Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-04
:55=950AY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1858.

rrrnded. See telegraph.
rvoS Lsat:-George Leaf, an unsophisti-
- young pumpkin from Belmont county,
.,' am town Yesterday. He was accompanied
~, Young woman, who, by previous arrange
-, IS we understood it, is to become Mrs.
IA Before undergoing the important change
:, H. ,ust minated, George thoughtit advisable
sow the balance of his wild oats, and assist
=, Intended in some little purchases, all in the
enc trip. While the young woman was bor-
:, ,be life out of Main street dry goods man.
\. 5c!ectable George betook himself to the
,.,cern of dispenser of liquids on Market ST.,
I'd called for glass of three cent whisky
p.ouing rather happy under the influence of
.- first drink. lie thought another would rem
der him still more happy. lie took another
5i, K. aud still another, and then set out upon
N, hunt Of his intended. He went down the
street staggering, it is true, but unlike any 9TH
.r man. His gait had Il sort of a STOPPING, surg
IN, movement about it, which reminded us more
# an Indian rubber man with a severe attack of
,boIc, than anything else. "Blue ruin" always
DANCES its results with its subject. 1t makes
s,,oe men brutalnnd desperate, while in others
PRODUCES mawkishly affcctionatc inclination,
:. il did in the present instance. George met
the Lud-the Leaf in e.. bryo-on Union street,
sd with undisguised affection and entire allan
don, lie opened his arms and took her under his
wing. The dramatic effect of the hug was only
uQacd by the comical. She blushed, as well
she mightin the open street, and struggled to
free herself from his embrace, while the various
bundles of dry goods which had fallen from her
arms, rolled in different directions As she was
tnrrying to pick them up, George, utterly un-
Conscious of his ludicrous appearance, ran about
e,>aying awkwardly and unsucccssfully to clasp
bier about the neck. He made vigorous lunge
at her finally, but she executed skillful dodge
snd Leaf went reelnS to the ground. He soon
Ie.ainrd his perpendicular, having had a good
deal of the nonsense knocked out of him, to.
geiaer with a small quantity of clarct and hand
DO hand with his too worthy and self sacrificing
partner, they proceeded out of our sight and
knowledge. If he don't become sober man
u'S' '''''' 81 d ''i'AS'ASSl VIC lihC AIIlS OGSd-
sion in advance, 10 tiout him for brute
County Court.-The March term of the coun-
" court commenced on Monday. The case of
an abandoned woman, named Maria 1immons,
charged with entering the house of SIr. Win
teT, on Market street, aud taking thcrefrom a
quantity of provisions and somc ladies' wearing
apperal The evidence was conclusive and Ma
ra was sent on to the circuit court to be tried
for PETIT larceny.
This woman is tired of living" and consid.
eTing the kind of life she leads, it is not very
strange She prei,rs the ills we know not of tic
those we have, and has twice attempted to com
nit suicide One attempt was made few days
ago, when the unfortunate creature took a strong
desc of laudnum, which, through medical skin
vas prevented from doing its work. A year OF
Two since She tried to put an end to her exist
'nce through the same means.
young man named Herriot, charged with
"FasIing out" the house of disreputable wo
nan named Annie O'Brian, in East Wheeling
some months since, was arraigncd for trial
There was no evidence against him and he wa
discharged