The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-03-12
GRAFTON GRAPHICs.
COuft-social and Personal.
Special Correspondence OF the Register.

GOuFt-Social and Personal,
Special Correspondence OF the Register.
GRAFTON, March H.
OF all the pleasant things in this world
a ride from Grafton to Pruntytown ia the
most pleasant. The roads are unequslled
and the drive so delightful that the good,
tsx-psying citizens never growl, even
when they pay their toll. For psItry
800 revenue to the county, the people
OF Grafton have the pleasure of paying
$500.
Sweet Pruntytown, deaiest village OF the
county,
Where Justice is dealt out with an enor-
NOUS bounty,
Where frowning Armstrong, genial Mar
And suitors' by tho laws delays. their
pockets drain.
Sweet Pruntytown, thy days are num-
bered.
When OF thy court house and thy jail en-
BY the voices OF the people-thy death
knell rung,
Thou shalt die unmourned, unhonored,
and uusung.
Judge Fleming seems to be an untir-
ing worker and the people of the second
Judicial Circuit are TO be congratulated
for having 50 capable man to preside
over their courts. The numbers OF the
bsr are especially grstifed and although
| they have known him for but very
short tune as a judge, he has gained
their entire confidence. Some very in
tricate cases are awaiting his decision,
many that have been hanging fire for
wears, AMI to render correct decisions will
be sore trial for his judicial capacity.
Walter Ssndsbury, who was indicted
for the killing OF colored boy, Charlie
Walters, has been acquitted.
The greater portion of past week, in
the Circuit Court has been given TO the
consideration of the Will case OF John Nj.
Lake VS.. Elijah Linsels heirs, &c. This
case involves one of the finest farms. in
this section of the country, and has been
in the Courts for q number OF years,
three juries having failed to agree. The
will is contested on the ground of undue
influence and that the teststor WAS in q
semi-conatose condition at the time of
It's making. Messrs. Martin Il Woods
end j. w. Mason represent the plain
tifis. and Messrs. Samuel Woods, N
Cot, Jr, and McGraw the defendants
The arguments occupied the attention OF
the Court for two days.
William r., as worthless n man rs
walks the streets OF Grafton, who lives
and supports his family by the sweat Of
his brothers brow, for the want Of
something better TO do, simu-
lated madness and attempted TO
cut his wite's throat. Had it
been his own nobody would have cared
and the community would have been
thankful.
The social and festive season closed on
Shrovo Tuesday night with grand So
cal hop at the Grafton House Never
before in the history OF Grafton have as
| many bright faces and shining eyes
| danced to the gay music of the waltz and
schottishe. As the Washington Post
local item man said of the dancers ut n
Washington ball, l can say that "they
were foam. caps on the spray of schoL-
fishes, dew-drops glistening Oh the webs
OF wsltzes, flashes of feathery down
floating amid the pirouettes of poIkas,
cotton seeds csrelessly cast on the cara
coles of cotilions."
Mr.. Strauss, part owner and superin-
tsadent of tho furnaces at Ironton, has
almost completed his arrangements for
putting the furnaces in operation. Mr..
5. expects to give employment TO one
hundred and twenty men.
Mr.. John Bsssell was taken by sur
prise when he saw notice in the REGIS-
TER that his wife had died At Clarksbu
Mrs. Bassell is still living aad in good
health.
1t is rumored, with considerable Truth,
that fifty men are to be discharged by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
at this place this week j. l.. II.