The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-13
STATE ITEMS.

Harrison county has six Democratic
Clubs, all in active operation.
The West Virginia Agricultural So
ciety, of Clarksburg, has elected the
following Board of Directors for the en-
suing year:
T. S. Spates, A. w. Woodford, II. T.
Lowndes, John j. Davis, James Lynch,
Joseph f. Osborn, A. Bumgardner,
Parker b. Cookman. Elias Slocum, Sam
uel X. Steel, Henry Basel, b. B. Stout
and f. Hartman.
State Treasurer Bristor has been or
ganiEing the G. A. r. in the Second
District. A Congressional nomination
is said to be the "cause why" The
State pays him Sl4OO and "house rent"
for his electioneering services.
Mr.. William Loar, a School Commits
sion of Preston county, has been elm
peached" and removed for the 'high
crime" of joining Democratic Club.
The Beard to which he belonged per-
formed the operation and "the life of
the nation" feels better.
A Richie county correspondent de-
sires to warn the public against the Sc
ductive deceits of piOus aud gifted
impostor named John Brown. John
blends successfully the vocations of a
Methodist preacher, Temperance Lectu-
rer, shoemaker and scOundrel. His age
is about fifty, height five feet ten, net
weight l60 pounds avordupOis; iron
grey beard and eyes clad with specs.
Having staid in Ellsnboro long enough
to convince the people that he was an
accomplished cobbler, fsrvent exhort-
er, and an illustrious priest after the
order of Good Templars, Mr.. Brown
mysteriously disappeared, taking with
him "sundry monies and garments not
belonging unto the same" At last ad-
vices his godly soul was marching on,
Hardy county is importing cattle
from Texas.
A thief visited the room of Mr.. J. w.
Duffy, of Moorfeld, few nights ago
and hived that gcntleman's pocket
book, with $500 thereto pertaining.
Two hundred new houses will be fin
ished in Martinsburg this summer, and
immigration is expected to fill them all.
DR.. Mitchell, veterinary surgeon at
Harper's Ferry. has lost his right eye
by having corrosive sublimate acci-
dentally blown into it.
The people of Jefferson are chasing
foxes.
The Spirit is gratifed over the i'm.
provemeHts in progress in Charlestown.
A negro lately found near Charles
town pocket-book filled with bank
notes. When the "eel skin" was open
en-, the greenbacks, that had evidently
been rouldering long time, crumbled
to dust. Another illustration of the
lidlIlN VI heAifh ca pOCldlIOuS anu Vi
the effect of the nigger on the finances.
'And the colored troop cursed nObly."
The Martinsburg Nes Era thus re-
cords new feature in the baptizing
business under ebony management:
On last Lords day our community
was thrown into a fit of irrepressible
cachinnation by practical illustration
of the doctrines taught by the miscege
nationists. 1t happened thusly: A
number of regenerated Americans of
African descent were baptized in Jor-
dan-otherwise Fitz's dam-at which
ceremony a fair evangel from Yankee
dom figured as trainer in ordinary, and
as each of the sable virgins arose, like
Naiad Queens, from the vastly deep,
all limp, dripping and oderous, they
were received into the arms of the
evangelizing marin, and were squeezed
and bussed gushingly. After which the
following anthem assembled:
old satan's mad
And am glad,
He amt got the souls
he thought he had.
CHORUS.
Souls bound for glory,
Bound, bound for glory,
And that's what the devil
Am grumbling about.