The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-07-17

make the evening gay with laughter,
merriment and joke. There IS also q nae
croquet ground IN connection with the
ten pins; SO You see we are at no Ioss tor
amusements.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Walton and child left
here the morning after we arrived, much
improved in health and spirits for their
short sojourn.
Aurora is beautiful name, and I sup
nose the man who named the place had
been reading the poet where he speaks OF
"Aurora standing all a.tip.toe ON the
misty mountain tops" The inhabitants
are mostly farmers, though stores and
doctor shops also abound, and there is
glove factory, which at one time did very
WELL but owing to hard times, scarcity OF
money, ETC., it is having dull season-a
season of rest, as it were; it pines tor
something to do. The mountains here
are about 300 feet abovethe level OF the
sea. From some evations hereabouts one
can see for miles and miles away. The
scenery is of that quiet, beautiful, peace
full nature which suits the inoftensive
soul, prone to soothing influences, but has
nothing in it calculated to arouse sense
of the grand, the stupenduous, or the
mighty, as have the Rocky and the AL
pine Mountains. There are no lofty
peaks here, lifting their snow-capped
heads up, up into the everlasting heavens,
leaving an impression on the Almighty
power that created them. There are no
rupped rocky cliffs here, rising, one
higher than another, like church spires
built by God himself. There are no MARI
row mountain passes, with abrupt walls
rising thousands of feet high on either
side. There are none of these, but In
stead, a succession of undulating knobs,
green and fresh and beautifully calm. 1t
is worth trip to come and see them, AID
l am glad am here. The principle game
of these mountains are squirrels, rabbits,
pheasants and quails. Now and then q
deer strays this way, but very seldom,
and occasionally bear is caught. Rattle
snakes are very plenty in some localities.
Our hack driver told us he had shot into
q bunch of rattlesnakes as big around
as barrel, and in running to get away
from them he stepped over four or ffve
others. He said the reason he had to
run after he shot was, the smell OF
snakes after they are shot is so over
towering that ne was afraid it would kill
him. He SAID upon one occasion he was
50 overpowered by the smell, he could
scarcely get away. Our hack driver was
an "honorable man." Concerning other
wild animals and reptiles we have lot
been informed, but on that account sup.
pose they must be very scarce.
Politics are as quiet and serene as
May morning. There seems sto be no
enthusiasm on either side-no stalking
politics" l suppose the majority of
them will vote for Tilden and Hendricks,
although they are not satisfied with the
nominations in some respect. They
are nearly all now satisfied with the
capital removal, although many were
opposed to it at first, l heard man say
he was opposed to it at first, but now he
should always vote that it remain at
Wheeling, no matter what other place
might be named as place of removal,
and he didn't believe there were twenty
men IN the county with sentiments diff
fering from his. Thus you see that pos
session is "nine points" The intelligence
OF the people in these mountains is
something one wouldn't look for. consid-
ering the rugged manner in which they
live. The city exquisite who picks a
mountalncer up for fool or an ignora.
mus will find his watery brain floating
around in connundrums of philosophy
and science he hadn't thought
Of. But the above will hold
good of most country neighborhoods
have always found it safest among
the rural classes to let them lead in con-
versation. The countryman reads much
more understandingly than the city man,
for obvious reasons. He doesn't have so
much TO read; he is free from the noise
and hubbub of the city, and, above all, he
has not the annoying public to distract
his nerves and attention that the business
man has. Calmly he reads his paper, or
Bible, or book of science; quietly he d.
gests the facts and principles, and when
the city lad attacks him, this quiet gen.
tleman, quietly and in self-possessed
manner, makes him wish he were an
angel or had never been born.
Tomorrow we contemplate taking
squirrel hunt, and If we should kill q
deer, We will bring you the horns:
Pm.