Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-12-24
GOOD WEATHER FOB CRAsKs.

There seems to be good deal Of queer
human nature manifesting itself at the
present time. The newspapers contain
almost constant chronicles of extraordi-
nary actions by various people in all
parts of the United States. Suicides are
reported from all directions, some of
them of most unusual character. The
courts are filled with strange suits for
libel, divorce, breach of promise, and
other abnormal ends, and young wo-
men are pervading the land with re-
vOlvers in search of lovers who are back
ward about becoming husbands.
The New York Tribune has made
large and interesting collection of
strange events that happened on Satur-
day last. Among them were two at
tempts at suicide. A woman in Iron
ton, o., had domestic unpleasant
ness" with her husband, and sought to
end her troubles by swallowing liberal
dose of Trough on Rats" She must
have been a very unromantic sort of
person to choose so unpOetical COM
pound rs that for the fatal draught.
She was detected in the act, and prompt
measures were taken which saved her
life. A literary woman in Columbus,
o., made a similar attempt with lsuda-
mum, and at last accounts was in crit
zeal condition.
Onthesame day LIZZIE EsBNsCHMTT,
of Wapakoneta, o., aged twenty-one,
elOped with THOMAS DAILY, an Irish
tailor, aged forty, Notwithstanding, as
the local recorder touchingly informs
us, that "DALX LEFT q wife and four
children in Ireland, fact LIZZIE well
knew. She moved in the first circles of
/ society here" LIZZIE appears to have
acted with her eyes open, and her
conduct is chiefly to be regretted
because of the gloom which her
departure will cast over the first circles
of Wapakoneta society. Another young
woman, living in Vincennes, Indiana,
betrays an even greater eagerness to en-
ter the bonds Of matrimony. She had
been pursuing disident and shrinking
young man for several months trying
to force him to marry her, but in vain.
She was so persistent that he was OBJ
liged to leave the city. On Friday, q
strategic movement was executed for
his capture. The young lady, in COM
pany with her father and brother, pro-
cured license for her to marry the
young man, went with it to justice of
| the peace and from his office had mes
sage sent to the intended bridegroom
asking him to come there to attend to
some legal business. He being q law
yer, responded without suspicion, and
when he entered the Justices Office he
was confronted with the marriage IL
eense and q cooked pistol in the hands
ofthe lady" One would think that after
gentle persuasion of that sort he would
have yielded at once, but he didn't. He
induced the young lady to consent to q
4
parley, and while that was in progress
he slipped out of the door and ran away
escaping uninjured. Whatever history
there may be back ofthis curious case
and there is very probably dark one
it certainly presents human nature in a
curious guise. Why any woman could
wish to tie herself for life to man who
would only marry her on penalty of
death if he refused, is beyond comprs-
hension. The case recalls the fearful
bride in Punch vino, when asked by the
clergyman why she presented herself
to be married with bridegroom who
was disgraeefully tipsy, replied,
''Dade, sir, 1 can never get him to come
when he is sober"
There was one other item in this
Saturday list which remains to be men.
toned. A farmer in North Carolina
sold his farm to his neighbor and then