The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-17
THROUGH THE STATE.
Items md Events OF Interest Cleaned from
Exchanges and Special Dispatches.

Items md Events OF Interest Cleaned from
Exchanges and Special Dispatches.
Clarksburg has Il matrimonial agency.
Ida Conrad and Charles Shatrer were
found in m open field near Roanoke
during the recent cold spell. They were
badly frozen. Both had been drinking.
Mr.. Edwin q. Engle showed us an in.
teresting letter the other day. 1t was
written by his brother on March 81, 1887.
in Rising Sun, Indiana, and had been
sent from tho West to Snepherdstowu
by stage. It had no envelope, as they
were not in use at,that time. The post
age on the letter was 25 cents, and the
receiver paid that sum when the letter
was deliyered.-Shepherdstomn Register,
John G. Hoffman,, jr., OF Piedmont,
met with q painful Incident "Wednesday
night while on his way from Wheeling
to that place. The accident occurred q
few miles east Of Benwood. Mr.. HofF-
mann reached to the hat rack to get some
article which he had therein. The train
was attached to two engines and was
running at a high rate Of speed, and in
making curve Mr.. HOFFMAN, was
thrown across the car falling on the arm
OF car seat. i.g-,2 Eg,' EN-
The Clarksburg Telegram says: There
is man OF this town who is prominent
in church circles and who has yervlarge
Sunday school class composed Of young
ladies who bears some watching. For
soma time past he has been going with
one Of his scholars clandcstinely. They
meet near tho wholesale grocery, known
to every person in this city, and 60 to
house Of questionable character, where
they spend some time in manner that
is not known to the Telegram. After
leaving there they 60 and drink beer to-,
gether in one of the speak-easies OF this
city. This man Inns devoted wife and
several lovely children, and why be
should do anything like this is not
known; but il he does not stop his name
will be publishedin full by the Telegram.
Wednesday evening Of last week How
ard Liston. who lives out near Pleasant
Dale. rode his mule out to water and re-
turning to the stable in hurry, as it
was cold, and the door being open the
mule charged on into the stable, with.
out waiting for his rider to dismount,
and tho result WINS collision between
the upper sill Of tho entrance and How.
ards head. The log being a hewed one
and havinga sharp corner, it cut severe
cash almost to the bone and peeled back
the scalp several inches, almost scalping
him. DR.. Pratt was sent for and dressed
the wound, sewing the scalp back on.
The Doctor now recommends him for
full membership in the Red Men lodge,
as he has already been scalped.-Kiny.
rood Arqus. .pG!2r,3. .
The Western Democrat has the follow
ing: Considerable excitement was caused
Tuesday evening over rather peculiar
egg discovered by Mrs. Bishop, OF Third
street, on which alleged hierogyphics
could DO seen by the aid Of n magnify
ing glass. The egg was sent to Mr.. Raj.
ston's drug store for expert examination
aud rs MIR. Ralston was ut supper the
writer OF this story undertook to "play
expert" and interpret the hierocIyph-
les. BY the aid Of a powerful glass the |
egg was thoroughly examined and moth.
ing but q few little crcases on the rough |
shell Of the egg could be disce,ned; hut
not desiring to appear total failure as |
an expert interpreter OF hieroglyphics,
tho imaginative faculty was brought
into play. and by drawing literally upon |
1t We made the wonderful discovery that
the Judgment day would occur some |
time in the year 1900, and 80 wrote on |
the egg, Judgment day, 1902 This
startling Intelligence spread like Wild
fire and hundreds OF credulous people
hocked to the residence OF Mrs. Disliop !
to SEQ the wonderful egg. The same |
night some wag or waes wrote 1909 all |
over the fences, public and business
buildings Of tho town. Every story
should have moral; the moral to this
story is credulity. Es.E 49,