The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-18


the chivalry of Jefferson county held a
| tournament at Leetown, in that county,
| on the 9th. About fifteen "knights"
entered the lists.
The last Clarksburg Telegraph con-
| tainS a very interesting chapter from
4 General Northcott's unpublished work
Life in Libby" showing the peridy
| and mendacity of Jefferson Davis as
exhibited in the exchange of prisoners.
The vote of Wyoming county was in
| correctly stated in Saturday mornings g
paper. The exact vote is as follows:
For
! ReJection.......'..---''.'' '-'.'''''-. 30
Mhoif aioFity for
| The ladies of Clarksburg gave fes-
| tivaI for the benefit of the Episcopal
| Church at that place on Tuesday even
| ing last. According to the Telegraph
it was very pleasant and successful
affair.
| The Buckhannon AdUocdte reads the
| peopIe of Harrison county sound tenn
| perance lecture for having voted at the
| recent election to instruct the Board of
| Supervisors to authorize the licensing
of doggeries for the manufacture OF
widows, orphans and poverty.
| An extremely personal controversy
| is progressing in the Fairmont Nation
| al and Vedette, between Messrs. Taylor
4 and Boyd, their respective editors. AT
! ter reading u four column article in
Fridays National, we suspect "pistols
and coffee for two" will be in demand
there shortly.
! A writer in the Clarksburg Telegraph
recommends Gen. Jackson to emigrate
| to WetZel or Ohio county, with view
| of finding sympathiZing friends. we
| can't speak for Wetzel, but suggest that
it will hardly be worth the Generals
| trouble to come here this summer, see
| ing that he would have 10 emlSrate
| again after the October election.
| The Shepherdstown Register says n
meeting of the citizens OF Charlest0wn,
| Jefferson county, was held on the even
| of the sth ''to take into consideration
\ "the propriety of gathering into the
"cemetery at Charlestown the confed-
3" crate dead in that vicinity, and OF ap-
| Hpropriate memorial services"
We notice that the 9th inst, "the an
niyersary of the death of Colonel j. w.
| Allen, of the 2nd Va. infantry, Stone
| wall Brigade, be selected as the day for
| the memorial ceremonies"
1t is understood that General D. H.
| Strother, better known as "Porte Cray
| ON. f." of Virginia, has declined the Con-
| sulate to Buenos Ayres, rendered to him
by the President.
The Wellsburg Herald says that a
wine cellar is being built Immediately
across the river from that place the
vault of which is to be some 15x52 feet,
built underground, arched over with
heavy stone and covered with several
1 feet of earth, and to cost 81, 200. In ad-
| 1ition there is to be brick superstruc"
ture. 1t is for u party from CINCINNATI,
| who recently purchased some 90 acres
! of land and is getting it out in grapes
| as rapidly as possible. Several parties
| in that neigh6orhood are more or less
| Interested. Mr.. C. Kimberland, having
! some sixteen acres, mostly devoted TO
vines, and others, smaller quantities,
but enlarging.
The Parkersburg Times, copying our
| Article touching the death of Wm. f.
Peterson, adds the following:
In 1895 we became intimate with Mr.
tPaterson and continued so until his
| death. We have no more amlable, ana
| few better men. Had he not died as
! full ofyears as of good works we should
| have felt his death cause of mourn
ing. Ash is, when we go to wheeling
| we shall miss more than ever an OLD
land mark, one of her sterling, good
| citizens. While he was an Intelligent
| man. strict and careful busl-
ness man, more simple hearted plety
we have never known, IL was plety OF
| no ostentation, but works. we can
| only say he has gone. God in his wis
dom has taken him. He was known
| TO more men in West Virginia than
any other man in the State, and uni
| Versally for his probity and worth.
The Msrtinsburg Union says that
certain young men and boys OF thai
town have distinguished themselves
| lately by assaulting black people in the
streets. The other evening as wagon
| load OF colored people were quietly
| passing through town, some such boys
assaulted them, throwing stones, mis-
siiss, &c. A black woman wasssstruck
in the face with stone and very tsti ser1-
| ouslg injured. Parties connected with
| the assailants were arrested ana
| brought before Mayor Mathews, who
| fined them S5 90 and costs. Also, on
| Thursday last, as some colored persons
were returning from picnic, they were
assaulted by some one throwing sLoue
l into the procession. The party was ar
rastad and fined by the Mayor.
| The same paper, speaking of the crops
| in that region, says that the wheat
erops appear thin-they could not re-
| cover from the drouth and frost OF the
last winter and spring. But the oats
| and corn appear in d dOurishing condl-
tion. The fruit Gropis light. So much
cold weather late in the spring nearly
DESTROYED all the finer fruits.
From the same we learn that the sub,
iect of free schools is exciting good
deal of interest about Martinsburg, al
witch place meeting TO discuss II was
70 have been held, and addresses de
livered by Judge E. B. Hall and ID. d.
Blackburn, Esq, on Saturday evening
last. -f.- Ils
MURDER IN HARRIsoN COUNTY
The CIarksburg Telegraph says that OF
saturday night, 9th inst, James
/ 9ueen, of Romine's Mills, in Harrison
country, and the owner of the mills from
which the place takes its name, wa!
| beaten to death with club, and thrown
| into the fore-bay of the mill, where hi:
hodv was found on Sunday morning
Adam Bumgardner, ESD, summoned
jury and held an inquest over nin "a
The Verdict of the jury was that N
came to his death by the hands OF SOM
person unknown. Mr.. Queen was
ouiet. peaceable citizen, and a maj
thatl il was not supposed had an enemy
and the murder is consequently grea
mystery. No clue whatever has oeel
obtained of the murderer. Mr.. queen.
family was absent from home at IN
lime. and he was entirely alone II !
supposed. He was about fifty years o
age. Mr.. Bumbardner and the JuE.
used every possible diligence IN en-
deayoring TO ferret out the murderer
but without success.
A LUCKY FELLow.-A young farme
. of Upper Coos, n. H had three calves
two colts, eleven pigs, nine lambs an,
: q bsT1v added to his inventory OF per