West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-02-15

The Terra Alta Enterprise Is attaining
quite a reputation as an agricultural jour
nal.
Three new subscribers added to our
list on Tuesday. and still We hear of more
TO follow.
DIR. Mrtin has sold his house and lot
in the suburbs, and contemplstes locating
down town.
Mack Eyick is having nice sign paint
ed which he intends to hang up st his
place of business on Price Street.
Editor Wolf, of the Salem ludepen-
dent, will not admit that his paper is or
will be anything other than independent
in politics.
There is time 10 weep and morn
and a time to dance and be happy. We
will do our dsnci nc when our railroad lie
completed.
1t is an easy (Omatter 10 get any
amount of local matter here. Town is
full Of strangers, aud you can hear what's
going on in every part OF the county
in horn.
Peter VolIz is crowded with work.
The secret OF this IL, he advertises. II
our merchants would advertise they would
have no time to sit on the counter, and
talk politics.
-TuE AEsUs is considered inferior to
no paper published in this county. The
subscription price is only one dollar. and
it ought to be in the hands of every Dem .
ocrat in the county.
The frces of the Philippi people are
unveiled in clouds of smiles four inches
thick. Their railroad Is completed, and
the cit Gems, for the first time in their
lives, have seen locomotive.
II X. MDhr, who lived on the Nor
gantown pike about three miles west of
town, pulled up stakes last Tuesday and
in company With his family departed for
Oh City, Pa, where he formerly lived.
We learn that move is on foot TO
have the Post, flee at Pleasant Hill an-
nulled. We do not know who the pro-
j ctnrs of the scneme are nor the mo'ives
which prompt them to wish the discontiu-
uing of that flee.
-Chelt river was almost as high last
Saturday ~ 1t was ever known TO be be
fore. The rise of week ago did consid
cradle damage to the lumbermrn OF
Rowlcsbu. One firm, we learn, Loaf
nearly a thousand logs.
A meeting IF the citiz,ns vas held at
the Court House on Wednesday evening,
and a nice sum IF money subscribed to-
wards the general fund which is to be used
TO alley late the sufferiags Of those W no
are left in destiiu circumstances by the
fl pod.
"A Sunday school boy up at St. G orge
told his teacher lasr Sunday that the pin
est men because they had never attempt
ed To swollow one. That youth will make
q Congressman.
Raymond Rodehav,r is ahead once
m ire. l. st Tuesday be killed a viii
turkey which maasu Ell five feet six inches
from tip to tip 0t wings. and four feet one
inch from bgak u end of tail H. was
gobler and had beard nine inches long
This story seems almost incredible, yet it
is true.
The residence OF John i. Forman,
situated about one mile west of town
burned to the ground on Monday night
about 10 o'clock. Most of the household
goods were saYed. The fire originated in
a defective fue. Mr.. FOrman IS poor
man, and the loss Of his house will iujure
him financially to no little ex.ent.
John A Cockerill. managing editor Of
the New York World, is supposed to be
the best paid newspaper man in this couu.
try. His salary lie $40, 900 year, aud, in
addition TO this sum, he derives band
some income from certain shares of stock
10 The 81. L1ui, Post Dispatch, presented
him some years ego.
The close of thepublic sch oil is draw
ing near at hand, and young America is
now committing TO memory his Patrick
Henry speech intended f.r delivey on
the closing Day when his pap and nam,
and his brothers, JJseph4J and Israel and
sister Sophish will grace the school room
with tbeir holy presence.
A remarkable freak Of nature is re
ported from Richie county. A child Of
Mr and Mrs Samuel, few wot ks old,
from its shoulders TO it's hands, and from
its hips % lie feet, il black and covered
with q thick c, at # black hair. It's head
and feet except spot Oh i's chin are also
covered with hlT from three 90 five inch
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