The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-24
OUR KANAwHA LRTFER.

p oa 4nrsssss,r Iulyas, 1874 /
Ed pS IS. q Ne HsssidhsysnigS. spal audAses
a.tS.ersd 4 the State street Aethodist
Church TO attend the closing lectures OF
the Teachers Institute, which had been
in progress for some days past. Quite
LENGTHY address was delivered by Col.
b. w. Byrne Estate superintendent OF
Free Schools) which was mainly address,
ed to the teachers, consisting of laying
down the school law, in such manner,
Ue thought, that no one could mlsunder.
stand him, or fail to 'take in the pints.
Col. Byrne informed the audience that
the agents of the Peabody Fund thought
that by holding Teachers, Institutes
more good could be accomplished with
that donation that in any other way
He also informed his listeners that the
future of the meeting greatly depended
upon the success of the ones which are
now being held in the different parts OF
/ the State.
After the Colonels address was con-
Guided and u great many questions were
asked and answered, the session adjourn
ed until the next morning, which was to
| be its last meeting.
A very disgraceful row occurred on
last Saturday evening about four o'clock
at a church out on Two Mile creek, about
five miles from this place. The facts, as
we can gather them, are about AS
follows: On last Saturday evening, dur
ing the time of preaching a man by the
name of Fitswater, while talking to
voung man whose name was Covender
ithey being outside of tho meeting house,
told him (Covender) that he had with
drawn his name from the Lodge OF the
Sons of Temperance, and that if ne were
in his (Covcnders) place he would do it
too. Covender replied that he did not In
tend to withdraw his name, and it was
mean and dirty trick for him (Fitswater)
to withdraw his name, whereupon Fits
water. his brother and brother-in-law,
pitched into Covender, one of them stab
bing him three times in the left side,
cutting through to his liver. At
this stage of the proceedings Covenders
father, a gentleman of the highest stand
ing in the neighborhood where he lives,
interfered to quell the disturbance
when one of the valorouS FltswaterS
drew pistol shot, land wounded him in
the arm. This wound, however, Is but Il
slight flesh wound and of but little con-
sequence. but the injury inflicted upon
yo,tng Covender it is thought, will prove
fatal
After the affrav the Fitswaters con-
cluded that distance lends enchahtment
to the view" took leg bail, and pto
last accounts but one of them (the one
that did the ratting) had been cap
jared.
A three days rain visited the Valley
the latter part last week, and first part Of
this week Corn looks ems derabIy better
since the occurrence, its motto being
| Eighcy: weeds seem also to have enjoyed
the wet weather remarkably well, and
true to their nature have taken advant-
age of the opportunity afforded them to
fiji peoples gardens, and corn fields, to
such an extent as to require an increased
amount of labor to destroy them.
Your correspondent interviewed gen.
tleman who is just from an extensive tour
through the counties of Nicholas and
Webster. He informs Us that in each OF
these counties the prospect for good
corn crop WAS never better at this season
of the year; he reports other crops about
the same rs they are in other parts OF the
State of which your readers have been
informed.
The recent rain ncCeSsitated mOmen-
tarv hll in the oats and hay harvest, but
the farmers have been abundantly re-
muneratcd for the stoppage, by the good
it has done to their growing crops; since
il has cleared off the harvest is going on
with AL increased vigor and the workers
seem to carry much lighter hearts than
they did II few days ago, when everything
was sweating under sweltering sun
they with everything else.
We notice that the exposition hall on the
fair ground has severed its connection
with the upper region andnow lies pile
of broken rattcrs. frame work, &c.
If any one will take the pains to patrol
/ some of our more private thoroughtares
about 9 o'clock p. III. he will come across
numerous couples waiting for the appear
ance of the comet. 1t is strange fact,
but u true one, that those couples i'll every
case consist of male and a female; one
on each side of the front gate, and how
that Hcbe expects to see the comet when
it does make its appearance is mystery
to us, for she is invariably looking down
at her feet with which she is tattoOing
the gravel walk; while the Apollo seems
to be very earnest in his desire to make
her understand something which he is ex-
plaining-Some mystery of consultations
no doubt. Ever and anon he glanceS ut
the doors and windows to see if the girls
Date, iSanywhere to b. seen. If this old
gentleman is nowhere visible, Apollo
gently steals his arm around Hebe and
all is again silence, as his cometship is
expected to make disappearance in about
three hours. Right here We will leave
them, not knowing what trauspires after
this, rs We keep early hours.