The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-04-25
WEST VIRGINIA.

State convention should be ut Grafton Of
the 22d June, but thinks the CongressiOn
al conventions should not he held at tn
sahe time and place 1tremarks thu
each district has local questions for leSis
ion that should be acted and decided upoI
separate and apart from outside influences
The Union thinks there should be an cx
ccutivc committee for each COngrcssiOnN
district.
The West Union Herald says our oil
friend EPhraim Bee lis in failing Health
Sorry 10 hear It. The Herald remarks
that although he don't like 10 own II, ht
is breaking FIST, and bIOasoming for thai
bourne from which there is no escape, ant
from which no traveller ever returns Ba1
us Mr.! Bees health may be, It couldn't bl
moro wretchetl than this mutilation O
Shakespeare. ..g -r
THE citizens OF Harmon township, Ma
son county, have organized themselves
into II Mutual Home Protection Society Ic
resist the claim OF one E. g. Smith, u
New York, to large body of land IN
Mason, Putnam, Cabcll and Lincoln coun
ties. Smiths claim rests on u patent more
than 50 years old.
TIE Staunton HIHdicGtOr learns that OH
the night of the 9lst ulL, the dwelling
house Of Samuel Dean, about 10 miles
from franklin, PendIeton county, West
Va, was destroyed by fire. The fire
originated in the kitchen, which was en-
ycloncd in flames when the fire was dis
covered by the family, rendering Il I'M
possible 10 save the house. Some tlrni'
iure saved, but tho provisions OF tho
family were destroyed. Mr.. Deans loss
Is about $500. The same paper states that
on tie 24lh ult., Mr., Harman while
hunting wild turkeys in the mountain,
near tue same place, Franklin, act his gun
on IL log and carelessly placed his hands
on the mnzzlc, when the gun slipped from
the log, dischRrging the load through one
Of islands and tearing part of the thumb
from the other.
SAMUEL b. KIDD, formerly engaged rs
IL merchant ut Benton's Ferry, Marion
couutv iicd nj Romncy on tic 18TH
AGED 10
The Point Pleasant Register wants the
Republican Convention held Mt that place,
and wants II TO adopt a broad ANT liberal
nln,rnrm The RAoiMer takes occasion to
nunounce that If Mr.. Farnswortll should
bp nomihutrtl II will not support him. Is
moi our co,clnDorary hlsty in tlIisY 1t is
doubtless not aware TINT Mr.. Farnswortll
voted for the Flick Amendment. Yet
surh Il tho filct ..,a.
Tur Point Pleasant Register suggests
Mr.. f. W. Sisson, OF that place, as Re
nrE,;con candidate for next Auditor. We
have no doub,. Lieut., Sisson would III tho
lin very well: bu. Can't. Boggess has made
an cxccllcnt and faithful Auditor, and We
know or no reoson for snperccling him
while there arc numerous reasons against
Iit Ills is pcculiarly an office in which Il
mor moods some cxperiencc to make hi.
scrvicrs valuable In that Office the State
IL greatly the loser by frequent changes
nnS change II seems to us, ought not tt
bo made without good reason.
THE .S,nhRcl is the hest paper Grafton
Inns Ind for long time. it deserves u
! lwo,nr II permancnt md paying institu
finn anl tho editor is encouraged to be
licve il will u ....i
RAYMOND township, Taylor county, Is
cxc;tcl abouL oil.
UoN GEO. r. LATHAM, late u. $. Con
snl nj ATclbonrne arrived ut llis old home
IN Gro,fon FridayS A.. .El.ig.f}
Tur Berkeley Union. whose editor IL
President Of tho West Virginia Publishers
Association, gives notice that the nnnua
uOc,iro oC ,hc A Assoc;ation mt AIsrtinsb,irr
~, 49, An 1ou, ~, on,,, orAJov
VIII nc On ''l' l"'' nv ''","' VI " d.
THE Charleston '""r''HE wants Tue Nc
publican Convention held about the mid
die Of June, ut Martlnsburg. The AftcC
tion of the Capital for NTartinsburg don
soo,n IN Ic rccinroca,ed Judging from iii,
seem - ~ nSp1O.s p,os'Iyr", 49,, =
1one oI tl'e DofN'cy o"'""'
We nrc puzzled 10 0cterIhInc "l'"' IL
that was two feet long Was 1t the mill
or tho pole, or the pike, or tho bOyG
SUNDAY tho 18th, n tree was struck bl
u,,L1n,no o,oh, MILES from MorUantown.