The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-01
STATE ITEMS.

StHIE IL EWS.
The people of Wellsburg think OF
having an election for Postmaster.
The body of drowned man, aged
about fifty years, and supposed to be a
German, was found at Pike Island, four
miles below wsllsburg, on Monday, 22d
ult.
Mrs. E. j. Moore has purchased the
Morgantown Collegiate Institute build
ing, and will shortly open Seminary
for young ladies.
They talk of discoveries of lead ore
and gold quartz in Preston county.
Somebody tried to blow open the safe
of A. Armstrong, Esq., of Pruntytown,
a few nights ago. 1t is supposed that
the burglar was frightened away by the
explosion, as he left all his implements
behind.
The National Telegraph suggests the
abolition Of the Test Oath 80 far as resi-
dent lawyers are concerned, and of ap-
plying it only to such as may hereafter
settle in the State.
We like the following plain talk from
the same paper:
The great drawback in conducting
a newspaper in Clarksburg, is that the
people do not regard it as necessity,
but as something that some man who
lacks practical good sense gets up in or
der to amuse himself and others with.
Many will subscribe and pay for one
year and then never think of renewing.
They will imagine that year is COM
posed of twenty or thirty months, and
that because they have paid the editor
two dollars they should read his paper
two or three years without paying any
more, and if they should find mark on
their paper indicating that they are in
arrears, they order their paper stopped
and imagine they have been very badly
treated-insulted-a that the editor
is an unfeeling brute.
Harrison county Republicans who
won't support the Telegraph don't desire
local organ.
The Weston Democrat is happy over
the late finding of lead and silver ore
in Lewis county.
The samo paper says that the births
outnumber the deaths in that county,
in the proportion of three to one.
The following, from the Parkersburg
Times, reaches us a little late, but out
of personal regard to the friend who de-
sires its insertion, we publish it. In the
light of recent occurrences it will CON-
pare favorably with a Greek dictionary
as interesting reading matter:
CAPITAL ACCOMMODATIONS late
conversation at the State Metropolis,
somo of the adv coates of different 10.
cation of the Capitol seemed to fear that
Parkersburg would not be prepared to
accommodate the Legislature, Court of
Appeals, sc. 1t is well knows among
our own people that our facilities for
accommodating large influx of tran
sicnt population were tested i'll 1864 and
1868, and that our city was made to ex-
pand and adapt itself to the emergency
most admirably Since the oil excite
ment has subsided we have steadily
improved in our accommodations Tor
strangers both in the extension and in.
crease of our hotels, and of private
boarding houses. 1t is well known that a
large proportion of the better class of
families will take boarders on moderate
terms, while our hotel accommodations
are ample. In proof of this may be ad
duced the ex xtonsion OF the Swami House,
by large addition to the number OF its
lodging rooms, the late re-Opening of
the Spencer House, and the adaptation
of COncordia Hall to elegant sleeping
apartments by Mr.. Andy Ais, over his
first-class restaurant, thus atfording to
transient sojourners the advantages of
a hotel on the European plan. Besides
this, Mr.. 5. Prayer. having purchased
the fine residence of Mr.. Joseph Neale,
will in week or two remove from tho
vicinity of the old United States Hotel,
and enable it to double its capacity for
public accommodations, if the prospect
should justify an extension. Thus it
will be readily seen that ParkerSburg
is now ready ut once to receive the Leg
islature, the Court and all the sol ourn-
ers who would be drawn to the Capital
of our State, without the necessity OF
erecting a single building.
Business in the oil regions is looking
up.
A child of Lewis Welfe's, of Martins
burg, died on Wednesday morning from
swallowing rat poison.
Horse thieves are hourishing in Berke-
ley county.
The steamer d. Lyncy, plying be-
tween Charlest 7n and Cannelton, sprung
a leak and sunk on Monday, February
22d. She will he raised and repaired.
From the Clarksburg Conservative.
DEATH BY POIsONING.-James Chill
ders, residing near New Salem, about
eight o'clock Saturday morning took a
dose of what he had bought at Salem
store for salts. Distressing symptoms
followed, growing more serious until 2
p. NJ, when he died. DR.. Davis was
called in too late to do the sufferer any
good. DR.. Davis on examination found
the "salts" to be sulphate of zinc. He
at once went to the store where it had
been obtained, and there found that a
pound ofthe same poison had been sold
to another family. He made his way
as quickly as possible to the latter fam
lily, and arrived just as thrse doses were
being mixed, else We might have had
three more deaths to chronicle. The
storekeeper says he sent to Baltimore
to drug house for salts, and this had
been sent him. Childers leave a wife
aud family of seven or eight children,
poor. The law ought to compel the
drug house which made the blunder
to support the family. 81.