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

| aPOLOGETlC.-Ourr readers VIII nav
to excuse the scarcity OF local items ii
the present number of the Press, from
the fact that most of our available spac,
is surrendered 20 the European wa
news.
Yourexcuse is scarcely valid, Brother
Wen bet big apple that your reader
care more about what is transpiring il
their county and neighborhood thar
they do about the European war.
SENT TO JAIL.-A stranger in these
parts named Mike McCool-said to bt
a cousin Of the pugilist Mike-was ar
rested the other day for breaking into
the wharf boat and stealing a quantity o.
wheat. Having been caught in the act
he was arrested and brought before
Squire Quest, and held to bail in the
sum Of $500 to appear in Court Not
having the "spauns," he was committed
to. Jail to await the action Of Court
WelLsJ',rg NetcS.
SALT PoND MOUNTAIN, Monroe
county, has been purchased by Cen
l.. Haupt, of Philadelphia, who viii
improve II as summer resort, and
turn to profit also, its immense growth
of timber.
FIRE.-Last Saturday, Maj. A. Nc
Neer had a fine pile. of boards, about
six thousand feet, in process of drying
on kiln near his residence at the foot
Of Calder Peak near Union. During
the absence Of the young man employ
ed TO attend it, the lumber took fire
and was entire V consumed, involving a
loss Of abont Slj0.-Nowoe Register.
Last week a Mr.. Wiseman and his
son who have a gri5t mill on Potts
creek on the Virginia border east from
Union, witnessed near the mill an ex-
traordinary performance by large
rattlesnake. His snakeship crawled
on a plank floating by the Monroe
bank Of the creek, and having coiled on
it, lie by process of contortions, actu-
ally icrried himself across the stream
and landed dry-shod on the Craig shore.
The plank was propelled through a
strong eddy, rendering the operation
very difficult This is ominous of the
early migration Of carpet-baggers from
our country.--honroe Register.
SrICIDE-Hancock was thrown into
considerable excitement on Wednesday
morning last, by the discovery of the
body of the wife Of Mr.. Jonathan Davis,
who lives on the farm of DR.. !. B. Del
aplane, floating in the canal. Coroner
Harrison held an inquest over the
body, the verdict icing that she came
to her death by drowning. From the
circumstances attending the affair, it is
supposed that she purposely committed
suicide. For some time past the de-
ceased had exhibited signs of mental
alteration, and on the day Of her COM
hitting the deed was unusually rest
less. Her absence in the evening, how
ever, created no uneasiness. Her re-
mains We're inferred on Wednesday,
Morgan Mercury.
THE Shepherdstown Register an
nounces the death of General Edwin
g. Lee, son Of f. j. Lee, Esq, of that
place. At the beginning of the late
war he was aid-de-camp to General r.
J. Jackson, but was soon appointed
major and assigned to the SD Virginia
infantry, Stonewall brigade, and upon
the reorganization of that regiment in
1862 he was elected lieutenant colonel,
and soon besame colonel, by the death
OF that officer. He commanded the
regiment in several battles, but his
health failing, he was assigned to post
duty at Stanton, and in 1864 was pro-
NOTED to Lrigadier general and assigned
to duty Oh the Canada frontier.
Their VILLAlNY.-We have been in.
formed that one Airy, Registrar Of
Blue Sulphur township, administers an
oath materially different from that pre-
scribed by the Code of West Virginia.
When asked to be allowed to copy the
oath that he administers, he refused;
thus confessing that there was some
thing ,rrong. We hope some one in
that township will at once complain to
Commissioner Sperry, who has an etfec-
tual remedy for all such diseases. This
fellow Airy, we are informed, cannot
write his own name, but has to employ
a clerk. This is q beautiful common
tary upon Radical intelligence in the
Blue Sulphur township-Greeabrie In
DEPENDENT
Won T CONDESCEND.-O ccaSionallv we
hear a man say he has registered and
been scratched, and he won't "conde-
scend' to apply any more. What high
spirited men! They will be run over,
trampled down, kicked and spit on, but
they won't condescend" to get up and
resent their injuries. Greenbrier Indc,
pendent.
On Friday morning last, Constable
T. A. Fleming, of this place, arrested a
man named George Dawson, at Bar
rackville, for unlawfully retailing
ardent spirits Upon being brought
before Squire Moore, he was tried aud
held to bail, and in the absence Of
next friend" he was committed to
Jail. In the afternoon he requested to
be taken from durance vile, in order
that he might secure bail. In charge
of Mr.. Fleming he started on his mis-
sion, and upon arriving in front OF the
court honse, he stopped to survey the
situation. Suddenly, and without warn.