The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-02-20
Our steuheqylIIe Letter,
srEupENvu.LR, February 70,

SrEulBNNE'Lki PGDEuAFy ~
Editors IntOllsCncGr;
As the readers OF tho INTELLIdENCER
are perhaps aware, SteubenVille Is now
the seat of very criminal sensation, Ow-
inc TO tho recent denouements OF Crimi-
nal nature in our city. Isolated out
breaks Of crime ut intervals, followed by
no adequte punishment, resulted in the
heightened chapter Of zip which hos
been deyeloPea during tRe Past lev
weeks, and az d seQuenEe' bt''thts, public
camor beCauio loud astO whetheRiit was
not high time that the law shOuldihsscrt
its majesty, II not il was considered
that the steubeRyille moral and social
fabric had beat DO pulled down and re-
built OH different basis, In unison
with public opinion, the Herald and NCWs
asked somewhat vigorously "whether muir
der was to gibber and move at our court
Of law, and Justice shrink from her
duty" and "whethet our beautiful temple
Of Justice was TO DO buta cold mausOlCum
erected over tho fallen goddess that was
wont to preside thercF'
The GaattC then took up tho cue, but
went at tho matter In somewhat stronger
terms by saying that "it was u wCll-ltnown
iact that criminal trials In our County
Court wcre now mere farce" coupled
with other remarks synonymous In their
pointed tone. Official circles are Of
course somewhat lively since Inc pres!
has got into their "wOOl." The judge Of
the court ia al present absent from home,
and Il Is matter d some speculation IA
to what view he will take, particularly
Of tho Gasettes remarks Not long ago
the prosecuting attorney OF our county
rot into journalism, and criticised the
same Judge somewhat caustically as TO
hls manner Of doing things, but was
eventually compelled to cancel out large
areas Of Ills statement, What sequences
may follow from these later cases Is only
matter Of conjecture, but there y a'l
opinion about town that t"thete VIII be
hin ahead.at f5i'NE o tSatH w
Aside from surmises connected with the
above, the leading topic now is the local
spring elections. BY reason Of victories
last fall owing y, that potent i1iiticnGSe IN
Steubcnylllo politics, knownas "bcer,n the
Democracy feel quito jubilant over their
prospects, in April. They are making
every effort to capture tic GelmaTl vote,
which here has been almost n EGssd he:
publican, de well As The English snd
Scotch Of the same political faith. a
large number ofyouthiu l Americans who
believe In their foaming beverage alter
their days labor, have been threatening q
stampede in tue same direction. The Re-
publican leaders however arc not TO l,e
caught mapping. The present Council,
who PASSED the celebrated "iron clad beet
ordinance" will probably be ignored al
tho Republican primaries, and gentlemen
OF more liberal views substituted. !,
Ia believed that such action viii
preserve tho party intaCtTTeycn ole
live 0ProhibitohistS" contedc this. The
fact Is, prohibition laws In our city, "a II
other States, have proven u total failure
No one denies that there are more saloohI
In the city to-day than at any time during
liz history, They dot nearly every dotot
Of some Of our streets, and despite The
money pressure Of the times al seem e e
thrive, Mani! good .citi1Sne, believe tltHagl
rigid license law would be the most
available enactment in our city now tC
clean out about hundred or so OF the
low doggcries that do more mischief II
one day Than many aOf the other SALOONS
do In d whole year.
steubenyille Is to be adorned next yeal
by many new biitdihgA . ProminC4
among these will be two mammoth ~ nHsl
ness houses by VIM. Dopgherty, on Ihirtt
street, and b. McCohVille oh NUrtl
Fourth street-both gentlemen we'll
known merchants here. II y also con
tldently expected that our leading ftreSl
Market, Nillbe ,impt6yed b n 4aE, NE
Hdamized pavement. BY Springthe lare
Cochran building on that street will b.
completed y 4 4 lFiOteF ARFgsq1Fpffr IN RfSS'