The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-11-09
STATE NEWS.

Der shooting In Hardy county Is
reported as prime, several fine bucks
having been brought in by Moore
field hunters,
A sweet potato, grown at Muddy
Creek, Greenbrier county, weighed
twenty-five pounds. This is vouched
for by several responsible men of the
neighborhood,
Two sheep raisers in the ncighbor
hood of Iewisburg, have lost twenty
three killed, and eleven wounded, by
dogs, within Il short time. The pa
pers are demanding legislation on
this question Of security to sheep
raiscrs.
Chas. f. johnson, of CharlcStown,
was knocked down and robbed Of $3.50
last Wednesday night while crossing
run bridge. johnson lost 500 be-
fore, and also had his house set on
fire short time since.
Logan Osburn, of jefferson county,
has nearly 1900 Mcrino sheep of his
own breeding, and their yield last
season was over nine pounds per
head, and the Boston Commercial dd-
rcr'iscr pronounced it the best wool
received into that city.
The State Pcnitcntiary seems like
ly now to become entirely self sup
porting. One Of the expenses here
tofore has been for legal advice; but
| it has now secured an excellent law
yer in the person of a United States
prisoner one Captain Parks, from
Page county, Virginia, who is COM
mitted for two years for forging Il
bankruptcy receipt. The institution
will have two new brick workshops,
each so by 262 feet in size, completed
by January list, II. One hundred
and eighty-four prisoners, including
thirty-two U. s., convicts and four
women, are now quartered there ut Il
daily expense of ten and one-third
cents cach.-Stdndard.
ARRESTED FOR HOUSE BURNING
In last weeks issue we noticed the
burning of Woods Hotel, at Raleigh
IC. II. 1t is now supposed to have
been the work of an incendiary, and
Robert Bcasley, formerly OF Prestown,
Monroe county, but who has been
living at Raleigh c. II. for the past
wear, was last week arrested upon the
charge of having fired the house.
He was examined before Justice j.
II. Beckett, and was sent on to answer
at the next Circuit Court. The JUS
tice refused to bail him, and he was
lodged injail. From all we can learn
the evidence against Bcasley is very
strong. A few days after Beasley
was sent to Jail, His Honor, Judge
Ward happened in Raleigh, and re-
leased him on bail.-.llouatain Her.
aid.
The Morgantown Ncw Dominion
complains that the unfinished condi-
ton of the improvement of the Mo
nongahela river at that town will
prove a great disadvantage, The
dam vii, be an obstruction e noyi-
CATION, &c. It rcbukes the admins
istration for not appropriating mon
ey to complete the Improvement
RArrLEsyAEE.-Mr. Baker, the OK
press agent here, showed us on last
Monday, very large rattlesnake
that had been caught in Webster
county, and was being sent by ex-
press, alive, to Pennsylvania. His
snakeship was boxed up, the box
having Il wooden lid and a glass
covering also 1t is unnecessary to
say that the Express agents will
handle that box with care.-C!arks-
burg Ne,c8.
DISTRESSING DEATH-On Sunday
evening last, a little daughter of Mr..
Caperton Wykle, residing about three
miles below the Salt Sulphur, by
SOlllt UltlllS DtCWlllC ~ ouNNiNil pN'h
ed that she died on Monday morning
in great pain. She was about five
years of age, Her parents were
some distance from the house at the
timc.-lioWoc County Border Watch
man.
The Moorefeld Examiner states that
Pittsburg ironmastcrs are Of opinion
that the iron ores of Hardy & Grant
counties, West Virginia; would super
sede the Lake Superiorores brought
to that city, and that the South
Branch iron company and citizens of
the South Fork and Moorofeld dis
tricts are moving in the matter of
building u railroad from Romncy to
the mines. Early this winter a vote
will be taken in the districts named
upon the question orsubscribing $50.
900 in aid Of the enterprise.