Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-01

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covered their senses and discovered the
groundlessness Of their alarm. Fortunately
nobody was seriously injured in the scram'
bic, and the list OF minor casualties is not
long.
Many years age James Bennett. agent
for Lewis county, borrowed $4,000 from
the Exchange Bank of Weston tor the pur.
pose of building the present court house
of that county. Afterwards the county
made a levy for the money which the
Sheriff collected, but did not pay over,
and afterwards he failed. The Legisls-
ture, as was the general custom at thai
time, released the Sheriff and bis securities
from this and other liabilities, and the
bank never got its money. The bank sued
the county in 1858, and the matter has
been hanging FIRE ever since until q few
weeks sgo, Judge Thomas 1. Stealey deci.
ded the case in favor of the bank. The
principal and interest now amounts to
$40, 900 exclusive of costs. The county
has paid the money once, and thinks it
ought not to pay it again, and the'bank
having loaned the money in good faith
thinks it should be repaid. The case will
60 to the Supreme Court.
The Tucker county Pioneer" Of Janu-
airy 22d says: A case Of great wretched.
ness and suffering within a mile Of st.
George has Just came to the attention of
the public. A widow with several child
rem is living in q rude hut on the side Of
the mountain opposite the Island" above
town. They have no stove and their only
place for q fire is o pile Of rocks on the
floor; and here they build a FIRE to warm
by and to cook what little they have to cal.
They passed that bitter cold weather in
this miserable hovel, and hardly had
enough clothes to give them the name Of
being clothed. The mother had only an
old overcoat to dress herself with. Last
Sunday when their wretched condition be-
came known in town, the people made up
a collection Of provision and clothes and
sent to them, and on Tuesday the Over
seer Of the Poor took steps to relieve them.
A death under exceedingly sad circum-
stances occurred in the neighborpood of
Slanesville, Hampshire county, on Monday.
Mrs. Ruckmau, dsughter.in.law Of Mr..
James Ruckman, and daughter OF Mr..
Richard Wolford, was out riding with her
eleven weeks infant. The child cried for
food, and she nurssd it. She afterwards
wrapped it carefully, tight and warm as
she thought, but two hours sfterward, up.
on arriving at her destination she unwrap.
ped the ~liteless form Of her little one. 1t is
thought the babe was sufocated.
On Thursday OF last week Miss Cover,
who lives with her brother .in-law, John NJ.
Grimes, near Thornton, Taylor county. left
the house so mysteriously that some ofthe
family suspecting something wrong by her
actions, followed her tracks, and found her
some distance from the house with Q new
born child laying in the snow. They were
taken to the house and most incredible to
believe, both are alive and doing well.
Two men who are under indictment in
the U. S. Court for a misdemeanor, walked
all the way from Clay county, upwards of
q hundred miles, to attend this term, and
the prosecuting witness ia in Dakota. In
another case the parties walked from Brax,
ton county and the prosecuting witness is
in the regular army out west fighting Ia.
dams. -Parkersburg Sentinel.
A few days since two human skeletons
were discovered at the rivers edge, O short
distance below Red House, Putnam coun-
ty, exhumed by the floating ice. The
bones were not in a perfect state preserva,
ton, and are supposed to.be those Of two
Union soldiers who, while scufiipg on a
steamboat that was passing through the
chute during the war, fell overheard and
were drowned.
On Tueedsy Night, the 18th inst Mr..
henry Dunn, residing near Pe~terstown,
Monroe county, was aroused by q pistol
shot, but upon hearing several persons
aloog the road, thought nothing
Of it. In the morning, however,
upon entering his stable, near The road, he
found one OF his best horses lying dead,
a bullet through his brain. The AMI
NAL was valued ct $3.50.
On Friday last, the 22d inst, Mr.. Bald.
Ballard, residing near Ceutrevills,
Monroe county, lost four head Of cattle by
drowning. The animals were standing on
the ice over u pond when it suddenly gave
gay, and the water being very deep, they
we're unsbls to escape. Three Of them
three year.old seers, and n q fine
twoJear old heife..
Diphtheria is still raging on the Brushs
Fork, Pendleton county. Thus far there
ave been deaths in a radius OF
i've miles. Ii is said the disease is sbst-
"a, bat unl,ss people use great care in
be way OF dress, cleanliness and other
measures. the disease will spread
spidly aud widely during the cold weather.
The ruins Of the Heidendricht fire at
'srkersburg, vas the scene of some sport
q Wednesday. On that day the floor OF
ne OF the burned buildings was taken mp,
nd a gorge Of rats vas uncovered. In
ne spot they we're packed together like
ardines in q box The boys and dogs
'ent at il, and in q short lime they killed
IS rats.
The Elk RiSe- Progress has abandoned
ope Of q railroad up the Elk and ia nov
dvocating the improvement of the river
? o system Of locks and dams. TIE Pro
ress says it has been ascertained that
wen dams would throw water to Clay C.
|. These, it has been estimated, would
'st IS. 600 Q piece.
It is thought that the destruction Of
lue birds in the mountains, during the {
cent cold snap has been fearful. Numb
3 Of partridges, pheasants and other S
sme have persisted. and an almost total
iteI minstion is feared.
a seven year old daughter Of George
eayer. who resides neal Parkersbure,
handling q revolver, was accidently ]
ot Wednesday night. She has since