The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-11
Neishborhood and state News.

Colonel Strother, ("Porte Crayon," of
West Virginia, has been appointed Con-
sui to Buenos Ayres.
IL is refreshing indeed to hear that
Raleigh and Monroe counties, away
down in the southwest part of the State,
have both given majorities for the
amendment.
Commencement exercises at Monon-
gllia Academy (Morgantown) begin on
the 18th, Rev. Henry Woods, of Steu-
benville, addresses the Moore Monu-
ment Association. Rev. William A.
Hooper the Literary Societies.
A volunteer company is being organ
lied at Morgantown for the purpose of
drill, exercise, and physical improve
ment generally-and-per an
emergency.
The Morgantown Post calls for 5000
OK carts TO move those 1000 men-"the
best men of the State"-who were to
leave for n CLINE more congenial if the
Amendment should be adopted.
The slate so.calIed election" is the
way the vote on the 24Lh ult. is referred
to by several ofthe Conservative papers.
The 9Th of June was set apart by the
ladies of Winchester, sin commemora-
tion of the fall of The chivalrous Ashby,
for decoration of the graves of the
Confederate dead" The Charlestown,
jefferson county, Free Press says that
about 1000 ladies and 1000 men Joined
in the procession. ...l SD 7'1t
The resignation of VIM. Prescott
Smith as Master of Transportation on
The Baltimore and Ohio road, and his
appointment as q. s.. Revenue Collector
in the Third Maryland District, is made
the occasion for hearty. tributes to his
worth as man, and his past services
as an officer, by the newspapers along
the line of the road, as well as others
at distance.
Gibbens, of the firm of Gibbens &
Co. that struck oil on White Oak the
other day, was one of the late editors of
the Parkershnrg Gazette. The Point
Pleasant Register says that he had oil
on the brain for several months preced-
ing his withdrawal from thepaper.
The aforesaid Point Pleasant paper is
so fur from any place tina even in its
issue of June 9th the editor had mot
yet received returns that can lay any
claim TO accuracy" from the election.
They were to have had a big dance-a
kind of wholesale atfair-dowu near
Point Pleasant. We hOpeits postpone
ment, announced in the aforesaid pa
per, was not in consequence of a gen.
erai conservative disappointment at the
result of the election.
The wheat crop down in the Big
Kanawha regions is tolerable as TO
promise. The fruit crop is pretty much
an entire failure.
The editor of the Parkersburg Gazette
spent happy day at the races on
Thursday last. It was Hthe first time
in forty years" that he had "devoted
several hours to the turf" Our brother
chip is an old fellow we perceive.
The race thus witnessed by the Ga
zette editor, was run by three horses
viz John P. Mayberry's colt "Lath, !"
a horse called "Red Eye" and a mare
called "Jennie WightInan." The colt
won the third, fourth and fifth heats
with ease.
Mr.. George McClelland (not George
B.) has resuscitated the GAINESVILLE,
Belmont county, Ohio, Enterprise news
paper, after a suspension of several
years, during which tune the editor
has grown older, wiser, more expert
enced, and better fitted in every way TO
get out the first rate paper now issuing
| from his hands, and for which we de-
sire the greatest possible prosperity
The Enterprise will take no part in the
| politics OF the day, but will devote itself
to local and general matters of public
interest. --ls-r-g
The Fairmont National is offered
''absolutely' for sale. Mr.. Taylor, the
owner, announces that in consequence
| of other demands on his time and at
tention he sis compelled to put tht
| National into markell" Whether sold
or not, however, .tthe paper will be
regularly and faithfully conducted
| Mr., Taylor sars that he islands, polit
ica1ly just where President johnson
and William II. Seward stand"
On Wednesday last, says the Romney
Hampshire county Intelti1eneer, a NUN
Der of the "citizens, ladies and others, .
met at the "beaptiful Indian Mouno
i Cemetery TO do appropriate honoTs &c
the gallant Confederate dead who lie
within its haIlowed precincts"
- 10 PIOurI FIoHrEi
xTTEARF JTsT RECEIVING 500 BAR.
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