The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-08
A:sOutheEn Editors Visit TO

pear several lstlers from the pen Of It's
editor, Mr.. G. W. Harper, At present So
iourping with bis relatives in this city.
A. /. we'll known to many Of our readers,
Mr.H.ha Wheeling boy Tor was when
he wss 8 boyl, and "a far back IS 1887
helped to edit = little paper here called
the RGis, from which We have recently
quoted some old time "reminiscences.
Mr.. Harpsr's letters make mention of
many little local observations thatstruck
his fancy. We are at lOss, however, to
understand how, having once lived here,
he could ever write such paragraph as
this: -s
81 passed through the market buildings
here this morning. The display oifruis
and vegetables was surprising to me. The
vegetables are fully equal in siEe TO those
raised by our best gardeners in Mississt-
ippi, though from month 70 six weeks
later. The strawberries, onions, beets,
&C., are very large. How they are rails;
ed on the rock bound and iron girted
mountains which surround this town, u
= mystery TO me-
@Rock bound and iron girted noun
tains" is a phrase that will come under
the head Of news to people hersabOuts.
We have some hills that have good
ds,l NJ atom. in them-covered over with
rich lime stone soll-but THERON in them
i. mostly 3 matter Of Imagination, else
we would no. get our iron from Lake
Superior and Missouri. Mr.. q. should
not have go coon forgotten tae richness Of
soil for which this region is famous. It's
happy contrast with the vast gulch eaten
wastes Of Mississippi should have forever
kept thl. Characteristic in his mind.
His memory, however, may be failing,
and We therefore pass from this error Of
recollection TO come Of his other observa.
tons, and quote from them as follows:
They complain Of dull times and q
money pressure here, but | do not feel or
zee il. Everybody appears TO be over.
run With business. The streets are full
Of loaded dr.ys and wagons, the onni'
buses and carr full Of people, and an &C,
,iyity prevails at all the factories and
mills that IL glorious to see. Yesterday,
for instance, 3 glass factory here shipped
two car loads Of glass to San Francisco;
while nails, castings, paper, wagons
plows, &c, are seen leaving the city in all
directions, BY the many channels OF
Itesm communication, all Manufactured
hare. There is money in manufacturing
Ten times the money in manufacturing
that there is In agriculture. II we could
blend the two in Mississippi, what q
prosperous people We might become.
The impression is universal here that
the general shrinkage Of values and hard
times have about touched rock bottom,
and that with the splendid crops which
will be gathered in the fall, prosperity
will return TO the country throughout its
breadth, and that then will come an era
OF unprecedented business activity, and
OF unprecedented soundness. The readers
Of the GasatIe no doubt stand treathless
awaiting the tide.
Mr.. Harper paid visit to Thomas
HOrnbroOk's park few days ago, to
which he deyotes an interesting letter
dated June %. This letter he begins
with some "reminiscences Of early days
here, from which we quote as follows:
Between 40 and As years ago, when l
was boy, 3 gentleman resided about one
hundred yards from my fathers resi-
dence in this city named Hornbrook.
The children Of the neighborhood, myself
included, always passed his premises
with some trepidstion-snd because 1t
was known that he was an Englishuan,
that he was an eccentric mar, and that he
possessed some certain secrets which were
not known 10 others. Among the secrets
held by him, as then understood it, was
the manufacture Of eopperas, and his
long rough sheds, and tight enclosure,
devoted to the purpose, one hundred
yards from where an now hurriedly
writing this letter, are as vivid 10 my
mind to-day, a. they were IS years ago,
when 4 boy. Il was repeated among Us
boys then, that Mr.. Hornbrook was so
tenacious oihis premises and his secrets,
that he had declared, that in the whole
range OF the Universe, Marx Wilson was
the only individual that could be allowed
10 come within the square Of lotsin East
Wheeling that belonged to him; and it
was said, and We boys regarded the re-
mark a. quite irreyerent, that he often
declared, striking his fist upon the table,
that Marx Wilson could vi.lt bis grounds
IS often a. he wished, "but that Jesus
Chris, il upon earth should not come in n
So much for the elder Hornbrook, and
now for the work Of modern Horn
brook.
After this follows an account of ride
out the pike to Mr.. Thos. Hornbrook's
place and absorption GIFTS often written
familiar features. Mr.. Harper was, of
course, delighted with his visit as all
strangers are; and tells Of the notices that
he encountered in'driving through the
ground; praises Its beautiful walks and
drives; tell, how neat ard clean, attrac-
tive and lovely, he found everything, and
thinks that"the Eden Of our first parents
must have borne some resemblance to
this PARK"
NJ. Harper is quite a genial writer, and
his paper gives evidence of taste, ability
and prosperity.
The Belmont County Nationals.
The County Convention Of the National
party at St. Clair.ville on the 4th wa,
not very numerously attended, all parts
Of the County not being represented.