Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-02-21

column-that is, column OF advertisements
wherein the pretensions of Astrologers and
clairvoyants are set forth in "snall caps" and
solid" and most extravagant professions A
few extracts will give flint idea of how hum
dreds of ignorant persons in the great cities arc
swindled. One certain Madame Bruce, 1.-THE
mysterious yelled lady, Wonder if she isrelated
to the "Veiled Prophet of Khorrassan!' is pre-
pared to cnlighten applicants ION all events oil
iiien-for the small consideration of so cents,
too Another can be consulted day and even
ing on sickness, business, and absent friends"-
and satisfaction warranted or no pay.
GGIEApAME IEAvY can be coniulted about love, mar.
M rage and friends ile tells all the events q
1--WE her eSII. Ladies IS cents; gents 50 cents"
Now there is n chance TO be astonished.-
Lovers of truth, "that divine essence" for which
sages and philosophers have searched so long,
may now obtain it of Madame Leavy for from
20 to 80 cents.
'sefze upon truth Wherssr Ifs found
She pants divine Whsre'er 1t grows"
is good advice, and all who want little twig off
the 'plant divine" could not do better than to
give Madame call. Besides it is dog cheap
We don't know though why ladies should have
it for half price An old "bach." at cur elbow
suggests that this extra inducement is held out
because they have so much mere need of it than
the men.
= TADAME wIDGER, gined % Spanish lady unveils the
vi mysteries of futariiy, love, and marriage absent
lucky numbers, &C., Sc.
Those who wish to pry into the future and be
initiated into ''thc mysteries" of ''loVe and mar
rage" will call ON "Widger" Whether the
medicines" are expected to cure or not, is not
mentioned.
Madame Fleury, celebrated by her science,
PROCESSES to perform similar wonders. She
''can be consulted by magnetism" "she speaks
French, English, and German"--and is quite an
accomplished humbugl
NNHo HAS NOT HEARD of the celebrated Madame
w PreWsteI2 She has been consulted by thOusandai In
this and other cities with entire satsaeton She feels con-
or hu.band also that Other visltsr Iyou wish truth give
her call. Ladies 81 eeHisi gentlemen 81.
Truly, who has not heard Of her, since the
fun-loving reporter of the New York Tribune
consigned her to undying fame year or two
since in series of most readable letters. Ma
dameis modest. "She feels confident she has
no equal" We feel confident of the same
Truth may also be had of her, though sho
charges twice as much us Madame Leavy.
Here is the last of this long array of humbug-
gerry. We give it without comment; it speaks
for itself:
OK nnO Five THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD
IN the and
to cure any dssss- IL Il. Eorf form
the only natural in the United States
matters, cali and this naturally gifted lady.
! We cannot refrain from explaining that Ma
dame @. is n half sister to Panacea-quite cele-
brated in the curative department.
| -S@sS-
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been generated
among the French Catholics of Richmond, Va.
against Bishop McGill, relative to the interment
of Mrs. Duquesne, member of his church
They allege that the Bishop refused to permit
the body of the deceased to enter the church
for the usual funeral rites unless her husband
first secured for her remains burial place in
the Roman Catholic bnrying ground, which he
declined to do. The deceased was subsequent
| ly inferred at Shockhoe Cemetery, the Rev. j.
| L. Burroughs, Baptist clergyman, officiating.
! MINISTER'S sometimes are not careful enough
| in the selection of hymns adapted to the pecu-
liarties of the occasion. correspondent of
the Pres6yterian says, that at funeral of late
pastor of the church in New England, the ofiici-
Guiding hymn: mot all the blood of beasts"
and as the remains of the deceased clergyman
were carried down the aisle, the afflicted con-
gregation reached the expressive lines,
/ Believing, We rejoice
To see the curse removed.
We noticed some time since the sale of n wife
by her husband, in Troy, for $50. A cheaper
transaction than that occurred last week, at
Phillidsburg, n. j. man named Shipman
having been arrested for some offence, his wife
proved false during his stay in Jail, cohabitiug
with one Levins- Shipman hearing of it, ON
coming out. disposed of his wife, her clothing
and appurtenanccs to Levins for five dollars
throwing in two children to bind the baIgain.-
Women are cheap enough down in Jersey.
Az exchange says "a man named Phillip Jes
see died in Russell County. Va, short time
since, at the unusually advanced age of one hum
dred and twenty ino years" King Death was
not ::pu, of so long but that he gave him .Jes.
see at last
/ Is band of gypsies now atnycd near In