The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-21

| Whom Napoleon, about 1911, desired
to butldforthe king of Rome, near Bar.
riere de Pussy, the shop of a poor cob.
bier, named Simon, stood in the wav
Simon having learned what was going
on, demanded twenty thousand francs
for his tenement. The administrator
hesitHted few days, Ind then decided
to give it; but Simon, goaded by the
love of gain, now asked forty thousand
francs. This sum was more than two
hundred times its value, and tho de
mand was secuted. An attempt was
made to change the frontage, but beinn
found impossible, they went again 10
the cobbler, who had raised his price Ia
| sixty thousand francs. He-was Offered
fifty thousand, but refused. The en-
peror would not give frame more and
preferred to change his plan. The spec
ulating son of st. CriSpin then saw his
mistake, and offered his property for
fifty thousand francs, forty thousand
thirty Thousand, coming down Mt last to
ten thousand. The disasters of 1911
happened, and all thoughts of palnce
for the king of Rome We're abandoned.
SOmemOnths aftor, Simon sold his shop
for one hundred and fifty francs, and in
few days after the sale, WINS removed
to an insane asylum; disappointed
avarice had driven him crazy.
Z" There was an old man." saws an
eastern parable, "whO had an abun-
dance of gold ;thesound of it WINS pleas-
ant to his ears, and his eye delighted in
its brightness. By day he Thought of
gold, and his dreams We're of gold by
night. His hands were full of gold and
he rejoiced in the multitude of his
chests but he was flint from hunger,
and his trembling limbs shivered be-
meath his rags. No kind hand minis
tered TO him, nor cheerful voices made
music in his home. And there came II
child to him and said Father, / have
found n secret. We are rich. You shall
not be hungry and miserable any more.
Gold will buy allthings.' Then the old
mnn was wroth, and said !: Would you
take from me my gold ?"
Many years since, II sea-faring man
called mt IA village inn on the coast Of
Normandy, and asked for supper and
n bed. The landlord and tandlady
were elderly people, and apparently
poor. He entered into conversation
with them, invited them to partake of
his cheer-asked them many questions
about themselves and their fnmily, and
particularly of u son who had gone to
sea when Il boy, and whom they had
long given over ns dead. The landlady
showed him to his room, and when she
quilted him, he put n purse of gold into
her hand, and desired her to take care
of 1t till the emorning-pressed her alice
ttonately by the hand, and bade her
good night. She returned to her hus-
band and showed him the, gold. For
its sake they agreed to murder the trav-
eler in his sleep, which they accom-
plished, and buried the body. In the
morning early, came two or three reln-
tions, and asked in a joyful tone for the
fNsTaNV alnNa knu.rN Al.
night before. The old people seemed
greatly confused, but said that he had
risen very early and gone away. I'm
poSSible!' sRid the relation. 1T is your
own son, who is lately returned to
France, and is come to make happy the
evening of your days, and he resolved
to lodge with you one night as a stran-
ger, that he might see You unknown,
and judge of your conduct towards
wayfnring mariners.' Language would
be incompetent to describe the horror,
of the Inurderers, when they found TINT
they had dyed their hands in the blood
Of their long lost child. They confess
ed their crime, the body was found and
the wretched inurderers eXpiated their
oflense by being broken alive upon the
wheel. .'f- lli
A London shipping merchant, on a
beautiful May morning of 1862 was
found dead in his chamber, with 50
horrible an expression on his counte-
nance, that the persons who first enter.
ed the apartment instinctively turned
away their faces in uncomfortable ter
ror. Death had given him but n min.
ute's notice, but 1t was minute of sane
consciousness that he was leaving fouI
millions of dollars; that he would in
stantly stnnd before his Maker, to give
an account of his stewardship: and
through long life he had made 1t his
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bestow penny in charity 'i.g a
Strive, reader, against the greed Ol
gold.n IT Is u merciless tyrant, md in
the end not only kills the body, but de,
stroys the soul.---Ittt'S JoHf,iat. 81
The EFFEcT OF AIARRIAaE.-Doubt.
less you have remarked with satisfac.
tion how the little oddities of mon whc
marry rather lnto in life are pruneG
away speedily afler their marriage
You have found n man who used 10 liz
shabbily dressed with a huge shirt col.
lnr, itrayed at the edges, and n Glarinl
| yellow silk ocket-handkerchief bro
ken of those things aud become a nat.
tern OF neatneSs. You have seen RInur
whose hair and whiskerS were ridicn
lously cut speedily beoOme like otheI
human beings. You have seen a mar
\ who took snuff cOpiously, and who uaIi.
orally had his breast covered will sfTItT
abandon the vile habit.5 AYifa is Tho
| grand wielder of the moral prnnint
knife. If JoEmson's wife Ind lived
there'would haye been no loardinty M
of bits of orange peel; nOit0nchinG nj
the posts in walking along the street,
no eating Or.drinking with n disgustinr
Voracity. If Oliver GOLDSMITH haS
married, he would never have worf
that memorable and ridiculous cont
Whenever you find u man you know
little about, oCldly,dressed, or TALKING
ridicnlously, or exhibiting eccentricitS
of manner, you may be sure tIat he /
not nmarried man. For the little cor.
ners arc rounded of, the little shoot,
hre pruned away, in married men. Thl
wife's ndvices are the tiller That keeDs
tho ship steady. They nre like tin
Wholesome, though painful; ;shears, nip
ping OIL the little grOwths ofselE-concei
and folly.-BrdzeI'S Md1nsine. ~
REPupIAT1oN,--In Rome, after tn,
liberties of.the people had, been de
stroyed by their general corruption
ambitious dempgogues were wont /,
appeal to the base passions for the fur
therence of their own selfish schemes
.Agrartan Laws, proposing q division q
the land among, the people, were Otter
4 Dronght forward for this purpose
| some OF the enemies OF the Republi
seem inclined 70 similar course now
making reputation of tho public deb
answer the purpose, in, part, of an 40
rarian law. This may be in lkeepini
with their sympathy with the 1rea
Mississippi repudiator, Jeff. Davis bu
nothing shows more clearly the absn
lutte necessity for keeping such lrecs
4 less demagogues out of On places O
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