Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-13
LOCAL MATTERS.

~ What HUE Obd.-About tour miles
cast Of this city, two fine farms, owned by diff
ferent parties, join each other. The proprietors
ofthe Two sections of land have been fast friends
for fifteen years, as were their fathers before
them, aud would have so continued but for the
circumstances which we are about TO relate
They sat at each others board, partook of each
others grub, and done everything in partner
ship and fast and familiar friendship. The sons
of the one c5urted the daughters Of the other,
They were of the same religion, and sat I'M
der, the same preacher. They appropriated
each others property as il 'twere owned in
common, and n more social, genial and aGreea-
BILE relationship never existed betweel two idm-
lilies. All this friendship was broken up, and
all these social ties were suudered by con-
founded, stubborn mule, whose great, great,
great grand father ought to have been poisoned
the minute he left Malta. The mule belonged
to farmer Wheat, Us we shall call him, and was
~ ugly and vagabondish specimen of his race
Ms could be. His head stuck out straight, his
tail stood out like the handle of pump, and
they used to think of tying blanket around
him to keep the hay in. Well, this mule had
none of what Prof Fowler would call 4nhabi-
tiyeness, nor any other redeeming organ. He
was always leaving his masters stock yard and
sticking his melancholy phiz into farmer Rye's
granaries and choice stacks. Farmer Rye, with
u commendable patience, would conduct him
back to his own yinc and fig tree with sober
lecture on his breach of hospitality, but slid
nothing to his excellent neighbOr about the an
noyance, unit! the long cared quadruped be-
come an uncomfortable nuisance Farmer Wheat,
when spoken to. upon the subject, promised to
see to securing his muleship and change the
latter's productions style soC living NOtwith-
standing this promise, the nuie continued to
uespass and farmer Rye continued to grin and
bear it. A few nights ago, however, the gra.
minivorous brute broke into Rye's barn yard,
and after consuming about two tons of hay and
one of sheaf oats, added insult to injury by
kicking and manning for life, valuable horse
belonging to the last named exemplary gentle.
man. This was the hair that broke the mule 5
back Here forbcarance ceased 10 be virtue,
aud farmer Rye, aroused by the noise in his
barn yard, arose from his bed, took down his
rife and sent bullet straight to the lank head
of the cause of all his tribulations, and dead
JackaSS lay WeIteFlnS IN MS own gore WI en
farmer Wheat learned the fate of his beloved
jackass-a jackass that had been in his family for
years, and was connected with so many pleasant
associations-he went over to farmer Rye and
rung his nose whereupon the son of the latter
knocked him down with fail, and all about a
poor, starveling of jnckass.
Now ali is discord and dissension between the
two families, No more counting; no more social
gatherings; no more drippings FROM the same
sanctuary. All the little plcasantries that go to
make country life so agreeable are knocked into
the middle of next week. Farmer Rye is going
to sue farmer Wheat for damages, and farmer
Wheat is going to the son of farmer Rye for
assault with intent to kill. When the County
Court comes on We will give the sequel to
"what mule did"