The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-08-15
MATHIS FERRY ITEMS.

From the Ohio Valley News.
VIM. Love, an old citizen Of Deep
Run, died on last Thursday. eWas
in the 9Sth year ofhis age.
The Steel Works are progressing
rap;dly at present. Hiram Frazier,
tho brick mason is pushing his part OF
the contract with his usual vim.
A child belonging to Daniel Clark
while lying on the wharf boat, Saturday
evening met with very serious acci-
dent lie had his hand dangling just
over the edge when the ferry boat came
up and caug hit it, crushing the fingers
completely. 1t will doubtless cripple
him for lite.
Last Friday nigh while an extra
freight was going down through Mar
TINS Ferry. about IL o'clock, some one
threw a stone through the head light
of the locomotive. On Sabbath Edward
Lacy was arrested for the act and
lodged in the lookup. He was brought
to trial on Monday afternoon, but OWING
to the absence of the prosecuting wit.
ness, was discharged. 1t was very
uncalled for act to say the least, and II
done maliciously the perpetrator should
have the full benefit ofthe law-what-
ever that may be.
The Ohio City Iron and Nail Works
will start with eight to ten pudding
furnaces, two heating furnaces and forty
70 fifty nail machiues-and the neces'
sary muck and nail plate roll trains,
which are now being fitted up by Tot
ten e. Co., Pittsburgh. Arrangements
are being made to secure the services OF o.
Thomas Earnest the well known nall
machine builder to fit up an assert
meut OF the new nail machines and to
refit the nail machines purchased from
the Winslow Barb Nail Company
both Wheeling and Barb nails will be
manufactured, the only difference In
either will be the form OF the cutting
kniyee.
AN ATTEMPT AT HIGHWAY ROBBERY
Last Monday night about 9 o'clock,
while John R. Cow. our right hand
man in the Neps office, was returning
from Wheeling, where he had been on
an errsnd, he was assaulted between
Bridgeport and Martins Ferry by two
drunke en- ruffians, who attempted to take
his watch. They met him near the
Etna Iron and Nail Works and &C
cos,ed him with the inquiry as to
whether he had watch or no. lie
gave them an evasive answer, where
upon they Immediately seized him. In
his efforts to escape he had his vest and
shirt considerably torn but was other
wise uninjured. After getting out OF
their grasp he made tracks for Martins
Ferry, and on good time too.
Boat RACe.-On last Saturday even
ing crowd perhaps Of 500 people
were attracted to the banks OF the Ohio
on either side, by the prospect OF a
Boat race. The contest was between
Messrs Ike Wagner and Stanton Aid
ridge, and Messrs John Campbell and
ANDY Fleming-all from the Buckley
Foundry OF II. Wells and Bro. The
distance to be rowed, was one mile, for
q purse ofS20. The oarsmen were all
in good trim and did fine pulling al
the oars. Messrs Wagner d Aldrldge
came out some % or 80 yards ahead.
/, could scarcely be considered fair
test OF ability, owing to the difference
in the boats used. This is doubtless
but the beginning OF a series OF boat RAJ
ces, as we here Of several others on the
tapis already. We believe a crew can
be found among the working men OF
Martins Ferry, that will throw in the
shade, the crack oarsmen OF Harvard
and other eastern boat crews.