The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-04
arArE MArTERs.
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eTHr citizens of Charleston are lu1ur-

The AOundsville Literary Associs'ion
has bean incorporated. ,.a.
MeuNpsvrLLs will soon participate IN
amunicipsl election.
BUTTER thirty cents a pound in New
Cumberland.
WYLLsBURa is without . beer saloon.
What has happened? aa
HARRISBURG was delighted with the
Mendelsshon Quintette club.
FIVE large brick buildings are under
construction in Petersburg.
PUTNAM county Is to have three wells
sunk in search O. oil this summer.
PITTSBURGH parties have leased the
Lazear coal works. near Wellsburg.
THE Baptist College at St. Adams,
Kanawhs county, is said to.be in pros
porous condition.
The free school teachers of kanswhs
county, will hold an institute IN st.
Adams, July 2nd.
The authorities are striving to have a
daily mail run between Ravenswood and
Jackson y. II.
TIE Jackson Herald wants good
boy-one that will stsy-to learn the
trade.
The Times Gazette reproduces a three
column epistle from its patron saint
Peter Cooper.
Mr.. 0. A. LowARY has the contract OF
carving q tri.weekly mail from Oak
Run to Wellsvtlle.
EVERY boy eighteen years of age,
under the recen. road law, Is bound 70
work county roads.
The reservoir at the penitentiary has
been completed. 1t is very substantial
structure. -NeD State Gazette.
Mrs. w. u. WALKER has been talk
ing temperance to the New Cumberland
ties.
The PhiLl,ppi P'a,ndeatcr says: There
was al Encanpment Lodge OF ODD Eel
lows organized here on last Saturday
night.
Rev. j. q. BAEs, Presbyterian minister
of Charleston, Is preaching series OF
sermons to the young people OF his con-
gregatlon.
The third quarterly meeting of Man.
chester circuit, Methodist church, Will be
held next Saturday and Sunday Han
cock County Independent
A LARGE temperance meeting was in.
dulged in by the citizens OF Parkersburg,
on the 18th ultiIno. Did it effect ORA
horseh?
A Miss AMERICA BUNYoN, tired OF
lie hanged herself in an old out house,
with her shawl, on Tree Fork of Sandy,
in Logan county. A man WAS mixed up
in the traglcal affair.
Mr.. HENRY Stout has piece OF
wheat on parchment, near this place,
that WAS knee high week ago and
and thick ard heavy In stand.-JGcksOn
Herald.
A WESTWARD bound express engine
over the g. u D. K. r., struck a man WHO
was sitting on trussel bridge near
Milton station, and injured him seriously,
but not fatally.
The new Board of Directors OF the
West Virginia penitentiary meet on the
10th of this month, when the election OF
q clerk and commissory will occur
NeU State Gazette.
KEGLEY and Saunders, two revenue
officers, were fired upon by illicit distill-
ers, near Hinton. Saunders was wounded
IN the abdomen, which Is thou hit to be
fatal. Kegley was shot in the thigh.
We understand, with great pleasure,
that our old friend, Mr.. j. Hodgson. is
not dead, rs reported by the Public Led-
ger, of Philadelphia. lie is still sllve,
though enjoying feeble health Times.
Gazette.
The Tunes Gazette says: Brisk ship.
ping of grain is taking place just now.
For the last two weeks large quantities
o. wheat and corn arrived in our city
vi. the Ohio river for shipment east, via
lhe B. & D, railroad, producers awaiting
themselves OF the reduced freight rates OF
the road.
J. W. s., correspondent from Charles.
ton tor the Catholic Messenger, in let
ter to that paper, strongly urges the
necessity OF permanently iOcatlnS the
Capital a. Charleston. j. w. S. is a
we'll known Catholic priest of the Third
district.
The semi annual report of the Hospi.
tai for the Insane shows the number OF
patients treated in that institution during
the past SIX months to have been Asa.
Number admitted 81, number discharged
80, leaving 424. OF this number Is are
coiored There are 2Sl males, and 1873
females.
The young man who helped his
uncle. Mr.. Cleves, of Hardy county,
West Virginia, count his money, and
continued counting until he reached
Danviile, Illinois, has been arrested at
the latter place, where, also, there is =
charge of larcel y against him.-Cumber-
land Md, Nelos.