Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-11-28
STATE NEWS OF The WEEK.
of divers Character
throughout n Great Common
wealth a. Reelected In
fhR Press

Camden now has a steam mill in success
.p,ra'ion.
GEORGETOWN. Barbour county, is troubled
Esh lsn'hers.
rv..s w.mIsley, a Randolph coaHty
.,.-. kr.'-d three bears in two days re-
-.g.
Nariau F. Hack, q Doddridse county
.rs4ar has suddenly and mysterious'y
ssYp,a.,L.
rrsh Martin, = Randolph county youth,
BAL ,rd with his UUcle's wife, woman
Ercr Bis aS'.
A .sty 81, years OF age, living near Point
s,s.r has I22 descendants, nearly all
L T. we near her.
\ r.a1.on county farmers well, which
s,,,.srre yielded pure cold water, is
-op ..,a Upw,tA oil.
psr.fa Keister, of Pendleton county, is
he p:cvd owner Of q gun that has killed
ever ne thousand deer.
;. :. Gardener, Pennsylvania capitalist,
snsco,iatng for the purchase OF land in
.suis timer and Braxton counties, where
| % 10 sink wells for oil.
There are % prisoners charged with mur.
o. assault with intent 10 kill, horse steal
-g ard various other felonies, confined in
as Kanawhs county Jail.
A company Of capitalists have purchased
as Eau Cove property, near Harper's
Ferry, and intend making ita popular re-
SOFT. They will erect $4,000 hotel.
Wolves are playing havoc among the
sheep of Z, CahOntas county, and farmers
sre pettioning the court of that county to
.aise the bounty to fifty dollars per scalp.
A fatal disease known as glossitus has
broken ont among the horses of the Pan
Handle. When an animal is affected, the
tongue becomes raw, the mouth is covered
with ulcers, and death ensues in a few
days.
John Gum, Of PocahOntaS county, is one
hundred years old. He is yet very active.
He walks without cane anu CnUPs uV~I-
He never took any medicine in his life, and
his habits have always been temperate,
bsyirc never used either whisky or tobacco.
sad account OF a wedding says the
Weston Republican reaches MS from Roam
ose. O.e Of the guests came with an ln-
ispt closely wrapped up. The wraps were
not removed till after the ceremony, when
il WAS found the child was dead, caused by
sutlocation. it is supposed. We did not
learn the names OF any of the parties.
According TO the West Union Record,
Jutee Faulkner has decided that Justices
Of the Peace cannot bind over persons
CHARGED with assault ana battery, to await
the sc,ion of the grand jury; but that they
must enter Judgment for or against the
p-s,n,r. Under the Acts of 1881, the
Justice merely held preliminary examln'
a,;cu. and if there wss probable cause
bound the prisoner over; but now it seems
ths, the Justice has fuIl jurisdiction. u1-
less tie sssault and battery was commit
ted on Sheriff, or otter officer or riotous-
" or with attempt 10 commit felony.
The Wavne Advocate gives the following
scccuat Of a rather novel dance: 4 dance
wss proposed at Mouth Of Linn, some eight
niles above here, and a number OF our
citizens. married and single, proposed to
attend IT, The result was something out
side the usual tripping OF the fantastic toe
One gentleman got his ne badly mashed;
another was thrown out Of buggy and
succeeded in accomplishing some very
cleyerly executed summersaults; another
lost his partner, anotLe 3 loSSlvas more Sc
rious. in that of his gallant Steed, and quite
q number lost their selses. Taking ths
whole thing together, the loss greatly ex
ceedei the gain. We learned OF but one
gain IN the wl.ole enterprise. One you1s
lady lost her beau, and gained two IN lieu
of him, but we fear y hat was her gain VA;
anOihsr's loss.
Our State exchanges begin to boom with
hunting yarns party from Cumberland
recently took q hunt over in Mineral and
bsgged live deer, and iots of other game
Horace LockriGse, OF POcahontas killed
five deer last week. A man named ETers
Of Hampshire county, saw Il Ick OF part
ridges lying shor. distance overhead. lie
picked up board and bit the side Of the
barn Thacs, Seven Of the birds came
Whiriing to the ground stunned and before
they hsd time 10 recover he had wrung
their rGcks. A party passed through Bey'
eriy, Randolph county, the other day, with
the horns Of seven deer hey had killed Up
In fenoi"ron county, just ABOVE Franklin,
a man saw deer coming toward hin. lie
caught bis GoS and hii behind the fence,
srd when the deer came up he pitched the
Icg on Us bs,k. The deer was frightened
50 lady that it ran bsck towards the river
sid JNmptd oil Of a high Ledge of rocks
's.Isd Lovers Lcsp" About the time 1t
&F"cs the ground below Walter Anderson
"LoSsS in the road watching, landed a
!osd ci buc%Shot inro il, and il then and
there gsye up the ghost.