The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-09-27

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but not wholly removed from the ordin
airy. laws Of selfshness. He ID as dead II
disintereatedneas asJ his party In policy. {
| QHefe Is Eli SanlsSury, also, -tall, col
umner, gray, and o little apprehensiv'
that the Republicans will carry the Della
ware Legislature this year, and beat Ton
Bayard for the Senate. he speaks les
for Bsyard than for salisbury, however.
TROUT CULTURE ON THE SUBMITS.
.sHaltaInile from Oakland there is=ar
,esiabllsHment devoted toltrputy propega
ton, established by the Rev. Alexander
Kent, who was formerly q IUnlyersalis
clergyman al Halifax, NJ IS Portland
Boston, in Minnesota, and at Baltimore
Over zealons and overworked, he was
ordered to 60 to the hills and concern biz
mind with Nature and no more. Being
OF an inventive, useful turn, he sought e
make necessity, philanthropy; and main-
tenance unite upon some mutual object
and newspaper suggested piscionlture
he had thrown fly when a boy IN MOVE
Scotia, and buying book upon the new
application Of science, he made 1t biz
study, and also visited the flsh-farm OF
SETH Green, the national pisciculturist q
Called onia, N. Y He mastered every
featiire Of bis new. ayocation, and Icar
make q fly, whittle jointed pole which
will bring $50 in the city, and catch
trout with two men bred on the noun
tains, taking two to their one apiece. In
April, 1879, be came to % oakland mean
Ing to proceed,to the Blackwater, Tucker
county, West Virginia, at once. His ear
nest purpose was diverted by o Mary
lander,-one of1those procrastinating,
good. natured, original men who are com.
mon here as on tie plains,T-ior Rip Van
Wrinkle and Ethan Brand were noun
taineers, and the clergyman was detained
on broken promises Of companionship and
cooperation till late In August. Il Mean.
time he made his trout ponds, built his
Matching. houses, and perfected his tackle
and BIkno1ledge5 When, az lasts his
friend felt impelled to 60, he dissuaded
Mr.. Kent from taking fish box or sup.
p gsoih i yoa,a ind theml at Kizs!pl Il i
The Blackwater Is the Laurel Fork oil
Cheat river, and Is distant thirty miles
from Oakland, over q road which stops
OF Kitzmiller's, less than half way. Be
yond Kitzmiller's house there are no
habitations, nor routes Of travel for an In.
definite distance, except ono given place
called the judge D6bbin House, which
was built before the war for o pleasure
lodge, and Is two stories high, with eight
rooms, each twenty.one feet. square-7the
whole constructed OF logs. Its now de.
serted, except when Kitzmiller cuts lit.
tie hay around It oncea year, or some
vagrant fisherman finds II Unexpectedly
there glowering upon the wilderness.
The Blackwateris the best trout stream
south OF Lake Champlain, known at this
day. 1t Is broad and flowing, with an
even bottom of white pebbles, over which
the clear black water flows between
great rocks worn by 5lhe waters will;
and the banks are uniform, moundy, and
easily scaled anywhere, and'llned with
groves Of tall hemlocE, spruce and birch.
Back Of these groves the Laurel, like q
Jungle, covers the vista, and affords views
OF neither mountains nor forests.
The fishermen passed the Falls OF the
Blackwater, where, with roar which can
be heard mile, the river, ina clear sheet
OF the width OF $50 leet, falls 1853 feel. in
one leap. Below this boundary, the vo-
racious bass, who would else eat the trout,
keep their dominion; and the Lower
Cheat Is as good Tor bass as the Upper
for trout.
The fishermen threw their lines, and
were rewarded with 100 trout apiece per
diem. The third day, the. Maryland Rip
said he had got enough. V a
: I. Butt exclaimedthe clergyman, Are
MT you going to make a business OF it?
I have waited for you all summer"
You fish on" says the bold mountain
eer, "and I'll send you up supplies, and
all the materials for camp and fish
box"
Left with a little bread and jerked
meat-two or three pounds at most-thc
lost clergyman, wading the stream 70 the
waist, and often to the arm-pits, threw
his fly all the day, and at night slept upon
the laurel bushes, the nearest neighbor to
the panther and the wildcat. BE had
constructed, while his friend was present,
q sort Of side-dam with stones, lined 1t
with NOES, and here he had several humid.
red trout. Day after day passed, and
neither food nor reinforcement came to
this lost brother of the cloth. His last
piece Of bread was gone; he had nothing
10 eat but his trout, and was faint The
Blackwater began to rise, and the pool
was imperiled; and he crswled into the
woods at night, when he could not see
his hand before him, and picked moss to
strengthen the walls.
At lest, at the moment Of despair, on the
fifth day, Rip Van Wrinkles son, young
Rip, arrived. "Did you bring any nailss'i'
was the clergyman's first question "
"There," said the boy, VI knew ! had
forgot something" The dam was swept
away before the mistake could be RENE.
died, and 1900 trout lost. ] IAris I'll
A box was next improvised Of heavy
bagging, stretched upon frame, and
1900 new trout consigned to It. This
imperfect receptacle capsized one night,
and nearly all the trout escaped.y Still
indomitable, the preacher himself return.
ed 10 Oakland and back to the Black
water on foot, round tripio 80lmlles,
which he afterward made many q time.
He hired a fisherman, and hewedi road
Of 6 miles through the woods and rocks,
to prepare the way for transporting his
fish. In the end his provisions failed %
arrive; his hired man grew faint and re.
fused to work, and Kitzmiller saved both
from starvation. A third calamity put On
end to all hopes Of saving trout fer the
year 1879, and, full Of discouragement
Mr.. Kent returned to Oakland and fished
the more accessible water Of Muddy
Creek. This Is tributary Of the Little
Youghiogheny and it's full of trout; but
the stream has been damned at q saw