Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-12-27
A SLEEPS BIG JUMP.
GRANT COUNTY BUCK DBSCBNDS PREF
IPICB It's FEET HIGH.
A Vigilance Committee Out at Palstlns Marion
County-Ths Playful Antics Of Taylor
County School Boys.

COuIl VI a lOlhdli hoohS ANR
a sheep: He SAYS he was out the other day
after a bunch of sheep belonging to Andy
Harper, which ranged on the mountain
near Petersburg gap. Six sheep ran around
the rocks over the precipice, and IN order
to get them out the shepherd dog was
dropped over the rocks to where they were
concealed. They all came out but one,
which appeared to be frightened at the IN
expected appearance ofthe shepherd dog and
leaned down the fearful chasm, and landed
$50 to IT'S feet below, strange to say, IN
injured, except breathless for q time.
They watched it in its flight and found That
it passed the tops of several tall pines,
leaving little tufts of wool as mementoes,
and appeared to light in a top when 1t
was thrown back against the mountain and
there struck another top, and so on untillt
reached the ground. This is the greatest
leap and most p~erilous voyage we have ever
heard of a sheep making to land safely.
On last Saturday evening Justice D. S.
Helmick, o. Palatine, issued a warrant for
the arrest of William Copelin, of that
place, on a charge OF attempting to rape
his thirteen-year-old step-daughter. A
vigilance committee, however, had visited
Copelin the night before and threateningly
warned him to leave the State in three
DAYS, and he proited so we'll by this ad-
vice that when the officers went to execute
the warrant they found that COpelin had
boarded a train for the westa noon On Sat-
urday. Copelin came to Palestine
about a year ago from New Jersey.
He represented himself as a single
man and a few months after married Miss
Sarah Finch, Of that town, although 1t is
pretty well established now that he has
another wife living in New Jersey, whom
he deserted. 1t is to be hoped that II
Copelin is the villain he seems TO be,
he will yet come in close contact with
a first-class article of justice.
The free schools don't seem to have a
very reforming or civilizing effect out in
Taylor county. NJ. p. Thomas, who
teaches a school near Simpson, was notified
a few days ago that he was expected to
treat the school before dismissing for the
holidays. His reply was that when a
teacher was teaching for nothing and
boarding himself he thought it would be
more fair for the scholars to treat him.
The next morning upon entering his
school Mr.. Thomas was told by his pupils
that they would give him just fifteen min
utes to leave. Thinking discretion the
better part of valOr he Obeyed and reach
ing his boarding house he requested Mr..
Che Nth uhnn, hA hnar1Ai tn On
down and hold a conference with the strik-
ers. That gentleman did so and was
chased by the undaunted pupils for three
miles before they found out they were
after the wrong man.
County Clerk w. T. Alexander, of Put
nam, was aroused Tuesday night from his
peaceful slumber by a gruff voice, seem
ing to be that of q seven footer. The clerk
asked the gentleman what was wanted.
He said ''Sal and mes walked twenty
one miles since dark. We want our papers
to marry; have you got fifty cent ones?"
Mr.. Alexander told him ii was the least q
license could be issued for. Our friend
from way back said he only had fifty
cents. Mr.. Alexander refused TO issue the
paper, and the couple turned sorrowfully
away. How cruel in the clerk to walk
that promising couple back home, n dis
lance of twenty-one miles through the
snow because his customer was short fifty
cents.
A correspondent of the Pocahontas Times
writes that paper that several persons in the
upper end of the county, one day last week,
were very preceptably shaken by some
motion of the earth, that houses werejarred
and some alarm caused. On Thursday
evening last about ) o'clock a very loud
and prolonged report was heard to the
northeast of Elday, supposed ut first to be
an earthquake shock, but Mr.. James A.
McCollum saw n large meteor in the north
east about the time of the noise and it is
supposed that the great noise was caused
by its explosion. 1t was heard all over
that section by various parties.
Wesley c. Blackwood, who is employed in
the machine shops at Grafton, was severely
injured Saturday morning by being acct
dentally struck in the eye with q hammer.
Two workmen were engaged IN cutting n
piece of steel in two, and as the one that
was using the hammer threw it rack over
his shoulder to strike the chisel, the ham,
mer hit BlaCkwood, who happened TO be
passing Just at that moment, in the right
eye. The blow was a fearful one and
Knocked him fifteen feet away on 4 pile Of
hot iron.
Harvey Manley was eating figs at the
Continental Hotel, Fairmont, Monday
evening, when Mr.. ZadOc JOlliff stepped
up to him and asked for one. Harvey had
some Christmas fireworks in his possession
and among them was a large torpedo. He
handed the torpedo to Mr.. Jolliff, and
that confiding gentleman without exami-
nation pat it into his. mouth and brought
his teeth down on it with sufficient force
to explode it. Results, decided sensation,
followed by a blunt and pointed state
ment from Mr.. Jolliff
Gov. Wilson has issued n pardon to
of Taylor county, found guilty of forgery
at its March term 1885. The grounds OF
pardon is the i'll health, lung trouble, Of
the petitioner, and upon the recommends
ton of the clerks of the Circuit and Coun-
ty Court, also commissioner of school
lands and the sheriff of said county, to-
gether with the statement of the physician
of the penitentiary.
The Writ County Iron and Gas Company
is going to work at once upon their prop
erty up the Little Kanawha River. The
tools have been sent up, and the contract
for the experiment shaft has been given.
1t is thought that they will be able to get
out their first ore in about two weeks.
They will at once begin the erection of q
tram road and a blast furnace, as soon as
the vein is developed.
Mrs. Butler, aged "a years, whose hus-
band was killed on the Panhandle rail-
road about three years z and who has
been making her home of late at her daugh-
ter's Mrs. John Cheeks, Of Wellsburg, VEN
tured alone on the porch, Monday, and
stepped of or lost her balance, falling and
fracturing her hip joint, which may prove
a serious hurt, owing to her advanced age.
DR.. Utawaun, the one-armed lightning
Indian tooth yanker, has written TO an
attorney in Grafton requesting him TO bring
suit against a paper published in that town
for so, 900 damages. The paper published
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