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

THE Democrats and Conservatives Of
4 Fayette County, on the Goth day of Au,
gust, 1874, met in convention, and nomi'
mated James Montgomery for the House
Of Delegates. ..'' -. ~.
Mr.. CLAUDIUs Corr has at his store 8
specimen of iron ore, taken from Rich
Mountain, by Mr.. Hart. The specimen
weighs l22 lbs, and is very rich. Mr.
Hart claims that he has a three foot veitl
running through his property, from
which this specimen was taken.
WE learn from the ShepherdstdYn
Register that Miss Ella Harper, lately OF
| this place, has received a clerkship in the
office of the National Grange Depart
ment, Patrons of Husbandry, at Wash
ington city, and has entered upon the
discharge Of the duties of her Office. The
appointment was procured through the
influence Of Hon. D. w. Aiken, of South
Carolina, Chairman of National Execu-
tive Committee Of Patrons.-Martinsburg
independent.
The new glass works at Mason City
this county, are being pushed forward
rapidly. One building is already com
pleted. The foundation for furnaces and
twelve ovens are already finished. The
whole works are to be pushed rapidly to
completion. This will add much to the
manufacturing interests of Mason City,
and will furnish employment to alarge
number of her citizens.-Mason County
Paper.
The Huntington Adrertiser says it
has reliable information that X. v.
WHALEY, a representative during the
! war from the third district, has announc-
ed himself as an Independent Radical
candidate for Congress. This district
now has two of these sort. The ''vener-
able" JOHN HALL and this other gentle
| man.
SHOOTING AFFRAY IN LOGAN.-We
learn from gentleman who Left Logan
Court House on last Saturday, that a
man BY the name of Sellers, was shot and
severely if not fatally wounded On last
Friday evening. He had been engaged
in difficulty at the Court House and
| refused to be arrested. The magistrate,
! Squire Dcakins, summOnd posse OF men
| to capture him, which they only succeed
ed in doing after lodging four bullets in
his arms and body. When our informant
left Sellers was in very critical condi-
tion.-HmtiHgfoH AdrcrtiSer
ELoPED.-The latest sensation in town
is the report that young lady OF tins
place cloped, recently, with married
man-huving wife and three or four
children. We don't mean that she run
off with the whole family, but with the
man alone His respected wife and
! family live but few miles from town.
! There are many reports i'll circulation. 1t
is stated the father Of the young lady
threatened to shoot her for allowing said
married man to pay his attentions to her
! when she hid herself in cellar from her
cnragcd father. By the timely Interior
encc of her mother she escaped, and find
! ing the married man told her troubles,
when the two concluded to clopc togcth-
err. and were married on Sunday
! MouHdSrWe Reporter.
The Radicals of Marshall county, held
n convention at the comfy Court House.
few DAYS since, and the delegates were
instructed to cooperate with Wetzcl
| and Marion counties to select Il candidate
for State Senator, to be- presented to the
convention to be held il Moundsvil!e,
| Srptcmbcr 9th.