The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-10-15
LETTER FROM HANCOCK.
FAIRvIEw. October u, 1877


Editors OF the Register.
This day being the last one immediate
. " preceding the general election, pre-
srnts about the most unfavorablc
standpoint for II political letter, of any
| in the wear. l will venture, however, in
the prophetic way far enough to say that
| you shall find Hancock to have done fair
average Democratic duty, and | fondly
| imagine q few votes better than ordinari-
IL. Other than this shall excuse myself
from further political scribbling.
Although this season cannot be called
q sckly one. and no special type of dis
ease prevails, vet the number Of deaths
that have recently occurred III this
vicinity is somewhat larger than general
~. Ofthesc death large proportion are
youth and infants.
Our rural housekeeperS have never en-
tered upon any winter season with more
abundant store OF fruits than the present;
and surely nothing more gladdcns the
heart and makes CHEEKY the voice of the
GOOD housewife than the sight of her
nlrntv shelves and cellars well filled with
Jolly jars Of jams, buffers and berries, and
bursting barrels of ramboS and bell
flowers. Apples, it is true, are not of
that excellent quality of some other
wears. vet there are plenty of them, and
plenty of good ones, whilst of peaches
blackb,rries and the like, every house
has its ample supply. So when you
CITY chaps come up to visit us, you
can confidently count on lots of these
wholesome Injuries to please your palates
and freshen up your organisms.
Last week very many OF our citizens
devoted Il day or two to the Bursetts-
town fair, which is reported to have
been largely attended. One of the re-
suits of this was that meeting IN the
Court House on Friday, called on
VERY brief notice. to he addressed
by Hon. Okey johnson, was not
very largely attended, though
it was nearly rs extensive rs the we'll
advertised Golf meeting of the Wrdncs-
day preceding. Mr.. johnson, however,
had a very fine meetingaahead of the
Golf one in numbers-in the Town Hall
of New Cumberland, on the evening Of
the same day, and made an excellent
speech, as he ana In ralrNic".
Unwarranted commerce in whisky at
the Burgettstown fair got Mr.. Peter &.
Headley, of New Cumberland, into the
clutches of the law, and now his soul
pineth. and his manly form takes on fat
in the county Jail of Washington county,
Pa, where he is held, for want Of bail. to
answer at the bar of the court. Judge
Acheson of that court may be relied on
as not at all morbidly mercltul toward
breakers of the whisky law.
A new fre-proof vault has recent
been finished in the court house IN tins
place, and the Jail has also been r"littrd,
50 as to render it slightly more retentlve
offs lawful inmates. Hitherto the for
malitv ofputting an alleged offender into
our Jail has just as regularly been Prar,-
ticed as ifthey were to stay there, which
they invariably did only so long as II
suited their convenience. II would not
he safe for one ~ risk too much on us
weakness now.
/ have great faith in weathcr-wilch'S'
and as il is a weakness of human nature
to desire to pry into futurity, have con
snltcd some Of our most celebrated OF the
character named. Thence | learn that
the coming winter is t" bc siSnaiiHea
! with some cold weather.
| CANlLLrS.