The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-04-24

frame school houses. Who ever tAy 3
whit0 frame school house In West Vir.
sinie before tho war; The farm build.
inRs and the fences had also been greatly
improved. There was nothing left totell
OF war. But then there never had been
any war hereabouts. The battle OF Phil.
lipi" Is q myth, sayeinthe books, as bat
Tie. II was simply an escapade Of fifteen
hundred Virginia troops, ofticered BY Col.
Porterheld, Capt. Bill Thompson, Capt.
Tom Bradford and one or two other equ.
ally raw miliiamen. II passes, however,
forthe Lexington OF our civil wal, and so let
II pass. In 1861 II will be O centennial
Mecca, and the President and Cabinet will
come out from Washington Just as they
went 10 Lexington, Mass, five years ago.
Phillip Is Q big name in history. Il was
at Phillip that the battle between Brutus,
and Cassius on one side, and Anthony and
Oetayius on the other, was fought. "Thou
shall see me at Phillipi,p said Caesars
ghost to Brutus that awful night In the
tent, and sure enough he did. In CO.
memoration OF that historic struggle Q
Roman Emperor undertook to make q
great place out OF ancient Phillip, but the
attempt was q failure. Maybe we viii
have better luck with our modern Phil
lipt. -.
for Jersey wagon load of passengers 70 get
through from Webster 10 Phillip. II
costs as much to get goods from Webster
TO Phillip as II does from Baltimore 70
Webster. So much for not having rail-.
road. said to the driver, 'are not yeurI
people very anxious for railroad?'
And | was surprised to hear him say that
they we're comparatively Indifferent on the
subject. And yet after hearing that UP
shur county had voted down the proposi'
ZION To subscribe $4,000 to the extension
OF the Weston narrow gauge TO that point,
| | need not have been surprised to hear
that Barbour county was likewise indif
erent on the subject Of railroads. It's tne
old story Of good many funerals BENG
needed. -, -,
worth along the pike we were travelling
"Anywhere from $50 to $40 per acre,
said he. Such cattle men as Reuber
Dawson, Harvey Woodford, A. B
Modlsett and others, have large bodies Q
Hand worth on an average $50 per acre, ant
on this they herd hundreds Of cattle II
the course OF year. What sheep are Y
1.-The Panhandle counties cattle are 7
Taylor, Barbour, Harrison and Levi
counties. But q change is fast takini
: place whereby cattle are giving way =
! sheep. West Virginia is yet bound to b.
he sheep country Of America. Aproposi
t ton TO put the dog law in force is nov
,+pending in Barbour, and II it does no
carry this time it will next
CROSSING THE RIVER.
; twas Just getting dark as We descended
the hill and passed through the doubl
tracked covered bridge that spans tn
Tygares Valley river at Phillip. Their
was the same old bridge, and there wa
the same old river, and before us was tn
yillage-all looking so very natural that
never occurred to met ask whose beeI
. here since I've been away" And yet
good many people had come and gon
since then, including Jones raiders an
Mulligan's cavalry, and several other pei
sons. The song Of the riyulet might wei
3 DO the song OF the river.
al sINo more by me-