Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-14
CHICAGO.
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Melange from the Queen City
of the Northwest.


CHICAGO, LII, Oct. 9.-All hail to the
glorions month of October Though
fashions votaries may forsake the coun-
try, yet full of all thy charms Of air and
sky, we will ever seek the yet shady
lanes, the thicket, and the little runs, SO
lovely with thy presence.
'The corn is cut, the manor full OF game ;
The pointer ranges and the sportsman beats
In TlSset jacket lynN-like his aim.
Fun grows his bag and wonderful his lcaiS.
Oh, nut brown parlridgen on, brilliant phcdA-
ants ~
This, the most lovely month Of the
year, is but little appreciated by our in
door living Americans. During the hot
season, those who can leave our streets
and incommode themselves at the bchest
of so-caled society, by spending six or
eight weeks at some crowded hotel on
the seashore, or at the springs. Again,
the tickle dame calls upon her train, and
at the beginning of our most lovely
month, they hasten 10 immure them
selves once more within the walls OF
bricks and stone. The sportsman is al
most the only one OF all our people who
seizes the chance and finds enjoyment in
the russet-coored month. To him only
is given the delight OF beholding all the
varied beauties OF nature at this season.
Mother earth has yielded her crops to
the labor OF the husbandman, and is
resting herself preparatory to her win
ter's slumbcr. The air and skies are
rare, with n delicious haze, which rolls
scroll-like away before the ardent beams
of the sun. The early frosts have given
a sparkle like the life OF ireshly-made
wine to the air we breathe, and lungs eX-
pand and play under the stimulus with
increased vigOr. The step Is more
springy, the body more elastic and the
brain more active under the inyigora-
ting breezes OF loved October
CnICAGo's BOOM.
The grand revival OF business is the
theme OF every tongue, and the cause oi
heartfelt rejoicing all over the land.
Chicago has felt the impulse, and re-
bounded from the dull times with mar
velous force, and is now booming ahead
with a swiftness that is leaving 1t. Louis
and Cincinnati and our other suburbs
far behind. The sidewalks are jammed
with hurrving crowds, and the streets
ave blocked up with wagons and mcr-
chandiSc on the way To docks and dcpots.
The net work of railroads Crnterlng here
has been taxed to the utmost 10 convey
the multitude from east, west, north and
south, Hooking in here for business and
pleasure. 1t is one OF the pccuiarltics OF
good times that the people in the little
towns and villages flock into the cities to
make purchases and to spend their
money and see the gay sights; and what
city offers them such inducements as
Chicago They never tire OF watching
the crowded trains coming and going,
and thel fleets OF vessels that jam up the
river and whiten the vast eXpansc OF
Lake Michigan with their sails morning
and night; visiting the stores piled up
with attractive goods; OF traycrSing that
great bazar, the Exposition, with It's
suberb art gallery and its diversified dis
play of the products of our industy and
the articles we have TO barter; Of riding
out to our beautiful parks in their au-
tumn foliage, and along our bOulevards
and charming lake drives; OF s0jOurning
in our mammoth hotels, where they
meet people from all parts OF the world,
and are sure to find their Sisters. their
cousins and their aunts;' OF crOwdlng
our theaters and concert halls; and oi
wandering through our busy streets,
watching their scenes and incidents, lay
ing up store Of interesting gossip 10
tell the children and the old folks when
they % home about the curious life OF
the great city.
There is no sign that this will let up
for some monts yet. soon the opera sea-
son will set in, and still more pilgrims
will come to listen TO the great artistes OF
song.
WHEN GENERAL GRANT AERIvEs
t. see his old comraje Of the Tennessee
army in November, he will meet with
such a reception As he has never yet had,
and Chicago will array herself in all the
glories OF military pageantrv. On the
evening OF the 18th OF November, the
general arrives, Mayor Harrison will de-
liver an address OF welcome on behalf Oi
the city, Hon. f. 3. Washbourne in be-
half OF the people Of the state Of Hi
nois, and response by General sherman.
Then will follow an Grafton 10y General
Gresham, a PRAYER 10y DR.. Thomas.
poem by Professor Swing, the celebrated
minister, songs, camp scenes, drum taps,
bugle calls and imprOmptu speeches.
The political bummers and blather sixties
who chiefly comprise the grand ring, are
doing as much as they can 10 work up
boom for their chief here. They will
gather in considerable numbers here
when he arrives, which, by consequence,
will present much the same spectacle
that would be witnessed at Washington,
should the programme OF the Grant ring
! be carried ont successfully. The spec
tace al Washington. upon the Inaugural
| ton Of the third-termer, would present
| a great crowd OF noisy, deep-drinking,
| turbulent swashbuCklers, whisky ring-
sters, revenue swindlers, defaulting post
masters, and lobby agents, returned to
! glorify their old patron and protector,
and to again offer him their assistance
| in the public administration. Besides
Grant as a show and Grant as an adver-
tisement, he will be on exhibition as an
oriental prince. Everybody knows from