The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-11-26
WHEELING DAILY INTELIGENCER MONDAY NoYEMBER26 1851


pose thatI had mounted those steps, alter
that woman was struck OF 70 her pur-
chaser, and said: men and brethren.
there IL 80 AYanginE Nemesis on your
track. The day 10 coming, and IL close
At hand. when this woman just sold,
and all her dcsky tribe. will have her
shackIes stricken Of BY 4 man who was
born in cabin aud almost in q mAnger
In Hardin county, KY, and Is now boz
lag inspired and prepared at Spring.
field, Illinois, for the first step in his
great mission" Surprising that having
said this, aud been allowed to live. l
had proceeded further 70 say that Ere
should set ewes on this dilApidaled
county seat again not only will all that
have told you surely happen, bat in
addition, this very state OF Missouri will
herself ropudiAte all that Is here this
day occurring, both inside and outside
this court house, aud will stand enrolled
anon: the Republican states OF the
Union"
Verify, truth far exceeds fiction In lie
utter improbabiIities What could be
more utterly improbable than this
short and simple speech OF mine that l
never made2 And y0t how very close
at hand the great event was; lar closer
than the momentous deStinies Of Israel
when the son OF Beor fell into trance.
''haying his ewes OPEN" and took up his
parable concerning all that should come
to pass. There is man who lives now
far away on the shores OF the Pacific, in
the state Of Oregon, who stood beside
mo that day ut Paris, and who said to
me o. we walked away from the scene,
~ wonder that the earth did not open
and swallow those people," He was
then recently from your vicinity aud
was at the head Of young ladies school
10 the town OF Paris. Aud yet even his
eyes we're not open to impending events.
Nobody saw the war and the end OF
slavery then so very, very near at
hand. How strange 1t now seetns.
PANHANDLE PEOPLE IN KANSAS CITY.
This much by way Of "reminiscences.
Had my note book of that day with
inc, or was Il even now In existence, I
might lengthen out this letter indefinite
ly with long gone experiences and OBJ
seryations. But 1t 10 OF the Kansas
City and Kansas border OF to-day that l
set out to write in this letter. Ono
thing that put me in the notion OF
breaking my long silence and writing to
you was the finding aud hearing Of so
many people here from our part OF the
country. By "our parp moan the
Pan Handle region aud the countie, of
Belmont and Washington on either side
OF us. Talking with such former
Wheeling people as Messrs. Ed. Glen
denning and J. II. 0glebay, and hear
ing from them OF this and that person
who had taken Horace Greeleya cele.
brated advice aud came out here to
grow up with tho country, concluded
that after the manner OF my sketch OF
the Wheeling colony in Now York, l
might possibly write something OF in.
forest to such OF your readers as have
neighbors and friends out here. Accord
ingly, enclose you list OF such per-
sons, for which am mainly indebted
to these two gentlemen, which you can
use as an affix to this letter, or indie.
pendent OF it, as you see fik You will
notice particularly that the descendants
OF our patriarchical friend, the Hon.
William L. Hearne, Of Wheeling, are
well represented in this list, no less
than four OF them being resident here,
three OF whom are married TO very
prominent citizens.
There is no moro estimable or in
huential man here, for instance, than
MIR, Geo. H. Ncttleton, whose vile is
Mr., Hearne'a Oldest daughter, and who
is President OF the Kansas City, Mem
phis and Birmingham railroad, road
that has developed under his manage,
ment from q purely local line, twenty
years ago, to its present trunk line pro-
portions. l have been told that MIR.
Nettleton swas offered the management
OF the Atchison system (Which has the
largest mileage in the WORLDLY at
an annual salary Of $4,000, but pre-.
ferred to decline 1t and remain with
his present people at less tempting
com pensation. Since then the .Atchi-
son has gone into the hands OF re.
ceiyer, aud its stock is practically
worthless.
Speaking OF this latter fact, may
lust here remark that three OF the prin-
cipal lines out OF Kansas City, viz: the
Atchison. the Union Pacific, and the
Missouri Pacifc-three OF the greatest
Systems in this or any other country
are, practically, all in this same bank
rupt category. You will not, Of course.
associate the unfortunate condition of
these roads with tho fact that they are
especially Kansas City lines, although
many people black cast" are apparently
prone these days to put Kansas City
also in the hands OF receiver. Right
here and now, therefore, l rise to re-
mark that Kansas City. although still
considerably the worse OF the collapse
in 1880, Ia neither dead nor yet
decadent city, but instead thereof is
showing encouraging signs OF reanima-
ton and recovery. All cities Except
Wheeling, OF course have their booms.
and these booms always burst and kill
aud wound great number OF people,
aud the name OF these latter hereabouts
is Tor was, rather,) legion.
TnR COLLAPSE
The three great agencies Of tho boom
period, and Of the subsequent death
and destruction period, that occurred in
this community, were tho Lombard In
vestment Company, tho Winner Invest
ment Company and the Jarvis & Conk-
lin Mortgage Company. They were
especially conspicuous with their little
hatchets, and l suppose il these PRO.
motors" had lived in Russia they might
now all DO doing duty In Siberia. III
Russia, you know, they believe with
Talleyrand that some blunders are
worse than Grimes" and accordingly
they Danish people for gross plumbers.
And what could be grosser blunders
than the transactions OF these agencies