Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-05-17
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

Central, Doddridge county, has u
fve-legged chicken.
Several wolves have been seen along
Greenbrier river, recently.
Bears are said to be killing good
many sheep i'm Pocahontas county.
The new hotel at Milton, owned by
Il. p. Jones, was burned Friday
night.
The store and residence of ID. p.
| Elkins 81 Co., liz Boone county, was
DESTROYED by an incendiary fire Satur-
day. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
The last defendant of Lewis Wetzel,
the celebrated Indian fighter, died in
Marshall county last week in the
person of Mrs. Rhoda Gosney, nee
| Wetzel. Deceased was eighty-five
years old.
Saturday evening, while Mrs. Will
liam Blankenship was walking across
a railroad bridge near Charleston,
carving her little child, eight months
| old. by accident she let the little one
fall 1t passed through between the
ties a distance of some thirty feet to
the ground. 1t lived but a short
! time.
Last week Mrs. Sarah Brilliant, d
widow residing on Second creek,
Kanawha county, was engaged in
assisting her two sons burning brush
and cleaning up ground, when she be-
came enveloped by fire. She was so
badly burned that she died in two
hours afterward. Both of her boys
were seriously burned in trying to
rescue her. She leaves a large fam
lily.
West Virginia has funny names for
some of its towns. For instance
Corn is in Mason county; Barn is in
Mercer, Beets is in Fayette, Big
Isaac is in Doddridge; Big Skin Creek
is in Lewis; Cos is in Upshur; Gin is
Jumbo is i'm Webster; Left Hand is in
Roane, Man is in Logan; Monday is
in Writ; Ok Bow is in Richie; Snake
Mercer; Wicks is in Tyler; Tick Ridge
is in Wayne; Yankee Dam is in Clay;
Trace sin Mason; True is in Summers;
Van is in Boone.
The Legislature last winter passed
law giving the owner ofany stallion,
jack or bull, lien upon the calf or
foal thereof, for service fees. Such
liens are enforced by filling out be-
fore a Justice the affidavit of the
owner within four months from the
birth of such foal or calf, stating the
amount of such lien against such calf
| or foal, that such amount is due by
contract and also a description of the
foal or calf upon which such lien is
claimed. Upon the filing of such atfi-
davit it Is the duty Of such Justice to
issue his warrant directed to any
constable or the sheriff of the county
to distrain for the amount stated in
the affidavit and such warrant shall be
disposed of rs if taken under dis
tress warrant for rent. This law goes
into effect May 22d, 1889, and is en-
| titled, IAN act to encourage the
raising of horses, mules and cat
| tie, ~
The Buckhannon papers say they
have on exhibition in that town now,
a portion of the skeleton of u giant,
which when living measured twenty
eight feet in height. One-half of the
jaw bone, extending from the point
of the chin to the back, measures
twenty eight inches and weighs sixty
five pounds. Three front teeth are
missing, the balance, four molars, are
intact and about the size of a pint
cup. The t!bia or shin bone, from
the knee to the ankle, measures about
five feet portion of the lower eX-
tremity, however, is gone. The rib
| bopa is al out thirt " 4 IN ree inches in
length. There is also on exhibition
the jaw bone and shin bone of an or
binary sized man. The depressions
in the one correspond exactly with
the other, as also does the holes in
the nerves, etc. This skeleton was
unearthed by a Mr.. Morgan. in the
northern part OF Louisiana, in 1878,
and it is estimated to have weighed,
when living, about eight thousand
pounds.