Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-04-01
WEST VIRGINIA.
News Of the State-General Comment-A Tucker
County Editor in a Bad Way-west
VirginiaS Boom.

The current number of our cnterpris-
ing contemporary the Tucker county
/ Pioneer, contains the following:
We find after a careful canvass of all
the stores i'm town that the following
groceries and eatables are keptin stock:
/ Canned salmon, none
Canned beef, none.
Side bacon. none
Ham and shoulders. none.
| Eggs have averaged about three TO the
store this week
| Butter, none.
Canned tomatoes about the same.
Prunes, about four pounds in town the
] first of the week
/ Canned corn, about six cans to the store.
/ Dried beef. none.
Salt fish, none
Cabbage heads average two to the store.
Potatoes none.
/ Beef, none in town.
/ Oats, none.
Corn, none.
Three barrels Of -four 70 the store.
All that we could find TO eat was axle
grease and soap. All the merchants
have large assortment of these two
latter articles"
Only one conclusion can be drawn
/ from the Pioneers tale of woe.
There has been no failure Of crops in
Tucker county, for in the land of Tucker
/ drouth is not known, and the chinch
/ bug gOeth not forth to seek what il may
devOur. There has been Il convention
OF West Virginia editors in ST. George,
/ or fufrfefarfa1 apnfnr,p.n
visitation comes only once in a century.
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We have received through the mails
singular pamphlet, something in the
style of Chevalier WykofT'S celebrated
My CourtShip and its Consequences. 8"
1t is the personal statement OF Mr.. Dor
Sey Carlisle, formerly of this State, rel
ative 10 his domestic troubles. Ii is 4
morbid, impure, unhappy production; a
weak, unmanly whine for sympathy.
But We have none to give. Bad enough
To compel your wife and mother OF your
children TO sue for divorce. shameful
and outrageous to attempt to blacken
her character while she has been given
the custody of your children by the
Judgment of a court. We dismiss your
appeal, Mr. CarliSle.-PdrkeSblug SEN
tiRcl.
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The MartinSburg Statesman. admits
that the b. & O. has determined TO re-
move its shops from MartinSburg to
Berlin, and urges the citizens TO go to
work i'm earnest TO substitute something
i'm their place The StdtcSmdH'S advice
is good. One swallow don't make
spring; one Snecze is not the influenza;
and one back-Set don't Kill West Viz
ginia town.
~
\ fine timber tide i'm Mud River
again last week The odds and ends
left over from last rise passed out, but
the bulk went out before and there was
comparatively little to 90 this time.
This has been a very successful season
for timbcrmen. The slaves are still be-
hind. but will start on the first water
in April.-Lmc0lR Citizen.
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The Pioneer Press. the only paper in
West Virginia edited by q colorcd man,
says: Whenever colored man speaks
out boldly for his political rights he is
called Oy certain class OF WHITES anu
blacks a Democrat. Clamor ON. They
called Christ Beelzebub, but that did not
make him a devil
The editor of the Press has got his
eyes open at last.
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A jefferson county paper is authority
for the statement that the b. " o. K.
Z. Co. intend to build new depot at
Harper'S Ferry, to be located between
and at the point OF junction of the Main
Stem and Valley Branch.
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The Recent heavy rains left the Rip
lev and Mill Creek Valley railroad in
bad shape. Several treStleS were wash
ed away and numerous landSideS oc-
CURED. This thing of building and
maintaining railroads is not nearly so
funny as 10 is cracked up to be.
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The board of directors of the ParkerS-
burg Park Association have determined
to hold a fair from September to .. in
elusive.