The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-21
STATE NEWS.

WAS suSNNSe"
EVERY county IN the State gave some
votes for Charleston.
WHEAT is producing from twenty to
twenty six bushels per acre throughout
the State.
The Murphys have not yet reached
Pt. Pleasant, and the editor OF the Re9's-
ter is in grief.
Hon. w. II. IL. FLICK has so far re
covered from his recent illness as to be
able to travel.
TIE levy for Wood county for this
year has been fixed by the court at ioc
on the 800.
TIE Piedmont independent IA no more
a "patent outside sheet. II Is wholly
| printed ut home.
THE Berkeley Light Guards have been
mustered out by Gov. Mathews.-Nor-
ti,ssburg independent.
THE Hampshire County Court, at its
fiscal term last week, fixed the levy at
30 cents per 800.
Two years ago Psrkersburg east 90
votes against the school levy; last election
there we're only 3 against levy.
TIE city levy OF Parkersburg has
been fixed for the current year at 80
cents end the tithsoles at 81 each.
The Richie Democrat thusly consoles
| itself over the Capital election: at isn't
much to be u State Capital anyway
THE West Virginia Journal has a cut
of cannon ut the head Of its editorial
columns in honor of the recent election.
The people of Upshur are agitsting
the question of extending the Weston
Narrow Gusge from Weston to Buck
| harmon.
The District Conference of the Moore
field district, Methodist Episcopal church
South, will be held at Burlington, West
Virginia, September 4.
LEWIS county, at the recent election,
gave majority in favor OF subscribing
to the capital stock OF the Weston and
West Fork railroad.
Mr. ID. B. EAsLEY, editor of the Fay
etteville Enterprise, WAS elected County
| Superintendent OF Free Schools for Fay
cite county, on the 9TH inst.
The views on the Capital question pro-
mulgated by the Writ county Mentor,
were buried beneath majority OF 387 of
the honest voters of Writ.
JACKSON county mas made an appro-
pristlon Of 81, 800 towards building fire.
proof offices for the clerks Of the circuit
and county courts. This Is q good idea.
KISGwOoD is organizing 3 military
company. Preparing in time to suppress
strikes on the Kingwood, Mornsntown
and Tunnelton railroad Randolph En-
teTpriSe.
Mr. MARTIN BRACKEN, one Of the
miners employed at the Franklin mines,
mad his leg broken on Tuesday, by large
quantity OF coal falling upon him.
/ Piedmont independent.
The Theological Institute of the U.
B. Church, Psrkersburg District will
convene At PonnsbOro on the 4th of Sep
TENDER. 1877, and will hold in session six
and halt days.
Ex-JUDGE JAMES H. Brown, of
/ Charleston, occupies u vast amount of
! space lI lllt DOtt' it'At " Npu IlNO IuV pCO-
pie that he has biblical right to drink
intoxicating beverages when and where
he plesses
A Il. STEVENS and John WIsemen,
while gathering huckleberries last Tues
day on Little Mountain near Gap Mills,
came upon a colony of snakes, on which
they Immediately opened an attack with
! clubs. The result of the battle was sixty
three copperhesds and one rattlesnske
dead on the tield.-MonrOe County Reg
! iSter.
WE yield the "Snaix" belt to the
Monroe county Register as ii tells the
following snake yarn. Great excitement
prevails on Rich creek from the appear
| ance of y monster snake said TO be Sbout
/ seventeen feet in length, and round IN
proportion Mr.. Cape McNeer, some of
the Fleshmans, and others, are reported
to have seen the monster last week rush
! ing with crushing force through the
bushes on ITS way down Peters Mountain
to lap the tide of Rich creek. Our I'M
sophisticated reporter tells Us it is
! thought to be either an "andiconnell'
! (anaconds) or ,bo!tlnstructure" (boa
CONSTRUCTOR serpent, and to have escaped
| from travelling menSgerie.