Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-05-26

THE INTELLTGENCER.
NEMs SUMMARY.


WE begin to hear nov from various quarters
Of the ravages Of insects upon the growing
wheat The late heary rains have been i1ju-
riOus in many places. The hail storms have
utterly destroyed many fields of wheat Fears
are entertained that the late splendid prospect
will not be realized at the harvest The Fred
ericksburg Herald says that it hears no
chineh bug about there yet, hut if We have
one or two more hAiLstorms, each bug must
come with large kRapsacII OF. his hack Glled
With food, or run the risk of starving, as-ge
shall have preeiOus little wheat left for him to
harvest" -07-a 7----sl ls .e. e-r
Ar a recent fire in Boston, a woman appeared
at one Of the third story windows of the build
ing. frantic anddCspairing. 5ThereuPOn the psr-
sons called upon her TO take courage and OIL
serve their directions, and they would save her
They then, as many as could join, formed \ cir
Gle, each man extending his arms horizontally,
and grasping with his right hsnd the right hand,
and with his left the LEFT hand Of the man oppo-
site. their arms crossing. They then told her to
kneel upon the window sill and incline her body
in such way as to free her head from the wall
and fall sideways. All heing ready, she threw
herself from the third story window Not
man drew back---all stood firm, and the poor
WUHan Was Treeived in safety on the platform
of human hands and arms-arms nerved by no
BILE heartsi ---..,....-
ThE damage by the Bell crevasse, says the
New Orleans 7Tue Del,a, of the 18th inst, now
and eventual, to the sugar crop alone, is estima-
ted at $s, 900 900 at leasti In addition to this
disastrous item, is the destruction ofcorn, other
produce, stock and fixtures. The floods from
thatlaEsVasse have inundated the country some
twenty-five miles down the river, overfiowing
thirty and forty plantations, and are crawling
ON down towards the Gull
THK canvass Of Van Ambursh's Menagerie.
was blown down at Columbus, Ohio, on Friday
night, afler the crowd had gathered under its
ample canopy. The women screamed, the ebii-
drcn cried, the lions roared, the animals made
all the noise they could, and there was gener-
al rush to escape out of the show into the wind
and rain. a number of gentlemen lost their
hats, and were glad to escape any way they
could. They got home dreuched to the skin,
and satisfied with the sight of 1.-THE elephant"
The steamers from the South are coming to.
New York more crowded than ever. They seem
to have an impression that the season is to he
sickly one along the gulf coast, and hence the
stampede North. The Black Warrior brought
nearly 500 passengers, that is to say about
100 more than she can comfortably accOmmO-
date 81.
BoNSsE of the Le1ger-Bonner the Advertiser
lis in trouble. lie advertised a few days since
that the Ledger would be for sale at daylight 'fn
the United States, Ness Jersey and the Sandwich
slunds''-wherenpon the Trenton True A1aeri.
can calls attention to the ''slur cast upon the
State of New Jersey ~ and comes down uponthe
indefatigabIe Bonner in slashihg style.
white woman in Mecklenburs county, Va,
became the mother, u few days since, of four
children, two of whom were Of her Own color,
and the other two black. a compromise wo-
man.