The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-02-17
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS.

that iron ore has been discovered on
Campbell's creek, West Virginia, near
the Kanawha river, on the lands of
John D. Lewis and the Steele Survey,
the seem averaging twenty.six inches
III thickness. Gen. Lewis Ruffner and
others are organizing a company to
erect n furnace.
The Register hoists the name of Gem
eral Grant for the Presidency. So also
does the Monroe Republican and the
kanawha Journal.
The Berkely Union suggests that the
extra session of the Legislature for the
consideration of the code, can be held
at Martinsburg.
The editorial correspondence of the
Union (written by Mr.. Hoke, a member
of the Senate) expresses. .the opinion
that the usury laws will be amended,
and law to allow interested parties to
testify will be enacted. at the present
session.
The Wellsburg Herald says there Is
great demand for tenements in that an
cient town.
The Herald relates the latest instance
of a "negro outrage:"
a gentleman of this town recently
lost a valuable gold watch; it was short
ly afterward voluntarily returned to
him by colOred individual who found
it, and thus another addition Is made
to the list OF negro outrages. A good
many white folks would have kept the
watch until it was advertised, and
claimed the reward offered, If, indeed,
they wouldhave been able to withstand
the temptation to keep it altogether.
New PAPER.-we have received the
first number of The EUenim0 North
american, a new paper just started by
our friend James E. Wharton. 1t
proposes to be independent OF all men
and:parties, and is established for the
purpose of proving that the National
debt ought to be paid in greenbacks,
to the study of which subject he says
he has, since he left the Times, devoted
all the time could spare from his gar
den. So that we may soon look for
something luminous on this subject.
with his paper, though none with his
theory.
K. G. Give learn from the Preston
County Journal that there is in that
county some sort of secret organization
of the Democracy akin to the Knights
the Golden Circle. The Journal con-
tains letter from Major Zinn OF the
State Senate who stumbled on lodge
there one night and relates what he
saw and heard.
We hear that Mr.. Boyd, of the Fair
mont Vedette, proposes to remove to
Weston aud establish his paper there.
The Wellsburg Herald is in error In
saying The bill to restore Alpheus F.
Raymond to the privilege of practis-
ing lawyer has become law. The bill
has not yet been passed by the Senate.
The following paragraph Is copied
verbatim, and e1rGtim from the Par
kersburg North american:
THE STvTE CAPITOL.-FrOm private
letter from afriend that Buckhannon
has exerted her full strongth; and that
burg and this city. The letter also
states that the prospects for Parkeos-
burg are very hatter.
Are we to understand that the pros.
poets OF Parkersburg are SO very fiat
as to require it to be expressed in the
comparative degree of the adjectiveP
The South Branch LntelEigeneer mem
tions rumor which it says "reached
US from an intelligent friend abroad, !"
of changes in the Judiciary OF that Cir
cult, which rumor is to the effect that
Hon. f. B. Hall, of that Circuit (the
Tenth,) is to go on the Bench of the
Court of Appeals lin place of Judge
Harrison, whose resignation in conse-
quence of i'll health is looked for,) and
that Senator Chapline, OF Jefferson is
TO take his place on the Circuit Bench.
The barn of Mr.. Frank Gardner,
three miles from Charlestown, JefFer-
son county, was destroyed by fire,
Saturday night, tthe sth.) Loss, 81, 900
or $1,000. The Free Press complains
that thieves and incendiaries infest the
surrounding country.
General Ruffner, OF Charleston, has
been in New York the past week, rep
resenting the stockholders of the Ka-
nawha region in the organization of
the Great Kanawha Navigation Com
pany.