Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-30
persona aud offeiaI RELATION ofthe judge Of the

personal and official relation of the Judge of the
tGircuit Court to this subject.
Our readers are aware, that the Circuit Court
is an appellate tribunal, from all judgments and
tdecrees of the County Court, in any manner
ssaffecting private or individual rights; but in
tsuch cases, the Circuit Court at once proceeds
! to correct any error committed by the County
Court, and renders or enters such Judgment or
decree as the County should have rendered or
4entered. By our laws, tho Circuit Court is in
vested with revisory power over the proceed
ings of the County Court in making the annual
county levy; the Circuit Court may reverse the.
order for q levy, if contrary to law, and may
require the County Court to make a levy tquired
by law. We can readily understand the hest
tating caution with which tho single Judge of
Jour Circuit Court will direct the issue of this
high prerogative writ Of Mandamus, by which
the will and determination of some thirty odd
worshipful justices of the County Court arc
over-ruled and controlled. We doubtnot there
| is other function or power of that Court,
which the Judge would not prefer to exercise.
the same time, we must all admit its neces-
sity, under the laws of the land, as now subsist-
ing, and render the just need of our common.
dation to the Judge, who, with that unfatering
ffrmness so essential in the due administration
of justice, gives force and efficiency to the laws
/ the people have enacted for their government,
regardless of everything excepting the solemn
duties of his high Office. Such we sincerely
believe to have been the solo governing inHu-
ence with Judge Thompson in the orders ne has
made. He may have committed error, but we
are thoroughly satisfied that he has honestly
and conscientiously stpigen to fulfil his whole
duty, and eminently deserves the hearty COM
mendation of every one who Justly values an
upright and independent judiciary. We write
these things because we have heard censures
upon the Judge, more by inuendo than in direct
terms, and deeming them unjust, could not re-
frain from giving the opinion we have expressed.
We have no doubt those who have ccnsured,
will, upon the sober second thought, concur
with US, that an honest upright Judge cannot
always win popular applause.
TnE Coroner's investigation as to tho death
of the woman Somers, or Gilderoy, in Chicago,
reveals another Of those appalling cases of crime
and suffering which one would think must serve
as an effectual warning to all disposed to daily
in paths of vice. The woman, it appears form
erly lived in Buffalo with her husband, Gilderoy,
who, on account Of her loose behavior, seems to
have deserted her-not however to follow the
ways o: wisdom on his own account, as he
speedily landed in the State Prison of Wiscon-
sin. With three Children boy and two girls
the woman has made the miserable tour of
Kenosha, Racine, Waukegan and Milwaukee,
living life of crime and degradation in each of
these cities. at Racine she eloped with mar
ried man, a German named PufFer, who left her
| and went to Chicago. Two weeks ago the wo-
man followed him with her children, and appears
to have met him only to be again deserted
Destitute of money, the wretched family were
| turned out of the hotel in which they had
lodged, and took refuge in the upper part of an
unoccupied building on Jefferson street Here
the woman begged permission of the landlord
to stay over night, which he granted, giving
her also some money to get bread for her chill
dren. With this, instead, she bought arsenic,
at drug store near by, from the effects of hich
she died on the afternoon of the succeeding day.
Died alone in an unoccupied room, on the bare
floor, With naught around her but the bare walls
her three weeping and terrified children the
only witnesses OF her CHASTITY death.
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BLOSDIN is not much alarmed about his Mag
ara feats. He says he shan't fall, and if he did
it wouldn't hurt him. An Auburn gentleman
had talk with him, in which BIondin said that
he thought fall from the rope would not be
fatal. He had considerable experience in falling,
and has made many experiments. In case he
should find himself going from his rope, he
would roll himself into the shape of ball, and
when he struck, there would be so little surface
exposed that it would be of little consequence
how he wentnto the water, and he should come
to the surface and swim out. The Auburn gen.
tleman says: sMensieur talks with so much
confidence Of his success, in case of a fall, that
we have no doubt but that he will vary his en-
tertainmets by an apparent misstep, and tumble
from his rope. 1t would make his feat appear
more difficult and the danger more appalling"
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Tue N. Y. Times says that "every fool has
his double, and that since Mr.. Nat P. Willis.
tooka ride, for some reason best known 10 him
self, on cow-catcher, the locomotives of the
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