The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-04-18
THROUGH THE STATE.
Accidents and Incidents in West Virginia
and Vicinity.

A Lewis county statistician figures
that West Virginia contains 34,20L OSS,-
$4,000 cubic feet OF coal.
NVetzel county will vote in November
on proposition to remove the county
seat from New Martinsville to Wiley
vile.
Parkersburg expects to get an estab-
lishment for the manufacture OF farm
ing implements that will employ several
hundred men.
The Tyler county Star has completed
its eleventh volume, and starts of on its
new year with boom. The Republic
cans OF Tyler have In the Star an able
champion and one that strikes from the
shoulder.
The Guyandotte Herald is the latest
paper TO issue boom edition. 1t fully
sets forth the advantages Of Guyandotte
and its splendid opportunities for the in
vestment OF capital in manufacturing
enterprises.
The Elizabeth Times has changed
hands, Mr.. I. A. Brown assuming con-
troll. The Times is one OF the best Re.
publican papers in West Virginia and
the new management gives evidence OF
keeping it so.
A military company denominated the
"ROncevertc Ritlcmcn" was organized ut
Roncevertc on the 31st ult., with IS
members. John I. Dixon was elected
Captain; Quinn Morton, First Lieu
tenant, and L. II. Dickson, Second Lieu
tenant
The Berkeley Springs aud Potomac
Railroad survey and location have been
finished, the contract has been made and
the contractors are reNdywith their force
OF hands, and ground was broken on
Monday, April IL. The route will be
from Alpine.
CASTOR mines, at Fairmont, is doing
big work. The shipments, since the
I'd inst, have averaged about $50 tons
per day, to which must be added about
so tons used in the coke ovens to get
the daily output. This beats the
record.-Ihder.
The Charleston Star, one of the most
enterprising dailies in the State, APP
peared last week in n new spring. suit,
which fits livery well. The Star is the
only daily paper printed at the State
Capital, and deserves the support of the
good people of the Kanawha country.
A man by the name OF Casteel, OF Al
lamont, was killed at Morgan's
mill, below town, by the bursting OF an
emory stone, Tuesday evening. Mr..
Casteel came to the mill last week to do
some repairing. and was. hurt as men
toned above, his right side being entire
ly crushed in.
Col. II. II. Freer, OF the First West
Virginia regiment, was in Parkersburg
last week and told some parties that it
was practically settled that the regiment
would cncamp there in August. There
will be about 600 men in the encamp-
ment, including the Warrington band,
which has been mustered in regularly.
Gov. Wilson and some Of his stall will
also be present. Senator Camden has
offered $500 to them us an inducement
to 90 to Parkersburg, OF which there
now seeing TO be no doubt.-Fdirmont
Hest Virgirlian.
They had q lively time at a house on
Two.NIile creek, near the Falls OF Guyan,
in Lincoln county, the other night ut Il
wedding festival. After filling up with
"boosc," they got to fighting, and black
eyes and broken noses were manulac-
tured in short order. II took some time
to quell the disturbers, but they were
finally driven off the premises, and the
Jumping the broomstick entertainment
proceeded, and the preacher succeeded
in pronouncing the couple man and wife
without calling on the Governor for the
assistance of the State militia.
The survey for the proposed extern
sion OF the Martinsburg branch OF the
Cumberland Valley Railroad from Mar
tinsburg to Winchester has been COM
pleted, and the grading and track-lay-
ing will begin at once. II is designedto
have the road in running order by Octo-
Der LIST next. The road will be twenty
four miles long, and will be single
track. 1t will parallel the Winchester
and Martinsburg pike, which was the
scene OF many OF StonewGll Jackson IS
exploits during the late war. 1t is
Thought the new road will carry con.
siderable anthracite coal.-CumJerland
NelrS.
The Clarksburg telegram says: Gone
hundred and seven years ago the Indians
massacred the family OF Henry Robert
Thomas, the first settler on Booths
creek, in this county. The land now be-
longs TO John d. Martin. In plowing
(where the house then stood this week,
n sun dial, compass, knife blade, deer
| horns, human tooth and lot of dishes
very much broken were found, and al.
though buried amid the burned ruins OF
the house, arc in q remarkable state oil
preservation. John Kester had them in
town this week, and they created n great
deal Of interest"
The citizens OF Hampshire county
have formed an auxiliary of the State
immigration and Development Associa-
ton. The organization starts out under
favorable auspices and will do substan-
tial work in the matter of developing the
rich resources Of old Hampshire. The
President OF the Association is Mr.. IL.
Stuckey, whose postollice address is
Sedan. Capt. G. S. White, OF Romney,
Is Secretary. The following are the dis
trict Vice Presidents: For Romney dis
trict, @. +. Poland; Mill Creek, William
TAYLOR; Gore, Col. A. Monroe; Spring
field, X. NJ. Washington; Bloomery, W,
| II. Powell; Sherman, D. +. Richard
Capon, A. L. Pugh.
Hutchinson's West Virginia Treatise
bv Hon. A. Hutchinson, Is in press and
will soon be issued. It's treatise on the
law OF West Virginia, arising in business
transactions; the powers and duties o
justices, clerks Of courts, prosecuting at
torneys, sherilIs, constables, notaries
with practical forms; also, rules Of evi
dence, definitions, notes to decisions
etc, etc, with references to the law ant
) practice in Virginia. The author OF thi