The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-23
T-55s.I= JIams- are as Scarce as hen's

LOCAL Items arc a9 0Se'ASS -
teeth. We ihayawalked about in sfhe
vain hope of seeing or hearing some
thing new, but we can't see it. q We
have said our say about all the new
houses and the new enterprises, but the
cold weather kept them dragging their
slow length along till they have become
old and people don't care whether they
are ever finished.
We haven't said much about the
street railroad 1t IS true, but then u mas
gotten into the hands of a committee
and theyare 500 nietin their operate
that We doh't.expect to know anything |
about their movements till we wake up !
some morning and see the cars running |
down street at a two-forty rate. we
can't comment on the proceedings OF
the Legislature, because they amt
doing much bat playing a game
of chess with the Baltimore. and Ohio
Railroad, at whiehJff they don't watch,
they 1.-THE LegisIature3 viii get beat the
darndest: and we can't give our views
of the subject because It's not in our
line and we have to fight our local out
on its own line and no other. There is
lots OF water inHthejr river but-its no
use hardly TO any body unless to-drown
themselves, and we don't intend to do
that. Steamboats, don't afford us any
relief for there amt many of them rum
ming, and those that are amt making
| more than enough To- keep their Ina
chfnery greasedS We 1inano Sconsola-
tionlntalAns 10 grocery keepers and
! dry goods men, for, although they
\ haven't much else to do but talk,
they won't do that, they'd rather
sleep, and generally are asleep, when
the revenue assessor comes in, which
he does now and them RI Gk
| The women are the only folks stir
ring about much, but it wont do to say
much about them, because they don't
want their husbands and papas to
know that they were out, for men are
suspicious, and apt to think that when
the women folks 90 out, there's some
thing else sure to come in-and then
theiDeyil or something else is to pay,
generally sou1eth hing else unless the
female branch are iuthe:habit of pay
4 ing as they go, and that is entirely
owing to how far they go. We had
some thoughts of announcing that
Philip Phillips would probably visit
this city at no distant day, but then our
remarks would not be 'eUdh1eticdL, and
might be considered Philippe; so we
; conclude to let our friends find out for
themselves when he is coming.
a five go among the manufacturers and
, say they have heavy stock ON hands,
they'll be mad about it, and say that
we are guilty of Leasing; and if we say
they have but little, we know we will
/ be amendabie to such a charge, because
they are shipping that little every day
or two. If we talk about the Montana
Gold Company, we can't say much, be-
cause we know very little more about
it than the projectors of the expedition
do themselvesIRn and they prefer. 10, tell
what they do know in their own
way. Having ransacked the
town and found it as barren OF items as
the great desert is reported to be OF
healthy sheep pasture, weturned to the
exchanges of our neighboring towns to
) find relief; we searched up and down
the columns of Journals both radical
and conservative, and found plenty of
Congress on the brain, indicating great
necessity on the part of some of the ed e.
itors for reconstruction, but nary an
item that would interest our readers,
and mighty few that would interest
their own. So we dropped our pen in
disgust and took big drink of-water.
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