The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-07
STATE NEWS.

that but few thousand dollars an
needed to place the Panhandle raj
road project spon a working footing.
"Conjugate" is the motto of tn
young folks throughout this State.
seems to be their natural gait"
They have symptoms of hinderpest il
Clarksburg. In other words, the Gre
clan Bend is exalting its horn 10 the in
finite CONSERVATION of the city
The cigar makers are doing rushing
business in Wellsburg.
The street lamps of Moundsville pre-
sent fine sppearance-iA daytime, an,
the folks of the place are rejoicing owe
some new pavements.
Carlile, Hon. John, wants Feruey
d. D., to tell him whether it woult
not be we'll to take from the States th,
control of suffrage and settle the matte
by provision of the Federal Constitu
tion. With a cruel disregard of the pro
prieties, Forney gives publicity to the
query and the querist. How these gen
tlemen propose to arrange the "Squattel
Sovereignty" business, of which bott
were ardent advocates, is not stated.
The Richie Press notices the death Of
C. NJ. Brown, Esq, leading member o.
the Harrisville bar. Mr.. Brown died OF
hemorrhsge of the lungs. He was about
32 years of age, and formerly resided il
Kirk wood, Preston county, where his
remains were taken for burial. We are
glad to be able, from personal acquaint'
ance, to bear testimony to the social
worth and business merits of the de-
ceased. His widow and two children
will receive the warm sympathy of all
who knew the estimable man whose loss
they are called to mourn.
Joseph Graham, colored, lately tried
in Martinsburg for killing James Bran
soui, also colored, and found guilty of
murder in the first degree, has been
sentenced to be hung January 29th,
1869, between the hoHrs of 10 A. NJ. and
I'm.
The late Catholic Fair in Martins
burg netted $1,000.
The manageable young ladies of
Snithfield, Jefferson county, outnum-
Der the young men of that description
six to one, there being sixty maidens
all forlorn, and but ten bachelors. Sic
semper Uranus should be the rallying
cry of the damSels. II is suggested that
if each of the young men of Smithtield
were TO marry his share, the figure he
would cut would be sex-angular.
The Taylor county Adrertiser is de-
cidedly III lavor of having notices of
sales regularly published in newspa
pers. Its reasons could not he mo7e
forcible. IL says:
w
changes, lately, an item treating on the
manner in which the property ot poor
or unfortunate men Is sacrihceu III
counties and townships, when under e1-
ecution. A little illeGible, unlntelligi,
BILE manuscript is stuck up and carried
off by the first blast of wind, perhaps
usually about thus
sell At public sail awI thee prop
pertey ofe billie stoaks consl
sis ofe howse hoald and kucklng
youtenn syls and the stawk and
form plaise
WILLIAM JolES COustabule ote
ewnyion towNshipp counto ote
orIT1nt nsvembure p tn l : q :
and the poor mans goods are sacrificed
for a mere song, when, If the law re-
ouired every such notice to appear IN
the county paper, or if no paper in the
county, then in the cslumns OF the
nearest journal, aud the notice of such
sale. or any sale, reaching men who
could and would buy, the property
would sell for double or treble the
amount it otherwise realizes to its own
er or his creditors. If our traps, chat.
tells and grub patch are ever disposed oi
under the sonorous notes of the execu:
TONER, we want the proceeds to cancer
our Indebtedness to the greatest extent
possible, and we would feel safe thal
each dollar spent IN printing Wouiu
weld us five at the least calculation.
The Little Kanawha river had sew
en- foot rise on Friday week. Twenty
oil boats went out from Burning
Springs; one was wrecked and SIX hun
dred barrels of oil lost.
The Buffalo Independent is no more
DR.. Chase has sold his press and fixtures
to a college located at Albany, Athens
county. Ohio.
Pork is worth seven dollars in Green
brier county.
We see by the 4drertiser's Gazette tha
two Radical papers in this State are 10
sale. on account of the "ill health" O.
the editors. Editing paper on Rad
ical basis in West Virginia is enough t
sicken almost any decent man. we ar
charitable enough to hope that our co
temporaries may each find customer
reservisg at the same time, our sympa
thies for the unfortunate chaps VIII
may pay for the privilege of catching
their sickness"
From the Berkeley Union.l
ARREsTED.-D. P. Keefer, miller
recently running the mill belonging t
William Walker, Esq, on Tuscaror
creek, was arrested last week upon
warrant issued by Justice Doll, upo
the oath of Mr.. Jenny. 1t appears tia
. in September the prosecuting witness
az the request of the accused, placed /
: the mill some three hundred bushels
wheat, with the distinct understanding
I that it was TO be subject to NJ
Jenny's disposal at any time
Keefer ground the wheat and sol
, the -four, and in the course of
few weeks emigrated TO Baltimor'
t In the meantime firm ia Baltimore
} who were his securities in leasing th