Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-09-04
CHARLESTON

Charleston in Need of More Fire Extin-
gushing Facilities-Post Master Gibbens'
Gaze General News Notes.
Special 10 the Register.
CHARLESTON, ". Va, September 3.-Tae
cable Of the Western Union Telegraph CON-
pany at Pr Pleasant has been out of re-
pair for several days past and will not be
ready for Use for some DAYS yet. The &C
ciGert is q great inconvenience to the pub
lie The business OF the company is now
transmitted over the Chesapeake X Ohio
Railroad wires by way Of Ashland.
The destruction by FIRE of an out house
of considerable value on Judge Browns
premises Saturday, ought to sufficiently
demonstrate the fact to the citizens Of Char
lesion that they cannot successfully combat
u conasgration until sufficient water supply
is secured. Without water works the most
thoroughly disciplined department viii be
OF little avail when most needed. Charles
ton has had three destructive fires within
month and as many incipient affairs which
we're nioped in the bud A water works
next to fire alarm is one OF the greatest
guards sgsinst loss By fire.
| have positive information that Post
Master Gibbons case will be disposed OF
this month.
Marshall White Of the Secretary Of States
cfliee leayes Friday for Wheeling to attend
tho Fair.
Considerable Interest was manifested here
by the sporting fraternity as well as the geE-
erel public, in the Sullivan Nc Cafrey mill
About ~ 900 was up on the result, it Is I'M
derstood.
C. Mason PenGleton, E.q, of Berkeley
Springs, ". Va, was here few days this
week The gentleman is the son Of Col.
Philip Perdleton, recently appointed com
missioner by Gov. Wilson to the Southern
! Exposition. Mr.. Peud!eton is travelling
over the State for the purpose of elicitiug
aid and interest in the work Of presenting q
respectable exhibit of West YIrginis's re-
sources at the coming Exposition. Mr.
Prndlston says his father hopes to make a
very credits5le showing in New Orleans tor
our State, and feels confident that efforts in
that direction will be the means of bringing
vast capital and new enterprises into the
State.
Tie County Court of Kauswha county re-
fused to grant the c. & o. railroad an ex-
tension Of time in which to pay county aud
district taxes, but hoped the Sheriff would
give the company all the time possible,
under the law.
The stock OF W. McChesney, the boot and
shoe man, who failed for $4,000 some days
since, is being sold out 9 auction.
W. A Merrill, Esq, editor and proprle-
tor Of the Ceredo Enterprise has leased the
State Tribune of this place and will here
after coudL ct il as o Republican paper.
As q fair indication Of the state of busi-
ness throus bout the whole country the Seere-
I. ~ of States office is good barometer.
Ia tush times when capitalists are seeking
investments, new stock companies are being
formed and having certificates issued, old
| CONF anies are increasing their stock aud
exteI ding their charters, etc., all which
business passes through the office Of Secre-
tary of State. In the last few weeks little
Or no business of this character has been
| done.
| The Post-Tradership That Hassler Didn't
Get.
Mr.. II. c. Armstrong who has received
the appointment of post-trsder for the Cow
Indians is well known in many Sc :t.ous OF
the State. Mr.. Armstrong has tsr many
wears travelled for large wholesAi ale house
in Baltimore and has many t.leads IN
Wheeling, Grafton, ParkersburS Clsrks-
burg, the river counties and the Taisd dis
trict who will be heartily pleased to learn
of his appointment Mr.. Armstrong 10 the
son Of Jacob T. Armstrong, Esq, OF Jack
son county, now a member Of the Board OF
Regents, Of the University, ard who served
a. a member of the Board of Directors OF
the Insane Asylum. The appoiniee
comes from good Democratic STOCKS, and
has never been anything else but q
| Democrat since be FIRST cast
a vote. Mr.. Armstrong succeeds
a Mr.. Babcock, OF New York, and Mr..
| Armstrong of Kansas was the agent OF the
| Crow people until recently when he resign
ed. His place has not yet been Tiled.
| Matt Blake, Esq, brotherip law OF hon.
| Dave Leonard OF Parkersburg, recently re-
| ceiyed the appointment of clerk to the
AGENT of the Crow people. Mr.. Blake will
| 90 West with Mr.. Armstrong, who will
leave about the first Of October and
after having made the proper arrange
! ment will return for his family.
Mr.. Armstrong says he has had number
less applications for places supposed to be
in his gif-physician, carpenter and black
smith, clerks, etc, and many Of them from
persons whom be would have supposed were
well.to do, and would be the LAST individuals
in the world to solicit an obscure govern
ment appointment, but it seems the desire
for public appointments cannot be satiatsd,
and surpasses the understanding Of those
who have some idea of the requirements Of
the several Offices solicited and the emolu'
ments attached. -,
The readers of the REGISTER will
possibly be interested in short
description Of the country to which
Mr.. Armstrong goes, and sum
mary Of his duties IS trader, which ia ex
trsCted from the Sunday item with few
notifications:
The Crow Agency consists Of q track o.
country, in Southern Montana, about hslft
size of West Virginia, and, with the excep
ZION of the Government Offices located here
and there and few soldiers stationed ct thu
forts, is inhabited exclusively BY Indians
This tribe which, less than half century
ago, numbered thousands of warriors, i.
uOw reduced, ell told, to 1896 The Cos
! country is bounded on tie east BY Dako's
vest By Idaho and sou,h by Wyoming terri
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