The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-15
OUR GRAFTON LETTER.
FaiInres and Bankruptcies The
Schools OF Taylor COunty-A New
English Grammar by West yir.
ginia Author.

! Correspondence of the Register.
GRAFTON, Feb. IA, 1873.
Business has been very dull for some
time, and many rumors OF expected fail.
ures have been current during the past
week.
MIR. ID. A. Spriggs. lumber manu-.
fscturer, filed his petition in bankruptcy
last week. Liabilities 5000.
Mr.. e. w. Brown, merchant, made
an assignment fer the benefit of his cred
itors on Friday last to j. w. Dick.
Assets 81 600; liabilities 1000.
As supplement to the report of the
doings at the Teachers Institute, held
last week, few items about Taylor coun-
ty schools may not prove uninteresting.
There are sixty schools in the county,
attended by 1868 pupils. There are
nine teachers with State Normal certif-
Gates, twenty having No. certificates,
twenty-three having No.2, seven having
No. 8, two having No. 4, aud one having
No. s. The levy averages about 16
cents to the 500 for the "Ieachers' fund"
and II cents for the "building fund"
o"luR w LuC Va IuC l. Co
body fund distributed in West Virginia
this year, our schools will have to close
on or about the first of March. Consid-
ersble more interest has been taken in
the scho Dis during the present year than
at any year heretofore, by the people of
the county, and nearly all of this interest
and desire for their welfare is owing TO
tho Enupt Sunaripta dapt
If besrdless teachers, such as the CORES
pondent of the Wheeling Euening Stan.
dard, will attend to their duties, and
allow the Superintendent and other
school officers TO manage school affairs,
l have no doubt but that the next Insti-
tute will be success, and that the scene
which occurred al the opening of the last
Institute will not again disgrace the pro-
ceedings.
Prot. Colgrove, Principal of the West
Virginia College at Pennington, this
county, has new English Grammar in
preparation. The Professor has had
twenty-five years experience in teaching,
and, in that time, he says, he has dis
covered many faults in the grsmmars
now used in our schools, and he
contemplates making some sweeping
changes IN the manner of teaching the
English language 1t is probable that
the Professor will be before the next
Legislature to urge the adoption of his
grammar.
Rev. d. B. Turney, of the NJ. P.
Church, has been holding a protrscted
meeting at Pruntytown with considera-
bic success. Twenty-one conversions are
reported.
The people of this county fully ex-
pected that 81. e )" the InteLLigencer cor
respondent, and men of his stamp would
be heard from. ~. g." we understand
very well, is in the employ OF the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company, and
while the people of this county are not
evIl.disposed toward that corporation,
yet they cannot see why they
are bound to consider its welfare.
The b. IL o. railroad grants no tsvorS,
and we expect none of them. If Grafton
affords any natural advantages to the
they will not be slow to utilize
them. The corporstors of the narrow
gusge road can hardly be classed as
and cattle dealers" on the
contrary they are two United States
officials, one lawyer, one doctor and one
merchant. j. l.. II.