The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-24
STATE MATTERS.

N hksS.
CHICKEN thieves in Morgsntown.
TUE Republicans of Monroe have or
ganized.
PAKKERsBuRe came near having fire
last week.
The Courier is rampant in some Of its
Capital editorials. 49,.
THIEVES are stealing water-barrelsln
Charleston.
BASE ball is freely INDUCED in al the
University.
PORTLAND is tull Of deputy poor mas
tiers.
K1Nawoop has literary society that
boasts of being very aged.
The peaches around Psrkersburg are
killed by the frost.
THx Kingwood people indulge in re-
form mite socities.
UNION, Monroe county, is suffering
with the Murphy fever.
FAIRMoNT is wsilIng over the nom
appearance of increase.
Wv. HoGE has been admitted 10
practice in the Marshall county bar.
SEVERAL persons are seeking the COM
misssryship Of the State PenItontiary'
Tax Agricultural Works in Mounds
vile are in full blast. So also s the blast
furnace in that place.
I{CALEB L JOHNSON, of Union, Menroe
county, started cast last Saturday, with
lis at hogs.
Ia. THATCHER, the star smateuer
,ragedisn of Keyser, has gone to an sSo
clerksbip il Washington, ID. Z.
THE Fsirmont evil doors, says the
Ildeg, do not fee rs in ye olden times.
The grand jury used to run 'em.
The bridge over Cheat river at Al
brightsville, has been destroyed by q
heavy wind storm.
CHARLESTON has mechanical wonder
in the shape of Willie Barr, son of Rev.
C. Barr, Presbyterian preacher in
that place.
The merchants and business men OF
Morgantown are taking steps to get an
appropriation for the lock and dam at
that place.
The senior class of the State Univer-
sity have adopted the following as their
class motto: "A posse ad esss. -"From
possibility to reality"
II reported that Messrs. j. B. Bough-
ton and II. Lindsey, formerly OF this
State, have struck silver lode in Colo
RADIO that will pan out" well.
THE WEIGH school house. situated near
Chest river, about one mile and hall
above St. joe. was destroyed by fire last
Monday night.
ABOUT four o'clock p. NJ, on the 18th
inst, John Moore a resident Of Wetzel
county, and formerly an employee OF the
b. IL o road, was killed near Broad
Tree tunnel.
THE dwelling of Mr.. Alpheus w.
Duvsll, SITUATED about three miles north
west of Kingwood, was destroyed by fire
or Friday morning OF last week be-
tween II and l O'Clock.
The Sentinel SAYS: The Congregation
of the Trinity p Z, Church hold serv-
ices in the Court house temporarily. The
lew church will probably be built, or
cUmmeaCed at least, this season.
WE are informed by VIM. Urice, Of
Cabin Run, that sow belonging TO John
Thrush, gave birth to eighteen well
formed pigs at one litter. Five of them
subsequently died, but the balance were
then doing weli.-KevseT Tribune.
ALECK MCGUFFIN, colored, who has
been confined in Raleigh county Jail,
charged with stealing razor and some
small change, has been convicted and
sentenced to the penitentiary for two
yesrs.-HHtOn Herald.
On Wednesday morni ng::of La. week
the shoemaker shop of Mr.. Cole Kerr.
on Main street, was catered by forcing
window in the rear of the building,
and valuable pair of boots stolen there
from. The loss was not discovered for
several days. No suspicion. - hder.
&. W. STEWART, who shot and
wounded John NJ. Nine on the 9th of
night by Sheriff Ford and d. R. jackson
and lodged in the county Jail, 1t being
shown, previous to the arrest, that Stew
arts bOndsmen would not be able to pay
the amount called for by the bond in the
event of his disappesrance.-Kngaoood
HeTdtd.
THIS is the way the State Journal
speaks OF dishonest officers: "Some three
or four years ago certain constable of
this county collected small bill for the
!St0te JO,sTndi, but has, thus tar, failed to
pay it over. Unless he performs that
little service within the next thirty DAYS,
we shall give his name to the public. We
believe, IN the interest OF the civil SER
vice, in puncturing that kind oL officials.
TIE Charleston Courier says of three
young pr!L tiers who have gone from that
plsce On a tramplng tour: Charles B.
Webb, jr, Walter Scott Webb, snd
Wilmer Estill printers, and industrious
young men with Al regulations Tor
solidity and honesty, left the city last
Tuesday 20 seek their fortunes. They
fioated oa down the river in boat they
fitted up, and are provided with means
OF carrying u little something until they
can find place where there are fewer
printers or more money in circulstlou.'