The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-31

dishes, and he has very choice herd
Of Southdown sheep that would average
perhaps 145 pounds per head. Hs says
they are his most profitable stock. He
sold his wool for % cents this year and
his sheep averaged over seven pounds to
the fleece. They are profitable because
he breeds fancy stock and sells them at
fancy prices. He sells to breeders. Re
Gently he sold picked lot to 80 to South
America.
After dinner we came out under the
trees again and the old veteran laid down
on his iron lounge as is his after dinner
habit. There was handsome bird cage
and canary singer singing from limb
Just above him, and swinging from
another limb was cedar bucket OF
drinking water. Like many Of the old
timers in this country he prefers to
drink out OF gourd. Leaving him to
take nap the Russian young gentleman
and myself started out for a buggy ride
over the plantation. 81 will take you to
q point, said he, "where We can see
into two or three counties" And so
we drove out to an elevation where we
could see the rich rolling lands OF Fay
cite and Jessamine counties. 1t was a
beautiful landscape indeed. Then we
crossed over TO the Lexington pike.
Limestone pixies are features OF the
country all through the Blue Grass re-
gion.) Presently we could see the farms
OF Clarke county away to the eastward.
We passed many negroes on the pike
some in buggies, some on horseback,
and still more on foot-returning from
Sunday picnic or basket dinner some.
where. They were generally well dressed
and were the labOrers on the various
farms round about. "rhese people," said
my Young friend, will have good time
on Sunday lift takes all they earn during
the week" l asked him II none OF them
got ahead in the world. Gan occasional
one only" said he. "Some OF this corn
land is rented to them ut ten dollars per
acre, and il they make a good crop it
pays them fair wages. This year the
crop is very fine and they will do pretty
we'll"
Passing hay scales along the pike and
n live stock pen around it, he remarked
"there is our voting place in this dis
trict." No house, but just live stock
pen, and there was still house close
By. They have some lively times at cleo
tons here, said he, and have seen gem
era arguments end up with knock downs.
The still house OF course furnished the
ammunition. This country is dotted
here and there with small still houses.
Under the law they are allowed to sell
by the quart, and it is wonderful the
amount OF liquor that a two barrel per
day still, that does not run half the time,
has in reserve for sale. They are really
grog shops in disguise.
We rode out the pike rs far rs Ken
lucky river, five miles away. My young
friend was just OF age and fresh from col
lege, and was pretty well up in geology,
and so when we descended into the
gorge OF the river, which reminded me
Of a Colorado canyon, he explained TO me
the pcculiarities OF the qualification.
Down in this gorge they got what is
known as Kentucky marble, out OF
which the towering Clay monument at
Lexington is built. 1t was an inspiring
scene to look fom the heights OF this
gorge at the sweep Of the river below.
The pike winds its way down on the
one side, crossing by great iron bridge,
and thence winds up the other side, and
you can take it all in at Il glance.
We returned to the farm in tina cool OF
the evening and found theold genera"
enjoying his chair under the trees. /
have omitted all the way through the
title OF general, by which he is known
in this country, because he told me he
dislikes it, although he holds bona tide
commission rs Major General of volun-
tcers from the Government. He came
home from Russia during the war to ac-
cept this position, but not getting an in
dependent command to suit him he re-
turned.
THE CLOSING OF A STORMY LIFE.
After simple Sunday evening tea We
came out in the moonlight to await the
eclipse. What a Glorions moonlight it
was that night. The scattered forest
trees, through the tops OF which it shone
down upon us, seemed literally bathed
in its splcndor. Sitting Wis Wis with
the old Kentuckian, looking at his
white hair and beard, and watching his
stern face, could not but speculate
upon the tenor OF his thoughts. Here
he was near the end OF his long and
stormy life, and ianCicd he must be
contrasting the moOn-lit scene around
him with the eight OF other days"
when he was young on this native
heath, full OF his remarkable determi-
nation, and rejoicing like n strong man
to run race" He had said to me that
he felt at the outset OF his career MS il he
could do it all himself; but now he re-
allied how great the odds had been
against him. Yes, said !, you were
workingat emancipation in retail way.
The Almighty took the task off your
hands and finished it up by wholesale.
And vet, said he, l have no regrets over
my career, while Of course would not
care to 90 over it again. l obeyed my
own convictions, and that is always
satisfaction.
Long rs this letter is, it could be spun
out indefinitely with snatches OF the
conversations INDUCED in by the light
OF the moon us we waited for the
eclipse. We remarked upon the phen.
omena that attended the total Obscura'
tion-how almost instantly breeze |
sprang up and the temperature fell.
You must hunt up the explanation, re.
marked the old gentleman, us We took
in our chairs and made ready for bed,
and let me know whether after all there
is not some heat in the reflected light Of
the moon. A. c.
Piles! Piles! itching Piles.
rMProNs.-NoIsturc; Intense itching aud
singing; most at night; worse by scratching.
II allowed to continue tumorS form, which
nftcn hlnpl md uirpFnIu Incoming very sore.