The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-09-20

DashfnE Through y China store
from Fourth 60 THIRD Ave0ue-
Then lotto q BARRIERS ShOp-A Four
Footed wniriwind.
Shortly after midday on Thursday,
the driver Of a Fourth avenue car drew
up his team, as is customary, at Cooper
Institute to water them. The horses
were green and took fright at the big
tub placed between tracks for the ami
mails to drink out OF. They became so
restive as to get beyond the control d
the driver They broke away from the
car and started up Fourth avenue at a
furious rate. One ofthem made straight
tor the Bible House and brought up
inside. the postoffice at Station D, very
much to the alarm Of persons transact
ing business therein.
The other horse went on different
track. Breaking loose from his COM
panion soon after starting on the ram
page, he turned short and made straight
Tor Hsdley's crockery store, which runs
through the block from Fourth to
Third avenue. With the harness and
traces upon him and the VIII Hetree
clashing behind him, he dashed in at
the door. The clerks sprang from their
stools and strained their necks over the
counters. The horse, taking no notice
of the CONSERVATION he bad created,
dashed through the store at 2:40 gait,
, sending the crockery flying right and
lie tor the passage between the coun-
ters does not exceed three feet.
O,e half OF the glass door opening on
Third avenue was closed THIS, how
ever, offered not the slightest impedi
ment to the course OF the animal. Tor
he dashed clean through it without for
moment slackening his pace. Across
Third avenue he went in slantlng d.
rection, passed between the posts of a
sisnboard on the ed re OF the opposite
sidewalk, slid like groveling thunder
bolt along the flsqs, and went head
foremost down flight of twelve stairs
into a barber shop in the basement.
Just as the horse struck the side
walk Dutchman who was going down
the avenue espied him. The man
made dash forward and escaped the
equine avalanche. As soon a. the
Dutchman bad got past he turned round
to see what the horse was after. but 10
his amazement the animal had disap-
peared. 1t was impossible that the
four-footed whirlwind could have swept
round the corner. for that was nearly a
huudred yards distant 1t could not
have disappeared in the earth, for there
was no hole and no smell of brlmstone
The Dutchman was utterly astounded
He gazed around with hew ldered
alarm 10 his countenance, and or ed:
Mem Colt! We're vos dot horse vich
l nearly didn't touch me and knock
him over shoost q lept'e ago?
In the meantime the state Of things
in that barber shop was far from pleas
ant. When the horse shot down the
steps Fifteenth ward dandy was seat
ed at the loot thereon getting his boots
dressed. How he passed to the rear Of
the shop and assumed s-dentary po-
sit on on one of the wash bowls, he either
does not clearly remember, or declines
to say. Dr.. Nash, however. it i, be-
lieved, knows now he was Immediately
aft cited by the accident The artists
who were polishing hair and chins to
the left OF the entrance, made straight
for the bath rooms in the rear, regard
less of the claims or safety of their
customers The artists hair stood 80
on end that it was with difficulty they
could get in at the bath room doors.
The poor animal that had created all
this uprosr and unhappiness Law rolled
up at the foot OF the steps, apparently a.
much dazed as any OF the bipeds. He
vas speedily followed by employees of
the railroad, and submitted to Their
offices as quietly as lamb. Singular
TO say, beyond a bloody nose. the horse
was uninj nred. Considering the diff
cult navigation and the remarkable
passage he had made, this is srvelIous,
a nd sill more marvellous is the TACT thai
not a hundred dollars worth Of damage
was done in Hsdley's store.-NeU York
paper.