The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-29

,,ouud attending to business, and meets
ri. friends and neighbOrs on the streets
!, the same old fashioned and lively way
in which lie has met them. Nor is 1t true
,b,t he il S5 years old, and that his wife
i, mere lass Of girl. The facts are
that he is just 70 years Of age and she ia
int 4G, which is a very suitable age
Tbev are not as old by long way as
Abraham and Sarah were when they
commenced raising family, and there
fore we see nothing in the affair to call
far suy sensational comment on the part
oil the newspapers.
Manuscript Found in n Drawer.
The late Edgar Allen Poe wrote some
curious stories in his day, and among
them a story entitled "manuscript found
in a bottle" We we're about to head this
article with that caption to Poe'S story,
for on thinking over the subject matter
Of what we propose to relate it really
seems asifa bottle must have had great
deal to do with the concoction. There
was in all probability not only one bottle
ba. several connected with the writing,
losing, finding and publishing oil the "pri-
yate memoranda" that appears in the
Cincinnati Eaquirr OF Saturday last, in
the shape oi a letter from Columbus,
wherein is related some particulars oil a
visit to the Hon. David Wagner and The
Hon. Ross j. Alexander, at their homes
across the water, short time before the
meeting Of the Ohio legislature. ltseems
by the letter made public in the Enquirer,
that some time ago an electioneering
agent (some people would say an emis-
satyl was sent out from Lancaster, Ohio,
in the interest Of General Tom Ewing,
greenback candidate Tor the Uni
ted States Senate, whose mission 1t was
to go from county to county and feel the
various Democratic members elect
in the interest OF General Tom. NAtu'
rally, and we might say irresiStibly, he
came to Belmont, to see the mighty men
who had upset things there last fall and
redeemed not only the county but the
Senatorial district from Republican rep
resentation in The last legislature. II
was the custom in old times TO travel Il
good niece on foot, or on the back Of a
JnnLa, 10 .oa man of b.ro;o ,ch;.vo,
HO"Ae" " 'ee An,u " A'0.T "Nte''
ments-a custom that mas IN these latter
days degenerated into the practice OF
sending the donkey instead Of the man,
u,Il oro,,, no n,a.r,,o ,h.t Tho Han
~ n', a' S,."'' We P'e,a sue, se ~, M
DAVlu wagner anu the hon' hosS AieA'
ander, after reading the Enquirer's reye.
latious. would unite heartily in charac.
,.,;,;,. ,bo ;ndiv;dr,I vbo w.s ss,, =,
's''t,"S '"' ''.',.uuat ""O we o."s "
see them on behalf oil General EWING as
donkey Of the most approved Anda'
lusian pattern. Here is the memoranda
,h,, ,ho ..i, .,,;,..,, r,.d. f.na ,.;Io1
'"A, '"' 'a'1 s'oH W % ~
70 Destroy In regard 10 MS WISH 10 Ine
statesman Of West Wheeling and the phi
losopber and orator Of Bridgeport, For
N. snI;,b,.nmer, ~ Tho reader vs will
'"e ."s'" '. "a, ~ w "" NJ
explain 'hat n means Ewing, AN ZEN
dleion, and MN General Morgan;
BE1.Mosr-Dr. John Cook, great friend
Of Alexander, who nominated and sup.
ported him. Wagner believes Cook 10
be for Ewing. Wagner will, at an early
day, see DR.. Cook and learn his views.
Alexander declares he will vote for XX,
and, II he cannot get XX, he will vote for
X. lie will not vote for XXX in any
contingency, because OF his salary grab
and his refusal to vote for Vallandigham.
"a" said he would not vote for XX il any
person would show him that XX acted
cOrupily in the Kentucky Railroad mat.
ter-ieels most friendly toward Y. The
talk with "An was full and open, and
very friendly. When il was suggested to
him that we hoped matters might SO
shape themselves so that he could be
found fighting with us for Y on the frat
ballot, he smiled and half a4ented.
Wagner saws that II "A" don't vote for
Y hsc.r na,,a- axnact n anccaoJ in this
Oa,in,y Ss"i, ,n5 he jSy..rs,S ,h;nE.
"A" will yet vote for \ on the first ballot.
,hOng MSgnGr Is ,i1 an undonotea y In man, a., u,
word suscs.,;or u to- .mS ~" .ct G vars so conv;nciry
Of this Iact. He will see Dunlord on
ThGr'lGy, January Sd. He says II "Dan.
L lota promised, he lD2 wllI redeem his
5d not tS;nE u w"S H" S.oo..srv sU.S v ' ~ sss @
Sanford" as he thought he was all
right for \.
yTTranE frank Mckinney was over there ior
MN, Nn" nro VA 'e p,, man MR wnTrisu J "a IpV" e
sought to deceive Wagner n. 10 The mis-
sion of Mckinney, which to my mind
'PeIk' volumes as to rshO operated on a;
want. We vS can ascertain Mnat at. AIexanasi TOn
DAaiOrd and AIe1SStsr | will % reach Cal1m
bu, on January Sd, and Wagner will stoT
1.-THE Williams House, No. l2o NORTH
Tn.c,s.i a sHes.i 80 will william Johnson 3T% o. o.
yond ali hone. Ov Of rscoVerSLso y tSo saw % WsS
ner.
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