newlall late director Of the
Bank Of Pennsy lvania, charging chem with CON
Spiracy in certain transactions which have re
suited in a loss to the institution Of some two
hundred and forty thousand dollars They have
bccn held to bail in the sum of ten Thousand
dollars each, to answer the charge.
TuE experiment Of lighting gas burners by
! electricity, is said To he perfect success. The
Inventor, Mr. Gardrcr, put mp his wires in the
great chandelier of the Senate chamber, at
Washington, and during the last day or two,
some fifteen hundred jets have been ignited
simultaneously by the touch Of the key uniting
magnetic circuit.
THERE is great excitement in Iowa about the
gold discovered in Clark county. Men arc said
to be taking out from 81 to So per day Of the
Iprecious metal II is found in grain Of black
sand, aud in the quartz rock near it.
TWENTY persons chiefly Missourians, are
known to have T'rrished by the recent burning
of the steamer Sultan, on the Mississippi, and
thirty remain to be heard from.
\ rascally Italian in Chicago, who owns q
500 OO0o row, has had seven or eight girls in his
employ, begging and stealing
A number of prominent gentlemen propose to
establish at some convenient and accessible spot
near Louisville, KY, National Race Course,
and 10 place it firm basis, subscription to
the amount of 5000 is ssINed-
REJECTrO coutc<y becomes ennity. If the
extended hand is refused. the mere closing of the
fingers changes il to a net.
GONE in out of the wet, as the shark said
when nc swallowed the nigger boy.
a New York jobbins house sold $4,000 worth
Of dry goods to firm in Alabama, and took n
note for the same. The latter was protested,
ard the maker did not even take the trouble to
apologize for his insolvency. subsequently The
firm purchased another bill of goods from an
other house in New York. The carly creditor
having learned this fact, attached the goods,
and for this interference, the literary member ol
the Alabama firm favored him with an expires.
zion Of opinion, as follows: