Cummins - On Thursday evening, July 2d, at 7 o'lcokc, Annie Ogdon, infant daugther of Dr. James Cummins, aged ten and one-half months. Funeral Saturday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, from the residence of her father, No. 1133 Chapline street (old 4th). Firends of the family are invited to attend.

Liedle - On Wednesday, July 1, 1874, at 2 o'clock p.m. Harmonia, infant daughter of Christian and Kate Liedl, aged seventeen months. Funeral from the residence of the parents, on Main street, Friday, July 3rd, at 9 a.m. Friends of the family are invited to attend.

Healy - On Wednesday evening, July 1st, 1874, at 7 1/2 o'clock, Mrs. Annie Healy, aged ninety-four years. Funeral from the residence of her son, James Healy, No. 70 18th street (old Clay street,) on Friday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Friends of the family are invited to attend.

Britt, Lewis Francis, infant son of Lewis and Kate Britt, aged 8 months and 24 days. Funeral from the residence of his grandfather, Mr. Charles Prettyman, No. 2020 Water street, this (Wednesday) afternoon at two o'clock. Friends of the family are respectfully invited.

A new Postoffice was est. at Rockville Wayne, County, W. VA on the Route from Huntington to Wayne Court House. With Noah ADKINS as postmaster.

Jacob - September 30, 1874, Mrs. Eliza J., wife of D. F. Jacob, in the thirty-eighth year of her age. Funeral will take place Friday, October 2, at 11 o'clock, a.m. from her late residence, on the Bthany pike. Friends of the family are invited to attend. Remains will be interred at Greenwood Cemetery.

Wiesel - At the residence of M. Wiesel, Esq., Cumberland, Md., on Friday morning, 16th inst., Mary Henrietta, infant daughter of the late Dr. Henry J. and Mary L. Breslin Wiesel, of this city, aged six months and twenty-one days.

Morris - On Tuesday evening, at 7 1/2 o'clock, Charles S. Morris, in the fifty-eight year of his age. His funeral will take place from his late residence on Market street, Second ward, on Thursday, at 2 o'clock p.m. Friends are invited to attend.

Petticord - December 14th, 1874, Jas. T. Petticord, at Elm Grove, aged thirty years. Funeral services at 2 o'clock, p.m. Tuesday, December 15th, at his late residence in Elm Grove. Friends of the family are invited to attend.

Werder - On Monday, December 14th, 1874, Mrs. Mary C. Werder, mother of Rev. A. W. Werder, in the seventy-fourth year of her age. The remains will be conveyed from the residence of her son, No. 66, 1th street, at 2 o'clock this afternoon, to the St. James Lutheran Church, where the funeral services will be held.

Murderers Escape
Three Wayne County Criminals Break Out of Jail
Parkersburg, W. VA
Wednesday night, as Turnkey FERGUSON, at the Wayne County jail went to lock up the prisoners, three brothers named BRENNERS, under indixtment for murder, attacked him. The first one knocked him down. When he attempted to get up he was felled with a bed slat by the second. This stuned him so that before he recovered the BRENNERS, Wilburn POSE and Dick DICKERSON made their escape. Recovering consciousness, FERGUSON started after them firing, struck DICKERSON in the back, badly wounding him. A reward of $250. each has been offered for their capture.

Boyd - On Friday, evening, february 7th, at 6:30 o'clock, John W. Boyd, in his 43d year. Funeral notice in the evening Standard of this day.

Jones - At Lodi, N.Y., on Monday, March 3, 1879, Hardy Jones, late of this county, aged 81 years. Interment at Stone Church Cemetery at 2 o'clock p.m. today. Carriages will leave the St. James Hotel at 12 o'clock.

George Holt - Suicides by drowning
On Saturday morning, about 5 o'clock, as some mill men were on their way to work, they discovered a body stranded at the foot of Twenty-third street, and upon examination it proved to be that of George Holt, a machinist, whose residence was on the southeast corner of Eoff and Twenty-second streets. Justice L. D. Wait was notified, and at once impaneled a coroner's jury and held an inquistition. From the testimony there taken the following story was elicited: Holt was engaged for some time in boiler-making, having a shop where his residence is now located. He started with a fair business, but a habit of intoxication having taken hold of him, he was unable to fulfill contracts made, and his trade fell away. He finally awoke to a realization of his condtion, and quit drinking,a nd for the past three years has tasted no liquor. His shop was torn away to make room for his present abode, and he obtained work about the city. A change of force threw him out of employment and he became ill both in mind and body.
He had a sister and a brother-in-law living in Iowa, and owing large tracts of land and at their importunities he went out there about a year ago on a prospecting tour. Evidently disappointed, he returned in a more than ever melancholy frame of mind and several times announced his intention of making away with himself He was missed from home all of Friday night and his wife was greatly alarmed thereat. He had been seen passing Seabright's clothing store about 10:30 o'clock, and the remark was made that "he was going off to drown himself". A man passing up Twenty-third street at 4 o'clock Saturday morning saw him asleep on Wheeler's board pile, and as his body was found at 5, he could not have been in the water over half an hour, which belief, the appearance of the corpse substantiates. After hearing the above testimony, the jury brought in a verdict in accordance therewith.
The deceased was nearly sixty years of age and leaves his wife alone, their two children having died some time ago. Mrs. Holt will be left in rather straightened circumstances, as she is well stricken with years and has an income from the two houses of but $18 a month. The interment of her husband's body took place yesterday afternoon at the Peninsula cemetery, where he owned a lot.

Last Wednesday night, about half past nine, two colored men, Washington Bark and Peter Hayden, laborers of Strong & Son, contractors for Lock No. 2, on the Kanawha, were drowned. They undertook to cross the river from the Coal Valley side to the lock, in an old abandoned "jolly boat" they found on the bar opposite the lock. It is supposed the boat sank with them near the middle of the river. Cries were heard, but no one knew what was the matter. The bodies of both were recovered Thursday morning. They were both good industrious men and lived some where in Old Virginia.

Thursday night a freight train on the C. W. & B., which left Parkersburg about ten o'clock at night, ran over a horse just west of Guysville. The engine and two or three cars went on all right, but about the fourth car was thrown from the track, dragging the balance of the train with it, and jumping on the bridge tearing that structure down, and dumping about a dozen cars in the river. No person was hurt, but the damage to the railraod company will amount to several thousand dollars.

On Tuesday morning of last week as Mrs. James Danby, of Cameron, was engaged in sweeping off a rickety porch in the rear of her residence, the posts at the outer edge gave way, casuing the floor of the porch to sink to an angle of about 45 degrees and thus precipitating the old lady, barrels, boxes, tubs, masons tools, etc., to the ground below, a distance of about ten feet. As she was nearer the edge of the porch than most of the above mentined articles, it is probable she was hit by some of them as she was unconscious for some time. She may die.

The work of grading the West Virginia railroad from the Pennsylvania line through Preston county to Newburg, on the B. & O., is to be commenced at once. The road will be forty miles long The Company let a contract for 5,000 tons of steel rails with the Pennsylvania steel works, at Harrisburg.

The tannery of Fayerweather & Laden, at Davis, is rapidly approaching compleion. This will be by far the largest tannery in the State, there being but one larger in the United States, and will furnish employment to five hundred men.

The Ohio River Railroad Company is laying about 100 tons of rails per day in Jackson county. Work may have to be suspended shortly until a rise in the river enables the contractors to get more rail from Pittsburg.

A young boy, while putting pins on the track at Clifton, some days ago, was run over by an engine and his right hand cut off just above the wrist.

Walter FERGUSON, who sometime ago shot Deputy Sheriff Sinn ROBERTS of Wayne County House, W.VA., was yesterday aressted in Louisa (KY) on a requisition from the Governor and taken back to Wayne County.

Huntington, W. VA., Oct. 14. -
Charles SWEENEY of Wayne County, fell over a rock cliff near Four Pole, while coon hunting last night. Two ribs were broken and he is thought to be injured internally.

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