The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-02-06
Personal,

lIRAXTON BRAGG, who II in Texas, was
lately an important witness at murder
trial.
TnE popc's income for October last
was placed at the modest sum Of S,OOO,-
600 francs,
LAURA Fam, The California murder
psa, who is out Of Jail, is said to have be-
come very rich in speculation.
pvry.ruL citizen, A. Y. Stewart, the
great New York importer, has paid $780,
OOOduties within the last len days.
GEN. FRANK p. BLAIR has 80 fur rc-
covered his health that his physicians
hope he will be able to gs out Of doors
soon.
Is THE millennium approachingY y
young man in Illinois has actually mar
ricd his mother.in.law, and they are hap
piIy living in the old homestead.
Now WE know how Tilton looked on
the witness stand. The New York Her
aid says "his eyes lacked grip" and "the
face had kind Of parboiled pain in 1t"
Miss ADA SWEET, Of Chicago, who is
the only female pension ngent in the co'In-
try, receives the highest snlary paid to IA
woman by the Government.
TIE statement made in dignifed md
trustworthy newspaper that General
Sickles runs Il high;tonel haslrhonso in
Paris" Is considered damaging to that
gentleman's character
Tug bones of Chung and Eng, wired
together, stand in the private study OF u
philadelphia doctor, while their poor
wives split fence rails in their far OFT
North Carolina home
EoRSEy is in Paris, and when II stroll
ing American asks him II he took that
$1,000 he answers that "Francc Is all
alive for the CCntennlul."-S Louis
Democrat. ..
SENATOR JOHNSON left Nashville for
Memphis last evening. lie Is expected
to speak in that city today He will re-
turn from there to Grcenyille, and 50
to Washington in II few days.
An Iowa woman Solenlnly promised
her diving husband that her daily tears
should foster the turf Of his grave, but he
hadn't been dead six months when she
drew a revolver OIL lightning rod agent
and made him marry her.
''''- "A o..
,tAcon K AbK1NA (probnbly Kalkins), oL
New lIaven, borrowed Sl5.5S from his
Sarah Jane ttignall ITO purchase house.
hold. furniture for their married life"
and is now sued for breach Of promise
I,ut some men have no limit to their
nleanness, .4 .,...
tris now reported that bismarck In
tends 10 retire from public life after Ills
sixlicth year. The rCtirmcnt Of the great
Minister from public life will probably
be about the date Of lis loss Of interest in
things pertaining to this mundane sphere
THn wickc,icst man we know Of lis III
mil at yyintersel for stealing bibles, and
his name is Carson. A party In Ohio
shipped len boxes Of family bibles, per.
hans 81 900, to Grinhell, Iowa. AT Grin
mel, Carson presented forged order in
the name Of the Consignee, and Slipped
nine Of the boxes to OtInmwa, and one to
Wintctset. Detectives found him IN the
north part of Madison county peddIing
the Bibles Erehdnyc.
Tng famous Mary Ann Boxer, the rich
mans daughter, who years ago married
her coachman, John Dean, is one Of the
lady Custom House examiners, Some
time ago passenger of French ship
was suspected Of having a quantity Of dia.
monds 10 get through, and on the dock
she was told she must be examined. The
girl protested. II was no Use. SO turn
ing to her fellow passengers she bade
them a tender ndieu. The warm embrace
she bestowed upon one lady was touching
she kissed her, not once, but twice, and
with each kiss she gave into her friends
keeping solitaire worth $1,000. Then
she went off with whole monthiul, which
she would have swallowed like so many
pill. rather than disgorgc, AZ she alter
ward explained, those awful big stones
imptled her utteranOc, and she intended
giving the Custom House people piece
Of her mind. And thus she was enabled
TO do 50, thanks to her own ingenuity and
tho size Of her friends mouth.