The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-08-30
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CLARKsBuRa, w. ", Ans, %, 1866.
DEAR REa1srER:-Thinking . Few
items from this town would be OF
interest to our readers, have concluded
=" Federal Court, Judge J. J. Jackson
presiding, adjourned to-day: AN import
~ decision was rendered on Monday,
wh;.b admits all attorneys to-
...t;o. in the Court for the
p.as.nt. The Court stated that
n. Supreme Court of the United States
lowing to the illness Of one of its mem
bers) had failed to render decision on
that question, and until that decision
was rendered all members of the legal
profession would be admitted to the bar
in the District Court of West Virginia.
James Matheney, charged with passing
counterfeit money in Clarksburg in 1862,
was tried and acquitted, 80 -
The Teachers Association of West Vir-
ginia, Prof. w. r. White, State Superin.
tendent of Schools, presiding, and Mrs.
G. Stevens, of Wheeling, acting Secreta-
nv, has been in session here for the past
two DAYS. The attendance was very
good, and the interest manifested on be-
half of the cause of Public Schools in
our State was evident to all. A number
of able addresses were made, and the
discussions on various topics were very
animated. The FairmOnt amateur mu'
steal association from time to time enliv-
ened the meeting with excellent vocal
music.
A street fight occurred here on Mon
day, in which Mr.. F. Yahrling, Jr., of
Wheeling, was roughly handled by a
Federal soldier named Brown Ga citizen
of this place. who had been bucked and
gagged for some offence, by Yahrling,
while he was Provost Marshal of Clarks-
burg. Yahrling received black eye
and had his face badly scratched. The
soldier was arrested and held to bail in
the sum of $1C0.
Col. Northcott, having been removed
from the Post,office here, in his paper of
this week consumes three columns in
giving vent to his feeling, The SUBJ
stance is that he supported Andy as
long as he supported him. .r-t
The Taylor county Circuit Court,
Judge Ollie Presiding, adjourned at
Pruntytown to-day. A man named
Gregory, of Taylor county, was convic-
ted of forgery, and sentenced to the
penitentiary for three years.
Almost a general jail delivery occur
red at Pruntytown last night, when
seven prisoners succeeded in gaining
their liberty. Upto the hour of writing
nothing had been heard of them. The
seven men are wealthy farmers of Brax-
ton county. Owing to the fact that there
is no Jail in that county they were taken
to Pruntytown for safe keeping. The
prisoners were soldiers in the Confederate
army, and few days after the surrender
of Lee the company to which they belong.
ed got into q fight with a company of
West Virginia home guards, when one
of the guards was killed. The men
were arrested by the Sheriff of Barbour
county, on charge of murder, that Off
Ger alleging that the war was over when
the guard was killed. The Confederates
claim that they knew nothing of the
surrender of Lee, when they were at.
tackled by the home-guards. The public
opinion is that the seven men should
never have been arrested, and no regret
is expressed at their escape. ---
We to-day observed dreary set OF
men en- route for Parkersburg, and were
informed that they were delegates to the
Mans Convention, which
meets there tomorrow. \.
Yours, truly, ~
WILL.