The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-05
OUR HANCOCK LETTER.
Agricultural Matters-A Burglary
News Items.
FAIRvIEw, HANCOCK COUNT,

FAIRyIEW, HANCOCK SOUNT1,
August 3, 1874. !
Editors Of the Register.
Here is an instance of the way the
wheat of Hancock county turns out, the
present season: Hugh Spungel, Esq. on
Saturday last threshed his crop of 800
dozen. grown on his farm adjoining the
town. His yield was 248 bushels of prime
A No. | wheat, of the Rough and Ready
and Diehl varieties. The bind was of the
ordinary size so that the yield was some
thing over bushel to the dozen and a
third. This is certainly good, if rot I'M
usually good.
Still but very little wool has been sold.
Mr.. Stewart, of New Cumberland. is the
only buyer who has yet entered this very
rich little field, and he only on limited
orders. at 4S cents as the maximum price.
Our farmers are now beginning to be
agitated with approximations of a new evil
the grasshopper. 1t has appeared in
much greater numbers this summer than
ordinarily, and this, together with reports
ofthe terrible ravages ofthe innumerable
little devastators in Minnesota and the
west, and the well-known fact that they
are on their progress eastward, causes
considerable anxiety for the future.
Another strange burglary is reported.
Mr.. Pat Fowler sold his wool one
dav last week, and returned home
with $l56 in his pockets. When
he went to bed he hung his pants i'll his
room, and in the morning when he got
up his heart was made sad with the dis
covery that his pants aforesaid, which
contained his pockctbook, which con-
tanned his Sl56. which contained right
smart of his hopes for the future, together
with watch, were gone. The pants,
minus all else valuable, were found the
next morning in all adjacent field. The
thief was non est, and, alas, seems destined
to remain inscrutably so.
VIM. j. Nandinc, whose Imprisonment
in the Jail here, on charge of stealing Il
skiti, was reported to you some six weeks
ago. was cunning and cnterprising
enough to work dclivcrance from the
bondage of the law on Sunday last.
Whilst the family We're at church Van
dine worked hole (by means of an
auger and other tools up through the
flooring above his cell into the room
over it. when he found no trouble in
getting to the street and away. Let "the
peace and dignity of the State droop in
unavcngcd humiliation; but long, long,
NAV it be- ere we and Nandine ever again
meet is the satisfying imploration Of the
IL -
for him, and your police needn't bother
sending him back if he should happen
Your way.
J. Hanson Good, Esq, and Col. Alex.
Campbell, candidates for the nom
inatiOn for Congress, by what
Mr.. Peter Magnus would call
~ rcmarkublc coincidence" both happen
ed to come up by the same train this
morning and pay lis a welcome visit.
Both of the gentlemen are very popular
in Hancock. a.. inceed. they are where
ever their acquaintance has made the
manly cloqucncc, integrity and warm
hearted generosity ofthe former, or the
sound Judgment and genial excellence of
the latter to be known. | may, perhaps,
truthfully say that nothing but prior
attachment could bar Mr.. Campbell
from captivating the affection of the De.
mocracy of the countyin convention met,
who will accordingly on Wednesday
next express choice of Mr.. Good for Con-
grcSS.
Mr.. McKennan of your city is rusti-
eating for a limited period in our neigh
boring town of New Cumberland.
Daniel Donchoo Esq, of this place,
has gone to Philadelphia TO remain until
the fall, when he will make that his per-
manent residence.
County Court meets on the 18th inst.
to lay the levy and transact fiscal affairs,
The game of base ball has wonderfully
revived in this place, and RACES to II
threatening extent.
OF Hancockonian human vitality and
vigor here is IL specimen: Burgess ALI
son, who is over eighty Years old, in
formed lis to-day that he had Graded
three acres of wheat. stacked four stacks
of hay and did considerable other work
this harvest.
CAMILLUS.