The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-22
STATE NEWS.
CHE Kanawha Jail is guarded.

TIE Kanawha Jail is guarded.
.JupoK FERGUSON is lecturing on tenn
perance.
THE Sistersville wooden mills are in
full blast.
TIE Berkeley Springs postofice has
been enlarged.
THE Putnam Democrat Will be one
year old on the 25th INST.
TO-DAY is corporation election day at
Winfield, Puman county.
Tax public school exsminsten begun
in Wellsburg yesterday.
PROF LEON, tight rope performer,
has been at New Martinsvllle.
VOLUNTEERS militia companies are
spring,ng up all over the State,
The financial condition OF Mounds
Vile is said 10 be in good shape.
DALLAS. Marshall county, was visited
by heavy frost, last Friday night.
Tax Charleston Courier says: Not
single sttachee of this office uses tobacco
TEE Clarksburg council will entertain
the doctors on the evening oil the oOlh.
THE Winfield NJ. +. Church, South,
will soon indulge in strawberry ieSti-
val.
THE Huntington Advertiser snnousces
that Miss Chattle Everett is the belle oil
Guyandotte.
DR.. SCOTT, of the University, will
sever his connection with tLst institution
at the close of the present year.
THE Wellsbureh Presbyterians have
excused their pastor preaching more
thsn one sermon any Sabbath during the
summer months.
Cot. FERDINAND II. HAssLER, OF
Jackson cout ", is spoken OF Tor 'he
Surveyor Generslship OF Dakota, with
good chances Of getting It,
THERE is to be grand picnic, tourna-
ment md ball at st. Adams, on the 24th
inst. Speeches will be made by Con
gresham kenna and Others Charleston
Courier.
The State JVu1WaL turns pious and
AXIS, WHY don't our friends in the country
districts lnsugurste the Murphy move
ment? Are there no drinkers TO reform,
no boys TO be saved there?
A NUMBER of Gipsies passed through
town one day last week; they had some
six or eight wagons and several spare
horses with them. Look out Tor tho no
msds.- ClarEsJerg Ns'os.
The MsrtnsbuIg Statesman says tina
there are no criminal cases on the
Berk.ly court docket the present term.
This seems incredl BILE as 1t Is reported
that Tbimblerigger is still running al
lsrge.-State JouTmal
The Richie Democrat, so far, is the
only paper in the State
which tavors the law compelling
bows to work upon the roads. The Home
Nj issionsry Society should turn It's eyes
in the direction of Richie county,
State Journal
TIE Clsrksburg Ne'rs says: The miners
of the Wakeman, or Murphy Run Coal
mines, struck for higher wages on last
Thursday morning. The company and
miners both seem determined to carry
their point and time alone will decide
the matter.
A BRIDGE belonging to the Mononga-
hels Gas Coal Company at Wilson,
burg, crossing n small ravine, was
DESTROYED by ire Saturday night. The
fire caught from some burning brush
Sunday the company put In new
bridge, and work went on as USUAL
Garksburg NeIcs.
We clip from the Charleston Co"ricr
the following: Hon. James Il. FergG-
son ard Hon. John f. kenns will speak
on the capital question ~ the follow
plaG rs and times: Calhoun {. H.. May
29th; GiImer g. II June LIST; W "-tou,
June 4th; Braxton &. II. June S.h; Men
Olss q. II, June 18th.
The intelligent editor of the Moan
taneer informs suffering humanity tia.
1.-The Weston Democrat has losHt into the
European war business extensively, go
ing so tar rs to map the grounds OF the
conflict, locate the Back Sea and give
an imaginary scale of distances" When
did the Democrat event in the busl-
ness2
BILL BRIGGS, colored, seventeen years
OF age, was committee TO jail last Satur-
day, on n warrant sworn out by George
A. Gillespie before Justice King, OF the
Scott district, charged, to use the Ian
gusge of the document itself, with com.
hitting the "detestable and sbonable
crime against nature, by having carnal
intercourse and population with beast.
to-wlt: with heifer.'-Putnam Demo-
crdt.
MRS. JANE PACK, wife Of James Pack,
living on Bluestone, in the Jumping
Branch district OF this county, was burnt
TO death one day last week. The particu-
lars, so far As we can learn, are as FOL
lows: Mr.. Pack, her husband, had gone
on: to milk, leaving his wife in spRaT.
ent good health. When he returned she
was living in the fire in the sgcnies Of
death. She was subject tn fits, and 1t Is
supposed she fell in the fire during one
OF these fits.-MOuRtdin Herald.
TUT rEUSCnPA CONVENTION