Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-08
MosTof our readers will remember the tele.

ago. Some four or five roWdies, il was charged,
beatitbe passengers over the heads with clubs,
rayished q woman, and made complete wreck
Of everything on board. The details were most.
outrageous. Well, the rowdies have been tried
before Judge Stump, Of the Criminal Court, and
ater hearing the evidence the jury has con-.
victsd the prominent participants, and the
Judge has sentenced them to two days impris.
onment and to pay a tino of ffty cents. Whilst
the witnesses were being examined, the Judge,
IS Wsisse itIstated in the city papers, left the
bench, and walking up behind the sea. of the
iSaH reporter, said, emphatically: -
have bother enough with cases in the city,
without having cases occurring away down to
the Capes. IonlY wish they had flung the
captain overheard they would fling any
captain overheard who takes niggers, whites and
the live stock that will pay twenty five cents,
and then they have ariot
The court then Walked up on the bench, and
foFct6ly reiterated" only wish that they had
flung the captain overboard-that's all.n
In sentencing the prisoners, the Judge used
the following extraordinary language:
SIN respect to. the jury will make few res
marks before passing sentence. 1t is a common
thing for plains Of boats fors25 cents head
to take 1ll kinds Of live stock on board-bIack,
white, coloFed and yellow, and then out of this
mixed crowd they have disturbance. They
will take any body for % cents, no matter who
theyares or of what color. 1t is the opinion of
thecourt that if this captain Cof the Expressl
dthad the f1rmness of anything like a man,
heseould have suppressed the disturbance and
put ttidoWn. They advertise to take every body
and entice those boys to como aboard to have
recreation, and they have these rows wherever
they goat Annapolis, at Havre de Grace and
elsewhere. The captain. could have put this
thing doWnif he bad tried-there were enough
men on board to call to his aid TO put down
these boys. Out of Difference to the Jury I
win say this much. Their verdict is right, but
the. court won't consent TO punish these boys
much, for the reason stated. They take the
parties first to Cambridge, and then bring them
here to trouble mel have had enough ito do
with, cases occurring in the city ] will fine
each Of the three boys tty cents Nth costs and
fRlprison them too days"
The verdict was universally conceded to be a
just one, and the sentence created great SUR
prise The prisoners highly elated, were re.
turned to the lookup, amid the warm congratu-
lations of their numerous friends and youthful
acquaintances, who crowded around them.
IL there existed nothing else to justify the
respectable citizens of Baltimore in the recent
reform movement, the above would be sufficient.
RoWdyism, murder and rapine are running ram.
pantl What must be the religion where a
Monkey is tho Priesu What can be expected
for justice and order with such Judge on
the bench, drunken and corrupt to the last
degree9
OrR Wisconsin exchanges continue to be filed
with startling accounts of the ravages of the
bears: ThSwhole State appears to be swarming
With these ferocious wild animals, and the in
habitants are becoming alarmed for their safely.
The bears no longer confne their visits to farrp.
ers' pig pens, but boldly approach their dwell
lings and apply for admittance at Kitchen doors
and bed room windows. The Manitou,oos Pilot
informs us that the residence of Mr. Greenman,
near that place, "was visited on Saturday night
last by huge bear, which deliberately placed
his fore paws on the window sill of Mr.. G.'s5bed
room, awakening him from his slumbers. Sup.
posing the animal to be COW, Mr.. g. went to
the doort drive itaway, when he again met
bruinS ready to come in, and having no other
weapon than jack plane, he threw it at him.
The bear apparently dscamped but the loss of
three fine shorts in the morning assured Mr.. G..
that his pig pen had also been examined BY his
visitor"
Fromtbe Green Lake Democrat we learn that
the bears in that county are SO plentiful that
the people keep ares burning around their
dwellings, to freighten the "varmints" away
The Columbus, Portage county, Journal, gives
afightfal account of the bears in that region,
which arc described as being equal in size to a
ysarling calf Anentirs neigh6orhood turned
out one day, recently. in pursuit of monstrous
bear. which entered the premises of Mr. War.
ner, near that place. Alter long chase the
bear was killed, aud the citizens returned home.
In triumph. So numerous and troublesome are
he bears, and SO great the rayages they are
producing, that q committee of citizens vas
a6optt to beaPpointedito wait upon the honor.
able Mr.. Granhey Berkely, and sntrsat his aid
IN their determination. Large numbers of the
sportsmen and crack shots of Chicago are pre-.
pairing for . hunting incursion to Wisconsin,
They viii go.well armed and provided. The
7Enes says it is not advised Of the route thew
intend TO take. but shall expect IN duo time to
hear an account Of their bearings
soun months since, woman and her two
children were pptoff train on the Cleveland,
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