The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-28
GUERNSEY eIBLETs.
The OIL FsVsr-The RsdiStliSiipg Matter,
Candidates in tho "Old District"
Special DlSpaieh % ne IRisgigae1,

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CAMBRIDGE, o., May T.-Ths oil vel
which the Cambridge Gas and OIL Com
pany is sinking north Of town, on the
lands Of Colonel j, D, Taylor, is dowr
1900 feet and the company expect thai
Saturday or Sunday will determine the
success or failure Of their enterprise, They
are sanguine as ever Of success.
Senator Lawrence, the venerable gentle.
man who represented these consolidated
districts during a part Of the late session
OF the Sixty-ninth Legislature, returned
from Kentucky last week lnheralded and
unacclaimed, The Washington ol.the-
Pike BouIbons got up q little serenade for
him the evening after his arrival, and the
Senator made a speech Of thanks to the
brass band, in which he said he had not
done anything OF which he was ashamed,
or which he would not do again under
like circumstances. Notwithstanding this
brave talk, the truth is that the Senator Is
heartily ashamed OF himself. He is being
generally cursed all over the districts for
his particular Assininity and reCklesaness.
AS predicted some time ago in these
dispatches redistricting has occasioned a
sharp revival OF interest In the congress
sional succession In the strongly Republi-
can district, Guernsey will have but one
candidate, Col. Joseph D, Taylor, There
is universal feeling in this county that
sfter but one term he could be In any
case entitled to o re-nomlnahon; and that
he Is doubtly entitled to this honor by rea-
son oil the gallant and almost successful
ight which he made two years ago against
General Warner in q district that was
Democratic by 1000 majority. There Is
no iangllng In Guernsey. Whatever dis
Cussions may have existed in years gone
by have passed away. Noble county will
nave no candidate OF her own. ProseCu.
tor Capell Weems, who has been spoken
Of In this connection, declares in favor OF
Colonel Taylor, as has Hon, Chalk
Williams, the representative from
Noble. Jefferson county Is at
present In an uncertain state, but
Taylor has many friends In the county.
Belmont will be largely II not solidly for
The Guernsey candidate. And Harrison,
with Hollinsgworth and Bingham, will like.
ly 60 for Taylor in the end. General Hol.
Iingsworth Is too shrewd politician TO
overlook the fact that q nomination ol
Bingham would rip his hopes ior years to
come, Democrats here, the sober, con.
iervatiVe fellows among them, regard the
ak OF running candidates In the old dis.
triCt as ridiculous and dangerous. They
give 1t up and content themselves by
roundly Cursing Van CleRf and Charley
Vallandingham VINO are denounced as
The vllest Of TRAITORS"
The trial OF the celebrated Depew case
began in the Common Pleas court Tues.
lay morning before Judge HanCe aud
jury. "Abe" Depew, 1t will be remember.
cd, sustained Rn accident at Gibson's sta.
lion on the b, & o. In 1871, by which he
lost leg, He sued the road for damages
and on the first trial got $1,000. This
verdict was SGT aside. The second trial
snded IN the juFy's disagreement. Upon
the third trial Depew gOt 5000 damages,
out this verdict was set Aslle by the Dis.
triCt Court. On the fourth trial the Jury
awarded Depew $4,000 damages. This
Was taken to the Sup9ne Court and the
verdict was set aside, and the case remand.
I'd for trial. AT tins trial the plaintiff was
represented by Hon. ]. D. Taylor, Ander-
son and Locke, and the defendant by ].
d. Collins, Esq Of Columbus, and A. W.
Train, E'q,. Ol Zlnesvllle. Uol. Taylor
made the concluding argument this alter.
noon and the case was given To the jury
at 3 o'clock,