The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-21
OUR MouRDsWLLE LETTER.
The crops-n. Z. Chareh na.ter.
Miss Taylor, Of wheeling
Local Politics.

MouHDsvlILE, Nay 20.
consspondsnos Of the IntSIissnesr.
The change in the weather causes vi
all to take heart again and 10 hope thai
Jack Frost Is done with bis freaks for thil
season at least, and that vegetation will
now have 4 chance to grow. Some Of thu
farmers complain that their wheat Is In
jured but we hope their fears are mot well
founded.
The third quarterly meeting Of the n.
E. Church was held on Saturday and yes
terdAy. Presiding Elder W. g. Wilson
was present The quarterly conference
at lis meeting on Saturday night dis
charged all the committee that had been
appointed looking toward the erection
Of q new church building and . commit.
tee was appointed TO examine into the
probable cost Of repairing or remodeling
The old building, which committee Is to
report at an adjourned meeting Of the
conference TO be held on next Saturday
evening. II IL certain that Just now q
new church cannot DO built but it 10
equally as certain that something must
be done 10 secure 4 place Of worship and
we now look for matters 10 take .
definite shape.
The lecture Of Miss Taylor, Of the Fee
male College, delivered at the Presby.
terian Church on last Friday evening,
was 4 very able one, and the large audi
enc present appreciated II in the highest
degree. Miss Taylor has surely not mis-.
taken her calling in taking the field Of
labor in this glorious cause. Such APP
peals cannot fail TO do good wherever
made. She announced herself an uncom.
promising advocate Of prohibitory law
and urged on all voters TO vote all the
time and every time for temperance men
irrespective Of party politics. She paid
4 glowing and, we think, q deserved tri.
butte 10 what has been done and Is now
being done by women In the cause, and
urged upon all her sisters 10 work and
pray more earnestly and faithfully in the
future.
We have two tickets in the field for the
various offices in the gift Of the people Of
our city. The election comes of Thurs.
day, 2Sd inst, and there will ~undoubted.
" be q lively time. The principal fight
will be made for the Offices Of Mayor and
Sergeant. The opposing candidates are
A. Bryson and s. 3. Purdy for the May.
orally, and Joseph stilWell and ]. l.
Hanen for the sergeantcy. Messrs. Pur.
dy and Hanen are present incumbents,
and In their election or defeat their con.
stituency will either endorse or condemn
their course while in Office. Messrs.
Bryson and stilwell are the nominees OF
= Convention held last week. They are
both good men and anxious for the Office,
while all acknowledge that the present
incumbents are faithful officers. Now
the question Is, which shall it bel A
full vote will no doubt be polled.
We hear that there came near being q
FIRE in the Upper Ward on Sunday even.
ing in the store room Of George Edwards,
Esq., but we "A give no particulars.
The laying Of the water pipe TO the
Penitentiary Is completed, and in q few
DAYS the reservoir will be filled by water
from the river.
The Rev. David Tatum, Of the De-
nomination Of Friends, will lecture
at the Presbyterian Church on next Sun.
day. Services at the other churches will
no doubt be dispensed with.
Mr.. VIM. Blake, Of the Upper Ward,
has about made arrangements TO rent his
large new brick building Is soon as I'm
ished, thus securing two more good citi.
zens. This shows that good houses are
in demand though the times be hard: