The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-09-24

=sro,IsuED ENcLIsnMAN'

ASTONi'"-
Hearing that william
y n'nS%r, S ~ and Ralph Waldo
c'II. IoS ny are Negro hinstrels'-'A
r0t', !, r =, to chicago 'rFIOau') -,
rfSf lew of fortune in thl'
Ise aa a:s % sudden, and men so !, ire 2
.stT . ~ their avOcatiohs, that II u !!
a. :,sec foreigners can Dc . mace OcC Supe'
y d s.o sI RSSn quite well informed
u J. s soSsII'Smnn IN regard to America,
. S ts.s recently, and was much as;
rrd H :, ne peculiar things ho saw and
s1sa ~ y col could hardly credit the story story
VI % pSrcsiJent Of the United States
~ y a ''SosII farm near 81. !, Louis, De, ;,
10, O ~ ,I Of wood, and, on account o. 2
9n L LC,U' VA, unable to support bis
l'0'TII' Il, thought that they who told
w !, x ~ trying to take him 10, you
US Nv, ND received the little 3, history hist
. .,eIIa lam Of "Walker!" "Wal-
}. el Ta,ily, convinced oil Its truth, he
.,l s~ 10 credit anything, and
l,.Ds through Barclay street tho other
E til5s observed over a small Sn0p 'n'
T .rnLlAxc C. BRYANT, TAILOR"
, -, now, " he remarked to his COM
~, ~ Journalistic wag Of some note
! \ ,o,l sec that name there' lrs the
Is.i YOUR favorite poet, the author Of I
t,s,tCrsis.' 1t isn't the same lamlIy' l
~ " onIy tho same family" was the
:, T.sbur,hC same man."
Nh, ipdeed' Well, that's very strange!
, tT Mr.. Bryant was q wealthy
.. U, Tho publisher Of one Of the
y, sI5 newspapers here"
II. i; W. Vas" answered the joker, "a lew
/. r ~ Then he owned the greater
n d he EuniHg Post, but he went up
s ~, ono summer, got TO drinking
., 1nIsWS and betting on faro till he be-
ne bankrupt, and was for some time
~ ,s,ispt on tSe charity Of his friends"
.II..lly, that is very extraordinary,
~ II, Think | remember something Of
y, Nj. Bryants singular career. Let
=, ~ After be lost his fortune, didn't
=, ali into the negro minstrel business !?
M, 10 me that | have heard Of Bryant's
~, Devilish queer that q great
4 should black his face and play a
Sb,rine, now, isn't it,
,Ob, uo!-not queer here; nothing is
y, b this country. Bryant made a
,Stj.al Of money with his Ministries by
,tj1c The CGmptOwn hornpipe every
NJ 70 crowded houses"
Flow did he happen to DO a tailor,
a.
.He tried to monopolizc the peanut
lsst by getting up q corner in the
d, and, again losing every dollar he
I. be was forced to set up this shop in
h 10 make q livelihood"
A corner in peanuts? Now l don't
,tLy understand that, you know. Did
retiatO the corner himself, or did he
,onebO1y else into the corner! But
nj no use in my trying to understand
b Sbesslly business. It's enough to
"a fellow completely, you know, to
sk Of great poet getting peanuts in
yuer, and then bursting up as you
10 America, you know"
not many OF our public men do go
the peanut trade; but the minstrel
iaeais quite a favOrite with our schol.
md thinkers. You've heard of EN-.
%, the Ssgeof Concord, Us he is often
u, have you not'"
R4lph Waldo Emerson? Oh, yes; he
m we name the American Carlyle,
AHOw. Lie isn't q negro minstrel, is
u course he is He's playing here
!, and when il comes 10 q tirst.class
b solo, Ralph Waldo Emerson Is
Aty hard to beat"
But really now" ssid the perplexcd
Ishuan, II shouldn't think a man
wrote the English Traits would be
ID 10 do that sort Of thing. What's
use Of being man Of genius in Amer
you know, il you have to earn your
d and butter by playing d bloody
b, you know? This is indeed an ex-
FdUary country, and the more l learn
ltiI the less understand it."