The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-28
STATE ITEMS.


The Wellsburg Herald has no especial
preference for United States Senator,
but has "made up its mind' very def
nitsly about one Of the candidates,
John s. Carlile. In the HeraIds view
che won't do to tie to-" This is CRATE
ful to'outsiders, if not to Mr.. Carlile.
The Moundsville National, mentioning
wedding where the BRIDES dress had q
trail five yards long and yet was SO short
in front as to allow the diamond buck
les on, her garters to be seen by the
crowd, auxiously inquiries, "what nextF"
We suppose the groom in the case re-
ferred to would be the proper party to
answer that question.
The Moundsville Masens had grand
supper at the LatrobeHouse in that place
last Tuesday evening.
Reverend State Senator Dooittle, of
Wetzel county, Elder of the Christian
Church, has been holding q protracted
meeting for some time, in Moundsville.
He has organized religious society
there, of which the following gentle
men were elected officers: Elders,
Hanson Criswell and j. b. Colvig
Deacons, John Beam, Abraham Brown
and Hamilton Inman. We understand
he meditates revival" in the next
Legislature.
The Morgantown merchants CON-
plain of the depredations of petty
thieves Tobacco is the chief aim Of
their rascally ambition, but other goods
and chattels are not rejected.
We learn from the Constitution that a
little boy, four years old, son of Mr..
Enoch Brewer, of Cass township, Mo
nongalia county, was severely poisoned
lately by eating poisoned candy. For
the encouragement of candy eaters, the
Constitution submits the following list
of dainties, which it says enter into the
composition and coloring of much of
the popular confectionery of the day:
Arrow-root, wheat and potato flour,
hydrated sulphate of lime, white pot
ter's clay, chalk, plaster of Paris, sand;
for coloring, cochineal, lake, indigo,
Prussian blue, Antwerp blue, artificial
ulta- marine, carbonate of copper. car
Donate of lead, or white lead, vermil-
lion, chrome yellow, gamboge, sap
green, arsenite of copper, Indian red,
brown ferruginoas earths, cobalt, smalt,
litmus, ulta- marine, and Naples yellow
Fox hunting is lively iu Monongalia.
The local of the Weston Democrat has
no doubt that the people of his town
are as pious as any other people, but
at the same time they don't crowd each
other much in the churches.
o. T-.~~S.y nvAninG. 18th inst. Mrs.
Rachel Arnett, wife of James Arnett,
Jr., of Monongalia, had her left collar
bone broken by an unruly COW.
In Battelle township, same county,
the Lining Meeting House was fired
lately. by some malicious person, and
burned to the ground.
A falling tree recently killed daugh-
ter of Isaac Willard, of Clay township,
Monongalia county. Her skull was
smashed so that the brains protruded,
and her body was horribly mutilated.
4 correspondent of the South Branch
MtelHgencer having offered to "send
something just to fill up with" the edi-
tor suggests that he send dozen chick.
ems and IA barrel of flour to begin with.
The Ne,c Era says that "pure Galena
cad ore has been discovered in Hardy
county, on the Branch mountains, south
of Moorefield."
On Saturday night, Doth instant, the
house of Mr.. Bush, saloon keeper, of
Martinsburg, was visited by an enter
prising individual, who broke open Mr..
BIS trunk, distracted seven hundred
dollars. and got away with his plumber.
ga young man named Kenelly fell and
broke his leg in the streets of Martins
burg a few days ago.
Sl7 900 is the consideration received
from Mr.. Rhinehart, of Maryland, by
Mr.. Hess, of Jefferson county, W. Va,
for a we'll improved farm containing l55
acres.
Stock in the Jefferson comfy Building
Association sells at 6? per cent. pre-.
MUM.