The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-26
rnnou0n THE STATE.
Accidents and Molaents In West Virginia
and Vicinity,

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Accidents and InOlaents lu West vlrGinir
/ and Vicinity.
License to sell liquor has not beel
GRANTED in Richie county since 1852.
The telephone liae connecting Hun
tiDgton with Barboursvillc, the count!
seat OF Cabell county, will soon be in opcr
ation.
The State Grange OF West Virginia Pat
rons OF Husbsudry will meet at Ravens
wood, Jackson county, next Wednesday
the 2Sth instant.
There is nearly coal famine at Eliza
beth, Writ county, owing to trouble ex
perienced in getting loaded bsrges up the
Little Kauswha.
1t is reported that all OF the creeks
filled with logs waiting Tor water enough
to float them to Huntington.
1t reported that the Baltimore 4 Ohio
Company have contracted to haul 3G,0O(
car loads OF grim from the west TO B4iti
more via the Parkersburg branch.
Mr.. Frank J. rarke, OF Union, Monro!
county, one OF the committee clerks OF the
last Legislature, has been appointed TO q
position under Secretary Lamar, with q
salary of $500 year.
Deer are said to be very plentiful in the
mountains Of this State this year, and the
woods and underbrush are simply alive
with small game, 1t is going to he great
season for sportsmen.
In Braxton county chestnuts are quoted
~ nna naK.E H>aH T1oruJ NJ "a Na1tu no,
bushel. This is lower than they were
ever known to be bsfore. The usual price
is from 81 80 to g 0O per bushel.
The body OF Thomas Skyles, OF Kama
wha county, who has been missing fol
some time, was found at the mouth o.
Elk river. It is supposed he fell into the
river while intoxicated and was dro Tned
A few days since large barn belonging
TO Col. Bob Blair, Of Richie county, wat
destroyed by FIRE that had an incendiary
origin, together with large number o
tools, farming utensils, hay, grain and two
horses.
During the past two months large mum
bers OF horses and cattle have been
shipped from this State to the Eastern
markets. LAST week Mr.. Nelson Andrew
Of Greenbrier county, shipped twenty
head OF horses.
The South Branch Gdrstts, published al
Petersburg, Grant county, says that it Is
reported that Mrs. s. A. Mason, Of thai
county, has become an heiress in ar
estate in New York said TO be worth tittJ
million dollars.
The Tyler county !Aar, under it's new
management, has been changed from q
Bix column quarto to seven column
folio. The idea is to start paper such al
the number Of subscribers warrants, and
increase the size OF the paper with the
size Of the subscription list,
One night last week thieves broke into
the Ohio River roads depot at Williams
town, opposite Marietta. They secured no
money. They emptiei the ticket case aud
scattered the contents about outside. The
depots along this line seem to have 9
special attraction for burglars.
Pat Carr, who was arrested two month";
ago by Deputy Marshal Mehen chargec
with robbing the mails while living il
Grafton and acting as mail agent, waI
tried last week before the U. s. Court, al
CIarksbdrg, convicted and sentenced tc
imprisonment in the State prison for one
year.
The Writ county Transcript says: awe
hear 1t whispered about that the Hon. L
Gibson, Charles Edgar Hogg, Mr.. Mena
ger, Judge Brown and various other Dem
ocratic and Republican aspirsnts for Con
gressional honors in this district, are
booked Tor hand.shBking in this locality
during the approaching term Of the Cir
cult Court.
Charles Grimm, yardmaster OF the Ohio
River Road at ParkerSburg, was arrested
by Chief Mehen, OF that city, one day last
week, iOr stealing money from the ffeigh
Office. For some time past money hal
been missel in sums ranging from twenty
cents to 6ve dollars. Grimm had dupli
cate keys, and while the others were al
dinner he would enter the Office.
Two hundred indictmenta against The
liquor sellers Of little place like Morgan
town is pretty large affair, but that Il
the number OF indictments returned BY
the grand Jury OF Monongalia county a
its recent session. The evidence il sale
Ito have boen worked up by detectives
who reems to have ventilated things pret
ty thoroughly, The temperance people
Of the town are inbilant over the result.
Recently l.. P. Bailey, OF Ohio, vel
known stockman, who was ono Of thl
leading stock exhibitors at this year'l
State Fair on the Island, offered through
the Pittsburgh Stockmdn a full bloodet
Jersey calf to the lady writing tho hea
essay on "The Science of Making Goot
Bread" The committee selected to pas!
upon the merits Of the essays awarded
the prize to Mrs. J. Ernest Scott, OF Han
Iiin's, Washington county. Ninety'out
ladies competed for the prize.
Prof. l. @. White, the Geologlst, Of Nor
gantown, w. Va, contributes to ScienCs 81
article seeking to show that the presence
Of natural gas may be predicted from geo
logical strata. he thinks that disturbances
Of the earth's crust has produced folding
or alternate trougha and arches. Ant
after an examination oi all the suCcessfu
gas wells in the Washington county, Pa
section, he luds them invariably situated
either direCtlyRtornesrthe crown OF fold
while those bored in the tronghs on eithe
aide have littlo or no gas. His theory, hi
says, has been submitted 10 all sorts o
tests during the past two years, with th,
general results Of confirming the truth
The successful wells about Washington
wero located by Prot. White.
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