The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-17
NTHREE EIMEs AND soLp.n
An Amusing Auction sale Lottery Saturday
Forenoon,


An Amusing Auction sAle Lottery Saturday
Forenoon,
Saturday forenoon Auctioneer W. II.
Hallsr sold, at his room on the Upper
Market Square, q large number Of express
packages, the charges on which had not
been paid, and which had accumulatedin
the Office Of the Adams Express Company
in the past five or six years, Nearly all
the packages were 90 sealed as 70 make 1t
impossible TO tell what they contained by
looking at them, but q lew had the covers
bEoken-by accident, OF course-revealing
the gilt edge and nice binding Of book,
or some other attractive fragment which
stimulated the bidding,
One very tightly wrapped parcel was
bought, after spirited bidding by nickel
steps, for 81 80, and upon opening 1t the
purchaser did not manifest much surprise
10 find himself the pessessor Of q s. meer-
schaum pipe. Another man had "a
pointer" and he bid up a box he was con-
ident contained Photographic dry plates,
to IS cents, and then let It go TO another
bidder, He was glad 1t did 90 there when
he found 1t contained four bottles OF
emulsion OF cod liver oil. These bottles
were bought from the disappointed first
purchaser by q woman, who paid him 81
Tor his bargain, saying she had Q sick sis
ter who "could take It."
The worst ''sold" Of all the buyers was
probably q man who paid eighty cents
lor q neat, small package, and upon open
ing It ioundit to contain bottle sent TO the
late Dr., Schuchardt by q patient for ex-
animation, Judge Houston bid on every
promising package, his bid being 0 nickel,
he had bad luck till q long roll, evidently
e~nRrayinRs OF some sort, was put up.
aFiye cents! u said the Judge,
'VTak It'll" said AuctiOneer Haller, 80
suddenly that the Judge jumped, He
took II, and hunting a secluded spot In
the market house, proceeded to open 1t
with care, II Ia needless to cay the
Judges JetTersonian Democracy reyolted
when he found his purchase 70 be thirty
six Autographs Of Blaine and Logan, their
distinguished faces surrounded with
symbolic wreaths, and an alleged. God
dess Of Liberty smiling benignantly be-
The Judge was not to be "lsit" that
way, He opened his roll out on q meat
bench and retAiled the pictures OF Q cent
apiece, They we're in good demand, and
the Judges device to come out ahead
created a little boom for "the old ticket"
He only realized about twenty cents, Tor Q
sprightly little girl managed 70 steal about
fifteen Of the autographs and present them
to darkies in the crowd, and the Judge
calamity gave away one, the recipient
Being a woman who said: "Them's my
stripe, but l haven't got no cent"
A we'll known young man about town
bought a dilapidated c~arpetbag which he
expressed his belief contained burglars
tools. He got 1t for thirty-6ve cents, and
found in it about q hundred pounds Of
scrap tin, bricks and boulders. 1t was adj
dressed TO a boarding house keeper on the
South Side, and the charges were $40.
Inside was q note, reading:
"MY DEAREST Mas. JORDAN: Now, d.
you, I'm even with YOU"
But he was not. -,
Two steel pillow points, %unwrapped!, sold
for 5 cents. A'straw carrier. Tor q thresh-
ing machine was knocked down 10 John
HaberHeld for ten cents. He said 1t had
more than that worth Of straps on 1t. A
steel cutter bar Of q moving machine sold
for fifteen cents. Six or eight pick axes
and several other tools used BY laborerS-
worth OF least $l0-sold for 81 %. a box
Of hve-cent cigars were sold 10 q small boy
for thirty cents, and In spite Of the rev.
enue laws, he proceeded to retail them at
a cent each. They sold rapidly.
A number OF desirable books, elegantly
bound, publishers price 81 90, sold at
from twenty to forty.6ve cents. Several
Ohio agricultural Teports-back numbers
brought thirty.fy to sixty cents. Ste
phen Mccullough bought q book for sixty
cents, the morocco back and gilt edge OF
which was visible through q crack. It
proved TO be a prospectus and sample
pages OF Blaine's book. Another man
gave forty.6ve cents for o $40 photograph
album. This same man bid in luck every
time. He got a valise for forty cents, sold
It for sixty without the contents, sold
some clothes taken from 1t for .hity,
and kept q nice pocket photograph album
full OF portraits and several small pocket
articles Of value. Then he got Q package
for twenty-five cents which contained o
large number Of old three-Cent stamped
envelopes, q package Of postal cards and
other stationery.
These are only q few Of the packages.
Large patches Of last years almanacs,
patent medicine advertisements and agri-
cultural machinery catalogues were sold.
An old style sewing machine brought
The sale was interrupted by the rain,
but the crowd and a~uCtioneer adjourned
to the Market House and continued 1t. 1t
was lots of fun.