The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1877-08-25
STATE NEWS.
- Fort Cay is to bavG a locku r.
- Charleston has had q baby show.

~ was SuCGCte'
Every county in the Slate gave
some votes for Charleston.
Wheat is producing from twenty
to twcnty.six bushels pc: acre through.
out the State.
- Tho MuTphys have not yet reach
cd PIT. Pleasant, anil the cdito. Of the
Register is in grief.
- lion. W. II. II. Flick has so far
recovered from his recent Illness as 20
be able to travel.
The levy for Wood county for this
year has been fixed by the court at rs
ccn!s on the Sl0O.
The Piedmont Independent is no
more n "patcnt outside sheet. 1t is
wholly printed at home.
- The Berkeley Light Guards have
been mustered out by Gov. Mathews.
--Mtr'iHLury Independent
The Hampshire County Court, at
its fiscal term last week, feed tue
ley at so cents per $500.
= Two years ago Parkcrsburg cast
GO votes against the school levy; last
election there were only 8 against levy.
- The city levy of purkcrsburg has
been fixed for the current year at 90
cents aud tue tithablcs a. s. each.
DIR. W. ". Corlcr was Kicked
by horse on the 18th Of August, and
died onthc evening Of the 18th.
The Wayne -llrocatc tells of a
pcGch measuring eleven and OnG.haIf
inches in circumference.
= Tho Ritchio Democrat tI,usIy con,
solcs itself over the Capital election {:
a. 1t isn't much to be State Capital
anyway"
The Hest TT'yiaia Journal has
a cut of a cannon ut the head Of its
editorial columns in honor OF the re.
cent election.
The people Of Upshur arc ugita-
ting the question Of extending the
Weston Narrow Gaagc from Weston
to BuCkhannOn.
- Tho District Conference of the
Moorciiell district, Methodist Episco.
pal church South, will DO held at Bur.
Iington, West Virginia, September 4.
MIR. D. B. Easlcy, editor Of the
Fayetteville Enterprise, was elected
County Superintendent Of Free Schools
for Faycttc county, on tho 7th inst.
= Huntington has organized a
Grccnback Club. At meeting the
other night it was addressed by CO.
Speaker Eustaco Gibson.
l
Kiugwool is organizing mill !.
tary company. Preparing in time to
suppress strikes on the KiugwoOd, Nor
guntown and function railroad. Ran.
3O!M Enterprise.
| Mr.. Martin Bruckcn, one Of the
miners employed at the Franklin mines,
had his leg broken OH Tuesday, by a
large quantity Of coal falling on him.
-Piulmon! Independent.
The Theological Institute Of the
u. i. Church, ParkcGsburg District,
will convene at PeunsbOro on tho 4th
Of September, 1877, aud will held in
session six aud half days.
Ez-Julgc James II. Brown, Of
Charleston, occupies a vast amount Of
space 10 tho Journal to convince the
people that he has a biblical right 10
drink Intoxicating beverages when and
where he pleuscs.
"A. L. Stevens anu John Wiscmcn
while gathering hpck!ebcrrics last
Tuesday on Little Mountain near Gap
Mills, came upon colony Of snakes, Oh
which they Immediately opened an nj.
tack with clubs. The result orthc
battle was sixty three coppcrhcuds ard
Iont raiilesuako dead on tho Geld, -
Monroe County Register.
We yield tAc " SAalS 5clt 10
the Monroe county Register as it tells
the following snake yarn. Great cx.
citcmcut prevails on Rich creek from
the appearance Of Il monster snake said
10 be about seventeen feet in length,
and round in proportion. Mr.. Cape
McNeer, scme of the Flcshmaus, and
others, arc reported to have seen the
monster last week rushing with crush
ing force through the bushes on its way
down Peters Mountain to lap the tide
Of Rich creek. Our unsopAisticutcd
reporter tells US it is thought to be eli.