Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-27
WEST VIRGINIA.
4 Resume of Affairs Throughout
the State.
CLARKsBURG has new postoflice.


WESTON is to have the cantata OF
Esther
SILVER ore has been discovered in
Marion county.
The Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs will oDen June lst.
TIE Baptist General Association will
meet at MOrgantown, June 5th.
THERE are 23l convicts in the peni-
tentiary, six of whom are females.
The doctors report that it is distress
ingly healthy about Weston just now.
THE State Medical Association meets
at Martinsburg on the fourth OF June.
The Commencement at the Fairmont
Normal School is on Friday, June 18th.
FIFTEEN thousand dollars per year is
what it takes to support the Charleston
churches.
GEN. ID. ii. STRoTHER, recently APP
pointed Consul General to Mexico, has
started for hls post OF duty.
THE graduating class of the Fairmont
Normal School numbers % members
this year-ll ladies' and ii gentlemen.
THE Buckhannon L. b. Congregation
has placed a beautiful organ in their
church. Miss Lena Newton is Organist.
THE telegram says that some person
steals paper from the Court House in
Clarksburg, while Court is not in ses-
sion.
REV. ]. r. THOMPSON, President OF the
West Virginia University, will lecture
at the Burnsville Institute on the 9th OF
June
JACOB KOoNTz, of New Martinsville,
is building a barge l2O feet long, % feet
wide and : feet deep, for the Belmont
Coal Company, OF Bellaire.
Mr.. c. o. NEWTON, a son OF State
Senator Newton, Of Grafton, has been
appointed q guard in the West Virginia
penitentiary It MoundSyille.
Thomas GAYLORD, OF Pocahontas coun-
~, killed four rattleSuakes last week,
the largest Of which was seven feet long,
and carried twenty-seven rattles.
REV. JACKSON, of the NJ. +. Church at
New Martinsville, has received about
seventy members into the church dur
ing this conference year. This is GER
tainly very encouraging.
The famous Charleston tree peeler
still remains a mystery. The Mayor
has issued a proclamation, ordering the
citizens 20 desist frOOm shooting at IL,
hence il continues its nocturnal peram-
bulations.
Mr.. PHILIP SHOWERS, OF Martinsburg,
has young Alderney COW, two years
old. with her first calf, which weighed
on Tuesday last SIS pounds. She yields
seven pounds OF butter week. PIetty
good i0r a COW Of her age and weight.
LoNoAK Female College, at Martins
burgh, has its closing exercises this year
commencing June 18th and closing
June 10Th. The sermon to the class
will be- preached on the 22d, by Chap.
lain Harrison, of the National House OF
Representatives and the address on the
26th bv L. ;. Senator Hereford.
IT will be remembered that James +.
TAYLOR, of Prospect Valley was, at the
June term, 1878, of the Circuit Court OF
this county, convicted and sentenced TO
the Pententiary for term OF years Tor
the crime of incest. The victim of his
bascueSs, his daughter, about twenty
one years of age, died, after a short i'll
ness. at her mothers home, at the above
named place, on last Saturday,-CiGrkS-
burg NsrS.
A LEADING feature Of the observance
of Memorial day at Winchester, on the
9TH of June, will be reunion OF Kos
Ser's cavalry brigade and the artillery.
All members of these commands are IN
vited. as we are authoritatively IN
formed. 10 visit Winchester mounted,
ON that day. and join in the procession
i'm the order of their old organizations,
bv companies, regiments, &c, ana am
ule provision will be made for their re-
ception. Col II. 2. Chew, OF this roun-
", will probably be the ranking officer
otthe command present.-Sptrd OF Jgger-
son.
The Monroe County Register says:
"SOlon Shingle Stewart, OF Doddrldge,
is a delinquent subscriber to the news
papers. One of them asked him to pay
his bill, like any honest man, but he
got So mad at being asked TO act honest
IL that he incubated House Bill 81, to
ruin all the newspapers. He is but a
sample Of the "Ilonorablcs' who are
created by the unpaid labors OF the
press. We suggest TO the Press ASso-
citation. at its next annual meeting, q
stringent resolution that no man be
deemed worthy Of the support OF the
press for office, who is reported by any
newspaper as a delinquent subscriber,
. Ii he steals from the press, he will IN
variablv steal from the people"