Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-11
News Notes from ROmney.

News Notes from Romney.
SDeeiat Correspondence or ne REGISTER.
RostNEY, w. VA. August 9,-Ine
drought continues distressingiy. Inc
last vestages of the gardens are rapiuIy
disappearing in the immediate ne'gn-
borhood. and no better news reaches
rs from the country. Young catsie
have been offered al and pa cents.
There can hardly be enough iooo Ior
stock gathered to winter what our peo-
ple have TO keep through, and II the
winter should be severe one, we WIN
have TO prepare to witness POSITIVE SUI
fering. 1t is now too late for the RAM
If IL should come, to retrieve the crop
of corn; in many places IL Is aireau!
dead. The berries usually so aounuans
in the hills, are a failure, the berries
having dried on the vines before reach-
ing maturity. In some orchards there
Is some fruit, but it is small In size anu
not very well developed, and In many
orchards il is a failure altogether.
The prospect for fall pasture IS oe-
cidedly gloomy: il is doubtful II Inc
grass will revive before spring Inc
eonseouent dearth of butter is upon Us
wi,b full effect. A roll is rarely onerea
at the stores, and brings all sOftS u
last Sunday morning, prayer ior
rain was offered in the presbyterian
church. and as the congregation
emerged from the building, shower
fell which sent the boys off home lor
umbrellas: but before they returned
the rain was over and gone.
Though a feeling Of gloom ana oe-
spondency peryades the older ana more
thoughtful, the financial scare mas not
reached US, and we share your conn,
dence in the solidlty Of the financial
institutions of Wheeling ana the 0'@'e
generally. ~ 90
Meanwhile, our young people are
seeking happiness in the usual way as
tAough II rained every day. Last night
a "cake walk" was given in the pretty
grounds of Mrs. Julia w. Waddeli'
cbaperoned by Mrs. Capt. c. ,. Wnlte
ano Mrs. Prof. Mourton. The GROUNDS
were handsomely decorated for the &C.
casion, and the company we're very
hapuv for some hours under the 4oN-
er-loVing moon"
Tha fine drives in the country are
still attractive, and but for the dust and
tbe absence of the summer green from
,be blllsldes are as delightful as ever.
The resorts along the river are ali
patronized more or less, ana there are
some visitors at the hotels and In pri-
vate families. H.
The old town improves slowly. Two
or three new buildings are In process OF
erection, and several citizens have re-
nainted and freshened up their old
ones. The Court Houseis 30 have some
attention also, and on the whole, with
the exception Of the breadth drought,
we are doing nearly as well as ordl-
narily.
Your correspondent met day or two
ago the father Of the murdered Iser'
He had been making vlslt TO MS
daughter-in.aw, aud looking into her
wants. He is quite an old man, living
with one of his sons In the central part
of the county some II miles from town.
He thinks no further effort will be made
To Iynch Shawen. The one made last
week proved abortive from most
singular reason. When the party
of men from twenty 10
thirty reached the neghborhood
of the town late at night, they learned
that brother-in-law Of the jailer was
living corpse only a door or TWO from
the iail, superstition or some
thing else deferred them from any
further demonstration, and they wheel
ed about and went home. The ola man
saws he has advised forbearance, and
sincerely hopes the young people viii
let the law have its course without any
violence. He is convinced that IL VIII.
only make matters worse, and promised
the writer to use all his efforts and In
thence TO dissuade his neighOors from
sny further attempt Of the kind. DC
/ feels sure that the murderer OF his sol
will get Justice from the jury that will
no empanelled TO try him, and he vii
be satisfied with their verdict. he Is
hale old mau, and still rides erect an(
handles himself aud his horse remarka
bly, well.
w. T. Davis, whose opportune deatt
probably saved the neck OF Shaver
from lynching halter, was a conteder
ate soldier, and afterwards joined thu
federal army and has enjoyed a small
pension FOR some years, which will pro
badly be continued TO his widow.
The REGlsTER's friends are often dis
appointed In getting their western mail
and have to wait till next day TO reat
what they ought to have regularly OF
the dav of its issue from the press. o.
an average, Isuppose it is not too mucl
to say that we get the REGISTER an'
other Wheeling papers one day lat
once q week. 1t cannot be the man
ogement. 1t ought not to be the mails
but what Is it, perhaps a word will cor
rect the annoyance which IS grea
one, now, especially as Congress is II
session, aud we want to know quicI
what it will do for the salvation OF th
country and the redemption Of its Dem
ocratic pledges.