Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-09-24
IRON II. 4. Y. sunday TiRss.I
rs ui.bnuded Volunteer.
sMST NicxALAs HOTEL Sept u, 1897.

sr,,nd The ro6-al sububs, fishin, ridin, shootn,
and forraoinp as ushil. for yallybul information
10 feed out to the hungry thousands as dcT6urs
nv letters with setcI eegernesS eyTy Sunday
uiornfn, and subsequently, diejests them at
church.
Nv first exploTin expetlisliin was to place
they call the Kills, at the upper eend OF east NV
er in sairtch of strecked bass, which affords
rernaria brii fine sport 10 the fishermen, when
the fish haplen to be thar with thar appetIghts
about en-. But the luck IS varus iarnt al a
tavern facin the pennytenSherry on B!ackwelis
Hand. whar stopt to git bite afoTe comHen-
Gin tishin, that snntiineS forty bass was took IN
wt,n day from single boat, but was told arter-
wards that it was not uncommon for duZzin
beats to fish for forty days without ketehlh
wuu Last Monday, ] PERSON., was one Of the
intermiSshins when the sireeked bass declines
takin refreshments or Is on2voiiablY absent on
otFishiI biznesS. | chartered the boat for the
div. pnrchfst peck of srirnps and two hundred
skwids, einploid an expecrenSt roer, nOtoFuS tor
his skill in spottin the hevyyist bass, and pro-
cHred the services Of Two Juveniles, who sed
they s'knowd whar thar was hull skool Of
big uus,r 20 bate The hooks and assist in
tsIin in the fish, Prehaps sum Of your readers
never seen a Skxid- This inareen perduckShin,
witch is considered bon b,fah by the bass, is
a s1ft muSil1iinOus critter. aperiently consistin
entirely Of grizZil. 1t is about six inches long,
and the aSpeck of stiil-born monster tibet hes
curn.inter the wurld without skin. Its eyes,
witch is enormous, seems TO be startin from its
he'd, and eff il only WAS black, it mought pass
very well for a devil in the pollywog or tadpOle
state Well, for sum mystcruS resin, known to
nobody bnt tharselveS, the bass IS so paTShIl
to this sPooky critter that they sumtimeS ackdl-
Is jump at it. But it warnt 20 last Munday.-
Uiher they warnt thar, or they diddent feel
skwid-dish. We roed to and fro in the nayber-
hud of Blackwell's Hand for menny hours, tryin
to hook sumthin, but couldent get striped
back to save our lives. The net pToddOoce OF
our jint exerShins was nine of those verashus
critters called dog-tish. hall Doodle of witch
foIlered us back to the landing, Swapping at the
skvids we threw overheard. On skwarin my
cash aTter gettin hum, / found that the nine
dogtish includin the bite at the tavern the boat,
boys, skwidS, and cetery, just fggerednP SEWN
dollars and hafe. Prehaps ! may 20 agan-
prehaps not | gev the obIigin gentleman US
Keeps the restyouraunt the landiH my ad
plenty to drop line.
Tuesday and Wednesday spent ut The beau
tiful Dutch settlement of Staten Hand, witch
has ben fayerite resort Of the Germans ever
sense the HesshYnns campt thar in the days Of
the Revolushin. The Hand as gcnral thing,
is owned by the inhabitants, but the hull water
line belongs to kumpany, who ken place all its
harborS, from Port Richmond to Clifton, in
state Of blOckaid whenever they think proper
In coarse the Statten Handlers is necessiated to
be very civil to the kumpany, bekase the Hand
hes no reSorces for long sege, excep, logger
bear and oysters, and non-intercoursc with the
main land would deprive EN- of thar daily bread,
and Kwarranteen uorsepittle of the material
for polctisses. The Dutch, from thar pashialaty
to sassingers, would probly suffer lecst, thar
bein an ongodly number of ours ON the iland,
witch mought be workcdu up to advantage.
Mater has tixt mp Staten Hand in hansum
style, and menny INGREDIENTS and note shavers of
high standin in the city hes kuntry setes thar,
and injies thar opium cum digRitdtcr in the
most luxooriant manor-driyin about with thar
6ayruShes and livry sarvents with cockadcs in
thar hats like the British funkeys. You'd
skarsly think, to look atsthe splendid eckwip-
idgcs and the coachmen and fiitmen t0gge ddt
in uniform, that Staten Hand was demmycrat-
lex to the backbone, and gev nearly thousand
for Jeemes Buchatian.
The views from the hites kant be beat, reck-
in, on this bit of real estate known as the West
ern hemisphere | hev ben on the lie of Wife,
whar Kwean Victory hangs out in the summer,
and cunsidder Staten Hand kwite ekwil to that
mulch -lorded garden patch, with the excepshin
of the rooms. Nuthcn hes he'd time to go to
room, yet, i'll this kuntry, but we shall get over
that arter while. As it is we have emmy kwan-
tity of gothic castles and setch, but most of
EN- hes green shutters and wooden towers, and
smells of paint and yallcr pine. Thars wun of
these eddyfzzes up the North river, that is Sed
to be cloSte copy of the manshin OF sum
English Barren-knight. The owner is Jest givin
it the finishin techcs. He hes he'd his celcrs
moddid arter anshint dunjins, and at wun time
he he'd site for a mote III his eye, but abandon-
cd the idee on ackount of bitches being londoo-
Sive to icvcr-an-agcr in that rein.
Rcgardin the views from Staten Island too
mulch, kennot be sed On the Oshin side thars
the lower bay, and Coney Hand, celebrated for
its clam bakes and the ferosSity Of its muskect
crs. Then thars jarsey, whar the muskeeters
is about the size of the Coney Hand hludsuckers
seen throo mikryskOpe, on the west; Long
Hand and the NarreTs on the east; the upper
bay, the shadpoles, Manhattan Hand, the Hud-
son, and the PalIysades and all the shppin, on
the north. Sails and steamers, enliYens the hull
lckwid suriis as far as the vishin ken extend
north and sOut1, and at this scsin the woods on
the Hand presents as fine vaTygated appear
ancc as Ct every lin was hung With butiful tor
tus shell cats. The ride is enchantin, and
pursoom the Dutch butchers and bakers and
grocers that travels around sarvin out thar ray
ther ornary truck at the highest prices, must
admire the prospecks amazingly.
| visited the Horsepitte, and was perlitely
conducted throo all the wards, witch is consid-
erably cleaner and mulch better marlidget! than
any Of the wards in New York. DIR. BiSS..l, the
resident fiSishin, hes evrything in fISt rat:
der, and his assistant. Dr. Whalser, with he'd
that would fit him for emmy stashin in the wurld
hes the hart of about twenty good Summary tans
rolled into wun.
Staten Hand is not noted for ennything ex-
traortlinary in the way Of material curositcs With
the cxccpshin of fcycr-an-ager, witch is sed to
prevale at Seggines Pint, and the yaller fever
pannic, witch preyales eyerywhars. 1t hes,
howsever, few spessyments of the useful and
ornymental arts. Among these may be men
toned two howitsirs at the Wolf farm lazyret-
to, an unfinished dock on the New Brighton
side, as cavcd in few winters ago, and Yung
mems ASsociashin at Kwarantine, witch bleyc
is not likly to cave in.
The norris Of the ruff:and-reddy yung chris
tians about KwaTantine is .ay;heT loud, and
they hey way of serenadin the churches ON a
Sunday eyenin that is far fran eddyfyin to the
congregashins. Missionaries and the perleecc
is much wanted thar; setch at least was the
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