The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-10
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The WeIisbdrg tswnl Councl has re,
fused liquor lisehse, aud q dry season is
apprehended. ~
Mr.. Matthew Gay, well kBpwn citi,
zen of Morgantown, died at tat place
on Saturday, lst inst.
The Conservatives says Csrlile has been
rs-sppointed Minister to Stockholm.
Lewis county crops are looking we'll
For the first time since it was incor-
pOratsd, the town Of Weston is out OF
debt. The local officers are Democrats.
Mrs. Hinsm an, Of Hackers Creek,
Lewis county, tell from door step a
few days ago and broke her thigh. She
Is over eighty years old.
Four thousand barrels Of oil went
down the Little Kanawha during the
late rise. The grease is worth 5.25 per
barrel at Burning Springs.
The WIrt County DeHtocrat records the
marriage in that county of Mr.. B. P.
Robinson to Miss Baena Vista Larantine
Bunker Hill Monumental Jaco. Mr..
Robinson survived.
Fruit in Monongalia was uniDjured at
last accounts.
They had snow in the country round
about Morgantown on the Sd inst.
The velocipede has visited Packers
burg. The whole population followed
the machine through the village streets.
A young man named Morrow, Of Ma
son county, was drowned in the Ohio
River, near Hanly's Landing, on Friday
week.
The Point Pleasant editors unite in q
call for Publishers' Convention, to be
held at Parkersburg, on Thursday,
June Sd.
The Kana,cha Republican corrects the
trifling mistake it made in saying there
were 3OO,OOO,OOO Odd Follows in the
United States. 1t meant 100000. Z
The body of colored man was found
floating in the Kanawha river, near
Coalsmouth, on Sunday week, which
was identified as that of William Hill,
a drayman, who accidentally fell from
the wharf boat at Charleston, and was
drowned, some weeks since.
Bob Silvers, one of the prisoners who
escaped from the Martinsburg Jail last
February, has been recaptured.
Berkeley county sheep are suffering
from an attack of dogs.
On Saturday, the oath ult., death
occurred at Harper's Ferry from drown
ing. An elderly man named King,
well-known to many of the citizens Of
our county as a vender of stocking yarn,
dropped from the bridge ever the Poto-
mac, and before assistance could be
rendered him, he tloated down with the
current, and was drowned. So far as
we know his body has not yet been re-
covered.-Spirit Of Jefferson.
The Episcopal Convocation of the
Valley met in Charlestown, Jefferson
county, on Thursday, 9th inst.
A negro attempted to rob Mr.. w. H.
Moore, of Charlestown, few days ago.
Meeting him short distance from the
town, the darkey demanded Moore's
money and tried to enforce his demand
with CLUB. Mr.. Moore was not robbed,
but the manhood was whaled like
blazes.
From the Clarksburg Conservative
EsCAPED.-John Lee Watkins, who
was arrested in disguise, charged with
having committed a murder in Green
brier county, broke Jail in broad day.
light last Friday. Somebody supplied
him with chisel, with which he cut a
rivet or something of the kind, and just
walked off, while the jailor was absent.
We remember reading of a prison, in
the West of course, where a prisoner
notified the keeper that if the holes in
his cell were not closed up, so as to pre-
vent the sheep coming in at night and
his slumbers, he would leave.
Wonder if our county Jail is not about
as securef