The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-28
KANAWHA COUNTY.
The HarVest-H. =. Walker-The
Coming Fair-IrOn WOrks-LOcal
News.

News.
CHARLESTON, July "a, 1874.
Editors of the Register.
That very busy season with the farm
ears, harvest, has about closed; the grain,
wheat and oats is now being stacked and
threshed as speedily as possible. Oats
command an unusually large price, ow-
ing to the lightness of the yield, They
are now selling at twenty-five cents per
dozen in the field, and will, in Il short
time. be hard to get at forty cents. 1t is
| thought that oats will be this winter
worth $lOO bushel, and corn $50 Il
| bushcl, and scarce at that.
We suppose Mr.. Henry 5. Walker,
since the disposal of the Cor'sr, will de-
vote the large part of his time to cleo
tioneering. AS all your readers are
aware, he is candidate for the United
| States Senate and will next winter, no
doubt. Tgracefully occupy Il position rs
such. discharging his duties in such 4
way rs to reflect credit upon the position
aS well as upon himself is the earnest
wish of all true Democrats in this county.
Our city is building but slowly this
! summer owing, no doubt, to the scarcity
of .the root of all evil which is just
about AS scarce as it generally gets.
Young Covcnder, who we mentioned
in our last weeks letter as being badly
stabbed, we are glad to learn is speedily
convalcscing, and will shortly be
about again.
odd PrOl abilities visited us with II
IL, L.,
though light, was welcomed by all anti
cremationists.
The whoopng-cough, we believe,
generally prevails among the youthful
population of this place; we have heard
Of no death, however, from its ravages.
Thare are still several fast steppers in
training on the State Fair Grounds
amongst which are charleston and the
knight Of Lexington" both horses of
note Just returned from Columbus, Ohio,
for which place they left here several
weeks ago. We have not learned whether
either of them were successful at the
Columbus races or not.
There is strong probability that the
iron works of Newport, KY, will be-
removed TO that port of Charleston
known us the "West End owned by
j. Brisbcn Walker The works are to
cover nine acres of ground, and to be
Located within one fourth of IL mile from
the new Iron bridge ut the mouth of Elk
river; for the accomplishment of this
end it is necessary that bonus of S5O,OOO
be- raised bv the citizens of Charleston;
steps were taken to Use the money some
two or three weeks since and we are glad To
say that Il considerable sum has been
ujscribcd-payablc in one, two, three,
and four wears. The amount raised Is
insufficient, it not being the $4,000; We
feel confident that in short time the
rest will be raised, if not by SubScrip-
ton, by Il levy upon the county.
Work is being pushed forward rapidly
on our strccts,hnd they will, we think, be
in much more paSSable condition this
winter than is usually the case; we
also notice that the road between this
city and Two Mile bridge, distance
of some two miles, is being
put in splendid repair by the wide awake
nvcrSccr, Mr. Lewis Summers, gentle
man who is evidently the right man III
the right place; the road has hitherto
hrcn in a most miserable condition and
should have been attended to long beio'c
this, ~ it is Il road which is travelled
more than any other i'll the county.
The REGISTER comes to us this week
five days after publication, in new and
beautiful form. containing a great deal
more reading matter than it has hereto
fore: We cannot say it has improved
rditoriallv. rs it has dicopS been careful
" and ably edited, but We 10 say that
the WHEELING WEEKLY REGISTER Is
the largest. handsomcSt and most finely
edited paper West Virginia contains
and one which every person, who likes
plenty of good things I" read, Sh""lu
t.Ln ADDISON.