Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-18
STATE NOTES.

CLARKsBCRG ships OycrSlOO,OOO worth
OF small produce annually, and West
Union is not far behind.
The Annual Conference Of the Meth
odist Protestant Church of this State
will meet at st. Mary's ON the 9th ult.
CmAS. +. MoTTER, who was arrested
last week at Warrington on the charge
OF rape, has been held to court and is
out on bail.
IF we are to credit the Buckhannon
Banner, a very unnatural white mother
in that place is trying TO force a colored
bride upon her son.
Miss MARTHA WOoLFoRD, of Tucker
county, fell from horse recently, and
was so severely injured that she died a
few hours after the accident.
BoGGEss, the man who dangerously
shot Lewis Carrico at ClarkSburg some
time since, gave himself up to the au-
thorities and is now in the Clarksburg
Jail awaiting hearing.
The Odd Fellow Lodges of Grafton,
Fairmont, Clarksburg, Newburg, Pied
mont and Oakland expect to combine
and indulge in a good old-fashioned pie
mic at Oakland, Nd, on the 9th Of
August.
JAMES FRY, arrested as the inCendiary
who fired Volcano, had a preliminary
hearing before Justice Addison, OF Par
kersburg, last week, and was held to an
swcr charge of arson at the next term
of the Circuit Court of that county. As
the charge is held as a capital offence
in this State, he was not allowed bail.
TIE West Virginia Conference OF the
VI. +. Church, South, will convene at
ClarkSburg the 3rd prox., over which
Bishop Doggett will preside. On the
18th OF September, the Annual COnven-
ton of the Disciples will be held at
Bellville, Wood county. Prof. Pendle-
ton will preside.
THE people of Gilmer county are an
ticipating great benefits from the slack
water improvements that are being
RAPIDLY pushed forward on the Little
Kanawha. This beautiful river will
open large trade along Its borders,
notwithstanding President Grant is re-
ported to have said VIII he signed the
appropriation, that "Tll be Id il this
isn't the last appropriation I'll sign to
make trout streams navigable in West
Virginia
THE Democrats of Preston county
have formed a Joint stock company and
purchased the Kingwood Argus. Harry
McCaffertv, who has conducted the
Argus very successfully for year, has
accepted a position on the Wd~e
County Appadl, and George Purcell will
become editor of the Argus. Preston
county needs staunch Democratic or
gan, and it is thought Mr.. Purcell will
bring all the ability necessary to the es-
tablishment Of such paper.
On Tuesday night last four persons,
in disguise with their faces and hands
blacked, called at the residence OF
Michael McAnana, who lives about four
miles from town in the edge OF Flat
woods and asked permission 10 stay
with him through the night Mr.. Me
Anana, although the vacant room in his
house was taken up by his work hands,
consented to let them in, il they could
put up with such accommodations as hc
could give them. When he opened the
door, the leader OF the gang rushed in
and called To his comrades 10 come on.
Having gained an entrance, they at
once demanded his money. \ light was
struck and they placed one on guard at
the stairway, another with his pistol in
hand guarded Mr.. McAnana, while the
other two began searching ior money.
In the meantime Mr.. McAnana's two
sisters had been aroused in an adjoining
room and opened the door into the room
where the robbers were. McAnana
having directed the attention OF the one
guarding him to something else, slipped
into the other room, shut the door and
undertook to keep the men out, but
they overpowercd him, burst the door
open and shot twice at him, neither ol
which took effect. They then ran
sacked bureaus, trunks and drawers
until they got about one hundred dollars
in money and other things Of value,
that the women folks had in their
trunks.-.SUitOa MyJDiUmeer.
WORMS are a miserable atlllction-
found in most families, AMI not unirc-
oueDtIv fatal i'm thcir effects. There