The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-21
STATE ITEMS.


condition of the matrimonial market In
Brooke county Only three marriage
licenses were issued in that county last
month. .
W. II. White, Esq, of Wellsburg, has
been appointed Notary Public for
Brooke county.
The wool trade is brisk in Brooke
The Wsllsburg Herald says that JaHes
Palmer, Esq, has sued the corporation
of Wellsburg to enforce the payment of
subscription OF $1,000 to the Bethany
tdrnpike.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Pitcher, residing
resr Fairmont, celebrated their "golden
wedding" last Monday.
The Morgantown Constitutions says
numbers Of persons, anxious to settle in
that town, are turned away for want of
dwelling houses.
The Morgantown Post has an "oldest
woman," Miss Sallie Thomas, aged one
hundred, and domiciled in the Poor
House near that place.
Mr.. Enoch Evans, an old citizen of
Monongalia county, died January Goth,
aged 60.
A Doddridge county correspondent of
the Clarksburg Conservative nominates
Hon. NJ. Edmiston for Congress, and
says he would carry that county by $50
majority.
From the Cla, ksburg Telegraph.
There is protracted meeting of the
NJ. E. Church now going on at Wilson.
burg. They are having quite a revival
and large number of converts are be-
ing added to the church.
RoBBERY.-On Monday night last,
Dallas Thomas and William Ebert, both
colored, were arrested by Officer Tate,
of the Mayors Police, upon charge OF
burglariously and feloniously breaking
into the finishing shop of Walter Ebert,
a hat manufacturer of this place, and
purloining eighty dollars, and some odd
cents, in greenbacks from the desk.
(From the Weston Democrat)
A young woman in Nicholas county
appeared before justice of the peace,
the other day, and complained that
her husband had been taking liberties
with her," She had been married the
day before. .
The anglers for pike in this vicinity
have been unusually successful in their
efforts this year. The largest captured
yet heard of weighed nine pounds.
"THE CoLoRED VOTERs."-We under
stand that the colored men will claim,
at the next municipal election, right
to have share in the town offices. We
have nothing to say. 1t is strictly a
family quarrel between brethren of the
same faith.
West Union. Doddridge county, has
new paper, the Herald, neat in appear
auce, spright'y in its contents and inde-
pendent in its politics.
More than one million barrel hoops
have been cut and shaved in Doddridge
county this winter.
A wooden factory is to be built at
Central Station, Doddridge county.
Tbs dwelling of Wayman McGi!l, in
Doddridge county, with all his house
hold goods, was burned a few days ago.
From the Writ County Democrat.
The hard rains for the last three or
four days have swollen the Little Kan
awha to depth of about % feet. The
oil at the Springs ready for market was
run out. The amount We have not
learned.
A large amount Of drift wood and
valuable logs were caught atloat. One
party, we understand, captured several
hundred dollars worth of very valuable
timber.
From the Point Pleasant Register.I
SHOOTING AFFRAY.-Last Saturday
difficulty occurred at Clifton, between \
man named Martin Hetzel and man
named Hennigen, which resulted in the
shooting of Hennigen. On Monday
Hetzel had an examination before
Squire Shank. The evidence showed
conclusively that the shooting was an
act OF self-defense.
ACCIDENT. - Monday, Miss Annie
Young, daughter of our townsman,
Robert Young, Esq, was very badly
scalded by the upsetting of tea kettle
of boiling water.
From the Martinsburg New Era.l
The Spirit of jefferson printing Office
has been sold to Mr.. John w. Delgarn,
of Charlestowu, for $4,000. 1t was dis
posed OF at trustees sale.
A family residing in the lower part of
town, by the name of Lashors, made
narrow escape Saturday night. The
lady had filed lamp from the oil can,
and in doing so spilled some oil on the
table. Her little boy set fire to the oil
on the table to burn it off. The blaze
ignited the oil in the can and also in the
lamp just flied. The can bursted and
it was only by the greatest presence of
mind that the house was saved from be-
ing burned, and the lady from a borri-
BILE death. She escaped with the loss
of her hair and some slight burns. The
carpet was badly burned, and the house
only saved by some one rushing in and
dragging the burning carpet into the
street.
A letter from Fort Abercrombie says
that Friday, the 11th inst, was the most
tempestuous day on the Plains expert
enced this winter. On that day Charles
Warren, in company with six soldiers
and an Indian scout, left Fort Rawson
for Fort Abercrombie. The soldiers and
scout were soon left behind and Mr..
Warren heard no more of them unsil
Saturday evening. While stopping at o
station on the route the scout came in
badly frozen aud hardly able to talk,
reporting that the soldiers, the day pre-
yious, had got lost in the driving storm,
and, unhitching their mules. had camped
out upon the prairie, all being moro or
less frozen. The Indian covered four OF