Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-09-14

nine ard hemlock. The Mount Carbon
Coal Company has made q sale OF Inc
siumpage on its Armstrong Creek lands
about 10, 900 acres, at 50 per 1000 feet
UTILIZING GRAssHorrERs.
Isaac jackson, Of Jane Lew, has
found q way to make grssshopPers 40
something for their living. He has bought
nm in the counties Of Gilmer and Brarton.
about one thousand head of turkeys. and
turned them out to feed on the swsrms OF
the long-legged pests which are go thick IN
the Jane Lew meadows. He expects to
fatten the birds ready for shipment In ume
for Thanksgiving day.
INTERIOR JOURNALISM.
The editor of the West Virginia Argus
lava down his shears and takes up his pen
10 cav The rei.headed toad srool who
has editorial charge Of the Tucker Pioneer,
goes off at a fearful rate about us at IN
l~ervaIs. The poor fellow is not accountaole
for what be says. He ought to have been
taken TO Weston ere this.
pYPHTHERIA RAGING.
Dypttheria is raging TO an alarming eH
rent around the Elk Garden coal region.
MANY children have died with the disease
Al d The epidemic is spreading very fast.
The schools of that locality will not start at
the time specified, but will wait until the
epidemic is checked.
IL GRAVEYARD
Early Sunday morning the Rev. NJ. Bib,
H.. ,ro, ballad rnnp IN sNarrv .lnhD
Adkins TO Miss Hannah Gill. He found
the couple under a tree in a graveyard be
low toSn and at once proceeded with the
CeTe mony.
MsCEII ANGUS TATE NOTES.
Cbsriestown has a new fire engine.
The Marietta, O, fair opens to-day.
Wyoming and Raleigh counties will build
new iails.
The postofice at Ballard, Lewis county,
has been discontinued.
G. A. Coleman p Ravenswood boot and
shoe dealer, has assigned.
Tie Coal Valley Hornet is q new literary
venture at St. Albars.
in Morgan county last Saturday, three
inches OF rain fell in an hear.
jackson county is TO have two Fairs this
wear. one at RavensWcod and one at Rip
ey.
An industrial exhibition will be held a.
Anderson, October 18th, llth, 18th and
18th.
10 several Of the counties in this State
where fairs have been held in previous years,
there will be none this year on account OF
Hard times.
TIE notorious Hun" Maxwell, a Marion
county desperate, got into a fight last week
silh an Italian. Revolyers we're fired on
botb,sides.
Judge A &. Fleming, while holding court
IN Mariinsburg last week for Judge Faux
ner, had a case before him which was dock
ettd in 1905.
Hugh Castor, Esq, is the Oldest man in
Lewis county, be being nearly a 100 years
d. Mrs PUmphrcY Of Weston, is the old
es lsdy-9G.
T! e case Of Deison Williams, of Braxton
county, indicted Ior the murder Of John
Shepl crdson, has been continued until the
November term OF court.
There will be q meeting OF the citizens OF
Grafton at the Court House tonight, to take
such steps as may be necessary to complete
arrangements for a fall horse fair.
1t has been discovered that the Conteder-
ole monument in the indian Mound GENE
terry, near Romney, has been deiaced by
some unknown person. The shaft has been
ditfgured in several places and a large
piece Of mouiding has been Clipped of.
The poker players out at Clarksburg must
he good ones. Scarcely o day passes but
hat some poor devil is out in this city be-.
Rirg giving IS a plea that he has been
aeeced by Clarksburg card sharps.-Park-
essburg State journal.
1t is estimated that there are over 200
larges ofcoal. loaded and ready for ship
ment, between the mouth Of Elk river and
Canneltcn. Averaging these at 10000
bushels each, it will be seen that about
, OC0 OQO bushels Of the black diamond are
loaded and ready TO be shipped on the first
rise in the Kanawha.
Train No. / on the Chesapeake and
Ohio road, which leaves Cincinnati At $40
p. m. made q run one day last week which
is worthy OF record. The tram was COM
posed OF seven cars, two being sleepars, and
The run from Keswick to Beaver Dam, a
distance of jlY miles, was made in 81 min.
utes. including three stops.
While Jack Moore, of Weston, was re-
pairirg the fence around the old cemetery,
he noticed his digger strike something that
had o peculiar sound. lpon investigation
it proved to be a pig of lead, weighing
about 80 pounds. 1t was about " feet
under the ground, and had evidently been
PACED there many years ago.
Vt the annual meeting of the Conference
OF the West Virginia NJ. p. Church held at
Morgantown last week, an eight page paper
called the West Virginia Protestant, which
has Just made it's appearance at ST. Narys,
was adopted as the Conference paper, and
Rev. !. j. Painter elected editor. A Joint
stock company has been formed to run the