Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-22
THE INTEI1LIGENCrER
-iNEWs SUMNIARY.

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THERE is such a thing as parental ingratitude
and its display is conspicuously shown in the
case of an old man of a, at Lowell. Mass. who
during fifteen years of'his Widowertood. bad
enjoyed the. society and care of an afFectionate
daughter. The old fool recently married a new
wife, younger than his child, who had made his
property the condition of the unnatural union.
On the day of the celebration Of the nuptialc
he retired to an ante room, reclfned upon sofa
and died The property is wholly in posse
sion of the newly y-wedded wife, and the daught-
ter, now destitute, is thrown upon the charity
of her friends. 1
CLARK. Oflthe KHiekeTJOeker has the follow
ing hit at Boston "Stand point" He saws:
The Boston stand point is curious thing
You can Start from the fremont House, go in
any direction for half an hour. aud you'll be
back there within thattime, sure. Don't mind
the points of the compass there are none
around Boston, He declares that when he was
there the sun came up in the north and set in
the east The moon rises in the west and sets
over the Cambridge Observatory They have
a tine east breeze though, in Boston, We were
there on March therl2th, about fifteen years
ago. We know what a sirocco is--the late la
mented Fennimore Cooper told us once whit
time we were fetching a walk with him on the
Battery, itds a BostOa east tcind boiled"
ACCORDING to the Council Bluffs BugEs the
grasshoPper plague has commenced in Western
Iowa. The e'country there is alive with grass
hopPers Of all sizes from an eighth to three.
fonrths of an inch in length. They are now as
abundant as they were at any time last year. al
though one-tenth of the eggs laid last season
are not yet hatched. The farmers in the coun-
Try around there are becoming discouraged
The Bugle udvises them to sow and plant as
much as they will need for themselves, and then
SOW and plant as much for the grasshOppers
DIR. MARSH says the best cure for Mysteries is
to discharge the servant girl In his opinion
there is nothing like ''Aying around to keep
the nervoussyste'n from being unStrung Some
women think they want physician when they
only need a scrubbing brush
In France the Minister Of the Interior has or
dered all the artillery in the several towns Of
France to be dismOunted and deposited in the
arsenals, on the plea that they are in such
state as 10 be dangerous to use, and promises
-lIat ill., shalt la. -.r.i"casl by --.;II--s- :;
ter condition. An impression prevailed, how
ever that the guns wero to be removed lest
they should fall into the peoples hand IN case
of rising.
couple Ofdemocratic editors, says Prentice
were taking ride in a buggy few days ago,
when their horse started and ran away They
fell out, but received no serious injury. We do
not know that the falling out of such people in-
dicates anything more than that honest men are
likely to get their dues. n
ELIur BrRRrTr. the Learned blacksmith and
emancipRtiOnist is about to publish paper at
New Britain, CT, commencing about the lst of
May. 1t will be called the NORTH and South"
and he devoted to the gradual abolition of Slav-
cry, by compensation to the owners
fashionable young lady cowhided clerk in
a Philadelphia bankers Office Tuesday, alleging
that she had been insulted. Whether her. char
acter stood better after the operation is LEFT to
the public to determine. asfisog
The ladies are all going to become apparent
members Of the Peace Society this suinnier-,
The white feather is to be the fashionable
bonnet ornament -ofthe iseasOn. OF course such
a style shold have 'run. :" tro4
Tue landlord of the principal Hotel at Paris,
Maine, on Monday night eafptisd all his barrels
and decahterS into the gutter, and now keeps a
Temperance house. set 7 81
ADvicEs from Bermuda to the 9th ingt,9 re.
port that the pOtates crop had been, partially !
injured by the late heavy gale. and that the
yield would beinferior to that of last year.
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PERsoNAI ISDEPENDExCE- western editor
lately offered his lat as prize for the best cs=
say on INDEPENDENCE The fiiiioging obtained
the prize lsili-itt ll1si'iaS sai 70 ir,..r-tE
National Independence is easier imagined than
described. Personal IndePeadehcu consists enl-
'ljhaticaly IN beii suited in clean shirt, draw
ers Socks, and nicely blackened pair OfbOOts,
with at least dollar and clean calnbrlck ia
your pocket, all on Sunday morning with your.
wife on one arm and your baby on tic other,
taking your own course towards your gOWn
preacher. in th6 blissfnls eNp pectntiOn Ogidoing
your own snoozins, in your own pew, wherein +
no one dare venture 10 nudge yOu with bis ell
bow tickle you with a straw. 7agssog ~
r..s WILDE q BRO isa
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