The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-01

and butter cheap.
" and 10. Members OF LeRiilature via.
i.ed Mr. De, chantal. 800 persons have
signed temperance pledge.
10. Cantata Of the aMsy Queen At the
Opera House. Birds sang a. though
spring had come City prisoners siRn
the pledge. River four feet three inches.
70. Capital bill taken mp and passed Ia
The Senate. Sixty Gharss. subscribed to
TuscaraWas Valley road.
II. The members OF police force re-
ceiyed new uniforms. Committee on In.
yitation to Inaugural Ball met at CITY
Building. Lettuce In market at 8 cents
per bunch. sherratd Clemens library
sold at public sale.
%. Postotice department observed
Washington's birthday. Supreme Court
In session ut Charleston adjourned.
70. Oregon counted for Hayes-exit
Tilden. Air Is keen and clod. Cara on
the Elm Grove Railway made trialtrip.
"a and %. Cleveland q TuscaraWss
Railroad Committee reported $4,000 30
lar subscribed. Grafton Gas Co. receiy-
ed certificate Of incorporation. Mayor
Sweeney received three official certificates
Of awards from the Centennial Commits
sion, one for leaf tobacco, mi for wool
to. Sinisn Bell, Of Brooke county, and
one for cereals and tobacco.
20. Work on Washington Hall ruins
proceeds 1lowly. Maple Molasses in mar.
ket at 81 so per gallon. Belmont boilers
deeuAieaWorks,Ss olS&rsA4asmNSSGS1JH
q. Fall and winter term Of evening
schools closed. Mrs. Limerick Of East
Wheeling burned to death. Death Of
ex.Goy. johnson, aged 90, at bis home In
Harrison county. Total eclipse Of the
moon-not visible in this locality. -Four
car loads Of cattle passed over the Hemp.
field from Chicago. Sixteen marriage
licenses issued during the month.
%. Mr.. A. NJ. Adams left for the East
10 contract for nine new one-horse cars
for Citizens' Street Railway. Contract
for iron columns on Washington Hall
awarded 10 A. ]. Sweeney & Son. Thir-
teen hundred invitations issued to Inau-
gural ball.
/. Came in like a lamb. Weather
Hayes, y. Revival 10 N. E. Church, Mar
tins Ferry.
2. Legislature adjourned sine die. Sew.
enteen Of the 1A-per-cent city bonds Of
1871 drawn by lot for payment. Tenn
perance Union organized at Laramie's
Hall.
8End4. Governor Mathews and party
arrived. Twenty thousand, Of the $780,
600 required, subscribed to the Tuscara.
was. road.
5. President Hayes inauguratsd at
Washington, and Governor Maihews at
Wheeling. Grand ball at the Capitol
building In the evening. Colored people
have inaugural ball at OTIS ball.
O.. Expenses OF the Inaugural ball dis.
covered to have been considerably in ex-
cess OF receipts. Wheelbarrow ace at
Frank Walters; prize, fat pig. President
names his cabinet.
4. A number Of robberies about town.
Elm Grove street cars running rs far as
Frank Walters. Prof. s.s. Baldwin gave
an expose Of spiritualism.
8. Central Glass Works made q large
shipment TO San Francisco. The steam
ers Telegram and Phaeton had q race;
| Telegram victorious. Robert Love, Of
temperance notoriety, spoke at Bellaire.
9. murphy" arrives In the city;quite
an ovation given him. A genuine blus-
tering March day.
10 and II. Twenty.eight cases booked
for the police court. Standard Base Ball
Company received certificate otincorpor-
alton. Gov. Mathews stsff appointed.
u. Teachers examination held. Build.
ing OF railroad TO St. Clsirsville, reduced
price OF coal there from ten TO seyen
cents per bushel. Passenger traffic on the
railroads slack.
IS. The w%ooi.growers held convention
In this city for location Of wool house.
Council authorized loan OF $4,000 in
shape OF 10 80 bonds. River twenty-five
feet. Al inmates in city prison. Muir.
phys temperance and Baldwin, spirits
the two great topics OF conversation on
the streets.
Ii. Bosley q Feeny dissolve partner.
ship. An adjourned sale OF the Hemp.
field railroad.
is. Tue new live stock yards, near
Hemp6sld depot, opened to public.
is. Special meeting Of Council on nc.
count OF hog ordinance. Wheeling and
Elm Grove Railway authorized 70 extend
road up Chapline St. Death Of Major
George Trimble.
IL and IS. Stormy day. Knights Temp.
lar did not parade. T~elegraphic rates
declined between here and New York
from 70 TO % cents. Twelve barrels OF
salt used on street railway 70 melt snow.
Mercury l3' above zero. JIG. Smith q
Son, dissolve partnership.
10. Fine sleighing. Large amount oil
scarlet fever in the city. River running
heavy with Ice. Rev. ]. r. Thompson
lectured on "Brain Culture
20. 800 persons signed the pledge at
Moundsyille. Tho Benwood Mill Ia run
ming los machines.
2oth. Mercury l6' above zero.
2lSt. Arlington Stove Works resumed
operations. Trains delayed on account
oil snow. Farewell sermon OF Rev. DR..
Kelley. Markets dull on account Of bad
roads.
%. Business brisk on the B. & 0. road
Meeting in honor Of DR.. and Mrs. Kelley
before they left the city. -,
-. COUNCIL SOUutttoo WI pAAubtob
Caldwell's Run called for tonight. The
beams Of the shears at the La Belle and
Belmont mills broke.
24ih and 18th. Directors Of Green
wood Cemetery declared dividend OF 3
per cent. Standard base ball club leased
Fair Grounds for $3.50 ensuing year.
20. Illness Of the pope. Jacob Berger
and John A White dissolved partnership
and Jacob Berger and Chaa. Berger form
q partnership. New rolls at Bellaire
ri. One hundred and ten shares Ohio
Valley bank sold at Court House at
Sl0s.79 per share.
2S. Council committee on Market
House In session. Bellaire mills resume
operations. Citisens Street Railway
Office removed to room lately occupied BY
Fire Marine Insurance Co.
Doth. Steamer Carrie Brooks sold for.
$4,000 TO Capt. Trimble Of Georgetown.
Steamer Expires, shipped seventeen bar
reIs Of eggs TO Pittsburgh. Glorioq, day.
30lh. Burning OF the Grant House.
Loss almost, II not entirely, covered BY
Insurance. Governors Guards met for
organisation. The public schools closed
for April vacation.