The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-14
STATE NOTES.

THERE are now several men in the jail
of Kanawha county, awaiting trial for
Observation-Disclosures Advertiser.
On the Sth instant man named Will
son Miers, living near Heading Hill,
Wetzel county, was brutality muir
dered by his two step.sons. Abuse
of his wife (their motherl was the
cause.
SPEAKING of lambs the Border Woteh-
man says:
"a citizen who is neither granger
nor a candidate for Office says little
flour of sulphur sprinkled on lamb
will protect him from foxes. We don't
warrant this, but we will warrant a mix
ture of sulphur, saltpeter and charcoal if
it is applied in the right way, to the fox.
MARS HAL RAND, of Charleston, passed
through here last Saturday morning on
his way to Charleston, with a prisoner
named Orrell, who murdered a man
named Craig in West Charleston, last
November, by shooting him with shot
gun, for which he was indicted for MUIR
der in the first degree. He made his
escape to Ohio, where he was arrested a
short time since and delivered to Mar
shall Rand on a requisition from Gov.
Jacob.
ACCORDING to the Clarksburg Tsle-
gram there were l5l marriages in Harrl-
son county last year. Of these 10 were
gidowers and 2 widows. The Oldest ma. Q
was II and the youngest Is years OF age.
The oldest female was So and the
Youngest II years of age There were
5 males and 81 females under 20 years of
age. There were 7S males and 90 females
under 20 and over 20 years of age.
The Morgantown Post tells of the
death of the oldest woman in West Vir-
ginia, as follows: Mrs. Jane Frazier
died in the poor-house of this county on
the lst OF March, in the 10th year OF
her age. She was entirely blind, deaf
and helpless, and had been an inmate of
the institution only short time. She
is believed to have been, at the time of
her death, the oldest woman in the
State of West Virginia.
The Tribune (Keyscr,) ,0as peculiarly
Interesting this week, and we couldn't
understand why. The following,
however, solves the problem: "The editor
has gone to Hardy to attend court; all
the reporters and sub editors engaged for
the occasion have forgotten their duty
! and gone fishing or somewhere else and
so it devolves upon US (poor competitors
to look after locals, slip items, write
editorials. &c, besides discharging our
numerous other duties. Now, reader, II
YOU should find the Tribune more inter-
esting this week than usual, Just attribute
it to the above cause.
THE Keyser Tribune is in good spirits
about the crop prospects In its locality,
1t says: The prospect throughout the
county, we are informed, is good for q
large wheat crop. Everywhere the
grain fields look promising, and unless
the fiy O. some other unforeseen enemy
attacks the crop before harvest, the
weld will be abundant. The orchards.
too, are everywhere full of promise OF
Great abundance both OF peaches and APP
Niles unless killed by some sudden and
seve,e change of weather during this and
tho NEXT month. We trust our weather
pronbet will drive his tickle steed with q
Steady hare for the next two months.
THE Preston County Herald desires
light on the following phenomenon: 1t
invites the attention of the curious and
the students of natural philosophy to
fact of recent occurrence, which
seems to be we'll authenticated. AT the
residence of the late Joab G. Conner, not
far from Tunnelton, barrel of shel!ed
corn exploded with loud report, scat
tering the corn and fragments oil the
barrel over all parts of the room. The
barrel sat up stairs, with number OF
others. Perhaps chemical action, caused
bp some peculiar condition of the grain
and state of the atmosphere, produced
the unusual spectacle but We shall be
glad to publish any explanation given by
our thoughtful and observing readers,
provided it be stated in popular Ian.
eusge, free from technical terms.