The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-12

Patrick Kirby, from Baltimore, were
arrested in Alexandria on Tuesday even
ing of last week, by Captain walsh, fol
: stealing q horse and buggy from MT.
Paul Stransner,I of eMartinsburg, West
, Virginia. They were Committed to jail
to await a requisition from Gov. Bore
man37Ilq 7IEt TE1R
From the Elizabeth Gazette.l
4 A FINE SPECIMEN OF COAL.-0n Sat,
urday last, o. G. Scoaeld, Esq, the obli'
ging Pos tmaster at Burning Springs,
left at our Office, beautiful specimen OF
bituminous coal, taken from q seven
foot vein which has been discovered In
the bed of the Little Kanawha River,
at that place. 80 %
A CASING OIL WELL.-We learn that
a few days ago a vein Of f'gas wasstruck
in the old Eternal Center Well, at Burn
ing Springs, which surpasses anything
of the kind ever before known in the
oil regions. The force of the. gas was
so great when struck, that it forced sew
Ieral hundred feet of caseing out of the
well, demolished theframe work around
the top of it, and at last accounts was
throwing out rocks of very large size.
From all accounts we judge that it is a
volcano on small scale.
A correspondent of the Gazette, wri-
ting from Three Forks Reedy, Roane
county, thus describes that fourishing
locality:
We expect to call our place to,eR in
spite of opposition, and for the follow
ing reasons, viz: We have three stores,
ali doing a good business; also, two
cabinet shops, boot and shoe shop,
blacksmith shop, water grist mill, also,
one steam saw and grist mill, hotel
and post office, school house, physic
shop and law office, besides o great
many more little notions and cOnve-
niences common to town like ours,
too tedious to mention.
| Our town is also the seat of justice
for the township, his honor, Z. K. Chan
cy, presiding from one to three days in
week, doing as much or more civil
business than is done in the Circnit
Court of some of our counties. 4F
We have two or three cub lawyers in
town and within sound of the steam
whistle, out of town. In fact pretty
much all our people have kind of
hdnkern drter idu.
From the Kanawba Republican,
Arrangements have been made for
helding camp meeting i'll the neigh
borhood of Sissonyille, Kanawha conn
ty, West Virgins, ITO commence August
Early last Thursday morning, the
younger portion of our citizens were on
the gui rire, as one of the Arabs whs, the
night before, had shown his acrobatic
feats to large audience, lad applied
for aud obtained q license to perform
another acrobatic leap-his marriage
with a white girl who had followed the
circus from Catlettsburg to this place.
There is no accounting for taste, but it
is hard to tell which got the worst of
the bargain in this case. The Arab and
his fair bride went down the river the
same day, he having that morning been
discharged.
The same correspondent is response
BILE for the following:
A few days ago one of our citizens, II.
b. Hylburt, Esq, walked out some hun
drsd yards from his house, where he
found eleven large rattlesnakes, all in
pile; attracting generally, the deni-
zens of the field and forest, and with
them Mr.. H. for the time being, with
their harmonious strains.
Before Mr.. II. had long been men,
Der of the concert, he called to mind a
portion of sacred writ, reading as fol-
lows: "The seed of the woman shall
bruise the serpent head" and being n
good man, and desiring to obey the holy
precept, arose and shook himself like 4
man of war, gave notice TO the reptile
host of change of base and intended
hostility.
Mr.. II. opened the drama by making
an assault with an intent to kill, but
the odds being against our friend, Mr..
H., and he using corn hoe, some OF the
rattle-bugs retreated under the rocks,
but Mr.. II. being a man of pres
as we'll as obedient to the sacred iDjunc-
ton, followed up the retreating foe,
digging up the ground, turning over
logs, prying up racks, &c, until he
slew an army of reptiles. The scene
then closed for the time being by the
utter rout and demolition of the rattle
tailed band, Mr.. I'll. coming out of the
fight grand victor general.
Last Monday evening came very near
affording us sensational paragraph.
Mr.. f. +. Moore. the County Superin-
tendent, presented to Mr.. Hawkins, one
of the trustees Of School District No. 2,
q written order, and requested him &c
sign it, calling upon the Treasurer to
pay to Mr.. Moore, his father, sum OF
money for teaching a colored school in
that District. Mr.. Hawkins refused to
sign the order, on the ground that Mr..
Moore, senior, had not been employed
by the Trustees and that there was a
teacher for the colored school, legally
employed. Mr. Moore commended that
the money could be drawn without Mr..
HIS signature, as he could procure the
signatures of the other Trustees, and
showed Andy Cunningham's signature,
already obtained. Mr.. II. denied that
Cunningham was n legally elected
trustee; 1--WE have heretofore given the
modus operaRdi of Andy's appointment; !; }
Mr.. Moore asserted that he was a Trus-
tee, and that he could prove il by his
4 books; Hawkins retorted by saying that
he could prove anything he wished TO,
by them; (Hawkins used to be "cheek
by jowfn with Moore, and therefore the
/ readiness of his retOrt,) Mr.. Moore said
4 Hawkins assertion was false, when III.
made for" NJ, aud probably we would
now be without al office cOrmOrant, if
Mayor Ritter had not interfered. Wheth-
er Moore eau induce the other Trustee
to sign an or,ler paying the man for do
ing work he had not been employed to
do, and thus increase the burden of the
peoples taxes, remains to be seen.