Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-03-07
LOCAL MATTERS.

wA Free FTght.-After the calico ball at
TIE Sprigg House on Friday night, everything
having passed off comfortably enough, free
fight was inaugnrated in the baggage room, or
office, of the hotel It seems that somebody
struck DR.. Rabbit, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
creating within that gentleman's head painful
sensation, and within his heart violent feelings
Of indignation, to which he gave vent in hard
curses and fierce demands to know who struck
him. lie would give a heavy sum to know
who hit him. "Palsied be the paw" said he,
'.hat grabbed for me-" A peace loving gentle
man present, appeared upon the scene as paci-
ficator, and implored the doctor not TO raise a
row in the house "Say it was me hit you, and
no more of it," "You did, did your" Kissed
the enraged doctor, as he aimed a blow at the
top Of the peace makers head, and at it thew
went, pacihcator and physician, rough and tum-
BILE, ter-skelter; now up, now down; now off,
now on. Prof. Harrison, the China Balm and
Patent LubricatOr man, saw the two belligerants
in corner, and from the quantity of mixed
legs, and the noise they made, he mistook the
number engaged, and thought it was free fight.
Accordingly the Professor went in, and not | eng
very good at recognizing faces in proniscuous
crowd, he sloshed about indiscriminately max.
ing subjects and sale for his China Balm, and
creating private miniature ornaments wherever
he touched his magic mud hook. Another gem
tlemeu standing by, who had witnessed the
Professors successful debut, enauired if the
number Of contestants was limited. Being an
wered negatively, he pitched into the man of
Balm, and having once got n sniff of the abund.
ance Of human gore, which was flowing freely
he reared and charged about like mad jackass
on hot plate, dealing devastation and spreading
hot A.
active participants. In the Language of the il
lustrious poet, said he, stopping TO get his
wind
glove to see the spring among the red Hsy
old Erey horse goes In he gosss"
An individual, who had previously composed
one of the party, looked in through the window
and seeing the situation of things, went down
Water. street tanning like the wheel of patent
wind mill sin full tide of successful operation"
Gray hounds, Cmsarwitch horses, and locomo-
tiyes are very clever things in their way, and
answer well enough for ordinary purposes of
speed, but this individual, as TO the manner in
which he took in space, is not to be mentioned
in connection with anything short of creased
lightning. He is said to have turned over
several times without breaking, and without
paying the slightest regard to which end hap
pened to be up, the distractions in his route, or
anything else except the one momentous notion
OF the greatest distance in the shortest space of
time. a "foal of Pegasus kind" would have
been mere remote Circumstance to him. We
mention this to give an idea of the degree Of
terror the scene inspired.
Prof Harrison, the Balm man, was up before
Aid. Dulty on Saturday afternoon to answer
why he should not pay small tax 10 the city
for the lively luxury he enjoyed on the occasion
alluded to. The evidence was not sufficient to
convict him. The witnesses summoned did not
see the Professor go in, and he was honorably
discharged The rest of the parties were re,
turned non est iHCeRtus.