The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-28

washington City, where ne wants 10
attend the national e1campment OF the
Grand Army OF the Republic in Sep
tember.
Comrade Walsh is no fair weather
soldier. He was a member OF Company
X, Eighteenth Michigan infantry, and
carries with him his discharge from the
army, his G. A. K. visiting card and his
pension certificate. He is fifty-six years
old and looks halo and hearty, notwith-
standing his long trip Of 450 miles. He
is immensely pleased with Ohio.
~ tell YOU" said he, ''the Ohio peo-
pie are the incest people I ever met
By golly, they have the fine water
there. When l left Michigan one of
my friends told me to take some qui-
nine along. You know, Walsh said
he, the water is very bad in Virginia
and Ohio, and, if you don't take some
quinine along, you will get the chills
and fever
eu1NIEE MORE NEEDED AT HOME.
"By gosh, alter 1 struck Ohio 1 found
the best water l cyer tasted, and I
thought tho folks at home needed Qui-
nine worse than those in Ohio. The
waters good, and that's a mighty i'm
portant thing for a man travelling a. /
am, who drinks nothing else but water
and lots Of it at that"
Comrsde Walsh stopped over with
ComrAde Jacob Mander last night, near
the Wheeling creek coal mines. He
had never been in a coal mine, and bav-
ing heard some Michigan political ora.
tors talk about the miners who earned
only 90 cents a day, working a mile I'M
der ground, he thought he would like
to sec how that sort Of workmen looked.
Ho spent yesterday forenoon in the
mines, aud was astonished to hear that
some OF the men made as high as 81 a
day.
As Walsh intends to call on President
harrison when no gets to Washington,
no took tho procaution to get a sort OF
q certificate OF character, and has It
signed by such mel as old Ex-Governor
Alpheus Felcn, who was Michlgan's
governor in 1876 and az and later
United States senator, Austin Blair,
governor in 1851 aud 1858, and tho
present governor, Edwin B. Winans.
he has x .Prosident Hayes's autograph.
oh, but Hayes ia a nice man." said he.
Ito must "a heard l was on the way,
Tor he was sitting on his porch as I
wheeled up, and as soon as he cav mo
he came out tho gate. Tnkin' hold OF
the wheel he said: We'll Just take
that in the settin' ROOM and into the
scttin' room We took It. / talked 10 tho
president for some time and found he
knew q heap. Igot o fine supper, and
slept in a splendid bed. Ncxt mornin'
We had breakfast, and before l started
OEMr j. Hayes
wRSr BACK INTO THE PANTRY
and put me up q lunch. He's a nice
man nOthin' stuck up about him.
"Isaw Governor Mckinley in Column
ous' He's lookin' awful hearty, but
tnen he has no reason 10 look other
wise. EyerythinH's goin' his way. I
naTe bis autograph and also that Of
Col. roorman, who, I understand, lives
near here in Ohio, and Is going to DO
me next congressman from his district
saw General Bill Gibson in Tifin,
tna got his autograph. They say he's
think it, to look at him. HIS a mighty !
IlSe man though, and enterta.nin' to
Tux 70; That's where some Of the g.
A; II boys stole my w~heslbarrow. I
llssedt 1t, and somebody told me 1t was
over at the hotel. went over, and the
landlord told me my bill wa paid, and
1ot me- % make myself at home. The
f"nee!oarrow was there.
reople want TO know why I'm trav-
elin' this way. Well, / have plenty OF
time, and l thought would walk to