The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-13
WASHINGTON COUNTY ITEMS.
nm the Review and Examiner.

From the Review and Examiner.
THE ladies of our town have contrib
uted five boxes of clothing to the Fits
,burgh and Allegheny food sufferers
THE seventeenth annual exhibition OF
the WaynesBurg Central Fair Will De
held on the grounds, in that place, on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Octo-
Der 18th, 18th and 18th, 1878.
members ofthe old Ringgold Bat
tallion and 23d Pennsylvania Cavalry,
will have a grand reunion on the I'd and
Sd days of September, at Beallsville. this
county.
THE barn of Alex. Mcconnell, occu-
pied bv Andrew Conn, situated about
half way between Florence and Frank
fort. was struck by lightning at nine
o'clock, Sunday night, the 26th ult, and
entirely consumed. There were burned
about 100 bushels of wheat, full crop
of oats and ten tons of hay. The
horses were saved though badly
scorched.
ULYSSES buck and Jessie Grant, the
Youngest sons of the President, are here
on q visit to their relative, W. w. Smith.
They are accompanied by Lieut.. harry
Otis, recent graduate OF West foihl'
and also by the son of the well-knoWh
Tom. Murphy, of New York. we
learn that, by the way of diversion, they
left the cars at Huntingdon and walked
from there to Pittsburgh, a distance OF
about two hundred miles.
THE BRICELAND CASE-Tuesday al
ternoon of last week the application OF
Henry Briceland for pardon came before
the Board of Pardons ut Harrisburg
Various papers relating to the case were
presented among which was petition
for pardon or Communication containing
about two thousand signatures. BOYD
Crumrine, Esq, supported the appIlca'
ton in speech of about an hour and
halls duration, the two principal points
of which were the allegations that the
verdict was not warranted by the evil
dcnce and that the sentiment OF
the community was adverse L
putting the stHtcHSc HitO
! ton. Wednesday morning DIS
trict Attorney Baird replied to Mr.. Crum'
rine and the latter rcjoincd in n short
address. 1t is understood the case vii
not be decided until January next, n
the board, as at present constituted, doe
not feel like taking the responsibility
| Under the new constitution the hl"utrn'
ant Governor and Secretary OF Internal
Affairs are to be members of the board
! and they will not be- elected until NoNeln'
! Der next, and rs II consequence" the BODY
will not be complete until the january
meeting.
Wool GROWING IN WAHINGTON.-
We extract the following from in article
in the Waynesburg independent OF last
week in regard to wool growing III
western Pennsylvania;
"In the amount Of wool produced
Washington county stands first. Ihh
is one of the oldest wool counties III
western Pennsylvania, if not the oldest
Sheep were hcrded and farmrd Their,
pretty extensively when many Of the sur
rounding counties had but few, if any
focks. The clip of Washington county
in 1870 amounted to nearly nineteen
hundred thousand pounds, since which
time there has been considerable III
crease. The clip this year will be CON
sidcrably over two million pounds, sell
ing for nearly II million and half OF
dollars.
ain its quality of sheep and wool, as in
the number and amount, Washington Is
probably foremost. Wool growing has
been carried on there so long and 80 c1'
tcnsivelv. and so much attention has
been paid to breed and grade, that som'
of the finest stock in the Middle States Is
to be found in Washington county. IN
this matter, however, we will soon be
alongside. We are glad that our WOO
growers have been paying increased ut
tcntion to this point within the last te"
years. We have n number Of men who
exhibit praiscworthy pride in sheep
raising that is doing wonders for the
credit of the county. After few years
We will acknowledge no superiority what
ever in this direction