The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1877-09-08
State News.
St. Adams has a ghost.

Morgautown is troubled with
wifc.bCaters. String EN- up.
1t looks US if Morgau;Own will
have railroad in nbOut-ffty years.
Mercer county is suffering from
droughts.
Typhoid fever is raging in cpl
demic form III Roapc county.
- Richie coanty Jail has been empty
since last April. This speaks well for
Morris!
- The pOdlrilgc Bulletin is . new
paper started in this Stale at WCst
Union.
Wctzcl county levy is seventy
Eve ceuts Oh the cue huudred dollars
valuation.
Gen. T. NJ. Harris, former Pen.
sion Agent of this State, is located on
bis farm near Elarrisvillc.
Monroe county is free from debt,
yet she reduced tho salar;cp Of her
county officers.
- The Kanawha Wooden Mills sus-
pended operations Oh Wednesday for
six wccks.
James Il. Carroll has sold the
KiugEoOd Herald to Mr.. Il Clay
Hyde.
Now it is Hinton that is going
to organize military company. We
will soon have soldiers enough to 60
over the ocean and clean PIP Turkey.
- One hundred and niuoty.One
marriages have been celebrated in
Knnswha county since tho irst Of
January.
- Braxton county las had another
shooting affair, Thos Cogar shoots
Lair Pcrk:nG. CausC-Prrkins was O
little too Intimate with Cogar's wife
--AdOlphus Armstrong. Of Taylor
county, who had a difficulty with
james and Samuel BurddIt several
days ago, and was seriously injured 10
the ARRAY. lie is recovering from bis
injuries.
- We arc Informed that Miss Haiti.
JcI1crs, aged about 20 years, daughter
Of Wm. Jcflcrs, who resides Oh Thir.
teen Nile Greek, III this county, on
last Sunday evening shot herself With
n pistol in the right side, the ball pass.
ing through her body and coming gu,
on the left side. At last accounts the
young lady was lying in very critical
condition. Whether this shooting was
accidental or au attempt ut suicide We
urc unable to statc.-Pt. Pleasant
Register.
Adam ROhrbOugh, about twelve
ycars of age, was very seriously, il not
fatally injured on Wednesday last,
while out in the woods hunting. His
dog had "trccd" something in hollow
below him, aud be started on run tc
get there in time to kill it. As be was
defending the hill very rapidly, hU was
tripped by a grape vino and thrown
heudlong upon sharp suag, which
glanced uluoUg his breast bone until ii
struck the adOmcn when it entered tue
body, inaicting terrible wound.
The stick entered several inches, tear.
ing hole through The stomach and
colon. Ills chance for living is very
slight.-Fayetterille Enterprise.
A Romncy, W. Va, corrcspon'
dent Of the Baltimore Sun says: 1.-The
drOu!h in this immediate vicinity is un.
usually severe ; and in consequence
the corn aud other late crops will be
reduced to nearly one-hal! of what
they would have been had tha usual
summer rains fallen. Buckwheat in
many fields will not 20 worth harvest.
ing. Tho streams arc becoming dry,
and tho pastures arc turning brown.
Fruit is shrivelIug on tho trees, and
the prospect is not at all pleasant for
the farmers. The wheat and grass
crops, however. are excellent, and
this 10 some measure makes up for tue
loss Of the latter crops"
Together with tho many other
novel attractions of Hampshire county
it is IN possession Of q genuine hermit
10 the person Of Miss Susan Dew. She
has her home in the mountains, far
away from any other human habitatiou