The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-10
STATE ITEMS.


The Wellsburg Herald estimates that
nine tenths of the trade of that section
goes to Steu ubenville and Pittsburgh, be-
cause the merchants of those places ad-
vertise for it and the merchants of
Wheeling don't.
William Hukll is President, and Will
liam II. White Clerk, Of the new Board
of Supervisors fer Brooke county.
Last week in the Circuit Court for
Marshall county, the Grand Jury found
three hundred and ten indictments for
selling liquor without license. One
party alone had the benefit of seventy
indictments.
Mixed organizations are getting pop
ular, elsewhere than in Ohio. The
Marshall county Supervisors have
elected Mr.. A. Q. Whitaker, Democrat,
President of their Board, and Mr.. John
NJ. Turner, Republican, Clerk.
Woffinden, or the Weston Democrat,
has been married. The ranks Of edi-
torial bachelordom continue to thin.
WeItender our brother chip our warmest
congratulations.
Religious revivals have been pro-
crossing in both the Baptist and Metho-
dist churches in Weston.
The Weston Democrat notes the CON-
plete disappearance of gentleman re-
Gently in the mud between that place
and Buckhannon.
The same paper states the following
complex case:
Dorcas Cain, of Letter Gap, Gilner
county, recently Joined his fortunes to
ttose of the buxom postmistress at that
place, and here 10 tho sequel: She was
appointed as Miss -; but sent in her
regular report after her marriage as
Mrs. Cain. The Postoffice Department
knew nothing of her under the new ad-
ministration of affairs, and refused her
report. Mrs. Cain cannot stake de oaf"
Mrs. Cain is and isn't postmaster or
postmistress, or both, or otherwise, as
the case may be-but Miss - is, and
there is no Miss -, for she is now
Mrs. Cain. All easy enough, when you
see it, you know.
Thilty-iye thousand barrels of oil went
down the Little Kanawha from Writ
county during the late rise in that
river.
o. L. Williams, Esq, Of the Wiri
County Democrat, had his right leg
broken few days ago by fall from an
old frame stable on which he was work.
ing to dislodge some rafters. The break
is quite serious, and the Democrat thinks
he will be unable to leave his room fol-
many weeks.
A valuable horse belonging to J. R.
Snider, of Fsirm ent, was nearly dissm-
bowelled last Tuesday, on the top of q
paling fence he was trying to jump,
The animal had to be killed.
The explosion of an anvil with
which some parties in Fairmoat were
saluting New Years Eve, came near re-
sultiDg disastrously. One piece, weigh
ing six or eight pounds, went crashing
through adwelling house, fortunately
without striking any one en- route.
Last Christmas q little child of Mr..
D. Cavenaugh, of Doddridge county,
upset pot of boiling water, scalding
itself SO badly that it died in few
hours.
Judge Stewart recently instructed a
Doddridge county Grand Jury that reg
istrarsrwho enrolled the names of per-
sons not entitled to vote or refused to
register legal voters should be indicted.
The stave factory of Doctor c. IL
Bartlett, Calf creek, Peasants county
was burned down Christmas evening
Loss $4,000. Insurance $4,000.
The Parkersburg Gazette says Captain
]. N. Burns recently brought down the
Little Kanawha, from Braxten county
two fine boats, 130 feet long, each con
tanning 65, 900 feet of lumber.
The Baptists of Pleasants county have
erected q new church at Willow Island
At a meeting of the stockholders o.
the Little Kanawha Navigation Com
pany, at Parkersburg, last Tuesday, the
following gentlemen were chosen dirsc
tors fer 1870: Gen. J. J. Jackson, j. n
Camden, Hon. P. g. Van WinkIe, n
Mcfarland, s. P. Wells, s. Prayer, L. D
Wheaton, E. D. Braidon and William
Mccoy. The directors elected Genera
jackson President, Clement Smith En-
gineer, and r. stotsnborough Secretary
J.E. Mnrphy, publisher Of the Penns
hero EndeDeu1est, has disappeared, Tn