The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-04-27
A CELEBRATED CASE.
WM. .. DOUGLASS AaAIN ON rRIAL

A U|ELEBKAIEU UASE.
VIM. Q. DOUGLASS AGAIN ON TRIAL
For Ii, nurdtr Of H.l.sr, the Hall Carrier, IL
Graai cOuAty-A Belief THAT 10 viii sOt Fare
Better rhaa On BIS Prtvlols Hearing.
una.uIl Array Of Legal Talent.
The trial OF William Seymour Douglass for
the murder Of David HsIser the mail carrier,
committed in Grant county, W. Va, on the
Sd day ot::April, 1877, is now in progress be.
fore the Court OF Mineral county, having
been transferred from the Grant county
Court on petition OF the prisoner. All oil
Tuesday and Wednesday were consumed In
finding u jury and swearing witnesses. About
10 witnesses have beer sumoned on behalf 81
the State, and only four or five for the de
fence. r. NJ. Reynolds, prosecuting attorney
ofGant connty. Hunt. W. Daily, Prosecuting
Attorney for Aioeral county, and w. +.
Dyer, OF Peter. arg, have charge OF the
prosecution; while Col. Robert White, oil
Wheeling, 8. L. Fleurnoy, Of Romney. and
A. 3. Pugh. Of Petersburg, are retained for the
defense. Much interest attaches to the case,
and the town is full OF strangers from the
neighboring counties. The general impress
slon prevails that the prisoner will not fare
any better than ut his previous trial.
Business 10 looking up Ia Keyser aud the
spring Is making o very encouraging open
Ing. -tg.,s
The city Of Charleston, this State, pays it
mayor q salary OF $500 per annum.
Ten tons OF wagon hubs were recently
shipped from Charleston 70 81 Louis ut one
time.
Morgantown Is to have 4 large three-story
Touring mill in addition to those already in
the county.
An effort Is being made u have 0 postofice
established ut the Wheeling Creek coal mines,
near Bridgeport
A few evenings since q dozen immigrant,
Just over from Scotland reached Toronto, o.,
and took up their residence there.
The Odd Fellows OF s%teubenyille celebrated
the aiIty.fourtn anniversary Of the order by
giving o grand ball last evening at Floto'i
new hall and a'supper In the Odd Fellows
building. II was an immense affair.
The coal miners at Kids coal works or
Wheeling Greek, Belmont county, have beer
on d strike. They have been paid fifty cent,
per car for coal, and slack measured, aud the
proposition not to measure the slack Is what
they struck against
A fight recently occurred among the mer
OF the Stephenson coal mines, near Greens
boro, Pa, In which coal picks and o,hel
like instruments we're freely used. Mosei
Householder had bis windpipe laid open by
a pick in the hands Of Tommy Lyons.
Commencing next Monday the Ohio Contra
roal will 20 change Its tune card that Charles
t0n people will be enabled to receive th,
Cincinnati papers on the evening OF the day
they are printed, instead OF the next morning
as they now do by the Chesapeake & Ohio.
The citiz.ns Of West Alexander. p, or
one hand aud the congregation OF the U. r
church at that place on the other, are carry
Ing on a lively contest before a COMMITTEES O
Arbitration sitting ut Little Washington fol
flown Common 81
jacob Ford, while digging on the farm o.
]. G.. johnson, near Cambridge, last week, un
eartheda prehistoric relic IN the shape OF 1
stone AZ about ten inches long, and foui
llEuC1 Ill dlAkllbkcE. NJ klo btulk tihs ~ "
made OF hard stone resembling granite, and
Is in a perfect state Of preservation.
Mrs. Harvey Wells, OF Morgantown. Will,
sitting by the crate, . few days since, baC
her dress catch fire from a live coal. she die
not notice 1t until the garment wa In flames
and jumping up she ran for the door. Hel
husband, however, was near, and rushing 4
her, tore her outer clothing of and saved hei
lie. He burned his hands badly. Only 4
few months since he lost his mother in TIL,
horrible manner .I
The Morgantown Nep Dominion think
that It il q foregone conclusion that the Cas-
and Grant railroad subscriptions will be over
whelmingly defeated. and says The reasonl
for this are numerous aud are satisfactory tC
the voters OF these districts. 1t seems thai
the only hope we ever had of voting q sub
scription as q county Is gone and the more
efforts subsequently, made, the worse the
matter gets.T These districts propose Ia
invest s6j 900 in the Blacksville road.
Dorcas jackson, who was before the rebel.
lion q Virginia slave, died a day or two since
at Girard's Fort, near Waynesbu &, aged
nearly ninety years. When In bondage she
incidentally learLe ed that she was about 10 he
separated from her child, q boy, and rather
than that fled into Pennsylvania with the
infant. After crossing the line she reached
the house Of Alfred Myers, at Girard's Fort,
thirty.three years ago, and there she has re.
ma ned since. Her SOD, when old enough,
went to work for himself, since which time
no has never beea heard Of.
A Washington, Pa, paper says: The Bal.
timore 4 Ohio people are preparing to dig
their own coal for This end Of their road.
Most Of the coal used ut present Is bought
from private operators, but the country
through which the Streets Run branch 10
Wheeling will pass will be developed by OH.
GERS OF the road. II Is currently reported
among railroad men that President Garrett
superintendent King and Others have made
large purchases OF coal land with this object
In view. The officers OF the Streets Run
Coal railroad also made large purchases Of
coal lands along the line but much Of This
has passed under the control Of the gentle.
men referred to-. Superintendent King was
recently asked about the matter, but simply
said 'he had no interest outside the Baltimore
q Ohio Railroad Company. @
Last Saturday night the postofice at Rode
mei's, West Virginia, was robbed and $40
worth OF stamps taken, The robbery was
supposed to have been committed by tramps.
wednesday . young man, who acknowledged
he was Q tramp, was cauBnt selllng Stamps IN
Cumberland, Nd, and was arrested on suspi.
cion OF having been concerned In the robbery.
He gave his name as Edward Bowman, and
bis age as %. He admitted being o tramp
and said he came from Pittsburgh. When
asked where he got the stamps which he had
sold he replied that his brother had sent them
from Germantown to him at Pittsburgh.
There was noticed with him IN older and
stonter man who rnrnainnd' IN Che outside
when Bowman entered stores TO sell stamps.
BE was arrested later in the day and gave
the name Of Charles Gallagher, Of schuylkill
~ IN,
Col. Milton Lewis, Of BArnesrille, was in
town yesterday. -, 44 t-f.s5N q t4
Nj. L. A. Fletcher, Of Cumberland, Nd,
here yesterday. 5'o
. Tonight, at City Hall, the knights Of
have q ball