Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-05-25
THE INTELLIGENCE.
NEWS SUMMARY.

The peculiar properties OF lager bier ~ 4 bev-
erage, are now. being depOsed IN in case pend.
ing before ,he New York COurtfof Common
Pleas. One witness sWore that he drank one
hundred and six glaSses OF lager beer in one day
,--sOmething- over ten gallons. suppOsing each
glass TO be the ordinary pint measure-And that
that quantity did not have any intoxicating ef-
feet upon him; lIe had taken tw'snty-tWO glasses
before he came To the court. betWeen haIfPsst
eight and eleven o'clock Other witnesses de-
posed tat from forty to Gifty glasses day is an
ordinary average for = tnan. SonIe German
physicians testified that it is virtually imPOssi-
bic for man to contain enough Of lager bier to
produce intoxicaliou. -
THE Louisville Journal says ''the Southern
firesaters, who are going right out of the Union
at once irniess the LeeomptOu Constitution
should be imposed Internationally upon the
people of Kansas, are delighted with the sub
mission of that Consultation to the people under
the cover of a land-ordinance The fellows are,
nothing bnt bogus ire-eaters after all. They
can't eat anything more terrible than fOx-fire-
They may eat few old pieces Of rotten wood
shining like fire Ia the dark, or they may swal-
low dish Of ire.tiies with tails all ahlaze. or
they may even manage To gulp down a jock-O-
lantern or So but they will ueveI. have the spnnk
to bolt genuine fire-snch as theinaster they
serve keeps prepared for them in the region they
are going TO, the tcrrid zone Of the UNIVERSE" -
AS expected and prOphesied, the gold fe-
yer in lows has collapsed The ''nuggsts''
prove to be nothing more thar, iron pyFites- in
other words the sulphnret Of iron, species Of
ore quite abundant in many portions Of Oneida
county, N Y II Is filled with yellow, shining
particles hayingthe appearance off gold, possesses
no value above that Of9riinary iron ore. and any
minerulogist will At once classify it. It iS tho
same 'sshiniug earth with which in the early
settlement Of Virginia, the colOnists freighted
ship, against tle rem4:istranees Of Capt. John
Smith, and actually sent If to England. Editors
ou, in Iowa must feel particularly cheap about
these days.
a Paris journal states that proposition To de-
molish and rebuild the Imperial Palace of the
TuiIeries, has been seriously considered. Only
Ohe-half of the palace would be destroyed At
first; the other half would remain until the first
had been rebuilt The present edifiee Is not in
s.iartiIOby with Che grandeur OF the Louyre,'
IliE national debt of Great Britain, caused by
| the accumulated expenses Of foreign wars and
former deficiencies between receipts and pay
ments, is, in round numbers, RsoO, 900, 900; the
interest Of which, and expense Of management,
&c, annually amounts to about 100000
and has to be provided for odt Of The receipts
for the year. a''
TaE remains OF William Henry Herbert,
("Frank Forrester,'1 were inferred in Mount
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, n. J., Wednesday
afternoon. A great many people assembled At
"The Cedars. /" his late residence, where twas ek
pected the funeral ceremonies would take piaer;
but the clergyman who had charge of them de-
elared that the rules of his Cthe Episcopalian)
Church, forbade him to read the ritual over a
suicide, and the body was buried without the
usual ceremnnies.