Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-06

Some doubt being expressed in some quar-
ters, Mr.. Showers comes up with the fol-
lowing fgures: He ssSs be has sold 49,
Ofl) cabbage plants at cent per plant,
makidg $50; rsddiehss, $1G0; tomato
nlants end peas, $40; 5000 cabbages at
cents, S4O0; potatoes and corn, $35; beets,
SIS, and cucumbers, S25, making 1855 al
ready harvested, and he estimates what IS
vet to be gathered as follows: Twenty
thousand celery stalks at cents, making
500; lima and snap bean crop, 500; later
esbbaees and corn, 500; late cabbage
plants, $50; Gallery plants, 500 tomato
crop, $50, and egg plants, $50, making the
actual and estimated receipts 81, CTS. MIR.
Showers says the estimates of the growing
creps are very low. In addition to all this
be has large asparagus bed, which Will
come into bearing next spring, from which
he expects to realize handsomely.
A Meadow Dale, Fsyette county, cor
respondent Of the Greenbrier Independent
has the following in the last issue OF that
journal: "a rather excitsble occurrence
took place at the residence of MIR. David
P. Brown in this place Thursday night,
the 10th ultimo, when quietude was neces-
sary in the household. Three weeks ago
Mr.. Brown was severely injured by a fall
ing tree, and since then has required the
constant attention of his family and
neighbors. AT IL o'clock the night OF the
18th footsteps were heard In the ball,
which seemed to wander to the differ
emit parts of the house and then to the door
of Mr.. Browns sick room. After being
ouist for a moment the door was thrown
omen, and one of the most Unlocking
men, evidently maniac, entered the room
and formed his horrid visage upon Mr.. b.
With purpose that can only he eopJect-
ed. He was Immediately grappled by MIR.
h. g son Alger and forced through the hell
on to the porch, where, with the assist
ance of Mr.. NJ. F. Henry, he was overpow-
cred, after desperate struggle, and tied.
No idea could be formed as to who he was
or where he came from, nor could ne tell.
He was carried before Justice, who took
charge of him, but before he was sent to
iail his father, Mr.. Sinclair Nicely. sp-
reared and took him to his home At VIII
iiamsburg, Greenbrier county. We are
not disposed to find fault or to complain,
but only express the wish that the Green
brier authorities will take this man under
control and prevent his running at large
hereafter"
So far nothing suspicious hns been found
in the excavations on the Hammack farm,
near Jarrett's ford, in the Kanawha val
lev, but the work is still being vigorously
prosecuted. The facts giving rise to the
suspicion Of murder are rs follows:
About fifteen years ago person of rather
doubtful character, named John Duncan,
Was making his home with the HAM
macks, and it is said that abont that
time he, together with Mrs. Hammack
and her son Granville, were concerned
in a robbery, for which Granville
afterward served short term in the
penitentiary. About the time OF the
robbery or shortly after, Duncan was miss
ed from the vicinity and has never been
seen or heard of since. About this time,
three wells on the Hammack farm were
filled up, without any apparent reason,
and the people of the neighborhood, with
out assoclatiDg the disappearance of Dun
can with it in any way, wondered why 1t
was done. Later they began to think
that Duncan's disappearance might have
had something to do with it and since
Granville Hammack, alias Mcdaniel, has
been confined in Jail for the murder
of Stephen Stot1le, the matter was
brought up and it was thought
there was sufficient evidence to
Justify sn examination of the wells
that had been so mysteriously closed. 1t
is also said that a man named Cox was
missed from the neighborhood several
years ago, in such way as to excite sus-
picion against the Hammacks. A force OF
men under the direction of Peter Scatter
went to work few days ago and opened
two of the wells in question and are still
digging at third.