The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-16

York market, would bring enough mon
| ey to buy the whole county. as
real estate now sells. But why attempt
to describe these things2 They must
be seen 10 be appreciated.
Another item or two. and for the
present we are done. 1t has been gem
orally stated that the bite OF q poison
snake was fatal. This is a grand mis-
take. Out OF hundreds bitten in the
last few years, not one case has resulted
fatally. The people there have way
Of treating these cases, that il a sure
cure. Aud /, may also he well 10 state
that there is not doctor in the county.
There is not enough sickness among its
500 inhabitants TO need one.
NEW LIQUOR.
They have q kind OF liquor to drink
in Webster which is ahead OF anything
ever made in the distilleriss OF the old
or the new world. II is called Me
thiglum." There are several ways OF
making il; but in the right season Of
the year, they MAKE il "a follows: A
bee tree is found, the honey secured.
and two or three buckets full OF il are
poured into a large wooded trough.
Then a similar quantity OF ripe black
berries are poured into the trough. and
the two substances are pounded until
they thoroughly amslgsmste The
trough is then filed mp with spring
water, and the whole allowed to stand
in good cool place for about five days.
Ii lie then ready for use, and we must
confess that the man who don't like
Methiglum, when made in this way.
has no taste for The good things of this
life
The authorities are using every eI-
erlon to get good wagon roads through
the country, and are succeeding; but
at present there are but two roads 10
the county seat that cas he used for
wheeled vehicles. This will be reme-
died, we think, this year.
The people are sgitated just now by
the prospect Ola
NARRow-GUAGE RAILROAD,
Which has already been surveyed
through that county. called the Wash
ington, Crncnnau and ST. Louis Rails
road" The route OF this contemplated
thoroughfare j. from the National Cap.
ital on through Pocahontss 10 the
headwaters OF Elk. and down that
stream through Webster. Braxton, Clay,
Roane. jackson and Mason counties
TO Point Pleasant. The sngineer's re-
port is very favorable, aud grea, hopes
are entertained that the ROAD will
speedily be completed.
The Independent State has often been
jeered at by our Republican friends for
her supposed wan, of intelligence but
although We are opposed to COM
parisons AZ q general thing, we are will.
ing TO compare the people there with
any Others in this State, IN this regard.
And we will bet four dollar bonnet
tha, more newspapers 20 10 Webster
county lin proportion to herpopuIalioo)
than to any county in the State. The
people generally can read and write.
They are n virtuous, intelligent spd
church going people, who believe IN
education ~ the sure foundation OF true
greatness.
c. ". BgSBDrN, ESQ,
The present Superintendent OF Free
Schools, is a Harrison county man by
birth, and. by the way. he ia an accom-.
plisbed gentleman. worthy and well
qualified for the position he holds lie
will be a candidate Tor reelection at the
August election. lie informed us that
owing to the county being sparseIy set-
tied, and the immense territory OF The
county, il was very difficult 10 arrapEe
divisions 80 a. TO accommodate the
the children, but NO far ~ the school
system was concerned, he was iulI OF
bright hopes for its ultimate succ'ss
there and elsewhere. New school house"
are being erected and the citizens are
lending every Aid in their power to IN
sure to the children the benefits OF free
education.
Our advice to oinvalids, more especial
ly dyspeptcs il, go to Addison Drink
OF the waters there and be cured For
they will cure the worst case Of dyspep-
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