The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-05-27
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Correspondence OF the HEPuBL1CAN.
wIooINs, W. Va, May 22, 1891. This
week two italians favored the citizens
OF Hinton with music OF baRpipe anc
clarlonet. They were assisted by al
army OF street Arabs with tin pans.
Hinton has fine water reservoir
which supplies the citizens with pure
water, and rejoices in two fire com
panies and hook and ladder Com
pany.
The Young Mems Christian Assocla
ton of Hinton have purchased and
paid for lot and collected sufficien
funds to erect n handsome building.
The brown stone quarries below tht
town arc rushing things. The G. Il o
Railway Company are building a new
round house and will shortly com
mence building a fine passenger de
pot.
This town OF Hinton is on a boon
now, buildings going up on every
hand and business prospering. Silve
| it is said has been found Ia paying
quantities III the neighboring count.
of Monroe, and the owner OF the land
Daniel Falls, living on ten acres, sever
miles from Salt sulphur Springs, has
refused $50, 900 for it.
The earnings of the Chesapeake anC
Ohio system for the third week IL
April increased s10 $685. A. as compared
with the same week of last year.
The late frosts have left US without
fruit again this year, and a slender
green worm about half an inch In
length, with a black head, has appeared
in large numbers in this neighborhood
and is directing its attention to the
gooseberry and current bushes, en-
| -f.-tr. IN ~ f..I
M0les are quite numerous, and the
caterpillars have come as another pest
l have destroyed over fifty nests oi
them in my orchard, and it seems that
eternal vigilance only will Insure the
farmer and gardener crop. One oil
my morning pastiines is to search fol
the pestiferous cut worm md / have
been very successful destroying al
| high as twenty or thirty at time.
Last year our crops all failed. so this
year began early planting every foot
of ground could find suitable. and by
keeping down the noxious weeds, an
greeted with promising field corn
bright looking wheat, long rows o.
beetS, carrots. par5nips, sugar corn
peas, beans of various kinds, tomatoes
onions, etc, and feel justly proud oi
my crops growing, because | feel thaI
am earning my bread by the sweat o
my face.
By the way, did you ever have th'
grip? III you never was afflicted Will
that terrible disease ask your physician
what will prevent taking it, and US,
every means in your power to avoid II
have had itand only byheroic treat
ment was relieved and still feel tn
effects of 1t. Fancy to yourself an all
gone feeling. with every bone in you
mortal frame aching, your throat.sore
your head paining you so as to pre-
vent your sleeping, and feeling gener
ally as II some heavy thing had caugh
you and bruised you from head I,
foot so as to prevent your walking eX
cept with slow, dragging gait, ant
you will have some faint idea Of wha
the grip is. But am making this LET
ter too long and will close by saylnI
that the Republicans of this Stat
are drilling all along the line and dom
intend to he caught mapping.
Riley Armstrong the town sergeant
OF Hinton, was shot and killed to-da,
10y Brown Pack OF that place. 1t seem
that Armstrong endeavored to collec
n dog tax from Pack. Angry word
were exchanged with profanity on tn
part of each, and in the attempt to 81
rest Pack he was shot, the ball pent
trating vital part. A surgeon sum
moned, in probing. failed to find tn
bullet, and Immediately informed tn
sergeant that he had but II very shor
time to live, and what he wished t
say or do should be done quickly. II
expired in about three hours from tn
woundlng, leaving a wife and seve
small children to mourn his untimel
fate. Armstrong has always been
very rough man, and has been in priso
several times for brutal treatment o
others. Pack Is n young man of YER
violent temper, and this is not the firs
time he has been too free with his pil
tol. W. B. w.