The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-03
STATE ITEMS.

Inc NellSDurE herdtd nOJtS d BSOu
fruit prospect in that vicinity.
The house and most of the furniture
Of Robert Wells, on the old Lem Beck
farm in Brooke county, were burned last
Wednesday.
The grist and saw mill of John Camp,
Grant township, Monongalia county,
were destroyed by fire Saturday week.
The Morgautown Academy took fire
in the roof last Monday, but the flames
were quenched without much damage.
The Morgantown editors have seen
chicken-liver which weighed six ounces
and half. The fowl to which it be-
louged was a yearling pullet.
The house of William Mcclellan in
Coal township, Harrison county, was
blown a few days ago.
John Hull of Harrison, recently broke
his leg, while jumping. Bone breaking
seems to be favorite amusement with
John, this being the fifth time he has
performed the operation upon himself
Burglars recently entered the house of
John NJ. Stout, Browns Mills, Harrison
county, and stole $3.50.
Charles Queen OF Peel Tree, Barbour
county, makes thirty pounds of maple
sugar annually from one tree.
James Bennett, Esq, brother of Hon.
J. NJ. Bennett of Weston, and we'll
known through the interior of this
State, died at Ellenboro, Ritchie coun-
ty, on the 2lSt ult., of pnuemonia.
The Weston Democrat tells of an am
bilious hen in its locality which recent
ly laid a cannon shaped egg, containing
genuine bullet, pointed like the regu-
lar Minnie.
A servant girl in the employment of
Cyrus Hall, Esq, Parkersburg, kindled
a fire the other day and left can of car
bon oil upon the stove. An explo-
sion was. the somewhat natural copse-
quence. The stove was bursted, win
dow blown out and the girls clothes set
on fire. The girls garments were ex.
tinguished, but not uHtil she had been
badly burned.
A little son of Mr.. j. Irons, at Eliza
beth, was badly scalded on Tuesday by
the upsetting of kettle of hot water.
Though seriously injured, the boy will
recover.
General Power, contractor for the Lit
tie Kanawha Improvement, has reached
Elizabeth with twenty-five employees
and gone to work.
The Darber oil well at White Oak, is
now producing sixty barrels per day,
flowing.
Braidon & Newberger have sold their
oil well at Burning Springs to George
Rice for $4,000.
A yoke of oxen belonging to Mr..
James Smith of Mason county, were
drowned in the Kanawha river last
Monday morning.
The Charleston Journal says that the
Ec1o went out of the Kanawha on April
ltth, having in tow 1900 barrels of
salt. This is the largest tow of salt
ever taken out of the Kanawha river.
Union, Monroe county, is pestered
with petty thieves.
Fresh herring were latel, sold in
Shepherdstown at Sl.sO per hundred and
shad at 20 cents each.
A fair peach crop is promised in
Berkeley county.
Mr.. David seibert's dwelling, near
Darkesville, BeFkely county, was burn.
ed down Sunday week. The grso+o-
part of the family clothing and bonso
hold furniture was also destroyed.
Collector Brown of the Second Dis
trict has requested the resignation ofW
I E. Outcalt, Federal storekeeper at n
Jefferson county distillery. Outcalt +.
citizen of Berkeley and being a car.
pet -bagger in jefferson, be don't give
satisfaction.
Prom the Monroe Republican, April 2.I
LANENTABLE AccDENT.-Mr. Charles
Johnson-s very worthy and upright
young man-met with q melancholy