The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-09
NEwsY NEIGuBORHOOD NOTES
WASHINGTON COUNTY.

WASHINGTON COUNTY.
From the Review and Examiner.
j. MADISON MILLER has sold the
Hough farm, near BeallsviIe, to Henry
Hill, at $40 per acre. There are about
two hundred acres in this farm. Mr..
Miller paid $52.25 per acre Tor it recently.
THE Baltimore and Ohio railroad have
entered a protest against the councils
giving the Washington and Castle Shan
non railroad the right Of way down Halle
alley. The B. Il Y. claims thst this vio-
lstes right granted them in 1874.
GEORGE W. WELLS, of the Browns
vile glass works, has arranged with his
creditors by agreeing to pay fifty cents
on the dollar, and it is stated that the
works will be put in operation again this
fall. The liabilities were SOL 1000; the
assets, as valued by Mr.. Wells, were S54,
600.
WITHIN one week after the directors
of the w. Il W. K. r. offered $4,000
bonds ut SO cents they were purchased
by the stockholders. OF that amount
only $4,000 was purchased in Washing
ton, the Waynesburg citizens taking it
up eagerly at the offered figures.
On Saturday afternoon last Il flash OF
lightning struck the house of Squire Gas
ton, Union township. The fash passed
down the chimney, and, besides dsmsg.
ing the floor, msntle-piece, &c, slightly
Frustrated for short time Mr.. CASTOR,
who was in far corner of the room. He
soon recovered, but feels that he had 8
narrow escape.
On Thursday, tramp inmate Of the
County Home, took dose Of smonis lin.
iment installing it for prescribed drug
which stood near it on the table. He
suffered eXcruCiating sgony for some
time, vomiting q large amount of blood.
As soon as an antldote-oiive oil-eOuld
be administered, he obtained relief, and
now, though still suffering from the
effects of his mistake, will probably re-
cover.
REV. j. w. kEssLER, Of the Pigeon
Creek NJ. +. Church, took leave OF his
congregation on the 3lst, preparatory to
starting for the Paris Exposition. During
his absence he will visit Wales, England,
Scotland, Germany, and Rome.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Reporter at
West Alexander says; w. Guess u
Sons sold their last years clips OF wool
to g. w. CLANCY for 80 cents They
could have had 40 last season. They did
not make large interest by keeping it
over.
Pittsburgh Dispatch
At meeting of the directors of the
Pittsburgh Southern Railroad Company
yesterday, the following changes in the
officers were made: Josiah Resmer,
elected Vice-President; j. H. Miller,
General Freight snd Passenger Agent,
snd NJ. X. Salisbury, Secretary and
Treasurer. An order was slso made d.
recting the immediate location of the
road from Its present terminus st Thomas
to Washington, q distance of ten miles,
the work of construction thereon to COM
mence at once.
The Board also directed their general
agent at Washington, Mr.. +. q. hsm-
merer, to proceed with the construction
of the main line southwark from Peters
creek to the National pike distance Of
fifteen miles, and complete the same at
the earliest pC sslble time. 1t is expected
that the trains on this road will be run
nlng through to Washington, as well as
southwark as far as the National pike, by
the first of August next.
Reporter.
News is received that John Smith,
resident about three miles east of town,
near Adam Beck's, was planting corn on
Wednesday morning with others in
field and complaining of beng unwell
started for his house. When it was as