The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-08-29
STATE NEWS.

awarded by Judge Bond Of the United
States Circuit Court, and made returna-
BILE before him at Martinsburg on the
9th. Hon. C. j. Faulkner appears
for the United States, and Hon B, Stan
ton for the Criminal.
ARREsrED.-G. W. Clipp and Pat.
Ashby were arrested on the 18th inst,
for an assault with intent to kill John
T. Clipp, an old gentlemen, at his resi-
dence on the East side of the Shenan-
doah river, near Myers Ford. Justice
Myers committed them TO jail. 1t is
said the injured man is in critical con-
dition.-Frec Press.
SEvRRLY INJrRRD,--James Carper
ESQ, employed at the railroad as an
examiner of wheels, was severely in
jured one day last week BY accidently
jumping through the railroad bridge.
1t appears he had finished examining the
wheels of a freight train and jumped on
the end of the rear car for the purpose
of riding up to the shops. The train
started and his hat fell Off and he not
think the car was so close to the bridge,
Jumped off for his hat, and fell through
the bridge, distance of twenty-five
feet, iniuring himself severely and seri-
ously.-BsrkeIey Union.
FLATBoATs have commenced running
from the Greenbrier Ferry TO different
points down the river. Two large fiat
boats were launched on Tuesday morn
ing last, loaded with goods and
railroad stores, and we learn from
Captain McClernan that in short time
navigation will be opened to Big Bend
Tunnel and other points lower down
the river This is quite an event in
the history Of Greenbrier river.-Indc-
pendent
On Sunday night while the young
man staying at the Drug Store in this
place, was at church, burglar entered
the store by a back window. He took
the cash drawer to the back door and
there dropped it. Fortunately there was
no money in the store No goods were
taken by the thief-money seeming to
be what he was afler-Grccbr;sr Ie6s.
pendent ...
THE Radicals of Hancock county
have renominated Daniel Donehoo for
the House OF Delegates and concur in
the nomination of John g. Harvey for
State Senator
NOTHING RELIABLE.-We have been
unable to gather any reliable infor'
nation from the different townships Of
the number Of newly registered voters
in this county, but VIC place the num-
Der, from the meager information we
have received, at between four and five
hundred, about a hundred of whom
are negrocs.-4IoS0a Co. Journal
SoLD.-We learn from the Middlcport
Press, that Mr.. V. B. Horton has sold
the Jackson Salt Furnace and its coal
privileges, situated about mile below
Hartford City, to w r. Healey, of New
York, who was formerly Superintend'
cnt of the Mason county NJ. d NJ Co.,
at Hartford CITY, and Treasurer and
Agent of the Ohio River Salt Company
Pr. PletaNm Register
THERE has not been quarrel, which
came to blows, in this place, for more
than a year, Let us have peace. -
Pr Pleasant Register.
SHoT.-Israel Dunlap, of Cooper
township, was shot at by some unknown
person last Sunday night, and received
a severe flesh wound in the right thigh.
Dr. F. l.. Campbell was sent for, who
dressed the wound and we are told he
is getting along as well as could be ex-
pccted.-P. Pleasant Register.
! WE are informed that a considerable
number of new voters, nearly all Demo
Gratis, have been registered in Monon-
gala
We understand that gentleman
from Ohio was in Morgantown this
week looking for location for a wooden
mill. He expressed himself as very
much pleased with the prospect in this
section. 1t is something We need here
very much.-ConSt;tu'ton
PARKERsBrRG is to have Piano
Fire Engine" (whatever that isl cost
ing $500. They would have bought
steamer, but that the streets are usually
so muddy that a steam engine would
have to be drawn by oxen and would
not ret tothc fire until next day
: Hon. J. J. DAVIS and General Golf
met on the stump at Chenille last week,
A very large number Of people were
present. The General placed himself
squarelv in favor of negro suffrage, and
endorsing the 18th Amendment and all
the negroisms of the. Radical party
as full and unequivocally as Charles
| Sumner.
Davis replied to Golf in speech OF
two hours, and handled the youthful
General very much as the giants of old
might have handled the rigmies.-
ClmkSJ,rg Conservative.
THE Writ county Democrat has enter
ed upon its third year, 1t is good
paper, well conducted, neatly printed
and exhibiting more enterprise in the col
lection Of local news than two thirds OF
its contemporaries in West Virginia, 1t
ought to have better paying support
than it receives. Suppose YOU try the
cash system, Bro. Gordon2
A LETTER from Burning Sprincs in