The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-12
rHRoUGH THE STATE.
Nowsy Items GIcaned from State Ex.
changes.

Nowsy Items Cleaned from State TX.
changes.
Bears are killing the sheep in Tucker
county.
The prospects for big wheat crop in
West Virginia are excellent.
Some kind OF n disease among the
cattle in Hampshire county il killing
them off fast,
The Morgantown Post has entered
its thirtioth year, tits hale and hearty
and one OF the best papers in the state.
The Chesapeake y Ohio Railroad
company has begun the erection OF u
new steel bridge at st, Adams in the
place OF the one now in use.
Saturday will be tho SD anniversary
OF the execution of Philippi by the Con.
federates and the taking possession OF
the town by the Union army.
Mrs, Holt, wife Of David q. Holt, OF
Sherman district. gave birth to three
male children last week. At last nc
counts they were all living and doing
well, as was their mother.-HampshirG
Reglew,
The expenses OF the West Virginia
deaf and blind asylum, at Romney, for
the past two years amounted to 500, 735,
The attendance embraced As deaf males
and So females; q blind males aud 20
females.
The old jail at Martinsburg, says the
Free Press, has been renovated for the
Kings Daughters, This prompts the
Farmers Advocate, OF Charlestown, to
say the X. DIS must BIO in bad repute
in Martinsburg,
Frank Houston, aged seventeen years,
was drowned in the Ohio river at Cen
trail City Wednesday forenoon. He
was out in an unseaworthy boat exam
lining trot line when the boat sud-
denly CapsiSed throwing him into tho
water. Houston was glassworker and
formerly lived in Wheeling.
Mr., John 4. Reilly has sold
out his newspaper, tho Martlnsburg
Herald, to two gentlemen now employed
in the government printing office, who
will take charge about July l. They
are Mr.. A. B. Smith, formerly editor OF
the Tyler County Star, OF this state,
and j, H. Mowbray, of Dover, Della.
ware.
The Putnam Democrat has the follow.
ing: Miss Ira Jean Hanly was attacked
Tuesday on the streets by ferocious
dog She carried in her hand the usual
sized weather stick, but strange to say,
she was too much excited to allow his
dogahip to swalIowit. We have known
OF dogs swallowing umbrellas, when the
possessor would throw it open and'kill
him outright.
A resident OF Harrisyille, Richie
county, writes to his local paper US fol.
lows: "Ne don't suppose there is n
town in this state OF the same size
that can equal this one for producing
grass widows. We now have no less
than five in our midst whose husbands
have been suddenly taken with leay.
ing, and it is said all tho married
women in town have roll call every
morning to see ii any OF them are
minus husband.
In the Blackwater mill fire Wednes.
day morning last Mr.. s. +. Williams
lost an old war relic which he priced
much. 1t was dispatch from Stone
wall jackson to General Tallafarro in.
structing him to attack the enemy in
the woods on the right OF the Gains
vile road. The date OF this dispatch
was August 90, 1862, and was signed by
Thomas ]. jackson, lieutenant general.
II was found on the battlefield between
Gainesvilleand Bull Run by Mr.. Will.
Jams, who was member OF Company
., United States sharpshooters, first
corps, McDonnell's command, army OF
the Potomac.-DGviS Times.
John w. Moore, with corps OF as
sistants, has surveyed the final route
Of tho Dry Fork road from Bretz, on
tho West Virginia Central & Pittsburg,
along Cheat river to the mouth OF Dry
Fork and along Dry Fork to the Green
brier Divide, something over twenty
miles. The company will condemn
the land for the right-of-way through
Tucker county. SO far us the survey
has been made. r. +. Whitmer, OF
Philadelphia, is president. The road
will develop u tract Of 10000 acres OF
fine timber aud coal, which Is owned
by members OF the company.-BraztOn
Democrat,