The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-18
BELMONT COUNTY ITEMS.
From the GAINESVILLE Enterprise.

From the GAINESVILLE Enterprise.
THE GAINESVILLE District Camp-meet-
inc Association will hold their annual
cainp-mecting at their grounds at Burr :
Mills, commencing August 18th, and
closing the evening Of the 18th.
ONE hundred bushels Of strawberries
have beeh shipped from this place in the
last two days, and the heavy trade has
not Yet begun.
The wool dealers of Harrison county
are very reticent AS to prices. a number
of clips have been purchased, ut prices
reported varying from As cents upward.
The market as yet has not been fully
established.
Wool is mostly clipped in this region,
but not moving much Farmers want
As to SOC, and from late aGvices buyers
are not unwilling to pay more than 4Oc.
We believe, however, that wool will
move lively within the next ten days ut
40 to 4jc, or about that, rs there seems
to be poor prospect for an advance
and no encouragement to hold.
IL Smith Township resides young
lady who is not ashamed Of doing some
useful work She shears sheep. And
while engaged in that work, few days
since, gentleman bantered her for u
race, which was promptly accepted,
and the lady was the winner. he then
renewed the banter for the whole day
thinking his superior strength would en-
able him 10 tire her out and he win in
the long run. In this he was also mis-
taken, as when the day closed, the lady
was three in the lead She caught her
own sheep and threw them upon the
table and performed all the manipula-
tions without assistance from Others
FROM all accounts, in a radius Of thirty
miles around GAINESVILLE, the crop pros
poets are excellent. Wheat promises bet
ter than any year, except last, for some
time. The hay crop Is coming on finely,
and there will be a large yield, with the
exception of clover, which was mostly
winter killed. Oats are luXuriant and
promise large yield. Corn is generally
small but is well set, and Il large acre
age Is planted. On Saltwater and the
Southern branch of McMahOn's creek,
heavy rains have washed and baked the
ground badly but the farmers are get
ting il well cleaned out and the ground
thoroughly stirred. Ofpotatoes large
area has been planted aud they look very
fine. Bugs are plettty, but they are be-
ing destroyed a. fast H. thry appear, euh-
or by hand or by Paris Green, aud but
little danger is felt from their ravages.
On the whole, the outlook for an album
dant crop of all the staple product of
the country is very good.
HORRIBLE ACCIDENTAL son Of Wild
ow Jetier>, Of Temperanceville, while
working on Portable Sawmlll, located
on the farm of William Gallagher, near
Williamsburgh, last Friday, met most
terrible and shocking death. The par
ticulars, as near Is we can learn, are sub
stautially aS follows: Young Jetiers, OBJ
serving that one Of the belts was rather
loose, undertook to ta>tcn il, or throw il
oil, and in doing SO, his hand was caught
between the belt and the pulley. One
OF hi, comrade, seeing his danger, seized
the belt 10 loosen it, but in doing so
really frightened it. Young Jetters be-
coming trighteqed, madea supurhuman
release his,hahd and succeeded;
but IN Jerking loose, he lost his balance
and fell on, or in front OF the saw, while
it was in motion, which cut and man
glei him in most horrible manner
cutting one of his elbows nearly off
and tearing away the walls of the abdo- |
men, and literally disrmbowcling him.
Strange to relate, he survived till Sun
day afternoon, al o'clock, when death
released him from his sufirrmgs. His
widowed mother has the svmpaihics Of
the entire community, as she had fcndlv
hoped that this son might be the staff
aud support, upon which she could lean,
in her declining age. Young Jcfrcrs was
about eighteen years of age and had
only worked on the mill from the pre-
,cdirg Monday.