The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-04
borrow night, and the next night their

are the names of the gentlemen con-
testants for fine gold headed cane, and
the lady contestants for beautiful
pair OF bracelets; Harden Beck, Of the
Bellaire Nail Mills; Levi Csssefl, OF
the Ohio Glass Works; Theodore Sui
Ivan, Star Glass Works; Joe. Harris,
travelling for Jas. B. Lyons Pittsburgh
Glass House; Frank Peabody, OF the
Benwood Iron Works. Peabody 10 the
only one of the contestants belonging
to the Knights. The lady contestants
are Maggie James, Ids Patterson, aud
Ella Ogle. Flowers have been engage
ed to decorate the Hall With, and ar
raugements made for fresh strawberries.
Cochran's string band vii! be in atten-
dance. All are requested to turn out
and vote for their tsvorite among the
candidates.
TIE dramatic club meet almost eve.
~ night, to practice for Uncle Toms
Cabin, and it will be ready for the pub
lie before long.
TIE lamp posts begin to present
very fine appearance in their new coat
OF paint.
JOHN @. BALDWIN was drunk yester.
day, and was arrested and fined one
dollar and costs John seemed to be
short OF funds, and the probabilities are
be will work out his fine on the chain
gang.
THIRTY thousand dollars have been
subscribed for the proposed street rail-
way, and parties are in ST. ClaIrsville
now making an effort to obtain char
ter.
BENwooD.
Nor finding much news in The town,
we went up TO NoIsn's coal bsnks,
where improvements are being made,
and requested the superintendent to
take us into the mine where the men
are working. He welcomes ns kindly,
sends one OF the men for a lamp and
we enter the mine. At first il is
shaft about eight feet wide and six feet
high, with car track laid along the
ground. We pass through long
staight corridor cut in the solid ccal,
glittering in the feeble light Of the lit
tie tin lamp carried by man a short
distance in front, and with the damp
ness trickling down the sides.
Sometimes the arch is so
low, we have to stoop. and after pro-
ceeding in about two hundred feet we
come TO a large dome like space in the
roo, and our guide tells us that a short
time ago soap stone several ions In
weight fell here and near y crushed
several men who were at work. To
the right and the LETT the work branches
off and we have to watch sharply for
our light lest we get lost. A few feet
farther in we find the road entirely
blocked up by horse and cart and we
crowd past them and soon come TO
what is called "a room" by miner, where
the men are getting out the Goa, and
watch and admire the deftness and
skill OF the miner as he dislodges the
coal by blow with his pick, and gaze
with astonishment upon the walls
where the vein runs from three 10
twelve and sometimes twenty feet in
thickness. We are told this room is in
about four hundred feet, but that the
mine extends over q hundred farther,
and we can 90 on if we wish. We
begin to long for the open Air,
and realize almost for the first
time what a blessing we en-
Joy in light and sunshine. The
wav out seems further than in, and
feeling OF terror struck us as we thought
it might be possible that we had turned
in the wrong direction, and our guide
was not Trustworthy, but soon we saw
faint glimmer, which grew larger, and
we see the entrance OF the mine some
distance in advance OF us and finally
emerge with a feeling OF wonder and
awe at the mighty works OF God which
manifest themselves here, and feeling
OF pity for those who spend their lives
toiIing underground in damp and dark,
sometimes for days in places where
they cannot stand upright, and we
realize, perhaps more fully than ever
before, that one-hali Of the human race
know not how the other half lives.
Ross, the man who shot Chapman,
ia having a hearing to-day at Mounds
vile and a number OF the citizens are
down.
MONTH Moss, brakeman on the
Baltimore & Ohio road, fell while
jumping on train Of cars, on Monday,
and cut his face severely.
The foundation of Mr.. Hardisg's
new store building on Second street, is
completed, and the workmen have COM
menced TO lay brick.
On Wednesday afternoon a child
about three years old, belonging TO Mr..
William Taylor, q heater at the Ben
wood Iron Works, was burned very sc.
verely. It's mother left it alone in the
kitchen, and, when she returned in a
short time, the child's clothes were
burned entirely off and it's arm and
shoulder were almost in q crisp. The
face and one side also were badly burn.
ed. 1t lie slowly recovering and hopes
are entertained OF its lie, though it will
be badly SCARED.
LOUISE LOCKWOOD.
MoUNDsvlLLE.
THE penitentiary has been turning
out several very fine wagons lately.