The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-17

ginn, torn IN the same place in 1873.
| has left quite a jOli V record OF him, and
IN poem entitled ''S5. Patrick, of Ire.
land, Ny Delr,' commences his eulUgv
with the following sueer at the sanity
patrons of other countries:
"A fig for St. Dennis of France
He's trumpery fellow 10 bIas on;
A fig for st. George aud his lance,
| Which spittea u heathenlsh drag IN;
| Ard the Saints 0f the Wtlshman and Scot
Are couple OF pi'iful pipers
| Both vi " HON may just travel to pot,
Compared with that patron oil swiperS--
ST. Patrick oil ireland, my dear :!
Ard then proceeds to tell that
He cameto the Emerald Isle
On a lump of a paving stone moubtedi
| Tie stcamGu coat he beat 10y a mile,
Mich II ighty good sailing vas counted.
SAY = he This salt water, th:nk,
| Has made me most blOOdily thirsty,
\ So bring me ddgol Of dirk,
| To keep down the mul igrubs burst ye
| OF drink that is fit Tor a saint!
"He preached. then, with wonderful force,
Tho ignorant natives a.teacniugi
| With pint he washed down his discourse,
For, say he Il detest your dry preaching
The people, with wouderment struck
! AT a pa tor 50 piUuS and civil,
| Exclaimed-'We're for you, my old buck
| And we pitch our blind gods to the devil
| Who dwells i'll hot water below.
The day on which st. Patrick was
born has, OF course, always been =
matter of doubt. The late Samuel
Love, than whom truer hearted llish-
man and noble, genial gentleman never
existed, in bis own humorous way, tells
US, az follows, how the 18th of March
came TO be adopted as the birthday OF
the Saint:
On ths eighth day OF March, as some people say,
At the hour Of midnight, st. Patrick first saw
| the day,
White others affirm twas the ninth he was born,
That twas all mistake, between midnight and
| morn;
For mis- axes will occur in the hurry and shock,
And some blamed the baby and some blamed
| the clock,
Yet with all their cross-qusstions sure no one
| could know,
If the child was too fast or the clock was too
slow.
The first faction fight in Ireland, they say,
Was all on account of st. Patrick's Dir h.day.
Somefought for the eighth, for the ninth some
| would die
And who wouldn't say right sure they d blacken
his eye.
At length both the factions so positive grew
That each kept birthday, SO Paddy had two
Till Father Mulcahoy, who iOrgaye them theii
| sins,
said no one coud have two birth days except
be was twins.
said he, Boys, don't be fighting for eight or for
| nine,
Don't be always neutrality-suspicious. combine
Ia,
Let that lie his birthday" Amen" said the
clerk, . ...l
IF he wasn't twins our hist'ry will show,
He's rs good rs any two saints that we know
Then the bows got blind drunk, which complet
| ed their bliss, --., ~.
And they keep up the practice from that day to
this.
In Ireland, the only country, accord
ing TO veracious chroHiclers, where the
triple leafed little herb fiourishes in per.
fiction and where, besides, the only
fitting fluid can be had in propsI
strength aud flavor TO perform the cere'
mony, namely, good "potheen," (Which
is no more nor less than Illicit whisky
distilled in country places by the peas
antry to avoid the heavy taxation by
the British Government the custom OF
drowning the shamrock" is still uni
yersal. Potheen is made of malt, and
comes from the still in a limpid, deli.
cate amber colored stream, and when
poured out in a glass looks very much
like Kelly Island wine, the latest pro
duction of the Catawba grape. In
flavor it is mild, and il bears a slight
smoky order impaired by the peat tuel
used In distilment. An Irishmarl takes
to it US kindly as to mothers milk.
When a true son of the soil meets a
fellow countryman on "St. Patrick's
day in the mornin,'" each shouts out
"my Patrick's pot" but the one who
gets out the greeting first has the pleas
ure of drinking, in fact, of drowning
his shamrock at the expense of the
other, and then, not to be selfish, be
treats in turn, and the two friends, Try
ing To overtake each other, keep up
drowning the shamrock from ''St. PAT
rick's day in the mornin,'" till st. Pat.
tricks day in the evenin'."
Vsry early on that day the psassntry
are mp, and 60 out 10 find shamIocks
which, at this particular time of the
year, are quite scarce; but they can be
found by diligent seeking, and lucky j.
the Irish lad who appears II the piscs
of gathering for the day s sport, with d
spray of the hardy grass stuck in h.
LAT, or in the button hole of his coat.
Every body has heard the story of tn,
Arkansas plsuter WHO died soon after b,
took to putting greens in his whisky,
bat We have never heard Of such fat