Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-09-17

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oS the 10th nlt., man named Hull made
balloon ascension from Newcastle-on-the.Ty
England. In twenty-five minutes the balloon
descended ms clover field seven miles from the
starting point The graphing irons for some
reason did not keep their hold on the ground,
and some of the ballast was displaced just as
Mr. Hull was about to leap out. The balloon
rose suddenly into the air aud for moment the
eronaut hung head downwards, hnt when the
rope became disentangled he dropped as is COM
puted, distance Of l2O feet. Persons came to
his assistance, and to thei. surprise found him
sensible. 1t was thought, however, that he
would not recover. His little dog remained in
the car, and the last seen of the balloon it was
soaring at great height over the German
Ocean.
FossOme time past the sheep pastures of Gen
essee county, N. Y, in the vicinity of Tonawanda
Swamp have suffered from the depredatious of
some mutton-loying animal. The mischief was
attributed to dogs, and those exemplars of ide-
iity were brought into serious disrepute.-
Sportsmen, however, at last obtained night
slimpses of some powerful creature which eluded
their shot But on Tuesday last party of
hunters, when about fourteen miles from Bata-
via, freed the varmint, and aided by dogs and
torches, after driving him from tree to tree,
succeeded in despatching him. 1t proved to be
an American cougar panther. measuring
| eight feet from the extremity of his powerful
paws to the end of his tni and Weighing l47
| lbs. Such an animal had not been heard of in
that locality for more than twenty years.
An interesting correspondence on tie ques.
ton of Sunday travel on the city railroads. has
passed between the chairman of the Philadel>
phin Sunday Committee and Mayor Tiemann, of
New York, Powell Of Brooklyn, and Lincoln, of
Boston. Mayor Tiemann takes strong ground
in favor of Sunday travel on the city railroads;
states that the custom is generally prevalent in
Now York, and that it is unattended by riot or
disorder. Mayor Powell writes from Brooklyn
in similar strain. Mayor Lincoln, of Boston,
states that but three lines of horse railroads are
run on Sunday, and that riotous proceedings
have occurred.
Tue Mayor of New York has about given up
in despai=, all his attempts to thwart the game
of the Peter Funks of the city proving useless.
When he refuses to give one of them license,
somebody elsei,presents himself and procures
one for another part Of the city, and then pays
the city clerk the fee for changing his place of
business back to the old stand The plan of
stationing policemen before the doors of the
shops to warn visitors has also signaly failed.
Country people seem insanelv determined to
realize the truth of the saying that 1.-THE pleas.
nre is as great in being cheated as TO cheat"
THERE is decided mania for committing SUI
icides just now prevailing in New York. j. II.
Kearney poisoned himself at French's Hotel,
Henry T. Wood put an end to his life by taking.
laudanum, Edward Cassenbrock, keeper of
dancehouse, committed suicide by shooting
himself with heavily loaded pistol; all on
Sunday. Moreover, John jackson, dcperate
colored man, stabbed fatally his father-in.law
while the old gentleman was unprepared for an
assault. A family difference existed between
them.
SOME idea may be formed of the enormous
sums of money expended in the purchase of
pictures by the English aristocracy, from the
fact that the collection of the late Lord North.
wick has produced no less than 495,T25. The
sale which extended over eighteen days, ter.
tninuted on Wednesday, and was attended by
dealers from all parts of the world. Some Of
the prices must appear fabulous to the uninitia,
ted The owner of this collection spent life
in bringing it together, and now 1t will be dis
tributed far and wide
IT is stated in the annual report of the Com.
missioners in Lunacy, that the number of in-
; sane person confined il county and borough
asy'ums, hospitals, and licensed houses in Great
Britain, on the LIST of January, 1859, was 49,.
Esll, and that of this number only 2,778 are
deemed durable.
a London agricultural pnper aft1rms that the
Opiate in the flower of peoples fattens hogs, by
making them sleep more. We were prepared to
chronicle almost anything in the world of dis
covery, without surprise, but who would have
thought of pigs taking opium2
| a large body of land-2O, 900 acres-lying in
the counties of Highland, Randolph and Pendle.
ton, in this State, has been sold for $50 900, or
eighty cents per acre, to a Northern Emigration