The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-11-18
CURRENT NOTES.

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Ausable and along its banks, in the wild
cs, part Of Michigan. there arc vast stretch
cs Of timbcred country alive with bgAlo,
bear, and deer, where every year sports.
men and woodsmen migrate y pursuit Of
game and timber. But lilae Is known OF
Ihis woodland lie, but taSt little indicates
n life OF curious experience and romantic
incidents A spiT6man who entered e s5iI tals
unknown coIlstty early in the Falt wrlIes
oF the nia53er and method Of hunting anu
ro hi inr.S When the tasks for the day are
cnIcSithe party gathers about plentiful
81 vcnison meat, or buffalo, Win
ITfeliminary course Of baked fish or fowl,
4 Inc whole garnlshed by appropriate and
hrnlth(ul ediblcs in such variety rs the
country affords The evening meal ended,
A grand hunting foray generally follows,
and before midnight three or four buffalo.
as many deer, and innumerable smaller
zane are brought In as the fruits Of the
Hunters skill. The game is sent down the
river Alsable TO market in small boats,
and provision and neceSSarieS returned by
the messenger. The waters of the Ausa-
bic, rs its name implies, arc denSely black,
deep, and, though icy cold, run at the
rate Of ten knots an hour, enabling the
boatmen to paddle down in day when 1t
takes week nearly to work up stream.
1t is hard to say upon what mentaland
moral stuff the rural Southern journalist is
fed that he should be so warlike. He
takes to murder and assassination with
the delightful devil.mAy.carc Of the Span
ish freebooter Of romance memory, and
disdains peace and quiet as Puritan tricks
unworthy the contemplation Of chlval::
rous souls. Ina certain inland village OF
Mississippi is IN intellectual Bayard OF
the degree, who turns the lofty lip discern
at a craven General who refuses, when
"insulted" by an enemy, TO draw his pts-
tOl and strike the caititf to the dust Dur
ing the recent canvass, one "Gen. w.
Jerusalem Smith came down with great
grandeur from Mississippfs chief metro.
polls to speak to the rural constituents oil
his party, and in the very agOnies Of elO'
Guence was irrcverently interrupted by
one Trice, who boldly charged upon Gen.
Jerusalem no less crime than causing
him, the said Trice, To be hanged up by
the neck to n tree" TO compel him to
divulge the whereabouts Of the paternal
TriceS treasures. Here had this hack
woods Had ended in the accustomed
Southern situation" had not Gen. Jeru-
salem afFlbly ignored the indecorous IAN
guage addressed to him, and, TO the un-
spcakable loathing oil the fiery narrator,
calmly babe his friends put up their wea-
pons and "give Tricc drink Of whisky"
"And thus" adds the Journalists mourn
fully, "a man-yes, he must be called Q
man, backed by powder and ball and
scores oil devoted friends, permits insults
by sixpenny tailor" w
The Monroe Register, printed at Un-
ion, W. Va, says report is current there
! Nt.at--4IrU DuHtin1Ufr ma UtlIu f1nifruuu
Company, and other wealthy patrons Of
the Valley railroad, have an agent in
Monroe county who is cXamininga rOuLe
for the extension of that road down the
valleys of Potts and1ndian creeks, thence
on through Tazewel TO Cumberland Gap,
continuing to Memphis, Tennessee. The
report states that this is iavOritc project
Of the Baltimore capitalists.
They have mn elegant amusement Mt
the South Carolina county fairs. An I'm.
fortunate gander had his neck and head
well creased after beinr Invested of ieath.
crs md ia then susnentled by its feet.
while lie Gallant knirhts gallon under.
meath and endcayoF as they pass TO drag
the shricking bird from its fastening.
To theinyitation 10 be present ut the
late BOSTON nress dinner. Marx Twain
berpeI To he excused. on account of an en-.
psSement 10 ncrform to the tIne of crock
RI n SIrcn =,
MI S,o,,,,. I'd. "a ,,;,ro,o e.. cbor;F
IN an TiIir S; cn',n,S r. II" should nd %c
elected rog1Ies w1nld probably look out
for shelter at once,
~. D. Observation-Disclosures 80.
,ni,o n",, D ,b.t Nc VIZ, IA, = ny ~
no rival 'fSr election to the limited States
Senate onI that II il now nnnarent that
tLc fricnIs NJ Ev,Governor Rnllock arc
making virorons ihough Mt nresent rather
"mi"t Chris 10 oI,st lie 6ld Senator md
Givc ihr nositiOn toGim Ttdoes moi think
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