Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-20
An Importnnt verdIc,.


The trial of the case of William MEOW ~.
The county of Washington, Pa in the United
States District Court at Pittsburgh, before
Judges Grier and Irwin, was Concluded on Mon.
day, by averdictfor the plaintiff The action
was TO recover the value of sixty coupons of
thirty dollars each, on as many bonds, issued by
the commissioners Of Washington county to the
Hempheld Railroad Company, payable semi.an-
nuolly, in New York. The defence consisted of
variety OF ingenious propositions, but rested
mainly on the ground that the commissioners of
the county at the time of the delivery of the
bonds objected to signing them because thew
did not contain on their face the legislative
/ provision authorizing their issue, which
made it the business of the railroad company to
4 pay the interest on the bonds until such time as
the road should be completed; but that dis
tlnct understanding was then had with the pres
ldent OF the road that the company should carry
out that provision in good faith. Inasinuch as
ms mas not been done, it was claimed that the
/ responsibility for the payment of the bonds did
not rest upon the county. The charge of Judge
Siner elaborately reviewed all the arguments of
the defendant, but plainly directed the Jury that
II they believed the testimony submitted by the
plaintiff, he was entitled to their verdict.
Inc full amount of the plaintiffs claim for
coupons due, withinterest, amounts to 81, 91O.7O,
which prevents the case from being carried up
to the Supreme Court of theiUnited States, (as
no action for smaller sum than $4,000 can be
carried thereOand renders tho present decision
This action of the United States Circuit Court,
following, as it does, closely upon the decision
| OF theSupreme Court of this State virtually
settles, We think, the liability of counties to
pay the principal and interest of any railroad
bonds issued under their authority, notwith.
Standing any allegations of neglect or fraud, of
the character relied upon by the defendants in
the recent suits to eVade their ayment-Fhi
clelphiG Paper.
They have another wonder at New York, who
is thus advertised on the handbills:
1.-THE wonder of the Nineteenth Century,
Mons. outset the great stone eater This won
derlpl man eats nothing but paving. stones peb.
bles, rocks, &C., for his breakfast, dinner and
supper. he will swallow large number Of
stones in the presence of the audience. He
lives and subsists entirely upon the above food,
drinks nothing but water, and has perfect
health. Physicians cannot account for this un-
Paraleled living WONDER
To the eye of the spectator, this fellow really
appears to swallow the pebbles, of which he
says he takes about four hundred per day. But
the idea of his eating nothing else could find
credencei in no other place than the great me-
trOpolis. KiOe#la Hum6ugi
TnE Washington correspondent of the New
York Courier and Enquirer states that the
Secretary Of the Treasury has decided upon the
contents of his report, and that among his
propositions is that of duty of "a per cent. up
tea and Coffee from which he expects to: realize
an annual reyenuesof $5,ooo,ooO. Its scarce
! ~ possible to propose financial measure that
would be more obnoxious than this, and it is
difficult to believe that Mr.. Cobb, seriously con-
templates it
ANEW York letter says: cat this port, once
the home of our magnificent merchant marine,
there is not single vessel of any dimensions
on the stocks, and in such tme.honored yards
as those of w. H. Webb, Christian Berg, Eek.
ford Webb, Abram @. Bell, Steers, Roosevelt
and others, the sound of the adj, the hammer
and the mallet are hushed, many of the yards
being employed for lumber, stave and stone
yards"
sOME three years ago, miser died in Upper
Sandusky, Ohio, leaving an estate valued at
$40, 900, which it was supposed would revert to
the State, as no heirs were known to be living.
Recently, however, number of relatives have
been discovered in Germany. 1t has been as
tcertained that the name of the deceased man
was Chester, and that he ran away from Ger
many to escape the penalty of smuggling.
-ENGDS%-
Mr., Moran, President of the Erie Railroad. is
to remain in undisturbed enjoyment of his
$25, 600 per annum-a salary equal to that of
the President of the United States The Exec.
utiye Committee of the road have decided not
to meddle with it now, as in the present embar-
raised condition of the company it is necessary
to retain the services of Mr.. Moran, even at the
present excessive compensation.
-AsOs&.--
7. B. MASON, of Milwaukee, brother of
Lowell Mason, themusical professor, has lately
cured cancer by the application of chloride of
zinc. plaster of this substance, mixed with
blood root and wheat -four, was applied to the
cancer for twety-feur hours, when the cancer
became brown and hard, suppurated and came
out, and the wound healed.
THE thoroughgoing Democratic journal, the
Rochester Union and A2Vertiser, protests against
whatit deems the purpose of the official Jour
nalin Washington to erect ga single questions,
into the sole surviving criterion of National
Democracy, aud that a question which it afirms
| is "practically null and inoperative"