The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-10-26

year.
The GreeRback and workingmOn polled
S5S votes In Belmont county, this year,
out Of total Of 9,154.
Private Dalzell was elected to the Ohio
legislature by five votes.
A number Of diphtheria cases are re.
ported nj 81. ClaiFSville.
The majority IN favor Of the Childrcn's
Home in Belmont county is 2,2lO. The
Barnesvllle Enterprise truly remarks that
"nothing in the recent election Ia 10 cred.
liable as her vote on this question. In
some instances The question Of taxation
was raised. but the humanity Of the PEG.
pie overcame such objections.
The Prohibition candidate for Cover.
nor received votes in Belmont county as
follows; Colerain /, Kirkwood !, Martins
Ferry ., 81. ClSirsville IL, Glencoe 3,
Smith 10, Somerset 0, Union !, Warren
90. Total Gl.
Mr.. James McCahan, the furnace man.
ager at Martins Ferry, seems to be a
popular man among his neighbOS. They
send him to Council and vote him veloci.
pedes at the festivals.
One day last week the Cleveland &
Pittsburgh road moved 1872 car loads Of
freight, and we learn that their average
business is fully 1000 cars per day.
Bates 4 Alexander, OF Bridgeport, have
taken into the firm one Of the Clark boys,
who is good fellow and understands bus.
mess.
A Colerain item in the Martins Ferry
Nass says that the employees on the Tus.
carawaa road are principally Swedes.
"They are sober and industrious men,
yet, like most other foreigners, they are
not very stric! observers Of the Sabbath"
The Belluire Independent is 10 be offer.
ed for sale next Monday.
John Porter, Esq, showed lis, last Sat-
urday, specimen Of the brick taken
from the kiln burnt with gas, and we
found them equal, II not superior, to
those burnt by the old process.-4aHeOcE
Courier.
For the fist time since We have re.
sided in Pughtown, there are several
empty houses to let.-COuricr.
Rev POmery and family left Hancock
county on Thursday for their new home
at MoundsvilIe.
PlalLcnburg, Of the Hancock Courier,
was in the Penitentisry at Allegheny
City last week. lie is out again for The
time being.
A firm at Steubenville has taken the
contract for making the Burdett steam
wagon. The steam wagon which Mr.. Bur.
dett has just completed travels ut the
rate OF from to u miles per hour and
has propelling power Of 25 horses.
The ST, ClairsvilIe Gazette calls attcn-
tention to the fact that according to law
in Ohio, all children from the age Of 8 10
IA years are prohibited from working in
any manufacturing establishment, unless
they have been to school twelve weeks the
next preceding school year.
Hiram J. Daniord, oil Belmont county,
has removed 10 Colorado. Mr.. Danford
was the Republican candidate for Audi
tor three years ago.
W. T. Harden, Of Barnesville, has sold
his drug store and intends TO go to Texas,
to engage in stock raising.
An item in the Hancock Independent
says that the ferry between Wellsburg
and Lagrange still derives good income
from those that cross the Blue Danube,
for n drap of the ardent. A great many
go over to meet their friends coming on
the train "you know" but some how they
never come.
The following items are from the St.
ClairsvillC Chronicle:
Humphrey Alexander, tho oldest man
living in this region, who has been quite
i'll Tor week, we are glad to state, shows
signs Of Improvement.
A horse fair is to be held at Fairview,
Harrison county, on October 3lst and
November LIST. Sixty dollars is offered
to the fastest PAGER, and $50 to the fastest
trotter, and other premiums in proper
ton, amounting in all 10 500.
The BarHesville Coal Works Of Dawson
& Roy took out between 50 and 60 tons
OF coal Tuesday of last week. Thisis the
largest days work ever done at the works.
Twelve miners are employed.
The very. warm weather Of last week
caused many'to remark the heavy snow
storm Of the 10Th OF October, 1878.
The Darlington Hotel, which Is now
being erected in Zanesville on the site OF
the old Mclntire House, will be quite an
imposing building. It is proposed to
have it ready for occupancy in a month
or two.
Thomas P. Manion, the Greene county
counterieiter, and ex.member Of the
West Virginia Legislature, has been con.
victed Of counterfeiting in the U. S. Dis.
trict Court at Pittsburgh.
tits reported that Jas. Rice, a resident
Of West ALEXANDER, Washington county
Pa, has surreptitiously taken his depar.
ture from home, and that after his flight
il was discovered that he had forged his
fathers name TO paper amounting 10
$4,000. 0fthis amount $4,000 is said 10
have been note negotiable at q Wheel
ing bank, and the other $4,000 was in pa.
per at Pittsburgh banks.
EmbnrrasSmcntS OF The Vulcan
Iron Works at ~. Louis.