The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-18
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CHARLEsTos, August 18th, IA
Editors OF the Register. 70 '=G.TgTt1 g
One of the most terrific rain and thun-
der storms that ever visited this region
swept the county over last Friday night.
About twelve o'clock the rain commenced
pouring down in torrents, and old people
say it was the hardest rain they ever saw,
in fact we came very near having 3
pittsburgh Hood" the rain poured for
hours not stopping until daylight, and in
some places doing right smart damage,
though no lives were lost. Hearing that
out'on Two-mile it played the very deuce,
we took advantage Of an opportunity
offered to visit the "ruins" Well, here
is what we saw and heard: After going
up the creek about mile and half we
encountered an old man out in the road,
barefooted, picking up wood. This was
man bv the name of Lacy, q strange
kind of a person who is rather famous as
being the tallest man in the county as
we'll as the biggest scalawag and story
teller; he told US right straight along
all about the storm and the damage it
had done, we only give that part of the
statement which we know to be true. He
said that man by the name Of Tate lost
wagon-bed and some single trees and
the like; another lost his stable and stile;
another lost windmill tprobably blew
away. He finally wound up by saying,
with one of his peculiar grunts, that 1t
only damaged him about 800. AS Mark
Twain would say, we "Smiled smile"
and rode on, thinking that his whole
farm, buildings and all, would be dear at
half the money. We went still further
up the creek finding that no very serious
damage was done the farmers, the great
est damage being the uprooting Of a few
water-willows; but rs there were plenty
left, and enough drift-wood washed to-
gether in some places to last the nelghbor-
hood all summer, the people should only
be too glad that it was no worse. we
come back down that creek fully of the
opinion that people do exagerate some
times.
\ marriage feast is such a rarity in
our CITY that one does not know what to
make Of it, when he does hear ola couple
of souls that have given up all nope, ana
entered into a state of "Wherever thou
goest | will 90" Bannot the surviving
partner and editor of the West Virginia
Courier explain matters and tell US why
it is that some of Charleston copper
haired maidens who have been upon the
market for the last fifteen years, have
not had better luck and more of it. We
fear if matters don't change shortly some
of the gouthfM beauties will have lived
mans allotted time without shutting OH
the immortal coil Of single blcsscdneSS,
loosing faith in Tom Moore, we believe 1t
was, that tried to console womankind
with the following lines which run
thus -
"Therc never was goose so gray,
But soon or late,
Some honest gander come that way,
And took her for his mate"
1t is safe to say that had Moore lived
later, and lived here, these lines would
never have been written. They (the
maidcns) are all Shakspereans, though
believing that there is
"Divinity that shapes our ends
Rough, hcw them how we will"
They have been hcwing them chow
we will for good while, and they have
borne no perceptible fruit get.
IF OUR COUNTY CLERK
is left without anything to do, and no
fees" to pay his "board bill' much
longer, he will get lazy and be strapped"
by his "land-lady' we mean. We
will stop by making one final and fare
we'll appeal to the bcauX of our place, to
do their part until leap year relieves
are "otf duty one year out Of every four.
There is an abundance of
FRUIT, VEGETABLES, &C,
in our market; scarcity of which there
has been all summer, until now. Green
apples are plenty, watermelons are plcn-
tier, sick children are plenticst.
The weather has done little else but
rain for several weeks, in consequence of
which corn is growing rapidly and will
make an average crop, and will, perhaps,
do still more and make big one.
The horses which have been camped
on the fair grounds for long time, have
moved over to this side of tho river and
are now putting up at one of our livery
stables.
Mr.. j. Brisbcn Walker has recently
returned from Covington, Kentucky,
where he has been in conference with
Swift. He says we are to have the iron
works.
Not another word will We infiict
upon the readers of the REGISTER in re-
gard to this enterprise. They might not
survive the shock. ADDISON.