The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-01-20
FROM HANCOCK.
DisIOyaI Doubts of Braces Truth
River CIOsed---Large Womeh--Mis-
ceIIaneOus Topics.
FAIRvIEw, Hancock county, !
January Is, 1875. I


January IS, 1873. !
| Editors of the Register.
| observe, with mingled Indignation
and dismsy, that the REGISTER, in cho-
rus with many other of the journalistic
opponents of the truly disloyal sentiment
of the realm, casts the mystifying and
fatuous shade of skepticism over Brace 5
brave banging of the alarm from Charles
ton, and that you rs much rs intimate
that Brace is no more than supersery-
iceable wag, if not fraud. / grievo at
this. AS Braces loyal alarm is 'demate-
rialized" through the medium of brevity
( into the essence which, upon the author
itv of Mr.. Shakespeare, l call soul. l
reproduce 1t;
Send troops here at once. Not a sim
gle negro is allowed to take his seat.
| The utmost anarchy prevails. What
must do? II. w. BRAZEE.
United States District Commissioner. y
Only suppose the date, "Charleston,
w. Va, January II, 1875, and you
have Brace entire. Now, what is du-
bious about this. pray tell me? l affirm,
sirs, that it bears upon its face, undoubt-
ed evidence of ''trooly loil' truth. Have
YOU, boldly fling the query into your
face, had single word denying it? Not
one. You have a Geographic reporter
there, but does be deny it? No. Does
he confirm it? No; and it is easy to
Judge of his loyalty, too. Alas,
| it is all too true-.juSt as true
/ | do honestly believe and insist, as to the
anarchy prevalent, and just rs true IN
] demonstration of the necessity of the
bcneAcent and "trooly loil' interference
of the Federal power, as Grants late
message on Louisiana affairs. "W hat
must | Brace United States District
Commissioned do?" There is the voice
of true loiltv" as we have heard it from
Volnev Voltaire Smith and Percy Bysh'
Shelley Pinchback and William PITT
Kellogg; but in your skeptical sneers
see the very spirit of 1.-The old secession
venom"-as it were, and hear the echo
of the cold rebel yell to speak.
The river closed over at New Cumber.
land Friday night. One of the results
was that though crossing on foot on the
ice commenced on Saturday, yet for some
reason our mail was unable to get across
and thus nearly the whole county was
left without postal communication with
the world for forty-eight hours. This IN
cident has given rise TO some speculation
as to the desirability of this place a
Charleston's successor to p. S honors.
Petitions are in circulation in this
county and are being largely signed
praying the legislature to pass law pro-
hibiting cattle and other stock from run
ming at large.
1t Is fact not generally known that
one of, or perhaps the largest woman on
the confident of America lives in
Hancock county. Mrs. Polly Pollock
who lives in Grant district, i'll the enjoy
ment of reasonably good health, saw tho
dav. very few years ago, when she
would have tipped the beam at more than
SIC hundred pounds. She has fallen away
largely the past few years so that 1t Is
estimated she would scarcely go over foul
hundred pounds. In her palmiest days
ere il could be said of her that she was
"Greece, but living Greece no more"
She is graphically described to me q.
having been "as large as house, and
she is, even in her present comparatively
attenuated condition, real sight to be-
hold. The same district also boasts OF
three stout, good-looking sisters, the
Misses Matilda, Marilda and Malinda
Allison, now just entering the estate OF
womanhood, who are triplets of the same
birth.
The divers ailments common to the
season, prevail rather numerously, but
the community is free Of all dangerous
diseases.
This is an excellent winter for stock
and the sheep are doing unusually well
CAMILLUs.