The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-20
wAsHINGToN COUNTY ITEMS.
From the Review and Examiner.

From the Review and examiner
THE County Commissioners inform us
that it will require ten thousand dollars
to rebuild and repair bridges destroyed
and damaged by the food of July 70.
A LARGE meeting of the friends of a
railroad between this place and Waynes-
burg was held at that place on the 18th
inst. Considerable stock was taken.
FRIDAY, the 18th inst, Jerome Plum
mer, of Independence, Deputy for Wash
ington county, organized in Jefferson
township grange of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry under the title of Jefferson
Grange"
THE annual reunion of the l40th regi-
ment P. Volunteers will be held in this
place on Tuesday, September 9Th. The
regiment was made up largely of persons
residing incur county, and it is earnest
" desired that all survivors will make
extra exertions to be in attendance.
THE reunion of the Ringgold Bat
talon and 22d Pennsylvania Cavalry at
Beallsville, this county, on the I'd and Sd
DAYS of September, promises to be a
grand success. Arrangements will be
made for tho entertainment of all who
may attend the reunion. Speakers,
music, ETC., will be provided, and good
time generally will be had among the old
comrades in arms.
ANDREW BRADY, the contractor, has
been pushing the work on the new col
lege building with very great energy.
1t Is now rendered certain that several
recitation rooms will be ready for occu-
pancy at the opening of the session,
about the first of September. The struc-
ture will be decidedly handsome one,
much more attractive, apparently, than
the printed representations.
THE large barn of Robert Stewart,
Jr.. about two mile from Eldersville, in
Jefferson township, was tothlly destroy
cd by fire on Sunday evening last. The
structure contained two hundred dozens
of wheat, all of his oats crop, ten tons of
hav. and a number Of farming implc-
ments, all of which were consumed. The
loss is estimated at $1,000 on which there
is no insurance. The disaster is suppos-
ed to have been the work of an incendi-
airy.
WE are gratifcd to hear that the new
wheat, wherever it has been threshcd in
this county, turns out far beyond the
most sanguinc expectations Of growers.
The grain is, as has been previously re
ported, of more than ordinary plumpncsS
and quality, which, together with UNI
usually large yield, makes the wheat
crop Of II the best growth in this sec
ton for the past seventeen years, or
since the memorable harvest Of o.
WawnesJwg Messenger.
We believe the same can be said OF the
Washington county crop.
TIE HEMrFIELD SUsrENsToN.-Col.
J. A. Boyd, the gcntlemanly contractor
of the first section east of town Of the
IIcmpfcld extension, departed on Tues
KAY afternoon of last week for his home
at Nichols, Montgomery county, Md.
He has disposed of the more
pcrishablc portion Of his goods and
materials, but We earnestly hope he
NAV not be constrained to make DISPOSE
ton of the rcrnaider. Indeed, we may
say that we have reason to believe that at
the next meeting Of the Baltimore coun-
ellis tabout the 18th of Scptembcr,) the
difficulties touching the Pittsburgh and
Conncllsvile road. and which lead to the
suspension of work on the Hempfeld ex-
tension, will be satisfactorily arranged
in which event operations will be rcsum-
ed probably during the approaching fall.
We earnestly hope such may be the re-
suit.