The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-30
srEUBENvILLE ITEMS.

The rage for Chicken FlGhting-COm
plants Abou: the Price OF Gas
The Crusade Movement.
Correspondence Pittsburgh Gazette.
SrRuEENvILLE, o., Dec. 28.
Though not speaking much for Steu
benville morals, it is nevertheless fact
that this city is the champion place fol
cockaghting between New York and St
Louis. You in Pittsburgh may boast o.
your faro banks, keno. banks and policy
shops by the dozen, with an oCcSsiOna
pri2e-aght or canine chewing match t
relieve the mOnOtOny, but when it comes
down TO blooded chickens you can take
back seat, Ior Steubenville takes the palm
Scarcely q week passes by here that thC
young "roOsters" ot this town don't sally
forth with their best blooded game for
little "mill," and mo one to molest o.
make them afraid" A little "sporr O
this nature was witnessed here day be.
foro yesterday, which may be Of interest
to the lovers OF such questionable smuse
ment in Pittsburgh, from the fact tha
Pittsburgh "stock" was entered for thC
fray. One man from your city, who is a
present engaged in a glass house here
had a chicken on which he offered t
wager $50 that 1t could "get away" with
any caCkler or Grower in Steubenville
No sooner offered than taken, and Christ
mas day the "battle" took place QUITE
a number Of sports from Pittsburgh werC
here to witness the fight, which came of
on the Virginia side oil the river, directly
opposite the town, where all amuse-
ments Of this kind are indulged in. AnC
motely crowd 1t was. A little spArring
and then the squirting commenced, but Il
didn't require much time for tho Steu-
benville cock to lay out its competitor
and then Pittsburgh was mad. A good
many hundred dollars changed hands or
the thing, but yet Steubenville Is not hap
py. It Is still crying for more game"
Thirteen carloads Of Mennonites passed
through here this morning for the West
Steubenville, like most all other places
has gas monopoly. The company here
has been charging the people three dol
lars a thousand Tor gas for long time
certainly a pretty stiff price under any
circumstances, The citizens did moi
growl at this, particularly when they OBJ.
tanned good gas, but at length the light
became so poor that they entered a pro-
test to the company. The latter, know
ing that it had q monopoly Of the business
here, gently insinuated to the people that
they might 60 to-New Haven II they
pleased-three dollars was the price, and
If "you no likee, you no takee." A good
many have taken the latter alternative
and the consequence Is that nearly one.
hall Of the business houses here are
lighted with lamps, the occupants reIus-
ing to pay an enormous price for a poor
quality OF light Whether the company
will succumb, or what the result will be,
can not yet be copiectured.
Steubenville is rapidly improving in the
way Of new buildings. A handsome
block Of iour-story bricks has been re.
Gently erected on Market street, al the
corner of Fourth, which Is occupied by
banking aud business firms. The old
MonongAhela House, on Market street,
near Third, run by Thos. Costamagua,
has been put up entirely in the new by
Mr.: Lafe Stone, and Is known now as the
Continental Hotel, being one OF the neat
est and coZiest hotels In this burg Stone
Is somewhat OF a PhGnix-he has been
twice burned out, but always arises from
his ashes.
CrussdiDg hasn't been Of much avail