The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-01-29

tity and quality of the matter it contains.
Tile Buckhannon Republican says that
the Board of Supervisors of Upshur
county has ousted from the use OF
room in the Court House Dramatic 90
ciety who devoted the proceeds OF sh tS
entertainments to the renovation OF tue
Town Hall. The theatrical nature vi
the entertainments did not accord Win
tbe .:nreat moral ideas of the SuperVl-
sorS.
Ar the meeting held in Romney'
HAMPSHIRE county, on the 18th inst, TO
adopt some means for the remuneration
of that county to Virginia, COMMITTEES
was appointed to petition theileglslatafe
of West Virginia to pass an act allowing
the people of Hampshire county to vote
whether they prefer to remain IN He YES
VIRGINIA or be coded to Virginia. In the
event of the passage of the act and the
vote resulting in a majority In favor VI
retnrninp to Virginia, they are TO petit
tion the legislature of Virginia to receive
them and Congress to consent to the
transfer A resolution was passed de
nouncing in forcible terms the unjust
laws now on the statute books OF TINS
State. - ---T--
THE Weston Herald says: I'VE under
stand that matrimonial epidemic has
been raging in this county ever since
the close of the war, and ANTON is being
formed that none may sever. bachelors
and maidens shouted, put their houses
Gin order" and prepare to meet tue
assailant. The only remedy is marriage
license in the hands of a clergyman
WESTON, Lewis county is now open to
telegraphic communi cation.
THE Weston Female Seminary is in
successful operation.
REV. VIM. McElroy, of ca arlestown,
Jefferson county, fell upon the icy pave
ment in that place last Tuesday and
broke his leg. He is about seventy years
of age, ...-
The Spirit of Jefferson is responsible
for the following; "a good story has
recently been related to us, in which one
of the Western Virginia officials of this
county, played the hero. An old friend
of said official had been much annoyed
Inv n freed woman, who was domiciled In
a tenement adjoining his residence, and
in q conversation with the learned dis
nenser of the law he remarked jocularly
that he would be glad if he would come
round and read the riot act to the unruiy
| Amazon. Anxious to sustain the majesty
of the law, and to preserve the peace and
dignity Of the Commonwealth OF West
| Virginia so-called, our official, with his
glasses nicely adjusted, and his book
under his arm, mounted his charger
which "snutfs his feed from affair."" and
proceeded to the scene Of disorder, hmm
ming to himself as he rode along,
L bought horse for fifty cents.
The !on.of a.tinker jumped the fence
SEew-ball says l.
On his arrival in front of the almost
uninhabitable tenement OF the obstreper
Gus African, he swas saluted with a
shower Of curses, which grated harsh
l. upon the ears Of the offended
law, but by an austere manner ano
the panoply of official station, she was
| finally brought to subsection, and the
| celebrated riot act read to her in voice
rather sonorous than musical. Skew
ball was again mounted, and our hero
returned, singing in low voice, some
thing which those along the route nm
deratood to be
Il would not live always7Iask not 10 STAY
Where niggers are free, ana nave their Owl
way