Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-29

TIIE INTELLIGENCER.
NEWS SUMMARY.

THfEyEs are wonderfully adroit IN Ne" Ut
leans At large wedding. party there few
days since, the guests got cheated out Of their
supper ina novel way. A gang ofFascals enter
ed the diHing.room by back window, gathered
the edges Of the tabls-cIOth together, and fold
ing Il into bundle, made OF with everything
that was upon the table. including The family
plate. valued at some hundreds Of dollars
wheH supper WAS ahnouneed. the guests got
there but the table Was bare, and 50 the poor
guests got none.
AMRRicAx eenius and talent is receiving sub
stantial acknowledgment abroad. Professor
Morse is coming home wfth $4,000 in his
pocket, the fruit Of his Telegraph in EuroPe.-r
Hoe is working mammoth presses for the Lon
don Tunes Eaton & Gilbert are making cars
for Cuba and Brazil. The Queen Of Spain IS
buying her war steamers in New York The
car has become patron of tie Novelty Works,
and Rarey, the Amrrican horse tanner, IS win
ming golden opinions in England and France Tor
his wonderful skill
TlEng are in the United States one hundred
and four railroads, Of which twenty-five are
now in progress of construction. OF this entire
number, hfty-eight are paying dividends OF
from 2 2 to % per cent per annum- The
areest dividend is made by the Galena Chi
eag0 Road, and the smallest by the Raleigh &
Gaston. The debts Of the different companies
are enormonsZthe lowest $s,I41, and the
highest S2s S3I .47S; and It alsO appears that
twenty of the companies have borrowed the
round sum Of two hundred millions Of dollars
A messenger boy in Boston. running across
r.r,dN ffrT
Of the Maiden Bark in bis hands, caught the
arm ofthe porter Of the establishment to which
he himself belonged, and in doing so the bills
were scattered broadcast in the wind. All but
some fity Of them were found, and these alight-
ed in an express wagon, the driver Of which,
surprised a. seeing them there, aud thinking
them shopkeepers' advertisements, gave some
$25 away.
a Boston paper Of Jolly 18th, I75s. contains
the following. Just imported from Africa, and
TO be sold, on board the brig JoaNsy, Wm- Ellery
commander, now lying at New Boston. num-
her Of likely negro boys and girls. from y 70
"a years Of age. 1n4qire of said y'-oo
hoard the brig. vbsre constant attendance IS
given. Note.-Tbe above slaves have all had
the small poz. Treasureris notes and New
England rum will be taken as pay
Ma. GISDAHl, an editor at Stockholm, SEe-
den. vas recently condemned to death By. the
axe for having falsely and with evil intentions
/ accused MadeInoiselIe llandeIssOhn Of Incest
His counsel, Mr. c. G. Uggla. has been con-
desnned 20 one months imprisonment. and to
the interdictiUn, for having. with full l<nqWl-
edge, under taken the defense Of an unjust cause
A man IN. Vermont some years since, stole
sheep. Tom his negLbOr. The mutton would
not digest; and the other day he sent 50 to The
owner ofthe sheep as specific to his moral
dyspepsia.
wm. McDOuald, Of Baltimore, for ss,0OO.-,
That gentleman has offered to match hersgainst
Lqneet, mile heats best in 8, in harness, for
$4,000 ~
LocusTs are infesiing portions OF Mississippi
and northern Louisiana, almost viih = second
Egyptian plague.