The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-04-29
west virginia news.

west Virginia news.
Gentlemen recently returned from
the Kanawha Valley, say the season is
fully a month in advance Of the season
here. Vegetation is already luxuriant
aud the weather decidedly isryid. The
fruit crop is very promising. Wheat
OF which the quantity sown is limited,
looks well. The KanaWha Valley is
chiefly devoted, it seems, to corn and
tobacco. Tie Ranawha people have
theory that their salt furnaces make
their climate mild. It is more prob
ably the sun. They are some three de-
prees Of latitude farther South than we
are here.
The rebels in Monroe county have
some kind ofa secret organization, sup.
posed to be the Ku-KIux Khan. The
sheriff has been threatened and finds 1t
almost impossible to collect taxes.
Mason county voted a few days ago
against subscription by the county OF
$4,000 Tor aiding the construction OF a
branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad from Charleston to Point
Pleasant. The majority against was
between 400 and 500.
In Wayne county the lumber busi-
ness is very prosperous. There have
been fine spring freshets and great
deal Of lumber brought down to the
Ohio aud sold at good prices. In some
parts Of the country about half the
peaches have been killed. In other
the fruit is not injured ut NIL. 1t is
likely that the people OF Wayne Will
vote on the subject of taking stock in
the Chesnpcnke and Ohio Railroad, on
the Both OF May. Cabell county will
vote ON the 18th OF the same month. and
IL Is confidently believed that both
counties will vote for the loan. Caben
county has once voted by small ma
jorityIor it, but the friends of the meas
ure thought best to bring it up again,
that II largo number OF disfranchised
property holders might have chance
to express their wishes on the question.
\ eireular urging the subscription has
been addressed to the people of these
counties BY James H, Ferguson of Ca
bell, Z. D. Ramsdell of Wayne, and l..
T. Moore Of Kauawha. Wayne voted
against subscription ut previous cleo
ton.
lie Richie County Convention TO
appoint delegates TO Clarksburg Is
called for the 10 Ii prox.
-Horfe thieves are giving trouble in
Richie and DOddridGe- In the latter
a stolen horse and the thief were cap.
tuTed couPleof weeks ago. The Press
says that on Friday night of last week,
some person visited the stable of Mr.. |
Henry Meats. OF Richie, and rode of
one OF his animals. Parties IN pursuit !
the next day found the horse hitched in
the woods. but tho thief made his way
through tie brush and escaped. Mr..
2. n. Pelrpoint, OF Huntsville, found
one OF hts horses loose in the stable the
other morning, with bride on, which
had been securely haltered the night
before. II is supposed some thief had
made every preparation for stealing
the horse, bnt had not sufficient cour-
age 10 lead him out.
The Board OF Supervisors of Kama
wha county, on the 18th of April, passed
an order appointing John S. Cunning
hsm Agent aud Commissioner to sub.
scribe on the part OF the coun.
tyot Kanawha for 6vethousand shares
OF the guaranteed per. cent. preferred
capital stock OF tho Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad Company ut the par
value OF SlO0 per share (S5O0, OOOp 1t
will be remembered the people of Kan.
RwhA voted last August to make this
subscription. The order of the Board
contains this provision:
"But the said Cunningham shall not
make said subscription until "A sum
sufficient shall have been subscribed to
said capital stock, which, together with
the subscription hereby authorized TO
be made by the County of KanRwha,
shall together amount to the sum OF
five million dollars; and conditioned
that the said sum of $500, 600 shall be
expended in the construction of said
Railroad in the County of KanRwha.p
The subscription Is to be paid in the
bonds OF the County, from time to
time, ms tho same shall be called for by
the Company.
A vote is to be taken in Monroe
county on the 3Oth inst, on the ques.
tlOn whether the county in Its corpo-
rate capacity shall subscribe to the
stock OF the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road Company.
Mr.. Wharton of the Parkersburg
North american, and Mr.. Drahosh OF
the Times, are having a piquant little
quarrel through their papers, wherein
each details his experience with the
other as partners in the newspaper
business. =
Tho Grafton Chronicle saws an
eloPement took place there one eyeninz
last week. In the language of ,be
Chronicle, s
"Mr. -, an agent in the eSDro,.
Office at Webster, lifted from untiar ~,
roof OF our neighbor Shields. one nf NJ
daughters, aud led with her 10 Penn,
sylvania, or some other place wher,
the rights of matrimony could be dniS
celebrated, and were accordingly mar
ried, and returned in due time 10 Web
ster."
-Roane county is represented as re-
markably fertile in babies, which ar
both numerous and growthy. ON
who rejoices In the cognomen of Ulys
ses Grant Terrell, on the day be was
year old, weighed AZ pounds, having