The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-30
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An ExcIIing Scene and Terrible Racket
ON f0uEIeen'h and Market htreefH.
"Inthe Spring the Quilted Oyltsr can doth

An ExciIing seene ana Terrible Racket
ON FouEteenIh and Market EIreeiu.
"IRths Spring the Quilted Oyltsr can doth
Decorate the puP."-TtHHy.
INorE 10 RVADER;-Th,S article IL written up "a
me RsgiIis In lie most clHSliC and beautlillHtyA
Dogs, in thu opinion OF the city editor
Of this paper, were coeyai with man,
When the plague passed over Egypt, an
account OF which you can find In the Old
'Festament-hRlt the citizens Of the place
said: "Dog gone it!n Profanity was q
penal otien,sg In those days, the same as IT
now Is in Wheeling, and the Egyptians,
to avoid going up for thirty days, beat
around the bush in the form oil expression
as given above, Another proof OF the
antiquity Of dogs Ia shown on the pyra'
mids with their untranslatable hero
glyphiCs,,
Gent history that we can remember which
goes to show that there were empty oys.
Ter or tomato cans lying around In the
back alleys Of Thermopyin, HerCulaneum
Tyre, sidon or Pompeii, nor that the canaiH,
or "wharf rats" ever affixed them
with piece Of hempen rope, to the sooner
poodes which skunk around the vlcinage
Of the free lunch routes.
Were II not ior q lack Of space In this
issue we would descant at length on many
Of the dogs who will live in print when
the names oil now famous men shall have
been forgotten, and so we shall bring the
reader down to the present,
Yesterday, aCouple oil hours before the
curtains OF evening were spread, q re-
porter OF this paper was walking up Four
teenth street when he heard rafting
| like half gallon Of ten penny nails shook
up In 6 tin wash boiler, The source oil
the strange sound did not long remain q
mystery. On the horizon OF Uhapline
street appeared like y meteor, a puIereit
spaniel with two yards OF rope adhering
10 bis romance, at the 6nis Of which was
q well battered tin coffee pot. Down be
came pell'mell at the rats OF fourteen
knots an hour, the pot alternately beating
q TATTOO between telegraph poles and door
steps, and occasionally flying with super
human effort on to the back Of the canine
motor These occasional apurts OF the
coffee cooker were encouraging incentives
to the dog to put in his best ticks, and ia
| let bis canine caliope perform Wondroua
feats, The scene called out many OF our
best citizens In the neighbOrhood who
gudawedt intensely, with the exception
Of the peanut vender who merchandise
on PolloCk's flour mill corner. This ma.
tive oil sunny Germany, the birthplace Of
Schiller and Kaiser VIM. Schultz, happened
TO be taking in the fun when the dog shot
q 90 line straight across Tho street, and
making sudden turn toward the creek
bridge, bis Iudder-tho aforementioned
pot struck the lamppoSt and GSchelonedI
against the ahins oil the merchant IN Ten
nessee's isyoTite fIuit. Al this he welded
bsss note In some foreign Language add
with the curs highly resonant tenor the
combination oil sound could not ba said Ia
he unmusiCal, although IL must be con.
fessed that 1t was little wild and unClAa'
sical.
Down street tore the dog faster than the
one boss shay, and then juined in the
chase half q score OF other CANNES Of un
certain occupation. Along the whole
route he was greeted with not large, but
highly respectable audiences until q mis-
hap occurred In the pot running lts neck
into the handle OF a wheel barrow, and
thus was the glorious career Of this famous
dog cut unLlnsly short. lie now nurses
lacerated tail and the sudden termina
ton oil o glorious ambition to beat the hesI
time OH record.