Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-19

COV,UlU " FNcIONS"
probably will not cost over $1,000.
TUE EXTENSION OF THE OHIO RIVER ROAD,
An effort will be made at the Mason
County Court, which meets to-day, 10 sub
nit a proposition 10 the district through
which the D. r. Z. purposes 10 run, 10 vote
a subscription 10 the capital stock Of the
road. II the measure is successful q
the subscription be voted The road Will be
pusbed az once 10 Point Pleasant. II,
however, the proposition be defeated, some
other course may BIZ adopted bg The ROAD,
aud it may not go to Point Peasant ct
all.
MISCELLANEOUS STATE NOTES.
Ice half an inch thick has formed in
Morgan county.
General Goff is home from Ohio. He
goes to Virginia this week.
Shephe rdstown WAS visited by q heavy
wind storm, last Monday.
The Ohio Central Railroad bridge ct
Point Pleasant will be sold on the 9th
instant.
1t is said that the corn crop Of Richie,
this year, will be not less than 100000
bushels.
There we're l68 applicants for teachers
certificates at the late examination held In
Preston county.
A bicyclist and a geological surveying
party were among the new features IN Par
kersburg last week.
The colored people of this State are go.
. ing TO give q fair at Charleston, beginning
October 20. and lasting ten days.
The Baptist General Association of West
Virginia will hold its next annual session
in Grafton, November 4th TO 9Th, inclusive.
One night last week some one cut On
ear off a horse Belonging TO Mr.. Iancy
johnson, Of Clrcleville, Pendleton county.
The burning Of the Brake school house,
in Gilmer county, q week or so since, is
said to have been the work Of su incen-
diary.
There is O project on foot to establish a
county medical association, TO be composed
Of the reputable practitioners Of Jefferson
county.
Ths annual services Of the Grand Lodge
X. OF P. Of West Virginia will convene at
Piedmont, to morrow. There will be a
parade aud q banquet.
The work Of erecting the telephone wire
from Guyaniotte to B~arboursVille will be
commenced this week. The material is
about al ready to be put up.
1t is said that the B. & o. Company
have contracted to haul &c. 900 car loads OF
grain from the West to Baltimore via the
Pnrkersburg branch.
Col. b. w. Brine, of Charleston. is 10
act as umpire for the Commissioners In
locating the line between the counties OF
Greenbrier and Pocahontas.
FrametoWn claims to have the cham
pion egg eater of the State. OGe Of the
residents Of that Leigh6orhood recently
ate three dozen soft boiled eggs merely ss
an after.supper lunch.
One dnI last week as the children Of
Robert Scott and these Ct Eugene lsner,
OF Randolph county, were returning from
school one of them 0ged eight years was
chased about forty yards By c make.
The Grafton Standard says: One han
bred and seventy sacks of cheOtnuts we're
transferred from No. Ia and the G. & G.
Wednesday evening for Chicago, and sev-
euty socks for Cincinnati and st. Louis.
Norval Simmons, q nine-yesr-old son OF
JOB Simmons, Of Buckhannor, got three
fingers of bis right hand cut IF With an
axe about four weeks ego, and what is
most remarkable, the child has never c. led
frcm the cut.
Mr.. George Pierson left At this Office q
piece Of peirified snake found in the bed
Of the creek, at S'srbuck's mill. 1t is
about g inches long aud bears a striking
resemblance to a water moccasiu."-
Nicholas Chronicle,
From every portion Of the State comes
the news that fsrmers are HARD at work
in an increased acreage of wheat.
They are noRise dibheariered by the failure
Of crops this year. aud will put th,ir best
foot forward and Try again.
They have q Baptist preacher in Taylor
who acts az counsel for those who
are brought before the church charged
with an ~cffenss. When preachers aud
pastors Of the church defend crimes it is
high time a halt should be called.-Tucker
"Doc" Redman. a Hardy county negro,
who killed o young man named Lewis,
while csrelessly handling bis gun, was tried
for marslsuPbter hast week. The jury
in q verdict Of involuntary man.
.laughtrr, and The j"dge sentenced the
prisoner to fifteen days in The county jail.
The editor Of tn Fayetteville Enterprise
9 endeavoripg TO break colored citizens Of
he habit If carrying razors. He says:
We take the privilege of cbll.Dg the at
entiou of the intelligent portion Of our
jolorei citizens TO the growing vile habit
Ito which the more humble and ignorant
lass Of colored CT izers are indulgipg
Werf FER t. the habit Of car /.
yiDg about their persons for no other
ban idle. usehss ard evil purposes, the /:
ommon razor" How this danger.
and degrading aud very !
isgracsful practice has, with this humble
lass of colored people, BECAME q com
,on habit, We Sra unable to say. Bat
very efJrt should be resorttd to, save
occe, 10 make them understand how low !
nd mean ard triding the habit is, and |
the fact that the day is now almost
pom then when fer carving s i&sor, as
Or carrying 8 IsroiVey, they will be placed
y the courts. on the chsin gang and re-
uired to work with q ball and chain at
.ched to !htir aJkle lie ont casts. Let
Il induce them to abandon this mean
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