The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-03
STATE ITEMS.

The Point Pleasant New Era has
changed hands. Mr. $. d. Gordon, the
retiring editor, is succeeded by A. X.
Howard ESQ. The political status of
the paper will be the same as hereto
fore.
Forty thousand barrels of oil were
brought down the Kanawha river to
Parkersburg on Saturday and Sunday
last in barges.
On Mouday. of last week, Mr.. Armis-
tcad b. Zorger committed suicide by
hanging himself in his shop at Bolivar,
in this county. 1t was supposed that
he was laboring under n temporary
alteration of mind at the time the rash
act was committed. The deceased was
about fifty years of age, and a gunsmith
by trade.-Chdrlestora Spirit.
We understand tho corn crop in this
and adjoining counties is turning out
well. If this is the case there is fair
prospect of prices ruling low for that
product Point Pleasant Ner Era.
HUNTING PARTY.-From all accounts,
sportsmcn have enjoyed a rich harvest
the past season. A party of gentlemen
from this place left here last week, and
returned few days ago, having killed
six deer during their expedition. Their
operations were confined To the Scwcll
mountain scctiOn.-GWcnGricr Ind.
The editor of the Berkcly Union takes
some of his exchanges to task for copy
ing his editorials without credting the
same. He says:
Sometimes, inadvertently, n piece
may be taken from an exchange without
giving credit for it; but when the head
ing is simply changed to adapt it to Il
particular locality, county or State, we
think it smacks considerably strong of
what the literati call plagiarism.
He is evidently of the opinion that his
brethren should render unto scissors The
things that are scissors
From the sage paper we clip the fol-
lowing:
On Saturday afternoon the oath ult.,
the house Of Jacob Kees, near Shanghai, |
in this county, was entirely consumed
by fire. All his household goods and
wearing apparel, together with all his
provision grain and farming utensils
were destroyed-involving q loss of
about / 800 dollars.
The fire was accidental: the house I
having taken fire from spark on the |
roof, in the absence of Mr. and Mrs. |
Kccs. Ii was first discovered by small !
who were left i'll charge of the /,
house.
From the Shepherdstown Registerl
PAINFUL AcCrDENT.-We learn that
a little son of Mr.. Martin b. Leman,
aged about ten years sustained severe |
and painful wound on Friday morning
last, at Billmyer's Mill, three miles west
of town, resulting in the breaking of
one of his thighs, and otherwise badly /
injured. His leg was caught in large
strap which propels the mill, and had it .
not been for the presence of Mr.. VIM.
T. McQuillan, the youth would have
been crushed to death.
ANS 'NAioptA btAAo"aa'ri
NEGRO RADON Saturday, q num-
Der of freedmen" passing through
Fowlersburg, (by the way very radical
DEM made an-attack on their friends,
the supporters ofthe Freedmen's Bureau,
and came near sending some of them on
Journey to another world. 'Tis related
that the blacks fired three shots at their
white brethren, and and one of the free
black men," said he could kill any eight
white men he ever saw, let them come
at him zen masse."
Coal SHAFT.-We congratulate the
people ofWellsburg and vicinity, on the
hattering prospect they have in regard
70 coal shaft. The matter is now in
the hands of Eastern capitalists who,
after visit to Wellsburg, expressed
themselves much pleased with the loca-
ton. DR.. Quest is receiving signatures
to paper. granting the company the !,
of mining the coal underneath
the town of Wellsburg. The transfer
has been signed by nearly all the citi-
zens of the town. The privilege grant
ed will be entirely recompensed by the
increase in the value of real estate in
From the Wellsburh Herald h
A cutting scrape occurred on Thurs
day evening in the lower end of town
Oh the way to the brew-house, between
Shep. Barnes and John McNabb, in
which the latter was seriously ent
in the abdomen with knife in. the
hands Of the former. The case was
up for trial on Friday morning, but
was postponed until evening, without
any conclusion. l-.,s.s |.
Barnes was subsequently held over
for trial at March Court-bail 500. !