The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-15
state and Nearby Press.

The Slate Journal wants to know il the
farmers and taxpayers have any rights the
Bourbon oligarChy is bound to respect.
The Washington pa Reporter has re;
Gently moved into a new office, substituted
power for hand presses and spruced up
generally.
Byrne, the editor OF the Charleston Call,
while taking in the Dramatic Festival
made arrangements for a new dress n a
power press.
The Piedmont DispqtCh, H. Clay Hyde's
paper has been forced 10 suspend. This
speaks well for tho discrimination and
good sense OF the Piedmont people.
The Hancock county Courier has entered
on its fifteenth year. Plattenburg says he
makes no promises outside OF this-he will
get up the very best that he can and he
will do it.
The Spencer Bulletin made its appearance
last week in a neat and handsome new
dress, in the shape OF five column quarto,
printed on a new press. The Bulletin IL
congratulated on its evident prosperity.
Hardly a paper Of the many received at
this Office from all parts OF the State, re.
ceiyed the past week, but what contained
an account OF some local burglary, rob
berry or common theft. Crime seems to be
oil the rampage.
The editor OF the PArkersburg Sentinel
cuts himself loose in his last issue aad In
a lively manner calls some OF his
editorial brethren asses, crimson.headed
dudes, etc. The assessment and Equal.
ization Boards have evidently stirred up
Horner's bile.
"Republican statesmen (?) and newspa.
pers are about the only sufferers from as
sessments." = PdrkersIurg Sentinel. Just
you wait till the farmers get to paying taxes
on their lands that have had their values
whooped up by the Wheeling oligarchy
and then hear them howl.
The MoundsviIle Herald says that when
the Indian mound has been carried away
for fills on the railroad, it is expected that
the company will negotiate for the Wash
ington monument for building the Culverts
and when everything is in running order
q supply OF Egyptian mummies will prob
ably be obtained for "fring up" Sic tran.
sit gloria mound.
The Panhandle MeTS with commendabIe
enterprise allowed the big Wellsburg fire,
in which it nearly lost it's oil, to prevent
but one issue. 1t came out last week
brighter than ever and very m0destly re-
Trained from making q big blow over its
disaster us some papers would have done
Brooke county people should extend to the
NepS u generous support.
The Huntington Republican has com
menced its second year. 1t is a clean
paper, both as to makeup and matter, and
the public has seen fit 10 give il a support
that Major Peterson is Justly proud OF. In
politics 1t is active and aggressive, and has
done good work in Cabell county. Our
wish is that he may continue the same
and that his prosperity may be second to
none.
The Wat TrginiGn has the following ex'
PLANTATION: The secret is out at last in refer
ence to our numerous reaSsessments "A
big election comes oil next year, and the
aim and determination OF the Bourbon
managers is TO have a full treasury to drain
during the campaign. The party must not
90 under. A certain set Of sharpers are
determined TO live of the people. Give
the screw another turn.
The latest paper on our exchange table
is Vol. !, No. ], OF the Pocahontas Times
At last Pocahontas has come to the front,
She never had 4 paper before and should
be very happy over the handsome quarto
that Messrs. Garfield 4 Marshall have put
forth. The paper Ia commendable. all but
it's politics, which arc superlatiyely Bour.
bon. Pocahontas, with her undeveloped
resources and vast possibilities, offers quite
q vineyard for this new journal.