The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-18
STATE NEWS.

IL growing uneiy.
CHARLEsTowN, Jefferson equity, Is VI
wears old next October.
FoRr GAY, Wsyr county, is suffering
with the whooping-cough.
The railroad law has just been printed
in the Shepherdstown Register.
A COMPLAINT against the postmaster
at Nestorvile has been sprung.
THE Savings Bark of Shepherdstown
elected officers on the 10Th inst.
The fiscal term of the Jefferson county
court commences next Monday.
A. G. SNoDGRAss has been sworn IN
as deputy clerk of Wetzel county.
J.H. GROVE delivered Grange ad-
dress at Kerneysville last Monday
THE Clarksburg Telegram got out on
a sheet last week. Grafton Times.
PROF. MARTIN gives q panoramic
show in New Martinsville on the l7th.
inst.
ID. CAMDEN, spoketh to the Philip
Plans last Thursday on the capital loca-
ton.
The Phillip Temperance Union was
addressed on Tuesday evening by l.. L.
Baron.
NEW MARTINsvILLE has secured the
iron work for new bridge over the
creek at that place.
THE final examination of Broaddus
Female College will take place during
the first ten days Of June.
THE Huntington -AdOertiser came out
in mourning last week in respect to MAJ.
w. ). Downer, its late editor.
The first number OF The Telephone was
is ued from the Clsrksburg Telegram
Office Tuesday, the 18th inst.
THERE fsmily of four members
residing at Pola, Hanawhs county, whose
combined age ages aggregate 343 years.
JOHN Q. ADAMS Is keeping an ice
cream saloon and restaurant in Hunting
ton. o. We departed shades oil great
menl
The Huntington Cornet Band are
making rapid progress, and will make
their debut before the public IN few
weeks.
WEare store containing country
news, which we are retailing, because we
cant Wholesale just now.-Hmt"tgfon
AdrerttSer.
A LARGE acreage of corn has been
planted in Ksnswhs county, and report
SAWS wheat looks well and promises an
abundant yield.
The Free Press and the Shepherds
town Register are INDUCING in tilt OF
brain daShing articles upon soap IN each
others brain pans.
OUR MAYOR arrested an Individual
one night last week, for trying to break
no y barber shop. He was arrested by
writ of "snatchem ketchem. "-ShepherdS
torn Register.
BARBOUR county will soon have the
most secure Jail in the State. Capt.
Wsl:sr. OF the West Virginia peniten.
tiary. ia now putting it in order.-Bar-
bour .Ie1ersonian.
The Wayne idrocate man Ia getting
desperate. Read what he says: ave
are Just ready to die of envy To- see eleven
or eight small sized newspapers come to
the For. Gay postotiice."
The Council passed Ill ordinance on
Monday night forbrdding hogs to run ut
large after May 18th, but we have not
seen the ordinance and can't tell whether
i applies to country hogs as we'll AS town
hogs and other iolKs.-Tas Messenger.
A BARGE laden with the heading cut
by Walker Bros, on Pigeon, arrived
Tuesday morning, and barge of slaves
from J. Wiskoa, at the tails of Tug. Also
tour or five small RATS of poplar from
different points on Tug.-Wayne Adro
cate.
ONE day last week, two children liv-
ing on Kinchcloe were digging IN the
ground wilma msttock, when one bent
forward, with its head under the de-
scending tool, which struck 1t on the
head, crushing the scull and killing it
MISUNDERSTANDING Telegram.
LAST Wednesday night, Rosa, daugh-
ter of DR.. Swetman, attempted suicide
by tae use of morphine. Medical aid
was summoned, and she has now about
revived from the effects OF the drug.
Cause, love matters, which are said to be
in a fair way of Adjustment Wayne
AdrOcatc.
AN act OF the Virginia Legislature,
passed in October, l7S6, is the origin OF
Charlestown, this State. The exact day
the passage of the act does not appear.
II was passed, however, in October, at n,
session which commenced on Monday
the sixteenth day of that month, and
may be found in 18th Herrings Statutes
At Large, page so.
A CoLoRED woman living near Adams
vile, this county, gave birth to n child
on Saturday last, and put it in box on
some rags and placing another box over
it resumed her work. Suspicious were
aroused, and search made resulting in
the finding of the child, being the mother
of which she for Il time strongly denied,
bat finally owned up. 1t is not known
what her intentions were in thus conceal
ing il. She is married, but her husband
and herself have lived apart for two or
three years. Iarksburg Telegram.