Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-16
STATE NOTES AND NEWS.

FISH seem to be plenty in the Little
Kanawha.
SIX acres of tobacco in Fayette county
realized the sum OF S762.30.
SILVER ore has been discovered in
Marion county, this State.
THERE are seven liquor saloons and
one beer saloon in Weston.
MORE corn will be planted in all
portions of this State than last year.
THERE is a man living in Marion
county by the name OF Thomas Cat.
ANDERSON has a regular meat market,
and is going to have furnace.
The Pittsburgh Southern railroad is
reviving.
RAILROAD communication between
Clarksburg and Weston will be opened
by July 4th.
So far the prospects are very good
for fine fruit crop, in every part OF
Morgan.
Rev. DR.. De HAsS will lecture on
classic and Bible Lands" in Clarks-
burg, on the 34th inst.
THE new Methodist Church of King
wood, Preston county, will be dedicated
to the service of God on Sunday, May
18th. Bishop Harris will preach the
dedicatory sermon.
SPENCER's new paper, to be called The
Interior, we believe, will probably APP
pear in about two weeks. Messrs. Wat
Warren and II. p. Barnes will be the
editors and proprietors.
THE next fair of the Mason county
Agricultural Association will be held at
Point Pleasant, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday aud Friday, August 10Th,
9th, 2Sth and Goth.
The lumber purchased for the cree
ton of United Brethren church, near
the residence of DIR. A. 5. Haney, at
Philippi, was set on fire, by some UNI
known person on Saturday night last.
Loss about $50.
PROF. A. L. WADE, OF Morgautown,
has been employed by the American
Bible Society to distribute Bibles in
Monongalia and Monroe counties. He
reports very large number OF families
in Monongalia county destitute OF the
Bible.
Ar meeting of the congregation OF
the Martinshurg Presbyterian Church,
over which Rev. A. &. Hopkins presided
as Moderator, held on Monday OF last
week, the Rev. Mr.. ROSchrO, OF LeXlng
ton Presbytery, was elected pastor TO
till the vacancy caused by the recent
resignation OF Rev. d.. Riddle.
OUR countyman, Mr.. 5. II. Feagans,
has handed us Maryland one dollar in
denied bill of the year IVA. 1t is print
eel on very ordinary paper, and is some
thing similar in appearance TO the Con-
tinental and Nirginiapaper money OF the
latter part of the last century. The re-
verse side Of the note bears the OminOus
sentence" IT'S death to counterfeit"
-Spirjt Of JEFFERSON.
The Boston correspondent Of the
Springfield Republican, thinks that dea-
cons who propose TO commence taking
up a collection in church by damning
those in the pews who are expected TO
contribute, will do we'll to note the re-
suit of the political talk at the Faneull
Hall meeting on the collection OF money
for the colored refugees. Somehow or
other, cussin' the other party does not
promote charity.
THE Pilot congratulates Catholics on
the passage by the Massachusetts, Legis-
lature of an act ''to extend the liberty
of conscience" as one more indication OF
advance from the "intollerance' which
contended with 'iair play" in the
Puritan character. Which recalls a
PRAYER we once heard offered by Rev.
DR.. =, in which he thanked God "that
our fathers fled from religious persecu-
ton and came over to this country to
cniov it."-ChriS'idR ReJister.
Tue Sharpsburg Enterprise says: Two
bodies, supposed to be Confederate SOL
diers, killed at the battle of Antietam,
were ploughed up in Henry PiPer's
field. on the Hagerstown pike, near that
town, recently. superintendent Hav-
erfeld, OF the Antietam National Gene
terry, made a thorough examination OF
the bodies and pronounced them to be
Confederate soldiers. 5. ID. Piper dug a
deep grave and put the bodies in and
marked the spot. No doubt there are
many bodies of soldiers OF both sides ly-
ing somewhere yet on the battlefield OF
Antietam. When found they should al
WAYS be reported, that they may be
transferred 10 the permanent resting
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