The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-30
OUR HANCOCK LETTER.
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AssauIt-Murtler at Large.
FAIRyIEw. July ~, 1874.
Editors of the Register.

Editors of the Register.
The gentle vet copiouS rains of thepast
few DAYS, with the fine warm weather ac-
companving, have had Il cheering effect,
and the face of nature smiles $50 to speak,
whilst the visagrs of huSbandmcn literal
" do grin satisfaction. The
JOLLY BROAD FIELDS OF CORN,
how they do wave in seemingly conscious
ryultation. and rustic audibly well
nigh human vanity of their fat luNurl-
ancc. So let them wave and rustic, I'M
hurt of hail or tempest, or frost, until IN
the fulness of time thousand goodly and
capacious garners shall open to receiv"
their ripe tribute.
As YOU have already noted, and lmay
repeat. the Democracy of Hancock are
preparing for the fall political work.
Their primaries are to be held on next
Saturday and their County Convention
on the Wednesday following August
jth,) when
CANDIDATE FOR THE HOUSE OF DELE
GATES,
and delegates to the Senatorial and Con-
oressional Convention will be chosen.
The only name vet announced Tor the
House in our local paper, the courier, Is
tb,t of Peter A. Pugh, who subjects his
candidacy to the choice OF the hePuh''ca''
County Convention. He Is very young
man and wholly untried IN political
compnigning, but is active and has many,
friends so that he is likely to pull ahead
of his sleepy elder competitors on th"l
side.
The Sunday school Of Washington
school house, in Grant township in"NlS-
ed in a picnic on Saturday, which was
largely attended by the big and little OF
the upper end of the county and by many
from this section Brief speeches were
made bv Revs. Stevenson and fomcr"y'
and bv Daniel Donchoo, Peter \. PuSh'
and j. W. PlattenburG, Esq. The same
day large company OF the
GALLANT LADS AND BoNNf LASSES
of New Cumberland, Pic-nlcked at
Sniyey's Grove, mile from FairvleW,
when contrary to all the notions OF
righteous department evolved irom the
inner consciousness of the blue stocking
the fiddle and balance all were miro
duced AS media for mirth and enjoyment
4 somewhat
AGGRAVATED CASE OF ASSAULT AND
RATTERY,
occurring on Saturday evening last,
forms the subject ola good deal OF neigh
horhood speculation. VIM. {. Murray
: ESQ. ard Peter Davis Pugh hive neigh
bors. a short distance from this place"
The former has large dog, which. few
DAYS before, had set upon some cattle oi
the latter running at large, and worried
/ Them somewhat. On the evening named
the parties met on the road near the
formers residence, when an alteration
occurred touching on the dogSInS OF the
cattle. which speedily eliminated III
hasrant battle. Who was the first as
Saiiant. l am unable to say, but Peter
Davis, who is huge
SIX AND A HALF FOOT BARBARIAN
seized club, and with it beat and cut
Murray to bloody extent 50 that the
assistance of physician had to be sent
for. Squire Murray is one of the most
esteemed and peaceable men IN the coun-
tv. and Pugh, though respectable enough
is man of very wild and ungovernaoie
passion. The matter will be before the
Circuit Court, which meets the first week
in September.
\ disgusting case of
ATTEMPT AT sELF-MUTILATIoN
occurred with young man named Nc
Dole, residing in this county, near the
Pennsylvania line. The young man,