The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-16
STATE NEWS.
NINE saloons IN Keyser.


Murphy wave. t-c
THERE is A. Thistle in the Sisters
vile Council. ~ ...
FAITHFULLY, Fsyet.e county, wants
q Masonic hall. --,,. s,.,,l
DIpHrHKRIA is raging in Fairyiew,
Hancock county.
WrLLsBURa has ele -ted new member
for it, Board OF Education.
MuRpHYIsM is meeting with consider
able success in Clarksburg.
WEST VIRGINIA timber is worth $751;
100000, lin the woods"
MANY of the young men of the State
have caught the "go west" fever.
NINETY students in attendance at the
Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute.
SUTTON, Braxton county, will have
quarterly meeting on Ind and 8rd OF
June.
The ground was frozen to the depth
of an inch and q half at Princeton May
LIST.
TIE Foresters will celebrate their third
anniversary at Point Pleasant on the
10th of June.
The postoffice at Top of Allegheny,
Pocahontss county, w. Va, has been re-
established.
LAFAYETTE ELIZA is the first convict
ever sent TO the Penilenlisry from Ran
dolph county.
THE Buckhannon Bam eris hired to
blow IN behalf of Martinsburg. Small
brats yell loudest.
pHILLIPPI editors are spsrlng at each
othor through their respective sheets. Be
'azy men.
Mr. ALEX. LAIRD, venerable resi-
dent Of Richie county, died at his home,
a few dsya ago.
MORRIS, of the Richie Gazette, wants
a new Presbyterian church this summer.
What has he done2
The New Castle salt furnace, Of West
Columbia, is belag heightened and thor.
oughly repaired.
The fruit crop of Ksnswha county
promises to be unusually prolific this
season. Charleston Courier.
THos. p. Conn received twenty.three
votes, and was elected Mayor of Berkeley
Springs. on the 9th inst.
THE Phil:ppi Plamdealer knows not a
single person in Barbour county who op-
pt SEES Clarksburg for the Capital.
MIR. WILLIAM ORNDeRFF, OF Dillon's
Run, Hampshire county, shot and killed
during the past year, eight hundred rats
The new NJ. E. Church, near the
county line, on the Psrkersburg and
Elizabeth road, is approaching compile
ton.
RoANE county is fast becoming one of
the beet grazing counties in the State.
Thousands of cattle, sheep and hogs are
annually being exported from her bor-
ders.
Rev. WIN. 2. WALTER, of Williams
town, has recei ved call from the Bsp-
tist Church of Huntington, which he has
accepted.
The Morgan Mercury wants Moody
and Ssnkey. By all means Trim.
be, the old sinner, should have them Tor
his own salvation.
The Philippi Plaindeater says: 1--WE
eat no mans bread, but pay for all we
buy and sleep without any fear of sher
ifs or constables." Happy Gall.
OUR "devil' issued last weeks paper
We are able to write some for him this
week.-Ujrt County Mentor. The
"deviP beats the "lord' of the Monitor.
"FoR the bed is shorter than that
man can stretch himself on it; narrower
than that he can wrap himself in it,
was the text of minister in Wellsburg
last week.
THos. HENDERSON, stabbed by John
Lsmbdon, at Grafton, is dead. Lamb
don has been committed by the Justice
for trial in the Circuit Court of Taylor
county, for murder.
THE success the Murphy movement
is seriously affecting the business of some
Of the saloon keepers, and their cussing
is more direct and searching than when
business is good.-PdrkersbUry Sentinel.
A BULGARIAN monk, wearing long
black gown, long hair dangling down
his shoulders, and cardinal skull cap,
has been doing Parkersburg. Some
think him fraud.
Mr. john LOVE accidentally stepped
into one of the ranges at the Hope salt
furnace, one day last week, scalding his
foot and leg severely. He got painful
rsst.-Massn County Journal.
The Mountaineer has gone into eplip.
tic commissions over full blooded Indian
pony that passed through Hinton the
other day, and attracted about as much
attention rs an ordinary one horse show
would have done.
SHERIFF HALLAM departed for
Moundsvile last Monday with Henry
Goodwin and Ben. Hyson, convicted at
the late term of the Circuit Court for lar
ceny. Neither ono of the boys Is over
eighteen years OF age-Ritchie Gazette.
WE are informed that q little child
about five or six years old of Mr.. Nc
Knight of Jackson Furnace, on Thurs
day morning, while its step-mother was
after bucket of water, got up (she hsv-
ing left it in bed aslesp) and by some
means got its clothes burnt off. Death
relieved its sufierings in a few hours
Mason County Journal.
"WEDNESDAY last little girl about
seven years Of age. daughter of DIR. Ed
ward McMan, who resides near Gap
Mills, vss drowned. The child tell from
fence into small stream of water, with
its face downward, heavy rail at the
same time falling upon the back of its
neck, which it was unable to remove
Border WatchmGn.