The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-27

frat issue OF the fnilhQelpnlh LeugeFi
printed on the 25th OF March, 1886, in
which we find the following announce
ment:
EXPRESS MAIL LINZ FOR WHEELING
Through In fifty hours.-The Coco
Intent Stage Co, respectfully inform Lhe
travelling public, that they have e stso.
Iished a line of first rate Post C0ac .Ia1
direct for Wheeling, leaving Fh nh 1ei
phia daily at IS O'Clock, A: M. wa COZ
timbia Railroad, through York, Gettys,
bhrR, Chambersburg, Beoioro anu
Washington.
shall be wanting on the part OF the pro-
piietors or agents 10 promote tnesPe
Convenience, and comfort OF travellers.
For seats apply at Resides office,
No. q South Third street, at the Great
Western Stage ONCE, no. 10 Market
street, below Sixth, and Mt their office
In Broad. near Chestnut street.
]. ToAILIHsoN, Agent.
N. B-Passengers taking the Tele-
graph Line, which leaves at O'Clock,
z. ~, will have one night TO rest at
Chambersburg. mott
There is some difference in the time
made between Philadelphia and Wheel
ing at present as compared with that
made In 1896. Less than twenty hours
now suffice, and even that is consid-
cred rather slow. But 81 years ago
INV hours was considered aquick trip,
and withal very pleasant one too. The
rides In the old Good Intent Stage Com
papy vehicles are not by any means an
unpleasant memory in the minds Of
many now living. Those were the socta-
bIedays oftraveI, albeit they were some
what more costly than now. DR.. john
son was never tired of rehearsing the
praises of travel in n stage coach. es-
pecialIy after his famous journey to the
Hebrides, and that great philosopher
considered seat In regular old rock
away on good road, with compile
nent OF congenial fellow travellers,
a. "A sort of throne wherein a man
might take the most solid Of all co M
forts that this life afforded.
In our day It takes several passenger
trains TO accommodate the travel be-
tween PhIladeIphia and Pittsburgh
each twenty-four hours. We are not
therefore surprised to know that there
WAS somewhat of demand for seats in
the stages as far back as 1886. For in
stance, we can readily credit the follow
ing announcement made in the editor
iaI column of the ancient Ledger:
observation-disclosures are four daily
lines OF stages between Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh, yet is there so much
travel between the two places, that the
names OF passengers have TO be booked
from one 10 two weeks in advance to Sc
cure seats.
The foregoing must be a familiar
sort Of a paragraph to many persons
hereabouts. The time was, and not
very many years ago either, when the
same sort of programme had TO be gone
through with at Wheeling In order TO
secure seat for Cumberland in the
stages ,at which point they connected for
Baltimore by rail. Although not very
old we can well remember the time
ourselves. -
.sDsar me" as Mrs. Gummage would
say, "whatc hangesI'' 'what changed"
Bat the past is as nothing to what the
future must be. Wait until we get the
pneumatic railways In operation. Then
everybody will see sights worth living
10 see. Think of passenger cars being
literally shot through from here 10 Bal
tImore in an hour or SO. DON'T laugh
nj the idea, gentle reader" as you did
thirty years ago, when you were told
that they would cross the mountains
and come through in fifteen or sixteen
hours. You had no idea that such n
thing could be, and therefore you
laughed at the visionary project. So
neither did you believe that Puck could
really put girdle round the earth in
forty minutes. But behold now the
Atlantic telegraph. Are you not ready
to go saiiinglthronglthe air at lightning
speed In some sort of an atmospheric
machine2 II you are not, your children
will be. Do you not expect to
go to California some Monday
and Tuesday, spend Wednesday and
Thursday, and return Friday and Sat
urday in time for church on Sunday
You must be queer person to have
anydoubts as 10 the feasibility of such a
performance, when the Pacific road is
already running some 400 miles West
of Omaha. Why New Orleans and
Wheeling Will soon be nearer neighbors
than Grafton and Wheeling were some
years ago. The thing is bound to come
to pass. Space and time are being an
initiated every day. sT'7TH
Let US be prepared for anything, for
this is the fastest age the world ever
dreamed Of Look at our big war, how
quickly we allied nearly all the spare
pages of history with Its events. Look
at our big debt, how we piled it up in
hve years, when 1t took England $50
years to size our pile. Look how fast
We began to pay 1t of, and how sud
denly we brought mp with round
turn In the process. Look at the mon
ster sized institution OF slavery, how
we smashed 1t ont within a small boys
memory, and how before that
small boy is out of his short clothes
the late "chattels" will be
voting ahead of his oldest brother,
who must needs larry in Jericho until
his beard Is sufficiently grown. Look
at that small boys mother. Ere yet
she begins TO wear speotacles and take
snuff, she will, perhaps, have voted for
Grants reelection to the Presidency,
he having been duly nominated in ma
Iional convention amer close ballot
between the Freedmen of South Caro-
lima and the Esauimaux delegation
from Walrussia. l.E-
The man, woman, or child that is not
by this time duly prepared not to be as.
tonished at anything that may happen,
should be put to sleep in the bed lately
occupied by old Rip Van Wrinkle, and