Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-12-10

mf,;ce IL 10 saw that got 70 the next
'n,,o inst "A Il was breaking day the
newt morning. /. had beefi eleven
,,,i.. instead az three. I then tearhes,
anew wI,at had learned before aiiu
nor remember. that i, travesets
shon,d not believe anybody VINO :
sranyer. This may seem preety nara
doc,rine Int sad experience mas COM
nciIed me 20 adopt Il. More than onco
have people directed me 20 take tne
wrong road. when they knew oettef,
and many and many o time have tnoy
lied sbout the distance, rs those men ~
Red Sulphur did, and got me in'o
Amer had eaten my breakfast and
rested An hour or two, 1 left the rau-
mad and struck ACROSS the mountains
tn yisit Keeney,s Knob. Tais Is one on.
the most remarkable hills IN West Vir-
ginia. IL Is very high. and IS nov
crowned by a United States ooserva-
tory. It is mentioned In history -
early "a the French and Indian WAR;
Herr II was that Mrs. Clendenin cs-
,caped from the Indians In iI6S, during
Cornstalk's invasion Of Greenbter. u
had intended to climb the m0untain
hut a man told me that l could sse y
"a well from the base ~ the top. 80
looked at ii with my spy glass from
distance of four miles, and then turnea
toward Iewisburg. reached TINS
town about noon, and hauled up ~ tue
Iewisburg Hotel for dinner. Having
few minutes leisure time, went
TO the newspaper office (lndependentl
to get the Tucker newspapers. But
thew were not there. However, read
the Weston Democrat, which was some
consolation to one searching for nome
news.
LevIsburg In AnoDgst the Oldest
TsWas
in the State. Here Gen. Lewis rem
dezvoused his army In l774, preparatory
to marching to Point Pleasant. Here
stood old Fort Savannah, built In lI.U.
The town was incorporated In lIs2.
The village ut present contains pro0a-
bly l 900 inhabitants. 1t Is clean,
cheerful town, regularly laid out. Inc
surrounding country Is beautiful, ana
the people seem honest and contented.
I remained i'm the town till evening,
and then len with regrets that my visit
must be SD brief where there was 30
much to be seen. But I departed only
to 90 into a finer country and one more
prolific in historical interest. The
ieyels,r 50 called in early times, and
still known by that name, Is one oil the
most peculiar districts have ever seen.
It is an inland basin, with no outlet:
The rain that falls there Is not carried
away by creeks and rivers, but soaks
into the ground, probably to be led on
by subterranean caves and passages:
The drainage of thousands OF acres all
flows to the lowest point and there dis
appears. Little lakes are met with on
every side and may be seen at intervals
for thirty miles northward, extending
into Pocahontas county. They are
quite small, few of them having all area
of more than one acre, while usually
they cover not more than one-fourth OF
an acre. From the summit OF some OF
the low hills dozens of these lakes may
he seen at once. Some OF them are
muddy. and their shores are tramped
by cattle, but others are clear as crystal,
aud looking down through the trans
parent water the bottom is seen COW
cred with white pebbles that look like
snowtlakes glowing in the sunlight.
The surrounding fields aud orchards,
down to the very edge Of the water,
were as fresh and green rs the foliage
Of Florida. At places fruit trees, and
arbos of decoration, and climbing
vines, and flowers grew on the shores,
| and cast quivering shadows upon the
placid lake, lending rural beauty to
| what was already beautiful beyond
what the fancy Of Virgil has ever pio-
turcd. II seems as If one here could
1--we his thousand years.
/ It was well along toward evening
when | left Lewisburg for Frankfort.
| Frankfort is a small village in the very
midst of the "I.evels" and is ten miles
from Lewisburg. A new, bright tele-
graph wire communicates between the
two towns. The sun was low On the
western horizon, the sky was clear, the
wind blew softly and 1t seemed like the
close of day in June. AS / was pass
ing along, / heard strains OF the most
exquisite music in the air. II was the
wind playing on the telegraph wire.
The finest performance on piano, Or
gan or violin that I have ever heard
was discordant harshness when COM
pared with that. Perhaps the surround
ings lent an enchantment to the har-
mOny. TWAS like the melodiOus swell
of ten thousand Holian harps. When
first heard 1t would appear miles and
miles away in space, then coming
nearer, growing fuller and clearer, till
it was loud and deep, then dying away
seemed to pass back till almost inaudl-
BILE and would think that IL was gone;
but, suddenly 1t would burst out at my
| side ia new and lofty strains, the
grand diapason and sublimity of which
| almost overpowered the sense Of ap-
probation. 80 right and left the
wide verdant fields, dotted with cot
tages, and here and there large farm
mansions, with groves about them and
white palings In front, and the quaint,
romantic lakes, flashing and glowing
| and dancing In the sunlight Of evening
together with the yelling music--all
combined to form scene that rival
ed "Armida's Island Home,n rs sung
by Tas.o in his jerusalem Delivered.
1t was quite dark when
REACHED Frankfort.
IsiOpped at an hotel kept by Nc.
Chung, whose ancestors were among
the first to settle Greenbrier county.
This district, the tLevels," is full Of
history and legends.
There, in 1863, occurred one OF the
bloodiest massacres Of our Indian wars.
broke into the settlement,
and after decoying the peo-
pie into his power by protesting friend
ship, murdered In cold blood almost
every man, woman and child in the
whole country. In 177Sthe Indian army
that had been besieging Fort Randolph,
raised the siege and marched into
Greenbrier. A battle was fought, the
savages were beaten and fed from
Greenbrier forever.
Early next morning was upon my
way, still going northward. was aim
ing for Pocahontas county, which has
the credit Of being the toughest county
In the State, and one Of the few that
has no newspaper. / found 1t about
as represented. 1t Is very rough, ex.
cept in q few places.
Hillsboro. In the Little Levels. IL In
a.