The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-03-07
CURRENT NOTES.

Iris pleasing to find an influential la-
per liks,theL onisyllls Coarier,JouraGl do
claring tiSt isi idle u pas laws and
make appropriations fos the encourage.
mcHf pfd llpigfGti6Q into Kentucky until
she Can 66aSt common school system rs
inviting us that Of the competing States.
II says that the State, instead Of receiving
large acCessions from the skilled and e(lu-
Gated agriculturisls and artisans Of Europe,
has lost the annual increase Of It's own
population by emigration to the region Of
common schools.
Cos. BUTLER has at last achieved u pet
object Of lis ambition. lie lIas Instituted
IN investigation, into tho newspapers,
those institutions whose LOFTY superior he
prOclaims himself Just before the I'D.
iournment on Wednesday, when half
the House were out Of their seats, he push
cd through u resolution as u question Of
privilege, instructing the Judiciary Com
inittee to inquire how the evidence in the
gold case got into the newspapers, aud
also whether any measure can bCtakCn to
prevent tho publication Of newspaper nj.
iaclls OH members of Congress, having for
their object the leyying Of blaCklnatl.
This will give the indciatigable General 4
chance TO haul some Of his newspaper
friends over the Goals. There ID general
impression among the newspaper folks
that ifhG can stand It they can.
REv. II. w. BEEcHER has recently writ.
ten a letter to o person who for several
weeks has been making IN unwarrantablC
use of his name. The offending individual
has been addressing letters to Mr.. BecCher,
implying that the two wcrciu correspond.
CnCe, and that the clergyman was in sym.
pathy with the writer in his method Of
treatment Of certain class Of surgical
cases, and then publishing the letters us
advertisements. Mr.. BcGcllcr, alter stat
Ing these facts, concludes: u regard your
action towards me US an impertincnCe, and
your treatment Of the public as adeliberatG
swinllC," and adds, us u postsCriptun,
"This letter, the only one which ! have
ever addressed 10 you, You arc ut liberty
to publish" This course Of conduct
which Mr.. BcGcher has rGbukcd las be.
come very common Of late, and should be
punished by an utter disregard Of tho
article which Is presented 10 the public In
such IN uniustltldble way.
Tue cadet investigation has brought
out the name Of John A. Griswold, n
Representative from New York, in II con-
nection fur from complimentary, and the
Republican candidate for Governor Is, in
some quarters, alleged to be the man.
This is IL mistake. Lion. John A. Girls
void, of Troy, who was Il member Of the
FOrtiGth Congress, has no seat there now,
and is in no manner affected by the In
vestigatiOn. The John A. Griswold with
whose name gossip has been busy resides
ut Catskill, ind is the Democratic Repre-
sentative Of tho Thirteenth District
THE Lancaster (Pa,) Examiner, having
been told that the Border Damage bill
amounting to over two millions and half
is u put.up job, and that "the corruption
fund is twenty per cent, or over $54O, OOO,"
calls upon the men Of Pennsylvania Ia
turn their eyes upon their Legislators, and
says: The votes IRE bought, and II Is only
a question il you will submit to DO thus
robbed md plundGred, or go to Harrisburg
on MUSE anil drive the thiGying r1IsCals
into the Susquchanna River"
AN Illinois papcr reports TINT tic Dem.
OCrats Of Decatur, in that State. have
nominated IN intelligent and popular gen.
tlcman Of color, who is named White, for
Mayor.
PRESIDENT GRANT says he hopes Con.
greSs will adjourn carly, so tlat he can 80
To Long Branch in June.