Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-01-31

| How TO RUM PIEaAN.-Some time since $50
runs the current nnrrative,) tie owner of thriy-
ing mutton-pie cuncetn, which after much diff
Guilty he had succeeded in establishing with Dor
rowed capital, died bef re he had well ext,ica ed
himself from the responsibilities of debt The
widow carried on the business alter his decease.
and throve 40 well that specu ating baker, on the
opposite side of the way, made her the offer of
his hand, The lady refused, and the enraged
suitor, determined OH revenge, Immediately con-
vsrting his baking into opposition pie shop.
and, acting OIL the principle universal among
London bakers, of doing business for the first
month or two at loss, made his pies twice rs big
as he could honestly afford 10 make them. The.
consequence was, the widow lost her CUSTOM and
was fastening fast TO ruin, when friend Of her
late husband, who was also small creditor, paid
her visit. She detailed her grievance 10 him.
and lamented her lost trade ami fearful prospects
"Ho Ho." said her friend. ..thal ere's the move
is it Neveryou mind, my dear. III don. t get
your trade again, there amt no snakes, mark me
that's allp' So saying he took his leave.
About eight o'clock the same evening, when
the bnker's new pie-Shop was CRANE 10 overflow
ing, and TIL. principal was below, experimenting
the production Of new batch, in walks Inc wIde
Owls friend in the costume OF a kennel-raker and
elbowing his way through the crowd, 10 tile conn
ter, Iabs down upon 1t a brace Of huge dead cats,
vociteratlng at the same title 10 the nstonished
damsei III attendance, "rell your master, INV
dear, as how them two makes SIX and thirty This
week, and say I'll bring toiher four Tomorrow
artetnoon.' 49, 49,, aL7--f
With that he staggered out, and rent his way.
So powerful was the prejudice against cat-tnutton
among The population in that neIghbornooJ. tbot
the shop was clear in an instant, and III. floor
was covered with hastily abandoned specimens If
every variety OF segments OF a circle. The spirit
shop at the of the street experienced an una
usually large demand for "goes'' of brandy, ana
inteijectional CALCULATIONS, not purely srammn1-
ical were not merely audible, but visible too. in
the district. 1t is averredtLat the ingenius ex-
pediznt of the widows friend founded as Il ,yos
n lRhz inf hmm
had the desired effect frestoring the baiance of
the trade."t Thewidow recovered her commerce
the reseptful baker was done as brown as If III.
had been shut up in his own oven; and.the friend
oithe lady WHO had brought about this measure of
Justice received her hand as reward for his inter-,
Observation-Disclosures of London Life.
:. SLAVE PLor Is KEsruckY.-We learn from,
the Louisville Courier, that Henry county, XIV.
has recently been the scene of considerable excite.
ihent, arising from a discovery of plot of some
slaves to murder a family because they thou.ht
one Of their number had been solo, and make
their escape TO Canada. The family which II
was proposed to murder was named Henlon. One
Of The servants, suspecdng that his master had
taken another off to sell him. told his views 10
several others, and it was agreed to throw stone
in at the window and kill little boy. 500
The lady the house, it was expected, would
te alarmed and run out. and then She was to. be
murdered. This doue. the negroes were to divide:
une partyto'iee at onceito Canada. and the 9th.
slswere to await the return Of their master, who
was TO be killed, and the money which he was
supposed to have received for the servant he had.
takenylthl him, and oPriaied to their suse.-
This scheme was carried out so far as to throw
The stone tlircugh the window, Ba, the boy at
whom II W ay iiifectud escarrd an,i fhe H.. a,t. -
lie censrIratcis JAILED. he NEG hbors coming N
and inquirng about the stone which had been
thrown, anjthe negroes talked so rs 10 ,ifa y SUI,
pieion upon themselves and being stopped, con-
negroes and one white man. Several Of Inc. slaves
concerned have been sold s-l..-