Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-16
THE INTELLIGENCER
NEWs sUNfNINRY.

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In Mr.. BEEoHER's church Brooklyn, at the close
loftlle morning service yesterday, collection
was taken for the benefit ofthe poor in the con-
/ gregatipn. Among the audience was Mrs. Fre-
mont, c'Our Jessie, y who, happening to have
no money in her pocket MS the plate was passed
took from her finger heavy gold ring and
threw it in, as the only contribution which she
was abel to make. The ring contains on the
outside an engraved "bec," Gn ailuSion to a
beautiful incident in Col. Frcmont's passage of
the Rocky Mountains and on the inside the
inscription, ''MArch 4, 81" 1t will be sold for
charitable purpose, and will, no doubt, bring
a high price
man calling himself "Elijah, the Prophet
made His appearance in the streets Of ST. Louis
a few days since, dressed in red robe, and
drawing great crowds after him He wore his
hair and beard long, both reaching nearly to his
waist. For fear of disturbance which at one
time seemed imminent, he was invited by the
police to sojourn at the CaIabOose during his
residence in Tint city. After the excitement
ceased, the Prophet was discharged aud left the
city for some more genial latitude.
The Supreme Court of the United States has
decided that Thomas Green, the present owner
of the Fauquier (yn1 White Sulphur Springs,
is entitled to tract of land in the State Of Tex
as, of $4,000 acres, and valued at more than
g, 100000
A jury in ChardOn county, Ohio, served John
lSumner just right when they found verdict of
$4,000 agninst him for counting Susannah
Green for II years, having the marriage day APP
pointed three several times, aud then going to
New York and bringing home another wife.
The police of London have detected a new
burglars instrument of the most extraordinary
description. 1t win cut through solid iron half
an inch thick, hole six inches in diameter, in
an hour, and without making the slightest noise
or sound, orwithOut refitting the tool for an i'm
mediate repetition fthe experiment
TnR POttawatOmies, who have for some time
past been in Washington to arrange their treaty
with the general government, had farewell in
terYiew with their great father, Acting.Coml4is-,
sioner Mix, on Thursday. They will leave in a
day or two, and will soon be followed by the
Pawnees and the Poncas
the Sentence b. d"etoPt trn,tsvar4 .,,,-.tIe Sikh
receive 400 gaslles sut, at the rate Of nine at a
time into his back. This isjustly characterised
as horrible cruelty.
p THR village of Louisville, MonOngahela county
Virginia, was purchased few days since by Jon
athn Nc Kee. The purchases included very
valuable mill property, store house and sevaral &
dwellings, together with well improved farm
Of about seventy five acres. The sum paid was
$4,000 CASH. -rtga
IN the Senate, on Tuesday, Mr.. Brown pre-
sented the memorial of Pollard Webb, offering
to sellto the Urited States place in the Dis
trict of Columbia, known as Meridian Hill, !"
for a summer residence for the President Of the
United States which was referred to the COM
mite ON Public Buildings and Grounds.
TnE jury in the case of Hiram Cole, indicted
for poisoning his wife, Adelia Cole, on the sth
and 9Th days olScptember, 1867, in Geauga Co,
have failed to agree upon verdict, and hnving
been ont twenty -four hours, they were on the
10th inst. discharged.
TIE venerable John Warriek, who died at
Richmond, on Saturday, had been printer to the
Virginia Senate for the last thirty-eight years,
member of the Masonic fraternity for forty-cight
years, aud treasurer of Lodge thirty-iour
years 20
TnE girls of Northampton have been sending
bachelor editor boqnet made Of tansy and
wormwood He says he don't care, its swceter
than natrimony, anyhow. He probably thought
wormwood AID tarsy better than the wormwoOd
and the galC).p
AcconDINe to the Railroad Record, 'the
United States has increased in wealth fall a
thousand millions of fdollars by railroads - The
augmented production Of national resources will
be more than dOubly augmented in the same pc
riod for the time to come.
"squrBBs' wants to know" if doctors, by
looking at the tongue of a wagon, can tell what
ails it
Bors AND GIms.-speaking of separating the
sexes in school, Mr. Stowe, the celebrated Glas
teacher, says:
''The separation has been found Injurious
1t is impossible to raise the girls as high, intel
lectnalIy, without the boys as with them; ana
it is impossible to raise the boys morally a:
thigh without the girls The girls morally ele
lJ,sf. 'hnvs and the bovs intellectually eleVat,