The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-09-22
ABOuRHoS PARADISE.

Windy Wilson Mt st. Marys, Plcnsants
County, Last Saturday.
Correspondence OF the Latettfoencer.
sr. MARrs, w. VA, September 10
The paradise OF the Democratic party in
this sta.eiswithout doubt pleasants county
and its metropolis is St. AIarys. Away
back ut the time when Patrick Henry wa,i
prowling around Williamsburg on the
other side Of the State borrowing tobacco
from his more fortunate brother peti.
fogers, and setting up the back counties in
conjunction with Tom Jefferson and
James Madison, (this was the original
Jefferson Democracy improved upon by
John Kelly and other New Yo:k Demo.
crats,} St. Marys was likely Ohio river
town. Then rs now the moss cluns ten.
derby and firmly, to the oaks and chestnuts.
Then as now 'coons and 'possoms came
down from the hills and without fear ira.
ternized with the dogs and cats in the
back yards, land the front yards too for
that mattcr.} Then as now snulr passed
current from the Ohio to the back county
hills and leaf tobacco WIS 4 greater luxury
tlan circus ticket. The first Steamboat t
". 5 regarded with abject terror, and'tl e
pioneer Bourbon rcgardcdit as illmira-
ton from heaven at his Hourishing trace
between St. Mary'sa and Cincinnati or New
Orleans on scow. Then he Aoated
down and walked back and was the nd
niration OF 4 township. Seventy.iye
cents was fortune beyond the rt ach Of
most OF them,> and man who owned
quarter of dollarwasa bloated aristocrat
and his wife carried her "dip" around in a
tortoise shell box. Then there were
only four or five OF 5 those miliionaires
and their descendants to-day live in
the same houses and have fifteen
cents Of the original quarter in the old
family bank isock) behind the door,
THE PROGRESSIVE MOSS.
The only mark Of progress, in evidence
at least, is on the part Of the moss. From
the trees and rocks it las spread in the
lapse OF years to the roofs OF the houses
and the backs OF the denizens. The aver.
aye Bourbon OF Peasants comes into his
county town dressed in suit OF clothes
that escaped the tariff OF 40. The Bour
bon candidate for Governor came in here
Friday night and received the same hila.
rlous reception that any new corpse in
country church yard gets. Unescortea he
started to "tavcrn" and very "a;rlv" re.
tired to rest. Some OF the ''pioneers.h how.
ever, had decided ogivc him areccp,ionand
they kept it up all night. 1twas their first
reception for a long time and thev left
nothing undone to make it warm for their
guest. alE5s4 Ss} 'ss C.35.
Not caring to participate in the festivities
OF the occasion, did not get here TIL sat-
urday morning. Strolling through the
town l went to the court house. And
such temple. OF Justice! Perched upon
the second bench OF the river bottom, It
stands by itself. Its exterior resembles
TINT OF any old academy; beliry and all.
In one end OF the basement are one or two
rooms, subtcrrancan chambers, used rs n
residence by the jailer. Back Of these are
two OF, three dingy, dirty and foul cells OF
the county jail. The windows are double
barred, and outside Of each is a little
chicken coop made OF barbeI wire. into
which the jailer imasines prisoner might
get, but out OF which he never could. This
Iall could not retain for fifteen minutes
one OF the most ordinary drunks and dis
orderlics OF any police court. "a
The court room is small and inconveni-
ent, the county Offices much more so, and
the whole building in keeping with it's
surroundings and with the traditions OF
its county. ; ,s51$ ~ < I. -t A: & ~ VI.
To Peasants county, therefore, MS a |
Mohammedan to Mecca, came Windy
Friday night. lie found no commi,tec
OF reception. no landau, no brass band, no
juvenile drum corps, nothing but moss
and nossbacks. g-lg SOL, n ~
49, THE MEETING. Il
The crowd which assembled in the old
court house numbered at the time when
all were inside reached Just one hundred
and thirty.tivc and most OF the tinc It was
not over one hundred. The speech in
all essentials was merelya repetition Of
the one he has fired at every nav paw
patch in the. State, He began after a
deierential salam to the principles OF
Jefferson (the. same being complimentary
10 tho collection Of antiquities in The
court housc) by referring to the men who
set up the State in 1868. 4"Those who
took sides with the Union were mainly
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