Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-30
1883.
THE INTELl,IGENCER
NMMs SUMNIAltY.

miniStration side. Time was when Douglas
was the man to couch his lance in their defense
bpt now they are compelled to take his thrusts
in their own bosoms Soon after Preston Kings
speech, Toombs rather coarseiy assailed it, and
declared the passage of Lecompton To be the
test of the Union. This brought John Bell of
Tennessee, TO his feet, who commenced his
speech by turning to Toombs and asking him
if he understood him to say, the admission or
rejection of Kansas under the IsecOmptOn Con-
stitutiOn involved the continuance or the dis
ruption of the Union ? ToOmbs nodded an en-
phatc assent; whereupon Bell, drawing himself
up to his full height, responded in sllrilI, clear
tones, "Then, I, n Southern man. accept the is
sue!" Tile effect Of this impassioned out burst
was electric.
ERYsIPELAs ina new form, is raging in Hous
ton Co., Ga, on the ocmUlgce river. 1t battles
the men of medical science, and has proved IA
tai to forty or fifty persons within the space of
few miles
Tue Hartford COurant TO compete with n CO.
temporary, las added announcements Of births
to those of marriages and deaths in its columns
After giving birth in Waterbury, it stated the
town by adding this annOuncement-'In Pros
pect, March LIST, daughter to George s. SlOacr!"
town called Prospect, near Hartford, This hasa
funny look.
TnE people of Tuscaloosa, Ala, on the 5th
inst, told a boy Of seventeen years 10 "nove"
and he did. lie was employed in the 4EaJanli-
an office as a compositor, and had given Ofense
by writing home a letter rejecting on. the spe-
culiar institution, which found its way into the
papers
A letter from Rome of the 18th of February,
says: "Rome has had no winter like the present
in the last hundred years. The weather has
been dry, but unprccedentedly cold. and aged
md sinlilv people are dying in consequenesi"
great numbers. Almost the entire population
is afflicted with Influenza"
DuRIxc the last week, mos: remarkable
sickness has prevailed in the vicinity of Van
Vrankcn's Corners, Schenectady county, Ny.
1t attacks aged persons, commencing with cold
chills, and finally speedily and fatally ranges
upon the lungs. Several Of the oldest inhabit-
ants have died with it,
Billy BowLEGs, the Indian chief who has
caused so much trouble IN Florida, has at last
come to terms. and offers to leave with his en-
tire tribe, clock, stock and barrel" for the
West, on the terms proposed by the govern
mcnt. He has proceeded to collect his people,
and make arrangements for a speedy departure.
It is now believed that ail the difficulties between
the Whites aud Indians in FIorids, nre at an
end
WEsrEnN emigration has fairly set in. The
number Ofemigrants passing through St Louis
is daily increasing. The Pacific Railroad takes
up over one hundred per day. and the Missouri
river steamers were crowded.
a young man was ridden on a rail, and driV-
en- out of the neighborhood of Madison, n. Y,
by the citizens, for having bascly deserted an
orphan girl, whom he had married for her mon
ey.
Two fiery students at oberlin College had
falling ont the other day. Lovely woman was
the cause Having conscientious scruples
against duelling, they resolved TO adjust the
difficulty by an appeal to the code ttstic.-
The lovely woman alluded to is a dashing mu-
latto.
tbs sanitary condition of the British army,
according to the report ofthc Royal Commits
sioners which appears in the blue book. is
enough to deter any youth who can secure the
animal wants ofuature by following the plough
or working ia tue factory, from all soIdiery am
bitlon.
Is a trial at Chicago, Saturday. the Jury Iail.
ed 70 agree. The city was defendant, and they
stood eleven in its favor to ore for the plaintiff.
The jurors were brought into court, when tho
obstinate ninorityIf. the jury informed the court
that lac would never agree with the majority,
and gave as reason therefor that he entertained
prejudice against the city. Tho court inmedi-
ately discharged the jury, and ordered the OBJ
siinate jLryinan. to be Imprisoned for contempt
of court and he still remains locked up in jail.
New claimants are constantly appearing be-
fore the New York Surrogate for shares in the
estate ofthe late Harvey BurdelL The number
is already so large that the amount that any one
individual viii receive, viii be but trifing.,
TnE VIRGIsIA WAsHIxeToN MoxrHEST.-The
following story is told, as having really occurred
in Richmond, on the day subsequent to the un-
covering of Crawford's equestrian statue OF
Washington: