The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-09-14
PERSONS AND THINGS.


A BOsLOn man returned from his yaca.
ton last month with nose on him like
blasted tomato. He had been q snow.
balling in the White Mountains. 4
A handbill announcing negro picnic
In Tennessee recently requested persons
attending to leave their pistols and razors
at home.
At Orkney Springs, Va, on Saturday,
in fight, John Avis, the executioner Of
John Brown in 1850, beat out the brains
Of man named johnson.
Applications for admission to the Ju.
niOr class Of the Yale Theological! School
already number forty, and with this mum.
Der the incoming claGs will be the largest
except one since the school was estab.
lished.
Gen. Butler entertained at dinner on
Sunday, in Washington, Mr.. Evar1,
Chief Justice Waite, Mr., Key, Mr.. Nc.
Crazy and others, Mr.. Waite and Mr.
Evarti sat respectively at the right and
left oil the host.
The king Of iresh.water cells was caught
with hook and line in the Connecticut
river, of NIiddletOwn, Conn.,, last Friday.
It weighed more than eight pounds, and
was four feet six inches long,
Three men were found recently hang.
ing from a tree in Texas, and on one Of
them was placard bearing the inscrip.
ton; "They stole horses; here Is where
we found them, and here Is where we left
them"
A Western lawyer, who was defending
n man on trial for vile murder, sought
for a euphonious phrase with which to
describe his clients crime, and finally
said, "HC winnowed her into Paradise
with fence rail."-CRioqgo Tribune.
Old DR.. Hunter used to say, when he
could not discover the cause Of a mans
sickness, "We'll try this and we'll try
that. Well phoot into the tree, and II
anything falls, well and good" "Aye,"
replied a wag, ~ fear this is too com.
monty the case, and in your shooting into
the tree, the FIRST thing that generally
falls is the PATIENT
HGthousht that B. Young ought to
have recovered from his cholera morbus,
but when It came to Sighting with twenty.
seven women, each one with different
kind Of mustard plaster for her dear hus.
band, aud new kind Of herb tea, it was
too much for him. Every woman laid her
plaster where there was room, and the
prophet went down to his grave like a
sandwich.-Haukeyc.
The ChIcago "I'iJtnc" prints letter
in regard TO Ex-Governor Beveridge's
misuse Of the pardoning power. 1t shows
from the records Of the Joliet Penitenti.
airy that in the last days OF his term he
commuted the sentences OF large mum.
Der Of conviCts which extended years be.
yOnd his own term, and that Of these no
less than seventeen were sentences Of
murdcrers.
As means Of securing happiness, the
detective business in Canada does not ap.
pear TO be pronounced success. Two Of
the craft At Brantiord, managed to work
up l05 whisky cases, and while on the
way to the Court House to give such eyi.
dence as would secure immunity for the
whole gang they we're asSailed by a crowd
and terribly beaten. An effort was made
to throw them in the river, but they we're
finally rescued, with bruises averaging
about one for each case.
A man named Bliss and his wife, who
have been giving exhibitions of spiritual
materializations" in Philadelphia, after
the "Katy King" fashion, were recently
exposed by the Philadelphia Tines, which
showed that u trap door led from their
cabinet to the cellar, and that by means
OF this the changes were made. Bliss had
the temcrity to sue the Times for libel.
Yesterday, when the hearing came on,
one Of the persons who had paid money
to sec Bliss exhibition accused him OF
false pretences; u young woman whom
the BliSses had employed in their repre-
sensations made a full confession, and
Bliss and his wife were held in 5000 bail
TO answer the charge.