The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-29

imports the telephone wires, now lnCtpr
luced into New Cumberland, and practic-
lily giving it Geographic communication
With The world, The time was when q dis
patch needed more time to cross the river
Il Cumberland than to cross the Atlantic
ocean and reach Wheeling. This delay Is
now happily done away with, and the good
people up there are en- rapport with the rest
II the world, What they do sadly need as
vet is a railroad, and it is wonder, con-
,idering the shoFtness OF the distance to the
line Of the p, G, & St L, or to the junction
at steubenville bridge, and considering
also the growing Importance Of New Cum
berland, that such public spirited men as
Mr.. B. j. Smith do not summon some OF
the resolution Of Dickens famous AIH.
Chick and "make an effort" Nature has
done s0 much for New Cumberland that
the people seem TO have been educated in
10 large dependence on her.
The Presbyterian character OF the Han.
cock people Is shown by the fact that they
had an invocation at the opening and close
OF the friedrich festiyity. We had a seat
next the Rev, Mr.. Greer, who has grown
gray in his long service up there, and who
with his large tace, pOrtly person, and gray
side whiskers, resembles not little ex.
Governor Morgan, Of New York, The
speech that bewFayeth u man-even ma
tive bOrn-tOld Of tho land Of John Knox.
SandwiChed between the good parson and
Mr.. Sherrard listened to discussion OF
tho affairs Of Washington (Pa.) College,
and heard the name Of Rev. j, ID. MOAet,
OF Wheeling, suggested as u possible SUE.
cessor to DR., Hayes in the presidency Of
the institution, Both Complimented him
as a strong, growing and rising man in the
church. 4
Tho Town Hall Is the whole OF the sec.
ond story Ofthe Union school building, 1t
has u prosCenium, and "methinks, good
masters, there be players here" and yet
who has heard Of u case Of discipline at
New Cumberland There were five long
tables, and the people were closely seated,
ladies' and gentlemen filling the first two,
The dinner was most satisfactorily served.
There he "hNlf-breeds," both In color and
politics at New Cumberland, and they did
their duty well, The coffee was hot and
golden, the pitcher kept well replenishGd,
and the oysters, both stewed and fried,
were good Tor the time OF year. Tho biscuit
were Of the good old.fashioned sort, well
raised and well shortened. All the meats
were we'll cooked, AT the wind.up came
cream, cake and ConieCtloneries in
abundance. Tho dinner was voted sue.
cess,
AS the viands were discussed the band
dscoursed It's orchestral masterpieces
md waltzes | could but notice that the
hands Of some Of the ladies (who never
dance, Of course kept time on the tables.
Excepting time, time, time
In sort Of Ruhig rymG
To the Naturalization that 50 unsteady Swels."
from the CadenCes OF the orchestra, and !
thought 1t almost pity that the tables
could not have been cleared and little bit
Of a dance INDUCED in. But perhaps the
Erie case was too fresh in all their rGmem.
branCes for that.
The dinner ended, Col. B. j. Smith, the
Captaln.General Of the day, and the Prcsi.
dent OF the Association, came TO tho front.
When the writer hereof first knew Smith
in 1855, he was Democrat, but "frec
soil Democrat" US they were then called,
and he would not vote for Buchanan, and
was one Of the half dozen or so in New
Cumberland who went to the polls, open
tiCkCtin hand, ut no inConsidemblC bust.
ness risk, and voted for John G. Fremont.
This Is the stuff he was made Of, even ut Il
time when no was doing n friedrich trade
with the Louisiana planters. II is pleas
ant to take these old timers to your heart
wherever you meet them, and ours be the
lot, like Old Mortality among the tombs OF
the CovenanteH, TO keep green their men,
cries.
In listening to the neurology read by Mr.
Atkinson we heard the name Of George
MCPorter, eldest son OF James s. Porter
-one Of the most prominent young men OF
West Virginia in hisday. lie was elected 10
represent Hancock county in the 1.egisla.
ture Of Virginia before the war--wlen he
was Just out Of Callegc, where he had great.
y overtaxed his health-and he continued
to represent her in tho restored govern
ment" at Wheeling after the war broke
out. He had the affection and confidence Of
the people Of Hancock to an unusual dc.
gree. When we saw his aged mother at the
hall, and remarked her fine large head and
face, we thought here is the proper mother,
sure enough, OF our old friend. His death
followed close upon that OF his estlmablu
wife, in 1894, and letter was read ut the
dinner from their only child, now a stu.
dent at Yale College.
Another OF the Porters-(W. d. a broth.
or OF George, was the special Orator OF the
day. and he made plain, practical, and,
in some of his flights, very beautiful nd.
dress. He Is u young lawyer OF promi.
nenCe ut Pittsburgh, and while more rug.
ged than his brother George reseln.
bles him not little. Mr. Atkinson, the
historian Of the day, Is no orator as Brutus
was, but he tingGd his matter.oi-iact
sketches with one or two fine imaginative
passages-ior instance this one:
~ might claim for the brick business the hOary
age mat COMES down 10 lis from the walls NJ Nine.
yah, wherc. brick are now unearthctl bearing tie
bricks now bear the brand Of their makers or Voliv
81 further back, might clio you 10 the handIcnlH
where tho grandchildren Of Noah made brick upon
the plain Of shlnar, and nnllded that tower and
The historian. Of the Thames or the Rhine can
draw from the legends Of love and war OF twenty
centuries Atlu chatm their readers with mythical
tales o. castles and palaces that have existed for
thousand year, Not 10 with tho hGtOrlan Of The
Ohio rlvet wo may describe liz beauty, tS grand.
eur, and ltS commercial Importance blItall beyond
the beginning Of the present century "a sealed In
ODllNlOll' hIu We cal Uut Imagine the Rfhf RfpIFf
IA y rolled lts placid stream over thousand miles,
past hundred Islands through tangled forests in.
~ list IN the Father Of waters, hit Il ID history
Is ihwrltel, we know that at the present day no
other river flows through country 40 rich IN ores
Of lrOn bells Of coal veins Of fire clay and Garrles
Of stone, pr among hills more picturesque land
more fertile, having population more enterptiSlnp
Of possessing richer legacy for The generations %
come, IT "
The inevitable and ifrepresSiblo platten.
burg-he that II ID the editor Of the Courier
at the county eeat--was Herewith his
spectagles on. looking as usual like n
Heidelberg proiessor-ahd nothing would
do tho Captaln.General but TINT platt must
make lew remarks, which indeed he did
announcing us q preliminary thereto that as
no had only been notified four weeks
previous hC had come wholly unprepatgd
As to bricks, he knew all about them, hNy.
ing carried one IN his hat since l,ovhooj
AS to tho various kinds Of bricks, no could
only say that in looking around over the
audience he saw more soft bricks than
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