The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-15
AN INTERESTING LETTER.

Washington?
AN INTERESTING LETTER.
Some Impressions OF Third District
Way nnreF-P0IItics and POIItIcInnS-
The knights Of Labor and the Green.
bRckcra-CRpItAI Removal Rnd AppFO.
pFIatI0nA-I IO0nShInera and Federal
Court IndIetmenis-The business HItuR.
ton Rnd Prospect.
CHARLESTON, KANAwHA Co., Nov. II.
ElitOr5 IntelliEentsr.
Your correspondent reached this point
more than week since, coming by the
way Of Gordonsvile, and is convinced,
Notwithstanding the increase in distance,
that during tho low water season, the
route from Wheeling via Washington, to
Charleston, although the longest way
round, Is the shortest way home. Bust.
ness along the line Of the G. & o. r. r.
and the river above seemed to DO little
depressed, tho coal men being apparent
ly discouraged over the labor prospect and
the continued low water, and the lumber
men being completely disguised over the
latter. In many respects the season has
been unprecedented. The rain fall in the
Kanawha valley for the last three months
has amounted to nothing, the only water
in the Kanawha being furnished from
New river, which heads somewhere in
North Carolina, and the temperature con.
tinues to range from moderate to unpleas-
Antly warm weather While | write the
hotel Ioungers at the Hale House are tilt
cd back inthe shade on the front porChes,
and in the evenings they pull their chairs
out on tho bricks and diJcuss art, science,
greenbacks and general literature, under
the chaste light OF the stars. All this, not.
withstanding the month OF November is
nearly half completed. There Is some.
thingin Col. Ben. Smiths perennial sum.
mer. By the way, tho old gentlemen
reached his eighty.Gfth birthday q few
days since, and is q good deal better pre-.
served than tho community in which he
lives. The latter seems 10 have suffered
reaction from the boom which prevailed
about the time the Capital first nestled
here, and looks as untidy and fOrlorn as It
then appeared fresh and enterprising.
Business men here, however, speak con,
ldently Of the future Of this neighbor.
hood, and with its situation and surround.
ings,it ought to be the manufacturing cen.
ire Of the State. In some future letter l
may furnish some interesting data on this
point collected by some Of the few people
here who are really working lntelligently
and earnestly to develop its resources.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT CouRF.
Just now Jury session Of the U. S. Dis
lrict Court makes ripple in the other.
wise placid current of events here. 1t
brings a very diversified assCmblage
from the sleek politician, who chad a lit.
tie business to look after" and happened
in to the rugged mountaineer, who most
wore horse in two pe,ldling whisky in
tho h,rl cor,,;o, T" or1 ,rLo a.,:
C,a.,, ~, ""'''o' ""u %uo 'E'ie on
o'o,N Moo'e summons anu Marshal Pat
toms invitation.
Judge Jacksou's charge to the Grand
Jury was something more than the usual
e"Ii"S VI H1'cn''oti 10 Ilc VARIOUS KINDS OF
offences that awaited its action, and
which the District Attorney would hr;ry
10 its notice. IIo instructed n fllv ~ 20
IA, -, AL -. 80 " my 40 "
10 lo"e'" ""u P'''"esVS Atlu tue good 1t
could accomplish by searching out and
presenting any form Of Iawlessnesg which
ihe limited Sia,cs Sto,ntes reached ,.ho,h
- +, - - ~, IL. ~ ,., "netn'
Ut u eAlsleG WltIlih lhe knowledge oil tho
E members ~; ~ 'nc Jury OF vas Drought be-
MY InIe u III Li'e coHIso OF i'h HelOerattons,
a lHo result Nus pegn mat very earnest
eIlott has Oeen haGe ny inc Grand Jury
70 CORRECT HOuSes wherever Iound-n0ta-
nly III cases oil willlul iniFactionS Of the
Revenue laws, and several hundred in.
ulctlienIs VIII W presented ny II mat Will
oSI'NsIon pe'S'''ehI oucHucFs u S9Od deal
" T HU"U ns",on. ,,.,,d 1,.,. ,z..n
cont";r ~" ~ az. " aoi 1 s ~ not1gie as
oU"s i.a,S ~" ,i as 49,, Io'"TSu uTahH Juror
ed no,, n" n, M Wy I,e' LIE IL at t
isimss nr m% ~ , MHa .ny ra, 'tUti LeI'
c;cTt ,~S " Th35ro "t .SnI Hnu SIl'
c"I"soi "' 'ar ime!I Ae seEslN Otner
tbiS hoi;" Sn "s" na tne peLii Jurors, but
i".n,,a. G;S sasn,, hAS occuF'eu IN several
'O' Mr., ~ ,Gn ,si,,o,,o, ,,n,,,,
coSoS oaS ~ , W. " iil,;I; summoned IN the
TS u ln1'' NSt ,La, ate curious Speei'
n mUmS; some o. unem ax John Coles
s wnon ~ I"p11Ou u.1a t"e m, h9 lank
H." "t S,otN o Huu C , tHsy w. around
iSS,. s"oo I'JJ 'T TEo; ,AT uyps'es' Whom
ONs;v 'eoe ,haT I nnc't language IS rs
TsEHT NJ WELT appcGIhanGS. One, being
Sv II Ky mE TH ,! 'IH revenue officers
S!c mo SnonIa ~ VII III i'T.n lst January
v ~ PoV .p.I s,u nv MnGW one man
w Wno W. ..., acItIy 4nteT,InnPleu ny II,
w. MoS' o. ine TltnessGs are likewise uelend'
anus ana . uIsSusted revenue queer here
Ion r. tHS remSIk a SS%S S o. INC ,SI SetHa-
long 10 another rNcNm ' O"'' ''0y oe'