The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-06-12

of counterfeit money in circulation !
but We don't SEQ enough Of the jimmy.
wine" to distinguish the difference.
No action has yet been taken by
our people to er'ehra'o tho Fourth
Why c,n't we hs?c aa old. fashioned
celebration, aEi as,onish all creation ?
John W, Gentry. Public Printer,
has started 4 new weekly paper
in the city Of Wheeling, called The
Sun.
Barbour county is cursed with q
pack Of thieves. who arc engaged in a
wholesale plGnderins Of tho indu=tri-
Gus.
Tho wool crop in this section
won't materially increase until there
a:c more dogs going around on three
legs with broken back.
Nearly $1,000, 900 Of silver coin
has been paid out. We've got shiny
new twenty-five cent piece, bu: who
has tho rest Of it!
The new town on Skin Creek is
70 DO called Austin. Application will
soon be made to have post Office es.
tablisbcd there.
Asphalt & Rohrboush have been
at it agaiu. This time they have
brough. on q splendid stuck Ct no.
tons, which will be sold cheap, for
silver or steeubacks, Or both.
--NLessrs. kohrbough & Gaylord
have completed aud arc now occupy
ing their new s,ore.hOuse on Skin
Greek. They were just 10 days in
building the house.
Tho Charlestown Free Press says
that Jacob Ilouk, Il short time since,
killed 4 rat which measueel twenty.
two inches from tip to tip. What d
"yl.cpper" The rat. We mean.
The West Virginia ColOred Min
strcls exhibited here on Tuesday night
las. Ii one could judge BY the audi
eucc, it was no. appreciated very
highly.
-trcentIy George Plumley stabbed
Jackson Vest seven times. at Hinton
Summers county, Vest is supposed tc
be fatally wounded, Ind PIuu!ey is at
large. :.
West Virginia stands pre-emi'
nen,Iy uheal of any other State in the
Union for her display Of coal ut the
Centennial, both in quality and quan
tity.
Colonel Latham has hen on hi:
farm that produced au egg which
weighs ~ ounces, is 81 inches long
and its circumference is &? inches
BuckhmnoA Delta.
MIR. Marshall, Of Stout Mills
Braxtou count, Is trying to raise I
company, FREQ from any vicious habits
to attend the Centennial. They pro
pose to start abou: the Goth Of thi'
month.
in Philadelphia they have hand
kerchiefs with the Declaration OF lndc
penaeucc printed on them in French
German aud English, so that one car
now blow his nose in three language!
i'll the Quaker City.
VIA. is pleasanter these nice
mornings than go,,inr up and taking
sunrise walk Of thre1 or four miles DO
foro breakfast? Nothing, certainly
unless it is lying in bed and thiltin!
about it.
The corn market hero is Ovcrrun
aud consequently flrmers are con-
planning about the low price it com
maads. 10 conversation with ono o
our husb:alnan tho other day, b
stated that it was now mach cheaper t
buy than to raise corn.
-Kingwool Is patriotic, and con
siderable on the cnthuso. Accordin
to the Herald, n good many Of tn
deuizeus Of that ancient Borough Hin
the stars and stripes to the breezG
Long may they waye-.ho people, "
mean.
AS another evidence Of tho IT
crcasins prosperity Of our county, W
note tue fact that last week more goo
horses were to be seen On our street
than has beo1 noticed for aomo tin
past. 1t seems that Gue b!oode
horses arc taking the place of scrub
and plugs.
-Au exchange remarks that ma
who would take a paper out Of Ii
Office for one or two years, and the
refuse to pay arrearagcs, would ehai
his poor lame gtaudtNo''er tare-foote
halfn day through a thorn thickct u
to get chance 10 knock out her fro'
teeth.
Tho Centennial postage stamp
in the form Of u shield on gree
ground. with pony expressrIder an
iraiu Of cars. forming two promlne'
lines in white across tho cenlr
rlion. At the top is "l17G-
u. S. postage" below "Thr'O cents
1876" all Of which letters and hume
ais arc white.