The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-08-15
STATE NEWS.

cents per hundred dollars,
HAMPSHIRE county levies forty cent?
on the hundred dollars this year
The Greenbricr county levy is thirty
cents on the hundred dollars.
! BERkELEY county lsvies fifty cents on
the hundred dollars this year.
TIE Doddridge county levy this year
is thirty cents on the hundred dollars.
The Radical county convention in
Harrison county meets on Friday, Au.
gust 10.
The Harrison county Democratic
Convention meets on next Monday.
August 22.
The tar levy in Writ county is sew
enty cents on the hundred dollars this
year.
f. A. SMITH il the Radical candidate
for House of Delegates in Csbell and
Lincoln.
RICHMOND merchants are active in en-.
deavoring to get the trade OF the Green.
brier and Monroe country.
CHARLES II. BISHOP aad John P.
Jones are the Radical candidates for
House of Delegates in Preston county.
The corner stone OF an Odd Fellow 8
Hall building was laid in Clarksburg
last Tuesday with appropriate cere-
mony.
THR last ISSUE OF the Iryinid Feec
Press, OF Charlestown, closes the fifty
ninth volume Of that odd Family
journal"
JOSHUA MoRpIs is the Democratic
candidate for House OF Delegates in
Putnam county His Radical opponent
is Jas l.. Mclean.
The Monongahela county tax-levy
amounts to fifty cents on the hundred
dollars, and Townships are authorized
to add ten cents for special road pur-
poses
TIE RAIDS hold their County Conven.
ton in Mineral county next Saturday,
August 20. On the same day they will
make another effort TO nominate a can
date for Senator.
Colonel q. II. SurTH and DR.. John
Parks are Democratic candidates for
House Of Delegates in Kanawha coun
ty. They sill ge. three hundred ma
jori,y
JuDGs FEReUsoN i. candidate Tor
the House Of Delegates from Cabell
and Lincoln counties. lie says he is a
Radical Conservative Republican-Dem
ocrat" this year
TUE Border Journal says that the
residence OF Dr. Raymond, near Frank
ford. in Greenbrier county. was struck
by lightning one day last week. The
roof and end wall were the most dam.
aged. Shingles were thrown some one
hundred yards from the building.
THs Clarksburg Telegraph says
A few days ago Mrs. John Sullivan,
Of Indian run, this county, was thrown
from a wagon and had one OF her legs
crushed " a wheel Of the wagon pass
ing over il. Under the skillful treat
men, of DR.. B. +. McKcehsn abe ia
recovering rapidly.
A CONVENTION for the purpee OF
nominating Democratic candidate for
Congress in the Second District is TO be
held in Piedmont on Tuesday, Septem-
Der 9th.
The population of Moorefeld, Hardy
oouaty, is 554. The Oldest man in the
county is Thomss Carleton, aged lOi
A coxrEsrrox for the nomination Of
Democratic candidate for the House
of Delegates from Hardy and Grant il
to be held in Petersburg, Grant county,
on Tuesday. August 20.
Soxp white skinned Radical has been
telling the negroes Of Hard! county
tha, # they voted the Radical ticket
,hey would each ge, piece OF land and
,ha, he had a man in Wheeling who
would attend 70 tie matter 70, them,
while if they failed to vote "a be wished
thew would be Immediately reduced 10
slavery.
SrRrcx sY LIoHrSrS0 The new
house Of Jehu jenkins, EsI.. situated
in Gront township. Preston county, uas
| struck bv lightning on Wednesday Of
last week. The charg. passed down
the lightning rods without injaring the
house The rode performed their part
perfectly.
A FnsAr ~ THB STORM The Nor.
eantoxn Post learns that during the
terrible storm OF the 9th ult. the root
OF a house on the hill above Granville
was carried on, together With soms
clothing and bed clothes ;ha; we're in
the upper story OF the house: and N
credible as it may appear. a dress be
longing TO the lady Of the house Ta'
carried high and dry across the riTe'
and lodged in ,hicket on the bill o.
posits-
Uovss KILLED By LIGHIXfSG-Tht