The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-10
STATE ITEMS.

CoysoLIparIoN.-An order has been
issued by the Internal Revenue depart
ment to consolidate the ten assessment
divisions in this collection district into
four divisions, so we are informed by
the collector of this district. Who are
the lucky four assistant assessors that
will be retained is the interesting and
unanswered query of the assistant as
SCISSOR of the district.-Mason County
Journal.
AN AocIDENT.-One day last week,
while Mr.. A. J. Divers was engaged in
rolling and burning logs in his clearing,
his little daughter and the little daugh-
ter of lady living in Clarksburg had
gone with him to the clearing. While
the children were playing on the side OF
the hill, Mr.. D. noticed log start from
its bed--the log was over 30 feet IN
lepgth-the children it seems saw the
log about the same time, and as it came
rolling down the hill, Mr. Divers little
girl was so badly terrified that she did
not try TO escape. 1t passed over her
body and away it went on down the hill
with neither tree. stump nor any other
object to impede its onward course.
The second girl, as soon as she saw the
log coming towards her, fled like deer
down the hill, and had gone about thirty
yards, when the log overlook her also
and crushed her down, and continued on
it's way. Mr. D. has attended to the
children; both were badly frightened,
somewhat bruised, but not seriously in
jured. The log was large and heavy,
and their escape from death was GER
tainly providential.- -Clarksb~y Con-
Servdtire.
SMOKED OUr.-The commissioners
appointed to settle with the school Off
GERS OF Braxton County have completed
their work in Washington township,
find the officers in that township to be
in arrears over twenty-six hundred dol
lars. The commissioners filed their pc
titions with the Clerk, as the law re-
misunderstanding Gazette.
DEATH OF Rev. ONINs-By private
letter we learn that Rev. j. D. Onins,
formerly pastor of the NJ. E. Church Of
this place, died few days ago at his
home in Illinois.
Four canal boats from Cleveland
Ohio, loaded with bridge timber for the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, have
been in the mouth of Kanawha for sew.
eral days.-Point Pleasant Register.
DURING the thunder storm last Thurs
day evening, Col. Waggener's house
was considerably damaged by lighte-
ming. None OF the inmates were injured.
Point Pleasant Register.
THE MATTE ROBERTS SoLD.-Captain
Brown has sold the Matte Roberts"
Messrs. C. Shrewsbury and A. P. Deem,
of this place, and Albert MDaniel and
J. J. Weaver, being the purchasers.
Captain Mcdaniel takes the roof
Point Pleasant Register.
IRON ORE.-Messrs. Bird and Zicke-
foose, of Two-Mile, have presented us
with beautiful specimen Of iron ore
and blossom" taken from the Old
Robinson settlement, about two miles
back from the Kanawha river. 1t is
one of the finest specimens we have ever
seen; exceedingly rich, and supposed,
by good judges, to contain at least 50
per centum Of iron. We have it on ex-
hibition in our otfice.-CharleSton Her.
aid.
The FIRST TIE.-On Thursday last
at st. Adams, Coalsmouth, ties were
laid for the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
road, and the rails are being laid to-day,
if the original programme is being ad'
hered to. As Coalsmouth is but twelve
miles from Charleston, we wouldn't feel
the slightest surprise at being reused
from slumber bv the strange, shrll
shrek of locomotive, any morning in
the coming fortnight:-Charleston Her.
aid.