The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1877-02-10
state News.

q jail.
Tho Supreme Court is expected t
begin its decisions the first of mex
week.
M. NJ. Rockhold will soon start
new paper in Spencer called the Roam
County Appeal.
The Uabell county pa1pcrs cos
S505 OF, according to the last repOrI
OF the Oyerseers.
Cholera is reported among The
hogs in the Pea Summit section Of Ca.
bell county.
-Morgantown, among other ills. is
burdened with the mumps and chicken
thieves.
Mrs. Holbrook Is the name Of
woman preacher in tho back districts Of
Wayne county. -
The manufacture Of alum salt will
soon DO commenced 10 the kanawha
saliues. II is said it can DO made
much more cheaply than common salt.
The Moundsyille colony to Texas
havc settled in Taunin county. from
tier county bordering on the Bed RlV-
er.
Tho Re& Frgtnian urges tho
Fairmont and Palatiue boys to unite
military company, and form one hun
dred strong.
William Bartram, a fifteen. yoar-
old boy living on Mill Creek, Wayne
county, was recently dragged to death
by q runaway mule attached 10 sled,
"A literary society down in Wayne
county recently discussed the weighty
question. (which is the most useful in
tue kitchen, the dishrag or the broom?'
The Fairmont West VlrSinidn re-
ports General Rufus Z. Fleming badly
injured by q fall. and Colonel Isaac
Holman, prominent citizen, danger
ously i'll from q paralytic stroke.
The Putnam Register elegantly
says: "West Virginia will have, 10
the next Congress, two Of the youngest
Senators in that body, aud both as full
Of snap and energy Hs dog is Of
fsas."
Timber ia the Ohio at the mouth
Of tho Guyandotte river is quoted as
follows With heavy sales: old poplar
10 to II cents per cubic foot, old short
oak 8 to 10 cents per cubic foot, old
walnut 90 to &c cents.
The Ciccronian Literary Society
OF Roanoke College hold their Ami.
versary Celebration on the night Of
Washiugton's birthday. Among the
com mitleemen we notice l. l.. Arga'
brite, Of Lewisburg. and c. II. Scott is
ono Of the debaters.
The Marion County Court ap-
poilted committee to take bids for q
new Jail. Proposals were received,
and Mr. Mayors bid accepted. The
Court thereupon declared that the
county could not afford the expense, and
have ordered the old shell to DO re:
repaired.
"A correspondent of the Courier
writes from Wheeling on Legislative
matters: "The moral Of all this is that
Kanawha ought to try for Blu. ouothing
at o tune. II she sends delegates here
to abolish the County Courts, move the
Capital, and cleo. themselves to the
Senate. sha may expect 10 be disaP.
pointed in part, if not altogether.
The Huntington AdUtrtiser tells
of Dr.. Jackson, who has been living 10
Milton for some time, and among other
accomplishments, teaches Sunday
School. He was discovered trying to
seduce q number Of bis scholars in bis
Office during tho week. He was threat.
sued with lynchiug, tried to commit
suicide with laudanum and prussic
acid, aud was then driven out Of the
town.
Sutton is getting inspired. The
Aourtaineer says: The protracted
meeting now going on in this place
bids fair to eclipse any effort Of the
kind ever made 10 this section Of the
country or elsewhere to our knowledge.
As it increases 10 volume aud interest
day by day and night after night, and
Judging from present indications, We
look for it to adjourn only after the last
sinner in the town and adjoining couu.
try shall have turned from tho error Of
bis ways.
The arrest Of Aleck Lewis, chicken
thief, recalls to the Parkersburg SEMI.
net. that some time ago Mr.. HCnder-
shot. Of Nelly & Co.. lost a number Of
chickens. Some Of bis brood had been
sick, and he was giving them as a
remedy, some poisonous medicipe.
Shortly after giving the poison nIedi-
cine, bis chickens were stolen, and in
day or two after that Alcck Lewis
father and brother werc taken sick and
died.