The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-31
TRIPLES.

H.. aged respectively sixteen and
eleven and one-half years, are said to
have got married. A clergyman whom
they called on sent them TO the town
clerk for ~ stifklt." On their way a
man married them tor thirty-seVen
cents. The wife (?) now attends school,
and gravely talks to her playmates
about her "old man."
"A Virginia paper contains card
from an "F. f. W." claiming that
cock fighting is very improving
sport, and that eating the eggs OF game
chickens "makes men plucky, pune
tilious, and sensitive for their honor"
An insane man recently visited the
North Carolina Legislature, and on
his return to the asylum, being asked
what he thought of it, replied, "Well,
l think they are n branch OF this estab-
lishment."
"A New York paper recently con-
tanned the following advertisements
"Wanted-American youth TO travel
this summer with young colored man;
a young man who can write; Sl2
month and board. Address --,
Georgetown, d. c.
Young gentlemen may be pleased
to learn that it is becoming fashionable
for young brides TO live one year with
their parents.
head the other night thus addressing
his hat, which had fallen from his head
-"If pick you up fall; If L fall you
will not pick me up; then l leave yOu;"
and he staggered proudly away.
"A married woman i'll London per-
suaded her husband to allow her in
sport to tie his legs and arms, and when
she had him tied she proceeded to pay
off her grudges against him by gOug-
ing out his eyes with 81 table knife.
The Salt Lake papers are making
merry over q fight in the household of
a Mormon bishop, in which the saint"
got fearfully thrashed by several en-
ragged wives.
"A new cotton factory is 10 be erect
ed in New Orleans to run 10000 spin
dies.
Gen. Robert L. Lee has lately visit
ed New England, and has returned TO
the South.
Iowa is out of debt, and has bal
ance of $629 900 cash on hand.
-Prussian authorities have discover
ed a conspiracy among the Poles to
start another revolution in case of war
between Prussia and France. Several
arrests have been made.
T-w. w. Corcoran is about to erect a
mammoth hotel, to bear his name, on
Vermont avenue, near Senator Sum
ner's residence, in Washington. 1t
will be ready before the December
term of Congress.
"A negro preacher, recently arrested
in New Orleans as disorderly per-
son, was unable to pay the fine i'm:
posed. He was about to be committed
when a happy thought struck him. I'll
YOUR Honor will trust me till Monday
I'll take up a collection to. morrow"
He was trusted.
"A man in Independence, Mo-, was
tried for stealing pig. The defense
was that the article stolen was hog,
and on the plea the prisoner got clear
"A Georgia editor. to make delin-
uuents "pay up" offers to distribute
| by lot among those who settle ii gold
watch and other prizes.
On the Chicago and Northwestern
railway, train recently ran ninety
one miles in ninety minutes.
The snow shed of the Central Paci-
fic Railroad Is the biggest building in
the world. 1t is l6 feet wide, 16 feet
high, and % miles long, and took above
forty million feet of lumber.
DIR. HAYES wishes to go north again.
No arctic explorer is reallyshappy until
he has failed to come back.
Miss Rosina D. Richardson. the
New Hampshire giantess. whose welgh ht
is 400 pounds, was married to John a.
Wood at Stoddart, N. H., on the 10th
inst. The brides weight is three times
that of the bridegroom.
| Chinese jewelry is the latest hobby
with New York fashionAbles, and Is
having great run.
"A rustic, describing Louisville. said
the finest residence there belonged &c
MIR. NJ. L. Church, whose name was
cut in big letters over the door, and
there was a sharp-pointed chimney on
the house two hundred feet high.
WHAT a curious commentary on the
worlds progress is contained in this
little item of news from Rome: The
Pope is organizing corps of short
hand reporters for the General Council
and a Piedmontese ecclesiastio who
before he entered the Church, was OH
cial stenographer to the Parliament o
Turin. has been appointed chief re-
porter,
IT would be we'll for the officers o
the law to keep sharp lookout, aoou
this time, for counterfeiters. The lat'
President, just before the close OF MI
term, released large number OF TN
sharpest of these culprits from prison