The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-14
Nasty.
Mr.. Nasty Takes a Little rurn Through
Ohio and Reports,

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ern part Nv the State, for that 'possel Nv
Unlimited meney, that harbinser Nv good
times Genl Ewing. I wish / wuz back in
in the Corners, and shell git there jist ez
soon ex the sentral Conn titty lets me
lceve this most thorough. discouragin
kentry.
Ef the rest Nv the States is anything like
this seckshun, Ohio is Como up. Room is
before Ohio, and the State is driven full
tilt onto it.
/ met with no success at all, which wuz
not my fault, ez the %condishins are again
me. l wuz never so disappointed in nv
life, and hope never to be 81 agin.
expected to find a people ready TO re.
ceive Dlmecratic doctrine. l expected to
find a distrest kentty filled with farmers
bemoanin the hard times, and mechanics
layin idle, with Their families Slaryin. i
expected to find q shoelis, hatlis, coatlis
community Nv serts, witch he'd bin ground
down by the money power till they wood
be willin 10 receive any promise NV a
change with Joy and gladniS l expected
to see factris silent and farms desertid,
shops shet up and only nashnetbanks and
SIGH open. expected to find pale men,
weak.eyed with hunger, and pale.faced,
despaiFin women, starvin theirselyes that
they mite keep life into their angel babes.
/ he'd bin reedin Oimecratic papers, VOC
see, about the people bein ground under
foot, and I hied me to Ohio, with the most
joyous antissipashens.
When | struck p%ettusville it occurred to
ME that | must hey got into the wrong 10.
Cality. larriyed in the mite, and | notist
the landlord NV the hotel weighed suthin
over two numbered, and his vile wuz suth.
in heavier, but that didn' affect me. In
all strikly Dimecratic localities, landlords
git fat, no matter who else grows lear, wich
they generally do. turned in and Rugged
the idee TO my buznm that l shood hev
easy work ia. do at that place.
The fust thing | nOtist in the mornin
wuH a string Nv teens a mile long, more
or less, waitin to onloAd wheat at the
warehouse on the ralerode. Tho men
onto the loads wuz ez hale and harty a set
Nv fellers ez l ever seed. They wuZ betty
specimens, and lookt ez tho the he'd he'd
three square meals a day all their lives.
To my horror | noticed that the shops
WIZ all open and the mechanics all very
hard at work, and that the three factories
in the town he'd torrents Nv smoke a bilin
out of their chimneys.
Bein entirely shoor that ! he'd bin sent
to the right place in spite OF these dig
couraginappearauces, / approached a farm.
er-wich had sold bis load and wuz lust
agoin into a bank with his wife.
HlT,, Rr;anI - un;I 7 III.
NV the money powerw
"Wat!" wuz his reply, lookin ez tho he
thot | wuz a escaped loOnatic.
"Ioo are O serf, a bOndman and are held
in the iron grip Nv the bloatid bondhold.
ers, witch is a slueezin the life blood out
NV yoo."
as they?" said he. az never thought
NV that. But ! kin beet 'em. | really
haven't time to discuss the matter, fol,
700 see, Pm goin to be a bonded bloat.
holder myself. l hey jist sold my wheat,
and I'm list goin in to buy a bond or two.
| want to be a aristOcracv myself awhile
And he eloodid me, leayin a button in
my hand.
Repeatin the same remark to another,
he merely remarkt, 80, git out, 700 ass!
Wheat 20 bushelssto the acre and a dollar
a bushel, gold. l want a great many years
more Nv this kind Nv room. Where 700
frum, anyway"
Abandonin the farmers in disgust, for
rot the same answer from all Nv EN-, l at
tempted to git in my work on the distrest
mechanics which must have bin rooined
by resumpsheu, but my success wuzn't
any better. l don't know but l Good hey
convinst EN- that they wuza all rooned ef ]
he'd he'd a fair show, but the alarmin FACT
wuz they WIZ all too bizzy to listen 10 me,
for it happened 10 be pay day. Every
man Nv EN- went out Nv the offs with hi:
money in full, and every man Nv en- dc,
cIined 10 hear a word | sed.
1t wuZ in ane l urged that they wua
serts, it Wuz in yane that L told EN- they
wuz bein ground into the dust BY the ma
shnel banks, il wux In Vaue ! told,emTe
sumption wood be their room, for every
cussid one OF EN- fled past me and wen
and depositid their spare earnings in ONT
Nv these cussid octopusses, the nashne
bank nv the place.
! can't understand what Ewing sent mi
to SIGH 4 place fur, andI t~elegraphed him
The Dimecratic Central Qommitty anscr
ed:
"Hold onlawhile. A heavy frost MAJ
come in August and kill the corn, and fetcl
en- 10 their senses, Thenthey will knew
what Sherman has done for EN-. SuthiI
must be left to Providence" a0-
And so AM sittin In the tavern, watch
ing the thermometer. 1t is corn kentry
and the farmers depend upon that Gr6I
for the heft OF their profits. FL the LORI
wood only take pity on the Dimocrisy ant
send a heavy frost, a regular black frost
this month, l shood hey some show. II
wood derange things and tear up mstter
to SIGH an extent that it wood give US
chance. But then the wheat crop was s.
heavy that I'm not shoor that even TIL
totle ~destrucshen nv the corn crop wool
J save us. The hog cholera can't come sooI
enuT, and ez for cattle, horses, I never seet
EN- so disgusttnly healthy.
' Still, shell sit and watch the thermome
/. ter and Cuss John Sherman, ez the Contra
Committy direx. 1t is possible that som
distress may come upon the kentrV hefor
October, tho RELY ] see no encurridgil
signs.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
Distrest Finanseer.
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The Late Bishop Edward n. Amcs.
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