West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-03-02

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District.
Well No. 1, located in Stony Hol-
low, I'LL feet deep, will be deepened
to 1900 feet for light oil by E. P.
Davis
C. & H. Whitman have stopped
pumping the Shaw well for the
purpose of roaming it down and
casing it,
Mr.. Sam Stewart is having ANEW
well drilled on his lease on the Vol
canic Co.'S tract.
Mr.. George Worrell's gentle foot
steps, and dear familiar voice." are
heard in this region.
Rev. S. D. B. Prickitt, pastor of
Volcano M. E. Church, preached an
able sermon to large congregation
last Sunday morning.
A meeting of citizens of Volcano
will be held in Odd Fellows Hall
at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening,
I'd of March, for the purpose of or
ganizing the Volcano Library Asso-
citation.
The Volcano telegraph office has
been removed from the Volcano R.
R. Depot to the store ofW. c. Stiles,
and is to be operated by Mr.. Chas
Brown, vice Hugh Manning, resign
ed.
Mr.. C. Magill, our efficient P, M. is
to be absent during the greater part
of the present month on a visit to
his home and friends in Philadel-
phia.
Mr.. NJ, a handsome, and robust
young man, addicted to no bad hab-
itsexcept sound sleep and the night
mare o'nights, went to Parkersburg
one day last week, burdened with
sufficient business to last him for
two days. During his peregrina-
tions about town he met his friend
G., a resident of Parkersburg, who
invited him to spend the night at
his house. After the business
transactions Of the evening, Mr.. M,
repaired to the house of Mr.. G. and
at an early hour retired to rest in
room which was to be shared with
him by Mr.. S.. a mutual friend.
Getting into bed Mr. M. was soon
off in sound sleep from which he
was partially aroused an hour or
two later by the entrance of Mr.. S.
for the purpose of retiring. Crop
ing about in the darkness for
match to strike a light, Mr.. S. was
suddenly startled, and the cold
chills sent streaking up his back, to
see Mr.. NJ. raise himself up from
| mis- bed, and hear him in blood
curdling tones, yell! "Robbers!
robbers! help, help!'
"Hush," replied S, "you are
dreaming, there are no robbers
here p
"Robbers, robbers, robbers! help!
robbersw shouted NJ, at the same
time springing from the bed and
making hostile demonstrations to-
wards S.
II tell you Pm no robber," ex-
claimed the now alarmed Mr.. S. as
he retreated toward the head of the
stairway with such celebrity as to
miss his footing and precipitate
himself to the ground floor. Quick
ly gathering himself up and with
out stopping to ascertain if he had
sustained any damage, in his hasty
descent, he continued his retreat in
to the sitting room, while Mr.. M.
continued to shout
"Help, robbers, robbers, rob-
bersw
The shouting of Mr.. M. had by
this time awakened the servant
girl, who, thinking the house was
on fire, began making active prepa-
rations for breaking her neck by
jumping out of twostory window.
Fortunately she discovered her
mistake in time to save herself the
trouble of jumping.
By this time Mr.. G. had been
aroused and got up to find out what
was causing all the tumult in his
usually quiet house, and by this
time too, Mr.. M. had got off his
nightmare, and was quietly await
ing the appearance of some one on
the scene, so that he could explain,
II guess l won't go up stairs
again tonight, I'll sleep here on the