The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-22

dresses were also made by Captain r.
w. Blne, Rev. r. NJ. Wallace and
Colonel Samuel Young. L. E. David-
son, of Bennington, led In singing
awrap the flag around me, boys!''
The crowd then moved to the Ceme-
terry, and the ladies, of whom large
numbers were present, decorated the
graves of the silent sleepers with flow
ers. No grave was neglected, the roses
and evergreens falling alike upon the
resting places Of the known and the
unknown"
The Point Pleasant Register learns
the Republican meeting held at Buff
alo, Putnam county, on the 18th, was
the largest and most enthusiastic polit-
ical meeting ever held there. Those
who think that Democracy Is gaining
ground in Putnam are very much mis-
taken. She will go for our State ticket
and for Grant and Colfax by a hand
some majority.
-Caben county has voted a SUBJ
scription of $4,000 to the preferred
stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad. There were only forty votes
in, the county against the proposition.
1t is expected the Republican Con-
gressional, Senatorial and Judicial
ant on the4th prox., will be largely at.
tended. The Good Templars hold a
Convention there the same day.
The Union Senatorial and Judicial
Conventions for the 10th Senatorial
District and the 11th Judicial Circuit,
were held at New Creek last Tuesday,
Abijah Dolley, Esq, of Grant county,
was nominated for Senate, and Hon,
James p. Smith, of Kingwood, present
Judge, was nominated for reelection.
A Grant county correspondent writes
hnf 10
has for many years, but few fields
have been cut up by hail storms that
the peach crop Is very promising. but
apples are few; that money is scarce
and times hard the old grain being u.s.
ed up cleaner than 1t has ever been
known /; that the Republicans in that
region are daily growing stronger ev-
erybody for Grant AMI CoIfax and
looking for better times
1.-The freedmen of Marion county are
building themselves school house.
Judge Thos. w. Harrison, of the
Clarksburg Circuit and Judge E. B.
Hall, of the Berkeley, exchanged cir
cults last week, the former holding
court at Shepherdstown and the latter
at Fairmont.
There is to be a Sabbath School
Festival in the NJ. Z. Church at Fair
mont on the evenings of July I'd and Sd
AOE Luo DcuehJ Vi Tue C4s
School in PalRtine.
james Upton, of Marion county,
about seventy years OF age, dropped
dead while at work on his farm on the
10Th inst. On the 18th Alfred Jimeson,
of the same county, died suddenly
while sitting in his chair. Supposed to
have been heart disease in each case.
The Good Templars of Warrington
gave strawberry festival Friday even
ing last for the benefit of the NJ. e.
Church parsonage of that place.
AT an election held in Lewisburg,
on the 9th inst, the following persons
were elected corporation officers
Mayor, Oliver Hoover; Trustees,
Oliver Hoover, Joel Mcpherson, j. F.
Caldwell and Timothy Lahee.
Tho corner stone of the new n. e.
Church at Martinsburg is to be laid
with Masonic ceremonies on the 24th.
The Odd Fellows. Good TemplarS and
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
are &c join in the procession.
ON Wedn esday morning last, the
body of small infant, apparently
about week old, was found floating
on top of the water in the we'll of
Charles Ridenour, ESQ, in Martins
burg.
The Rev. W. II. Hills, OF Ale
gheny City Geological Seminary, has
been invited to supply the Presbyterian
Church at Martinburg in connection
with the General Assembly of the
United States.