Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-18

went horseback after the cows, without
burdening the horse with saddle and
bride. Seeing her horse was about to
leap ditch, the young woman sprang
TO the ground, alighting in such man
ner as to break an ankle bone in two
places, and driving the bone through
the skin. 1t was an hour or two before
her cries attracted attention, she, in the
meantime, having crawled forty or fifty
yards. Doctors Bachtel and Kidd ad-
vised amputation, but the family opposed
it. The patient was resting uneasily at
last reports, and amputation may yet be
necessary.
Mrs. Fannie Pomeroy has growing in
her yard on Main street a phenomenal
tree. 1t is large locust around which
grows an ivy; from an accumulation OF
dirt about 10 feet from its base in the
forks of the tree a honeySuckle has
taken root as has also an elder bush.
Seed is supposed to have been carried
there by the birds. The vine flourShes
and blossoms every year, and the elder
blossoms and bears fruit, near the base
a current bush has found root in an old
root, and each year it yields abundantly.
The tree is now in full bloom and IS in
all one of the most wonderful trees
Point Pleasant Gazette.
+. n. Hays, of Chenille, passed
through Weston this week. French" is
the father of a remarkable boy. He is
eight years old, weighs lis pounds,
measures 3S inches around the chest,
waist and hips, and his arms midway
between the elbow and shoulder meas
ure 1917 inches. This young giant is a
Hercules in strength, and the growth of
his mind keeps pace with his physical
development. He is a great reader and
writes good letter. Weston ReDltbtj-
can.
Samuel May, living in the Pine Hills,
a few miles below Bunker Hill, Berke-
ley county, shot his oldest son in the
leg one day last week, intlicting pain
full wound. He had been whipping a
younger son, when the older one inter-
fered, which action so aroused the
anger of the brutal father that he
seized gun and emptied its contents
into one of the legs of his son. the
Sheriff arrested him on Saturday and
lodged him in the county Jail TO await
the action of the proper authorities,
At recent revival in Dry Fork dis
trict the evangelist told all who wanted
to go to heaven to stand up. Nobody
stood. Then he told all who wished TO
be parooiled in the Seething caldron
prepared for the devil and his angels, TO
stand I'D. Nobody stood. Services
were discontinued at once. at is no
use" said he, ''to try to convert people
that are satisfied with Randolph coun-
". Randolph Enterprise.
1t is the intention, we learn, of the
Union Improvement Company, if land
can be purchased, to build dam some
70 or ii feet high on land about half a
mile above their present dam that will
flood about 30 acres of level land, max
ing a beautiful little lake, and it is fur
Their thought that trout may be put into
it. OF course the main conducting our
water would be drawn from this pool
MOrgdntOlCR Post.
Great excitement prevails in this
county over the rich deposit of silver
ore found on the premises Of d. p.
Falls. Mr.. Falls made DR.. Bradley a
present of one. third interest in the
mine, if he would transact the neces-
Sary business of mining or making a
sale. VIM. Adair, Jr., and l.. c. Hale,
ESQ, have purchased one-eight in
tereSt each.-LindSide Cor. Monroe
Waterman.
The work of improving the channel of
Big Sandy and Tug fork will be com
mcnced as soon as the water gets low
enough. S250,OO0 have already been eX-
pended on the lock and dam at Louisa
and there is balance of appropriation
of near $50, 600 yet to be expended.
There is fund of 81, 366.76 to be eX-
pended on the Levisa and 81, 421.67 to be
expended on the Tug fork this summer.
The fires in the Blue Ridge east and
south of us, for the past ten days, have
exhausted themselves or been partially
eXtinguiShed somehow. While they
lasted they were magnificent spectac!eS.
The last conspicuous figure we saw in
the fiery formation was huge c, for
CharleStown.-ChGrIeStOlUn Free Press.
1t is now stated that the top of Cheat
Mountain, in Randolph county, 1855
feet high, is not the highest point in
West Virginia, that distinction being
claimed for Panther Knob, in Pendleton
county, which reaches an altitude of
1000 feet.
The first conviction under the law
against using the mails to send money
to the Louisiana Lottery was made at
Charleston, Wednesday. Warren NJ.
Frame, of Raleigh county, was convict
ed and fined S25.
Something of cOmmoton was created
at Kingwood few days ago, by
the unloading there of $500 pounds of
dynamite, and some of the citizens pro-
tested against having the stuff in the
town over night.
A telegram from Piercevile, Wyom-
ing county, says: Late Thursday even
ing Alexander Cox was shot from the
brush and mortally wounded. The par
ties who did the shooting are not known.
The Racine, o., wooden mills will not
be in operation this summer and fall as
heretofore, and that the machinery will
probably he sold TO parties in PavenS-
wood or PIT. Pleasant.
A little daughter of Mr.. John Conley,
who resides near Weston, was badly
burned by her clothes catching on fire
on Saturday last, from the effects Of
which she died.
Last Thursday trains started to run
regularly on track Of the Ohio River
road from RavenSwood to Del Roy.
Eight new cars were put on the road