The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-19
Yves. Virginia Political l,em,.

West Virginia Political Items.
General Gof has requested Col. Ben
Wilson to meet him at Wheeling and
other points for joint discussion.
Our correspondent. at Grafton Informs
US that Mr.. Faulkner Is to speak at
fruntytown next Monday. and that It h
possible Mr.. Boteler will be on hand
to meet him.
Lot Bowen Is q candidate ior the Leg
iSlAture in Harrison county. He was ar
early and jealous union man In the war
The Parkersburg Tines supports Gen
Gof for Congress and the. Democratic
local ticket for the Legislature.
The MorgSntown Post speaks of Mr..
Hagans as having been "unluS.ly slaugh-
tered" al the Cranberry Summit ConVen-
ton.
The Weston Democrat says that "in the
paths which the Democratic party treadi
we sec the foot prints Of Washington,
Jefferson, Madison and Adams" How
abou, Horace Greeley's trackss Do you
discover any Of themr
The Pdnhandb Nens wants 10 know
where General Gofi Is, and says;
He was expected here on Monday last
Our friends, Good and Cracraft, were long.
ing for brush with him. II would have
msde things lively" ,--
Genl. Goff 10 Just at this time trying to
engage the attention OF Col, Ben: Wilson
with view TO making things lively
here in Wheeling.
In declining to 10 be a candidate for
Congress Mr.. Wiley says:
"There are reasons Of personal and
private character which l dare not dis
regard, and cannot control, which render
II absolutely impossible for me, at this par.
ticular juncture, 10 perform this essential
service"
Glass, Of the Wellsburg Nep,, is pan.
ming out vigorously as Democrat since
the demise Of tho Independent. Here Is q
specimen:
The people Of Brooke County are un-
der lasting obligations TO J. HANSON
Coop, Esq, and the Hon. Z. G. CRA-
CRAFT, OF Wheeling, Tor the signal service
they rendered the democratic party, on
Monday last, In their earnest advocacy OF
the CLAIMS OF honest BEN WILSON"
James Archer, Lsander Browning, ].
G. Jacob, s. 8. Quest, William Jones,
andJ. W. Lattimer, candidates for va
rlous offices in Brooke county, publish a
card setting forth that inasmuch as they
are not able TO agree among themselves
as to "who shall have preference on the
Independent ticket" therefore they tissue
acall to the voters Of Brooke couaty, who
do not favor the nominations made by the
Democratic party, 10 assemble at their
several voting places throughout the
county, on Saturday, the 2G!h day Of Sep.
tember, at the country precincts at three
o'clock p, NJ and in Wellsburg at seven
o'clock p. NJ, and determine by ballot
their choice Of the several candidates an.
nounced."
SThe Town Sergeant ol Moundsville
publishes card in yesterdays Reporter
setting forth that the Hon. B. W. Price
(5enatoD hauled passengers Tor hire 10 and
from the late Camp Meeting. He says
that, this man, although very well of
in the possession of this worlds goods, had
out his two.horse spring wagon for the
purpose Of competing with poor men who
make living at this kind Of business, and
when the said Hon. was called upon by
the proper authorized officer Of the town
TO pay the license tax assessed by said
town on two-horse vehicles for the priv
ilegc OF carrying passengers to and from
the camp ground, he became proiusely
boisterous and vehemently refused to
pay"
Ex Governor Joe johnson, who lives
at Bridgeport, Harrison county, is now in
his S9th year. A correspondent OF the
Religious Herald visited him lately and
speaks OF him as follows:
In all my travels, in both hemispheres'
have seldom net person 20 easy In all
his manners as Governor johnson. He
served fourteen sessions In Congress, was
elected Governor Of Virginia, besides be-
ing five times elected to the Legislature,
and once TO Constitutional Convention.
He is emphaticahy the last oi past gen.
GRAFTON. He was In Congress with Clay,
Webster. Calhoun, Hayne, Silas Wright,
Martin Van Buren,, Thomas Fl. Benton,
and that class oi men who are now all
gone. 1t was pleasing 10 hear him delin.
cate the character Of each OF these great
men, who performed so important part
In their day. Born In 1885. he is older
than the Constitution Of the United States
has lived 10 see twenty.four States added
10 the glorious thirteen, and the popula
ton increase from four TO forty millions
Heremembers when the country mourned
the death OF Washington, and has been
personally acquainted with the Presidents
from Jefferson TO Buchanan. In all his
long and eventual life there has never
rested stain upon his public or private
character.
According to q correspondent OF the
Clarksburg Telegraph a "Sang Diggers''
Convention was held in Webster County
on the Slst ult, consisting Of representa-
tiyes from Braxton, Webster and Poca-
hontss counties. "The schoolmaster OF Q
certain community drafted the preamble