Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-24
4 STATE AT LARGE.
The Doings and Sayings of Our Country
Cousins.


Cousins.
Raleigh Index: Some time ago Jas. I.
McCreery, OF this county, purchased at o
commissioners sale in Wyoming county
about 1000 acres ofland at q nominal sum;
By a late decision of the Supreme Court OF
this State Mr.. McCreery gets a perfect title
TO his purchase which consists OF q very val
liable tract Of land, underlayed with a ten
foot wen Of coal, known as the Pocahontas
vein, and three other large veins. 1t is
also covered with timber of very valuable
varieties. The land is worth at least $500
per acre and truly Mr.. McCreery is in luck.
Why not?
Clarksburg News: A salmon weighing
ten pounds was captured in the river near
here a few DAYS since. 1t will be remem-
bered that in 1879, the Fish Commissioner
sent a large number of salmon here, which
were placed in the West fork. Why not ap-
ply for moreY
D~esecrating Graves.
Morgan Mercury: There seems to be great
complaint from lot owners in the cemetery
ofpersons d~esecrating graves by destroying
flowers and s~hrubbery placed there: Mr.. J:
T. Siler last spring purchased and plaried
in his lot som nice evergreens which have
been pulled and plucked at until they are
now smaller than when first planted. Mr..
Michael Pentoney, Jr., who mad some very
fine flowers and ~shrubberj planted in his
lot, went there one DAY recently 10 look aft
| er them and found 81 but one plant pulled
up and thrown on the ground, dead. The
town council should at once adopt an ordi
nance imposing a fine on any person or Pc,
sons caught al suck work.
! Fatal Accident.
Harrison Democrat; Mr.. Rice C.. Vas:
fell from his wagon near James Scots OIL
Hunger's Creek, Summers county, on last
| Thursday about noon and received %injurie:
from the wheels striking him, from which
he died IN about twelve hours.
The American Eagle Killed.
Clarksburg Telegram: Mr.. John }. Nor
rs brought to this Office on Monday last
] the head and talon of an American grey
| eagle, which he recently killed in BraXton
county. The eagle weighed 2l2 pounds
and measured seven feet from tip to tip Of
the wings.
Buck Ague.
South Branch Gazette: Last SATURDAY,
there was a deer hunt up North Mill Creek
The party was composed of Messrs. Henry
Harness, Geo. S. Harness and two OF his
sons, George and Marshal, Ike. and Abe
Shobe and several others. They succeeded
in killing two deer-a small one and a large
one. Considerable fun was had and several
of the boys had the buck ague' severely.
George Harness, Jr., was sitting al
his crossing when five deer, all together
ran right up to him. If it had been one
deer he could have stood it; but five deer
all at once, was too much for his nerves.
and threw him into a very bad case of fever
and forgetting he had a gan, set up a ter
! rife yelling. He recovered his faculties
however, and commenced shooting. The
BOYS say they thought George had shot two
or three times; but he had fired eight shots
from his sixteen shooter, and the result was
three crippled deer. The dogs caught one o'
the wounded deer and the other succeeded IN
getting away. Another deer ventured out
of the brush and after being fired on about
seven times fell with two bullets in his cal
cass. When he first camein Ike Shobe
and Marshal Harness ran down the road &c
head him off. Ike ran by the deer, but
fired at him as he crossed behind. Bu'
Marshal left his horse and ran along the
fence, when the deer came right to him anC
Jumped over the fence not ten feet from
Marshal, who fired at him with one barrel o
his gun and was so excited that he couldn'
find the hammer to the other barrel. "Oh
| couldn't take any aim Marsha
told the boys. Henry Harness 60
a shot and struck it, and several others sho
at it. Most Of the party went up the roaC
further. One of the dogs came to the roaC
at Mr.. David Sites shop. lie drove the dog
off and it started home. The dog had gon'
but a short distance when it met a man OF
his way home from Petersburg, The mar
chaught the dog and cut its throat. 1t wa
a bold trick and narrow escape. Had HI
not been in q bend of the road he would
have been caught in the act, as Abe Shob,
came up and found the dog before 1t wa
dead. So the party got two deer and los
one of their best dogr.
Coal in Cabell.
State journal: A very fine four foo
vein Ct coal has been found near Hunting
ton, in an accidental manner. Las
springs storms blew down an old monarch
of the forest and this, falling against an
other, bore it also to the ground. A farme
living near there who had been a miner
CHANGED to pass the spot and noticed wha
he thought at the time was the blossom" o
coal. He brought a mattock and very Sool
ascertained that his surmise was correct
Further developments showed four feet o
first rate coal without parting strip Of Stat
or other material. The mine is now bein;
worked day and night.