The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-10-22
LETTER FROM "ION."
Full Description OF the MorgantoWn
Chaw or Tobacco"
On THE B. i o. r. r.,
October IA, 1874.

you square abreast with young Americs
of the present decade. Was it not fol
the horse talk and horse racing, 'twoulG
be splendid food for moralizing. Yet. a'
staid a. the addition of years has made
you, the latent heat Of youth is brought
to the surface on these annual jubilee oc.
casions denominated county fairs, and BY
horse talk and horse races. To deprive
the jubilees of these animated, thrilling
time-forgstting prerequisites-to be brief
the jubilee is no jubilee-and stockhold
ers would soon be non est
All this talk / owe to visiting the
county fair of good old Monongalia on
the 9Th and 9th, and here say, for good
management, police regulations and at.
tentioh shown to visitors by not only
officers, but by citizens, lesson can
be learned by the officers, &c, of like AS.
sociations of the State. Your correspon.
dent, with coach laden with the
"fancy," left that town where you dare
not uncouple wagon,
Situated upon a hill,
Which, everything you chance to spill
runs otf-Fairmont-on the morning OF
the eth. In that coach was that inevi.
table and so much asked for Tom Col
! lns, his right bower, Abbott, and two
or three left bowers. have diction-
airy of slang; have listened at.cntively to
horse talk and oil talk of Parkersburg
in its palmy days, yet Tom Collins and
his bowers, right and left, should be
mcdaled. ] was heather, yea an idol,
! Il IL ,,,l 10,
town. l could not understand the phrases
so frequently used by my fellow passen-
gers. as these: That horse entered
shadows; has got a good poll; God can
cover tracks; one, three, joStle them. &c,
&c. | was relieved on lighting from the
coach. Old Morgantown looked gay and
festive, but for the life of me | could not
get out Of hearing Of horse talk.
my lady friends whom | visited talked
horse, my grand-daddy tottering to the
grave said horse; our ministers son talk
ed, rode and won on horses.
The second day | visited the fair
! grounds, the floral and mechanical halls
and can safely say, that for beauty, dis
play and cultivated taste, the floral de-
partment could not be excelled. The Ia
dies of Monongalia, | must say, deserve
a State diploma for handiwork, not on y
for needle and ornamental work, but to
look wistfully upon the pots of jellies,
preserves, jams, &c, to Swecten and in
vite the dcpraved appetite, and to stand
by that splendid roll of butter, and plate
of rusks, and soliloquise thus: "l'm mar
ried, have three 'Caboos, am sorry for 1t
for if fsingle, | would marry the woman
| that made that butter and bread, if she
was single or widow Now, to note
all in floral hall worthy fnote, is impos-
siblc.s Can you count the sands on the
sea shore? Ifso, count the useful, beautiful
delicious and tine of the Hail. Yet again,
tha Mechanical Hall, filled with the skill
| of the sterner SEX Messrs. Fairchild,
Lawhcad IL Co, carriage manufacturers
of Morgantown, made Il splendid array
of work, unsurpassed in the State. That
which rivetcd nv attention the most
closely, was that Sl2, 600 hearse manufuc-
tured for the Hcnnen Bros of Morgan
town. ] leaned upon the magnificent
marble head stone manufactured by
Ridge & Watts, of MorgantOwn, and thus
i'm reverie spoke: MAN has but once to
die. This fat has gone forth, but had L
twice to die what pleasant ride, how
magnificent the ride down to dust in such
IA palace, and yet so gorgeous marble to
mark my first resting placel But here S
the rub, once to die and once to be
buriedW
noted Messrs. Adams " Lucas, of
your city, called for premiums on organs.
They got them dcscrvcdly. | noticed all
kinds of machinery exhibited by enter
nrisiur men. who wanted free putis, but
referred them to the terms of advertising
in the REGISTER.
went into two or three side shows
paving ground rent, was cheated out o.
a dollar in change 10y same, saw monk
evs, alligatorS. learned pigs and native
hogs in abundance. Had sieStd with
that prince of good fellows, Morgan, OF
the Post. and sent Hoffman of same, home
to get boiled shirt, and trod on Hon. d:
NJ, Hacans' toe, not So hard Us they did
Mt the last Radical Congressional cleo
ton. And after all this took my seat III
the Grand Stand with thousand Others,
including Sim Sears, the jolliest man,
and meanest 'fur hunter" in the state,
ask Hoffman of the Post, or David H..
Chadwick, his neighbors and sufferers.
Having seated myself thus, awaited
the anticipated races, but for the life "i
me saw nothing fast. The racing WAS
over. when Morgan all the time persist
ed what We witnessed was only pre-
Ind, But to write graciou>ly it was
splendid, exciting, animating, yes thrill
ing. mi
The third dav was magnificent. The
sun shone forth in herresplendent rays.
Youth, beauty, age borrowing the smiles
of Younger days graced the splendid
grounds of the Association at an early
hour. Fully 5000 people were on the
Grounds at / T. NJ. Your correspondent
by virtue of the same, had carte blanche,
went through the throng shaking hands
and endeavoring TO bring up recollections
of the past with each hand-gripper; yet
horses. Gray Dam "RestleSs, Ike
yence," &c. 2:29, 2:20, 2:24, was the re-
plv TO the question Of crops, health or
even the state of the church.
But finale-Monongslia county GER
tainly deserves much credit for the en-
terprise for building up such magnlfi-
cent county fair. But she is rich-her
people are noble. (See late election news.
Sister Preston is very noble. (See where
Uncle Billy reclines.)
return my grateful thanks for ;ayors
shown me bv Mr.. Ed. Shisler, Mr.. VIM:
NcGrew. and Messrs Burt. Lazier and
Geo. Hall. officers of the Association,
Last, but not least, Morgan Il Hoffman,
of the Post, for that joint chsw of tobac-
co. ii. c.l had to join the stock to make a
quid. ION
..,ion In. . Railroad TO be Thrown