The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-15
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NE1GHBORuOOD NEWS.

| - AZ" SANANA DNAA0IAES Al IAaG PIdCcs
THE matter OF county superintend
ency for public schools is being discuss
ed in the papers at St. ClairsVille. The
Ohio school system does not possess this
feature and many of the best educators
there are coming to believe in Its utility
HANCOCK CoURT.-We are informed
by gentleman from MOundsville that
Judge Caldwell has 80 far recovered
that he expects to be able to open the
term of Hancock Circuit Court Tuesday
next. No special term has yet been
appointed for Brooke.
| ACCIDEST-Two boys at Evansville
Ohio, were severely injured on Sunday
evening last. 1t appears their parents
were absent in the afternoon, and a
powder flask being left hanging up in
the house, the little fellows concluded
to have some sport, and emptied a
large portion on the bottom of an old
bucket, in front OF the house, set fire
to it. The powder exploded in their
faces and burned them very severely
HEADED.-A young man named
Odenbaugh. of West MiddletOwn, hired
a buggy, &c, of j. NJ. Myers, of Wash
ingtOn, OH Saturday last, to go to Cam
nonsburg. instead whereof he went to
Pittsburgh, whereupOn the owner tele. i.
ErHphed that he would probably at
tempt TO sell the establishment, and to
arrest him. Sure enough, he was caught
In the RCt anticipated and brought
back to Washington handcuffed. One
depredalOr headed at an old trick.
THE MoUNDsvILLE PosT OFFICE
The good people OF Moundsville have
been in lively ferment about their
post office. Mr.. Koch, the late post
master. was an old gentleman who
gave his only son to the Union army
aud los: him by starvation at Ander-
sOnvile. He ia needy we understand,
very worthy iand gave satisfaction IN
the position. He has been removed,
however, and Il very estimable young
lady appointed in his stead, whose
father was surgeon in the army and
died in the service. Both the old post
master and the new postmistress have
very warm friends, and good deal of
feeling has been evoked In behalf OF
each. The difference in favor of the old
gentleman seems to be that his circum-
stances are much more necessitOus than
those of the lady. The matter, howev-
| er, has been settled and tho office Is to
be removed from the old place into an
other part of the town some half mile
distant.
a most shocking accident occurred
on last Monday, April l9th. at Mr..
Isaac Hopkins Saw Mill, in Green Bay
township, resulting in the death OF a
young man by the name of Robert Fin
ney. This happened about o'clock p.
| H. Us 6h" WAS anu SOdhS
| Finney had stepped upon the log that
was on the carriage TO split of slab.
| When he raised his axe he looked up to
| see that nothing would interfere with
his blow, but i'll striking his axe did
come in contact with beam which
threw him back wards, upon the saw.
| The saw first struck him across the
shoulder, and in an instant it went
nearly through him, mangling his
| lunge, heart and liver in II frightful
manner. His left leg was also severed
from his body. He was about % years
OF age. OF good habits, and member of
| churcn. 1t seems that he had some
warming that his life would be short.
He SO xpreEsed himself the day be-
fore In church, and his employer and
| the work kmen saw a marked change in
him. His parents live in Belmont
County, Ohio. he and another young
man by the name OF John McNichOls
left there in August last. and came to
this place. Mr.. McNiChOls immediate
| ly telegrnphed the sad fate of his friend
| to his parents to know what to do with
the remains. The most of the above
facts were given by Mr.. w: X. Mard1s,
| Mr.. Hopkins, and Mr.. McNichols.
A DECLINE IN PR1cEs.-Potatoes of
| the very best quality are selling In
this market al retail for sixty cents
bushel that last fall would have
brought readily eighty cents to 81
bushel. 81 so, also. will buy barrel
| of flour now that not very long ago
was worth Sl2 or $l5. Somebody, or
bodies, has evidently lost money, but
we don't henr of any subscription paper
going round to make it good to them.
Butter has also come down peg or
two. and If beef and pork could be
made to AympathiZe with other things,
| living would be comparatively reason-
able. Meat, however, like bakers
| Il or n q r.
ticularIy sympathetic disposition, but
is uppish and disposed to remain SO,
rs long us people think they must have
it at any price WclLSO1trg Herald.
THE boys at Harmar, Ohio, have ur-
| earthed the we'll that used TO be in the
old Fort there. They have cleared away
| the rubbish and taken the dirt out to
the depth of about four feet. They
propose to go still deeper The well Is
about midway between the top OF the
bank and the waters edge now. 1t 1s
walled with boulders.
| RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-The rear car
| of the fast line east on the Baltimore ~
Ohio Railroad Wednesday morning was
thrown from the track at Frankville,
and four persons injured-two rather
seriously.
RAILROAD ROLLING MILL.-The work
on the Rolling Mill to be erected by the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
at Cumberland has been commenced.
| A number OF wOrkmen are erecting
| substantial fence around the location OF
| the works, aud the force is to be soon
| largely increased. Suitable railroad
tracks are to be Immediately laid, so
that the building materials and ma
| chinerV for the works can be speedily
and conveniently conveyed to its ulti-
mate destination.
| COAL TRADE.-During the week end
ing May s, the shipments of coal from
| the Cumberland mines on the Z. " y.
canal was 1910 tons. For the same
week the Despard Gas and Coal Com
pauy. at Ciurksburg, shipped 1,5i1 tons.
| During the year the same company
| shipped 80 .O54 tons. The total ship
mems over the b. IL. O. X. K. during
ike week referred to were 26. 269 tons.
This does not include shipments from
| Fairmout. whence Messrs. Peirpotnt q
Watson are shipping about 100 tons
day.
THE Washington, Ohio, Herald says
VIM. McFadden, of CadiZ, is the hero
of Quite an adventure which happened
| in the former town. MCFadden went
to the Kirk House in that place. ana
after refusing one room on account OF
a deficient lock, was shown TO roon
on the third story, which had gooui
lock and key. Strange to say, after an
his fears of being robbed, he forgot 10
bolt his door. at IL o'clock Sunday
morning he was found lying on the
bed, with his feet tied to the foot OF the
bed, and one hand tied to the post at
the head OF the bed, and his mouth
filled with rags. He said he had been