The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-27
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The Monroe County fW. Va,) Regiale'
seems to be in need Of information in re
gard to the status of,reSl sstits In Wheel,
ing, judging from the following paragraph
in its last Ee,is issqsboo9 = a@aa sIr
The Wheeling men charge the opposi'
lion 70 removal, % cOrner.lOt speculators
IN Charleston, That is very bad taste
indeed, considering the course Of real es-
tate quotations. in Wheeling and PaEkeTS'
burg under the Influence OF removal tele-
grams from Charleston" u 20 ~ '-'-'@
One would suppose from this para
graph that there was a real estate bOnrse
in both Wheeling and PaFkerPbhrg, and
that daily, aud .peFlnFsh6nrlS ootneT.lot
quotations had BEEN c telsgtaphed 10
Charleston during the session OF the last
legislature, showing the feverishness Of
the real estate market as the prospects
lor removal to Wheeling waxed or
wlned. A stranger reading the remark
ot the Register would naturally come to
some such conclusion. Nothing, how
ever, could be further from the truth.
II is d TACT we'll known here, even II II
:, not understood abroad, that the
removal of the Capital from Wheeling to
Charleston in 1870 never affected the
price of real estate among US one iota. Pro-
pcrty brought just aSmuch afterwards as
before, No corner-lot bubble was burst
ed by that aSt. hiWhSSIing was not
shown to rest upon such sandy fOunda.
tion, Our own people we'll knew what
had made Wheeling, and they never for
moment cOnfounded our prospects with
the permanency Of the Capital,
Notso, however, with Charleston. No
sooner had the bill passed removing the
Capital to that place than real estate
excitement set in. Gorner.lot platS were
sent up even here, with view to giving
onrpeoplc a chance to invest insome very
choice pieces Of real estate. WerecOllect
seeing one Of these plas in the hands Of
the able.bodied Senator from POcahontaS,
the Hon. and Rev. Sam Young. We
never heard, however, Of anybody here.
abouts investing. Wheeling people have
never gone much on real estate since
lS12-the time the Baltimore 4 Ohio road
va, opened to this city. They got
lesson then that has SatisRed them.
We have all along alluded TO the in
junction obtained from poor old Quack
Medicine Ward, restraining the removal
Of the Capital to Wheeling, as in the
nature Of corner.lbt affair on the part
oi certain prime movers at Charleston.
In fact the "orators" who went down 10
Jericho and prostrnted themselves at
the feet Of old Magic Relief, rs he
sat cross,leggel in his cabin brewing bis
"yarbs," expressly sci forth in their peti.
ton to him thatit he did not take pity on
their situation and come to their relief by
granting an injunction against the re-
moval Of the Capital, that "the individual
interests Of your orators, especially, will
thereby be materially and irreparably
injured and affected by the certain dc
"prcclation In valhe of their real estate,
"and the depression Of their business in
said city of Charleston" ,..,.,--,
No ono can doubt that the key To ihe
whole injunction business Is expressed in
these few words which we have quoted.
purely speculative affair, gotten up
to subseste priyS,e ends and hSs as little
10 redeem Il in the way Of "pGblic policy"
as any close corporation movement ever
set on ioosin the State And yet to sub
serve such ends the two most important
departments Of The government have been
set at defiance and the public peace jeop-
ardiled, and the good name Of the State
brought into reproach before the country