The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-26

gust and will probably mol get through
for month, TO come. They have over
900 claims to adIudicate judicially and
finally as there ia no appeal from their
decision. After they shall have settled
the question Of titles, there Is NO doubt
that Hot Springs viii speedily become q
different place from what 1t is now. Pa
latial residences and hotels will be built
on top Of these mountains where visitors
will breathe pure air, instead Of being
cooped up as they now are in this valley,
and to and from which they will be con.
yeyed by incline railways. Halfthe battle
for some inyalids will be The. breathing Of
this mountain air, especially on day
like this, during which IT has rained in
torrents almost unceasingly since morn.
ing. The town tonight Is simply ditch.
The water streams down from the noun
tain on the west side into the solitary
street that divides the parallel row Of
shanties that constitutes the business
portion Of the town, and this street Is a
mortar bed through which mules and
steers diminutiye drag their slow lengths
along. Underneath the shantiss on the
east side Of this mortar bed runs hot
Springs Creek, which is the sewer for all
the wastage, offaI and filth Of said shan
ties. But for these heavy rains the place
would in warm weather stink like a cess.
pool.
The mos! primitive institution in this
place (which is the county seat Of Gar
land county ia the. Jail, which looks
for all the world like the tall, home made
tobacco cribs one sees along the Central
Ohio road. Gen. Kelly and I were in
that part Of the town the other day, and
thought we would inspectit. Iii sur
rounded by board fsnce-one length OF
boards,-and there Is stairway outside
Of the Jail by which you go up to the top
Of the buildings log building say 10
feet square and 40 feet high, through this
door at the top otthe stairs prisoners are
taken and let down in the inside by means
Of ladder, which is drawn up again as
soon as the prisoner touches the floor.
The Court House is on par with the
jail, and looks like a campaign political
wigwam, having a few benches for spec
tators and a rostrum for the Court As
nobody is ever hung in Arkansas, the
machinery necessary for confinement and
trial need not be complicated, and 1t is
here reduced to It's simplest terms.
Speaking Of hanging. fireplace is on tip
toe Of expectation to-day, with its ears
cooked to hear the report of the familiar
pistol, in consequence Of quarrel
through the newspapers Of two rival bath
house men. We were favored yesterday
with one Of Arkansas' exciting amuse.
mehts in the shape Of Cock Main"
Chicken aghD in the spark" at the north
end Of the town, and to-day visitors are
speculating on the probability Of seeing
some gore split by an exchange of shots
between the bath house men. The sun,
however, has gone down without witness.
ing tragedy, and we are compelled to
await the events Of tomorrow.
PERSONAL.
Among the people l have met here is a
venerable stage contractor named Chi
dester, who used to live in Wheeling In
the palmy days OF the National Road and
Good Intent lines Of stages. He was a
runner for the Good Intent line and has
many remembrances Of old John Foster,
Henry Moore, and other men Of his day
in Wheeling. de is still in the stage
business, and is running lines across from
Texas to San Diego, California.
Mr.. W. L. Hearne, Of Wheeling, ar.
rived here this morning, and expects to
stop a week or ten days. Thomas Horn
brook is expected tomorrow, and Gen.
Kelly received word to-day that Mr..
Allen Howell and one or two members Of
his family will leave Wheeling for this
place about the lat Of March: G.