The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-22
DIR LETTER FROM "ION."
Dissertation ON CrOps-The Insane
NAsyIum-ss Ion" Wants 10 Read His
own Proof

WESTON, August II, 1874.
Editors of the Register:
Howunproftablec country gossipat best?
Yet when the product is oft repeated and
thrust upon the market it becomes stale
and absolutely bore. Thus when crops
are short or long; cattle, high or low;
sleep and hogs, healthy or diseased, one
rehearsal is guamt,m subfcit for six months
at any rate; but daily to receive REG
1sTER fresh. from the press, and to read
for the thousandth time, crops, cattle,
hogs, sheep and potato bugs-weIl, it
causes a tension of the nervous system,
and strong adjectives are prone to slip
from the organs of sound. For all this
the REGISTER proposes TO pay literally,
at once, with prospective chances OF
Il bull calf in the distribution Of annual
premiums. admire your nervous syS-
TEN, dear REGISTER, and your heart
which can feel for your Granger CORE
spondents, you fully approaching the
fact that we of the rural districts are
honest, virtuous and industrious, with
no scandals In Beechcr-Tilton, even in
miniature, to note, or yet frauds by
rings, thefts, murders, arsons or rapes
to chronicle. We have naught else
to transmit to you for publication but that
which interests us rs communicative
production ofcerials; the moving of stock
for barter and sale to your drovers ofthe
city, who live and grow fat on our labor,
so don't grow tired of our oft repeat
ed story. This matter lies close to your
1 D,,t in,
&c, am ut loss what to say; but this
| will write, West Virginia has the larg
est insane asylum in the Union, located at
this point. Three hundred and fifty pa
ticnts fed and clothed land that WE'LL at
less expense than like institutions in our
country. One days board at the Nc
Lure House in your city feeds and
clothes patient mt the asylum one week,
including doctors bills-S2.46 per week
per patient covers all the expenses of the
institution. Yet, ever and anon We hear
grumblngs: State being robbed; Cor
morants eating out her very vitals, DC.
How absurd; what ignorance. Did these
croakcrS but look and compare facts and
figures with like institutions Ofthc United
States or even Europe, they would
be constrained to close their COM
plainingS, to read the bill of fare
daily served ut the tables of this institu-
ton. As to the apparel of the patients,
visit the chapel of the institution every
Sabbath and see the ncatncSs with which
they are clothed. In short, West Va,
to her honor, cares well for her untortu-
nate citizens bcrett of reason. As TO the
management of the institution, under DR..
Camden, assisted by DR.. kuntz, certainly
there is no cause for complaint. Mrs.
Jackson, the Matron, has jammed away
over 1900 gallons of blackberrics for the
institution, ut 10 cents per gallon; 1000
gallons free from air, set aside for same, at
same. Good choice beef is furnished
daily to the institution Mt sc per pound,
ready for the spit; butter II to l5c per
pound; eggs Sto Toe per doz.; hams, good
country, Zoe, stock laid in). These are
the prices, cash, the worthy and intelli-
gent Steward, Mr.. Chas. o. Harm, has
been paying, yet We Of town pay largely
in advance of these prices. Why is it
thus? Must be sympathy for the un
fortunate inmates of the Asylum, or
sympathy for the dilapdated condition
of the State treasury. Yet be ii either, ii
should please the taxpayers.
The news reached Us on the Holy
Sabbath that on the 18th, at Ellcnboro,
Ritchic county, State Of West Nirginia,
the Democratic Convention assembled,
representing this first Congressional dis
trict, and nominated Col. Ccnjamin Will
son, of Harrison, for Congress. All this
caused not ripple on the surface of
popular opinion, simply because ere that
Convention met, fruiton told us it was So.
In Benjamin we are well pleased, and
We will give him rest and an easy chair
at Washington.
Our county, Us vet, is on scout polti-
cally; been bushwhacking, 10, these many
DAYS. Democrats don't know who to
shoot out for the legislature, or Yet, who
to shoot at on the Republican side. Wolf
of the Democrat, as yet, has not even re-
ccivcd the usual fee for the announce
mcnt of name as a candidate for the
legislature, and being sensible, he won't
give 'chin music" without the pay in adj
vance. Both political parties are rowing
''Shv Boats. each waiting for the other
first to cast anchor, that the dimensions
of the craft may be measured. But
enough, with the request that You let the
boy on route I read proof this time.