The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-02-01

them, astvo and . half buahsl bag
The fret nibble was Q rock Rsh, meas
uring two feet ten inches, and to thi
day he cannot recall,sxithout laughing
the funny appearance OF that fish, viii
his tail sticking outof the bag Thinl
of q man recalling such trifing detail
OF his life after lapse OF over eighty
years
CURIOUS CALCULATION.
Two such lives as LIE Barre's addet
together would unite the landing 9th,
Mayfower Pilgrims with the establish
ment Of the Credit Mobifier and the
emoresceRee OF Hoax Aims. Thrst
such takes US back within generation
of the discovery Of America BY Colum.
bus; five would link us with the Nor.
man Conquest of England, and seven
teen would snte-date the birth efChrisi
and the subjugstiou Of the Gauls by
Julius Caesar. 49,,
APPEARANCE OF TIE oRNTRNARIAN.
Sitting in the chair. this very old
tussler of Times appeared no more
than four feet high, though measuring
fua elk feet in his prime. He was bent
almost double. His blue eyes, though
not without come lustre, had q weak
and watery expression. His teeth were
long since gone and his asky silver
hair remained only at the back OF his
head. There was color in bis cheeks,
but his neck had much of the dried,
yellow and shrivelled appearance Of a
mummy. His legs looked little larger
than the legs ofthe chair on which he
eat, yet three years ago, in his 10th
year, he managed to make them carry
him distance Of eight miles. Two
years ago be might have been seen
working in the woods cutting railroad
ties, aud about the same time back he
made Is journey to Stroudsburg to wit
ness the execution of the murderer of
Mr.. Broadhead, an uncle to my com.
panion. The people at the Jail refused
to crafty the old mans curiosity "But
don't you think they might9' his
daughter innocently asked me, seeing
he was 30 old. Indeed" she continued.
"they might at least have let father see
it, and I think it was real unkind after
he went 30 far, and at his ageP
HIS DRsTRUorIvE HABITS.
He could not recall the time when he
began to smoke and chew tobacco, but
it was certainly over hundred years
ago. He has continued the habit ever
since. II am efraid he smokes too
much" remarked his filial offspring,
land l am trying to break him off il"
He has also taken stimulants regularly,
in the shape OF plain native whisky;
but he failed to remember that he ever
got drunk but twice, the first occasion
being the day he went to Esston to see
General George Washington, and the
second when he left his old homestead
at Mount Bethel, six miles from here,
and started West with his father in the
year 1908. George was then fifty and
his father eighty.five. To show the
extraordinary stamina Of this family,
the father, having lost his first wife,
took second when one hundred years
old, and lived to the age of one hundred
and five.
GEoRGR's GRANDFATHER,
who died at an almost equally advanced
age, came to this country from France
about the year 1870. He was Hugue-
not and man OF great physical strength
and proves. George says he remem-
bers his grandfather telling of how he
saw Louis XIV. at Sevres, passing in
his gilded coach from Paris to Yer
sailles
TAKES A DRINK.
After we had been talking in an in-
different kind of a way for some little
time the old man took drink from the
contents of ginger beer bottle. and
remarked with smack of his lips, as
he put away the empty glass, ii like
that. Yes, yes" 10 considerably OF
his expressed preference for the bever-
age we made over to him the entire OF
what remained without the smallest
scruple of conscience that we were has,
tening his existence to q premature end.
and you shook hands with General
Washins ton ?" l asked Of the old man
after his disposition to become commu-
NEGATIVE evinced itself.
RRcoLLEorIoNs OF WASHINGTON.
ayes, yes" he answered, and HE eyes
Frightened with the recollection.
General Washington fowght them (the
British) at Trenton. He fought them
three days and he made 500 Hessisne
prisoners. Yes, yes" (Here he paused
to refresh his memory Good many
Hessians was brought to Easton, and
when they was liberated they settled
north OF the mountains. Some OF
them their children he meanD is here
still"
"Was it about that time you saw
Washington ?
Eyes, yes"
How old were you then p
81 was a Young man. | suppose
about nineteen or twenty. l went down
from Mount Bethel with Sam Vaucam
pen and George Shoemaker. We stop
ned at the Oaks Tavern. There were
only about ten or a dozen. houses in
Esston at the time. General Wash.
ipgton came up to the same tavern and
shook hands with all the boys. He
shook hands with me first, because
was the first to 60 up and tell him Ia
hold his horse, but he told me nevel
mind that the niger servant on . blacl
horse as black as himself would do that
And 20 he did. And while he was a
boldin' on to the Generals horse the
boys got about him and made fun out o
him General Washington went into
the Oaks and had somethin' to eat anc
drink. He wore a yaller brseches and
- hoo,o an6 oniy one amir. o! h,