The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-12-31
zz5@1PIIsHED AUGUST "a. 1852.


MA have elsewhere a'"' 20, 90 10
We I1 20, N, local features OF lssl as re-
review 70 business I's interests Of this region
T'h Tu,,, \, To the country and the world
.ry / will not, We presume, p,n0sab1a ITv veDr S%
. T it, was rather remarkable .,,,s, ior It's severe YER,
lia. ,.. ae,,brr and for an unusually pro-
winter winter '.a,@ s,.on ibcat and drou'h' Aud
f''sp 4, roaId seem by table recently
%55s.hc % in our columns there. there have 1S, been been
.. pla much more remarkable Tor long
l..,,,,a. y'a,' s' oi niulc4 weather Still it was
=. s,I'" ,Ss r,,pqct, indicated an unusual year
a,1 n 'n' ,bs he, winters severity aud the droath
So,p ss,a, a., oi thc summer and fall prevailed
'lp 1Sa' arbole United States Even in the
'.ms ',s, ~', soutI snow fell and tropical fruits
''u'' .' lro,,n, and everywhere the subse'
,p,pt AMEN irouth was experienced >,
'',s' And yet while the crops were onrtailed
IN hlsl and while the heat ana 'ne uroum
united pG,i ia an unusual amount of sickness
4 nalartal character, still the year has
w., ncoi general prosperity and very
S..,5J s business activity. 1t will pass
,.,agi,tory asthc year in which, up to this
s~s sS ,be largest mileage OF railroads has
s s'..bnilt and the greatest area OF virgin
,aooeped to cultivation. 1t will also be
lawn 4, tire year that surpassed all pre-
i.,,..on in the matter OF foreign immlgra'
~. IN opr shores. The first half OF 1t also
IN be known for large importations ot
IA and in financial way the whole
4 4 will be remembered rs n year oil
,,,s, plethonl in the volume OF money
T,betpr tIp ease, it follows without say
;,,,b,,it will be remembered as u year OF
,j.rJlel advance in prices. All in all, it
hur one Of the good years OF the coun'
,r,h,,oy 50 fur rs material prosperity Is
Ssaroel. At no time before were the
0A,ae the United States more uniVers'
,ltpspcrou At no previous time was
lb,,s wider distribution Of the blessings
dhdustry peace and good government,
There were dark days in lSsl-days that
vll bnyg be historically dark in our his
br. One Of the ioulest crimes in tho
annals oitime was rommitted-a crime that
brought not only grief and Indignation but
,h,as tocvery American household. The
en,e Of superiority that Americans have
bSn taught to cherish for their free insti'
ttions was greatly humiliated by the fatal
Hov Of the assassin who wounded the
Whole nation in the person OF Its Chief
lliISntc. And this humiliation has
bsn kept alive and intensified by the
ssnes connected with the trial at Wash.
ngOu, So that the cry Of the people has
pac up from all parts Of the land, "how
lSrg shall this shame be Haunted in our
he before the eyes Of the world% The
whole country waits with, impatienCc for
isoVn vindication through verdict that
Allorycr put out Of sight the shameless
rA.ur who seeks to turn his crime into u
atay Jest.
What otthc New Year now before usH
l@nes to us like all the years that have
'plel beyond the flood" us a sealed
Gat Day by day we are to open page.
", cannot anticipate so much as page.
Abhll itho issues Of life and death to
VT numbers. "The lot is cast into the
b" tuaIl Of us, but who shall tell any Of
adlhe drawing thereof that is so soon to
bhpar,
'E,hIi a lyttr what life and death may hapH
Ilhni yar what ruin brool and spOll2
lh HlO Until the event, with whatsO Toll
uahlhl his harvest safe nor overlap
Hl6anup the future, day by day.