The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-13
STATE ITEMS.

thieving. .
Talbott's steam saw-mill, in Elk
township, Barbour county, was burned
on Thursday, I'd inst. Loss, $3.50.
The Clarksburg Telegraph says that
Mr. Zinn, of that place, butchered q
hog on Thursday last, eight months old,
which weighed 276 pounds. 1t was q
Chester White. Mr.. John Steele killed
several on Tuesday last, fourteen
months old, which weighed 400 pounds.
The same paper,details the following
serious accident:
One day last week. Samuel Yost, OF
Coal township, this county, met with a
very serious accident. He had pro-
cured lot of powder, which he took .
short distance from the house and at
tempted to explode by means of o
"slow match" This not working to
please him, he got down on his hands
and knees and went to blowing the fire,
when it exploded the powder. The
flames burned his face very severely
almost destroying his eyes. This is an
other warning to boys not to fool with
powder.
Parkersburg was entertained the
other day with the spectacle of a col
ored gentleman promenading the streets
with likely young white woman.
The Little Kanawha rose slightly last
week, and twenty-three hundred bar.
rsls of oil were run out from Standing
Stone.
The Writ county Board of Supervis-
ers have purchased Poor Hsuse farm
Price, $4,000. 49,.
The merchants of Lewisburg close
their establishments at Z p. NJ.
The GreeRbrier Independent says: There
is an old gentleman in this community,
born and raised here-now more than
four. score years of age, who has never
seen a steamboat or railroad-in fact,
he has never been been beyond the
lines of Greenbrier. He has always led
an active life, enjoys good health, and
never taken a dose of medicine, and
works as hard now and with al
much success as most men of half his
yearsi This item is strictly true.
BIN. Hill, of Marion county, lately
killed hog which netted 660 pounds
The Marion County Fair Association
was permanently organized December
4th. The following gentlemen were
unanimously chosen to constitute a
Board of Directors: Peter Camp
James NJ. Lazzell, Gustavus L. Turney,
William Ridgeley and Robert M. Hill
The Board then elected the following
gentlemen permanent officers: Robert
NJ. Hill, President; G. l.. Turney, Vice
President; Robert B. Lott, Recording
Secretary; Ii. w. Rook, Corresponding
Secretary; S. II. Springer, Treasurer.
Two Mormon apostles iectured in
Martinsburg few nights ago.
The Martinsburg Nelo Era furnishes
the following items:
The ruling price of pork in this mar
ket will be about Sl2.
Nearly all the Sabbath Schools il
town are going to have a Christina!
tree. Preparation to this end is now
going on among the various schools.
The Government sales of property a.
Harper..s Ferry have opened up brigh
visions of future prosperity to the in
habitants of that war SCARED village
LARCENY.-A negro was caught il
Mr.. Louis Wolfe's cellar one evening
last week, in the act of helping himself
| to such articles as struck his fancy. II,
was arrested and committed to Jail to
await trial.
HORSE STEALING.-Mr. Griffith, living
on the Winchester pike, beyond the
| first toll gate, had two horses stolen one
night last week. This makes nine
horses that have been stolen in thi!
county in very short time. There
seems to be a gasg of horse-thieves who
operate through an organized system
for running off horses. None of the
horses stolen recently, have, as yet
been heard from.
A small negro boy, who had been EN-,
ployed to make the fires in Messrs
Rouse & Undertakes store, secreted
himself in the hall of the dwelling house
ss Joining the store, last Thursday night
and after the store had been closed and
the proprietors and clerks had retired
he gained an entrance through a door
leading from the dwelling to the room
over the store, and from thence into the
store room. He event through" the
money drawers, and took some Sl4 in
small change which had been left
therein. After securing the money he
made his exit to the street through the
cellar. As soon as the theft was dis
covered suspicion fell on him, and or
being arrested he acknowledged the &C,
and banded over Sl2 of the money. He
was released without prosecution. The
theft was rather bold, and his operations
exhibited considerable shrewdness fol
one of his years.
The Spirit Of Jefferson has the follow
ing itens from Harper's Ferry:
The low state of the water in the
Potomac and Shenandoah just now, ha:
made the Bass fishing Improbable. A
few weeks since, however, John Keller
SOB of Henry, sent on lot of ll9 to Mr.
Reed of Philadelphia, for which he haG
arranged a water tank, air pump, &c.
| in special car. Mr.. X. states that they
all arrived in safety, alive and kicking
but that in placing them in the reser
voir of Girard College, which is supplied
with water from the Schuylkill, one o
them committed Suicide" by his OWL
intractableress.
"Storer College," an institution o
considerable pretensions for the educa
tion of the colored race, is now so fal
completed as to be opened to limited
class in the higher departments, whilst
We learn that the preparatory shool il
full to overflowing, of both sexes, al
age. andscolors. The building is tn,
same, with several thousand dollars ad
ded by way Of improvement and re
pairs, that was occupied by Colonel Bar
bour whilst Superintendent at Harper
Ferry.
The Shenandoah Mills, on the Islam,