The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-24
COUNTY ROADS.
A Thrilling Letter on an Important
Topic.

A correspondent OF one of our city
papers has been playing the role Of "in-
vsstigstiDg committee" Ia Congress,
without making any Investigation, be-
yond certain assertions which he chooses
to make while mysteriously limiting at
some very interesting reading" that
lies back OF these assertions, Now in
this venal age. flooded with ten cent
novels, Days Doings and such, a change
might be acceptable, especially when
q charge is made of money squsnder-
ed, whict comes out Of our pockets as
tax payers,
We have waited long, are waiting still,
and believing in the development theo-
ry, have awaited further Development
We call upon him to cry aloud, to
spare not, maybe he is talking, or pur-
suing, or taketh journey, peradvsn-
ture be sleepeth and must be awakened,
maybe lost in the slough of some coun-
try district, and is not aware OF the TACT
chat it is
ELS TURN TO SET En- Up.
But making the mysterious and dam
ming charges that be does, he will be
held particeps criminis if he does not
again come to the surface and give to
his fellow conutrymen the benefit OF
that mighty interesting reading.
The probability is that he is playing
the role OF Mark Twain, for one writ
ing as he has doue about raids or the
treasury, and Credit Mobelier jobbing,
and all hinging upon little $40 job,
would weep at the tomb OF Adam, and
drop a tear when the wax figures OF the
Siamese Twins were palmed of upon
him as
MOSES AND AARON.
Now this is the unkindest cut OF all,
that this unimportant committee, who
from the nature Of its business. ls cup
posed not to have drop OF humor in
Its veins, should be the victim OF q sell
This committee must be regular war
horses in their business. snuffing the
battle from a'ar, (Battle Run, Tor in.
s,ance.) "Reconnoltering for days be
fore they drag out" their force, all to
get partner sjob Of making a new
road, which the correspondent offers to
do tor $40! Now there is a thin place here
somewhere. But it was unkind to thus
spoil that little game OF these jobbiug
gentlemen and how the county should
be Indebted to him, Of the same initials
as myself.
i 1t is said that some OF the Credit
Mobiler men died OF broken hfarts.
being caught at their populations, but
did they ever make such raids upon
THE PEOPLE AND THE TREASURY
and force roads upon folks, to damage
property to the extent OF hundreds Of
dollars" which nv friend offered to
"check" fer Sl0l He is indeed asc!hS
rnuto est inScitior.
The people Of the county should look
into this. They may awake some fioe
morning to find Macadanz-d road
past every mans door, and an iron rail.
way with it's shrieking train up every
ravine, to disturb the quiet st,llaess OF
our country lie, and
ROB EVERY HILLSIDE
of its quiet repose. Let us guard against
being swsmped financially, as well as
in the mud OF our country rosds. While
we are draining these let us be careful
that our finances are not drained by q
still, small stream leading into the
pockets OF some road ring.
Let this gushing fountain be damned
imme ediately. and let other generations
learn a lesson from the record OF these
jobbing gentlemen, as their bodies re"
pose in the corner OF some quiet grave
yard overgrowp, may be, with foul
weeds, one with no marble to receive
the inscription, Died OF broken hearts
from being caught in their attempts TO
force roads upon the people OF Ohio
county" No nightingale to chant over
their last resting place.
Its sweet chorus OF bliss"
"Naught save darkness, and dampness, and
trembling, and lear,
At the howls Of the storm wind and creaks
Ufthe Dier,
And the white bones all c!atterirg & together,
The ,veus OF night flap their wings o'er
the scene,
We would fsin hurry by as We catch but
ofhght Ger the wreck covered river"
A word to the wise is sufficient. Let
Us rather cling to the moss-covered
ways OF our ancestors, TO the rubber
less wagon" and pack saddle customs.
To the old horse that
"cANE DOWN FROM JERUSALEM"
still 10 be seen in some parts OF our
county With the wallet across his back,
q crock OF marketing on each side,
clappipg the sides Of the traditional
oeast as be trois bis step in three mln-
utes, and sstride OF all q tax payer oil
our county. with more pleasing coua-
teusnce than one would find in 40 age OF
scrutiay on Wall street. Alb the van
ity ofrichea
Aye carry Us back to the days
when
aPeace and corn cake ruled the hour.
And hoe cake and johnny were the power
That formed the eli Gle round the hearth,
And hours dissolved in noiy mirth.'
When ungsitered and uucorseted-
msidens rouped with hatless and
ragged lads, and had such hi
larious merrimens, and rugged cheeks,
and empty stomachs as the present iu-
habitsnts know not OF. We are
vending that way, the country people
seem sat SIZED. rather than have their
"cali pastures" cut Let them dream on
and We save our taxes.
The metaphor may be mixed here
little, but any one who can write on
ka NJ IN Hac hia