The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-19
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
{. BELLAIRE.

that he was seen, day before yesterday, |
near the stone quarry, about ! miles
west of wore, on the b. Il o. road, and |
that his clothes were covered with burs.
THE City Hall is being materially i'm
proved, the Office Ior the use Of the Mayor |
being greatly enlarged. .
TIE Gre on Gravel Hill, Thursday
morning, was the work of an incendiary.
COMPLAINTS were made yesterday |
against Lawrence Troughenser, proprie-
tor of the "Lsst Chance" Saloon, and
Fred. Sweitzer, for violating the 10
o'clock ordinance, in relstion TO selling
liquor. Their caaes will probably be dis
posed of this morning.
Mr. TOWNSEND will commence the full
| fllment of his contract on the b. * 5. w.
railroad, Monday. Everything tends to
n speedy completion of the road.
SHERIFF COCHRAN, of st. Clairsvillc,
was in town yesterday. .
The hteXigencer yesterday morning
contained condensed account OF The
Bellaire outrage, and two burglaries, the
particulars of which appeared in Thurs
days REGISTER.
.. MARTINS FERRY.
THERE was another attempt Wednes-
day night or Thursday morning, to
burn the Wheeling Steel Works, MAX
ing the second attempt within the last
eight days. Fortunately this time as in
the first attempt, the hre was discovered
before it had gotten under Roadway.
This time the tiend or fiends had placed
some fine kindllng under the sill at one
side, and the weather boarding for some
distance up the building with carbon oil.
A fruit can was found near by which had
some carbon oil in it. What the motive
any one could have in setting fire to this
building is not easily conceived unless TO
carry out spite againat the
company, or 10 enable them TO
make q raid on some other part of the
town. Cold lead, freely administered
would be good treatment for any one
who would be guilty OF such an act.
SCARLET fever is prevailing to some e1-
tent in town.
THE Tilden and Hendricks club meets
tonight in the Town Hall, Mt d o'clock,
sharp. Good speakers are expected to
address the club.
NEXT week some sixteen of our citl-
zens expect to take their departure for
Philadelphia and the Centennial.
TIE walls of tho Ohio City Bank
building will soon be up.
BRIDGEPORT.
The Inst itute was opened with prayer
BY Rev. David Howell, Of Bridgeport.
On motion, roll.call was dispensed
with.
The Committee on nominations report
cd the following names:
For Observation-Disclosures Il. Shrovc, Of
Martins Ferry.
Vice Presidents-J. N. Taylor, Bridge.
port; l.. IL. Walters, PowbaLtan; }. n.
Yarnell, Bonneville.
Sccrctary-Wilson Mitchell, st. Glars
Wills.
Treasurer-J. }. Burns, st. Clairsville.
Executive Committee-D. w. Shields,
Morristown; ID. Z. Pratt, Bridgeport;
John Duff, Bcllairc; Amelia Adams, St.
Clairsvillc; Ruth Baily, GAINESVILLE.
The nominations reported were &C.
copied by the Institute, and the entire
ticket elected unanimously.
The regular instruction was opened by
superintendent Burns on English. His
lecture showed him to be lover of lam
guage study, and that be had invcsti-
gated the origin of our language in tho
Anglo Saxon. HIS general topic was
still infection, particularly as applied to
verbs. He brought out clearly the
strength given TO our language by the So
called irregular verbs of Saxon origin.
The etymology of several terms was
given, and bit at the dictionary makers
for putting in SO many derivativc words.
whose meaning was clear from the radical.
Superintendent Shrcvo took up tho
subject OF fractions in arithmetic, and
demonstrated the proper method of CIV
ing pupils the idea of fractions by means
of objects. Let them divide an apple
into one, two three or more equal parts
for themselves and they will get better
idea of fractions in thirty minutes than
by book studies alone in more hours.
Prot. Scott resumed the subject of elO-
cution, making his letter more ddsctic
than usual, not requiring so much
answering from the pupils.
Mrs. Case took up the subject of school
government at the point where she drop.
ped it yesterday afternoon. AS that was
not reported We give here brief synop.
sis of the principles she sets forth in both
lectures, as necessary for good order in
primary school:
Self-government by the teacher, will,
perseverance; comfort OF pupils in mind
and body; ventilation and temperature;
preparation ofteacher for her work; time
table for school work; be exact and uni
form in handling classes, Nc; signal by
the eye chiefly; permit no interruption in
class exercise; recess after each eXer.
else; never permit idleness; make all
directions simple and clear have variety
in all exercises; strict discipline until con-
troll is perfect.
In the afternoon the county examiners
opened the examination of applicants for
certificates TO teach. This was conducted
in another room, while the regular ses-
sion was In progress 81 the school hsll.
There was much larger attendance in
the examiners room than in the institute
proper.
Mrs. Case resumed the subject of pho
netic reading, taking for illustration the
sentence, "Dash may catch a fox l
suppose none but a school book publish
ing house would have the type 10 indi-
cate the phonetic sound, or l
would give you the marks. Con-
siderable discussion was evolved on
the sounds in this sentence. "The meat
Is tough" and "a horse eats from
trough were the next sentences, which
also called forth discussion.
Prof. SCOTS last drill in elccution for
this institute began with an examiD stion
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