The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-28
STATE NAVE

before you nre. dos U WORTHLESS soieie'
who wastes hs ammunition.
STATE NEWS.
MARION o. UNITY has bad roads.
40 cholera prevalent in Mason
county
PorAro bugs have appeared in Lewis
burg.
MuaPHrrsM still holds the fort 10
Parkersturg.
THs Murphy movement has been In
susursted AZ Rsvenswood.
THE men IN the Grafton shops have
been put on Ave days time.
NUxBEx of the State papers we're
out on The Lalf sheet last week.
CLAkK>BUs q wants her streets prop
erly named abd houses numbered.
TIE Moundssille reporter 81 tered
upon is eighth volume last week
WoRK has been suspended IN the Can
Melton coal mines, KsLswsa county.
HEAVY shipments OF Coal are being
made over the Chesapeake anu Ohio rail
road.
COLONEL ScHLEY, of West Virgins,
Il An applicant Tor the Commission ership
OF Agriculture.
SoMg sort of q change is to be made in
the Buck bsnnon Bqnner shortly. How
would new head piece do!
VIM EDWARDS Was severely injured
bv u tall from y frame binding on last
Friday sw State G. ito.
AT MIDDAY GA SUNDAY last. the Their.
mom.ter nd,ca,ad l08 degrees in the
shade Barbour J f rsoniaa.
Ao,,L miner by the name Of John
w. levin. was drowned In the Valley
X yer, at PhlilIpp', last Thursday.
TIE Writ county Mentor is edited by
Raw. VI. Wells THIS accounts for the
truth ulr ess ~ Of that sheet.
Sow HILL salt furnace, near Charles
ton, is again in operation. 1t is ,ns OF
the largest single furnaces IN the world.
THsRs will be no crops raised this
year by large number OF the ci,izens OF
Summers, Raleigh, Mercer and Wyom-
ing counties.
THE junior editor of the Iader has
got into trouble with brother editor OF
the West Hrginian. The capital question
brought 1t about. No blood lost.
The Clarksburg Tel gram gave vent
TO iis Billingsgste Vocabulary on the Cap.
i.ai QUESTION last week. But then yOa
know harrisburg wants tho Capital.
Our OF the forty three graduates turn.
ed out at the West Virginia University,
Q nee lis establishment, all have chosen
{ = professions, save four, who have gone
to farming.
IHE Iiue for voting upon the railroad
subscription TO the Weston and West
Fork railroad, by the people OF Clsrks.
burg, subscribing $40 0OO stock to the
srd railroad. has been postponed until
the l2sh day Ct June.
THs Ne,o Stat. @ .zette says that Wild.
ow Hammvnu's residence, about three
mi .es IRON Moundsville, was totally de
stroyed bg FIRE on last Thursday. Very
libIiC Va thO uou~Cd''h WoS
saved. Loss about 500.
WE are informed that Mr.. Perry
Bowers. Of this place, while out hunting
last Saturday, killed monster black
s.ske, measuring in length eight ieet
aud eleven inches, Coming within one
inch OF being nine feet l1ng.-Rest Vr
gtn'an.
TIE Dix Worthington suit, at Keyser,
has been sppesled BY the defence up to
the Circui. Court. The point was thai
one OF the jurymen was Intoxicated dur
my the trIa wh Oh was found to Do the
fact and he was fled $40 Tor contempt
of Court.
TIE Ksnsuhs Gazette says: Deputy
Marshal Burl.w writes from Raleigh
county It L. y d hcuit ma ter TO Had the
mon against whom hp holds warrants for
m aking corn whisky without paying the
revenue tax. Tney have I'D to the
"uouutaius."
TEE Fairmont Vest Virginirn tells Us
o. sune miraculous things, rs tue IoilOw-
! z viii show: "rne other day u boy
W.. H.hIny ~ the river, near this place
Q d in attempting to throw his hook and
/. into the water, he impal-d ON tue
hook 9 swallow, which was fym & through
the air c.ose by him ut the time
On Saturday last engine 1877, with
west brund freight, ran u the rear emo
OF forward train (also freig nt) drawn
by engine 72S, esst OF NJ. tunnel On
P.rkersburgb division. Two Cars took
fire aud were burned ana three other
were thrown over An emba kment No
one hurt Cir ftoa Ssnttn:I.
On Saturday night, q gentleman BY
the name OF Frazier, from Putt am
county, tell in with couple OF shsrpers
in tbs place, who pretended to be police,
took hi u 10 charge and marched him 10
Crooked Greek, where they took from
him bis pocketbook containing some
$40 or $50 and made way with it,
Point Pleasant Register.
TaE Ularksburg Telegram says: By
letter from Peel Tree We are informed
that some time since Mr.. NJ. w. CObun,
found hog belonging to him, in small
cave, which hog bad been gone thirty.
Sx days, and bad lost about one hundred
pounds in weight. 1. could get nothing
to eat except dirt, though water wss
plenty. UpoI being taken cut it could
-rc-ly walk, and reeied a. though
drunk
THE Point Pleasant Register says: A
bold attempt Was made To burn the house
o. Mr.. John Grover. on Wand street,
aboIt one o'clock last Thursday morning
A ire was built in two rooms, and the
four and walls saturated with carbon
oil, and Gre was also built under the
roof at the hatch hole. Considerable
damage was done TO the building, and if
the fire had gotten under Roadway snfi-
Gent to burn the building. the .Hne resi-
dances of Messrs. Smith, Tom!inson and
would have been destroyed |