The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-03
NE1amRoRHOop NEWS.
Malicious Destruction of Property
Coal DIsEers out OF WOrk---Ihe l4O-
cal Wool MAFket---AIsO, the Flour
Market--BrOOkeC e County Poor HOuse

Coal DIsEers out OF work. he LO-
cal Wool Market---AIsO, the Flour
IIarfet--BrOOke County Poor House
THE Case OF Rev. c. L. Vance
Joseph Powell of Washington county
had 200 choice young apple trees cut
down, the other night, by some mali
cious scoundTel.
Some 800 coal diggers, say the Steu-
benville papers, are out OF employment
in that CITY, owing to the falling of of
the demand for the article in the cities.
Like some other trades, the coal busi-
ness can be overdone. While the har-
vest lasted, it was profitable one, but
coal can be had at Louisville now, at
about the same price as at Pittsburgh.
The welIsburg Herald of yesterday
has the following paragraph in relation
to wool matters:
Large quantities of wool have been
shipped during the week by the various
operators in town, most of which had
been bought for some time at from 10 TO
55 cents a pound. Latterly, the wool
market appears to have improved, and
buyers are willing to pay slight ad-
vance, and not SO much as If they were
doing the seller u favor in taking his
wool off his hands at any price. me
trouble with the wool business IS, that
the production is overdone, and the
AAA5 AdStt auNS
advantage OF il. and by exaggeratlug,
actually get the article for Less than II
Is really worth.
The same paper speaks OF the local
flour market as follows:
Flour made from new wheat is
coming into use already, and though
the price, $l2 so per barrel, is not fabu-
Iously low, yet the fact is worth stating
for what it foreshadows. The Buffalo
mills are now said to be running day
aud night on new wheat, and the pro-
duce, some of which has been tried In
this market, Is pronounced first rate.
The millers have been paying 81 II to
50 25 per bushel tor wheat.
Brooke county does not get along
very we'll with her Poor House. The
Overseers advertise for the erection OF
an addition to the house, to cost a con-
sidera BILE sum of money, and this pro-
position does not meet with much ia
vor from Taxpayers, some of whom
want the whole concern sold out in or
der to try some more economical way
of keeping the poor. The Herald says
that "ft is generally believed the pnr-
chase ofso large a body of land for such
u purpose was a mistake, and that the
sooner the county gets rid of all but
few acres, the sooner we will be rid of
an incumbrance. II this view be cor
rect, and we believe it is, 1t hardly
looks advisable to invest permanently
more money in 1t, If any temporary ex-
pedient can be devised to avoid it.
The Rev. c. L. Vance, lately minis
ter up patwellsburg, al has been disRracing
himself A committee of the Methodist
congregation have reported and pub
lished their verdict, which is, that he
having been found guilty of immorali-
ties of very gross character, ought
to be and is expelled from the Church.
Commenting on the case the Herald
says:
A rumor was in circulation on We'd
nesday, that G. l.. Vance. the party
whose condemnation by the Committee
of the Methodist Church, is published
in another column, had committed sui
oide by drowning himself at East Liv-
erpool. We have no confirmation of
the report, and it is probably nothing
but rumor, but the news just on the
eve of the exposure Of hypocrisy and
utter unworthiness ofa Christian min
lister, surprising him 10 have been OF
sound mind, which, ifthe drowning re-
port be true, We are charitable enough
TO doubt, WAS little startling. Be it
true or lulSet De n6 hhuo III CIdEJs
the example should be a perpetual
warning which church members
would do we'll to keePi remembrance.
We are not those who think less of the
cause of religion on account of the fail
Jugs or wickedness of its ministers.
The Almighty sometimes permits very
unworthy agents to be His Instruments;
one case at least is on record, where the
devil himself as IA tempter of his own
son, was used to accomplish wise
purpose, and If the Church had not
been in very deed, "founded on rock,
the folly, and weakness, and wicked
ness of its preachers and professors
would long ago have undermined 1t.
The very fact that 1t has withstood SO
much, is miracle that should confirm
belief rather than occasion doubt. AT
ter all, preachers are but men, but when
one fails, we note the catastrophe the
more, because he is preacher, and
take little account of the ninety and
nine self-denying christian men, who,
faithful in the cause of their Master,
have given nO occasion for nOtoriety.
This very man Vance, was the In
struuent last winter, in introducing
into the Church some go or 20 members,
some of them from class that hardly
any other man would have reached, and
whether their christian conviction was
true or false, real or pretended, there is
no doubt about it, but that the outward
conduct of some of them has been
greatly bettered. That is apparent to
the eye of man, whatever the condition
of their hearts; and fairness requires
that whatever may be said against
Vance, this should be put down to his
credit.