The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-31
ill.,. Denman Thompson At lhe Opera

%. Dr.. a. W. Campbell died.
4th. Standard Theatre Company q
Opera House.
7th. Mrs. J. McClane died.
9th. Lyric Opera Company in Pinator
at Opera House.
18th, Easter services observed will
special exercises In the city churches.
Parkersburg and Cincinnati Transports
ton Company sustained by the U.
Supreme Court.
18th. Plnaiore repeated at Opera Hous
by Lyric Opera Company.
10th. Major W. L, Bridges re.appointeC
as Superintendent West Virginia Peni
Tertiary.
II. The publication OF City Directory be
gun by G. O. Johnson. Suicide Of Mrs. Ellis
Fulton.
18th. Gen. Jno. A. Dix died. Hess
Opera Company at Opera House.
22d. Coffee House and Ordinary liCen.
ses granted by City Council.
2Sd. Anniversary supper OF Wheeling
Shakespeare Club.
oath. Capt. Wilson'S letter as to con,
duct Of State Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asy,
lum published.
Opening Of Mount Belleyiew summer
hotel.
FOrds Dramatic Company in PinatOre
ut the Opera House.
95th. John Mccullough in Othello at
the Opera House.
goth. Mccullough in Richard III at the
Opera House.
eth. Memorial services at the Fourth
Street NJ. E. Church in honor OF Bishop
Ames.
Goth President Hayes vetoes the army
appropriation bill.
$Oth. Robt, McWade as Rip Van Win
kle at the Opera House.
MAY.
LIST. City gas reduced to LOS per thou.
sand feet.
I'd. Fire on Sixteenth street. between
Eof and Jacob, damages several build.
ings.
Sd. Sells mensgerie and circus in
town.
4.h, Dominican Mission at the Cathe.
dal closed.
9th. Daniel Darrah died.
9Th. Henry Ward Beecher lectured in
Washington Hall on 1.-THE Reign Of
the Common People,"
Sth. John l.. DiCkey chosen captain OF
the Mathews Light Guard.
18th. Bank of Ohio Valley declares
three per cent semi.annual dividend,
10th. Childrens' Home Anniversary at
Opera House. Miss Dods begins course
OF lectures on cooking at McLains' Hall.
18th. Semi-annual meeting OF NJ, E.
Bishops at Fourth Street Church. Lon.
don show on Wheeling Island.
10th: Bishop Fosters lecture on spirit
Forces" at Fourth Street Church.
18th: Leonard Growers "0ur Boarding
House" company at Opera House. =
18th. Martin Stoetzer browns himself at
the mouth OF Wheeling creek,
22d. Sale OF U. s. four per cents begun
with rush at the Postotiice.
9th. Vim. Lloyd Garrison died.
18th. City Council elects I. NJ. Darrah
clerk Of Municipal Court and J. N. Todd
City Receiver
SOth. Sham battle on Wheeling Island
and decoration services.
JUNE.
%. Ruffians attack Mr.. A. S. Stauyer,
and attempt TO rob him.
Sd. Residence OF ]. w. C. Smith, No,
1852 Market street, partially destroyed by
fire.
4th. Gen. Ewing nominated at Column
bus, Ohio, as Democratic candidate for
Governor OF Ohio. Gen. A. S. Piatt nom
mated for the same position by the Green
hackers.
9Th. Meeting Of the State Medical Asso.
citation at Martinsburg.
9TH. Termination OF the Pittsburgh
iron lockout" the manufacturers agree
ing to sign the sliding scale. Homicide at
the Leasure Boat Club picnic in the fatal
shooting Of Daniel Smith, Esq, by William
Clator; Paddy" Nichols and Jasper
Clator being charged as accessories.
1lth. An unknown young man, aged
% years, commits suicide BY throwing
himself in the Ohio river above the Top
Mill. Annual commencement OF the
Wheeling Female College, at the Opera
House; ten graduates.
l4th. Haverly's Georgia Ministries at
the Opera House.
10Th. In melee at 8Iason's saloon,
South Side, James Devinney shoots
Timothy Woodruff, making a painful
wound.
10th. Hanlan defeats Elliott for the in
ternational sculling championship over
the Tyne course, England.
18th. Dramatic scene in the U, S. Senate
between Senators Conkling and Lamar.
18th. Commencement ut Bethany Col
lege; twentY.three graduates. News OF
the death OF Prince Napoleon received at
London.
Goth. Little Charlie Meredith,crushed to
death under pile OF lumber.
2lst. Weston wins tue Ashley belt and
makes The best time on record in the in.
ternational walktngmatCh at London. Dis.
covery OF the body Of Geo. Holt, South
Side boiler, who committed suicide by
drowning in the Ohio river. Mike Burke,
aged IS years, seriously stabs Ben Frazier,
aged II years.
22nd. Corner stone OF the African NJ. +.
Church laid with appropriate ceremonies.
Seventeenth anniversary Of the organiza.
ton oil the English Lutheran Church BY
Rev. S. B. Barnitz.
2Sd. The President vetoes the Judicial
Expenses bill. Commencement OF the
Seguin Collegiate Institute at the Opera
House.
25th. Distribution at ST Joseph's Acade.
my.
10Th. Closing exercises Of St. vincents
High School and commencement exer.
cises ut Mt. De Chantal.
JULY.
LIST Warren Smith beats IIanlon's best
time at Silver Lake, Mass.
Congress adjourns.
A boat race arranged between Powell,
Of Pittsburgh, and Braceland, of this city,
for $500.
Cd. Kramer's Band left for White Sui,
phur Springs.
Sd. The Golf Guards detached from the
First Virginia regiment and become dis.
tinct organization.
Elijah Crswell, an old man, killed on
the Hempfeld Railroad al Elm Grove