The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-11
STATE ITEMS.

Robert Methrlll, OF 'CIarksDurg, wa
badly hurt, last week, by an Academia
fall from the cars at Parkersburg. H,
is recovering.
The National Telegraph briefly advert'
to the Capital question in five column
article.
They have an original ghost on the
railroad near Clarksburg. The spooE
takes the questionable shape of black
dog with a red ring around its neck, and
is impervious to pokers and "sich."
John Kaufman, Jr., of Sardis, Har,
risOn county, had his jaw broken few
days ago by fall from horse.
James CASTOR sold farm of224 acres
ON Duck Creek, Harrison county, at
$50 per acre.
One hundred and sixty-eight couples
were married in Harrison county last
year. Twelve were colored, the re
mainder plain.
The Clarksburg Conservative says:
A gay wedding party passed through
Bridgeport on horseback, on Monaa,
week. The bride called at one o
the stores and bought four kegs ofsnuff
and the groom bought 10 cents worth OF
gingerbread. The groom then took hi'
wife on his knee and held her while sht
was rubbing snuff, and he ate ginger
cakes. They were on their route from
Pennsylvania to their homes in Levi:
county.
The Taylor county AdrertiSer noticing
the recent rebberics and other "loyai
symptoms manifest in Wheeling, proph.
ecies speedy Radical victory here
The same paper sketches the history OF
the Grafton Chronicle thus
twill be remembered that the old
concern was "a darned old thing" be-
fore there was Taylor county. Dan
Morris and two or three others very
nearly starved their families to death
with it. 1t was piled up in an old room
for a series of years, when an ambitious
live monkey was attached to it to trav-
cl around and fool people and cheat
subscribers and advertisers. The mon
key is still living, but the machine is
dead. 1t is worth at this time, outside
of old metal value, about three ten pen
ny nails.
f. Shisler, Esq, has retired from the
editorial chair of the Morgantown Con-
stitmiOR.
The Little Kanawha river was at a
fine boating stage last week. All the
oil produced in that region since the
previous rise was boated out.
A deer was chased through the streets
of Elizabeth, the other day, and cap
tured while crossing the river.
Human slavery has been revived in
this State, Notwithstanding its dedica-
tion to freedom. A pauper was sold to
the lowest bidder NJ Writ Court House
on the 3lst ult. The Elizabeth Gazette
HIlilS dliuucS " VIC lIduoSCliOu 40
follows:
The sale was pablo and held in front
of the Court House. We deneunce the
act as iuiquitous and barbarous for the
reason that there is no warrant of law
for it, but only custom engendered by
that spirit of slavery which has stamped
the Code of Virginia all over with its
own iniQuity. The only authority
which this custom is predicated upon is
Sec. II, Chap. 81, Code of 1860, which
is as follows: "Any person to be pro-
vided for or assisted by an overSeer or
Overseers, may either be kept at the
place of general reception, or be sup.
ported or assisted elsewhere, rs he or
they may deem best" There is no au-
thority here or elsewhere in the entire
Code by which free State may be dis
graccd by those scenes common among
the slave pens of Virginia before the
war annihilated the auction block. The
person sold was woman and stone
blind, and who formerly was the owner
of a good farm in this county. She
was struck off at 81 20 per week for her
maintenance until next June.
AS the woman is probably white, we
don't see the sense of making a fuss
about it.
A JAIL BIRD IN LIMBo.-One day last
week q man by the name of Bob
Daily WAS arrested on Standing Stone,
upon warrant from Mason county, for
stealing a horse at Point Pleasant
Since his arrest, it has been ascertained
that he is the same chap who robbed
the post office and Wisemans store al
this place in the fall of 1865, but broke
jail here before his sentence was passed
-EH-dbch Gazette.
The entire daily product of the White
Oak oil region is one hundred and fifty
barrels, heavy oil, worth from fourteen
to fifteen dollars per barrel.
The ParkCrsburg Times learns from
one of the most active gentlemen con
nected with the Improvement of tn,
Little Kanawha river that the prelim
mary arrangements were to have beer
settled Friday for putting under con
tract the erection of the requisite dam
to complete the navigation Of the rive
to Burning Springs. Forty-six thou
sand dollars have already been secure
by Writ county, and two Of the Con
panies operating at Burning Spring
will add to this about $4,000, maxim
one-half of the estimated cost of tn
entire work.
A company is at work on scott's Rur
Monosgalia county, preparing for tn
manufacture of salt. By the first G
April they expect to turn out twenty
five barrels per day.
A little daughter of Mr.. Morris Cav
ensugh, living near Duffield's Depot, i