The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-06
When Jenny Lind, the nightingale, -
Fer teuton Geldschuith dcnned the wife
Again did music's friends bewail
The songstress' fate-tho' "sich Ia Life"
But Stree our choir has poured along
The tide of time its heavenly strain
The brilliant bird now doubly strong
Has plumed herself to joy again.

The tide of time its heavenly strain p
The brilliant bird now doubly strong
Has plumed herself to joy again.
The Press says the roof of the new
building at Marshall College is ready fer
the slate and the work is going on as
fast as the state Of the weather will
permit. .s.,tt sE..a
. The young men of Barboursville are
going to form Library Society.
CabelL county had an Agricultural
Society before the war, and the Press
advocates its re-establishment.
Pork is scarce in Gresnbrier county
and worth from $40 to Sll per hundred.
"Old Scratch" Doctor CaldwelD hay-
ing gone East on rampage, the Lewis
burg Independent had "no local devil
ment to chronicle" last week. Z
The Supervisors Of Greenbrier county
advertise for proposals to rebuild the
bridge over G-eenbrier river on the Ka
nawha turnpike. =
Thomas Tincher, mail carrier between
Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe county,
West Virginia, and Dublin, Virginia,
made 80 trips last year, travelling a
distance of 13,020 miles. .a H
The Union, Monroe county, Register
says that son of Mr.. Anderson Brown,
who lives on Peters Mountain, near the
Salt Pond, last week captured an enor-
nous gray eagle, which had devoured
one of his geese. The young mar, found
remnants of the goose near his premises,
and depositing them in hollow stump
for bait, he placed q steel trap ct the
entrance. The royal forager was thus
caught in trap. He measured seven
feet and two inches from tip to tip of
the extended wings. His great fangs
measured two and a half inches, and
when extended, inclosed a space be-
tween their points of II inches in
length.
The Romney Intelligencer learns that
a party of deer hunters from Eastern
Virginia, who went to the mountains
in Pendleten some three weeks ago, for
the purpose of hunting deer, had fine
wagon and their camp equipage burned
while they were hunting and also some
of their valuable dogs spirited away.
Deer are being shot in great numbers in
Hampshire.
We extract the annexed items from
the Martinsburg Ne,o Eaa:
Mrs. George Sperow has sold her farm
near Falling Waters, this county, to Mr..
Levi Spitznogle, for $500.
The late sown wheat has improved
considerably in appearance, during the
the past ten days.
Hog slaughtering will pretty gener-
ally commence with the farmers during
the next ten pays.
Eggs are played ont hereabouts, the
hens having laid up for the winter.
Small bills of currency for making
change are very scarce, and large bills
for paying debts scarcer.
Rev. w. S. Penick held a series of
meetings at Mt. Zion Baptist Church,
recently, and during the continuance
there were fifty onversions-forty- three
of whom were added to the membership
OF the church.
The Charlestown Free Press says that
eleven hogs, one year old, weighing,
upon an average, $50 pounds each, were
slaughtered by Mr. c. j. Manning, of
that county, some few days ago.
The Clarksburg Conservative notes the
excessive prevalence of roydyism in
that town.
The Morgan Mercury says:
We have been favored with some of
the particulars of an extraordinary
ease, which came off about a
week or ten days ago, the parties being
a colored man and a white woman, hail
ing from Frog Hollow, in this county.
The elopement, it appears, was inaugu-
rated with view TO matrimony-the
twain vending their way, arm in arm,
to the city of Warfordsburg, 'tother side
of the (not Jordan) Potomac, to have
the knot tied but in consequence of
failure in procuring minister of the
Gospel sufficiently stultified to make
the couple bone of one bone, and flesh
of one flesh" the august affair was in
definitely postponed. Want of space
precludes the possibility of our giving
a more extended notice of this misce.
genation movement.