The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-07
NEWS AT THE CAPITAL.
About the Schools of West Virginia.
The Fsud Between Thurman and the Cln.
clnnati EnquIrer-Tlden Talk Hushed
"A Probable Muss Among west
Virginia Dsmocrats-GsH-
eral News.
WASHINGTON, May 8.
WEST VIENNA SCHOOLS.

special 70 tue lntelli9eneef.
WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOLS.
met DR.. PendIeton, State superintend-
ent Of West Virginia Schools, yesterday
en- route for Baltimore, where he goes on
business connected with his Office. He
speaks very hopefully Of common school
education in your State, the growth Of
popular interest in the subject and
the gradual elevation Of the standard OF
instruction and improvement in the
methods Of teaching. Concerning the
latter, he says he proposes, in addition to
the usual county institutes this year, to
have four teachers institutes Of more than
usual importance, conducted by eminent
instructors from abroad, so that your
teachers may have the benefit OF obsery-
ing the latest improvements in other
States. One OF these will be held at
Clarksburg, one at Charleston, and the
other two are not determined, but will
probably be held at Martinsburg and
some point near your city.
POLITICAL.
There is little boom here for Thurman
tonight, the change in the attitude Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer Of Tuesday, presaging
a solid delegation for him at Cincinnati.
saw the old gentleman this morning at
the depot, where he was engaged in vel.
coming home the daughter who married
Lieutenant Coles sometime since, and he
looks good deal better than when he
came near throwing up his immortal soul
at Bellaire during the last canvass. It is
a noteworthy fact that never until the
time referred to, and since the war, has
the Enquirer supported Thurman heartily.
The ieud dates back TO the time when Ben
Butler and Wash Mclean bought the
Newport Neus and undertook to turn it
over to the Government at tremendous
figure. The plan got through the House
and the Senate committees, but Thurman
"bouuced" the measure in open Senate,
and killed it as dead as Julius Cesar.
Butler had enough money to tide over the
disaster, but Mclean went into bank.
ruptcy and the sulks, and his paper never
torgave Thurman until this week.
There is nobody here talking Tilden
loud enough to be heard, but some of the
politicians, with long memories, refer to
the time Immediately preceding that when
he first carried off the Democratic nomia-
ton for the Presidency, and when but one
Congressman out OF the whole number in
Washington then, supported his claim>to
that honor.
On the other side there is no change in
the situation, except that the Grant peo-
pie are not SO confident as they were
some days since. 1t is now thought, de-
spite Don Cameron's assertion to the
contrary, that the Pennsylvania delegation
cannot be held solid for the third term
candidate, and that unless Illinois can be
held straight the game is up. One OF the
indications OF their anxiety is the fact that
Logan is absent continuously from his
seat in the Senate, only coming back
when his vote is needed, and spending the
balance OF his time in illinois.
Another is that In your own State, al
though the popular sentiment among Re-
pubIicans Is conceded to be oyerwhelm.
ingly in favor OF Blaine, Mr.. Cameron's
agents have been set TO work, aud within
the past fortnight several OF them have
been busily employed in and about Mar
tinsburg and the neighboring districts OF
the Eastern Panhandle. What success
they have met with am not advised, but
my informant, who knows whereof he
speaks, informs me that they have been in
no wise chary of their promises, indi-
eating that in addition to the present
compensation for votes in the Con-
yention for Grant, will be rewarded
with future offices whether Grant
controlled the next administration or not.
Meanwhile the Blaine business here goes
on briskly. l stopped in moment last
night at the headquarters on F street, just
below the Ebbett house, and found them
we'll lighted and well filed although the
our was pretty late one.
THE STATE CANVASS.