Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-04-15


Is IS cents, tor Two months $3.50, To-
three months Sl,pS. for Elk uonths $3.50
and for Que year 81! That The price o
the Tri-Weekly tO' one year lie So, for 81,
mOntbs 81, aud iOr three months 81 10
Thst the price OF the Weekly is 81 a year
or : for slE mouths. These terms ne dc
not depart from, aud request that our pat,
rOus will make 4 note of them, and IhuI
save themselves and US much trouble.
So A ROMANTIC ADVENTURE WITH a
DIsMAL ESDlNs-A YoUxs WIDOW WoMAu
ATTENPTs 10 oIvE AID AND CoMYoRr TO
TRE ExEHT, AID BREAxs AER LEs IL THD
Acr.-Cen6ned 10 the jail OF this city is i.
yourg m.u named George Dusky, 500 OF
old Dan. Dasky, of bushwhaekiug no.
'orie'y. George is a chip Of the old block,
snd has spent the last three Year, Of his
I fe In shooting Federal soldiers aud look .
lpE through the iron bars in different pris.
ouS. However, eur readers are Somewha,
familiar with Georges history, aud We
shalt leave bin for she present aud turn
our attention TO smother prominent actor
In the story We are about to relste. Thers
resides in this city young widow woman
BY the name of Mary Briggs, who bosses a
sewing machine At the boot aad shoe es
sa6iishnsuI OF Nr. Anderson, near The sus.
pension bridge. Mrs. Briggs lives with
her brotbeF-in-Iaw, Philip sebeaffer, on
Filth street, near the jail Mrs. Briggs
somehow or other managed 70 make the
acquaintance Of DuSky. aud has from time
TO Lime supplied Lion with such ItEIs lux
uries a. che could command, jGilor Jones
making no objection so long as nothing Of
= ooutrsOaud character Vas suluzsIed 10.
A week or so ago the jailOr detected Mrs.
Briggs il the act of slipping souothiSx ct
Suspicious character through DuSky's
cell door, EhereupOn be intorusd the
lady that she must not reiEra to the jail
sEain-Ihat she had violated her faith and
vas NO longer worthy OF his eoufidsaee.-l
But Dasky had Won the heart OF Mrs.
Briggs, and such love as he had inspired
Vas not to De cooled aad ba6lsd by Tailor
JOOts, though he had charge Of . key
tEics as Ponderous as that which inmured
the loved one within the dungeon wallis
Ga Wednesday night about 10 o'clock the
sVer-rigiIaut J.iior, who was sitting
At window on The south side
of the Jail faucied that be heard
noise upon the south side Of the wall which
surrounds the building. and taking light
ed candle he walked arc and towards the
spot whence the noise appeared TO pro-
coed, when he heard something drop. He
stopped down 60 pick up the something,
which turned out to DO a little parcel, and
IS he did 80 a woman jumped from the
top Of the vail upon his back. The Wo-
mau-nO leSs person than Mary Briggs
seized the parcel, declaring that abe would
father die than that tde lnilOr should Sc
cure The package. 10 jumping from the
wall. which is perhaps twelve or fifteen
feet high, the woman had broken her
right leg jnst above the ankle, but she
nevertheless struggled violently for the
POSSESSION Of the parcel, aud duriug the
Struggle, q small bottle containing aiIric
acid Was broker, And the contents spilled
apOn the jailor aud Irs. BriRsS, both Of
sbou we're stained Rnd burned by the
liqaid. Mrs.. Briggs at last sunk TO the
ground in an exhausted condition. whsu
she vas taken into the Jail, where
medical attendance was called, end where
she sill lies ia 4 suffering condition.
The jAilor upon examining the parcel
fonnd IhA; it contaiued bottle Of chIoro-
form, bottle of nitric acid, q ebisseI, a
boz of steel pens aud 4wo love letters from
Mrs. BtggI, copy of the FSs.maH's Jour-
aal asd copy of the Cincinnati EaqErsr
E harmmoniOus lot of stu6 certainly, to cay
the least Of it. Mrs. Briggs had the pack.
age attached to the eud of long pole and
was endeaVOring to pat il Into the cell oc-
eupied by Dasky, which she would doubtless
have succeeded in doing he'd not the sp-
pearanee Of the IIiIoE startled her and eaas-
ed her TO drop the package. Mendel's cab
met shop is the only buildlog bstWesu the
Jail aud the house where Nrs. Briggs re
sides, and the only way to the south wall
IS through the shop. She knew where the
key. were kept and therefore readily gaia
ed an entrance TO the shop. In passing
through the chop she took with her lad
der By means of which she got upon the
wall Is before stated. We have alre.dy
said that the package contained IWo los.
letters addressed 70 Dusky aud signed BY
the Sys Of Nrs. Briggs. Loye is hardly =
word Of Sumeieut strength to properly de-
scribe obs OF her letters. 1T would make
. column Of this paper and 'breathed
throughout The most Iutenas alteration and
devotion. The other letter. written. as fl