The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-12
STATE NEWS.

MAY parties are talked Of In Charles
ton.
TIE grsngers have q store in Flickers-
vile.
TIE Charleston police have new uoi-
forms.
GRAFTON has organized Baptist Sun.
day School.
MARSHAL COUNTY wants her teachsrs'
salaries reduced. ., "a
The New Martirsvllle MesseDgsr will
be enlarged shortly.
= The t,rmers OF Mon gahela county
have finished planting corn.
THE Morgantown Post comes out fair
ard square ior Charleston.
THE Grafton Sntinel prints map OF
the seat OF war, good patent.
THF Ne'0 Dlminion Is reproducing the
Clarks 1urs Nsus capital editorials.
The Cbarles.on Free Press says West
Virginia is the y uns mems State.
The Weston minstrel troupe gave a
performance at Buckhannon this week.
On Friday, the 4th inst, seven more
convcls were handed over to Captain
Bridges.
PROSPECTS for large wheat crop in
Mason county was never better than it Is
at this time.
THE recent cold rains have materially
damaged the corn that has been planted
in Brooke county.
The people of Buckhannon lie around
o'nights aud stone their neighbors as they
90 home.
The Grafton Sentinel entered on its
eighth volume to-day. 1t has survived
the storms OF seven years.
The United States Grand jury, now
in session at charleston, has made one
hu.dred and thirly.seven indictments.
The editor of the Richie Gazette
who cannot read nor write E'glish, ac-
cuses US of abusing HIM in the Choctsw
tongue.-Ntw Dominion.
The Clarksburg Nsws and the West
Virgins Journal are edited by one and
each differ on the capital question.
WE are informed that about forty
English families WI arrive in this coun-
try in a short time and locate in the
vicinity of Hawks Nest.-W' Va. Jour
nGi
THE West Virginia Journal says: Mr..
Elijah Rookie, Esq, who lives in Maiden,
was in town for the first time since the
war, on Monday, making his third visit
in the last twenty years.
A WErzEL county Invalid is unable
10 do whole weeks work at any one
thing. So he works half the week at
msuiing rails and the other half at grub
bing,
TIE Vest Viryiuian reports tue pros.
pect Of bountlrul yield of wheat crop
in Marian county as very pro nising
From different points in Taylor county
We hear the same encouraging reports.
The Pun Honqie Mus informs the
pub ic that the reading room recently
Tilted up by the ladies of Wellsburc,
under the auspices of the Temperance
Union, was formally opened on Friday
evening last.
Mr.. B NJ. HANsHAw, of the firm of
Haushaw Il Bro, OF Grafton, was pain
fully injured at Piedmont one day last
week wAle assisting in putting out
fire in that unfortunate town.-GrGfton
S utlHei
An efcrt was made by some of the
citizens to bring Shsuktown into the
burg. but s'Ler Considerable feeling
around, il has been discovered to be
rather an unpopular movement, snd has
been ab.'d d"ned Tor the present.-Pan
HGnte News
AT au official meeting Of the members
OF St Pau's Lutheran church, Grafton,
on Sunday morning last 1t WAS decided
to extend TO Rev. w, l.. Remsburg, now
at Getty sburg, Pa, call to the psstoratc
OF the congregation here GRAFTON Sen.
uneL.
WHILE Mr.. James Houston was su-
perintending the rafting OF some logs
near Collins Ferry, n large piece OF
timber struck MIN in the side knocking
HIM dowo. He WAS picked up insensi.
bic and taken 10 house near by where
every attention WAS shown him H. was
feared that Sir. Huston was badly hurt,
but fortunately it proved otherwise, and
IN short time hs was taken home
Ncio Dominion.