The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-01-15

4 1--WE haven't taken much stock in tho
n lea Of electlng senators by dlreetvote.
bit Il wouldn't take much more OF the
ssprt OF mess like that OF Columbus o..
TO make us an ardent advocate OF it,
Geredo Advance.
I, The election In Bramwcll was not a
Victory for the Democrats, as some OF
them seem to think. It's true that a dry
democrat defeated q wet-Repubilcan
FOR mayor, but the council stands ten
Republicans to two Democrats On Sec
.opd thought, possibly It is o Democratic
!victory-they shouldn't have elected
any onc.--BlueAeld Telegraph. y
While the small fry Democratic pa
pers In this state were telling about
Superintendent Trotter stealing two
copies of the Acts from a box at the
state house, they might have. made the
articles more interesting by telling
about the several hundred dollars
worth of books stolen from the book
room at the state house about the time
the Democrats were packing their traps
to vacatc. The door to the room was
tforciblr broken open. too. Did Trotter
get thcse?-Preston County Journal.
The Hinton Independent Herald re-
Dukes those papers which have been
lromanclns about 100000 acres having
been sold In Pocahontas by Colonel
John T. McGraw, for $4,000 and won
iuers why newspapers cannot report
correctly. 1t states that the proper fig
sures are $4,000 for 100000 acres of
land. We hasten to correct his error by
saying that the true sale made by Col-
Sonel McGraw was GG,S72i: acres for
S66S. 725.-Pocahontas Times. !.
q Bill Ayers. countcrfelter. who re-
Sides near Greenbrieri White Sulphur
Springs. and who has been up in Web
Ester county Showing the queer" was
arrested recently by United States
Marshal C. E. S,alnaker. Marshal Stall
maker, while In the ncighborhood OF
Camden -on-GauleF. got on his track
and followed him within five m!leS OF
White Sulphur Springs. where he ar
rested him OF the home OF his parents.
Ayers has been making one dollars.
twenty-five. ten and five, cent pieces.
They are almost perfect limitations OF
the genuine, and the difference can on
" be distinguished by the ring OF the
meta,.-Monroe Waterman.
Perhaps not many people who reside
.Ip Parkersburs and other places in
Wood county. have vet caught on to
the historical fact that on December q,
Of the present year, Wood county will
be one hundred years old.-Parkers-
burg State Journal.
The house OF Colonel Thomas B.
Gould, Of Governor .Atkinson's staff.was
completely destroyed by fire at Parsons,
w, Va. at 4 o'clock Sunday morning.
Colonel Gould was Ill In bed. Just recov-
ering from an operation for appendi-
.cltis and was hurriedly carried from
the building, not even having time to
save his clothes. simultaneously the
large tannery Of Colonel Gould, nearly
mile distant from his residence, with
many houses between, was seen to be-
on fire, but the flames were extinguish-
ed with the apparatus connected with
the plant. The fires are believed to be
the work OF incendiaries.-Grafton SEN
tinel.
Judge Reese Blizzard, In conversa-
ton with Star representative not
long ago, said: My friends OF the press
have been paying me handsome and
unexpected compliment by mentioning
my name In connection with the guber-
material nomination, aud I appreciate
their Kindness, but have no thought
OF being a candidate and Will not con-
sent under any circumstances. TO have
my name used before the nominating
conyention."'-Clay County Star.