The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-21
NE1GHBoRHooD NEWS.
August 20, 1874.

to Moundsville to catch an item.
MANY conversions are taking place in
the Christian Church. Several INNER
sions each evening during this week have
been the result of the efforts of Elder
Spinner. ...
Our streets are crowded with pleasure
seekers these nice evenings.
WATERMELoNs are becoming cheap
err. and the doctors are having more todo.
THE Cement Works of Booth & Son
are doing a very good business DOW, and
making large shipments .. ....
SOME of the young men on our streets
should be ashamed 10 use such language
as they do when ladies are passing.
Young men have you sisters?
THERE are several fruit stands on our
streets, and all of them appear well pat,
ronized. Some of the young boys should
be muzzled so they would find 1t I'M
necessary to stand around them.
EVERY one must prepare himself to
take another dose of Beechcr and Tilton
pills, as the committee is preparing an
elaborate" report. The medicine Is be-
coming nauseating, and we trust the COM
mittee will find no more material from
which to make it.
The sentiments expressed by the cor
respondent az in the city Commercial
Yesterday were unpardonably impolite
and malignant. If man Is to be
burlesqued, critisized or condemned, he
who does il should remain at least within
the bounds of etiquette. DO unto others
as YOU would be done by AT princes,
let but ounces lift their gun; the more
their feathers fly the more the fun.
ZEN the whole world, (blockhheads
and men of letters enjoy cannonade
upon their betters.
THE police department had rather
dull work of it yesterday. They made
no extra cash by making arrests.
4 MAN named Kahn was arrested
/ Tuesday rs one of the assnilants upon
policeman Richardson few nights ago,
! had his trial before Squire Powell, plead
guilty and was fined so and costs.
A MAN named james Hutchinson WAS
struck on the head by sledge hammer
in the hands of the man with whom he
was working, in the Bcllaire nail works,
day before yesterday. 1t did not prove
rs serious as ut first supposed.
THE Bcllaire nail works will shut up
! shop for II week. beginning on next Mon
day.
BELLAIRE Chapter No. 1O7, r. \. VI.
will hold its regular monthly meeting
tonight.
GEO. BAXER, IL hoy working in the
Baron Manufactury, by gross careless
ness had two fingers on his left hand
mashed of by the Marchand press, yes
tcrday
STRANGERS remark the beauty of our
streets. etc. We heard of this and IN
quipcd into ii, and ascertaincd that they
were either near sighted or blind.
The clerks at the Baltimore and OH"
depot are kept very hard at work these
DAYS. That road is doing al immense
tIlloUllI VI bNNll'NN JUL 't r. ''' ''''
TIE employees Of the Baltimore and
Ohio round house have an immense
amound of work on hands.
The auction 'dispcnsary' on Water
street, Just below the railroad bridge, Is
attracting the most loaiers these warm
days. And the way some of them get
'doscd is shocking.
MoUNDsvILLE.
Your correspondent "arrived out on
the II o'clock train this morning, and
was Immediately beset by seventeen
thousand three hundred and forty-four
/ hotel and hack drummcrS, who seemed
| each bound to have piece, no odds how
small it might be. The train Oh which
we came was literally "cram full. Not
an empty seat but what was occupied, as
Patrick would say The passengers COM
priSed the usual amount Of pretty girls,
each under the guardianship of IN old
maid aunt, sprinkling of young gen.
| tlemen who eyed the Young ladies visit
| fully. few old men and women, and a
liberal sprinkling of middle-aged folks.
Bv the intervention Of stroke Of
peculiarly good luck we escaped from the
| hands of the hackmcn unframed, and
taking conveyance repaired to the
/ Washington House. quiet, pleasant
| hotel. the handicst in the city to the
camp ground, and after an excellent din
ner wendell our way to the camp ground
as well rs the abundancy Of the dust
/ made it possible.
| The grounds have been already fully
described by your fair correspondent Of
/ Wednesday. There i, no material change
in the arrangement of these from last
wears, WITH perhaps, the exception Of the
situation of the Tabernacle. The cottage,
are now almost all occupied, and we
/ noticed several families with tents and
household goods, on their way t. the en-
campmcnt Everything Is neat and
/ ORDERLY anf the rules well observed and
enforced.
The arrivals of ministers since the re-
/ port in this morning issue were three.
/ Revs. j. W. Webb, Of Wheeling; l.. l..
| Stuart, Of Bcnwood; and +. VI. Leslie, Of
Lexington, Ky, comprise these rules.
/ At 100 Is held meeting fer the pro-
motion of holiness, and at Il childrrn's
meeting. Not an hour Of the day Is
wasted.
This morning DR.. J. VI. Reilly, Of
I Wheeling, conducted public prayer from
the stand. The services mt 1890 4. NJ.
were led by J. p. Thatcher, Of Oakland,
Md, who preached fine sermon, having
/ for his principal pervading thought, which
he wished to impress upon the minds and
hearts of his hearers, the dctintenc,s Of
the requirements made by God of his
! followers.
Secret prayer is observed from until
lib p. VI. daily in the tents and cottages
of the families.
The services at 3 P. NJ. were opened by
-. singing the old hymn,
80, for thousand tongues to sing"