The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-01-28
SEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
January %, 1875.
BELLAIRE.

BELLAIRE.
THE following shows the range Of the
temperature as observed at Mercer Drug
store, No. 332 Water street, Wednesday
at ! A. NJ, 26'; at y NJ, $50; at P. NJ,
SO; at P. NJ, 80.
YE skaters look down IN the mouth
since the break up.
OUR friends j. 81 NJ. n Mercer, have
made quite an improvement in the looks
of their drug store room, by the addition
of goodly quantity of new glass furni-
ture.
VERY few items of interest came under
our observation yesterday.
MIR, SAMUEL HASTINGS and Mr.. 5. ID.
Dudgeon, of Mendoza, Illinois, and for
meriv residents Of this county, paid
visit to our city yesterday, after an alb
sence of nineteen years. They were
overwhelmed with surprise when they
looked upon Bellaire as it is, and then
they thought of it as it was when last
they were here.
WE hepe our City Council will allow
our friend, Richard Crozier, TO go on and
build market house.
THE colored folks of Bellaire held
festival in City Hall last night, for the
benefit of the African NJ +. Church. We
did not learn what the receipts of the
evening amounted to.
BUSINESS in Bellaire was not quite as
usual Yesterday The rain prevented the
country folks from putting in an appear
ancc.
OFFICER Drugan had out his brigade on
Noble street yesterdy, spreading cinders
on the street.
QUITE a number of our citizens are at
tending court at St. Clairsville this week.
THERE were noarrestS made in the city
yesterday.
THE street lamps in the First and
Second wards make quite nice light,
since being cleaned up.
Mrs. NJ. b. HYNEMAN, who has heen
visiting friends in Pittsburgh for week
past, returned home yesterday.
TRAMP" tramp, tramp, the boys are
marching.
"CoEPoRArIoN backing is plentiful
on our streets again.
"EvERYTHING is lovely and the goose
hangs high is the way of thinking
among our river men.
The pavemcnts were rendered little
slippery after the sleety rain yesterday
evening, and to say it was funny about a
200 pound individual, who was hurrying
along Belmont stacet, came down "keno'
making the buttons fly, don't give scarcely
Il faint idea OF the facts in the case.
ALL quiet ut police headquarters yes
terdav. The benzinc business must have
been correspondingly dull.
YESTERDAY was quite gloomy one;
cloudy, drizzling rain and splitting snow
by turns, rendering the streets rather
lonely in appearance, and creating an
impression of u general dizziness in all
classes of business.
The break up Of the ice last night at
tractcd suite crowd to the river banks,
to witness the grand spectacle. Notwith-
standing the latcncSS of the hour, 1t being
about midnight when it occurred, the
bells were rung and the whistles sounded
out upon the midnight air, and hundreds
hocked to view the tumbling ice roaring
along upon the turbulent river. Fortu-
nately no damage occurred at this point.
MARTINS FERRY
Snow, rain, sleet, mud, smoke. SCOT,
lowering clouds and murky atmosphere,
and slipping, and sliding and stopping
and n few other little Inconvenience, were
what the weary and disguised pedestrian
had to endure yesterday afternoon.
Blessed was he whom fortune or fate al
lowed to SIT by the window near good
fire and placidly watch the woes Of his
fellow-mortals.
The condition of the river appeared
to be the subject in which most universal
interest was taken yesterday and day
before, in Martins Ferry. The ice com
menced moving nj the Ferry Tuesday
evening about half past six o'clock, and
moved down in one vast, unbrOken
BODY. for about five or ten minutes.
Every one expected to see it break
up Immediately, but, very strangely,
after the body of ice had moved
down unbroken distance Of one hun
dred and twenty-five to two hundred
yards, it stopped and did not break until
after the break occurred below the island,
the mass having probably been stopped
by the head of the island. No damage
whatever was done at Martin Ferry by
the ice, but the Ferry Company's wharf
boat on the Wheeling side was sunk.
For one to look at the way
the immmense blocks of ice
are piled up and jammed
together on the river bank, it seemed
strange how anything escaped being
crushed. A fierce onslaught was made
on the break-water at the ferry landing,
as can plainly be seen by two or three
firmly linked logs having been knocked
out of place.
Mr.. ENGLEHART, one of the proprie-
tors of the ferry boat, accidentally broke
into the river yesterday, while trying to
get off the Carrie, and went in up to his
neck. He got out, however with little
difficulty.
Mrs. G. w. DILwoRTH died very sud-
denly Tuesday evening, after compare
lively slight illness of day or two.
The ferry-boat Eureka, crossed the
river once, yesterday, and back. She
went across to pump out the sunken
wharf-boat. The officers said they ex
perienced but little difficulty in crossing,
Notwithstanding the heavy running ice.
MAYOR DEAN is suffering from Sc
we're illness.
The Police Court has been much better
patronizcd during the last few days than
for some time before. On Saturday
Frank Wall got noisily drunk, and as a