Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-08
STATE NOTES.

PARAMOUNT has "nigger" council
man.
Fort GAY has Society tor Doing
Good"
CAssvILLE has one croquet set, and
brags on it.
A WEN of silver ore has been found in
Marion county.
THE ladies of Buckhannon carry on a
prayer meeting.
THE U. S. Court will convene at
Charleston, May 18th.
THE new fish law does not take effect
till the 9TH of June.
GRAFTON is the first town in this State
to have a walking match.
Two hundred tons of coal are daily
shipped from FairmOnt.
SIX acres OF tobacco in Fayette county
realized the sum of S762.SO.
THERE are three large saw-mills run
ming regularly at Writ {. ii.
A KILN OF pottery has been success
fully burned at BuckhannOn.
The cry comes up from Fort Gay:
"Give us an ice-cream saloon"
MARrINsBURG has had only eighteen
postmasters in eighty-seven years.
WHooPING cough prevails in and
around Sistersville, Tyler county.
WORK has commenced on the inn
provement of the kanawha river.
THE Greenbrier Presbytery meets at
st. Adams, Kanawha county, to-day.
TYLER county wants to be taxed to
build bridge over Middle Island creek.
In Preston county, short time ago,
a man aged 81 was married to girl OF Is.
MoNoNGALIA county promises the
largest wheat crop OF any county in the
State.
MEASLES are prevailing in nearly
every family in Hartford City, Mason
county.
CALHOUN county jailed justice OF the
peace and fined him So, for some INSIDE
meanOr.
IT is estimated that West Virginia
does a skunk-pelt trade amounting to
S0O,UOO year.
THE Preston county grand jury made
"a indictments at one sitting for lasciv-
ious rehabilitation.
The fruit prospect in Monroe county,
especially peaches, plums and cherries,
is not very tlattering.
DoDDRIDGE countyis enjOyinga sensa-
ton. Two men of families elOped with
two unmarried women.
FIRES are raging in the mountains in
many places in this State, and much
property is being destroyed.
FARMERS throughout the State, ac-
cording TO the reports of our exchanges,
are much behind with their work.
FARMERS throughout the State COM
plain that those pests, black birds and
chipmunks, are getting in their work.
TIE Good Templars are doing effect
i've work around Phillippi. If those
who join will only stick, it is all right.
In Monongalia county, last week, a
boy named Wilson accidentally shot an
other boy in the leg, inhicting an ugly
wound.
HE people OF harrison county nave
published a call asking their Senator
and Delegates to give an account other
stewardship.
"PoRTE CRAYoN" will give his obser-
vations made on the Mexican govern
ment while he is cOnsul-general, to the
public in book form.
EXTENSIVE forest fires are raging in the
mountains of this State, and destroying
much valuable timber, besides endanger-
ing property in some localities.
ONE million eight hundred and sew
enty-one thousand stogies, paying a
revenue of ST, 226, were manufactured
in ParkerSburg during the year 1878.
The West Virginia Press Association
will hold its regular annual session at
Wheeling in June. The members long
for the presence, especially, OF Hon. d.
ID. Johnson and Hon. G.. j. Stewart,
They want 10 return a cordial vote of
thanks to these gentlemen for the inter-
est taken by them, as members of the
Legislature, in the welfare OF the press.
Richie Gazette.