Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-11

serpentine serpent body IS ss Wound Us round about
Mcfarland of Scioto, Ellsworth of Law
renee, Beman Of Gallia, Cosyell Of Adams
and Cochran OF Brown, and its tail eI-
tends up into the bootleg OF Brown and
thence to Clinton, where it is wound about
the neck of Sinton, another ''water-pup"
bill man."
At this point the widest confusion pre-
vailed. Speaker Hodge welded his gavel
as though his life was at stake, the Ser
geant-at.Arms was ordered to seat mem-
bers and command the peace. The Judge,
however proceeded with his exhibition,
undisturbed and without smile. The
page boys were glecfully at work aiding the
Judge in passing up the artistic efforts OF
the immortal artist, to the over
whelming merriment Of all the mem.
bers, except those who favored
the adoption OF the water-pup, substitute
of Locke. This" said the Judge, taking
another work of legislative and decorative
art from page, 'is
ADeviI Fish.
and it represents the Seventeenth district
of the water-pup bill" The chamber rang
with applause. and the handsome and
graceful Wetmore commenced singing
well hang John Locke on a sour apple
tree, as We go marching along Kithcart
OF Jefferson, shouted, GLORY, Hallelujah!'
while the young and beautiful
Roscius. Mr.. Love, OF Columbi-
ana, shouted, "Give US rest
and laird, away up in benightened Trum-
bull, pointed across TO Hudley, OF Fayettee,
and shouted: Pull down your vest."
The Judge. all this time, was as serene a a
sweet June morning. This Devil fish, in
sympathy with the jackass, and being
stern wheeler, had one horn OF his devided
tail turned up the Ohio toward kithcart,
OF Jefferson, and the other South toward
Wagner, of Belmont, while he headed up
the Tuscarwas river, spiting danamyte and
birthstone with his forked tongue at Ross,
of Carroll, Graham, OF Tuscarwas and Nc
Gavran of Harrison" The next picture
the Judge presented was that OF
AThOmns Cat.
with its back up. This broke the House
up to the foundations, and the speaker was
about to succumb, when the Judge said he
would soon finish his exhibition. He only
wanted TO say that the Thomas" repre-
sented the Fourth district OF the waterpup
bill, and that he supposed the feline was
mad because the Senate hadn't passed the
Sunday bill of DR.. Smith, of Noble, and be-
cause of the way in which Frame. OF
Guernsey, Price, OF Muskingum, Grciner,
OF Perry. voted on the Pond bill, and
the conduct of Wright, of Hooking,
with the lobby. "Mr. Speaker said the
Judge Il only want 10 call the attention OF
the House to one other district, and that is
The Narrow Gauge,
so called because it is twu hundred and
fifty miles long and from four 10 eight
miles wide, and at one place. between
Co>hOcton and Licking anu the corners OF
MuSkingum and Knox, il is only eight
inches in width This said the Judge,
cuts of trade and barter between BROTH
ers and between saints and sinners, because
the narrow gauge extends from Stark, south.
west, clear down To Fayette. II the Dem.
ocrats OF Fairfield and Of Pickaway
want TO exchange their big watcrmelons for
demiiohns OF whisky from CoChocton, and
Licking, there is not room enough to get
them through the narrow opening OF eight
inches. letwcen the two counties hrst
named. The population is almost wholly
Democratic, and those who have built bay
windows, with beer, could not get through
from one pair Of counties 10 the other with
out the aid OF derrick.
A Solemn Scene
was Lockes speech for his bill. His effort
reminded one OF the scripurLl panorama in
which an abundance Of faith is isiIustratcd by
the master of religion walking on the
water. while the efforts OF the Judge in
the same connection reminded us Of the
crank in the orchestra who struck up the
air.
~ life on the ocean wave,
\ home on the rolling deep
a, an accompaniment to the sliding sec
IaRing inc svr'TO o'. % -
riyaled the uproar created by the delivery
of Proctor Knott's famous speech upon the
city of Duluth. Indeed, it was strong
medley between Lockc'S solemn and black
ilag speech and the inimitable humor Of the
antique Judge" from Logan. The bill
comes up again today, with southeastern
Ohio solid agains. it. NJ.