The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-07-22

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bur1h Ge.ttk the other night about hall.
past lo O'Clock, on Snithheld street came
across q large, portly man Of . clerical
appearances, Who desired 10 know the To-
cstion Of the Western Union Telegraph
ofioe. The reporter told him to accom-.
n,ny him down to Fifth avenue and he
would show him the way. On the way
Sown street the clerical.looking indiyid.
mai remarked that he had been away
from home day or two longer than he
expected. The reporter suggested then
that perhaps he wished TO telegraph his
Whereabouts to relieve the minds Of his
friends. @Yes,p replied the clerical gen.
trieman, "pGrtly; and also want to cor
rect misstatement that has been pub
| lished about me in the Associated Press
telegralns from Philadelphia
AHA" though the reporter, "hete i
Somebody. out OF whom an item can be
obtained. He must be Somebody or
his name would not Be telegraphed all
over the eountsy,r However, Filth ave
nue. had been reached, and the item NJ
the lock.up must be Attended to hrst.
Accordingly the reporter directed the
clerical MIN 70 the Western Union once,
respecting 70 refurp in time to catch
him before he got through, and set from
him an explanation Of the limited item.
After : brief soiourn at the station
house, the reporter hurried back and was
! iustihquiring Of the "coTncr-man" ii he
had seen the gentleman repass, when the
man himself stepped up. The reporter
I immediately tackled him 10 know his
name and other particulars. HIS n4me, he
said, was Rev. D. LC-, otthe diocese Of
Wheeling. The matter which he desired
tocorrect vas garbled report Of an. in
tAryiew that young man in Philadel.
phia had held with him. II the reporter
would Be kind enough TO accompan!
him in search Of Mr.. McElroy, who, he
was informed; was the Associated Pres
Agent, he would explain the case As he
vent along. OF eourse the reporter, for
the sake Of the item, Was willing 10 60 to
] The Western Union Office, spd of they
started tosethGr Ga the way down
Fifth avenue Rev. D. L L. commenced
the explanation: He bad been inter
viewed while in Philadelphia to get his
views in regard to the ministry; the re-
port OF the interview, as published by
the Associated Press, had done . gross
injustice not to the ReT. D. L. C., but TO
the ministers, and hewanted it corrected.
Mr.. MeElroy couldn't be found al the
otice, so the reporter suggested that Rev.
Del. adjourn to The Gasdt6 othee and
give him the particulars. The clerical
gentleman thought the plan excellent, as
be could then see that the item was cor.
rec,ly written. In the counting room Of
the Office the reporter stopped and COM
menced writing the article on the counter.
Rev. C. kept suggesting the language TO
be nseI. but the reporter told him he
would tisst write the item and then let
him correct il. Alter ix pages we're
written the reporter read them 70 the
clerical gentleman. The latter listened
for two or three lines and then suggested
tha, the word conversation be tfsed for
'intervieR.r NO." the reporter replied,
sletit be As it is-you were evidently in.
tervjeVei By Philadelphia reporter"
AN right, then" answered Rev. e,
Elet that 50, but strike out my name. The
dispatches didn't say FiA rASa he iater-
ViieIr EaS ks-ls-
The reporter was dumbiounded. He
looked at the clerical cost in amAzenent,
at the clerical hat in assonishmept, al the
clerical collar and necktie in wonder, and
at the unclerically flushed face with sud
den conviction. The man was drink
steeped in Whisky-and all the yaluable
time the reporter had spent With him had
been thrown away. He was sold, but he
was also indignant and remarking that he
"would finish it up Stairs abruptly
Quilted the clerical fraud.
: He Afterwards learned that the man i:
actually entitled to the prefix HRev7 he
being Catholic priest, who is located in
the Diocese Of Wheeling, and operates
somewhere in the interior Of the State
Sill be vas drunk and the reporter sold