The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-22
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Pan Handle Ne,OS learns that
the Morgantown Constitution is soon to
be revived, under the management of a
gentleman from Uniontown, Pa.
"A thief last week stole twenty OF
more full blooded Brahma Pootra
chickens from General Northcott, OF
the Clarksburg Telegraph. The General
gives notice that he has a lot OF hog
meat In his smoke house, and promises
funeral to anybody that will come to
steal 1t. We should like to know what
business an editor with twenty Brahma
Pootra chickens and lot of hog meat
has to complain OF hard times.
Mrs. Fort, of Baltimore, aged be-
tween So and 60, died suddenly ofheart
disease Mt 'Clarksburg,o on Saturday, 18th
inst, while on visit to her daughter,
Mrs. A. p. DAVIDSON, in that place. She
had been slightly i'll for week, and
on Saturday suddenly felt worse, walk
ed to bed, and in few minutes was
dead.
Elk township, Barbour county, re-
joices In the discovery on Jacob Hud-
kin's land offs ~ foot vein OF what is
supposed to be cannel.coal. Tho editor
of the Clarksburg Conservative, how
ever, has seen IL specimen and thinks 1t
is no such thing.
Lands about Bridgeport, Harrison
county, sell for $50 per acre.
The Parkersburg Times urges the
Of haf ri U fN h$4E 81
fire engine and to "fence the Washing
ton street graveyard" If not able TO
buy steam engine now, it suggests
the purchase of the hand engines now
offered for sale by this city.
The examination Mt West Liberty
Academy occurred OH the 10Th and 18th
inst. Prof. Frazier who is well-known
in this region as successful teacher
has had charge of tho institution for
tho last six months, and according to a
correspondent of the Wellsburg Her
uII, the examination showed that the
time had been we'll spent. While all
tho classes did credit 10 themselves and
their teachers, he makes special men,
ton of those in higher Arithmetic,
Latin and Greek.
Charles b. Prather, an old citizen
of Wellsburg, died few days ago at
Cincinnati, where he has been for
several years located of inflamatory
rheumatism.
The Parkersburg Times thinks the
bill to strengthen the public credit re-
Gently passed by Congress and APPROX
ed 10y the President will result in n
detriment to the public credit. The
immediate rise in Government securi-
ties which followed the announcement
in Europe looks like it.
An election for town officers in
Wellsburg takes place on the first
Thursday in April. The Herald ad-
vocates making distinc. issue of the
whisky license question. The Herald
says:
The Republican party has claimed to
be the party of temperance and has
rightly fixed upon the so-called De-
mocraCy the Odium OF being the apollo
gists of whisky drinking and the pro-
moters of intemperance. Let the Re-
publican party now stand by its prin-
ciples in this respect and compel the
other party by whateyer name known,
to take the unenviable position, that
some of its iuglemen would like to lie
it out OF. Let it stand condemned be-
fore tho people as the advocate of
vice. Let it not deny the record.
Last spring, the issue was distinctly
made, and without charging individu-
ais of the party unjustly, 1t is emphat-
ically true that the so. called Democrat
ic party, last Spring, not only conduct
ed the canvass on whisky platform,
but that they claimed as victory the
election OF license board. 1t is con-
venient now to deny it, when the evil
of licensed liquor selling is seen and it
has become unpopular, but Is is none
the less true. The fact of there being
as many whisky-sOaks in one party as
the other, if it Is a fact, which Is denied,
has nothing to do with the subject. The
fact stands out plainly and distinctly,
that wherever whisky drinking in any
shape has been a question AT the polls,
the Democracy, so-called, has always
been associated in name with the vice;
has always arrayed itself in advocacy
of license, and the opposition to free
whisky has always been from the class
of people that now constitute the Re-
publican party.
Co. E., 81 U. S. Infantry, under
command OF Major G. II. Mclaughlin,
which has been stationed at Union,
Monroe county, left that place on the
18th inst, for Montana. Co. +. 45Ih
U. S. Infantry, has taken its place.
ON the 9Th inst, the house belonging
to the Red Sulphur Springs Company,
Monroe county, occupied by the color
ed people of the township for a school
house was burned down. Supposed TO
be the work of an incendIary, and done
for the purpose of breaking up the
school.
The Point Pleasant Register has
concluded to "accept" the Constitution
al Amendment.
The smoke house of Mr.. BalIing.
err. of Mill Creek, Berkeley county, was
broken open on the night of the 18th
inst, and robbed of 200 pounds of ba-
con. The previous night several hum
bred pounds of bacon were stolen from
Sol. Thornburg, of the Same county.
"Save your bacon" is now the motto
down there.
The Republicans of Martinsburg
are to elect postmaster on the third OF
April-that is they are to elect man
who will receive the endorsement OF
their Congressman. There Is so much
division among the people there as to
who shall be postmaster, that this meth
Cd is adopted to prevent rupture
among the Republicans. The office is
worth 81, 300 per annum.
The Kanawha Journal replying to
recent paragraph in this paper in