West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-05-04
STATE NEWS.

Charleston has struck naturai gas
in abundance, and is happy.
The State Medical Society meets
at Huntington May 16 and IL.
Bill Dave Goshorn, the Greenback
leader in the Kanawha Valley, has
begun the campaign in earnest.
The Kanawha Gazette. published
at Charleston, now appears as a
daily. It is neat and attractive.
The county Court of Morgan has
reconsidered their recent action re
fusing licenses to the saloons and
drug stores.
State Treasurer w. L. Thompson
and Hon. Eustace Gibson are can
didates for the Democratic nomina-
ton for Congress in the 4th district
against the present incumbent, Hon.
G. f. Hogg.
One hundred and twenty-eight
indictments were found by the
grand jury at the present term of
Greenbrier circuit court, ninety-six
being for violation of the liquor law.
John H. Miller, a venerable and
much respected citizen of Preston
county died at the home of his SON.
in-law, near Kingwood, Wednesday
evening, of last week, aged about 70
years.
Nv. Andrews, ex- President of Ma
rietta College, and author of An
drews's Manual of the Constitution
of the U. S., an able work, is dead.
Mrs. Fontain Smith, wife of Ex-
Senator Fontain Smith, Of Fairmont,
who has been lying at deaths door
for several days, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Fleming Bibb, near
Ruth's Glenn, Virginia, died last
Friday.
A certificate Of incorporation has
been issued to the West Virginia
Bung Company. The principal Of
flee and place of business is to be at
Elizabeth, Writ county, and the
charter to expire on March l. 1888.
John Brodly and James Davis, of
Llnseed, Monroe county, in attempt
ing to jump from fast train on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, were
caught under the train and crushed
to death.
Friday last Stephen Stoffel and
Granville Mcdonald, residents Of
Jarrett's Ford, Kanawha county, be-
came involved in trouble about a
horse. Mcdonald struch Stoffel on
the head with stone, from the ef-
fects of which the latter died. Nc
Donald is in Jail.
West Virginia, in the person of
Col. Alexander Campbell, of Brooke
county, gets another fat plum in the
$4,000 Commissionershlp to the
Australian International EXposl-
ton. ''and expenses"
Marion Letter and Henry Smith
escaped from the Moundsville peni-
Tertiary Tuesday night of last week.
Leber's sentence is for twenty years,
beginning June 3, 1886, and Smith
was sent up for seven years and a
half. and had about six years to serve.
Smith was sent up as burglar.
Mayor w. w. Brannon and DR..
M. S. Holt, editor of the Weston Re
publican, had spirited knock down
on one of the principal thorough
fares of Weston, last Saturday.
They were parted after time with
both belligerents still in the ring
and the honors about evenly divided.
The Mayor, who was the assaulting
party. was fined $40 and cost for his
fun.
Last Saturday "Brierfcld" near
White Sulphur Springs, the resi-
dence of the late Col. Joel McPher-
son, was sold atjudicial sale in Lew
isburg. This property containing
164 acres of land, was bought by
Mr.. w. A. Stuart, owner of the
White Sulphur Springs, at thirty-six
dollars and seventy-five cents per
acre, making $6,027 in the aggregate.
-Greenbrier Independent.
At midnight, on Thursday last,
the telephone exchange at Clarks-
burg was closed, By order of the
Bell monopoly. The exchange has
been in operation for over two years
and has been a success from the
start. After the recent decision of
the Supreme Court, the Bell Compa-
nv came down on the Clarksburg
concern with both feet, and to pro-
tect their patrons the latter decided
to close their offices.