The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-26
STATE NEWS.

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course it proceeds at once to stir up
Gen. Sorthcott, of the Clarksburg Tele-
graph, on the capital question.
By the way, would 1t not be well for
our contemporaries generally when they
speak about locating the capitol TO dis
/ tinguish between the building itself
and the town, village or city that is to
contain it. Capital and capitol do not
mean exactly the same.
The Berkeley Unio, thinks that by all
means the capital would be determined
upon as soon as possible. The reason
given IS that some gentleman in Mary
land wrote the editor in 1854 to know If
West Virginia was a permanentinstitu-
ton. Time has answered that question.
This is 1867, and West Virginia still
exists.
( The Union calls on Grant to come out
and avow his principles ike a man. If
1 he does not he need not expect TO be
President.
The Clarksburg Telegraph also, is
rather anti. C rantish in its last issue.
Mr. Cannon, OF Ohio, has bought the
Moundsville National from its former
publishing association, and is warmly
commended to its old readers by the
late managers.
A Union County Convention is called
at Parkersburgh upon the l4th of Sep
| Der.
a hundred years hence thirteen daily
trains are to leave ,Buckhannon for
every part of the world" That's a
long timeto wait Tor the wagon
Also, a hundred years hence ClAsks-
burgh is to be the capitol, says the
Fairmont Ved.ae. Where isl 10 Be
inca ntimeH
Mason county is willing to subscribe
to the Chesapeake and Ohio Road. but ii
must be on consideration that the mon
ey shall be expended on The western
end, and that PIT Pleasant becomes the
Ohio river terminus. The Rich
mond Dispatch does not like This con-
ditioD.
DR.. Martin, President OF The West
Virginia Agricultural College. u travel
ing about during the vacation ztvoca-
ting he Interests and cIzius OF the IN
sti,ution. He has receuuy Teen N
Preston stirring up the people.
The oldest inh4bitaul never saw 80
much water fall in the same time as
during a brief spell on Sunday, the
18th, at Romney, Hampshire county.
The south Branch Iateiii1e1'eer an
nounces that John a. ChapIine IL the
Union nominee from the lIth seua-
toriaI District. II must mean Joseph A.
Chapline. we suspect.
George FreshwaIer, who lives on the
pike four miles east of Wellsburg, sold
his farm recently for sos per acre.
Absalom Buchanan, four miles east
on the Bethany pike, offers his fine
farm of 575 acres for sale.
Aud SO does William Patterson. who
lives two miles east Of Steubenville.
The Kanawha Republican invites all
who have sons to educate TO send for a
catalogue Of Bethany College.
The Weston EIPositor wants a COM
mittee composed OF "the Christian, the
just, and the tax-paying citizens of our
State, to investigate the charges in re-
gard to the Lunatic Asylum.
The EEpositor is a tribe ahead of the
Wheeling Register in silly abuse of
General Harris. 1t says that Goods
providence will in due time cause this
creature to call upon the rocks and
mountains to fall upon him and hide
him from the face OF mankind"
The Fairmont Yedette speaks in COM
plimentary terms of the remarks made
by Governor Boreman and DR.. Logan
at the cornerstone ceremonies of the
Normal SOnooI, on the 10Th inst.
Thesame paper also proposes Sena-
torial Convention at Burton, on the 5th
OF October, representing the counties Of
Marion, wetzel and Marshall, and adds
that the fright of Marion" to choose
the nominee sis conceded by the other
counties"
Camp meeting is now in progress at
Castleman's Run, in Brooke county.
&c. Pr is writing adversely in re.
gard to West Virginia Agricultural Col
lege in the Wellsburg papers. He is
opposed to running it on the general
collegiate and university plan.
The following additional money or
der offices have been designated In
West Virginia by the Post Office De-
partment: Charlestown, FaIrmont,
Grafton, Kanawha C. H., Lewisburg,
Morgantown, Rathbone, and Weston.
The Parkersburg Times regards Sec
rotary Stanton as a man of "trsmen-
"dous executive ability sound and
"patrIotic heart; a well balanced brain;
IAN able lawyer; a profound states
Imam, and one who is in every respect
''qualitied for the highest position In
"the American Government"
The Mason county Journal has the
following notice OF one of our Wheel
/ ing young men:
The Rev. Charles Mcclellan, a licen-
| tiate OF the West Virginia Presbytery,
and late OF the city OF Wheeling, aud
who has been in charge of the Presby-
! terrain congregation in this place for the
| past few mouths, has gone TO Princeton
| TO finish his theological course. His
time was divided between the Presby-
| terrain congregation in this place and
Gallipolis. Last Sunday he preached
his last sermon in this place, which was
I listened to by q large number of our
| citizens. Although Mr.. Mcclellan was
here but q short time, by his kind, affa-
BILE and unAssuming manners, as well
as by bis fine practical sermons, he won
| for himself the esteem and admiration
of the citizens of Point Pleasant and
GallIpolis 10 an extent not exceIled by
/ any other young man. His departure
I is greatly regretted by his many
! friends, whose best wishes accom-
| pAny him.
AS exchange says: ION the morn
ing of the Sd inst. u woman died at