Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-06
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BENTo0's ABRIDGED. DEE 4Es.-AYezha4

received from Messrs Toilet, Foster & Co., CO.
lumbus, o., agents for Appleton & Co, New
York, the Sd, 4th, 9Th. 9th, 7thand 9th volumes
of Benton's abridgement of thcj Congressional
debates.a Mr.. ]. R. Cunningham, the travelling
agent, has been in town for the last day or two,
supplying subscribers with this great work.
There remains yet seven volumes to complete
the set. It will be remembered that Mr.. Ben.
ton worked on his infringement almost up to
hour of his death, and completed it down to
1850.
1t is universally admitted by all competent
judges that this work is 'the greatest political
digest now extant, and to the student or would
be well informed citizen, it is invaluable
We do not pretend of our own limited expo
rience, or limited observation, in this limited
space, to anything like notice Of the great
work. We can only express our conviction of
its invaluable worth
a New STYLE OF CARA genuine Yankee
passed through New Haven last Friday for
some western road 1t was eighty,five feet in
length by eight feet wide, arranged with coun-
tiers and shelves like common dry goods store,
and is so constructed that its width can be reg
uated by machinery, so as to be made twice
the ordinary width Of n rail car. 1t is supposed
to be the intention Of the proprietor to make n
travelling dry goods store of it, and "switch Off"
where he pleases.
Poor PIcklNGs-The Prince of Wales, heir
apparent to the British throne, will be seventeen
years old on the 9th of November Already
some of the English papers are making free in
selecting for him consort The Literary Cab
net after stating that unless he should marry
lady much older than himself, his choice, accor-
ding to English law, is now limited to only sew
en- ladies of royal blood. These ladies are
named land the one thought to be the most
probable one is the princess Alexandra, of Dem
mark, born Dec, l, 1914, and who will be about
eighteen years old when the Prince of Wales
arrives atthe agc of twenty-one
OrGHr TO be LooKEp ArrEnLNVhat business
have England and France to be blockading the
ports of Venezuela, and capturing her coasting
vessels? That obscene British frisato the
"Buzzard" takes the lead in, this high-handed
offence against the law of nations, which would
bear out tie Venezuelans in hanging him and
the commander of the French war steamer at
their own yard arms, heels downward
A GAY LoTHARio. legal gentleman at Mil
,waulSie had very narrow escape the other dny.
He lodged two bullets and then Jumped out of
n fourth story window. The gentleman who
firedrthe pistol cameahome unexpectedly and
found the lawyers hat, boots coat &C., scatter
ed about the room his wife occupied, and the
lawyer himself slowed away iii small space
under the bed Mrs went home to her norents
OLDEST PosTNAsTER.-The Postmaster at
jamestown, Pa, Mr., Joseph Bickel, is the great
est official antiquarian after ALL He writes that
he was was appointed in 1902, during Mr. JET.
ferson's administration, by Gideon Granger, then
Postmaster General, and has held the office fifty
six years. Heis 83 years old, and does all the
business ofthe office himself
---------NeGDSSo---- -H..3z 4,
LAND WARRANTs.-Several lots Of land have
recently been withdrawn from the market and
the demand for bounty land warrants, as a CON
sequence, has fallen off: John E. NJ. Gilley,
Boston, quotes them as follows:
-. Buying Price: Selling Price.
20 90 acres S1H9 ds acres SIP
1sS 1 1sS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
In CouRsE, w learn, from the various col
lege commencement reports that certain gentle
men received the degree of AN. 'fn course"
In course, as Pat says. And then certain other
gentlemen received the degree ''out of course"
SIN course" also, say We All these things,
nowadays, are like horse race-a mere mat
ter of course. Never mind the pun.
y DoN'r LET THEN, "A person who signs. him
selfSocialist, from Chesteryille, Morrow county,
o., advertises in the Berlin Ags Of Freedom that
he wishes to correspond with Socialists relative
to establishing y colony of that breed of ami
mails in Morrow county. He says that he has a
asond .farrnhnd the present is thought a favora-
bio time to move in that quarter.
oREsTEs A. BRowNsoN the distinguished Ro.
man Catholic layman, comes. out in his RcOis,o
holland heavy against the bred Scott decision.
The Washington, D. c., Star, the lesser organic
fatterer of the administration, says:
HE is soi in the habit of outraging the public
sentiment of the denomination to Which he is
attached, and thaf OF everybody else, that Of
late little attention is paid to his vagaries."
H., Ii. III !