Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-04
STATE CAPITAL.
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STATE CAPITAL.
Personal Matters, General News Items
| and Brief Comments.
Specie! Correspondence Of ne Register.
CHARLESTON, w. VA, OCTOBER, 1850
Gen. C. C. Watts is now at ClarksburS
attending District Court.
Senator Kenpa was here this week and
made an excellent campaign speech at tne
Democratic County Convention, heiu oa'-
Henry S. Walker made speech at Al
derson, Wednesday last, and VIII speak at
other points in the Third District before
returning home. IL
Gov Wilson is at Capt. CrOckett's,
| Crump's Bottom, Summers county. lie
and his family, after an extended sojourn
Mt Canon Springs, Hampshire county,
are making brief visit at the hospltabie
and handsome country home of Captain
/ Crockett.
Mr.. Fleming RAIDER, of Nicholas county,
who has been resident deputy OF Marsnai
Sehon since his appointment, has resigned
his position and accepted more lucra-
/ tive DOsition. as special revenue agent.
/ He goes to Tennessee TO enter upon his
duties.
/ Mrs. John TruSlow, who has been the
quest of her sister, Mrs. w. II. Davis,
Wife of Justice Davis of Wheeling, returned
/ In her home this week. She is rapidly inn
proving in health.
Col. Frank Armistead, formerly clerk at
the St. Albert hotel, and who made MS
residence in Weeling and ParEersburg Tor
many wears is now hOplessly insane, and
is confined in the asylum at Anchorage,
XIV. He has friends and relatives IN
/ Virginia.
GENERAL NOTES.
The Baptist General Association will
meet at Huntington, Oct. l3-l7.
The annual conference Of the NJ. L.
/ Church South will meet in this place next
week.
A convention of the Federated Miners OF
the Kanawha and New River districts Will
be held at Fayette Station, October 9TH.
Something important is to he discussed ut
this meeting.
LAST week a great and interesting show
WIS held at the lecture room OF the State
street NJ. E. Church. Babies OF all sorts
and classes were on exhibition, and very
ENJOYABLE as well as profitable entetaln-
ment was the result. Rev. MIR. A
J. LYDIA, the worthy pastor OF the State
street church, has made many new irlendS
during the past year, rs we'll as making
friends of former years more steadiaSt.
They will be glad to know that he has
been returned to Charleston by the Con-
ference, lust closed at MOrgantown. MIR.
| LYDIA is expected home this week.
Rev. F. J. Stanly, until recently pastor
of the Presbyterian church OF this place,
and the man who in his frenzied advocacy
of the prohibition question, so far forgot
himself rs to insult gentleman who had
the temerity, rs Stanly thought, to enter
tain opposite views on the subject, with
the consent of the church goes
TO New York. In his last
sermon he gave some of his members
parting shot and grew very sarcastic when
dwelling upon certain matters. a member
of the church answered him through the
public prints. and indicated that some
| things the reverend gentleman had said
were not true Thus ends the pastOrate
in this city of gentleman whose indiscre-
tions as divine in entering INTO
politics brought him into diSrep ute
among his congregation. The church peo-
pie are in correspondence with other d.
vines and will have their pulpit filled In
| few weeks.
Wyoming county furnishes big and val
liable trees. Some time ago valuable
curly walnut tree was gotten out OF that
county worth $1,000. Another tree
Wa, s.ottoa out - Tow dayS oSn from
the same county, poplar ninety-siX
feet long. 1t contained ~, Isl feet Of lum-
/ Der, board measure. What cannot West
/ Virginia do?
| The State House and grounds have been
preatly improved of late, all the apart
ments have been handsomely painted and
| decorated Treasurer ThOmpsOn's and the
/ Governors apartments are perhaps the
most attractive. What is needed now
most about the State House is the thing
of the halls. The first thing the next
/ Legislature does ought to be the work OF
/ thing the halls. The ungainly and I'M
slightly rough plastering Of the walls
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| no doubt the plan of the original design.
/ The grounds are now cleaned oil and the
ugly buildings and rubbish removed. Ora
ding is in progress, and q new and suOstan-
tIal walk will be put down leading from
/ Capitol street to the main entrance. The
grounds are now enclosed by temporary
fence. If council would only pave Capitol
! street, then the surroundings would be
complete. Until the street Is paved the
approaches 10 the State Capitol building
duringthe winter will be almOStimpaSsable.
Huntington will be alive with cOnven-
tions this month. The Greenbrier Presby-
terry cOnvenes at that place October It'll
I The Baptist General Association also con-
venes there, as well rs one or two other
bodies whose names we do not remember.
Sherifs from different sections Of the
state visit the capital every other day or 50
for the purpose OF settling with Auditor
Duffy.
A number of Cincinnati's local celebri-
ties, who engage in the manly art rs means
Of livelihood as well as for pleasure. to-
gether with hackers, dropped on Charleston
some weeks ago and gave an exhibition OF
their skill at one dollar per head. he 1t
said to the credit Of Charleston people, not
many persons from the city patrOnized the
hippodrOme, and the Sluggers went home
unhappy. Tom Campbell, formerly OF
your city and later of RayeuSwOOd, was the
hacker of one of the lights.
Richard Hamilton, pressman for fancy
Bros, and later preSSman in the Register
Job rooms, and who came to Charleston
and accepted a position as pressman in the
branch office of West Virginia Printing
CO., recently died in the Cincinnati Hos
pital from the effect of an operation per
formed. He was buried in Wesleyan
, Cemetery. Cincinnati, at the expense Of
Charleston Typographical Union. His
home was in Boston.
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