The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-01-23

trust, however, that they Will commune
to agitate until the road is built. Such
q road can be constructed the distance
proposed at very little coss. Let the
live men OF the place take hold IN
earnest and push things, and build the
road by all means.-Ravsns'0oOd Ne'os'
A row.BoAr 10 attempting to come
through the chute, at Burlington, on
Saturday last, ran on sunksn barge
tearing a hole in her hull which caused
her to sink Immediately. She is lying
in dangerous position and Likely will
prove total loss.-RdvensDood Ns'os
THE tow-boat Goal Bluff stuck two
coal boats and one barge on Mustafey
bar, ten miles below Parkersburg, on
ednesday last. They are in good
shape and are not likely to be seriously
aged.-Ravsnssoood Ne0s.
ROBERT PARK, EsQ.-Another of our
early settlers is no more; he whose
name heads this humble tribute to his
memory departed this life at his home
near Ravenswood, w. Va. January
10th, 1872.
Mr.. Park was the son OF Robert
Park, Sr., OF Brooke county, where
the deceased was horn, July 22d, 1917.
He came to this county in 1888; was
by profession q Surveyor of Lands;
then, a young man, of more than ordi'
nary skill and accuracy in his business,
he was elected County Surveyor OF this
county in 1910, for the term OF seven
years and was reelected to that office,
for a like term, in 1S47. During the
many years he filled that important
position he surveyed nearly all the
lands in this county, and to his energy
and skill is greatly due whatever OF
regularity exists in the location and
lines of the lands in this county
Ravenspood Ne,os.
A Row.-We are informed that a
fracas occurred upon our streets on last
Monday night, whereby young man
named Gaskill, in attempting TO ward
off a thrust intended for a friend, re-
ceived a severe cut on several of his
fingers OF the right hand, from knife
in the hands of an intoxicated man. II
seems that there are never, or seldom
ever. any arrests made, when such dis
turbances occur-the aw.breakers, as
general rule, are never treated to lodg
ings in the house provided for that pur'
pose in the rear OF the Court House.
There is a screw loose somewhere. and
the sooner it is found, why, the better
for the community.-Fairmont La6er
aiSt.
A New CoUNTY.-There is move
on foot to have a new county made, by
cutting off from Kanawha, Fayette
and Boone, and locating the county
seat at Clifton, on the Kanawha river,
and now in this county. We have
nothing to say pro or con but 60 II
Press-goit john Coalsmouth Pioneer.
GREAT ADVANCE IN REAL ESTATE
Col. r. Patton purchased, in 1868, a
tract Of land, containing l72 acres, fol-
$4,000. Ofthis land enough has been
sold at public auction to over pay the
original purchase money, amounting in
gross to a little over $l0,000-selling
but portion of the land. The land
and improvements now owned by the
Colonel are valued 10y him at from
$40 600 to $4,000. But he has decided
to retire from the business world.
During the late unpleasantness the
Colonel was in the South, advocating
the 'lost cause" wherein he met with
serious losses; but by this stroke, and
great speculative tact, he has retrieved
some OF his losses. C0alsmouth Pioneer.
IRoNDALE, PRESTON CoUNTY.-Twc
miles from Independence Station, Bal
timore and Ohio railroad, and you are
at Irondale. The place contains some
three hundred inhabitants. Here are
the Martin Iron Works" built and
owned by Mr.. Geo. Hardman, and now
in full blast and successfully worked
The mines from which the ore is taker
are half OF a mile from the furnace, and
connected thereto bv a branch of the
Iron Valley railroad, which railroad
belonging to the works extends from
the furnace to a point on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, near the mouth o
Raccoon creek and one mile west o
Independence. Besides the furnace
which yields an average Of ten tons o
pig iron per day, there are connected
with the works, a grist and saw mill
foundry, blacksmith and wheelwrigh
shops and store; free school house Ii
one of the ornaments Of the village
where the word of God is preached
| nearly every Sabbath, and where, dur
ing the week, the "young idea is laugh
to shoot" -Preston County Herald.
Foul FIsHlNG.-The South Branch il
becoming stocked with black bass, al
excellent game fish, and for the table
excelled only by the brook trout. II
the latter part of the summer they fur
nish genuine sport to the angler, and ii
the present state of the supply the hoot
and line will take all that should bt
spared. Fish pots stuck in the river il
the fall catch them by the wagon load
at every rise Of the river, for huckstering
purposes, which should not be tol
Grated. If the law permits this method
of capture, then we submit that the Law
needs the attention of our Delegates and
Senators, and we very respectfully in
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