The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-08
RURAL DISTRICT, w. Va, April 4, '67.

RURAL DISTRICT, w. Va, April 4, 80.
Editor of the Register:
For three long months you city folks
have been suffering with the painful en-
durance of cold weather, Legislators,
mud, Sc, and have been bearing your
grievances bravely. All the while you
have been without the synpathies of
your country friends. Now, We feel
like congratulating you on the removal
of the last of these evils, by the sunny
days of spring. But We pity, you still.
We know you long for country stroll,
and your "bowels yearn" for a lump OF
our maple sugar, but that can't be help
cd. You have chosen city life, so you
must not get the "blues" "when tie
spring time comes"
Truly, you've had your "score Of ills.n
1t distresses Us to think about them.
But the Lord in his own good time re-
moves them all. He's now drying up
the mud, and month ago, through the
instrumentality of onr glorious consti-
tution-( Montani semper iberi Con
servatives excepted, )-he removed from
your midst the pestilence, imposed upon
Won by the supremely loyal people Of
West Virginia. This legislative plague
NAV return another season. May you
be spared from this and the cholera. A
while ago, when your worthy divines
returned thanks for deliverance from
the cholera, they took no thought to
pray for the future. The people of
Wheeling ought to be in favor Of lOea-
ting ths the capital any place-but
Wheeling, II the Legislstore is likely
to return in so vile form, let us hope
that it will 60 to Moundsville whore
they are making suitable preparations
| for entertaining all such.
Think of US who have to endure it, in
a difased form, all the year round. near
tly. We have to keep our overcoats lock-
cd up for ten long months. r You have
only to watch yours for very short
time, and that, too, in cold weather,
iwhen you have them on your backs,
It's q blessed privilege We enjoy, meet
ine these honorable gentlemen, manu-.
facturers of test oaths and tax lists, and
with them to talk over the pleasing
state of affairs in our prosperous little
State. RS consoling thought, too,
now, as I 60 to my piow, to think that
it won't probably require more than
twice what ! raise, To- Pay my expenses
and taxes. :,
As to real politics, though, We don't
have any only on election days.
We were all in favor of reconstruction
on tho basis of the increase bounty
bill, but what they ye proposed since
that, we don't know. We can't near
| keep up.. When Solomon said Fthere il
no new thing under tho SUM-" he didn't
/ mako any calculations on Thad. Stew
ems or the new style Of waterfalls. Old
Sol. is losing his reputation for wisdom.
He was pretty sharp on most things,
Int Th.d. could beat him on the recon
struction question. Our little girl
wanted to know if politics were any
lthi.g like skeep ticks, and IL Stevens was
the old tick Of all. She knows who
VA. the 'first man. and "who killed his
brother.n but she don't know what Con-
gress or Europe ID. She thinks Ben,
Butler ID On elephant. or whsic-tne
1.-Two bigeast things she has ever heard
Of II tSadk i gusssed he wss 3 spoea
fish. She wahted to know i'll wouldn't
lgive her twenty-five cents, to 60 and
go the Governor whom We 60 10 town.