The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-12

BELLAlRE IOCALs.-Tho lIecla Club be.
gins TO play "The Virginia Veteran"
Thursday evening.
School Hall Is being fixed up for tho
levee Of the graduating class, 1t Is In.
tended to put In some new windows dur.
ing this vacation, as the hall Is neither
well ventilated nor light enough In day.
time.
An unusually large number Of our
young people are suffering with sore eyes.
May not the cause be found, as the Sani.
tdry Record says, in the use Of arsenic 10
color wall paper. That paper says cases
OF this kind are by no means rare.
The heavy rains Of Tuesday evening
swelled the cutters in some places clear
across the street. At the corner Of Noble
and Thirty.eighth streets there Is cuIverl
to let the gutter 20 under Thirty.eighth
street, and this Is always running, as a
run comes down along the railroad from
the hill; but this rain swelled il greatly
and the culvert had got stopped up. The
water backed until 1t ran over the gutter,
three or four feet deep, and then Went
across the street in broad sheet and
down the alley, filling the whole alley
with q swift stream several inches deep
and sixteen feet broad. Street Commits.
stoner Mcclellan was out with his men in
the morning to repair damages and guard
as much as possible against another such
flood. There is n movement on foot to
put a sewer from this crossing 10 Indian
run, but 1t would be well to see whether
with sewer such q Choke.up as that
could be released.
The storm blew an old locust tree down
on Thirty-tifth street.
Mr.. McConnell's temperance meetings
have come to an end and he has left. He
came here to set himself right, tell the
truth about his drunkenness while hero
before, and so on with the work. We an.
nounced his meetings and mentioned what
took place ut such OF them as we knew
about, refraining from saying anything to
injure the cause, unwise as we, in com.
mon with the great majority OF our people,
thought his coming to be. We hunted up
nothing against him all his relatives
may be drunkards for aught we know, or
care, for 1t would not lessen his eloquence
it they were. But on the last night Of his
stay he "pitched into" us, the editor OF
the Independent, and our relatives" Con.
cerning the father OF Mr.. Anderson he
told a point blank lie; but he is not 10
blame for the truth OF his statements, be.
cause being a stranger here he knew
nothing but what he was told. We are
not less temperance man that we believe
in temperance in speaking as well rs In
drinking, and agree with the majority
in thinking We have had too much 6i
these men whose only merit is that OF
ready tongue and Ballams ass had that.
Some of our citizens have gone to Co.
lumbus to look after the county.seat bill.
1t has been rumorcd that the picnic of
the unemployed chimney blowers, at
Cummins' Grove next Saturday, Ias been
postponed. This is not the case, the man.
ayers claiming that extra pains hive been
taken to heartily welcome participants
and amply protect them by all extra corps
OF police.
Mr.. ]. C. Tuttle is around town fora few
days. He has accepted call to preach in
Washington, Pa, and is on his way home
to move his family to that town.
R.C.F.