Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-06
ODD STORIES FROM EVERYWHERE.

A Skanea.eIes IN. " youth gave
his sister live pig In sfancy box ss
wedding present.
The thlrty women employed in one
| shoe factory at Lynn, Mass, are all di-
vorred wives.
A lady who spent over 100000 OF
her own money during the war in aiding
wounded soldiers is now living in great
poverty in Asheville, \. c..
Frank Hess, ofSt. Louis, had tolled
the church bell for the dead for q quar-.
tel of a century. He died while ring
ing 1t, tolling, as 1t were, his own knell.
The first wedding ceremony ever per-
formed in America by a lady took
place at Columbus, O., recently, where
Mrs. Lydia G. Romick, the evangelist,
married Charles PIN, Of Damascus, to
Miss Emma Bryant.
John Tyler, for many years sexton at
Fayetteville, \. c., Dug his own grave.
AS he stopped to clean out the bottom
of grave the side caved in, and before
he was discovered he had been dead
forseveral hours.
Jealousy of the attentions Ofhis moth
er to his seven weeks old sister caused
the two, year-old son of Edwin Boes-
Wrinkle to strike the child with small
stick upon the head, inficting fatal in
juries.
A panther came down over ten-fOot
stone wall enclosing the cattle pen of a
Woodstock, Vt, farmer, and, siezing a
young steer, started off with 1t. But
the animal was tied by rope to anoth-
er steer, and when found both were
dead, hanging clothes.pin fashion over
the wall. The pahther's tracks in the
snow told the story.
When Ira Phillips, deputy marshal
of Pittsboro, n. c., went to an illicit
distiler's house to arrest him, the moon
sinner dropped quietly on tie floor,
stretched himself at full length, and
told the officer to take away the goods.
AS the distiller weighed 500 pounds the
revenue officer was obliged to go for
help, and when he returned the bird
had flown.
A newly-married country couple were
on q Memphis ferry-boat, when the
groom fell into the Mississippi. While
he was battling for his life, his wife
said: "Now, Samuel, didn't l tell you
so? Now, then, work your legs, flop
your arms, hold your breath, and re.
peat the Lords Prayer, for it's mighty
uncertain, Samuel, whether you land
in New Orleans or in eternity
A Georgia widow lost her husband
many months ago from the bite OF a
spider. His body was being removed
to handsome new burial plot when all
inQuisitive friend asked to have the
coffin opened The corpse had turned
completely over and was lying upon
its face, showing that the man la |
been buried alive. This inquisitivc
friend then rushed TO the widow, who
lost her reason when she had heard his
story.
Mrs. Martha Pedro, who was lately
buried at Highland Mills, y. v, mar
ried Pedro many Years ago, and became
the mother of several children. Then
II separation occurred; Pedro married
another woman, and his wife married
al other man. by the latter marriage
both had children. Pedro's second
wife and the second husband of the first
wife died. Then the original Mr. and
Mrs. Pedro married again, and more
children were born to them.
Lewis, the colored servant of Dr.
William Norris, Of Baltimore, was mar.
ried recently, and he 2onvulsed the
company by compelling the bride, dur
ing the ceremony, to swear upon the
bible that she "never allowed any other
niger to hug or kiss her." The bridc
was equal to the emergency, and, with
an unfaltering voice, she said: "Afore
God, | never didm Here came in more
applause, and when the eXcitiment
subsidized it became her turn to exact
the same from Lewis, but she was uu'
successful, as Lewis had too much OF
the George Washington material in
him. They were then stationed in the
middle Of the floor and the marriage
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Dr. Way.