Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-05-15
som,o'IhIng About a Petroleum Man.

Something About FotfoAeuH EAAA
Johnny Jones was4s simple country boy
in the service of a farmer whose acres were
very bard TO till, and therefore twenty
years of Johnny's life were given TO
meaeer crops aud bad roads. BE ,toiled
emope the wheat and corn until be grew
up 10 manhood, with NO other accomplish
ments butthose necessary for a good hostler
or siege driver. Johnny Jones. good=hsHrt7
ed in his way attended the 'yillsge church
with all the devotion of q young man who
had good suit Of clothes, and was in love
with q country girl. He married this
country girl, and it is possible and with
her Knowledge of plain cooking, that the
mysteries of apple butter, and Johnny
Jones' bard sineWs and constant toll they
might have lived and died very respectable
old people.I leaving their farm TO their
childreo, and making no more impression
upon the world than any of their useful
aud necessary class. Bnt the rain falls
upon the just as we'll as the unjust, and it
came to pass that Johnny Jones found the
poor barren acres that were'left to him by
his fosler-mothev, to be mines of more
wealth than we're ever discovered in FL Do
RADIO of the far West. He had enough
rude sense to keep him from parting with
them for trock or a string OF beads, ike
some of his more ignorant brethren In
West Virginia, aud simply sold enough to
have them developed, and to retain an in
terest, which, for the last year, has paid
him an Income estimated at from three to
Eve Thousand dollars q day.
would not like to be responsible for the
effect of an income of this kind upon any
of my friends, nor should l care to have my
own conduct criticized were to be in re-
ceiPt of SO many glorious greenbacks.-
Johnny Jones became insane with his new
wealth, not in that sense which implies a
strait.jscket, or close confinement IN An
infrmary, but with q far more terrible
meaning Johuny's sudden wealth carried
him up into the clouds, and, as the heaven
of his early dreams had been sense|grati-
flying wealth, he hurried out into the world
with his gains, aud began TO be great
man. Such feb could not long be in the
sea of American life without having around
him shnal of shArks; and so Johnny had
not proceeded very far in his new ocean; OF
prosperity before q shosl of well-dressed
sharks-sbarks with diamond rings aud as
tonishiug vests-sharks who knew the
mystery of the gnmbliug- house and the
baguio-took possession of him aud began
TO feed upon his substance. OF they went
in their wild career. The poor country
wife was left at home to do her plain cook
log, make her apple butter, and astonish
the reighbors by the display of several
gaudy new dresses. Johnny went tc
Philadelphia, showeriug bis favori
upon hack drivers who took his
fancy, pleasant spoken gambling
men, and ladies of miscellaneous and
cosmopolitan attachments, and upon all
that was wicked, and vile, and seducing il
the great metropolis His career extended
to western and eastern cities; and what
with diamond rings, aud losses and gam
bling ssloona, and presents to all who
asked them, in three month"; he managed
TO spend Dinety thousand dollars. am
told that JohnDy's new life wore deeply
into his muscles and his sinews, and quite
soddeped bis poor feeble brain, aud. that,
as sequel TO his career, some considerate
friends who thought that his money might
be more advantsgeousiy applied, obtained
the interference OF the law; and so John
py's affairs are now 10 the hands of re-
ceiver, and his money is paid TO careful,
prudent men, and his great gains are hus-
banded by others, while he is only permit
ted to spend q limited income, something,
perheps, like City or hundred dollars per
day, which, with care and prudence, msy
enable him to pass through this period Of
his great calamity, and become respecta-
BILE and worthy old gentleman.-DerTicE
and Drill