The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-22
MOUNDSVILLE MENTION.

| ABOUT OuG-IOuILu LuG GOob Vi bHO ON4'%'S5 .
&. S. McFadden was the purchaser.
Miss Taylor, of the Wheeling Female
! College, lectured oD temperance st the
Presbyterian Church last Friday even
ing. The lecture is highly spoken Of
Circuit Court Clerk Baker and wife
who have been visiting friends q! farK'
ersburg, have returned home.
A couple of gentleman from PhilsdeI'
phia are at the Mound City Hotel for the
purpose of purchasing horses for one o.
the street car lines of that city.
Mrs. Col. lockwood was unfoItunt
enough to fall on the sidewalk at Park
ersburg, the other day, and dlslccste
some OF the bones of her wrist. The In
jury is painful one.
Steam was raised at the new water
works at the prison yesterday. Every
thing worked satisfactory.
The goods for the new uniforms Tor the
! Camden Zousves was received yesterday
The soldiers expect to have them made
up before the sham battle comes of.
Ex-Prosecuting Attorney Parkinson
wife and family lett for Matamoras on
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A large force of convIcts, under charge
of Capt. Lowe, are engaged grading the
street leading from the railroad depot to
the penitentiary.
Mr.. Bigelow will paint the sign of the
Mound City Hotel. 1t will extend across
the entire front OF the building.
The rolling mill is again Idle.
Mr.. Seymour, of the Oates Combins-
ton Troupe, is at home. The combina-
tion has disbsnded.
Mathew B. Harris, two year convict,
will be discharged from the prison TO-
day. Time out.
The Hudson got large Shipment OF
hay here on her last tri p down.
Cox and Ferrell, an account of whose
pugilistic encounter was published in the
REGISTER some time ago, are again at
loggerheads Ferrell now charges Cox
with trespsss, in closing up sn alley way
Mayor Purdy imposed fine OF ten dol.
lars, from which decision Cox takes an
appeal 1t is also the decision OF the
Mayor that Cox pays fine of five dol
lars for each and every day the obstruc-
tlon is allowed to remain in the alley.
The election excitement iLtensifes as
the time approaches.
The farmers here say that potatoes
that were kept in cellars over winter do
not "come up" worth cent, this spring,
That owing TO the extreme mildne.s OF
the winter they shriveled up so badly
that they won't grow. One man living
near town ploughed up twenty bushels
on this account.
Captain Bridges went to Wheeling
Yesterday, TO attend the election OF regi-
mental officers. Major Bridges will be
home by the morning train.
j. W. Webster of the Loudenslsger
FIGURING Mill, was in town yesterday on
business for that establishment.
Work in the brick yards at the peni-
Tertiary WAS commenced yesterday. A
large force of convicts will employed in
this branch of industry during the com
ing summer.
Ex-Deputy Sheriff f. II. MCLEAN is in
town.
On Saturday very fine mllch COW
belonging to Nathan Riggs, was poisoned
TO death in his field near the house; the
COW was apparently we'll at three o'clock
in the afternoon, and at five she was
found by one Of Riggs children dead
Another of Riggs cows was found dead
in the field last week. There is certain
ly something radically wrong in this sec
ton of our county, and the cowardly mis-
cresnts who are guilty Of these malicious
outrages should be ferretted out and sent
to the State prison If possible, if not Int.
tie Wetzel county justice would, l have
no doub! have sslutsry effect upon this
rather undesirable class of citizens.
With the change of uniforms, the
Camden Zousves Will adopt q new name,
The farmers of this vicinity are COM
planning OF species of insect, which
sungs the wheat stocks at the frs. joint
above the ground, thereby destroying the
stock.
1t is not generally believed that the
services of the Zouaves will be required
on election day.
1t has been rumored here for about q
week past that H. S. White merchant,
lumber dealer, contractor, miller, &c,
&c, OF Bellton, had failed, but the fact
was not positively known until yesterday
morning, when he made an assignment
for the benefit of his creditors. Mr..
White estimates his liabilities at $4,000,
whith assets consisting of the goods in
three or four stores in this and adjoining
counties, q large planning mil, Touring
mill and a saw mill a. Bellton and several
extensive tracts of land, which pre-
sumo, under more favorable CirCumstsn-
ces, would bring more than that amount
of money. Quite number OF our citi-
z5ns have claims against Mr.. White, and
are responsible for debts owed by him iu
amounts ranging from fifty to six hum
dred dollars. Some of his creditors here
are very much dissatisfied with the gen
tlemen who have been chosen as assign
ees-Messrs. Rulong, SelbeIts and Bod
ley-snd think that Ut least one of them
should have been a Moundsville man.
The general expression in regard to the
matter Is one OF sympathy for Mr.. White
and regret for his misfortune, az he mas
for some years been one of the most en-
ergotjc and eXtensively-engsged business
men of the county. He acquired consid-
ersble celebrity as the builder of the West
Virginia building az the Centennial, snd
the new jail here. Too many irons in
the fire" together with hard times and
dullness IN business, are the immediate
causes which led to his disastrous failure.
If Mr. Whites assets prove sufficient to
discharge his liabilities, his indomitable
pluck and energy will soon place him on
his feet again.
J. w. Gallsher makes large shipment
OF ear corn to Parkersourg to-day.
The Busy Bee" Literary Society will
use the funds acquired by their late en-,
tertainment in buying refreshments for
the picnic they propose giving st Lock,
woods grove, about the first OF next
month.