Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-04

/ Mr.. Day S5UO, and the other gentlemen
something over "a $;lUO each. From what
/ cgn be learned, Rafter had made IN as
Segment previous 10 his purchasing the
above cattle, poCketed the money and
/ left the parties from whom he had pur-
/ chased. minus the amounts he had agreed
to Pay them. 1t is 10 be hoped that Raj
ter may be appreciated and made 10 pay
/ the tult penalty OF the law us il WAS clear
case Of obtaining cattle under false pre-.
/ tense
4; konccvarte, the thriving and danger
GUS rival Of Lewisburg, the chief enterprise
Is the 81. Lawrence Boom and Menutsctur-
ing Company. The mill has II capacity
VI 100 0uO feet IN twelve hours and sawed
recently one quarter million ieet Of ten
inch boards in two weeks. In addition TO
this they turned out 100000 lsths aad 4,
Geo headed pickct5 per dag The men
employed by this company number about
525, AID the pay roll will reach near $lj.-
coo per month
/ uae DAY last week Dr. f. Wilsou aud
/ bis s!stcrln,Iaw, Miss Harmon, both OF
/ Randolph county, tloped. They passsd
/ down Red Creek after night on horseback.
/ The next day gentleman 10 whom MISC
/ Harmon vas engaged to be married, fol
loved on their track. He said the woman
went of with considerable Of his money
I The party had also horse that did cot
/ belong to them State Tribune.
/ Captain Williamson. of Tyler county,
Known as the old Hunter, ia home from
two week = hunt III Pocnhontas. Green
5rier ard kNEdo!ph counties. lie killed
eleven deer. one OF which weighed one
hundred and elghty.two pounds net; and
bear, net weight 33I pounds; i've wild tur-
KEYS and numerous rabbits and phessants
lie reported snow TWO and three feet deep
in many places on Rich Mountain.
Isracl keFiiuger, OF Grant county, was
out hunting last Tuesday, aud as he did
not return home search wGs made for him
when found he WAS dead. pom eX
animation, il was discovered that he had
~ shot through the hand and in the
head. He was Il quiet, inotfensiye young
man and his uutimely death cast gloom
over the community in which be had
lived.
There is s,Iious trouble in the BAPTIST
church ~ Grafton and the congregation is
spit mo Two factions The Eagle says
. th.t the troubles eliminated in the e. pull.
sion Of to Of its most prominent members
ard respected cit; ems, at "a church meet
ing, by a vote o. nine members, only
twenty Of the 200 members being present.
. Dr. ". J. Blnnd Superintendent OF the
Hospital received one of the finest Christ
mas presents we have yet seen. 1t was
magnificent goldheaded cane, which prob
ably COS; in the neighborh0od OF $50. The
cane came from Wheeling, and at last
accounts the Doctor did not know who 10
thank tor the present.-Weston World.
Il is being reported that Parker Pepper,
the bankrupt Barbour county cattle man,
since he mas come down from his former
aigh estate, is nov compelled 10 satisfy his
landlord ambition on 1900 acre tract
Of the hest Kansas land aud content him
sell to dwell in new l3.room cottage.
The iox chase at Etna Lewis county,
Lao, week was Great treat Tor the lovers
OF this sport NIuetCea hounds took the
trail and, dividing, started three or four
other foxes, catching one Of the number
late in the evening. The victory is claimed
I by Lewis and Barbour counties.
/ The West Virginia Conference Of the
NJ. T. church shows q membership OF 81,
/ $50, about 100 ministers, 1872 churches,
/ 80 parsonages, 50. Sunday schools, with
. - So scholars, and 4 30 teachers The
whole value Of church property ia over
/ 500. OuO.
Cards are out for the marriage at Par,
/ k,rshurg o! Mr. Camden Rathbone and
/ MISS Mary Beirne Rackiord, o. the .th
The lady and gentleman are boll. society
tayoutes The wedding will be solemnized
in Trinity church and will be an exceed.
iugly fashionable event.
A lively rumpus was kicked up last Sat
urday near the Greenhrier White Sulphur
/ Spungs, which was actively participated
| By a number OF white and coored in
duidual5 Maliuda French and Cyrus
Foster, coloTedr received serious injuries in
/ the melee.
The coal shaft al Mouudsylle nov em.
/ ploys 10 miners, the output being twenty.
| live ear loads per day. Failure 10 secure |
Ia sufficient number OF gondolGs TO take |.
away the produCt Of the mines has caused |
/ the men to lose much time recently.
John Ls4ton, OF Sewburg claims that
/ be has discovered the Hartman vein of |
/ iron ore a. depth Of two hundred ieet
T down the shaft |! this be the case the
Orrl Coal Co. will Immediately build
furnace th,re
lhrty.hyc different u-@,payrrs aud .
Journals have been published in Morgan ,
town since lsG}, at which time the first .
paper in Virginia west Of The Allegheny .
mountains vaa established there
The walnut lumber OF the EIk river sec.
ton .hich ID remarkably fine in quality .
and in great demaUi, Is icing shipped to
The factory Ct the Domestic Sewing Ma
chile Company at Patterson ~ }.
Tue handsomes' woman in PocRhontas
county is said 10 be sly and n halt feet
high aud Eripba three hurcr and eighty
ii poUn!s They evidently value guam.
~ more than quah,Y in ih-t county
Ilrryo coal '.mi.nl'- "a the haua-
VIA the Peerless .allhr MAc!arlAue, that
were recently compe led to make assign
meI's. have 1o.h made arrangements and .
are S9aiu brav-Iv and fully a, work
The Great E,n.~La CoIirry Company,
at Nj Carbon station, On the Ch, sapeake
and Ohio Railway, h,s male contract
,ortweliytwo coke ovens ia which TO ION
vert the slack 0, its mines INTO coke