Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-07-06

TIA suit of some novelty and Importance saws
the Kanaw ha Republican,, occupied the attention
of our CourtI during the almost entire session of
Thursday and Friday of last week. 1t is suit
brought by Messrs. DicLINsoN & SHREWSBURY
against the Sheriff of Kanawha to test the constu-
tionaltyof the District School system, adopted by
the vote os this and many other counties of the
State. Has the General Assembly of Virginia
authority by the Constitution TO submit law to
the vote of the people OF the State or to the people
OF any portion of the State upon whom the law is 10
operate, making IFS operation contingent upon
prescribed majority of yotes7 That is the uues-
ton Messrs. Fl. SMITH, Judges McCoMAs &
Fay for the Plaintiffs, and MeSsrs. A. PAR1 and
Judge DuERAK for the Defendant. We have neith-
eEtin1e or spaceto speak of the ability and insenu-
ity displayed in the arguments of the learned
counsel. The case was submitted to Judge SUN
MERE late Friday evening. His decision will proba-
bly, be delivered before the adjournment of the
term, this week. The case will go up to the Court
OF Appeals at Lewisburg, matter how decided
TERRIFIC HAIL SToRM.-on Friday week last,
remarkably violent hail storm passed over portion
OF Perry county, Ohio, running from northwest
70 southeast Masses OF ice fell weighing from
an ounce to three quarters OF pound. One piece
vas measured and found to be s nchss in circum-
ference. Chickens, geese, pigs, lambs, calves,
dogs, &C., were killed in numbers, and the fruit
trees were literally stripped of their fruit. The
forest trees were stripped of their twgs and leaves
the fences battered and bruised as if they had
been pelted with stones; the corn was cut down
and wheat fields ruined. The dwelling houses
were ridded of their glass, and in many instances
the sash OF the windows were broken to pieces
Cattle exposed to it so beaten by the hail as
70 DO almost incapable of moving the next day,
and the horns were knocked entirely of of several
sheep. The True Democrat says:
'tSeveral Of our old friends in Hopewell and
Heading townships, were nearly ruined In their
storm was about two miles wide and its progress was
accompanied by terrific roaring. Rain fe. in album
dance, aud, South of the hail, the thunder and
lightning was incessant and terrific. Several trees
we're struck, and the roofs of dwelling houses were
kept in continual tremor. A large oak tee, en-
the farm of Isuac Yost, ESQ.,, of Clayton town.
ship, as literally split to ecsS,-it did not fall
as tIeeb but was scattered into fragments from
the heart out, and nothing left standing but short
stump. Amid the rosr of the descending hill and
the reverheratons of the thunder with The shsttsr
ed glass hyine and ringing through the house, and
the screans of terrified women and children, it is
no wonier that the stoutest heart was appalled,
We have heard of several who ere so badly
frightened as to become inSenRble. The amount
OF damage done we Cannot estimate, but the crop
of some farms is entirely ruined. Aruong the
sufferers are Messrs. Basore, Darsham, Price, Cow
m, Wirick, Ansel and Parke>,-there are a num-
her more but we have not their at this date.
Just preceding the storm the air was oppresSvsly
close and sultry."