The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-23

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whepe you can indulge night and day In
poker, roulette; rouge ct nolF and faro.
In every fifth roOn Of the hotel gambling
Is going on among those who do not HiSh
to DO seen at the public tables, and Of any
hour Of the night In passing through the
halls you can hear the click Of the checks
and the low uttered oath Of the unlucky
ganester. .I@
For those fond Of cunning or fishing
there Is no better place. The forests
'abuuud IN turkey, deer, bear, panther and
vol. The Washila near by and the
Ghlpher are streams replete with fish Of
alCh size and game as would have re-
joiced the heart Of Isaac Walton.
The most exciting time Of the day Is on
the arrival Of the coaches. Immediately
on the cry Of the lookout, "stages com
ing," the guests pour out on the piazza as
from q bee hive, some expecting friends,
and all &ixious for "the mail" Up come
the horses at a slashlng gait covered with
foam and the numbering coach coated
with mud or dust. The driver proudly
petched upon his box and flouris6ing his
whip with q final crack, brings his horses
TO sudden halt; and calmly rising In his
seat surveys the gaping crowd with as
much composure and benighitY as II he
were the "autOcrat Of all the RussiRs." q.
Il Is really refreshing and reminds one
OF I'VE olden time" In Wheeling when the
rival lines Of '.Good Intent and "Nat-
iopal Road" came laundering down the
street, nip and tuck, each striving TO reach
/ the hotel first with ~ much zeal as II It
were matter of life and death.
With what precision those old drivers
could cast the lash Many time has
Dave Powell while his gray team were
on the lump, severed with his lash as with
knife the head from the body Of some
unluclsy pigeon that came within his
reach. But these things are OIL the past
and We are writing Of the present.
' THE NATIVES.
Aside from the keepers Of gin mills and
faro banks who are generally tranBientS,
the population Of the town consists mostly |
ofpbysicians and shop keepers. OF the |
former there are abouta dozen In all, well
educated In their profession and doing q
thriving business. The shop keepers like
the doctors make their living, the country
Is so sparsely settled, almost entirely off
the visitors, charging seemingly enormous
profits, but considering the high freights
and heavy rents they pay not more than Is
proper, ,. ..,....
{ The natives Or tho rural districts are
curiosity. They are a tank, lean, cadsver.
GUS looking set, not unlike their dogs, hogs \
and cattle which are mere shadows oil
what they ought TO be, In comparison
with their horses, the famous charger rid.
den by Capt. Moyston when commanding
hei"Wheeling, Earthquake, Independent
Volunteers,n would noe exhibit uniavor-
ably. They live from hand to mouth;
the women addicted to dipping and the
men.to Ruzzling. Their chief occupation
Ia roaming the forests after game and
spending the proceeds In tobacco and ben
zinc. r...
Not u day passes but you will see mum.
bers Of these Nimrods astrlde their shaggy
ponies, as lauk and lean as their riders, /
each with noble buck or pair Of wild
turkeys, seeking purchaser. They Rre
constantly bringing in centipedl9o t-.-..s";
las. rattlesnakes. and CuDs OF pears anu
wolves, which find eager buyers among
the visitors 10 carry away az mementos.
Carrying knives and revolvers as they in
varisbly do, had expected 10 have seen
or heard OF one Of those sanguinary en-.
counters for which Arkansas Is famous;
but nothing Of the kind has occurred save
q fight between two gamblers, IN which,
on account Of their not having their
weapons, no blood was shed except the
usual amount Of nasal claret incident 10
hsticuff encounter. might give you
an amusing account Of their ideas Of poll
tics, gathered from them In conversation,
but space Gorbids. $50
There are two weekly papers published
here: the Tines, Democratic, and the
Courier, Republican-both edited with
average ability.
CONCLUSION.
When the railroad Is completed 10 this
point, the route Of which Is now being
surveyed, and the litigation as 10 tides
broughtto conclusion, and as q sequence
thereto finer hotels erected and better &C
Communications afforded, there Is not,
think, any Spa in Germany, or watering
place in the United States that will DO
more popular, or more resorted 10 by In.
valids. There are diseases which cannot
be cured without the aid ofthese waters.
How they operate cannot say. II is
said that In addition to their mineral
properties their virtue is owing mainly 10
their natural thermal condition. That Is
to say, should they be allowed to cool and
then be reheated by artificial means, they
would not have the same healing effect
Dr.Lawrence In bis circular says: "The
properties Of these thermal waters depend
not alone upon the peculiar inherent ca.
loric, diluent, solvent, corrective or antiCid
quallties-but these springs possess ther.
mo electric properties which impart cor.
reliant forces and make molecular changes.
The carbonates OF the alkalles and aka.
line earths help to arouse active elimina.
tive agency, and consequently tend TO
produce alternative Effects" sc. Perhaps
the intelligent reader may understand
that can't. Giving myself up TO its
profound meditation In the hopes that In
a future letter l may elucidate It's mean.
ing, l shall close by remarking that there
Is one important fact which I omitted In
my former letter, not from inadVertance,
but being q bachelor purely through mod.
esty. Louise Mulbach, In a recent letter
To the New York herald from the Ger.
man Spa Ems, thus euphemlstically eX.
presses Il: "Childless women whisper 10
each other blushingly Of the extrsordina.
~ results effected BY these waters"
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