The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-12-11
ON THE WING.
SnInthieI Don't Know where nc
A Trip I'm Mail Wag"n--h''""-
beth,

WRIT G.. H., December 7, 1875.
Editors ofthe Register:
Will some gentleman be KIND enough
% can ma where am? This inquiry is
No, made in selfshness. 1t is q matter
of Indifference to myself, personally,
wber, am; but my few friends are
o,w.vs much interested in my where
abOuts.
Boarding the mail carriers buck wa
ron Mt Parkersburg, this morning, set
out for the interior. l want this vehi-
Gle sent TO the Centennial. 1t seems to
me both novelty and a relic of rare in
terest, sort of four-wheeled mermaid OF
n wagon. having two seats in front and
"A very rude cart.bed in the rear for
freight. The propelling apparatus
consisting of bare-backed, bony
specimen of equine origin, coupled along
side long cared formation OF concen-
trated stu6bornness; but l always thinh a
mule excusablc for any shortcomings, rs
u man without country Is an object OF
pity. SO is an animal without neither
honorable pedigree nor hope OF Posterlty,
entitled - sympathy and much charity.
Well, we passed through great deal
of country-sometimcs over the surface,
sometimes through it, often well nigh
under it. / had been told that these
kanawha flats was hard country, but L
found it a very soft one-very soft, m
dcrd-so much 50 that the team went IN
TO their knees, the wagon to the axle and
the driver to his teucL bcSt OF profanity
By the way, TINS driver ought to go
with his entire zig TO Philadelphia next
wear. He is n rare fossil and would be
valuable in the study of human geology.
He talks much and always says some
thing. He remarked that the white SOIL
hercubouts was only fit to make roads OF,
and ought to all be manufactured INTO
turn pixies and scattered throughout the
State, and the red soil made into adj
hesive paint; and so would the country
be made TO Weld an income, II 1t con-
sumed it to do it, Won't the Legislature
take hold of this and make 1t State en-
terprise? This grass you see, SAID
Jehu, "is poverty grass, just as good IL
winter AS summer we nave
pasture all the time. Nothing ever
eats it at all. If a COW takes mp by
mistake it comes up roots and all, and
out of respect for the sacred soil, she
drops it.
Again. pointing to house we were
passing. "there," said he, elves n young
sprig that says he doesn't have to work,
AS he has u rich father-ln.law who Will
die soon and leave him money, and that 5
the way of it. II the old man has money
they Droy like the devil Tor him to die to
get what nc has. If he is poor they Pr"g,
IKE the dccI TO get him out OF the way
There's deal of truth in that profanity.
| find this AN exceedingly ho>pitabtc soil;
it sticks right to fellow-lndeed It's aiec-
ton becomes burdensome-about Tour
inches of it adhered to me to-day.
have found out where | am / see the
-"EHZubeth Hotel, Morris, proprie
tor TINS is where | AIN thawing out,
driving and scraping oil the hospitab!e
soil. From appearances, l think Morris
knows what he is doing-everythlng
looks so cheerful and inviting inside
while it is SO gloomy outside.
Elizabeth would be very neat, lively
little place if 1t dlnd't rain.
The people are all in town now play
ing County Court, and selling each
others lands for taxes
MIR. Wells, of the Writ county Mentor,
is kindly nursing me and am falling
in love with him, and no man can write
sense when in love. SALATHIEL.