The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-01-06
CAPITAL ITEMS.

From he ChGrisstOa Courier.
The thermometer on Friday night
stood eight degrees below zero.
Navigation suspended without sign
Of warning. The river closed within
twelve hours after the freezing got to
work In downright earnest.
The cold snap has sent the price Of
coal up spinning This commodity Is
now ballooning It in the upper armament
Of high figures.
"A senii.weekly mail from Charleston
to Galllpolis is promised during the pend
Ing Irigidity.
The latest Cincinnati papers that have
come to hand were manufactured about
the middle Of last week. 1850
The State archives and offices have
been transferred to the new Capitol,
where the Government comfortably occu-
pies It's permanent seat" The transfer
was affected without damage, and tho peO-
pie Of Central Avenue are In ecstacy over
the aristOCratic air which an actual ocCu-
pied State House lends to their neighbor.
hood.
[Guess the Governors seat is rather
more permanent than he likes. He has
been wanting to get away from Charles.
ton, for visit in this direction, for ten
days past, and can't, The Permanent
Seal" is u little too permanent now for
convenience.
From he CharieSton Journal. 4.
The Council held a meeting on Satur-
day evening last to take action on the late
election held TO condemn the burnt dis.
triCt, and as the voice Of the people was
emphatiCally for Condemning, rs u matter
OF course II was expected that the Council
would promptly condemn the district re.
ferred to, Did they do its No.
Never mind; when the Legislature
gets there they will promptly condemn
tho whole town.
The thermometer on Saturday morn.
ing last stood six degrees below zero; the
Kanawha and Elk rivers arc frozen over
strong enough to bear scores and scores
OF persons who arc almost constantly
amusing themselves by skating. We
have not examined the thickness Of the
ice, but arc informed that 1t Is very heavy
and Is still forming. The Aanie Laurie
Mountain Boy, IlciirG, Ianths, and Mule,
are all laid up ut the mouth OEthe Elk.
Charleston is now completely iee.olated.
Wa have had no mails except from the
East, by stage, since the middle of last
week, but aTe expecting daily the West
crn mail To reach us by hack. We hope
1t will soon arrive,
MIR. 4. +. Moore offers Tor sale one
thru interest Of the Charleston Journal,
price $4,000. A good opening Tor prac-
teal printer,
From TIE Charleston RrpniIiea".
Christmas is going II wild in town
Free egg noggS and other kinds oil StCdnn
kontS seem u bu the Onler Of tho day.
The regular freezing Christmas weather
has the effect Of turning all tho pleasure
seekers from the streets 10 the drinking
saloons, and, consequently the day and
night arc made hidGOlls by thc'drunkcn
jewellers. a.t
-Of all the drunken crowds We have
ever seen, with one exception. q. the
occasion Of u Radical barbecue, two years
agO,) the worst las been on our streets
during the last few days. or course, con-
siderable latitude Is expected Tor the holi.
days, but when men so fur lose control of
themselves rs to go whooping and curslng
through the streets, Il seems TO us that the
police should take them In charge, even II
II Is Christmas.
We tremble Tor The members Of the
Legislature, and sympathizc with the anx.
iety of the families anil friends they will
leave behind. What will become of them
and their temperance principles in such u
bacclanallan tOwnyl