The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-04-24
STATE ITEMS.

DAVID Lone, an old and prominent
citizen of Mason county, is dead. /
The Petersburg Inq,arsr press has
been sold and the Office closed up. Cause,
want of patronage. 4
The Harper's Ferry property, it is said,
will be sold in June. 1t will most proba-
bly, be bought in by the Government.
The Point Pleasant Register for
the benefit of the Wheeling papers an
nounces its adhesion 10 Hereford
THE Ohio Valley Medical Association
will hold their their next semi annual
meeting at Huntington, on the first Wed
nesday in November next.
OUR cattle men have been, during the
last two weeks, removing their stock TO
to the mountain pastures. Randolph
Enterprise.
THE disastrous fire at Fairmont has
had the effect of stirring up the country
towns to provide means to extlngulsh
fires.
IT is about the season tor the usual
snake stories to commence their annual
tour of newspapers. We wait for brother
Wolf of the Weston Democrat TO start
the ball rolling Enterprise.
Coz. K. W. BAYLOR of Jefferson
County is announced as candidate for
Senator from that district. If the Colon
ell car manage the finances Of the nation
as successfully as he has his county, we
would like to see him made President.
b. F. HARLOW, of the Lewisburg In
dependent, is going to publish compila-
ton of all the land laws, and persons
who want the book must send IN orders
at once as only a limited number will be
issued.
THE new University building is fast
approaching completion. The plasterers
are doing a very neat job of work on the
walls and ceilings, ard the carpenters
commence this week to finish up the
wood work. The interior work-espe-
ciallv the plas tering-is far superior to
that on the old NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Post.
JEFFERSON COUNTY has a surplus of
fifty thousand dollars in the county treas
ury, and they propose to celebrate the
Centennial year by having no county
tax at ali for 1876. The Free Press says
this delightful state of affairs is due to
the economy and management OF Col.
Baylor, President of the County Court.
Oh that every county had a Baylor to
manage the finances.
AN old man by the name of koontz
recently died in Monroe county, accord.
ing, to an account given in the Green
brier independently who announced before
his death that he was halt brother of
the devil and that he had been cooper
ating with the evil one for the last SIX
teen wears. Now the family is under II
hallucination, believing that they are
under satanic Influence and are engaging
in all kinds of fetish orgies. Wha; Is the
Home Missionary Society doing?
The Hoop-pole season Is about over,
all it is to be hoped that those who have
been engaged in the business will turn
thrir attention to farming more extensive
ly than they have ever done before. Raise
more hogs, sheep and cattle, and there
will be less complaint OF hard times
Hogs are now worth in the Baltimore
maj ket from $1,000 TO $1,000 per humid
red and the probabilities are that they
will be higher, while hoop-poles are low
ard still getting lower,-Jackson County
Ne,oS.
JUDGE JosEpu SMITH, of the Kan
awha Circuit, Is not Chesterfield in !
dress or manner, but on the contrary |
dresses q little On the Henry Clay Dean
style. The Point Pleasant Register tells
the following incident that occurred dur
ing the session of the l,te Mason county |
Circuit Court: III was III Tive afternoon,
the bell had not called the court together.
but HIS Honor WAS in the chair, waiting
for the hour Of two o'clock to roll round.
4 Gallipolis citizen, just as the bell be-
gun To ring, noticed that the Judges
chair was occupied, and asked, "Who is
that old cuss in the Judges seat" Re-
ceiving no answer, be continued, 'I'll
bet the Judge will make that id old
cuss git when he comes into court. He !
was surprised to find that he no occu.
picd the chair was the real judge