West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-07-27
LOCAL CHIT CHAT.
Happenings Here aud Hereabosts


| county allowances next week.
Mrs. Moore, and son, Of Monongahela
| City, Pa, are visiting DR.. Manown's.
The Methodist District Conference will
convene in ,<ingwood on the 3Oth inst.
Miss Mollie Hndreth. of Wheeling, is
visiting Miss Edith Prettyman, of this
place.
DIR. NJ. ). Brytc, of Bruceton, this co.
was in town yesterday, accompanied by
DIR. Semans.
Mr.. VIM. Thomas, and his brother and
| sister, of Baltimore, are visiting Mr.. Jas.
A. Browns.
Messrs. John +. Jones and w. T.
Liston, of Portland, were in Kingwood
| Tuesday afternoon.
Miss a. Taylor, Principal oftho Wheel
ing Female College, says that Kingwood
is the Eden of West Virginia.
We notice i'm this weeks Journal that
the claims of Page X. MoCrum and L. NJ.
Huffman are put forth for tie Legisla
ture.
We received AN interesting letter from
Farmer" which we have not possibly
been able to publish. We hope ho will
write again.
Our Newburg letter was accidentally
lost last week 1t was AN interesting let>
tor opd va oro SORRY, 10 lisanunarol 49,,
mysteriously.
Nj. j. l.. Stone, of the American H'se,
will take load of passengers to Newburg
on the 2d of August to attend the Repub-
iIcan convention.
Mr.. u. r. Smith is doing all no can to
make the Peabody Institute at this place
a grand success. He should receive the
encouragement ofour citizens.
At the dedication of tho Presbyterian
church, in Kiugwood, the congregation
paid offa debt OF 81, 200 in less than an
hour.-Ne,o Ma,t6,soUe Messenger.
A short article appears in the Journal of
this week over the signature of Young
LadieSw We would advise the young
mau to cover his ear ms rks the next time
he sails out over nom de plume.
DIR. T, Il. Semans, of Marlbow, Ohio,
who has been visiting friends at Bruce
ton was in town yesterday. DR.. is looks
ing well and, we are glad to learn, has a
good practice.
We understand that the wooden factory
of Leigh and Hornby, of Painters Mills.
Is doing better work than ever, As they
have first class machinery and are honor
able men they do nothing but hon, st
work. Give them "A call,
There was dispute in town last Sunday
as to the exact location of the shower bath,
or NJ organs run falls. Much excitement
prevailed for time butno blood was lost.
On Monday morning TIE surveyors in
struments decided the matter, ADD now
thereare some persons who declare that
the compass lies.
Mr.. Gus. j, shaffer, of TuuneltUu, sent
ms the following per postal card:
II have just seen Mr.. James Anderson,
Supt Trains, who kindly agrees to have
No. stophere on the night of the 18th of
August 20 take up the delegates to the
Cougre ssioual Convention at Koyser,
OF the 18th of August"
Tuuuelton, June p, 1878.
THE July number of the "West Vir-
GINA Educational Monthly and Home
Magazine" is on our table. This home
publication has passed into the hands Of
the Educational Publishing Company,
and numbers among its editors and
contri butors some Of the best educa-
tiOnal talent i'm the State. Mr.. g. b.
Gibbons, one of the former publishers,
has been secured as its Manager. for the
present. The remaining numbers of
this, the Sixth Volume, will BIO fur
nished at the low price of 80 cents, post
age prepaid. Every teacher and friend
Of education should take advantage of
this liberaI offer, and enroll their names
as AN encouragement 10 the enterprise.
Address G.. b. GIBBENs, Manager,
Parkersbnrg, w. Va.
w. X. Potter, the old whiskey vendor.
comes cut III card this week and SAYS
he will not again stoop so low as TO an
swer fool, &c. Now, this is q very easy
way for coward to get ont Of a tight
| place. All we said about him are facts,
We are prepared to substantial every
word, and he knows It, TO got out of Il
lac calls what we have said an accumula
ton Of falsehoods and slang. Ho knows
that he does an illegtimate whiskey bu-
| siness, he knows that ne is not a gradu-
ate, AZ he says nc is, and nc knows that he
is an unpr incipled liar and scoundrel.-
lie knows wo can prove il, therefore no
calls VS. a fool.
INV. II. Potter wishes us 10 say any
thing moro which we can prove, we can
| tell him something about a certain Miss
/ Lidc Naylor. Wocan tell him something
/ about little unsettled drug bills that por~
/ haps ono Mr.. James Henderson would be
| glad to have him pay. We can tell him
about his dead> beating in Parkersburg
/ and how he made his pocket money nj
/ that place. We can also tell him about
/ some unpriucipled, wholesale lying he
/ did on one Of our respected citizens and
/ how he was afterwards forced Co sign an
| article Ofwriting thereby acknowledging
/ his lying. There are other matters We
/ can refer to IL occasion demands IL.