The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-12-09

and Hendricks in the White House.
There is where he onght to be, whilst
Camden will do very well in, the Senate, ).
as would also Price or Pendleton; and N
our opinion, Hanson Good would make
as careful, efficient and respeeted rep
resentative Of the State: as any OF the
!, ohers named. ~. =
The Fairview Woollen Mills, near this
place, were sold by special commissioner
Hannibal Forbes Of your city, on Thurs
day last to Peter d. Pugh, who, Is un-
derstood to hiye-purchased- 1t 1or-Mr'
Thos. S. Walker, the former partner IN
the ownership with James Stevenson.
The price to be paid is 5000, and this
subject, we are informed, TO lien Of
some $1,000 for purchase money OF the
land. Mr.. Stevenson h said to be a
heavy loser by the sale.
President Robert Morrow OF the Coun-
ty Court, has appointed John X. Done,
hoo. ESQ, Prosecuting Attorney to I'LL
the unexpired term of two years OF Dam
lei Donehoo Esq, resigned. The latter
has removed and taken up his residence
in Camden, n. j = with his business con-
nections in Philadelphia.
The citizens of Holidays Cove, which
is one of the most intelligent communi-
ties in the county, have organized lit
erary society after the manner OF one IN
Fairview. Another successful organl-
cation of the same kind is in operation
at Jefferson School house, in Butler as
trict.
James Purdy, ESQ.,, elected in October
A Justice of the Peace, for the district
named. declines to accept the office, ana
the County Court will have to ill the
vacancy by appointment.
Farm lands in good country ofer
about as safe an investment at any time,
AS anv other species of property, and IN
such times as the present, they are also
about as profitable as any other. In con-
sequence of a full appreciation OF this
principle of economies, but very little
land is offering for sale in Hancock
county. We know absolutely no land
owners in the county desiring to sell,
though several tracts are soon lo be sofa
| under DEGREES of court when opportunl-
ties for good investments will be had.
New Cumberland town officers still con-
tinue to encounter resistance to the even
tenor of their ways. VIM. Evans, con-
yicted BY the Mayor, of riding horse
through the streets of the town at the
prohibited rate of over five miles an hour,
has appealed his Gaze to the county
court. where the validity Of the ordinance;
the particular culpabllity of the alleged
offender, and many other points OF great
public Importance will be determined.
The Hon. Thomas Bambrick known to
many of the old readers Of the REGISTER,
is confined to his home, IL short distance
from this place, by total blindness. lie
has been in this lamcntable condition
since June last, for longtime prior to
which, he had suffered from partial
blindness. Mr.. Bambrick was, number
of wears ago, member of the Virginia
House of Delegates, representing Brooke
county. which then included Hancock.
He was the author and the successful
advocate of the bill establishing this
county. One of the meanest acts OF the
contemplate little ring of sOulless tyrants
who ruled this ncighborhood during the
ascendancy of sharn-loyalty, was the I'M
prisonment in your Athenaum and Camp
Chase of Mr.. Bambrick, who was even
then "A helpless old man. as he ever WAS
a pure and honorable one.
CAMILLUS.