The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-12-02

.,.,,.. Ride From Wheeling
NE Flush Times Of 1868 Con-
lh,ei With the Present
Compliments 10 ParheESDuFg
sailors Another hailFOhd
Needed.
.,,,aa .c1t ai the Cincinnati Commercial
lin, into Parkersburg after u
l.I' night ride from Wheeling, |
"' t, wa. not in humOr to look at
g ,!, IN yrry cheerful light. Perhaps
'a,1, the gloomy, sunless day, perhaps
y wa VIII wind sweeping sharply round
Wv and blowing the dust in our
ns'j had something to do with it; but
g" Pafkersburg seemed particular
JIrlI Viewed in any light it can
,. "r be called lively town just now.
f. Sc, there are but comparatively few
w. G, ,' NJ five or Fix thousand inhabitants
pa'S.ralIa! lively at the present time.
I n'.;r, the brisk times Of 1865 and 1866,
g .t.n ,hroil excitement ragged, and peo-
'.. b,camc wealthy almost in a.
F "a, ,bcr seemed prospect that the
r,,s would soon become a city OF the
',,l,... and although she has failed to
'.,Ii5, the .pcndid vision then formed Of
t., iumrc. .hr has yet steadily moved
TN" %,s,rl in population and wealth. Par
Ga,.barg hi. good advantages Of manu-
',rmrips, but her citizens do claim that
.s ba. 100 mauy old iogies. Her manu-
,,,griog advantages ought to be deyel.
" ned aad then a subscription taken
Ur 6r.tClass hearsG employed by the
,gar and a corporaI's guard detailed to
blY ihcoId fogie'.
II B9t ParEcr4burg has some citizens that
Make ND ior a good many old iogies; and
S,.r and foremost there is the editor Of
Is T.mu, Brother DrahOsh, as his breth-
,[ooi the press always call him. Brother
i,t,ho.h edits a kind Of Cincinnati Com.
s,,t,ol on a small scale. lie is small, Is
foreigner, and don't suppose he has
ever been rich, or even in very comiorta-
br circumstanccs, since he came to this
country. But, although small in size, he |
i, aggressive; aggressive against the
sronr always. There Is no sort Of u
cheat or a swindle, or an imposition,
that Brother Drahosh does not charge |
With his pen. Always liberal, always in.
Jspendenl, he looks closely after the ma
IsfiaI prosperity Of the State, and always
Ia. word Of encouragement for enter
pf,c. | an not sure that his fellOw.citi.
Zen. recognize his good qualities, or, at all
eycn,., that they appreciate him. But he
/, one Of those men who arc never fully |
esteemed among their fellOw.men until
they haze lived their lives Of usefulness
and pa.eiaway.
Then there is Ex-Governor Stevenson,
Of the State Journal, lie Is live enough |
bfa dozen men, and can make sharper
thrust. and slashes with that pen Of his
than any other man in the State,
The Little Kanawha Is being locked
and damned, the latter principally since
the recent rise, On the night Of the flood
A. 10 o'clock the river was at its usual
height At . o'clock u tremendous flood
vg slrging through the banks Of the
stream. Boats, RATS, and even houses
we're carried out into the Ohio. The
Smith Bridge Company had up the sup.
porting ,rcstle and even u portion Of the
ies iron bridge across the mouth Of the
KanawIa. 1t was swept away, A few
miles further up the river stood the first
lock .and dam. The waters could not |
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