The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-26
WEATHER AND LITIGATION.

WEATHER AND LITIGATION. *
The terrible blizzard has grasped with
It's frigid touch pretty much everything in
this section; the river, roads, business all
feel its influence, and there seems to be
nothing worth living for when the ther-
mometer is dancing so close to the tell.tale
o. but steaming furnaces and feather beds,
unless the epicure should include hot
punches in the inventory OF essentials.
But, with all the blighting influences OF
the weather, the spirit OF litigation seems
to be as fervent as it would II steamed in
the heat oil the equator. In heat or in cold,
in youth or in old age, men will litigate. 1t
seems to have the same fascination with
some that games OF chance do to others.
The present docket OF the United States
Circuit Court, now in session, is fat one,
and the Grand Jury that adjourned last
Monday added seventy-one cases to the
list, divided as follows: Thirty-nine indict-
ments for violations OF the revenue law,
twenty-five for counterfeiting, two for rob.
bing the mails and five in the Lomas.Scio-
to disaster. 1t is expected that all these
cases, except the revenue violations, will
be tried at this term, which will make a
long and tedious session.
TIE CHARLESTON MURDER CASE.
Yesterday the Charleston murder
case was tried, resulting in q yer.
dict OF murder in the second degree, which
will give the prisoner term Of from five
to eighteen years in the penitentiary. This
case was removed from the kanawha Cir.
cult Court. The prisoners name is Whit
ing, mulatto; It was charged that he conld
not receivea fair trial on account OF the To-
cal prejudice. He was ably defended by
Judge Ferguson, r. H. Freer and colored
lawyer named Armistead. And this leads
me 10 philosophize a trife, on an event
that never occurred before in the history
OF this State-a colored man pleading at
the bar Of the Federal Court in West Vlr-
ginia, in behalf OF brother OF his own
race charged with murder. The occasion
drew large audience. Our ancient friend,
Judge Camden, sat in corner OF the room
drawing healthy political inspiration from
copy Of the New York Tribune, whose
editor, he, as Prosecuting Attorney OF Har-
rison county, indicted twenty-five
wears ago for circulating incendiary
literature. Now our friend sits drinking
in the poisonous malaria OF this same
wicked sheet, and listens to the pleading
eloquence OF one Of that despised race,
whom the Tribune, as much as any other
single influence, lifted into the broad sum
light OF civil freedom. l regret that the
picture IS imperfect, owing to the absence
OF prominent figures, whose presence would
have given the scene a coup de theatre more
significant and real than living tragedy.
Our jolly Governor was not there, nor ex-
Congressman ]. ]. Davis, who wears Cal
houn's mantle with such distinguished
ability, nor Senator Byrne, nor Uncle Ben.
Smith, nor our excellent fellow.townsman
DR.. Clark. What grand chrome this
would make, with this quintette Of dis
tinguished Bourbons TO form the back
ground OF this inspired picture. l imagine
that see them now grouped about the
lawyers table as the eloquent "nigger'
speaks 30 pleadingly for his wayward
brother, with their heads resting on their
hands and their elbows on the table, their
eyes filling with hot, pearly dew drops and
their voices chanting in the cadences OF the
dirge
"oh carry me back to old Viglnny."
"The world do move, and we are glad TO
notice that even some Of the Bourbons are
beginning to lift their feet from the mire
holes OF conservatism and get themselves
out OF the main tracks that are supposed to
have been made byold Governor Berkeley
when he so valiantly chased the. newspa-
pers out OF Virginia.
PROBABLE IMPROVEMENTS.
Among the probable improvements that
are talked Of this season is large,
first.class hotel, to be erected by Mr.. W.
N. Chancellor. Water works are also being
agitated again, with strong probability OF
their early completion.
Our county commissioners have iuaugu.
rated q system OF repairing roads that will
have good results. They have already
made contracts for macademizing every
road leading from the city for distance
OF two miles from the limits. Then the
road commissioners will take the roads
from that point and put them in thorough
repair, under the alternate system which
our people adopted last fall. Our comis.
sioners are live, business men and will see
to it that every contractor performs honest
work.
Kennas election hardly caused ripple
on the waters here. The Bourbons were 30
disguised with Davis election three years
ago, with the aid Of Republicans and
Union Democrats, they were determined
to have an unadulterated Confederate this
time and thew got him.
BOURBON BUSINESS.
Major Benefits rejection by the Senate
M regent of the University. ia another nail