The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-09
From the Mason County Journal

In our Judgment, the following Is a
"center shots" gA.s e-tss
The fellow Moore, of that very "loiaf
sheet known as the Vest Virginia Jour
nal, takes some little pains to inform
his readers that we are "fond Of social
glass;" and seems to think it perfectly
awful" If we had forged few witness
tickets he would no doubt have told his
readers that we were "a hale fellow,
well metz and person "after his OWL
heart" but to take q "social glass;" how
horrible!
FREE SCHOOL REPoRT.-Through the
kindness of DIR. Forbes, the present
County Superintendent of Free Schools
of Mason county, we learn that accord
ing to his annual report for the yeal
ending August 81. there are seventy
nine school districts in the county, with
sixty-one school houses, valued, with
apparatus, furniture, ETC., at S32, ,499.9s
that the general average salary Of
teachers per month is 1862; that there
has been one hundred AID forty-sever
applicants for teachers certificates
that the whole amount levied fol
schools amounted to S12 ,40S. SO: the tota
receipts for building and school purpo'
ses were $40, ,023, and the total expendi'
lures for building and school purposes
S34, ,023.08. The amount apportioned to
the whites was S16,413.63, and to the
blacks, Sl92.96. Wi would give the diff
ferent items by townships, but space
forbids.
From the Greenbrier Independent.
HOUSE BURNED.-We learn that the
dwelling house of Mr.. B. B. Garvey, OIL
Droop Mountain, in Pocahontas county
was destroyed by fire, on Thursday last
Mr.. Garvey's loss was complete-losing
all his furniture-saving nothing. The
fire occurred in the day time, and there
was no one about the house, at the time
except negro woman, and the fire j,
believed to have been the work Of an
incendiary.
No MORE SCRATCHING FOR THE PRES
ENT.-We learn that orders have been
received from Headquarters, command
ing the Board of Registrars, of this
county, that no meeting of that body
shall be held before next May. 1t seems
that matters have been conducted in
such manner in this section, that even
the Governor has been moved, and
hence the order referred to. "Old
Scratch" will have nothing to do in ths
interval, and he may well exclaim-
"Othello's occupation is gone"-at least
for the present.
WOODS on FIRE.-Extensive fires
have been prevailing in the mountains
in this section, for more than a week
past. East of Greenbrier river, ALE
ghany, Kate's, and other mountains
have been illuminated at night, 10y
wide and extensive confiagrations, pre-
senting a grand sight to these who have
witnessed them. We have heard of nc
particular damage, as yet, but presume
that many fences, and much valuable
tlmUcT, nave DCCu utStIUJcu' "O lOdl
that West of this, in the direction OF
Kanawha, the fires are also raging. As
q consequence of this state of affairs,
the atmosphere is full of smoke.
A CHALLENGE.-Mr. Samuel S. Hern,
near this place, sends US the following
figures, showing the respective weights
of nine hogs, butchered by him this fall,
The aggregate weight of the ninc was
three thousand onehundred and ninety eight
pounds. The ages of these hogs were
sixteen mouths The average weight
OF the nine hogs, was three hundred ana
ftfy.fce and .four-ninths pounds! We
challenge East or West Virginia to beat
these figures. The certified figures are
as follows:
No. 1, APO pounds; No. 2, 354 pounds;
No. 3, $50 pounds; No. 4, $40 pounds;
No. 5, $50 pounds; No. 6, 1856 pounds;
No. Z, $50 pounds; No. 8, 800 pounds;
No. 9, 500 pounds.