The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-19
STATE ITEMS.

The radicals of Charleston, West Vir-
ginia, held an election for Postmaster on
the 25th ult. n. S. Whitaker, Esq, the
incumbent of the Office, was triumphant
ly elected. Unfortunately for him,
President Johnson took the extraordi-
nary position that the office of Post
master was not elective, commissioned
Mr.. Gramm to fill the place, and sent
MIR. Whitaker vibrating around the
periphery. The West Virginia Journal
indignantly censures this fragrant out
rage on popular suffrage, and denounccs
the removal of Mr.. Whitaker as
.'wicked, malicious, and without the
shadow of Il pretcxt."
| TOBE CoNTEsTED.-Messrs. Welshans,
Leisenring, OConnell, and Green, have
served the proper notices upon their adj
versary candidates for the various
county offices of sheriff, clerk of circuit
court, prosecuting attorney, and re-
corder. These contests have to be tried
before the county Board of Supervisors,
which meets for the purpose, on the 18th
of this month.-Spirit Of Jefferson.
+. NJ. Cozad, Esq, of the Parkers-
burg Daily Gazette, has sought sOlace
for the SORROWS of editorial labor in the
sweet consultations of welded life. In
rendering him our warm congratu a
tions we beg to rem n him of a certain
scriptural aphorism, not altogether in
| intn hot 1,n1
them"
The Parkersburg and Marietta papers
are disputing about the population of
their respective towns. The Parkers-
burg man claims 5000 for his village,
and the Marietta editor S,400 for his
If both these gentlemen multiply and
rcpleni sh" as successfully in their prac-
tice as they do in their figures, they are
certainly very valuable contributors to
the census returns. And if the matro
mage of their respective hamlets be as
prolific as their fertile imaginations,
they will soon reach that prophetic
period when ga nation will be born i'll a
day"
1t is estimated that Hon. b. NJ. Kitch-
ems majority, over E. w. Andrews; in
the Second Congressional District, will
be about 1900.
The Berkeley Union and the Morgan
town Post have each had special reve-
lation on the subject of "a new dispen-
sation" III West Virginia. The produc-
tiOn of the Union is little older than
that of the Post, but with this exception,
the two "deliverances" looks so marvel
lousy alike as to suggest identity of
parentaSe.
The publication Of the Morgantown
Post will be discontinued for few |
weeks, until a new press and new type
are procured.
We notice a number of new comers
moving on the Eighteen Mile creek, in
this township. The State of Pennsyl
vania seems to be furnishing this valley
with Il number of her industrious farm
ers. We anXiously welcome all such to
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The corn crop in this valley is yield
ing very largely this season, and the
prospect is favorable for low prices.
Stock hogs are not i'll as good demand
as they were few weeks ago.
The farmers in Kanawha Valley, par
ticularly in Putnam and Mason coun
ties, will have considerable of Il surplus
of pork, corn, hay and oats this fall
Buffalo Independent.
BROKE JAIL.-Last Sunday night our
county Jail was broken open partly by
false keys and otherwise, and three
prisoners made their escape. At that
time there was but four men i'll the
Jail. One of them, it seems was so
sound asleep that he failed 10 find out
what was gCing on until morning,
when the iailcr came III with his break
fast, and woke him from his unlortu- |
nate slumbers.
Putnam county Jail is q great insti- |
tution. We have no recollection of
its ever holding any prisoners until
Court. 1t had better be rented ont for
a chicken coop. Then it would save |
the county the cost of boarding prison
ers.-BgGalo Independent
The Clarksburg Conservative, referring
to the illegal disfranchisement of Col.
j. ID. Wilson, of Harrison county, says !
that either Governor Boreman or the
township Registrar should be prosecu-
ted under the 1ith Section of the Reg
istration law, which forbids any officer
or any other person, to "chaRge, alter,
amend or destroy any books or lists of
registration. If Boreman is TO be
prosecuted for this and all similar Often
ces of which he has been guilty, the
courts may as well be closed against all
other business, and every county jail
set apart for the special uses of an "EX-
ecutive mansion"
The following circular, gotten upI
d. S. Pinuell, d. ID. j. Farnsworth,
A. B. Rohrbaugh, Andrew Poundstone
and Joseph d. Rapp, of Upshur county,
to secure the defeat of n. ii. Taft
ESQ, Democratic candidate for the
State Senate in that District, is pro-
nounced by tho West virginia Hep"o"-
can, "the most vilainous and accursed
lie ever uttered by human tongue or
written by pen." If we we were not
afraid that Farnsworth would get his
bristles up about it, we would say that
next to fresh pork, an original and
prodigious lie, is the sweetest morsel
he could roll under his tongue. Nature
lied when she called him man, and
and he has been following her example
ever since. He can do it,. 1t is IN
him, as firmly and immutably fixed as
the curl in the tail of any pig he ever
pilfered:
THE LYING SCoUNDRELs.-A friend
from Barbour county furnished us day
or two since circular, printed at the
Christian Adrocate office in this place,
of which the following is an exact copy
i RALLY.