The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-17
THE STATE PRISON.
NOTES OF INTEREST ABOUT IT.
New Prisoners Received Happenings Of
Note in Dsllaire aud Martins Ferry.
Personal Parasraphs-A Newsy Re-
sumo of the Late State News.
Nj. yms.ead, New Martinsyille's good

j Mr.. umstead, New Marttnsvtlles gooo
natured attorney, is in town.
Street O Commissioner Lowe has been ap
pointed special policeman in place Of VIM
McGill.
Hon. Daniel Peck was in town satnr
day, looking but very little older than he
did twenty years ago.
4 A colored convict named Daniels, from
Jefferson county, died at the prison Sat
urday morning OF consumption.
VIM. Brown, serving q two year term In
the penitentiary from Hardy county, died
yesterday morning OF typhoid fever.
John Headington was received at the
prison rom Brooke county Saturday even,
ling last, to serve four years for malicious
cutting and stabbing.
The case Of the Ohio River Railroad
Company against William McAfechen
being still on trial, the case against
Powers and Clark, indicted for burglary,
set for to-day, was reset for the 25sh inst.
Mr.. Howell, foreman Of the bri'ge car.
penters, together with his entire force,
has been reinstatsd. They are clever
and skillful set ofgentlemen, and the new
supervisor Of bridges acted wisely in re-
tanning them.
Malshall county tobacco dealers were
served by Sheriff Showacre, afew days
ago, with notices that the special license
tax ,oi s. so was now due and payable.
This special tax will! amount, in Marahall
county, to about $500.
ST. Francis Nayier church was crowded
Sunday morning last to witness the cere-
monies OF confirmation by Right Reverend
John ]. Kahn, D. D., Bishop Of Wheeling,
and in the afternoon to hear lecture by
the same eminent divine.
Farmers appear reluctant about bring
ing their clips Of wool to market to accept
the price offered by buyers-2S cents. A
disgusted sheep man said: "Why, the
i've pounds Of wool that my sheep aver.
age only amounts to 81 40, and that won't
begin to pay. for the grain and hay l fed
them last winter, TO say nothing Of their
summers pasturage. Iwish had knocked
every blanked one Of them on the head
and sold their pelts last fall.n
Thomas Scott, OF the Round Bottom, to
whose enterprizs this section OF country
Is indebted for the introduction Of pure
blooded Holstein cattle, Is meeting with
very aattering success in his now venture,
having made seven sales within the past
two weeks. He sold a few days ago regis.
terel bull number 3,493 to Mr.. "a. D.
Pierce for $500. Mr.. Scott Is confident
from the number OF inquiries received
from different sections Of the county, and
the general interest shown by stocEmen
and farmers in the Holsteins, that they
will be introduced all over this and ad.
joining counties in a very short time.
AtessrS. @. O. Mathews and 7. w. Man
ming, Commissioners appointed by the
County Court to measure and apportion.
the Ohio River Railroad between the sew.
eral school districts through which it
passes In this county, have completed
their work with the following result:
Total number OF miles in county, 26!7-
apportioned as iollows: To Union district
2i75 miles, Washington district 45 miles,
independent district, Moundsville, 9
miles Clay district oJ5 miles, Franklin
district ig miles. itnow remains for the
Board Of Public Workstoplace valuation
upon the road in order that the county.
and different boards Of education may
have q valuation upon which to base their
leyies
Wayne county yesterdayrecognissd the
honor shown her in the appointment Of
Mr.. wilkinson as Assistant Superintend-
snt ofthe penitentiary by sending in Will
liam Muliitt, George Webb, Lafayette
Boyd and Marion MULTI, to serve two
years each for grand larceny, Ahner Vance
and, Joseph Lewis for similar terms for
forgery, and Metideth Workman, three
years for house-breaking and larceny.
This Is Workman's second term here, he
having been discharged in August, 1884,
after serving two years from the same
county. Sheriff Bowen, accompanied by
Deputy Sheriffs q. F. Smith, James Fer
guson and A. Mills, and Messrs. Binifeld
A. Watts, Samuel Frazier, Robert Ross
and March Davis brought this batch OF
unfortunates up from Ceredo on the
Andes. The proyerbial one contrary man
on the jury saved four other Wayne
countans from joining the above men.
toned squad by hanging the jury The
Pen now has 200 inmates.