The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-14
This is the Fowl that wasFound
in the Register Counting
Room Last Night.
AFTER THE OPERA.
gaihering In the Fruits Of the Election
"A Tardy and Uncertain Harvest.

AFTER THE OPERA
Gathering In the Fruits Of the Election
"A Tardy and Uneertnin Harvest.
GATHERING Up THR FRAGMENTS.
There was little If any diminution in
the interest yesterday shown in this city,
concerning the result Of Tuesdays cleo
ton, from that manifested on the evening
of the contest Crowds OF excited and
eager epouirers hung round the newsps-
per and telegraph offices during the morn
| ing and afternoon, and some OF the search.
era after truth hardly took time to take in
their meals, 90 earnest was their quest Tor
Information. The result in the county, al
though pretty fully indicated by the IN:
TrTIIGIScEgs report OF Wednesday, had
snongh elements Of uncertainty about il
| TO make good many candidates ana thelf
friends still hope for possible success on
the one hand, aud mistrust apparent VIC
tory on the other, and waiting Tor the con-
tirma,ion Of theSrepOrts from Indiana
Ohio and the interior OF this State, they
spent the day 10 exploring every possible;
avenue OF information, and making all
binds Of estimates ON the facts in hand.
MI '7HE WEARY COUNTESS.
Additional reports from the city pre-
cipcts cane in slowly. After the full
davis work Of Tuesday and the protracted
sitting Of Tuesday night, the judges and
clerks. as a rule, were Jagged out and in
disposed to rapid exertion. Like Mariana,
ain the moated grange" they said, Il am
axesTy, aweary," and wished they we're
In he'd or some other safer retreat where
The VOICE ofthe reporter. the candidate aud
The telephone fend could not reach their
dropping and respondent esrs.
In the afternoon some OF them
"sonssIed'' outright, and despite the howl
n, a mi count, laid down their pens and
abandoned the field for the time being.
This was the case in Madison district,
where neither camphor, srnica, nor all the
enliyeuing syTups Of the drug stores could
iiyen M The force OF accountants 10 the
extent Of inducing them TO complete the
i0b without going over another day. Like
he how who got licked and yelled they
aid. thew were no gluttons, they knew
when they had enough and II it was
he last act OF their official lives they pro.
posed TO pull the drsperies oil their re-
spective couches around them, ana ne
down TO countin dreams. Unfortunately
they failed to leave any record oil their
work up to the moment when they were
oyertaEen by the balniy, accessible and q
reporter who woke one Of the clerks up
and searched him for q single cold fact re-
earlingthe case, was told that there was
nothiug extant, and would not be until
to-day. 49,
had a msiority Of 100 over Brown in the
Sh.rifallv contest when the count on this
district closed, but it could not be traced
10 any reliable source. } n
The Webster District judges OF election
got through with the count but untor'
tnnately got into o dispute concerning
five votes alleged to have been improperly
nlaced 10 the credit OF candidate for q
SCHOOL commissionership, and being IN.
able 10 settle II sent for Sheriff Tingle and
banded over the box and tally sheets
without announcing the result II was
understood from reliable sources that the
CONT AZ completed showed that II the
entire vote Of the District Sturgtss got OH
and Jackson $40, and these figures accord
inOly appear in the table OF results up to
tbis morning, which appears in this days
issue- The came authority placed the ma
jori,ies Of Brown and Phillips, Democratic
candidates respectively. for Sheriff and
CITY Assessor, at l4s and ~, and gave the
average Democratic maIorlties in this Dis
trict on the balance OF the State and coun'
~ ticket as ranging from 100 to l27:
The clerks in Clay, Union and Wash
.jpgton Districts continued the count alter
their brethren had fallen by the way, and
waiting their conclusions the reporters
tackled every body within reach for opin'
ions.
"what do you think about it Uncle
John y, said our little lad as be laid his in
nocept hand on Uncle John Boriug's
coat.tails and staid him in his flight.
"well sir, Uncle John turning his SOL
ann ewes on the questioner and only
long enough to paste a tly on the
floor with de1terous expectoration, THAT
Ipieany news is bad. ! don't keer 80 much
for Ohio, that's q radikel State. Ennyway
Won tix Il, but Injeany art to gone Demo-
crat and believe she hez:"
Leaving the veteran believer the Com.
missioner found Counsellor John Hanson
Good fresh from oratorical Iourneyings. |
at looks bilious" remarked the Conn.
'e' ~ think we will get the whole county
ticket, anyhow" said Elbridge Gerry
CTacrAft .! ~. ha n. .si
~ am going to wait ill ! hear from Joe
NrilisT;s brother in Indianapolis" ex.
nisinsd Attorney.G GENERAL White.
'"You'ye scooped US Colonel, was the
romoTebepsiye admission ei the Leuten'
There were other similar statements va
wing from the consoIStoTy 10 the pathet-
d. bl, the foregoing will convey pretty
an idea OF the Democratic feeling yester'
ian afternoon. Republican expressions
II qualification were tempered by the iots
II several places on the county ticket
which they had hoped TO win, but their
remarks indicated great serenity Of lem
per over the general situation, and their
were too numerous 10
As Tor the Greenbarkers they showed
he faith that WAS in them by declining 70
bank on the FACTS in hand, aud insisting
hat new issue must be waited for, s I. |.
"Wait Till you hear from them back
young man, said Col. Green