The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-07-02

furnishes interesting reading for oui
farmers, and may result in deyising
some plan Of getting ridofthe worth,
less ours that infest this State, and
retards its prosperity:
Two dogs sometimes get away with
% head Of sheep in a night; no wolf
ever did this.
T Many sections Of the country pc.
culiarly adapted to the growing Of
sheep are now cut out on account Of
dogs. The number Of sheep could be
doubled or trebled, even in this wool
growing section, and so much added
to the wealth Of the country. Near
cities and towns sheepare never safej
it generally amounts to actual prohi-
bition.
If dogs added anything to the
wealth Of country they might
claim their rights; but the contrary
is true-he is the direct destroyer OF
wealth. And a man may spend
$1,000 on his dogs, and thus have
that much capital removed from tax
alton, while his dogs may be prowl-
ing around destroying other taxable
property and the game Of the neigh.
.borhood.
A Missouri farmer, after a long
calculation, presents the following
facts concerning dogs;
In thirty-two counties 10,602 sheep
have been killed with dogs. lie es-
Inmates the number Of dogs in thirty.
twocounties to be 100000; that a hog
will thrive on the food necessary to
support an able-bodied dog, and at
the end Of the year weigh two hun
dred pounds; therefore if the food for
these 1852, 600 dogs went to the hogs,
it would make 92,000,000lb of pork,
worth at least 8 cents pound, S4,-
550,000-nearly twice the value Of
all the school houses in the State,
and more than twice the amount
used by the State for school purposes.
LOCAL MARKET.-We quote the
prices which now rulei our market:
Wheat from so cents to $1.05 per
bushel; corn from 40 to As cents per
buhel; oats 95 to 40 cents per bushel;
~.
-four from $3.50 to 5000 per barrel;
by the sack 40 and so cents, for the
best; butter 10 cents; eggs 10 cents;
chickens from s1.75 to $3.50 per doz-
en-; country ts,-hams s to 8 cts;
shoulders 5 to 7 cents; sides 5 cents;
potatoes (new) s1.25 per busllel;
dried beans from S1.50 to $500 per
bushcl. Better prices are paid in
this town for produce, than is paid
in either Gallipolis, Pomeroy or Mid
dleport, aud goods is sold equally as
low as at either Of the above places.
Some time ago the County Court
made an order to build d foot bridge
over Thirteen Mile Greek. at the
Stevens farm, and appropriated $40
therefor. The bridge was built, and
received. and the contractors drew
tha;r NV M ,r;d,,a : n ior /, 4 :,
M, -. II, - - - le ~ ~ ! = 'ass
nu's0"s' a,'o' i,asi"s 'eeh. up
in that neiabborbood arc without
,,e,,s of c,osu;na IA ersal. mis- i
iie,,l' : s.ge'"s -. w ''9'A' ms =
anolief, evidence OF the loose manner
IN which the affairs Of the county
are attended to. Puta Board OF Com
missloaers upon the Bench, and such
things will not be heard Of. The
contractors ought to be made refund
the s4o or else rebuild the bridge.
On last Monday nislt SAYS tba
jackson Herald, the safe IN the store
OF Capt W. .. Roseberry, Cottage
vile, was blown open BY burglars
There was no money IN the safe at
the time, but they took q diamond
ring, valued ut $3.50, which the Cap
n IN nj