Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-01

Miss Ida Bell, a good looking dining
room girl, had unceremOdtouSly left
,oyvn i'm company with Harry COlSton,
also employed aS a waiter. COlStOn was
f,muiarly known as the bay Niger"
from his peculiar color, and the lntim-
acv between the white girl aud himself
had become an open secret among their
associates. Ii is said that COlStOn often
b1a,ted that when the left town Miss
Tia" would accompany hun; but no one
over dreamed that such thing would
over occur. COlStOn is from ClarkSburg,
and has been employ ed at the hotel since
-.sr October. Ida Bell began service at
.be Commercial in August last, and
WAS a good waitress and always at
-,ptive. Her home is in Pennington,
Int she came from FairmOnt.
Young man living near Morris,
NoDongalia county, went 10 see his girl
few nights ago. He got along very
well until it came time To leave. He
van, exceedingly timid and declared he
,r.. afraid 20 90 home alone. The
maiden said there was no place for him
=, Sleep. and as the only way out of the
Arcuity she rOuSted her father out of
bsi and ordered him 10 take her timid
..ror home. The old man grumbling-
-y .5muied, and lighting his lantern
Unnamed the lover across the fields
t..p When he left him ut the door
I.s,sti him 10 come back again and
f,rs more 'SiJtin'S up" with his daught-
e~ srt informed him that if he stayed
I,-e be would stall him the balance of
IN. night with his old gray mule.
~lure HuddleStOu showed us an an
Glen. mill stone which he found in the
b4qs near WIN. WoOdyard'S residence
Oh .hc line of the new railroad. Ii was
sandstone about 10 inches in diane
,er circular and about an inch and a
la.f thick 1t was used by the first set
.ers here, probably 100 years ago. 1t
wa, the top stone, and the hole through
which the corn is fed was about an
inch in diameter. The work of grind
ing was by hand and only few grains
could be ground at time. 1t is very
interesting relic 10 the present genera
tion.-SpcHcer Bulletin.
A severe hailStOrm occurred last Fri
day night in some portions of this
county which did considerable damage
20 fruit and other growing crops. The
forest trees were almost Invested of
their foliage in some sections. VIM.
Starkey, on the head of the CheyauYde-
friSe, claims To have lost over hundred
bushels of peaches, which were beaten
from the trees by the hail. Isaac Fork
people also suffered considerable dam
age 10 crOpS.-RuchiC ReCiclU.
The funniest thing in jury trials hap
pened at New MartinSyiyille on
Wednesday. IL was an appeal case, and
when the jury retired TO the jury room
a discussion Sprang up as TO who was
the plaintiff. They finally concluded
that the party who took the appeal, who
was the defendant in the Justices court,
was now the plaintiff. So they came in
with a verdict for the defendant for
nearly $500, and did not find out what a
b.uuder they had made until after they
were discharged.
The Harter family, living on Middle
Fork of Elk, had family hatchet and
clubbing bee on Tuesday. The partic-
u3rS OF the afrdy are meagre, but
enough has been learned to know that
tue family made il hot amongst them
selves for time. One of them came TO
town Wednesday and made Il sworn
complaint against the balance of the
family: His story is that the whole
family were arrayed against him and
b, wife and battered them up with
stones. clubs and hatchetS until they
We're relieved by some neighbOrS.
tn01rRC Echo.
AlamuSing story comes from town
Lr-r Petersburg. II Is 10 the effect
that young man of that place adver
Used Ia a matrimonial bureau publica-
ton for wife, and his sister answered
the advertisement. They wrote atfec-
donate epiStleS TO one another for some
time, and then appointed meeting,
when the denOement came. The young
man now SwearS at matrimonial bu
reauS, the young lady INDUCES in hyS-
tericS, and the old people are grieved TO
know that they have two fools in one
family.
W. c. Kendall was lodged in the
Tucker county Jail last Monday on the
charge OF knocking POlander in the
head during u fight at Thomas last Sun
day. From what can be learned from
parties who saw the racket, kendell
NaS juStitiable IN hitting the Palander,
a, there were several of those fellows
throwing stones at him, and mad
shocked him down at one time. The
p0lauder had to have some of his skull
bone removed. He was alive when last
laard from.
Last Monday was what is called wool
LASS. So named from the fact that it
vl> The day for farmers TO deliver their
tl 90 those who had bought, and from
dawn until late in the evening,
o.a which way you would, could be
aea wool, wool. Several thousand
al.adS were delivered here on that day
H4,ch reminded Us strongly of cotton
delivery day down SOuth.-Rttchie Re
f'lc
VIM. Pope, Il young man aged nine
Seen years, left Charleston for his home
at Mddletown on Thursday evening
aston a mixed train. When few
niles above Winchester, whilst stand
.-s upon the top OF Il box car his head
came ia contact with an iron girder of
tlrdge and he was instantly killed.
Ills body did not fall from the car.
During the heavy thunder storm OF
last Friday night lightning struck the
house of c. A. Horner, of Roanoke,
lewis county. 1t shattered the mantel
piece OF the bed room and burst the bed
posts OF the bed ina which he and his
We were sleeping, yet neither were In
'4e least injured. Their escape seems
almost miraculous
*. q. CalOwel'S store and hotel at
belmont, Pleasant county, was burned
THURSDAY IL is not known how the