The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-24
OUR HANCOCK LETTER.
Dyspeptic GrOwIcrs---The County
Court-tirOund Hog and Crow Prog
nOsticRtions--TheF Fox Hunt.
HANCOCK Co,
Feb. 22d. 1875,


Feb. 22d, 1875.
Edit tors OF the Register:
Grumblers must never be expected to
be without something to grumble at
Could Your grumblers be demateralized
into spirit and that spirit remateralized
into machine, the problem of problems
most worrying to human ingcnuity-the
invention of perpetual motion, self-orig-
mating and self acting, would be solved.
Be all It's doings and undoings and no.
doings wiser than Solomon ever thought
and prudenter than Scion or Lycurgus
ever dreamed of, yet the legislature may
not expect to escape the shower
OF words, and pellets fred from the ever
vigiiant army Of political dySpeptics
Go to! We unclean GROWERS; ache away,
clear down to the pits Of your dolorous
stomachs; but II legislature that has in
one brief month of its existence, legisla-
ted us out of bad capital tx into good
one, and elected an Allen T. Caperton
to fill Il sad vacancy in the L. 5. Senate,
has done much profitable service and
carried the popular thanks. The growl
now is-too few laws have been passed;
Us soon as the session is ended and the
Acts of 1875 are published, it will be
the laws are too many.
The Court last week continued in Scs-
sion until Thursday evening. An unus-
ual amount of business was transacted;
though only single jury trial was had.
The Circuit Court Judge Melvin meets
on Monday next.
The way this wondrous winter "stiCks'
Is the continuing theme Of unadmiring
observation; and the ominous ground
hog comes in for many an anathcma.
The river is bridged over all along. The
crow, timed honored harbinger offspring
after whose advent according to the
tradition of our grandiathersl the river
never freezes Over--is off his eggs this
time, sadly He was seen and heard in
the land II month ago, yet the river is
pontooncd with ice.
Yesterday, February Dist, John May
hcw. Esq, and his wife, who reside on
his farm adjoining this place, completed
the titty-third year of their married life
long walk" indeed, and though undis-
tingui>hcd with achievements of great
fame il yet bears with it moral OF
greater worth than all the fine sermons
OF Beechcr, and all the fine rhetoric and
poetic imaginingS of TiltOn.
And now concerning our grand cir
cular fox hunt, which took place to day.
1t WAS not so grand, nor yet quite so cir
cuar as sanguine anticipation might
have pictured out The snow you know,
lay six inches deep, and although the at
mosphere was pleasant and vcrnal, pc
destrianiSm was laboriOus. The consc-
Guence was too many of the hunters pre-
trrred taking the roads and beaten tracks
to the straightforward march over hill
and through thickets, and this gave the
game excellent opportunities Of slipping
through the gaps in the ranks. When
| the dogs were let in at the closing, 1t was
found that not Reynard had been en-
closed; it was Il complete water haul.
! The truth is, the day Was not II favorable
| one, the foxes were not out of their holes
and the hunt had it been managed the
best possible, though it was not, would
| likely have resulted aS it did.
John Cameron, under indictment in
! the circuit court for assault and battery,
was arrested to-day, ut the fox hunt, by
Constable Thomas K. Swancy, and
brought to town and committed to Jail.
CAMILLUS.