The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-23
STATE MATTERS

TIE Clifton Are brick works are IN
blast.
: KrYsER CITY has bad case OF smar
pox. --------------.
HEAVY frosts las. week in, Mason
county.
H1sToN and vicinity have been cooled
by frost and snow.
THx Moundsville Reporter has de-
clsred for Clarksburg.
THE pubic schools in MoundsViiie
will close in early June.
THE Nsw Dominion comes out IN
new spring dress.
Interesting temperance meetings are
being held in Moundsville.
THERE are more than three thousand
school houses in this State.
THE Hancock County Courier has be-
gun on Its ninth volume.
CLARKsBURa complains of super
abundance of tramps.
CLAKKsBURG lie suffering from The dep
relations OF thieves.
THE Jackson Herald has been revived
under the management OF d. b. BishoP.
TEE Wellsburg Society Library asks
books of those who feel disposed to give.
so. TAYLOR has been admitted to
prsctice law in the Marshal County
Courts; also Mr.. Dunlap.
FIVE saloons will be closed in New
Cumberland on May LIST. The Murphys
did it.
Two HUNDRED AND TEN names nave
been added to the temperance pledge IN
New Martinsvilie.
Ex.JUpaa LOOMS, of Petersburg,
hiss formed law copartnership with L.
w. Tavener, OF Hsrrisvilie. .-r
THE Point Pleasant Register gives Q
nalf column article on the reason why II
should not be- $l.5O paper.
CAPT. GILBERT GOULD, Of Upshur
county, is dead, aged ninety-eight years.
one month and twelve days.
BUcKHANNoN has q literary society
which gives interesting and entertaining
performances.
THE Kanawhs Gazette says there is
row indications of large peach crop IN
that sectiou this year.
MEARN's farm, some where in Brax-
ton county, claims 10 be centrally located,
and desires the Capital moved there.
TIE hub factory in Charleston, is
making large shipments OF locust and
sycamore hubs to the western markets.
CAPT. W. II. TURToN contemplates
building and running boat il the Char
lesion and Pittsburgh trade.
A GIRL, aged fifteen, while engaged in
burning brush, few miles from Parkers-
burg, caught fire and was burned to
death.
THE Quinnimont Iron Furnace has re-
sumed operations, and with n capacity
for forty tons daily, is summing out from
twenty-five to thirty tons.
TIE woods near Charleston caught
fire on last Sunday, but was extln.
gulshed before doing any material oam-
age.
THR Mountaineer has had new head
nut on it, The head is somewhat out OF
proportion for the sheet, but 1t will grow
in body.
THE Wellsburg School District will
hold an election the first Monday In May
for the purpose of Electing Board OF
Education.
MAD DOGS are becoming numerous
around Point Pleasant. Already about
tiity have been killed in that neighbor-
hood.
SOME unknown party or parties tried
break open the Clarksburg jail, Wednes-
day night. The parties we're frightened
away without ettecting an entrance.
WE hear it limited that Mr.. j. T. Har-
ris. formerly OF the Gazette, will engage
in the newspaper business again shortly.
He is good writer.-Ritch,e Gazette.
A BAND OF gipsies have been camping
at The fording tor several days, and have
been visited by number OF young per
sons to have their fortunes" told
.Moundsritie Reporter.
WESTON has an amateur troupe, which
gave IN entertainment last week. The
Democrat Says the troupe displayed
great deal of talent. Something strange
for an asylum town.
Coal thieves have been visiting the
coal bank belonging to the asylum at
Weston. One of the thieves lost his sack
the other night, which fel! into the poses
sion OF DR.. Camden.
THE new Town Council of Wellsburg
has determined to do away with lamps
and leave the weary foot sore pedestrian
in the dark Some of the worthy Coun-
Gil desire digging up the posts and SELL
Ing the holes.
The residence and outbuildings on the
farm of James Hewitt, Esq., situated in
Grant district, Hancock county, w. Va.
were destroyed by fire Wednesday
afternoon of last week. The fire origi-
mated from burning SCOT falling on the
roof.
RJoHN w. POWELL, postmaster at
Boothsville was convicted of felony, in
tampcrins with the mails, in the United
State. Court, held in ClaIksburg last
week, and sentenced 10 pay fine OF one
dollar and be confined in the peniten-
tiary Tor one year.
A CANADIAN firm are endeavoring 10
get an order filled in Charleston, w. Va,
for 2OOO,OOO feet of sawed lnmber, to be
used for lock gates on the Wellsnd canal.
The order was sent South on account of
the great dimensions Of some OF the
pieces, there being no trees sufficiently
large for the purposein Canada.
A PLEAsANTs county school teacher is
pazz ed to tell which contains the most
psnes of glass, q sash with three lights
one way and five the other, or five lights
one and three the other. In order to
settle this important question, he should
throw each sash down, and deliberately