The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-19
STATE ITEMS.

rs.r. Owing to the continued wei
..s.,b.- farmers have had great dlih-
-, s.yiu, their wheat, much OF II
,.'..,r,,IsmsrrI. '., There will not be more
,T,a tslf - crop. The oat crop VIII De
'u', I.,,, "., corn looks well, but needs
r. W." badly the rains having prevented
y.-gjng il. The grass crop VIII De very
s,. considerable tobacco mas peer
nIsr,,d auL is looking we'l'-h"'0"
Herald.
p,.yyr,ryEG must bc in a bad way.
,,.. T,a,, complain, Of the bad boys,
.,3 I'M, Journal of the had women anu
Ia,b papers are very de,'ron' I'M. eatn m
.y,ba.,. classes shall be looked alter oE
the police. ,
a. N.r..-r from the Morgantown Post
~, G.n,.ia 7. P. Roberts, employed by
Ts Government TO make survey oil the
,W.,,,,,hn,a ~ river from Morgantown to
,"..-,ro,, ..,, entered upon the discharge OF
.,r,i... week before last. The survey
.."wwsnra, at Cobun's creek, at point
where tie surveying party commenced
three wears ago for the slackwater I'M
movement. The work of surveying the
river TO Fairmont, We suppose, will yet
occupy several days.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.--The Green
tr.rr Independent of last week says;
"un the evening of the fifth instant, Mr..
Samuel G.. Baxter, living on Stony
Creek, Pocahontas county, w. Va, met
with a serious accident, from some un-
known and unexplained cause. He had
been out squirrel huting and on MS re-
turn to Lis home, (as he reports 1t, his
wife and family being absent just As he
stepped into his porch, his powder horn,
with near a halt-pound of powder IN 1t,
ATTACHED toa shot pouch at his side,
exploded. stunning and irjurlng him ez-
trrnallv. and driving u piece OF
the horn. two and half inches long and
one inch wide. at the widest point near one
end broad end foremost, up his right
un,trl. 80 far that the point or little
end of the piece WAS fully II halt inch up
from the end of his nose. 1t passed
through the nasal opening and lodged IL
m. rear of the frontal, or iace-bone, and
directly under the right eye. His righ
ey. y. vet. il uninjured. His case Ii
considered dangerous by the physician
The COUNTY Court Of BraXton county
has offered reward of $500 for such IN
formation rs will lead to the apPrehen'
sion of the murderer of Jemlma Green,
an account Of whose murder Was pub
Gsbai I'm these columns AT the time OF ITS
occurrence. \ petition will be forward
ed to Governor Jacob 10 offer similar
reward.
WE have received few mcagrc par
tlculars of the sad death ola boy about
IL wears of age, residing on Cove Creek,
lust over our county line, IN Doddridge
county. oar informant had forgotten
the name, but gave Us as near as he
could tie particulars of the affair. IL
appears that the boy had taken the
butcher knife 70 cut some poles IN the
wood, near his fathers house; and while
among the brush fell upon the point OF
IN. Lni.e--thp blade passing nearly
through hi, body lie lived until next
day. when death put an end to ms suffer-
Ings.- Weston P,mocrdL
LARGE CNrTLE.-The keyscr Ir1jUe
,ay.. ON Wednesday l2O head OF fat
cattle passed through our town Tor ship
men, over n, Baltimore X Ohio Railroad
t. Philadelphia. They were fed and
srsz,d hy Mc,>r,. Jacob and William
Vaumetrr. of Hardy county, and John
Pancake, of Hampshire, respectively.
These cattle average over l,4OO pounds
gro., and were sold to Major Bowen,
cattle broker, Who received them at the
station