The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-05-23

The PenItcntiaTy News at the WeB-
ton HospItal.sReplY to ga Close
observer.
WESTON, W. Va, May 10.
To the Editors oil the Intelllgencer:
With no other desire is this note pro.
posed and dictated than 10 counteract and
correct the false impressions that may
have been conveyed by letter from this
place, which appeared In your issue Of
the 10Th inst, under the caption Of "How
the news Of the Penitentiary coup d'etat
was received ut the Hospital for the In
sane"
With due respect, permit me, before
considering the reliability OF said CON-
munication, 10 express my surprise and
establishment that such concoCtion Of
Vilitication should have passed tho scru'
tiny and observation Of the 1NTEELIGRN-
GER and gained publicity through its
columns. ,..-
The emsnations from the pOrosity Of the
scurrilous attempt 10 make wit arc ex-
ceedlngly repulslve 10 the refined, and are
Justly meeting with hearty COndGmna'
ton from respectable citizens, irrespective
Of party, cognizant Of the facts. To con-
flute the veracity Of the delectable origi-
nality, 1t Is simply necessary to sit few
paragraphs contained therein.
In the first instance, your correspond.
ent under date Of May 9Th, says: u was
at the Hospital for the Insane last even.
ing when the mail came In and brought
the news Of the affair atthe Penitentiary."
An examination Of the date referred to
MAY 4th) will reveal the fact that no
mail was received at Weston on that day,
as 1t was on Sunday. A remarkably close
Observer we have 10 deal with! "Oh, con-
SiStency, thou art jstceI"
In Criticising 1.-THE person who pays for
produce" the great giant Of observation
exhibits his ignorance as regards the true
value OF figures. How? Simply because
he virtually recognizes that to be correct
which he condemns as being incorrect; as
an evidence Of this, read what Is In print
on tho subject: "They pay well for what
they buy-$12O for 1900 pounds Of hay /;
can't tell hOtO much 1900 pounds Of hay
comes TO at IS cents per pound" (ltalics
our Own.) Now this is rich indeed The
very trouble he ridicules is conspicuous
in that portion Of the quotation italicized.
AS / understand the matter, a miscalcu-
lation occurred in this way: A load oil
hay was delivered TO the asylum, and the
person who made the calculation not be-
ing familiar with estimates oil this kind
particularly paying for hay-fgured up
the amount Of seventy.fVe cents per
pound instead oil seventy.fiVe cents per
hundred pounds. The discrepancy
was discovered, in few seconds
after the transaction occurred, by
one Of the officers Of the institution,
and properly adjusted. Had II
been otherwise the loss would not have
fallen upon the State, but upon the Super.
intendcnt, as his vouchers are examined
by the Board Of Directors, and iffOund In.
correct are not allowed.
In that part Of the drama Of incon.
gruity caricaturing the Assistant Doctor"
there is an unalloyed combination Of
egregious and genuine prevarication.
This gentleman was visiting his friends in
Taylor county, when the eruption &C.
CURED at the Penitentiary and while there
got his information Of the event from the
columns Of the INTELLIaENCRR. Further,
that ho was not at the Hospital during
the time to which your correspondent al
ludes.
But we think enough has already been
educed TO convince the reader Of the ne
farIous attempt to perpetrate defama.
ton under the false nom de plume oil "a
Close Observer" REPUBLICAN.