The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-29
8etu Adusrttsemeuts.
RAVENNA,O OHIO.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING BEEN
l. appointed q committee, by the Gralton
Baptist Church. TO superintend the Concett'
benefit Of said Church, on the evening
the 2Sth A pril last, deem 1T duty they owe
to themselves to repel publicly, the 1aIse anu
circulation, And in order to DO TINS they
proceed to place before the public or1eI
on th he
will exonerate them from all censure, ana
stigmatize, as they deserve, those through
from the public was diverted from It's de,
stEnated course (the treasury OF our ChurchJ
and not applied as the donors aesign9 1 I5q.
Warded by our committee 10 the candidates
for diGtrlbuion: 1.-THE Grafton BAPTIST
through it, committee, on the evening OF
18th April, 1859. a Lady's Gold Watch. worth
sl25 90. to the candidate who sham Pro 9SH1es
at Is cents each, or the largest sum OF money
in the aggregate. Competitors, "; u. Hal
The candidates had these cards posted at the
head OF subscription papers and Circu!ateo
along the railroad from Wheeling 10 Cum
berland, and from here TO ParReISDuIe:
Tn cir friends were actively employed, anu
reported to us frequently that large suln 1
were being contributed Ior both Harrison
and French. No objection or com plant or
inquiry had reached the ears OF me cOnln4E
tee, until q few days previous 10 the CohceFI;
when they received a letter from MT. II;
DevrieS requesting to be informed or Inc
prog anime OF the award OF the Watch, ana
said he was acting in tho interest OF q irlehu ;
He was informed 1t should be conducted
fairly, according to the arrangement an
nounced, unless they preferred some other;
Megsrs. harrison and French were lnVlteu
| to be present, or II they could not attend ito
designate friends to represent them.
We received no other official communtcR'
tIon nom any Of the parties, previous 10 the
| evening OF the 28th, nor did they even make
known to us their unexpected and abrupt
withdrawal. a telegram was received here
ate in the afternoon OF the 2Sth by Mr.. W.
E. Porter, announcing the withdrawal of
Harrison, and also that Mr.. Harrison would
nsss here mat night on his way TO Balti-
more. Members of our committee called on
him at the Grafton House to obtain infor-
nation relative TO their action. All the In
formation he would impart was, that the
committee at Wheeling had meeting on
Monday night, and resolved 10 WI Wlthn nt1Ia
that we were enaged [to use his own Ian.
guage) in dirty work here and they would
do likewise. he also said that the commit.
| tee had received n large sum of money and
had on hand, when he left, four hundred
dollars, which he desired to bring on, but
| they would not consent We have requested
OF Mr.. Devries anu MIR. Weisgarber, who we
arc informed represent b. and f., the names
| or the malicious tattlers who communicated
| to them the hoods upon which II IS said
their action was predicated. They have not
complied; but Mr.. Devries stated 10 MEM
her OF our committee in conversation THAT
| he and his clerks had received for French, in
money and subscriptions. three thousand
they had heard that the members OF our
| Ohnrch had combined by taxing each MEM
Der SIS 20 in favor OF Or. Thayer, ana would
| which were base Publications.. DR.. Tnayer
| is not a member of our Church. One OF our
committee circulated subscription lists
among his friends and received much larger
Fhaser. -, -.
| gre ltIy injured, financially, by the above
named parties, acting seemingly, in good
| faith, until it was TOO late TO I'LL their places
with others, who would gladly have served
U.S. and who, we now believe would have
exhibited more OF the characteristics OF gem
| tlemen. We do not pretend to know what
| disposition has been made of the money
| contributed, Indirectly, Tor the benefit of our
torial which appeared in the Wheeling In
| TELLIGENCER or the 5th inst, only six days
alter the close OF our Concert, as follows:
"QuitHa lively contest Is going on among
the Railroad hands, who are voting a watch
\ to the cleverest man on the road. The con-
test is between Robert French and ": H.
Harrison. Votes to the amount of $500 10
have already been gwen"
We also know OF parties whose money
went 10 Wheeling, which has not been re-
| turned, but we do not know In whose pocket
It now Is; and further that gentleman
stated here publicly that he had collected
money for French which was yet in his own
pocket, he not remembering all the persons
from whom Il had been received: Large
election, because of the action OF The parties
| In Wheeling.
| We feel q consciousness Of having acted
| throughout in good faith and hOnOrably,
| and only make this statement in vindica
tlon OF the members Of Church, against the
| foul aspersions which have been circulated
against them.
N. B-so soon as the dispatch from Wheel
| Ing was received by Mr.. Porter he returned
| q reply TO MIR. harrison that things were all
right here; and another by Arthur Sinsel, u
| Jiember OF our committee, pledglng his
word that If any prejudicial reports had
reached them, they were false. !
VIM. MALLONEE,
ARTHUR SINSEL,
l.. MALLONEE,
I. BEVEkLIS,
FRANCIS M. SNYDER,
GEO. K. SMITH.
GRAFTON. May oath, IS 9. may29-lt