The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-07

BUTTER twenty cents pound In rs
venswood. ......qc-
a HEAVY snow storm in Charleston,
last Tuesday night. l.'t
TIE Tyler Star publishes a young
folks corner.
BASS fishing is all the rage at Harpers
Ferry.
THr White Sulphur Springs will be
opened on the 10Th.
GRAFTON has changed the location OF
her postoffice.
THE strikes among the Kanawha
miners are ending.
The snow storm Of last Tuesday, WIS.,
tied all parts OF the State.
PIEDMONT has been visited by fire.
1t destroyed one building.
KINawooD has organized new liter
sry society called the Excelsior
A LARGE eagle made its appearance IN
Tyler county last Tuesday.
TIE Moreantowa High school will
close on the 9th of May.
THREE hundred persons have joined
the Murphy band in Morgsntown.
CHARLEs1oN groans under the heavy
tread of forty resident lawyers.
TIE young ladies of Mason City 60 in
search of wild flowers on Sunday.
The CIsrksburg papers own up that
they have bad set of young men.
LOCAL Poets are burdeping the county
papers with their prolonged illusions.
The fiscal term of the Jefferson Coun-
ty Court will convene on the 2lst inst.
THE citizens of Chsrlestown want
ligh. on the streets. The town Council
do not.
WIN. HOOP, living near Fairnont,
shipped fifty eight calves t. Washington
City, on last Monday.
REV. A. p BoUDE has been appointed
Presiding Eldef OF Lewisburg district,
NJ. 4. Church, South.
STATE editors have got the Capitol on
lis feet, and are tossing 1t from one TO
another all over the State.
A NUMBER OF candidates are looming
up in Sutton for the county superlnten-
dency OF schools.
Our column OF State nsws seems to be
appreciated, as quite q number OF our
State exchanges are reproducing 1t
BELLE MARTIN, q little girl in Pied
mont, was scalded to death recently by
falling into tub of hot water.
THE Temperance Union of Martins
burg propose holding concert on the
oath inst, Tor the benefit OF the Union.
THAT stabbing ARRAY in Grafton last
week, has made the "rOund" OF the State
press which is awaiting a second edition.
The Clsrksburg editors are happy.
They have been allowed to have Tree
access to the minutes OF the Town Coun-
Gil.
THE Medical Society of West Virginia
will hold its tenth annual meeting nj the
City Hall; IN Clarksburg, on the Both OF
May.
The Ninth Annual Sunday School
Convention, of Winfield district, Marion
county, will be held at Smithtown, on
the first of June.
THERE are two mail routes in Monroe
county to let. From Union to Red
Sulphur and from Centreville to Alder
son.
Mr.. JAS. w. WoFFINDEN, o. Weston,
has been examined by Judges Lewis,
Melvin and johnson, and admitted to
practice law.
The Buckhsnnon Banner has found
out new .eurlimecuc' way in which to
utilize the alphabet in "hsshing up It's
local news.
Mr.. q. 5. MILLER, of Freeman's Land
ing, was drowned ACCIDENTALLY in the
s toto river, near Chillcothe, on May
1t He leaves a wife and child.
Mr. Ii. s CooMBs, late proprietor of
the Continental Hotel, Fsirmont, com
miited suicide on last Monday light, by
taking morphine Carksburg Ne'cs.
A LITTLE girl living with Dr. Burwell,
of Ravens wood. WAS dangerously burned
by An explosion Of u coal oil can. 1t is
the old story OF kindling fires with coal
oil.
Rev. JOHN p. STRIDER, of Jefferson
county, w. Va, will deliver the address
before the alumni of Washington and
Lee University, at the close of the pres
ent session.
The Grccnjrier Independent says that
about four hundred pounds Of choice
bacon were recently stolen from the
meat house of Mr.. Samuel Tuckwiller,
three miles west OF Lewisburg.
Tag postoffice at Burgers Hill
Greenbrier county, is discontinued for
want of an applicant. Here is chance
for some one OF the legion of office
seekers.
A DEBATING society IN Hamlin, Lin
coin county, at its last meeting, discussed
the female suffrage question, and decided
that the privilege ought - be withheld
from the ladies. That let the Lincoln
girls out.
Rev. FRANK H. WEAVER, pastor of
st. PauIs Lutheran church here, left
last week for the far west TO take charge
of the new agency among the Ute In
dams, TO which duty he was recently APP
pointed by the U. 5. Government
Grafton Tunes
The Virginia Free Press says: We
have been favored by Mr. +. p. Lynch,
Deputy Circuit Jerk, with an exsmins-
ton If the commission OF the late Robert
4. Brown as Clerk o the Circuit Court
Of JEFF rson issued more than fifty ons
years ago.
A REVOLVING apparatus tor the exhi-
hilton of goods has been placed in the
show window of Major ketrsley's store
BY his son, M. George kessley. The
mechanical genius of Mr.. X. was deSel
oped by several years Of application in
the mechanical department OF the b. Il
.. r. R.-IUgiHia Free Press;
THE Poin. Pleasant Register says: On
the 25th ult., two children, daughter and
son of John Rose, colored. were PLAYING
at the river, on the ferry bost, both acct
dantsilv fail in and before assistance ar