The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-07

Salathicl Sloshes Around I'm the City
or BrotherIy Love-His Patriotic
Feelings Overpower Him, and Make
Him Weep-Whereupon He Eats
Dozen Oysters and Starts for
Home.
PHILADELPHIA, March 2.
Editors Of the Register.
forgot to say in my last that my pa.
tient who had q cancer hewed out Of his
lip is better. The surgeon allowed him
to carry his lip around with US yesterday
seeing the sights, and will let US go home
this evening.
Having our patriotism all squelched
out with the mud and slush of Fairmont
Park, we determined to do something be-.
fore leaving the city of brotherly love to
reooganize and revive our Centennial
spirits. We first let out contracts to the
lowest responsible bidder tor digging our
boots out of that Centennial mud. My
contractor was chap from Erin. 1t
was evident from his manner that he
thought his ten cent bid too low, He
was equally spsrng of his muscle and
blacking, snd when at last, scolding and
coaxing alike failing to affect him, in
desperation seized his brush and myself
slashed on liberal supply of
backing, he stared at me in utter amaze
ment and blurted out, "Sure and wud
yes have me put Oh the whole bo1|
An Irishman is an 1rishman from the
boy up, the world over, and like apart
ridge he is able to take care of No. /. as
soon as he's out of the shell. Well, at
last, we could see ourselves rs others see
us, in our boots, and proceeding down
Chestnut street. we turned up narrow
alley and were now in Old Carpenters
Hall. where the assembly met in IVA.
Here p. Henry chewed his hill side navy,
smoked his Wheeling stogies and spit all
over the floor, while he wrote up those
grand old patriotic, extempore speeches
we read about. Here T. Jefferson;J.
Hancock and their gritty "pards' put up
that first notable job OF American sece'-
sion. They say they did spread it on
strong about then in this Identical
rancho, but can't see as they hurt the
house much. 1t seems in good order
vet and looks much like high school
building of a West Virginia town.
see on the walls in glass frames heap
of old letters, signed by the names of the
rebellious larks referred to, but can
find you plenty OF letters written by
modern lawyers just as curious and hard
to read
Wenext went to Independence Hall.
There's where George w. was inaugural
ed and where the first American Congress
met, but what Of it. We couldn't sec
anything in that. Why shouldn't they
meet here? They were an independent
set of fellows, and regard IL as highly
appropriate for them to meet IN lndepen-
dence Hall.
And here is the old bell, swung on its
old rickety log pen, with iron pailiags
around it to keep it from getting away.
That old historic, patriotic bell.
Whose pictures put on things TO make
'em Sell.
And it's cracked, too Whata pity!
o, how the sight of it carries memory
back, back, back through the corridors of
time, to the old farm house. Our old
dinner bell was cracked, too, just like it.
The same that inspired my poyish appe-
tite, as with It's tri daily recurring ke-link,
Ike link. ke-link, it called us to our mush,
pork and homny-snd would you be-
lieve it, while | stood there gazing
with wrapt interest on that honored old
relic, before l could comprehend the
depth OF my emotions, 1 was shedding
copous, gushing tears, weeping and
wailing in memsry of that time-honored,
dear, blessed old, cd - dinner bell
you see | WAS hungry, anc IN silence
we went out and took two dozen stewed
and the train for home.
SALATHIEL.