Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-06-13

huge timber wheels decorated With yapi
and bun,isg and drawn 10y oxen rsilyls
tooned with roses ard wrea'hs At he
time the spssking WAS to take place, CE
win, the "Wsgon Boy" as ali con,idrr%t
an honor to call him, and other pOhaa
dignitaries were seated upon the plstiO's
from which tho address was 10 be nIs
Just as he was about to speak the pat0s
gave way and the thousands Of throas
screamed, Save Cor~in!' Save CaoiT
The orator seeing that no one WIS ,sr,OS,i
hurt, and that there Was on OpporStfT
for a brilliant hit, climbed back on ibs 90!
remaining board, and called oa': Neg
mind, never mind; noihIng b,
lynch.pin broke and continued 10
address alone, on III. one remaining boat
oil the platform, while the high hsts, Wild
had been his companions scrambled fSn
below.
While in Congress ho boarded 10 -
house with another C0ugscssmAn from ~
Eastern Shore Of M,ryiaDd, Who uo0b'S
CorwiR q great deal aDon, ihe SNAKES 81
lizards on the siT.-,s 81 DO cIti's o. ="
lumbus. Cleveland and n.Rer large Vap
towns, and in other ways bsra'ed Co'sn'
native State. Once, sipr V"c,ai'
which Corwin spent a. home, The MAJ
lander com menced on him about ibe 'iH
crop in Ohio. In answer 10 which W
win related the story q An oecors'
which shonld have taken plcs Thils =
was at home. Said he: While a. s'T'
/ attended court when an old mat ~
having his qualifications for prison u
amined." Said the Judge, boz % ~
your Forty years" answered To ~
man, standing decrepit Nth o.. vs.
bis long white hair and utter ~ '.'',
meas indicating q. least ninety 'Vg
fortyg' asked the Judge. "0nlY tory y
ssered the old psnsioEsr The '"r
could not believe it, his appearsir,,,S, -. %
eating 80 much more antiquity I'll ln
man answered in trembling vo'ce, 'q "a
ing with the iD6rmiIies Of JsAn 10
only forty; | epent sixty 5ears on ne~
coast of Mar, land. and that don o0aIr car.
no, that don't count ] did not v" ~.
/ Was there" This story WAS tod u -
dinner table, before numosf o. %
Congressman and their s'os' -.
thoroughly routed the Msryhnder iss
hunted another boarding plsce, sna :.
known always afterwards BY bis c'ie S
as the Late Congressman ifo" A
lsnd,"
On one occasion Tom was in Cbsi'.
with Judge Leavi.t and they ioss''T IN
tended a calored revival meeiisg
oolored people we're filed With NE s
Shirt and shouted and danced vsSsess
Cor,in was taking in the seess 1T !,
tense interest, and presently fena. ,s.s
Issviu: Judge, when ] PEE 30. -
colored people reiiocs sod sinS ; 80
wish I was Q darkey myself INS
turned very seriously to-srd Ton aos q
well. Corvin, for al the nsfgn ""
rot wouldn't cry sboat it. -
Corwiu probably hsd no equ. ~, !,
,,yIe of orstory, and no sppfoscoes m.
,s mention General Bill Gibson' I"
rho has half 9 dozen posiof'css
,fter him, or Governor Eoye', ve% 80
sequence is psoverbial. Corsln' 10 |
,~et m Audience vas uresis,sbe. sse e.
bis comes biz great success ~ 100
r." Eis ss.ire directed ct an CO.. n
% less burning and hbas1ira -, - |
we're penuasi's. y sns -
Z no nsns 20 well adapted to.E
o. town in Ohio Is thst OF G %. -
rss,ss. orators and statesmen lss -
,orvin Is short. easily written, sDa 80
ardly be mistaken il seen on 10