The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-08-31

is, We don't have yfacst IA ne hoase
above twice week. Ss' @iS -
Going along the road, we got our first
view into the inside Of Int life N MS
worst phase over here. We hdd him TO
stop as we drove through struggling
hamlet midway between Cork and
Biaruev, and take us inside OF the very
worst looking one in the lot. We had
to stoop low as We went in and when we
got in there was Just about room enough
10 turn round, the balance OF the space
being occupied By the bed, tho table
and chicken coop with chickens in 1t.
The floor was the native earth; the IRE
place was part OF the ehiIiiGey corner,
md for all the world tho. Whole, ontht
was like TO "dobies" OF the squnhd
Mexicans as saw them years ago at
Santa Fe and other places. In America
it would be lust about fair pig sly
and that is all. Overhead lot OF brunch
es, gathered dear knows where, were
fastened up against the raiters to make
fire when they brewed their tea. There
was no fire then on the hearth, and l
presume they never had fire, except
when they made their tea, Hou Will
understand that IL Is tea, not coffee TINT
the masses drink over here. This hut,
as said, was the worst OF the whole
struggling lot, and in it lived an old in,
capacitated woman and little girl
lust the two.--I presume they are OH the
poor rates us paupers, and receive nomi'
nal mid as so may do over here. Just
across the road was II woman who lived
in fairly good house OF four rooms,
one candy shop, who took children to
keep on contract with the poor board,
receiving for each child seven pounds
per annum, which sun. .proyiled. q. ior
sasteHance only and not clothing. That
Is to shy, thirty.iiyc dollars per head IN
our money, or say seventy-live cent?
head per week. The children looked
clean, cheerful and fairly we'll kept.
The other huts wore not nearly SO
saualid as the one referred to- in fact,
several OF them looked tidy, although
none OF them looked prepossessing.
set out in this letter to do" Ireland
up to this city OF Belfast, because, II |
did not, felt would, like the engineer
OF the "NIississip," get way behind tho
pilots bell and come out very much
behind our expeditions itinerary. AS q
matter of fact, while this letter is dated
at Belfast, Ireland, August 18th, am
writing il in room 536 OF the Victoria
hotel, London, on Sunday, August 18th,
so rapid, and / may add, laborious have
been our travels in these British isles
since we landed Mt Queenstown on the
goth OF July. / felt that must locate
it oil Irish soil somewhat and so have
held on to our jumping off place Tor
that purpose.
TIE LAKES OF KILLARSEY.
Well, to "return to our mutton" once
more. We set out from Cork for Xii.
larney lakes on the afternoon OF August
8, and went that day fifty-seyen miles
by rail MS far as Bantry, the terminus,
and thence twelve miles on the top OF n
tally-ho with eighteen other persons, to
Glengariff, wild and romantic spot at
the head OF Bantry bay, and almost In
sight once more OF the broad Atlantici
the spot whore the French once landed
n fleet in one OF their assaults on this
long and much assaulted country. We
felt as il We wanted to stay a week ut
Glengariff and 1 had 10 remind the
much absorbed and greatly delighted
citizen who travels with me that "life is
short and time is fecting' in order to
get him away at all. The hotel was good
and the scenery enchanting, and hence,
naturally, We were tempted to go into
camp for several days. But vt half
past nine in the mOrningwe were again
on tho road, on the top OF the tally-ho,
with team Of fonr splendid, horses
and a driver who could throw the lRsh
as gracefully US tho old Good. Intent
boys ever did who drove the famous
Troy coaches in the patmy days of our
National road. Talk about TINT Ma
tional road and Mr.. Clay's famous flat;
terry OF it, as the great "AppiNn way"
| it is not, and never was, to be spoken OF
in tho same day as compared with this
matchless road over which We travelled
forty-two miles from Gicngariff to Kill
lurney that beautiful day. Whatever
else We may forget OF this trip OF ours
we will meyer forget that ride
over that Incompatible road. The
best piece Of street paving in Wheeling
Ia hardly go smooth and perfectly
graded. The great heavily loaded
coach Just rolled over 1t, up hill and
down and on the level, and it seemed
no nov work r at ali for the four horses to get
over the ground.
SCENES ny TIE WAY.
Thus much about the road and tho
coach. What shall I say of the wayside
scenery, especially of the wild scenery
of Kerry, the rugged and iRhospitablo
so;l that produced Daniel O'Connoll,
"the noblest Roman of them all?" And
what also shall say OF the beggars thnt
beset our Journey; the little tads that
came forth from the huts and following
the coach on both, sides, in their bare
feet, holding up Il flower or Q srrig oil
green and begging d penny. Their per
tinacity was equal, and more than equal,
| think IN their nnnury, for unhappily,