The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-03
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS.


Alph Raymond arrived at his home
in Fnirmont few days ago. There is
very warm feeli9g against him but
under the agreement of Grant with
Lee he is allowed TO stay.
The Fairlnonr National has fallen
into the hands of II. Il. Taylor, a gen
tleman born and raised In this State.
but lately Ornlinois. and more latterIy
Of the army. lie has.experiencc as an
editor and public man, and is highly
recommendedt TO the readers of the Ma
HoHot by father Ritchic, who bids his
patrons farewell in q graceful valedic-
tory.
y DINNER TO THE SOLDIERS IN NIoN-
oNGALIA CouNTr.-We find the follow
ing in the Morgantown Post:
We hear it suggested, land we hope
II Will De carried out;) that the farmers
IN the country and people OF Morgan
Town ana MonOngalia county meet ut
the Court House, afler they finish their
Harvesting, Say about the 10Th div of
the present monthly for the purpose of
appointing Committee of Arrglupp-
ments, in each township, To assist in
getting up II free county dinner for the
returned soldiers who left MunonrnIifI
to battle for the flag of our Union. Bv
lie time our farmers have finished mn
their harvesting, about all the discliurr-
ed soldiers from MononcuIia will he nj.
home, Then will bc the time. Then
we can give Il free dinner to uW the SOL
dieTs. We know the loyal men of
Monongaliu will heartily cooperate
with each other, and we feel assured in
saying that the project will he put
through at any early day.
CELEnEATISe THE 4rIU AT CLARKs-
BURG.-Thc following we take from the
ClarksburG TclcgFuph:
There will be celebration of the Ith
OF July by the citizens and military of
Cli'rhSDurg. Extensive preparations
are being made. A military Darade
reading the Declaration of imdepend-
encS, speaking, music, fireworks, and
large dinner, will be the programme.
The good people from the country are
requested 10 come. Come early. Bring
plenty of cooked chickens, bread, pics.
etc. Let us have such II celebration us
our children shall remember. Let ms
rejoice because PEACE has been restored
10 our beloved country.
From the Grafton Land Register.
LANp SALES IN WEST VIRGINIA.
Probably, mt 10 period since the great
N-NN lANAiAtlAA III llllS Iolillc the DHSt
winter, have lands been changing hands
so rapidly as within the past two
or three weeks. There is less of
that speculative excitement, however.
parties now buying with Il view
to personal development of the
territory. Another marked feature
in land transactions now, is the great
demand for cheap lands, almost regard
less OF location, so far aS oil devcloD-
ments are concerned. We intcrrogntSd
several parties as to WHY they did not
buy land in the Immediate oil regions
that is, i'll sections where the land had
been developed. Their answers were
uniformlI7-thHt they wanted I;luds nt
moderate figures (which they could NOT
get III ''deVclOped'i regions laS a permn-
ncnt investment. In other. words. by
buying our cheap lands. they conf
IDENTIFY hope TO secure a better rate of
interest ON their money, in time, than
If they had been invested in dividend
paying stocks. They probably do not
design developing Immediately, if at
all, preierTing to wait until other enter
prise shall bring their lands into mar
ket at II high figure. Others again are
buying up tiInberetI lands fur Ilie Dur-
pose of realizing fortunes out of the
lumber business.