Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-11-14
Froma recent Lecture By C w. curtiss.
The American Aladdin

run i IESSHL AeSt4lS N"SuItSSs
The American Aladdin.
I When we go out on Saturday afternoons 10 NOR
alize and see new houses, we usually take our
young ones by AlaldIn's palace. Aladdin was
Yankee. He started in life by sweeping jack
knives, then putting the halves of broken marbles
together and passing them of as whole ones
W hen he had gathered some brass he went 10
school the summer to learn the golden rule of
| Standardization for himself and subtraction
for his nsishbCr.
AT an early age AL ,ddin was considered tn he
good at 6atgain-which meant that he could al
ways succeed in changing a worse for a better
always keeping the bind slle oil horse 10 the wall
when he had TO Srliil; aud the village said that
certainly Aladdin would succeed. When he left
she will be Tich, said the village, with more ap
ProvsI than it would say, che will be generous
and true" To Aladdin the world was but mar
ket in which to buy cheap I'll sell dear. For hun
there was no beauty, no history, no pely, no he
rOsm. SalnIy The stars shnne over hIm-yanly
the south wind blew. In the wake Of the great
ship Argu, in which Jason and his companions
sllitd for the Golden Fleece, over the cleaning
" edI;rrTanean-wheTe the ships of Tyre, Rome,
and OF the Crusad. rs had been before him-thro'
the Pillars Of Hercules, Though which CUlu nbuS
sailed 10 lind fame IN q wurId-now sails Al
adlin to ind fortune To him all landS are alike.
No Homer sang for him III the e. eau; he OmIY
cuIseS tue wind that will not blow hin into OeS-
Sd. No SyrsnS sing for him, bulhe loves the huge
oath Of the lively Ouatswiin. With the Bible IN
HlS anu 4aIu W III
he goes about the holy places in Jerusalem, and
Ca cuIates' IheiI exact size. He sees tue laud OF
the RameSeS ard Ptolemies; and the reverend re-
cords Of the Lyhian desert, whose echbes have
Slnmbered since they were trampe'l over by Alex
anIer'S army, are awakened by the ShTl whlS-
tie OF Old Dan Tucker. tie insults the Grand
Lama, hobnobS with the Grand Mugul, turns his
back upon emperors, an takes pinch out Of tie
Pnpe's snuff box. lie chews with the Arabs,
smokes opium with the Turks, and rides for wife
with the kamuck TaItarS.
Aladdin cumeS lone again, and the admitting
village points him out 10 the younger generation
Us successful man: My sou, look nt him; lie
began with nothIEs-now See.' My son. does
see, and be holds him owning million OF do!laEs-
OF all societies OF which lie is not president, dit
rector. His name is COOL as goll-he has
bought pictures and StatueS-lIe has alSU bought
Ats. Aladdin and housed her in luxury; but he
picks his mouth with IA silver fork. lie has
home for poet, but he makes ii his boast that he
reads nothing but his newspaper. lie goes 10
churchtwc on Sundays, ana Only wakes up when
the preacher denounceS the sinner Of So ION and
GUnOrrah ana those tough old Jews of JeruSa-
lem. HIS head is bald and shiny with the Seq
nous which have hit and glanced off. lie clasps
his hands Ill prayer, but GorSetS to open them hen
the poor box is passed around; ard he goss home
like successful man, thanking God that he is not
as other men are. And after dinner he sits down
before the fire Ill his easy chair, lights large cigar
and looks lamgudIy at Mrs. Aladdin through Tue
thick smoke.
BY and by old Aladdin dies The conventional
virtues are told over as the mourning carriages are
calIe out. The papers regret they are called
upon 10 deplore the loss OF reverend parent,
generous friend, philosophical cilizrm, and pious
man; aud the precOclOuS snapper Of jackknlveS,
and the model set up TO the Young generation is
laid i'll the dust. Above his grave the stats lie
never burn with soft luster which NJ
lamps about kings tomb can emulate; aud the
south wind Tor whose breath upon his brow lie was
never.gEateful, SrewS his lonely last led with am
emoneS aud vIOetS that his heel crushed when
IIvngi and we who are 10 be formed upon That
model caTeeSsly remark, as we stir tu!dirS, $50
Old Aladdin is gone at last and, by tue way,
how much did lie leaVe!'
Awful TRAcEDY!-MuRDER AND SurclDE!-A
WIFE KILLED ny HER tlUSBlND!-At eight O'CLOCK
last evening, we received information that most
h"Ird tragedy had been nerprtraled on the West
Side. vile had been murdered by her husband,
and the latter had afterwards taken, or attempted
t" take, his own life. Repairing ut once To the
police station house oflhat division, we found the
dead Lohy of the man, Edgar E. IngerSolI, lying
upon the floor. ball discharged from one Of Al
ems lHtemt revOverS, had penetrated the left
breast, immediately over the upper portion of the
heart, from which death had followed.
! lnGeIsOll and his wife have Ilvt lived happily 10
gehtr.
| Ingt IsoIl went TO the house wIere his wife
boarded. Ms. lngor oil happened 10 be standing
at the door, aud yielding 10 his earnest entrealles,
| started out for walk with hIn. They had gone
but i few steps rum the house, When lngerSoll
drew TevolEer from his pocket and discharged il
at her breast. The pail took effect, and the lady
| lell lie Immediately TUNED the weapon to his
own breast, aud firing second time, fell himself
'nortally wounded. Tie neighbours, hearing the
report nt fire arms, rus e,i 10 the spot. The lady,
with life not yet extinct, was conveyed to her
boarding IUmse, and her husband to tie sutton
I house, " there lie expired Sa0u after arriving
! We visited the other victim OF thus lealful trag-
ely at her boarding Inusz Peoria street. She
was still living sud able I" speak, though not per-
ntte to do So by The attendant physician. Size ap-
Peared very pale, and greatly agltated Ly tx-
cI'ememt or fear Of d-atlr. The external hr,nur-
rh"se from the wound in her breast had been very
Slight and she was bleeding internally, and it wnS
the opinion Of all present that She could not sur
vlve. The bail entered near the hight breast and
| remains III the chest.
l"gerSol does not appear 10 have been addicted
10 nablIS oil inlempetancc in dsInk. lie was FIR
ner!y clerk, but for some time has held the an
ponlmemt irJm the Common Council uf tender Of
Randolph slteet bSidge. lie man about 90
years OF age
Mrs. IngersoIl is lady of fair and pleasing
counlenance. only nineteen CT twenty yarS Of
age. Her nia.deu maine was Elizabeth E Mariner.
her paaentS, we understand reside at NJ. chanics-
burgh. III the vicinity Of Plltsburg.--C Chicago
Times Of "Wednesday.
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