Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-03-26
ALL FOR NAUGHT.
HUMOROUS EXCITEMENT OVER A
CORPSE BOILING.
"Reminiscences Of Washington Disseetins
Room-Ths Negro Stiff in Pot
Al Ambitious Medical Student
Gets a Skeleton.

The Third is one Of the most quiet
and sober wards of the eity-no doubt
about that. Aside iron its business,
executive, legal and commercial, Is
affords but little play ior the sharpsned
pencil and still sharper imagination oil
ibs average reporter. And when, at
last, out Of this order and quiei, .
first class sensation arises, and Is chased
home by the hend with note BOOK
anj pencil, only to find barren Ideally,
it is Notifying the xtrsme. butthe
mind OF your true reporter usually taxes
! a strong hold upon the realm OF the I'M
asinary and. once started, acquires
mumentun not easily overcome.
In the Third ward, the Land OF Beu-
lab OF the :air city OF Wheeling. comes
thrilling tale. In q certain alley, not
more than a stones throw from the
postotfce. a lew bows amused them
selves on Wednesday last by 4 turn at
the noble game oi hide aud seek. In
the course OF the sport one of them hid
himself in an old stable near by.
In the excitement incident To his
game he failed to view his sur
roundiugs, but alter moment
of que, rest, he glanced about him. me
first thing which attracted his attention
Was csldrou that might have served
the purpose OF Macbeth witches, ana
| the dor that arose thereirom might
have suggested similar contents had the
| youtL's Shakespearian education not
| been neglected. His curiosity was
aroused ana cautiously approaching he
yazpd into the magic caldron, which
Was on 4 slow fire. The next Instant
be had started back, horror and awe
TRANSPORTING his face. There, IN the
Dot auI rising above the water. "as
gigantic ieshless arm, with dlstended
and partially covered fingers What else
was there that boy never saw he shut
his ewes and sped home 10 tel ms iather
What picture he carried IN 4 NINA
hei,htened by fear aud horror, cannot
be told. but as the result of his eloquence,
| ms sire Was IN the barn in \ lev mo-
ments. In high excitement he seized
! hroamstick and poked /! into the pot,
| bringing 10 view an arm and shoulder
! from which most Of the flesh hal diSap-
| peared. He left. His nerves were not
proof against the horrible spectacle.
| Visions of battle. murder and sudden
| death chased through his brain, and by
the time he had reached the nearest
| Justices office. he Was SO wrought up
that he might have been taken Tor tue
ghost OF Caesar. Tie related his story
! Nth the highest of dramatic style and
wanted a coroner's jury empaneled
! Immediately. TIE Justice tried 10 soothe
him and advised him To 60 home and
serp il of and take less next time; but
! finally followed him 10 the haunted
| barn. The broomStick was again
brought into play, and carried TO the
surface thigh bone. The hornned
| Justice stared rs though an lair drawn
dagger" was nigh aud then rushed from
the spot
But here the sensation undergoes a
| rapid transit, Il. Here Is where We
leave the don ain OF romance upon
| which we have ueen trenching and ent, Z
the world oireality. Here is where We
bounce" our emotional informant and
get down 10 facts. Near the locality
named is a Young medical student, a
recent tledgling iron al Eastern Surgical
College. and with au instinct born
| Of inspiration the reporter went
to ste him. The mystery was
explaiued-as was also another mystery.
The people living near the abode oil our
uuitalhervd ESculapiuS, were frequent
Is, OF late troubled by "A singular oder
which apparently came from the cellar.
1t was unlike anything they had ever
experienced and in silence they won
irTcd.
While the above mentioned young
man was ut college, the class was engas-
ei in disSectiug the body OF a large ne
gro and anxious to obtain the skeleton,
the V. m. purchased the various parts
and brought them home; aud in the Gel.
lar, packed in lime and salt, it had given
off the offensive odor. The dogtor was
engaged IN the innocent operation OF
boiling the flesh from the bones, pre-
paratory to wiring, when tue small boy
discovered him. lie was innoccntly
ignorant OF the connection he had
created; and that Justice has changed
his name