The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-10-24
MISUNDERSTOOD NEWS.
BELLAIRE.

Ii some enterprising man would open
a wholesale grovery in Bellaire, wethink
it would be 8 good investment.
The new brick building on Water
street is now being rooted and will soon
be completed.
Now Is the time to subscribe for
paper, the long winter evenings are
almost at hand. The REGISTER is the
best paper that We know of for general
information, and there is more interesting
reading matter in the morning REGISTER
than there is in any paper published in
this county. a ll.G III
MANY of our citizens went TO the b.
i o. Depot yesterday morning 10 look
upon the face Of Janauschek.
SQUIRE POWELL decided the case of
Mrs. Fanlen u.s. Arthur McClain yester-
day, allowing Mrs. Fanlen $40 damages.
WHAT country can beat the weather
we have had for the last eight or ten
days 1880.
RATS" are not so plenty in Bellaire
now as they have heretofore been.
CAPT. JOHN FINK has moved into his
new house on Third street. Its n beauty.
WE think that our City Clerk has
made up his mind to join the Changers,
and for proof of this assertion we refer
parties to Mayor Strahl, and Policemen
Rowels and Drugan.
MANY of our citizens attended the
races on Wheeling Island yesterday.
No arrests were made yesterday. The
! "boysn have been on their good behavior
for some time past, and in consequence
! thereof business has been dull at police
headquarters.
WE noticed clover hay selling at SIC
per ton IN Bellaire yesterday.
I EGGS are selling at twenty-four cents
per dozen in this market.
Or the 18th of this month, three of our
/ fellow citizens, Mr.. Valentine Lust, Mr..
John Hotter, and Mr.. Presley Cowen,
anxious to play Nimrod for few days
and also engage in piscatorial sports, left
( this CITY for a short sojourn among the
/ lofty hills and grassy dells along the
green banks of the Muskingum river.
They took with them fishing lines and
hooks, dip-nets, guns game-bags, n
full set of culinary untensils, tents,
/ and colored gentleman of African de-
scent. whose nick name is Polly, and
| whose duties were To attend 10 things
generally and especially to the cuisine;
they also took jug of ointment to
make the fish bite. Thus armed and
equipped thew arrived in GAINESVILLE, and
proceeded up the Muskingum river about
Ii miles, where they pitched their tents,
near Adams Mills, ''and the evening and
| the morning was the first day We
have not time nor space to give the mi
mute details OF their TRIP
! but will merely say that
they had Il very enjoyable time, and sue
cccded in bringing home a very fine lot
of pheasants wild ducks, quail, &c. and
about 500 pounds of fish; and came very
near bringing home first class corpse,
in the shape of "Polly,' the colOred man,
having almost scared him to death. In
order to have some fun, one dark night
! during their sOOurn in the woods, some
of the party land well bet big apple it
was Lust or HOtter) rugged up
"a large paper sack and
| put lighted candle into it and sent one
! man into the woods with it, and in a few
minutes the camp'was startled by seeing
what looked to be bali of fire jumping
| up and down in the woods. "POlIy'
| thought his time had come and insisted
on shooting what he supposed 10 be IL
! fiery monster. Hotter Immediately put
| into his gun very large charge OF pow
der and wadded it very heavily he then
handed the gun 10 the trembling
polly who put it to his shoulder,
shut both eyes and pulled the trigger.
There came burst of thunder sound.
Poor "Polly' where was he? why lying
fiat on his back, scared into chicken fit,
and about ready to hand in his checks
The party with the sack extinguished the
light, and Polly thought he had killed
the devil They arrived here on We'd
nesdav evening OF this week, the weather
being too warm for their tsh and birds,
and the ointment being exhausted.
Presley Cowcn still declares that
he was cheated out of an elephant.
He saws that he saw one roosting on n
white oak tree, and that just n he was
going to shoot ut it Lust came along and
scared it away. The next trip THAT you
make, boys, We will report in full
WE noticed to-day that many Of the
lamp posts on Gravel Hill are not plumb.
They should be- Strengthened, n they
don't look well in their present position.
Mrs. SPRINGER, the celebrated temper
ancc lecturer, delivered lecture in the
open air on Water street, Yesterday
evening, which was listened to by a
large audience. We did not hear IT, but
it is spoken Of n being very fine.
REV. RODGERS, pastor Of. the VI. +.
Church of this city, returned home yes
terday evening. He has been absent
about three weeks visiting his daughters.
Mr.. Rogers will hold religious services in
the VI. f. Church Tomorrow, and will,
no doubt, receive a joyous welcome from
his whole congregation
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