The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-04-25
,rvrrs From MERCER COUNTY.
LETTER FROM MEkCER CVUN'
pri.eessn-rhe New Court House
school Heuses-Crop Prospects
The Convention.
MERCER County, W. Va, !
April 8, 1872.
Editors Of the Register

Editors OF the Register.
In compliance with desire you have
manifested to hear from every county
in the State, my pen is now brought
into use. However, / fear the local
news of our county will not interest
your readers much.
Princeton, the county seat OF our
county, was nearly reduced to ashes
drring the war, only few houses re-
ma oing as monuments of the former
,plee MT village. Since the war a con-
tention arose between Princeton ami
Concord as it regarded which place
should be honored with the new Court
House. After wrangliug and causing
q great amount of money to be useless
ly spent, the Court House was built at
Princeton last year, and althoug h not
completed, our Court, last month, was
held in it. This was the first Court
held in a Court House in Mercer county
in ten wears. A neat brick dwelling
house, a frame house and brick at
torpey's office were erected in Princeton
last year, which cheers and animates
the hope that Princeton will yet be
worthy Of place on the map OF the
State.
Five school houses were burned in
our county during the winter. And,
while, no doubt, the destruction OF some
of the houses was the work OF incendla-
ries, vet the presumption is that the
major portion OF them was burned from
a lack Of precaution to prevent contla-
grations. Every person occupying or
having charge of school houses should
use the utmost care and caution against
fire. 1t is hardly probable that any OF
the houses were burned through i'll
feeling towards the free school system,
as the system is generally popular with
the people. ,
The winter has been unusually hard
and long with us Such demand for
forage never was known in these parts
before. A number OF cattle have died
for want OF necessary food. The pros
poets for a fair grass crop is tolerably
good.
The past winter was quite propltious
for matrimony with US. A number OF
persons exchanged celibacy for connu'
bal felicity, and are now sailing on the
Pacific coast of newly welded Lille,
needless of the squalls and tempests on
their future voyage.
We have been waiting with deep felt
interest the action Of the Constitutional
Convention, and the oft repeated ques
ton is, What is the Convent on doing
While the people regard the parts OF
the new Constitution which have been
published, as being much better than
the old, vet there is some dissatisfaction
that more changes were not made.
Persons have arrived at the conclusion
that timidity on the part OF the mem
bers of the Convention has been a
serious drawback to their preparing
the best OF Constitutions. y The dread
OF making changes which would cause
opposition ought not TO have influenced
men, if they believed the good and
prosperity Of the State would have been
advanced thereby. The motto OF "Davy
Crockett ought to have been adopted
by the members Of the Convention, "be
sure you are right, and then 60 ahead.
The members Of the Convention need
not have courted favor with the Radi-
Gals. They will vote almost en- maSse
against the Constitution, though it may
be the most perfect organic law ever
emanatiug from men.
If it was thought desirable, YOU
might at some future time again hear
from MERCER.