The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-27

BELLAtRg LocALs.-Col. Bowen went
away from here TO come Back and lbesiria
series 81 meetings; butitwillhndodbtedly
depend on the people here what success
he has, He wants to organize athe,work
here 90 that permanent good can be done;
and Is not In favor ,otlmAking q mighty
effort for day or 80 and then taking q
rest and having to begin at the beginning
again, like stopping TO rest while drawing
water from an oldtaslioned chain.pump.
It seems that some thirty dollars was rails.
ed here when he first came, 10 pay his ex-
penses while holding q series OF meetings.
1twas then found that the churches were
all In use and he would have 10 hold tenn
perance meetings In City Hall. The lar
ger number Of our people object 10 going
to City Hall and do not 60 very often, and
perhaps tho greater part Of those who gen.
orally attend the temperance meetings
were In attendance at the churches. Con.
sequently, the Colonel did not hold many
meetings and did not satisfy all OF those
who subscribed to his support. Some OF
these now want either their money
or tho meetings. The money was
needed for the support Of the lee.
lecturing rs when he lectured, and
was spent. To those who are notsatistied,
perhaps II would be well TO say that 1t Is
the opinion Of some, one Of our ministers
among the number, that Col. Bowen did
more real good for the temperance cause
in the short time he was here than did
Dunbar during the meetings last year
The wharfboat and ferryboat are still
lying just below the mouth OF Indian run,
A steamboat was engaged Friday in get.
ting all the good possible out OF the barees
carried away from the Pittsburgh coal
works. - n
A barge that was stopped when the
fleet was torn loose by the moving Ice
from the Benwood Blast Furance, Is rest.
ing on the piled up Ice along the bank by
the ferryboat. One end Is unsupported,
and heavy fall OF snow or rain would
test the strength ofits timbers In keeping
1t together.
Some Of our merchants arc fairly into
the experiment OF using oil lamps in their
stores instead Of gas, and Others are using
part gas and part OIL In some OF our
dwellings the gas Is now shut of altogcth.
er. The use OF lamps has made great
demand on chimneys, and the National
Glass Works are getting some Of. None
Of our chimey-making houses are running
now. They cannot run and compete with
Eastern houses, until either the labor can
be had here for little less than It Is, or
until the Eastern workmen force their
employers up to tho price that their fell
lows want here.
The editor Of the Ildependent thinks
that I. u. Litten would be good State
Librarian, because he could sweep the
floors and dust the shelves rs well as an
other man. The editor might as well have
said that the same reason was good to
Keep out OF the same place Gov, Of the
Leader, whe was said 10 be after It: for
who ever knew an editor that could keen
even tolerably clean and tidy Officer
The sun is bringing out one OF st. Glars
Iytlle's greatest objections to BelIaire : the
6ottomless mud, at which an inhabitant of
that town (whose street was made passable
at the expense Of the United States Gov
ernment), holds up his hands in horror.
But then We all know that our mud is only
deep because OF something going on here
to keep it stirred up. We can manage 10
keep the Court House out OF the mud
without putting 1t ten or fifteen feet on a
crumbling stone terrace.
There will be church again oil this week
at the Methodist Church: -
The annual meeting OF the stockholders
OF the Bellaire Nail Works met Saturday
afternoon at the Office of the company,
near the works. The following were
elected as directors for the next year: j.
K. McCourtney, R. 7. Devries, Aug Weld
e6usch, Ed. Jones, Herman Harlenstein,
Il. L. Beck, =. W. 0glebay. Jones, Hard.
enstein and Beck arc BeIlaire men, the
rest are from Wheeling. Il. T. Deyries Is
the only new man in the board. No or
ganization of the board has been madeyet,
and consequently no election of officers.
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