The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-24
ST. GAINESVILLE.
Important Decision by the District
Court-John watkins Sued for SIO,'
600 Damages for the Murder Oh
FfndIey McGrew-Suits Of the Tus-
caravans Valley Railroad - The
Course Of True Love Running over
m Rough Road.

| Course Of True Love hunninR over
Rough Road.
Correspondence OF the Register.
ST. GAINESVILLE, o. April %.
The District Court closed its session on
last Thursday night. The Barnes.
| Wright contested election case resulted
in favor of the plaintiff, Barnes. Owing
to an oversight on the psIt OF Mr..
Wright's attorneys, they failed to present
to the court the tickets and records OF the
election in the townships where the re-
turns were in dispute. Because OF this
| neglect lot course it was not done lnteh-
tionally) the court was unable to do any
thing, so the petition Of Mr.. Wright was
dismissed and the judgment Of the Com.
mon Pleas Court allowed TO stand. Mr..
Wrights attorneys did all in their power
for their client, and certainly made y
good case for him. 1t is a pity that they
overlooked the necessity Of submitting
all the records and papers when the case
came into the District Court. If they
had done 80, perhaps the result would
have been different, and perhaps not.
Under our present Judicial system 1t Is
almost impossible to secure the reversal
of Judgment Of the Common Pleas
Court. The District Court is composed
of all the Common Pleas Judges Of the
District. There are four such Judges in
this district. Each one OF these Judges
sits in the District Court reviewing and
passing upon the cases that have already
been decided by him in the Common
Eanh IL. that
his decisions shall be sustained. 1t Is
simply impossible for these Judges to be
impartial IN all cases.
Another important case decided by the
District Court was that of the Barnes
vile and Somerton pike taxpayers
against the county treasurer. The plain
this sought to restrain the treasurer from
collecting a tax that had been levied on
the property situated within two miles OF
the pike. This tax was levied by the
| county commissioners 10 pay balance
due on the construction OF the road
The people whose property is within the
two mile limit protest, and claim that
they had already paid the full amount
required for building the road. The
trouble is that q portion OF the original
fund for constructing the GAINESVILLE and
Somerton pike mySteriously disappeared
from the treasury several years ago. AMI
has never been accounted for. 1t was TO
make up this deficiency that the commits
sioners levied the additional tax. This
was one of the deficiencies Tor which the
late ex-Treasurer James Irwin was sued
by the commissioners few years ago,
but failed to recover anything for the
GAINESVILLE and Somerton road. The
District Court decided tho case in favor
of the treasurer, and the tax will have to
be paid, unless the Supreme Court re-
verses the Judgment OF the Distrc. Court.
An appeal is likely TO be taken to the
State Supreme Court. Judge Granger,
OF Zsnesville, and Hiram Skinner, E.q,
Of Cambridge, are counsel for the tax
payers, and Judge Cowen and St. Clair
Kelly, of st. Clsirsvllle, for the county.
The summer session of the Common
Pleas Court opened here to day. The
term will be long one, there being now
nearly four hundred cases on the docket
and many more will be added before the
close OF the term. A number Of Important
cases are to be tried, of which your
readers will be informed IS they come up
IN their order.
Your readers have not forgotten the
the mysterious death of Finley McGrew,
at Bridgeport which occurred several
months ago. Mrs. McGrew charges John
Walking with being the cause Of her
husbands death, and she has sued him
T Watkins in the Common Pleas Court
of this county for $4,000 damages The
evidence against Wslkins, although cir
cumstsntisl, is strong l presume If Mrs.
McGrew RECEIVERS damages it will be
equivalent to conviction Of the defen-
dant, and that his trial for murder would
follow rs q matter of course. j. Is. Smith,
OF Bellalre, and Capt 2. Tallman, Of st.
ClsirsvIlle, are Mrs. AcGrew's attorneys
Several of the cases of the Tuscarswss
Valley Railroad against parties through
whose lands the road passes, have been
compromised. The Probate Court has
disposed Of one case-that OF the Robson
heirs. The right of way through that
farm costs the company 5000 The re-
naming cases have been postponed and
will not be tried until some time in June.
Two laborers at the Flushing tunnel,
on the Tuscarswas Valley railroad, were
severely hurt on last Thursday, by
stone falling on them. They will pro-
baby recover.
Our town has a little sensation which
furnishing food for the gossips. By some
means one of our heightened young
ladies struck up correspondence with
an unknown young man in the "Sunny
South | believe. After this
secret correspondence had been kept up
for some time q marriage engagement
was entered into, the lady, who belongs
to a wealthy family, agreeing TO give the
young man two thousand dollars as soon
as the marriage took place. Well, the
young man came one day last week TO
claim his bride and his two thousand
dollars. But there was stern old man
in this case, as there almost always is in
cases of true love, and although the
Young woman wanted the marriage
contaminated, the old gentleman cruelty
put in his veto to further proceedings.
There wasn't any wedding, the young
man has departed, and the young lady lie
pursuing the even tenor Of her way IS
though nothing had happened
Mr.. James A. Barnes is again At his
old post in the Recorders office. Mr..
Wright surrendered the Office as soon IS
the court decided in Mr.. Barnes favor,
and has retired - his home at Belmont.
State School Commissioner Burns and
his wife are in town visiting their many
friends.
Hon. Ross J. Alexander was on our
streets yesterday.
George Pogue. one of our Oldest ciu-
zens, died on lat Friday night,