Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-12
the FIRST GUN B00MS.
Opening Of the Campaign at Park
ersburg.
WHO is NE YHo VIZ
Chairman Barnum Talks Words of Wisdom
in That Terrestrial Hades
Known as Chicago,

PARSERSBURG, August 10 Exclusive.
The Democrats Of Wood county will open
the campaign tomorrow with rousing
meeting. Our next Governor, Hon. E.
Willis Wilson, will be here and will meet
with warm welcome and hearty reception.
The Democrats Of Wood county are not for
sale, and although the county is considered
by the Republicans solid for the fusion
ticket, the Democrats intend to carry the
county in October. The masses Of both
Republican and Greenback parties are dis
gusted with the bargain and sale effected by
the leaders of their two parties and say that
the goods cannot be delivered upon the
terms and conditions of the recent sale.
From leading citizens of Roane, Writ, Jack
son, Calhoun, Gilmer, Mason and Putnam
counties, interviewed BY REGISTER scribe
since both State tickets have been nomi-
mated, it is learned that the Democrats are
all enthusiastic over the outlook and that
great dissatisfaction exists in the rank and
file of the opposition.
A Prominent Greenbacker
from the lower end Of the State, gentle
man wen informed and whose opportunities
for ascertaining the true sentiment Of the
people, gives it as his opinion that the coun-
ties south of the Little Kanawha river will
give Wilson 10, 900 majority; that the Green
hackers in the southern part of the State
viii go for Wilson to man. Said he to the
REGISTER man: "Do you suppose these men,
the majority of whom were in the Confede
rate army, viii vote for candidate with the
record that Judge Maxwell has, a man so
narrow minded as to advocate an amend
ment to the State constitution forever pro-
hibiting an ex-Confederate from exercising
the right of suffrage? The general opinion
is that Eustace Gibson will carry this dis
trict by at least 500 majority. The fact
that he has labored for the interests Of his
constituents and the State generally, and
having proven himself true to the trusts re-
posed will add to his last majority
in every county OF the district.
Another Point
in favor of Gibson, and that is the old dred-
in-the-woOl Republicans can not march up
to the polls and vote for Andrew R. Bar,
bee, who was tried and true soldier Of the
lost cause" brave and gallant officer in
the Confederate army, as was also the gal
liant Gibson the standard bearer OF the
Democracy in this district and our present
efficient representative in the Forty-eighth
Congress. Oh. no, that would be too bit
ter a pill for our Republican brethren to
swallow They may some other year, not
this year.
The able management of the many GRIM
inal cases on the docket of the Wood County
Circuit Court by J. G. McCluer, Esq,
Prosecuting Attorney, cOmmends him to
the public as one worthy to be continued in
this important office. His speech in the
recent murder case of John r. Coe is spoken
of as the ablest, the most eloquent and dig
nifed argument ever heard in that old TEN
pie of Justice" Wood County Court House.
Local.
There were sixty-fye arrivals at Hills
Central on Saturday. The travelling public
seem to recognize Jerry Hill as the prince
of landlords and the Central as the hotel Of
the CITY. Two familiar faces are missed
there now, Capt. Tom Nolan, the
genial night clerk for several years, and
who had a pleasant word for, all,
was, on account of i'll health, compelled to
resign, and is now at his home near Wes-
ton, where it is hoped he will regain his
wonted health. Billy Mayberry, another
old landmark, will be seen no more. Par
alysis ended his life last Sunday evening
Billy was well known, and the intelligence
OF his death will be heard with surprise and
sorrow. Major N. T. McConoghey, one Of
the lumber princes OF the Little hsnawha,
a guest Of the Central.
Appointed.
CAPTAIN CLAY Leonard, late City Re
corder, has received the appointment OF
United States mail agent on the Ohio River
Railroad. and assumed the duties OF office
ON Monday morning. Prof ". S Hutchins
an oculist from Wheeling, has
been here several days on business.
Rev. A. Douglas Carlile, of the Second
PRESBYTERIAN Church, returned from visit
to relatives in Indiana, and although suffer
ing from a severe cold preached an excel /
lent sermon on Sunday morning from Excl
lst and ID. Capt John II. Brookhart, of
the Harry d. Knox, who was quite i'll for a
day or two last week, is again at his post IN
the Office this fayorite packet. b. Mason
Amber, ESQ.,, is home from visit to the
old Dominion. Rev. ]. W. Carter, the
popular pastor of the Baptist Church, with
his family, have returned from pleasant
visit with friends in Upshur county. Gov.
jackson spent the past week at his home in
Parkersburg. Mrs DR.. Burwell and chill
dren are visiting in Virginia. Several mar
ried gentlemen in town know how to symPa-
thise with the Doctor in his lonely state. I.
H. c. Fitzhugh of the firm of Fitzhugh
& Hunter, music dealers of Marietta and
Parkersburg, came down home Saturday,
and spent Sunday with his family in this
CITY. Hon. J. S. Miller, and Secretary of
State. Ran. Stalnaker, autographed at Hills