The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-06
STATE ITEMS.

A. l.. MYERS, of WaynesburS, Pa, MSS
made an assignment in bankruptcy. Liza
bllities $4,000; assets 5000.
JOHN MoRRIssEY was characteristic 10
the last. "I'm running neck-snd-necK
with death, and rapidly firing" WAS one
OF his remarks toward the c.ose.
rhe sheriff and jailor of Grant county,
where Douglass, the murderer, was con-
fined, are severely censured for their ex-
treme carelessness by the Keyser papers
AT Aimes' sacred concert in Boston
last Sunday night, her song of pretty as
a Picture" was encored four times.
don't Tickle Me" was called for three
times.
TIE Grafton Sentinel learns that rev.
enue officers have been indicted IN Ran
dolph county, West Virginia, for "de-
stroying the property of private citizens
who set up unlicensed stills in the noun
tain Businesses of Randolph.
WE are bound to say Tor the Wheel
ing REGISTER, that it is q newsy paper.
Preston Journal.
The value of hoop poles, slaves, fiat
boats, log RATS and iron shipped from
Brsxton county the late tide is estimated
M Oh lTo,y.,Jyfrsag.
IT occurs to US that the Lowell indict-
ments in Wheeling for gambling are
about as full of blackmsll as a rotten egg
is OF stink-PdrkerSburg Sentinel.
MUM & SIMPSON have logs that will
make 100000 feet Of lumber ready TO
float down the creek-when the water
comes.-Ne,o MGrtinSvsLte Messenger.
GENTLEMAN in from the court try in
form, us that he had seen field of wheat
tba. was "headed" out. The Oldest 10
habltant never saw the bikes Of that"
on the first of May betOre.-Nea0 Mar
tin,uilte Messenger.
THERE are some very curious obituaries
published in the public prints nowadays.
A writer in w Wheeling paper, extoillng
the virtues OF a decedent says, among
other things, that "Mr. Robinson had the
reputation of being good judge Of iron"
-GreenJrier Independent.
WE like to see consistency in news
paper items and don't undeIstsn just
how the Inder can Say in one item That
nothing has happened during the past
week, and then just below say that some
body's "cow had been killed there being
no prospect Of her recoYery."-Ne'0 Mar
tinSUiLLe Messenger.
BEGINNING with the lst instant, Ii
censes for the sale of intoxicating liquors
were prohibited in Wood county, at
Parkersburg, w. Va. The dispatch con-
veying this information does not state
the condition of the river ierry-but,
good or bad, it will doubtless carry many
extra passengers TO Ohio.-CuD1Jeriand
NctOS.
The residence Of Walter Ebert was
entered by burglars Tuesday night and
about seventy-two dollars in money
taken from his pants pocket. His cloth
ing was taken from his sleeping room TO
the dining room and there riHed. He
thinks they concealed themselves in the
house during TIE day and waited until the
family were asleep. They went out by
the door, but a wondow was OPEN
C2arkYburg Telegram.
SINCE the work OF gettIrg out and
shipping iron ore to Pittsburgh furnaces
commenced, over three hundred tons
have been shipped, and the firm to whom
most all of it went, continue TO order Mt
the rate of three car loads day. We
learn last week they commenced using
the ore shipped from this place, in their
furnaces and from the continued demand,
it Is fair to presume the ore works we'll
The amounts taken out thus far aggrc-
gates about 40 tons daily; this pays teams
tiers 40 cents per ton, and royalty, 20
cents, besides paying miners, and for
weighing, which if kept up, will leave in
our community about $50 each day. Let
US take courage and hope for better
things III storc.-Keyser Tribune,