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CLARKSBURG. W. VA? FEBRUARY 2. 1834.
WHOLE NO. 1728
Itapd'na's Boy.
[idge Maxwell Decides An In
teresting Case.
I,
I (Ion. Edwin Maxwell's decision
1 tbe kabean corjmi case. Myrtle
cUso^w. l'loride Sullivan has
Jaded consideraole attention
roost persons were of the
Junior] that it was not possible
|r the law to recognize any other
Trsonjs claim for the custody of
hi.-, as superior to that of the
lild'sjparents. The facts in the
e just decided are about as fol
ks
?Several months . ago Mrs.
loridi Sullivan, of Wilsonburg,
Iruing that she had a grandson
ling with Mr. and Mrs. Isaac
Lkson. decided to take the boy
t,i koep him at her home. This
Lild was born to Mrs. Jackson
Jifore her marriage and it was
Snerally understood that a son
1 Mrs. Sullivan was its father,
he Jackson's interposed no ob
kions to little Uuy going to
, e with his grandmother where
was most tenderly cared for
td sent to school. Recently
. Jackson, through her attor
ys Messrs. Bassel andThomp
a, instituted proceedings to
' tain the custody of the boy.
lis proceeding was vigorously
ow-ied by Mr. Sullivan and
,. L?inved Msssrs. Lynch and
T
bttl
le4 the bright little fellow up
him and had a talk with him.
/ilnj boy with tears and heart
aking :sobs told how much
desired to remain with his
mdmcther It was an affect*
scene and the Judge and
ctators were deeply moved.
On Monday Judge Maxwell
:dered his decision. lie re
ixod the early decision of the
reme Court which would have
?ly given the child to its
?her. But this bad been
ged by later-decisions as
shown in the case of. Cun
!?ham that was carried to the
Irene Court of Appeals from
ichie county. In that case the
(Id had been given to its grand
bnts when fifteen months old
I the understanding that they
Id have permanent charge
when it was three years old.
[father who had married a
d time (the mother of the
being dead) pretended that
anted to take the child to
tome on a visit ind when he
tj there he refused to give it
to its grandparents.
mob of about twenty men
one night and took the child
its father and restored it to
(rand parents. The father
sued out a writ of Aatieas
is and Judge Jacobs ga
the child. In the meantin
se had arisen in Mom
ty involving the same ques
i. The child in that easel
three and a halt years old
had been given to its grand
nts, they claimed, for good,
case was triea by Judge
pbellwheconsul$ed the child
i its wishes and he held that
jhild's interests and welfare
its wishes should be consult
id that notwithstanding the
_ of the father the court
;ld exercise a sound judicial
ition and do what was best
child. He gave it to the
and .the father took
rtof Appeals
:h affirmed .ludge Campbell's
lion. The Kitchie county
up and the
Is reversed Judge
[awarded the child in
. to the .grandparents be
that it appeared best for
that it should go with
ic Supreme Court
?aid is the Pole star by which to
be guided in such cases.
Judge Maxwell was of the
opinion that under this modern
doctrine Mrs. Jackson had
relinquished her right to the
child and that <t is best it should
stay wher? it is. He therefore
dismissed the writ, which in ef
fect awarded the child to Mrs.
Sulliran.
The decision was haled with
many demonstrations of appro
val.
The hotel at Pickens, W. Va..
owned by S. L. Smith, burned
last week, together with all its
contents.
John Taylor was sentenced by
Judge Jackson at the Parkers
burg criminal court this morning
to serve a term of 2 years in the
penitentiary for the robbery of
old man Cotton.
It is reported that the sheriff
whofigured in the Webster county
tragedy with the Virginia out
laws. and who was seriously
shot by one of the Fleming
brothers, has since died.
A Mr. Harshbarger, a well
known citizen of Doddridge coun
persisted in riding on the brick
pavement in West Union the
other day and a big time occured
when he was arrested. Five
dollars and costs was the resnlt.
The jury in the Reilly will
case at Wheeling returned a ver
dict againstjhe will after being
J!ct was
The
red
thousand dollars.
Ben Earnshaw. late President
of the County Court o' Wetzel
county, was arrested in Wheeling
last week while attempting the
sale of forged county orders. He
had in his possession forged
drafts on the treasury of his
county to the amount of $.">.400.
Kill the Wilson bill and you
will unchain the wheels of prog
ress, light the furnace fires of
industry, bring the sunshine of
prosperity back to the homes of
the people, and give work and
wastes to every workingman in
America within thirty days, N.
y. Pre**.
Some one from the country
brought In a child the first of
the week, that had a grain of
corn" fast in one side of its nos
trils. After two physicians had
exhausted all their skill and
failed, A. H. Stutler made a hook
with which he pulled out the
grain of corn and relieved the
little fellow in less than no time.
?West Union Record.
llnrkhnniion.
C. M. Hart, of Clarksburg, was
in the city Monday.
Miss Nellie Post, of Clarks
burg. is'vieiting relatives ir. the
the city.
Mrs. Chas. Thompson, of
Clarksburg, is the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Jerome W. Stuart.?
Delia.
CoL Ben Wilson was here ask
ing a Iranchise of our town coun
cil to a, company of capitalists
who propose to put in water
works,
Capt. W. W. Roller, of Wash
ington, D. C.. is shaking hands
with his many friends in Buck
hannon this week.
There were representatives of
fifteen competing Irms here this
week on the iron bridge, before
the County Court.
Rev. J. A. Williams, for many
years a resident of Harrison coun
ty, died on Sunday last at the
residence of his son-in-law, Dr.
I>. H. Foreman, of this place
The deceased was an excellen
man and his death brings sorrow
to a large circle of relatives and
friends.?Banner.
HON. KDWIN MAXWELL.
Since the present term of tlie circuit court for Harrison county
lias been one to which several very important, legal questions have
been presented, onr attorneys and others interested may well con
gratulate themselves that they had an able jurist who could pre
side during the absence of Judge llairuis: We allude U> Hon. Ed
win Ma xwell, a man whose name "/familiar to men oi note th?Kt?h
outthe two Virginias- A man whose positive character, fixed
principles, and great familiarity with law and equity, has~tQagitifl^
cently qualified him for a successful career at the bar and an emi
nently successful administration of justice as a member of the 1
Supreme Court of West Virginia from 1867 to 1872. He was State I
Senator from '63 to '66 and again in '?8. serving as chairman of the
judiciary committee. It has been well said that much of the legis
lation of these years bears the stamp of .fudge Maxwell's genius.
He was Attorney-General for West Virginia in 1866. He is still in
splendid health and actively engagedin the practice of his chosen
profession. He has been nientioneSJbr Congressional honors, but
it is not known that he would consenr. to such a use of his tianie..^
Havoc
Violence.
The Angry Mob at flansfleld,
Pa.
A wave of aparcby in whose,
train followed bloodshed, and
the destruction of property pas
sed over the Mansfield coal re
gion in Pennsylvania Saturday.
It began at dawn and at dusk it
was estimated that $100,000worth
of property had been destroyed.
Made wild by fancied griev
ances and liquor, a mob of sever
al hundred foreigners, Hunga
rians, Slavs, Italians and French
men, swept over the country
surrounding Mansfield and
through the valleys of Tom's and
Painter's runs. ? They attacked
the mine owners, miners and the
few scattered depmty sheriffs;
burned tipples, wrecked cars and
destroyed railroad property.
Everybody had to clear out and
escape before the maddened and
furious tyrants. It was not until
the middle of the week that order
was restored and the ringleaders,
to the number of twenty two,
were put under arrest.
Reports just brought to this
country by ' the steamer Belgic
from China, announce the com
plete annihilation by earthquake
of the town of Kuchan, Persia.
Twelve thoufand persons were
killed in the awful disaster. Ten
thousand bodies had been recov
ered dp to date. The once im
portant and beautiful city of
20,000 people is now only a scene
of death, desolation and terror.
Fifty thousand cattle were de
stroyed at the same time.
The press of the State has
been paying graceful compli
ments to Mr. Geo. I. Neal, as
I the youngest official at the head
of any city government in this
country, and at the same time a
wide awake and most efficient of
ficer, and especially for purifying
the municipal government,
punishing and diminishing crime
and inaugurating movements
for the relief of the poor and
needy. If Democracy is what,
she pretends to be. it takes *
pruphet to name her next nomi
nee for Mayor of Huntinetoa.
A Good Play.
'The citizens of Clarksburg will
be afforded an opportunity of
seeing the beautiful play "Only
a Parmer's Daughter." at Music
Hall Thursday February 8th pro
duced by a Metropolitan Com
pany of players direct from their
record breaking run in New
York city. This play has earned
a firm place in the hearts of the
American people as the play is
so constructed as to embrace
almost every kind of Dramatic art
in an effective way. A diversity
of dramatic elements, comedy,
pathos and emotional drama with
a good sprinkling of melo-drama.
Its situations are strong and the
characters well taken. The cast
is strong and well costumed, the
ladies are exceptionally good
looking and every one who can
should see this play.
That is a sad story from Chi
cago of a mother crusned to death
while waiting in a crowd for food
for her hungry children; yet
scenes almost as sad are witness
ed every day in New York in
these Cleveland times. A short
time ago, under Republican rule,
all was prosperity; now want
and misery stalk through the
land, blighted by the shadow of
free trade. But good times
would be brought back again,
homes would be made happy,
huDgry children would be fed
by fathers and mothers earning
good American wages, and plen
ty would take the place of star
vation, if the shadow of free
trade were removed.
Recently the largest deed (be
ing on 99 pages of legal cap)
ever recorded iu this county was
admitted to record. It completed
a great coal dfeal, and was made
by C. B.Carney, trustee, of Fair
mont. to J. M. Hustead, J. K.
Beeson, C. 15. Carney, C. V.
Thompson. S. L. Mestrezat. H.
C. Huston, and F. A. Hill, of
Pennsylvania, and conveyed the
coal lying under 53 tracts of
j land situated on Bingamon creek.
! this county, containing in the
' aggreate 2..">7'.i acres. By this
and other deals a third of the
! Aal in this county has passed
Mtn the hands of foreigners.
Short Murrlaires.
NTIL recent
ly it was gen ?
erallyunder
stood that all
marr i age s
were for life,
for better or
worse etc.
But a couple
in California
have started
a new fad that. should it be up
held by the courts, will put the
old custom aside. The Omaha
}Fortd-Jfnald reports that "six
months ago Edward M. Elkus and
Lillie Mabney, of San Francisco,
entered into a contract "to be
married for a peiiod of six
months." A few days ago they
again repaired to a notary's office
and caused a second contract to
be drawn up for a period of an
other six months." Now it is
proposed to test the validity of
such a contract in the courts.
The question for decision has re
solved itself into these proposi
tions "Is a contractjof marriage
stipulated to expire at the end of
six months or a year a valid
document ? If the document be
valid is the limitation good.
?OiS the limitation invalidate
the contract? Can the relations
of the contracting
aside at the end of
time?" | There ii
opinion among the lawyers- The
result will be watched with in{?r
est.
15 Al uaxce.
| ,r RiffluwrtWrfc]
|>fl idrnit. f
A young Mii s Myers attending
the Meadow Valley revival meet
ing last week subsided, into a
trance and apparently lay life
less for 22 hours and when she
revived she claimed that she was
in Heaven and saw her father
and mother who had been dead
several years and they told her
to iell her two older brothers to
become Christians; she also
claims she saw and heard other
things which she is not to tell,
which brings to our mind the 12
chapter of second Corinthians.
Mr. McMillian, of Jarvisville
has ordered a car load of corn
from the West; this is the first
corn ever shipped to jarvisville.
Mr. E. C. Sperry had killed by
dors twenty Dead of sheep
S. D,
Doddridge Dots.
Prof. E. F. Garrett is the
busiest man in this vicinity. Be
side being principal of our Grad
ed School, he has two regular
ministerial charges: one at
Bridgeport and one at Volcano.
He is also aiding in the work of
carrying on the protracted meet
ing. All these positions he is
filling acceptably and well.
Mrs. Gertie Randolph the Art
teacher in the Salem college is
preparing to give an entertain
ment in the court bouse here as
soon as the protracted meeting
closes.
The protracted meeting at the
M. E, Church is still in progress.
Rev. Hammond is here aiding
Rev. Pribble is the work. Quite
a number of persons have profess
ed conversion and others are
still at the altar.
Teamsters are still hauling
out casing from this place to
Little Flint.
West Union hasn't had such a
religious awakening for many
years as she is now having,?
IPesf Union Record.
The South Penn Co. had a
splendid well to come in one day
Rts* week on the Peter Ash farm
on Raman's Run. It is reported
good for two hundred barrels.
A couple of days before the well
came in they bought the royalty
on the farm for *2,200.
The Fluharty Run well in WetJ
zel county is dry in the Bisr
Injun.?Herald.
A BIN TAKX
Knt It i* a Prettr (Jwxl Our Erea if it
Isn't Trnp.
Tlie following tale was told in
a group of railroad men recently:
Some years ago President
Mayer, of the Baltimore and
Ohio became the owner of exten
sive coal mines at Clanrsburg,
W. Ya.. and wished to sell the
product to the Baltimore and
Ohio company, with which he
was theu not connected, for en
gine purposes. The superin
tendent of motive power pro
nounced it an inferior article,
and condemned it for engine pur
poses. It was really a fine stoam
ing coal, and it was intimated
that it had been rejected in the
interest of certain other opera
tors who were selling their pro
duct to the company.
Mr. Myer had confidence in his
coal and insisted that it be given
a fair trial. He determined to
demonstrate its utility, and with
that end in view he donned the
blouse and overalls of a fireman,
went on the engine in the capaci
ty represented by his "togs" and
??fired" the engine all the way
from Grafton to Parkersbnrg.
He shoveled industriously, kept
a good nre a going, and when he
arrived atParkersburg black and
grimed, he'had fully shown the
good quality of his coal. With
that practical demonstration
back of him he had no trouble in
selling his coal to the railroad
company, and it has. it.isstated.
A portion of the scaffolding un
der the B. & O. bridge at Harp
er's Ferry fell last Wednesday
and three men who were on it
at the time were precipitated to
the river below. One of them
was struck in the back by a piece
of timber and slightly injured.
But for the fact that they fell into
the water all three, probably,
would have been killed, says the
Sentinel.
IVtslon Whispers.
Diphtheria in its most malig
nant form has visited many
homes on Freeman's Creek, as
well as other parts of the county.
Several deaths have resulted
from the disease.
Lewis county will send two
representatives to the next Leg
islature for the first time in the
history of the county. They
will also represent the interests
of Webster county.
A young fellow six feet eight
inches tall, and wearing a stove
pipe hat created considerable at
traction at the depot Thursday.
He hailed from Webster county,
where he says they grow higher ,
than that.
Judge Bennett has called a
special term of the Circuit Court
to convene at Sutton next Tues
day.
A draft for the sum of $7.~>o
was issued by the County Court
in favor of Harrison county in
full of Lewis county's share of
the cost in the erection of the
bridge across ,thc mouth of
Kincheloe Creek.
Mr. George W. Gibson has re
turned from Honduras. He ex
pects to return again to complete
a large contract which he has
undertaken with the government
of that country.
Stokes Tunstill, accompanied
by Minter Ralston, will make an
important visit to Fostoria,Ohio,
next month.?Democrat.
Weston now has nine licensed
saloons and there is some talk of
another.
Clerk Bennett hat issued thq
following marriage license: Chas
W. Hawkins and Ora F. Pox,
Martin O. Bragg and Sarah V.
Ice, William H. McCue and
Margaret 1. Wetzel.?