Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-03-23
A PASTORAL CITY.
fine Kind Of People Who Trouble Its
Calm Serenity.
A Checquered Career Ending in a Prison
CeII-Tommy Nichol "A Monument OF
lngratitude Ne~burgh's
Case-LsgisIation.
THE LAST ReDISTRlcTlNG SCHEME.

minutes adjournment spoken of in my last
report the members of both houses, with
few exceptions, scattered for their homes.
A few, however, tarried; some because they
were not married and had no "oliVe
branches" to welcome them, and others
because they were married, and wished to
quietly fix up some little outside matters
before the antiMormon bill was signed by
the President, and its provisions carried
into effect. Hence, after the departure OF
all the delegates TO the three conventions
the Lobbyists and the canal people, the Code
reformerS, the book agents, insurance log
rollers local option men and women and
the other true reformers, our good, nice,
quiet, amiable smooth and unruified
people rejoiced once more i'll
The Pastoral Beauty
and the calm, and unbroken stiffness
which reigned over this conservative and
dignified city. But one or two or three
things were lacking to fill the cup OF these
serene and happy people, full to overflow
ing, and that was the absence from the
statute books of the Smith Sunday la",
Mr. Hadleys forty paragraph and 200
word Municipal Code amendment, and the
one thousand dollar bond and three hun
dred dollar license liquor traffic law. Could
our wicked legislators have been persuaded
to push those measures into statutes with
out delay and without considering their
chances OF reelection, and without being
influenced by the traders tratficerS and
imbiberS in alcoholic, malt and yinouS
stimulantS We would all now be able to
commence that career of earthly perfection
which is advanced by speculative thinkers,
and the sons and daughters of right
eOusness would leap for Joy
in the sacred places, while the billiard aud
the pool men, the show men, the regular
faro bankers, and the bosses of brace
games, cappCrs, and confidential chaps,
the big brewers and distillers the big
hurSelneu, all the beer garden folks, the
restaurants and tennis people the mixers
of cocktails the wicked reporters and other
great sinners, would BE- sitting upon the
willow.fringed banks OF the columbus
Feeder" with silent harps weeping over the
destruction Of their calling.
A Checkered Career
in truth as well as metaphor, has been that
of Nicholas Maurer because the windows
of his lonely cell look like a checker board.
1t is the first time i'll his life that he ever
pldNeu any hllu vi game WIN A'pSS'
Nick Maurer comes Of a wealthy family.
and was at one time prominent business
man of this city, Of which he is native.
He is about fifty years OF age, and for TWEEN
| ty-five years has been recognized and
| known as a gambler He is aquiet inOtlcn
| siye man, not given to dissipation, weighs
about go pounds, wears a plug hat, plain
| clothes and looks like a retired grocer.
Some of the sporting fraternity OF Wheel
| ing have doubtless gone against the game
which Nicholas has been running in this
city Tor good many years. Fortune has
| not smiled upon the efforts which Nicholas
| put forth as knight of the green cloth.
| He put his patrimony into red chips and
! into white and blue, but one chip went to
! look for its fellow until great army OF
| them were Out-and none ever come back
to reward him for his anxiety and his
| trouble. Nicholas, however, braced up
under misfortunes which came upon him
| so closely that one trOd upon the heels OF
another until he deemed it advisable to
open brace game. which WAS suddenly
abbreviated by Sam. Thompson, the Super
| intendent of Police. Nicholas, and the
tools which he used in his business, were
| brought before the mayor, before whom he
plead guilty His Honor gave him bene-
| tit by tining him $Gn and giving him ten
days in the county Jail, on bread and
watcr-the heaviest penalty known I" the
| law
of Kansas and Wisconsin, who was ~ ear
| nest laborer for John Sherman prior to the
| Chicago convention, and made speeches all
| over the country under the auspices of the
Hard Money League of the Northwest, sud-
| denly turned up in the hall of the House
YESTERDAY 1t will be remembered that Mr..
Nichol cut pretty wide swath for small
| man in the last Presidential! campaign i'll
Indiana. He put in his time pilgrimating
between the Republican State Com
mittee rooms at Indianapolis
and the village OF Mentor,
the home of the late President Although
| NiChOl is a man of very indifferent per
Sonal appearance, and not sleek or genteel
in his manners he has been able to secure
the confidence of the greatest lights in the
Republican party. He was always wei
| come guest ut the Mentor homestead, and
| when his beloved master finally reached
| the Presidency. the latch.String at the
| White House hung out for Mr.. NichOl,
when other powerful politicians were de-
! MED access. The President, in ConSidera-
| thon of his high regard for Mr.. NichOl, and
the valuable services he had rendered the
party, nominated him as first assistant in
the Indian Department, but failed OF con-
| firmation in the Senate. He subsequently
| DPCOllt lllNOiNtu III Il SIldl u anu ullltI SOu-
| trOverSy of words with personal enemies OF
his own party through the columns of the
New York Tribune, in which he come off
best man. He is 4 fine and logical speaker
and his speeches on the hard money ques
ton were as pleasing and edifying a. the
tiowcry efforts of that distinguished young
orator, SamuCl F. Hunt.
Mr.. Nichol appeared thin and careworn
as he always does. His collar and linen
were hid from view by well.worn ulster
and his hat was considerably battered up
and his scattering red moustache seemed
vainly struggling for supremacy. 1t must
be said that III consideration of the fact that
he knows more of the inside of the late
New York and Indiana campaign than any
living man. that he has not been treated
very well by this accidental and froCk coat
| Administration. 1t makes one feel all the
more kindly of the late President 10 think
that in the unpretending Nichol, of 1.-The
lean and Slippered pantaloon," he saw
good qualities. and that in his elevation to
the highest office OF the republic he remem-
bercd him as 4 tried and trusted friend
The confidence of the friends and
relations OF the dead President
in Mr. NiChol is SO great that
he has been designated as a proper man
to organize and push forward the cOllec-
ton of funds for the Garfield monument
| TO be erected in Ohio, and that was the
business OF Mr.. NichOl at the Buckeye
capital, showing thereby that he prefers to
serve President dead rather than the Pres
ident living
To the Penitentiary.
The Court sentenced Fredrick Newburgh,
the late clerk to the Board OF Public
Works. yesterday to three years in the
penitentiary for forgery, and for embezzle'
ment of the peoples cash. He will leave
his cell in the county Jail hard by the
palace of justice" in charge of the Sheriff
and a deputy, tomorrow morning, for, Il
residence within the grim walls of the
penitentiary at the upper end OF State
avenue There. looming up on the right
bank, and upon 8. graceful bend of the
Scioto river Is a limestone palace where
offenders of the majesty of the
law pay the dread penalty. 1t
is always with feelings of sorrow that |
record the advent into that dark and dis
NAL place of any young or promising man,
because there are always Others whose
hearts are broken and whose homes are