Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1874-11-12

PenlnSular counties Oh SHShhi" Iva
more than one month, and vegeta-
ton is suffering. A large fire IS RAJ
cling in the great Dismal Swamp.
MAMMOTH APPLE.-We were
shown an apple this week, that gree
in the orchard or JohnR. Stone. Esq /,
of this place, whichemeasured fifteen
inches in circumference, and weighed
one pound and seven ounces.-fres
ton County Herald
St. Joe, a. small oil town in Butler
county, Pa, was DESTROYED by hre
last week. Twenty five dwellings,
two drug stores, and several livery
stables were consumed. The fire orlgl-
mated in defective fue. No estimate
of the loss can be made atpresent.
At the tournament held at Point
Pleasant one of the Knights success
fully took four of the rings, but while
in the act of taking the fifth, his
horse made misstep, fell and broke
its neck and threw its rider upon a
sharp stick which entered and put
out one of his eyes-Erchange.
The Engineer Corps surveying for
the Kanawha Canal is divided, one
party near the Falls of Kanawha, 30
miles from Charleston, and the other
party is on Greenbrier River, about
100 miles from this city. They have
had fine weather for the lime they
have been at work. and made good
progress.-Chronicle.
PosTAL.-The name and site Of
Knob Fork, Wetzel county, West
Virginia, has been changed 10 Union
town. A new postotfice is establish
at Cupenhaver's Mill, Kanawha coun-
ty, West Virginia, Oh the route from
Kanawha Court House to forks Of
Little Sandy, with J. L Stump as
postmaster; also at forks of Little
Sandy, Kanawha county, West Vir-
GINA, with James a. Blackshire Us
postma,ter.-Erchange.
Ritualism or non. Ritualism in the
Episcopal Church is, by no means, a
decided subject yet. The report of
the Committe which did possess an
aspect directly opposed to it, was
adopted by the House of Deputies /;
but not concurred in by the House of
Bishops. So the whole discussion is
and as the Convention ad
journs now SO soon, if speedy action
is not taken, this question will contin-
ue as vexatious as ever.
We learn that Charles I. Louder
milk, Franklin Walkup and Angus
tus Sample, while at Eagle Church,
near ClintonYille, just before the ser
vices commenced, got into Difficult
ty, (the origin of which We know
nothiug.) which resulted in Samples
cutting Loudermilk in the side, in
hicting painful hut not dangerous
wound. Warrants were issued by
Justice Burns for Samples and Wal
kup, aud placed in the hands of con-
stable Moses, but at last accounts the
parties were still at large Green
brier Independent.
AHEAD OF TINE The teacher and
pupils of our High School, in this
town, were little surprised on last
Monday morning by the entrance in
to the school room Of several child
rem of the African persuasion. They
entered with smiling counttnances
and took their seats real the white
children who were in attendance.
This caused slight commotion in
the school, and q general reaching for
books, states, &c, preparatory to a
hasty departure from the room. The
teacher promptly dismissedthe school,
and caused n meeting of the Board Of
Education to be held to decide the
question as to the legality Of their en-
trance into a school set apart for the
exclusive use of the white children
Hed Union Observer.
The new one dollar legal tender
note has upon its back two large
cross lines which form almost the Ro-
man figure ten To the Impractical
of money 4 mere glance at
the reverse side would indicate that
il represented on its back ten times
the value of its face. In the South
the colorcd people have received
them for ten dollar bills, and the
Treasury is advised that quite profit
able business has been carried on by
some scamps in this way These re-
ports are supported by collateral evil
ience which is furnished through the
large number of bills of large demon.
ination which have been changed
with ones, at the request of Southern
correspondents, by the United States
Treasury. In Canada, it is said, the
note, for this reason, is refused alto
gether, and a large number are receiv-
ed at the Treasury for exchange in
to ether notes. - Wastiadon Star.
We have already given some Of
the details of the tragedy near Ander-
son, Indiana, in which Mrs. Mawson
her son Albert, and threw
his body into the well, subsequently
committing suicide. b. the follow
ing it will be seen that the Mawsons
are another Bender family: For
many years the Mawson family have
been terror to the neighborhood in
which they resided. Mrs. Mawson
is believed to have murdered two
children by her first husband, and
then to have made way with their
father. 4 dark suspicion hung over
- o+ tba tino hut M cline conI1 be