The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-02-27
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BELI.AIRE LETTER.



Editors lntellgencer
The temperance revival inaugurated
by converts OF Mr.. Murphy IL still in &c.
tive progress in our city, and up to the
present time upwards OF seventeen hun
bred persons have signed the pledge. OF
these many were recognized drinkers and
not few habitual drunkards, and 30 far
their reform seems genuine and complete.
Several saloons have already gone into
or rather out of-liQuidation, and others
will necessarily follow at an early day.
Two well.known dissipated characters re-
solved TO make an effort ut reform Satur-
day, and put their names to Murphy's
cards. Recognizing the=deslrabiliIy Of
having some place OF resort as subsli.
tnte Tor the saloons in which many OF the
signers have been accustomed to spend so
much Of their time, the Young Mems
Temperance Union have rented and
handsomely furnished II room in the first
story Of the Centennial Hotel building,
and will formally open it as u reading
room tomorrow evening. A committee
waited upon our citizens yesterday 10 So
lIcit donations Of books, magazines and
newspapers, and, we are glad TO say, met
with success which ia an evidence Of a
. deep interest in the welfare Of the pro.
ject upon the part of the public. A lunch
was KEEP. in the room from noon till ten
at night Saturday, and the room was
thronged during the whole time. The
room Is large, light and airy, and Is heat.
ed with hot air. Handsome and substan-
tial tables and chairs were purchased at
cost from Arbenz & Hoffman, who gener-
ously donated the freight charges. Mr..
NJ. Craft, the jeweler, presented a costly
regulator, and various others gave tine
pictures, which ornament the walls.
Hon. W. G. CASTOR, Of Steubenville;
Messrs. Wilbur Truman and Wash Baggs,
Of Wheeling; Will Hanlon, of Barnes
vile, and numerous home speakers, have
addressed the meetings OF the past week.
Marshall Swartzwelder, ESD, of Pitts.
burgh, is expected on Monday.
Probably the finest lecture ever deliv-
cred in Bellaire was that of Rev. !. J.
Spencer, at the Christian Church last
Thursday night. His subject, "Prison
Bars" was handled in masterly and
eloquent manner, which would probably
surprise any of his hearers who were
not acquainted with Mr.. Spencer's natu-
raj ability and his power as a thinker.
The attendance, also, to the credit OF our
discrimination be il said, was much
larger and better than at any lecture in
Bellaire, ut least for great length of
time.
DR.. W. Billie, we'll known physician
of this city, has in contemplation the
establishment OF weekly newspaper, to
be called The Star, and TO be published
in the interests OF the Catholics of this
vicinity. II all OF the journalistic prof.
ects that have been and are in contempla-
ton in Bellaire should make their exit
therefrom into actual existence at the
same time, the whole world would be
flooded with light as varying in hue rs
the different rays Of the prism. But we
do not anticipate any danger 10 weak
eyes from this source in the immediate
future.
Mr.. A. NJ. Grouse, Principal Of the
Fifth Ward public school, died on FRI
day afternoon OF consumption, asthma
hIA CuTOIlG ukuIILCus IlC IhAl bCCIl Nhb
Of the school room just one week. lie
will be buried at Rock Hill Cemetery at
o'clock to-day, by the Masons, OF which
society he was an honored member.
Mr.. Abraham SprOwls, miner in the
coal bank OF W. G. Barnard, received an
injury to his spine by fall Of soap,stone
some time ogo. Since then he has been
lingering in the intensest agony, NORTH.
cation having set in. On Friday death
relieved him from his sutierings. He
was buried at 10 A. NJ. to-day in the City
Cemetery.
Il is n matter Of general wonder why
the Democrats in Bellnire take 80 much
more interest IN temperance business,
reading rooms and the like, than Rcpub.
licans. The latter in the midst OF all
theseInterests, find yet time to talk poll.
tics, while the Democrats never think OF
such thing. II was not 30 few months,
n few weeks, or indeed few days ago.
But "who can say what day shall bring
forth?
Our police force are like Othello, IN
that their Occupations gone" The ar-
rests made since the temperance revival
have only numbered three or Tour,
and those principally OF foreigners. The
change IN the appearance OF Saloon
Block, on Union street, is most marked.
Formerly every evening brought throng
oil cursing, qrHrrclng, insulting rowdies
there. Every saloon door had It's group
OF half drunk men, and the sidewalk was
lined with those who went back and fortl,
from one door TO another. Now there is
not Quieter or more orderly street in
town. Indeed, as there is other business
to attract men there, passengers even are
few and far between. Yet there are ono
or two who doubt If the "Murrhy move
ment" is accomplishing anything.
SSGP.