The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-22


the Asylum at Weston for sdmltlance.
HANS KELLER. that best natured
O; men, is doing thriving hotel busi-
ness here. Hans makes good land.
lord and keeps the best house in town,
as all his customers will testify.
TaE prospect for a grape crop this
season in this county is very poor,
THE rolling mill is still In
operation. We understand they have
received 8 large order this week, from
down The river for bariiron.
TIE woman who was dismissed from
the penitentiary here few weeks ago and
sent to her home in Psrkersburg was
returned TO Moundsville by the good
citizens OF that town. understand the
citizens OF this place propose to RAISE
a purse and send her 10 Petersburg
again, with instructions for the authorl-
ties OF that town to provide for her in
some manner.
1T. GREY, the most popular Demo-
crat of Marshall county, is still alive
aud doing we'll.
MoUNpsvlLLE wants hsl' dozen
water carts to supply the people with
water from the river.
WHAT has become OF the Democratic
newspaper that Was TO have been start
ed here? There is an Office with all
the material necessary to start good
paper lying idle here.
Reckless gentleman who sell pat ent
rights are laying around loose IN
Moundsville. Pests all come IN the
same season.
We notice that J. NJ. Parkinson,
ESQ hiss added an improvement to his
premises in the shape OF very line
stable. Other lawyers in town should
take hint and do likewise.
MouNDsvILLE b as two steam tanuerles
and they both seem 10 he doing very
good business. One of these tannerIes,
that OF Mr.. Simpson, in the upper town.
has the reputation Of turning out very
superior quality OF leather.
HENRY SNYDER is still working at
that bake-oven. Snyder don't exactly
understand how to turn an arch.
MouNBsvILLE wants news depot.
II some enterprising young man wouId
come here with five hundred or q
Thousand dollars and start business
OF this kind he could secure a very
liberal patronage. There are parties
here who would advance halt the Capl-
tai for small enterprise OF this kind,
provided the right party should appear.
Several parties from this place who
were attending the commencement ex-
erciscs at Bethany returned last night
They express themselves very well
pleased with what they saw and heard
while al Bethany.
COUNTY Clerk Thomas Finn. is very
busy just now preparing tor the COM
ing jay term OF the County Court As
an unusual amount OF business lie an-
ticipated.
BUSINESS in the stores has been rath-
err dull here during the last week.
Things are cheap enough but there
seem to be few buyers. Butter was
down TO fifteen cents a pound this week
aud eggs the same per dozen.
IMPROVEMENTS is the way OF dwellings
still continue in Moubdsville. We
have noticed several parties commence
ing 10 build this week. One new build
ing we see is about flushed in the Lock
wood addition TO town.
We hear q general complaint about
the postoiiice in this place being closed
so early in the evenings. Persons who
live out OF town and haze TO come in
in the evenings to get their mail, ususl-
" find the Office closed when they
reach it. We think there should be
some arrangement made whereby
| farmer- aud others who reside out OF
town, aud can only reach here once a
, week aud that in the evening, could
get their mail.
The penitentiary is still standing
where it used to. Sheriff Brown, OF
Ohio county visited this institution one
dsy last week accompanied by three or
Our gentlemen who Dick" said in
tended 10 represent the interests Of Ohio
county in the stone house for a few
years.
THE receipts al the wharf this week
showed that somebody IL dealing pretty
EXTENSIVELY in scrap iron and tan-bark.
The people OF Moundsvilr are now
being supplied with coal from the
works of the Union Coal Company op-
posite town.
MoUyDsvILLE boasts OF four Justice
Offices and one enterprisiDg policeman.
One OF our Justices was applied 10 the
other day by an oil compile for di-
vorce, and We understand the said jus.
tice did the thing up drown" divorce
ing them after proper hearing OF both
sides OF the question aud sent the old
folks on their way rejoicing.
We noticed an unusual number OF
strangers iu town this week. Trains
over the B. & q. K. r, always take
and leave q crowd at the depot.
TIE County Court OF this county con-
venes the second Mondy in July. 1t
will! be jury term.
ALMOST blessing but not quite. We
heard man from the country saw that
LAWYERS were getting scarce in Mounds.
vile, he having Visited every law Office
in town every day this week and could
not find lawyer.
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