The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-10
BARBOUR COUNTY.
Crops in the Peel Tree Neighborhood-
A Heavy Toll-The Fourth OF july.
PEEL TREE, July 9th.

PEEL TREE, July 9th.
Editors of the Register:
The wheat crop is about all cut and III
shock. and this week the farmers have
commenced putting it i'll stack. The
crop in this section is very fine, ] don't
think il was ever better. Owing to the
late spring ana dry weather the prospect
for II good com crop is not rs iatterlng
rs usual. The oats crop will bee almost
IN entire failure. Business through the
country still dragS rather heavily, and
there seems to be but little life or anima-
ton connected with it, but rs the cattl"
are beginning t. move we will soon en-
meet better times. Money matters hav"
been unusually tight, and but for the
chickens. butter and eggs think the en-
tire country would have been blank IN
the WAY of finance. Success and long
life to huckStcrs for having saved the
country.
The only rise we have noticed in bus
mess is on the west end of the ClarkS-
burr and Buckhannon pike. y few days
| since we drove over the road to the town
ofC.. and were charged two cents toll per
mile. and we thought this certainly m
! dicated n rise, for we couldn't remember
! that we had ever before been required to
nav two cents toll per mile for driving
ON n mud pike.
Tpon making some inquiry IN regard
to the advanced rates of toll, &c, we
were informed by the receiver that the
committee had directed two cents per
mile to be collected preparatory t" put
ting the road in first class order. We
,pid well" and drove on. We dldh |
learn whether the committee was late
from Washington or not. when we
arrived nj the town Of C we stopped
with our friend, Squire Walker, and re-
ccived that kind attention EXTENDED l"
all his guests. After short rest we par
took of splendid dinner, after
which we discharged our business
nbIications-that. too, before we were re-
ouired to pay our bill. To us this seems
ed like business. but to be required 10
pay two cents toll per mil" to drive on a
mud pike. that the committee might
he enabled 10 repair it at some future
time, 10 us looked like they were en-
Meeting the country to bust-hence pay
IN advance. We didn't complain, but
returned To our quiet little village feel
ing that we would wait for further
initiation before another drive.
The Beecher and Tilton muddlc ha;
not created much excitement in ouI
place. Had the irtfair happened in Pee
Tree Of course it would be big thing
hut il is not much for New York.
1t costs twenty-nine dollars in these
parts, at the lowest possible rate, t" or
ganize charter grange; nineteen dollar>
of which is sent out of the country; Inc
balance ten dollars. goes TO the Captain
all to protect the farmer. Couldn
somebody rise and explain
The Fourth came and went and wa
as dry as the wcathcr-not even tn,
cracking of Il stick was heard-to remind
us of the Importance that should be at
tached to the day. We were sorry FOL
this for we had bad cold and could moi
even halloo.
We will be completely surrounded tins
week by a big show, which we expect
will absorb from, each adult, the money
,chat two big chickens would bring.
WASHINGTON.