The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-31

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Blopser, living about five miles from
town, was walking out on his place
with his family, when coming to a small
dead tree, he put his hand against it
and gave a push to see whether the roots
were sound or not, when it broke off s
or 10 feet from the ground and fell upon
his Wifss head and shoulders, iDjuring
her very severely.
On Monday last little son of John
Straub, of Central Station, Doddridge
county, fell into Arnold's creek, near
that place, and was drowned. The
child was aged four years.
The Conservative chronicles an egg
lately found in Harrison county, seven
inches in circumference, weighing six
ounces, and enclosing a second egg, per-
feet except a flexible shell. The space
between the shells was filed with albu-
men and embryo chicken.
The Conservative also notes the de-
cease of one of the Sunday Schools in
West Union, and says the property be-
longing to the school was removed to
safe quarters so as to keep company
with the proceeds of the Ladies' Dorcas
Society, which also collapsed not long
ago with about forty dollars in the
treasury.
SMALL PoX IN CLARKsBURG.-At the
recent session of the Circuit Court for
Harrison county, there was no grand
Jury summoned and no cases tried except
by common consent, and which did not
require a jury or witnesses. This was
because there had been some cases of
the small pox in the out skirts of the
town, which had so alarmed the people
in the county that Judge Harrison felt
delicacy in requiring them to come in
to attend Court. We learn that all the
cases that occurred there, which were
but few, were promptly removed some
distance beyond the corporate limits
that none of the cases were bad-all are
rapidly recovering, and the citizens of
that place apprehead no danger from
the disease.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-As Isaac Smith,
of Simpson township, Harrison county,
was returning home from Bridgeport,
on the 9th inst, during the thunder
storm Of that day, his horses became
frightened by the lightning and COM
menced to run, He jumped out of the
wagon, and in doing so, dislocated his
ankle so badly that the bone of his leg
protruded through the flesh and skin.
DR.. Late and DR.. Bowcock, of Clarks-
burg, were sent for, who dressed his in
iuries. The patient is probably crippled
for life.
DECORATION OF GRAVES AT GRAFTON
On last Saturday the friends Of the
soldiers buried in the National Gene
terry, at, Grafton, assembled to strew
flowers upon their graves. Between
four andfve hundred persons, by actu-
al count, participated in the services.
A procession was formed in town and
marched to q grove in the vicinity Of
the Cemetery, where Captain Richard
W. Blue introduced Rev. J. H. Flana-
gan, who opened the services with
prayer, after which Rev. J. D. Kerr, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, delivered the. e.address Of
the occasion. At the conclusion of the
address the participants repaired to the
Cemetery, and strewed flowers on the
graves of those buried there.
The Parkersburg Times says Captain
Ford has struck new light oil we'll be-
tween White Oak and Sand Hill. 1t is
reported an excellent well.
Kanawha county has no liquor license.
From the Charleston Republican,
We learn that portions of Putnam and
Lincoln counties was visited by light
frost on Wednesday night of last week.
BROKE JAIL.-On Wednesday night
last, George Cox, (white) and Robert
Ruford (colored) broke out of our new
eight thousand dollar Jail and made
their escape to parts unknown.
BURGLARY.-The store of Messrs.
Fish IL Clark was entered on the night
of Wednesday last, and some twenty or
thirty dollars aud nearly all of Fred's
good clothes stolen, besides few bacon
hams, &c. 1t is generally believed to
have been done by the persons who es
capped from Jail the same night.
The farmers in this and adjoining
counties inform us that they never had
a better prospect for a heavy crop of
wheat and oats than at present. Most
of them, owing to the late rains, are
rather behind time in planting corn, but
they are yet putting in a good quantity,
and expect to make an average crop.
We also learn that for the last few
years, many of the land.holders OF this
vicinity have planted out large guam
tity of choice varieties of fruit, and
Judging from the present appearance OF
the trees, there will be larger yield of
fruit this year than has ever been seen
in this valley.
Nat Harrison has had the CRioH Reg
lister indicted by the Grand Jury of Mon
roe county for "libelling" himself and
the Supervisors of that county. Here
is the report of the jury upon the in
dictmeDts
eve the Grand Jury present Richard
Birke for publishing Li0ill on the 9th
of Jany 1869 in the union Register
against \. Harrison honorable Judge of
the Circuit court Of monroe county and
the board of Supervisors of said county.
B. BALLARD foreman"
OF course, Nat will try the case; of
course, he will get such verdict as he
wants; of course, be will suppress the
Register and imprison its editor if he so
pleases, and ifanybody objects, Of fcourse
it will be a new proof of the "devilish
disloyalty" Of the Greenbrier Valley.
Prom the Berkeley Union