The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-25


stallatioa of Rev. E. w. Bedinger. The
services will be conducted by Revs. A.
c. Hopkins, j. r. Graham and s. l..
Billings.
From the Martinsburg New Era.
A protracted meeting is in progress in
the Lutheran church, this place.
The Court House having been newly
rooted with slate, is now receiving an
exterior coat of paint.
The new steam distillery north OF
town is fast approaching completion,
1t will be smasher.
Strinesville North Martinsburg) is
improving rapidly. 1t goes forward
with hop, step and jump.
From the Parkersburs Gasette.I
Now that the Circuit Court has ad.
journed the advent of numbers oi
Cyprians can be chronicled. They have
returned; but still are supposed to pos.
sess an extensive correspondence
coupled with great patience, from the
fact that they coDgregate every evening
at the post-office, anxiously awaiting
the distribution of the mails.
On Monday we noticed sixty-three
head If cattle from Vinton County
Ohio, Oh the way to the outer depot
theirs to be shipped for Philadelphia
Would it not be good investment fol
some of our enterprising men to estab
lish stock market in Parkersburg
There is every facility for it, and every
prospect of success. Hundreds of cat
tie, sheep and hogs, pass through here
every week, the profits of which nigh
just as we'll accrue to us Us to pass of
among the drab coated gentry of the
city of brotherly love.
From the Kanawha Republican,
FJRE.-The house of Mr.. j. II. Abbott
four miles below Fayette Court House
was burned on "Wednesday morning
November 18th. Loss about 800.
A LARGE FIsH.-Mr. Watson East,
wood, f..w days ago, caught, on Z
"trot-line," pike weighing thirty-five
pounds-th8 largest fish of the kind
caught in this vicinity for many years
Two or three disgraceful fights took
place on our streets OH Saturday night
last. Where were the "perlise 7" The
firing of pistols at night has got to be
quite frequent occurrence.
A STREET Dramatis Persoa9:
JUDGE, an original Republican, but net
q rabid Radical, who had given 3 deci.
sion allowing lawyers to practice with
cut taking the "iron clad OATH and
whose habiliments appeared to have
just come from the tailor shop.
Two LAWYERS who could not take
the "iron Clad" walkig with the Judge
GOLD GRowLER," Coming in an ap.
posite direction a rabid Radical, and
would-be Mentor of the Judge.
ISCENE, . street in Charleston. Time,
| noon.
GRowLER, loquitor an eleva-
tion of the eyebrows. and intense hate
marked on his countenance,) "Well,
Judge, you appear to dress better than
you did before you changed"
JUDGE-"Yes, l believe l do, and l
keep better company"
Exit Old Growler, with head and eye
brow. both down.
From the Elizabeth Gazette
A few nights ago the stable of Sheriff
Stoddard, in this place, was entered by
some scoundrel, who "packed" off q
barrel of corn.
CoURT-The November term of the
Circuit Court of this county will con-
vene on the 2sth inst, Hon. George
Loomis on the bench.
OPERATIONS ON PARISH FoRK-A NEW
WELL GOING DowN.-We learn that
operations are being resumed on the
Parish Fork oil territory, and that
Messrs. c. A. w. Sherman, J. C. Hale,
and c. ID. Hendrickson, have commenced
to sink new we'll in the neighborhood
ofkthe old Parish House."
ANEW CHURCH.-We understand that
our Catholic friends purpose erecting O
house of worship on Washing
ton street, in this place in short time,
they having secured subscriptions for
that purpose to the amount Of almost
seven hundred dollars. Colonel Rath-
bone, Of Parkersburg, We believe, will,
IAnotaA ha yrnnnA vel htnh
the church will be erected.
OH RoCK.-The effort which was
made few weeks ago to secure the
pumping of all the wells on the Oil
Rock oil territory in concert, in order
to exhaust the great body Of water that
floods them, has failed to accomplish
the desired work, and all the parties
that were pumping, We learn, have
ceased work. 1t is believed by many
that had all the wells on the Van Camp
property been either pumped or plugged
ceeded in sxhsusting the water in his
wells, and that he would have secured
oil in paying quantities.
RAILROAD MEETING.-A meeting OF
the citizens of Writ county, West Vir.
ginia, favorable to the building Of q
Railroad from Kanawha Station in Wood
county, West Virginia to Writ county
will be held at the Court House, in
Elizabeth, on Saturday, December 7th,
1867, at o'clock, P. NJ.
The citizens of Burning Springs, New
ark, &C., are specially requested to be
present.
At this meeting the time of holding
meetings at Burning Springs and New
ark will be made known.
Every citizen of the Little Kanswha
valley should take lively interest in
this enterprise. and be present at this
meeting, at which the initiatory steps
will be taken to secure the road. =
Nov. 20, 1867. MANY CITIZENS.
From the Greenbrier Independent.I
MAMMOTH HoGs.-Mr. Samuel 8,
Horn, of this county, ,butchered five hogss