The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-20

BELLAiRR LocAIs,-James Dunning, OF
Gravel Hill, who has been very low with
typhoid fever, Is recovering.
The Bellaire Window Glass Works have
got fairly to work again and report pros.
poets for business good, with more demand
Tor their goods than at the same time last
year.
The steamboats, here are keeping up
steam and moving their wheels most Of
the time. The Coal City Is at the mouth
Of Indian Run, with the wharfboat and
the ferryboat, behind the blast furnaces
Stag pile. The Alex. Swift and another
towboat are below the bridge with a few
barges.
Mr.. Peter Yost, ST., who Is spending q
few days with his son here, Is probably
the oldest citizen OF Belmont county, He
was born IN July, 1895, and came into
this country In 1898, four years before
Ohio was admitted into the Union, This
old pioneer seems to be enjoying himself
and has good health.
The sleds that the street car company
ara running In place Of their cars seem to
6e carrying more passengers than the cars
did. They run on any street that pass.
enger wants to visit, and charge only five
cents. Perhaps the reduction Of fare from
the regular price is made because II takes
two horses to haul sled and only one for
car.
4 great many were on the Ice skating
Friday afternoon, but report that they
could not find much good Ice,
Mr.. Kent, OF Providence, Rhode Island,
Is visiting his daughter, Mrs. D. ]. Murray,
and trying the quality Of an Ohio winter.
A girl descending the narrow path above
the reservoir, Saturday, came down part OF
the distance rather suddenly. She slipped
and rolled down the hill, over and over,
half dozen rods or 80. She did not seem
to be hurt much, for she got up and started
agatn.
Several OF our merchants had theirstock
OF potatoes frozen during the cold spell.
The iron hose plugs that some OF our cit
zens have at their curbstones have moth.
ing to keep them from being forced up
wards by the frost, and lately some Of
thom rose with such power that the lead
water pipes were snapped off as cleanly as
II cut by knife.
The other day sled attempted 10 cross
the creek OH the ice. The ice broke under
the weight and let the horses through and
into the water up to their backs. A wo.
man in tho sled Jumped out on the ice and
also broke through. A horse Of Mr..
Wise's also caught bad cold in attempt.
lug to cross. ltgot into deep place.
Tho belmont Chronicle, in mentioning
tho report that Cow, OF the Bellaire Leader,
Is to get the Office Of State Librarian, SAYS
that in case Cow does get the office, &c
should let George Callen have tho Deputy
Inspectorship OF oil,
Mr.. Black, Principal OF the st. Glars
Vile schools, was In town Saturday with
his wife. He was on his way to Wegee "a
preach Sunday.
Mrs. E. G. Morgan died auddenly Sun.
day morning Nhalt eight o'clock, Of heart
disease. She had been somewhat sick
since the middle Of the week, but was bet
ter early Sunday morning.
A freight train was wrecked SATURDAY.
morning out the Baltimore and Ohio rail.
road Nine cars were thrown from the
track, and some OF them, loaded with
shelled corn, have dumped their loads out
In tho bitches and in piles on the track
Several trains were sent ont from here IA
clear away the debris, Ro.F,