The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-07-23
WHISPERER ABROAD.
SOME xcAo1s FROM THE CROWD
W DELEGATES who are In ihs Cliy-yoms sharp
SAa's cAsGht by 81 Eavssdropp,r, csstAinfas
Bitter Tfaths- Hhisp,u Overheard IN
thu nlthersd Atbar Of Demoeraey.


This will be great convention" said
prominent Democrat to me yesterday.
"Why?" asked.
well, look at the timber that will fran.
the structure. The prominen! men, yor
know"
"Yes."
! Think OF the influence they will exer
over the timid creatures who come here
only to tap the 'bar'l,' and their contin.
gent, who are here to tap the kegs-oI
beer. 0h, 1t will be great convention p
| overheard conversation yesterday,
and alter repeating 1t to several time
honored Democrats aud consulting with
them they, like the humble WnispeRse,
decided that the man should bs deprived
OF bis credentials II found.
Ine Story is, that as a quiet looking
young man WAS evacuating the Jefferson
Club rooms yesterday afternoon, and when
aaked by companion where be would
IKE 10 sirAv, he answered in the neexest
tones: well, believe l would like TO
nave saucer Of les cream" EIa Omaes.
I'VE are all split up" said prominent
Democrat yesterday. ave are cut up into
strips," be continued, "and unless we get
those strips together we cannot weave a
carpet Of harmony TO cover the fl ,or Of DE-
cord.
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The summer bug is not ordinarily
Troublesome, but last evening as the WBls.
rERER sat in his studio pouring over cure
ior cholera (Bourbonism] he was greatly
annoyed by the continued flight OF bugs
into the Alrs OF the gas light. The frat
was the Reassessment Bug, v nich persisted
IN spotting my manusctipt, trying to blind
me by the beauty Of bis wings With one
superhuman effort l raped him over the
head with the tail end Of the Legislsture-
and be died. Hic Jaees!
The next bug was very saudily painted,
bat his beauty was only "psiut" deep, the
f'escoe rubbing of at the first touch. This
VISA discovered to ba the Supreme Cour.
Bug. Hs buzzed around the gas light for
time III hign glee, batoing in the sunlight
o., oi,,prosperity, but suddenly the fame from
a burning newspaper snged bis wings and
down he dropped into the hot cauldron OF
intamy. Nors anon.
Has Any body Told You-
That the Register is for Faulkner, first.
last and all tina llme -.
That the absence OF beer on the Fair
Grounds will make countless Democrats
mourn.
That "Windy" Wilson is loaded
That the Democracy has tried it's utmost
to bring TO Wheeling the whole Dsmocra-
cy OF the State.
That larger following" Of conyen.
ton WAS never seen in any State.
That Judge Hsymond's boom is rising-l
only to iall. -
That ''Buttermilk" Mason like "W;ndy"
Wi'son is charged up to the muzz!e.
That many Democrats are sore troubled
IN splritsor rather spirits soIely trouble
them. Fact.
That Wheeling is all wool and yard
wide.
That she eau entertain a Democratic
Convention, but not hall the voting popu.
lation Of the State.
That Boyd Faulkner has no recollection
Of his speech in the Senate agains. submit.
ting the temperance amendment.
That 7. Marcelus Marshall claims that
q temperance plank will go through the
Convention.
That beer will not be eold on the Fair
grounds because the saloon keepers Of this
city contributed alarge sun towards en-.
tanning the convention and wish to get it
back on this side Of the river.
That the Democratic party is the party
OF reform.
Tha! their, earlies. and most muscular
efforts should, like charity, begin at home.
That like other blunders Of the same
party it will not.
That it sees the beam q. thinksit does)
but will not cast the mote.
That Colonel Fred Mnasey, OF the Com.
mTcial Castle, is here. This will be in.
tefesling news to the Parkereburg dele.
CATION.
That the State House boys are thirs.iuc
for gore of q bright red color,
That ssveral delegates have brought their
red paint with them. = y
That John Birch is sad because he can't
decorate.
That "Junior" Brown has "barl."
That Lsw Newman looms up ga a boy
who used TO play marbles in the by.ways
Of Wheeling." . The WHIspsgra.
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