Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-06
THROUGH THE STATE.

The State Teachers Association will hold
its annual session at keyser, beginning
July 7th.
Wetzel county votes on the 10th day ol
May as to whether or not she will build q
$4,000 court house and Jail.
A respected citizen of Ritchie county
whose name is withheld was peppered with
shot while in a neighbors hen house one
night recently.
The Nicholas county Chronicle says;
I'VE have genuine prohibition in this coun
ty. You couldn't buy enough alcohol oil
whisky to dissolve an ounce Of camphor to
save your life
The mill OF Messrs Patterson 4 Gill
Ian, located between Lewisburg and Frank
ford, was broken into by thieves few
nights ago and robbed OF q considerable
quantity of -four, belonging to Mr.. Albert
J. Hanna, OF Falling Spring.
Huntington, this State, has an admirable
electric light system All of her streets and
public places are lighted with it and a ma
jority of her stores. Ii is soon to be intro
duced into the churches In this matter
Huntington is far ahead of all other places
in the State.
There are one hundred and twenty news
papers published in West Eirginis, Of which
80 are Democratic, 80 Republican, 5S lnde
pendent, and Religious One hundred
and ten weeklies, six dsilies, three semi
weeklies, eight monthly papers and three
semimonthly papers.
James Gilkerson, Of Pocahontas county,
was drowned few nights since. 1t hap
pened on dark night while he was riding
home on horseback, In hunting for the
ford in the river he and his horse tell over
an embankment into deep place and both
were drowned.
The Morgantown New Dominion has sad
particulars of the suiierings and SORROWS oi
the large family of Mr.. and Mrs Maple, Of
West Warren. Father and mother ani six
children we're all down at once with measles
which proved fatal 10 the heads Of the tami
ly Mr. and Mrs Maple were buried ,oge,h
er in the same grave.
The Canton, Ohio Iron Bridge Company
have received contract TO erect six iron
bridges over different streams in Gilmer
county. Their bid was fraction over Sl3,
900 Tor the entire work aud the same is TO
be completed before July |, 1883.
Somebody suggests to the Ceredo Enter
prise that We sell the Pan Handle 10 Penn
sylvania for $40 ,OU0, 0O0 and use the pro-
ceeds in building 900 miles Of narrow
gauge railroad in the State and then in
about five years the Pan Handle will be will
ling 10 pay S2O, ,oOO, 900 TO get back again.
This is the most practical suggestion we
have heard.-Charleston Tribune.
We counted, the other day, on one farm
within five miles Of Weston, % black wal
nut trees, measuring from six to twelve
inches, which had been girdled. Eighteen
stood in group not covering an eighth oi
an acre. These trees within few years
would have been worth several hundred dol
lars. If such farmers could see ahead ot
their noses they might have different ideas
of utilizing land-Weston Republican.
The discovery Of silver ore near Rees
Tannery has caused considerable excite
ment The returns Of the last ore analyzed
has caused several parties 10 engage in dig
ging Mr.. John Lkins has discovered ore
on his place, and has shafted down to some
depth and is now blasting out some that
looks very rich.-Keyser Tribune.
The following item was taken from the
St. Adams Nonpariel: "Our Deputy AS,
SCISSOR, Mr.. Fielder, says he has met two
families one with twenty children, and the
other with twenty-five The father Of the
first ssid if his Youngest child had been
born one day sooner, he could boast OF
twenty children during his twenty one years
Of married life"
A fatal type OF scarlri fever is prevailing
in the Hickory Flat neighborhood, in
Wilderness district Of this county. We un-
derstand there were eight deaths in less than
ten days. Four Of Mr.. Randolph Williams
children have died and bis fifth and last
child was not expected to live, on Saturday
morning last. Mr.. John Smith has lost two
children and Mr.. Joseph Haynes two
Nicholas Chronicle.
The oil excitement has broken out in this
county, growing out Of the recent find in
the we'll at Clifton, which was bored for gas.
Parties are now in every direction in the
county securing leases, and this is causing
considerable excitement In conversation
With a prominent citizen on Monday, he
gave it as his opinion that Mason county
would soon develop into the best paving oil
fields in the coua'rE. We await develop
ment ard will keep our readers posted as
matters progress.-Point Pleasant Register.
The Pomeroy Mosquito says: Mr. Pete,
iress, Of Minersvile, met with severe &C
cident last Saturday, which resulted 10 the
uss Of his left eye. He was engaged in
making some repairs about the White Rock
salt furnace, and while in the act Of driving
a nail into board he struck it glancing
lick. causing it TO bounce up, striking him
iu the left eye with such force as 10 knock
the entire ball from its socket Strange as
it may seem, the nail did not touch the eye.
lid, but struck in the corner Of the eye and
passed under the ball, cutting it out as
smooth as il it had been done by surgeon s
knife.
The New Mariipsville Messenger says:
The singular output Of 7. II. Alley 8 won
derful coal mine is arresting the curiosity Of
the more curious in this vicinity. The
product Of this mine Is strange production,
10 cay the least, as it wouldn't burn nor
melt. G. Streight says il is the statofed
lava Of an extinct volcano. Judging from
its extreme weight, aud other other pscu-
liarities, Alley thinks that the under vein is
a sort OF carboniferous plutonic, black
quartz, of considerable value. The l..
Blacksmith declares il to be fossiliferous
metapboric, horizontally stratiGed and fas.
able at 7l2' above faro b. Il. Headly
thinks that the mine is ruined mansoleum,
and the mineral substance obtained there
from, is really the fossilized heart of old
Pharaoh. Others who have tried to burn
this marvellous truck say il is nothing more
or less than the petrifed debris Of the infer.
nal regions.
The wheat crop in this section from pres.
ent prospects will be en- exceedingly poor
one. The bitterly cold weather Of the latter
part of winter seems TO have done great
harm. Many of our farmers do not expect
to realize from the crop their seed wheat
Monroe County Wa,chman.