Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-08
BLACK REPUBLICANS.
Opening Of the Ohio Campaign at
-- Cambridge. 2
The coIored Troops Fight NobIy
and Carry the Banner
Register Bruce, Of the United States
Treasury,
Drops Some Words Of Radical
Wisdom,
And Talks Freely Of West Virginia
Affairs.
What He Knows About the Late
''Unpleasantness."
And Talks Freely Of West Virginia
Affairs.
What He Knows About the Late
"UnpIeasantness."

CANBRDGE, August 7.-[Exclusive. j
During the several years which l
have filed my lungs with the pure
Democratic air of West Virginia, and
allowed my hair to grow gray in worry
ing over the shortcomings Of my Repubh-
can brethren, have seen several political
gatherings that may justly be described as
queer" But the sights that greeted my
eyes here at Cambridge to-day "see" all
other sights in the political line and "go it
one better"
Getting Up.
A newspaper man who listens from 7 p.
m. TO a. m. to the dulcet variations of the
omnipresent foreman's cry Of copy, feels
that the one great boon of life is sleep. The
stars that throw kisses to him as he goes
home with the gray dawn stealing over
the eastern hills and the stencil Of
a DELAYED garbage cart filling his nostrils
are unheeded. Even the moon peeping
coyly at him from hehind various and sun
dry ehimneys, cannot induce him to stop
| in his mad race for his bed room. Ten
chances to one before he reaches his third
floor apartment, back, every button is looSed
from its complementary hole, and his
clothes simply stay on by adhesion or habit.
4 minute later he is in bed writhing in a
nightmare with compositor standing over
him kicking" for ring" This is an
exact description OF what occurred last
night with me- At four clock slept. At
eight o'clock was rudely wskened and in
| formed ! had twenty minutes in which to
catch the train. / caught it with thirty
seconds to spare.
En- Route.
The scenery along the B. & O., from
point Immediately outside the corporate
limits of Bellaire to Cambridge is magni6-
cent. have nothing against Bellaire, it is
a nice town and many nice people reside
there, people whom l am glad to know
But the odors that rise from the six or
eight blocks of back Yards over which the
railroad passes discourages the study of the
OUTLYING landscape And it is not until the
revivifYing exhalations Of the stock yards
are smelled that this telling Of ennui is over
come. From Quincy on it is a constant
succession of surprisingly beautiful pictures
of nature Barnesville is the very center Of
one of the finest views on the whole road.
1t is sweep Of landscape to delight the
most artistic eye. Beyond GAINESVILLE the
In. l,,.II-. s.-,,y ~, tIar a Nd do hits
Of valleys, hillrimmed and blue in the dis
tance, are found At every turn of the road.
Scores of shady groves crown pretty knolls
and not infrequently a broad meadow, the
farther end of which merges quietly into
miniature forest, is portaled at the railroad
side by a wall of rock that springs suddenly
and steep from an insignificant stream, slip
ping clsndestinely in and out among
wealth OF reeds and coarse grasses. With
long dizzy swing the train sweeps round
one OF these rock barriers, and stops with
jerk at the depot in
Cambridge.
The county seat of Guernsey county is stu
ated on a bold, extended bluff above the
classic waters of Duck creek. This stream
does not awe by It's noble dimensions or en-
trance By the daintiness of its odors, though
heaven knows they are strong enough and
multifarious enough The stream is not
navigable except for small boys, who crawl
on their hands and kick with their feet.
Even this is not possible great while, for
week of sunny davs will make the pebbles
on the bottom look dryer than a Repubh-
can when he thinks of the stampede to
Cleveland.
The first glimpse Of the town is not re-as-
surfing. The depot, a great barn like ag-
gregation of material is old, rusty and
dilspidated A dirty, i'll smelling saloon
occupies one corner, and q dozen empty,
sour beer kegs in the rear serve as bait
for flies, and a sign to the back door which
is a window. The depot is hard enough-the
saloon is worse. 1t has been a question
with me all day whether the saloon killed
the depot OF vice versa. give 1t up. But
either the saloon or depot should go.
Up Street.
Leaving the railroad and ascending the
hill one reaches the town proper. One
word only is needed to describe its location
and emhelhshments-beautiful. This Is
particularly true Of the residence portion OF
the town. venture that there is not an
other place in Ohio of twice its size with so
many elegant residences, so many evidences
ofcHlture There is an air OF refinement
about everything in the place from
the magnificent Court house down.
Lawns are exquisitely kept. Houses are
architectural triumphs and the drives In
and about the town are superb. II were
seeking 3 home in a quiet, yet entesprIs-
inc intelligent cultured refined town,
wonld 90 to Cambridge Every citizen OF
il should be proud of his residence there,
and he doubtless IS. If not he should be
compelled to move to Marietta. 1t that
isn't punishment sufficient 8 rsquisition on
The other world must be secured. But
three things are needed TO make Cambridge
perfect 20 stranger at Least wind to
blov the old city hall away, and
the removal OF the depot and saloon.
The People.
Incidentally have spoken OF the lnhaolt
ants Of Cambridge. / want to say few
words directly nov. They q bear evidence
of GOOD breeding and education The girls
are pretty-no, handsome. An ugly girl can't
live in Cambridge. The air kills her. Con
seouently none but pretty girls are 10 be
found here. The young men are gallant
appearing and universally Intelligent And
in no community in the State Is the society
as a whole on a higher plane than that of
Cambridge.
Political.
Ieame out here to attend Republican
meeting. / think was mistaken. 1t was
certainly a colored picnic. A colored band
Eom Delaware; colored speaker from
Wash;nvton ID. c.; another from Colum-
bns. a caIored marshal and three or four
sss;stants; a colOred glee club: thirty col
ored girls in wagon with . white driver;
twelve hundred other colored people with
out Office or insignia of oBcs; Just