The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-02
a woman sold In west YlrgInIaI

A woman sold in West Virginia!
Yes, indeed and Col, W. II. Exley, the
great overland traveller saw 1t done, II
was over month ago, at Addison court
house, Webster county, and the sturdy
colonel, while relating the experience In
his room at the stamm House the other
evening TO his friend, Captain Irwin said
that It made his cheeks blush very in
dlgnant red.
'AIajor Bodley and l." said the colonel.
"had Just driven Into the town,
and noticing about three hund-
red people az the court. house, WI
put the rig away at hotel, and started
out to investigate. / Joined the crowd,
watching the sheriff, who from the court
house steps, was crying out; Two-hity,
two-ffty, do hear two-torty; do near
two-forty?"
II asked an old fellow TO my right,
what was up, and he replied, There sell
IN woman
"He takes me for a jay, / thought, and
| moved around 10 the other side or the
crowd. BY this time the sheriff was Yell
ing out: Two hundred, now who'll make
II one ninety-tive? Again / asked what
was for sale, and was told woman.
This made me very curious and / entered
the court house, the Interior OF which
showed the tobacco-lovlng procllvities or
the natives. Here ] hailed venerable
old citizen, and he. also, returned the IN
formation that the sheriff was offering
woman for sale.
what / said, for believed HIM
Eyes, its true. He's Offering her TO tho
lowest bidder for her keep. She's one o
the county's poor, and we've no poor
house, so we let the poor out for their
keep, and the county pays TO them who
agree to clothe, keep and maintain thu
aforesaid, and SO on"
"Well, captain, II was just as he said.
They were auctloning off the woman, and
the sheriff was trying to get the woman
kept as cheap as possible, so he started
the bidding at $3.50, and finally got down
to $40. He couldn't get lower bid, and
he took that. For this sum she was to
be boarded for year.
"See her? No. None OF us did. But
that cut no figure. did hear she was a
very old SOUL"
Here the colonel explained this poor
law, which prevails In some Of the lower
NlhhhANot ~ NilN NthPNAANAt NNAhb tASAN AAANN
detail. II was novel TO both OF them, for
Col. Exley, Major Bodley and Captain
Irwin have seen many sights at home
and abroad, but It Is a wise man thai
knows II all az home.
There's a woman In Benwood Junction
who has married three husbands, all
railroad men. All were killed on the rail,
All worked for the Baltimore Il Ohio,
which lnsures its men. All belonged to
the railroad brotherhoods, hence were en-
titled TO death benefits.
The first was a conductor who died
some years back. His widow received
$500 from the company and the Order OF
Railway Conductors. Next time she
married an engineer. and he in turn was
killed, $500 following the event And
again, II was an engineer or brakeman,
but which the deponent saith not. New
ertheless the death benefit was also 81
600.
The railroad company somehow can't
see the grim humor OF 1t, yet denies these
sums paid the thrice widow, forced 1t
into the receivers hands. And the sug
gestion THAI the next spouse would be a
rallroader emanated from n cruel mind.
In this Instance. however, there Is strong
proofs that marriage isn't a failure.
Echoes Of the campaign now being
waged in the Buckeye State are being
heard THE side OF the river yet there
fingers a memory of the campaign last
fall in the minds of South Side youth
a memory which dates chiefly back TO
recent Sunday evenings rain. 1t was
this way:
His girls little brother as usual. did
the business. The little fellow had Sc
cured one Of the tri-colOred umbrellas his
dad marched under with the Richie
town delegation last fall. Some how It
got In the hall corner Sunday evening.
The young man called to take his girl to
church, and after the necessary wait was
over they started out in the rain for
church. The young man, somehow, Sc
cured the campaign umbrella instead of
his own. That might be accounted for
by their hurry, his girl having to put on
a new hat, requiring their hustling to get
seat before the sermon commenced.
And then again the hall lamp was turned
low.
So they wendell their way through the
drlzzling rain. Neither looked up or they
would have seen the national colors. The
lOafer5 on the corners and In store en-
frances gave them the haw-haw. Girls
passing the pair snickered. Some mis-
ohlevous boys, attracted TO the campaign
umbrella, followed behind, whlstling,
Red. White and Blue"
At the church door there IS an electric
light. Al the church door the young man
pulled down his sign. Did they go in7
Well, no. The girl burst into tears, and
the young man Bwore! ]. w.
THE BENwooD SOUTHERN.
Some time next week. probably We'd