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


the way OF disputed titles.
There is museum which contains large
@llection OF fish bones and >harpoons, pre-
Sded over by an ancient maIiner who is as
! accommodating as the late Captain Cutie
and rs positive in his convictions as Cap
tain Bunsby; and library which the JAM
itor said contained all the latest literature !;
but the most interesting studies to a stran-
ser are the townspeople and sheir habita-
tlcns. Some of the latter recall Haw-
tkerne's description of early Salem archi-
teeture and house furniture. The real
eatate agent remarks incidentally TO you,
as he stops before a frame house shingled
all the way down. TO the cellar, that that
particular edifce is
Two Hundred Years Old,
and when the door opens you are willing
to believe him. The stairs go up from
carving over the bulkhead that would do
Tor q fgurehead on a man OF war. My
grandfather's clock, which "he used TO take
aIightning rod to wind it up hisself,"
stands on the landing, and there is enough
clawfoot and brass-mounted furniture scat
tered about to tempt the cupidity OF any
lover of the antique. The owners know its
value, however and when we asked pret-
ty girlin a millinery shop what she would
tRfe for an old hall clock in the corner, she
sat "a hundred and fifty dollars as easy as
,sbala have said dollar and half.
= II saduitts some force and method TO get
into an average Nantucket house until yUu
announce that YOU want to rent it. Up to
that time the proprietor, his wife, mother
in-law, manseryant or maidservant generally
content themselves with opening the front
door about four inches. filling up the crew
ice thus formed with his, her or
Their Nose or Noses.
and conducting the interview at long range.
Our guide, mentor and friend. however
who had "the biggest lot of houses on his
books" pushed in everywhere We wanted
to look. led the way from cellars To garrcts
up stairs and down stairs, and in my lady S
chamber. He also worked Off numerous
jokes for the benefit OF the feminines who
had the Cleanest houses and who protested
against our minding the dirt, and Conclud-
ed every interview BY telling us what the
owner would rent the house for before that
individual had chance TO speak.
We dropped into the bookstore to hunt
up the literature bearing on the island. but
found the supply exceedingly scant There
was little handbook describing its prinCi-
pal resorts, and record of q summer stay
at SCornet, evidently written with a pur-
pose similar to that of this epiStle, viz: To
fill up. \ novel had been written by some
anonymous author, entitled Six to One"
the scene ri which had been laid in Nan
tuCket. and which set forth the
efforts of one susceptible Young man to be
devoted to six girls for
4 Whole summer
with the result which might be expected
under the circumstances; and a general
history had been published which contain
ed the cold facts connected with the settle
ment, but the book we wanted the pro-
prietor informed us was not yet in print,
the Cupidity of the publishers thus far
having served a. bar TO prevent the pub
lication of a work by himself which would
exhaust the whole Of NantuCkets past,
present and future. Al the barbershop
the venerable and loquaciOuS proprietor
filed so many interrogatOrics against US
that we had no chance TO come back at him
with a bill OF discovery and the town crier
who wells out every thing, from the hour
of the steamer departure down 10 society
personals, and thereby anticipates and
disCouragcs the local press, had a bad cold
and we could not understand him.
At leaving We called upon
Charles O'COnor.
who now makes his permanent home at
the old lawyer who still retains a good deal
OF the intellectual force and vigOr that for
many years kept him in the front rank OF
American juris;s. lie has built
~ S-,.stolC - j. So S'NNS ''iIS Pipi"il''l
TO the report current among Nautucketers
that il is intended to be devoted to public
uses following its owners deCcaSe, and III 1t
chilGless. and almost cOmpaniOnless. save
for the ample library that sorrounds him
the old man seems TO he rounding out ms
busy life peacefully and COmtentedly. lie
is upwards OF eighty, but told us his health
has been good since his recovery from ms
memorable illness a few years since when,
during its continuance, was announces
several times TO have been terminated
fatally, and he attributed much OF his
present healthand strength to the beneficial
influence to Nantucket air and water. Just
now he is said to be engaged in preparing
reminesCenses oil cases in which he has
took part as counsel and aS these included
many of public interest, such as the Jumcl
Will and Forrest divorce cases, they ought
to form an interesting addition to the limit
ed history of celebrated causes written by
those best able to write 1t.
| asked friend cOnYer,ant withOC"nOrs
career. to what his long and constant sue.
cess at the bar was TO be credited and told
me as much to his industry as to his lntel,
IectuaI force. Then to, he added
"O'Conor was an Irishman, and in New
York Tod is good to the Irish. las.