The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-06-28
PERSONS AND THINGS.

paFpet'shop, anu he offered 10 ggM any
one Of them. .l
Postmaster General Keys salary is SO
small or his family SO large that he can
not afford to have his wife and nine chill.
dren in Washington.
A Western, as well as intelligent, com.
pOsitOr describes The situation tersely.
The copy probably read "help," but the
paper habit "Hell for St. john"
A party Of riOtouS young men, belong
ing to the wealthlest families Of Pitts.
burgh, have been sent to the WorkhouSe
for ninety days. They were denied the
alternative Of paying fines.
A mani West Troy died on Thursday
night while kneeling by the side Of his
bed and saying his prayers, Moral
What is the mOralI'
A young married woman mended her
husbands coat, She sewed the tail pock.
cts up all nice and tight-thOught they
were holes. The lFoman'S Journal says
the anecdotc is fact.
The chimes in ST. Marks Church, Phil.
adelphia, the ringing Of which the neigh.
bOrs stopped by means Of an injunction,
may now be rung for Eve minutes on
every Sunday, under a modification Of
the injunction.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis Is living in Missis.
sippi City, on the border Of Lake Point.
chartrain, between New Orleans and Mo-
bile. He Is writing his memoirs, and is
in excellent health.
Canada is already disguised with Sit
ting Bull, and has limited that she will
extradite him il the United States de.
mand him. 1t would be great fun to see
a couple Of CanuCk Constables prowling
around the old savage with warrant.
The old Hoppin mansion which the
President is 10 occupy during his visit to
Providence will hereafter be known as
the "Presidents House." It is a large
and beautifully fitted house, and will be
furnished elegantly for the occasion.
The grounds surrounding it are delight
full.
A Lafayette, Ind, butcher, who had
nearly bankrupted himself buying Texas
steers to feed n tapeworm, suddenly
changed his tactics 10 abstemiousness,
tho ingratitudo Of which in four days
sent the Unsuitable reptile to the early
birds.
A German lost his wife, and the next
week married again, and his new wife
asked him to take her out riding. He
felt indignant that she should have no
more respect than that for his deceased
wife, and said: "You dink I ride out
nit another woman 80 soon after the
death Of mine frau%
No woman OF ordinary means need
want a husband while innocents adver.
tise like this in the Buffalo Express:
WANTED-By respectable young man
n wife; one that has home and can sup.
port a husband till he can find work,
Address Bachelor, Box, Albion, n. W
A recent FIRE in Union, S. G., destroyed
81 boxes OF Confederate archives which
were left there by order Of JEFF. Davis
when he was flying before the Union arms.
They were valuable documents, and their
custodian was on the point OF sending
them to the Southern Historical Society
at Richmond, Va, when the fire came.
A Pittsburgh parsOn, charged with for
ty olenses against the Church, pleaded
guilty to thirty.two, but solemnly denied
the balance. Those confessed were for
debt, ialsehood, engaging in immoral
conversation while visiting, and for draw
ing promissory note in church while n
brother was praying. A party headed
by man, probably the puyee in the note,
entered the church during the investiga.
ton, stopped all the witnesses and acQuit.
ted the accused. What the eight denied
charges were is not known, but they we're
unquestionably of small obliquities, too
slight for u man OF his lofty ideas to in.
dulge in.
The Lafayette, Ind. Courier says that
two weeks ago n young woman was hur.
ried into a covered carriage at night, at
St. Mary's Nunnery, and hastily driven
to hospital in the northern par! Of the
city kept by Sisters, and there gave biz til
to child, which did not live. This at.
fair has created good deal Of loose talk
in Lafayette. It is reported that Bishop
Dwenger intends to remove all the nuns
at present in the nunnery and put others
in their place.
The rivalry between the two leading
Chinese theatres in San Francisco is not
less intense than that between two Of our
tirst.class theatres. The contract with a
company performing at one theatre expir-
pired the other day, and the rival theatre
made large oIierf or theirseryices. There
upon the manager Of the theatre they
were about to quit locked them, through
strategy, in the green.room, and gave
them only bread and water, to persuade
them 10 renew the contract. Writs Of
habeGS corpus, obtained by his rival, how
ever, convinced him that this is not the
"Melicnn" style Of securing signatures to
n contract.
An Awful Struggle.
From the n. Y Sun.
We find the following iDgeniously dis.
guised signal OF distress in Deacon Rich