Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-18
BELLAIRE.

The worst type OF cholera lnfantum
ever known in these parts, now prevails
in this city.
The Bellaire Light Guards will give a
picnic out the b. & S. W. r. R., on the
last Saturday OF this month.
The Cassell Base Ball Club, OF this
city, and the Athletes, of GAINESVILLE,
will play a match game on the fair
grounds at the latter place tomorrow
afternoon.
Foster and Hume, the prisoners SEN
fenced to the penitentiary at the recent
term of court, were taken to Columbus,
by Sheriff Hilles and Marshall o. o..
Archer, of this city.
The friends of Miss Belle Thoburn,
who has been in India about ten years
rs a missionary, will be glad to know
that she will sail for America in Noyem-
Der next, and, should nothing adverse
occur, will spend her next Christmas in
this country. Miss Thoburn was the
first to 90 out under the auspices OF the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of
the VI. +. Church She was formerly a
resident of this city, and afterward
taught private school at st. Clairsville.
She was also at one time a teacher in the
Wheeling Female College, OF which in
stitution she is graduate. Possibly
her brother, the leading missionary OF
the NJ. +. Church, will accompany her,
Mr.. ID. Z. McComb, who has resided
here for several years, removed last
week to Fountain City, Colorado.
Mr.. VIM. Douglass. who left here last
spring for the West, is now engaged in
business in Parsons, Labette count y
Kansas.
Messrs. Hill, Seward and Ward, who
purchased the Butte Mill, have COM
menced operations, and will doubtless
do successful business. They call 1t
the "Globe Mills"
Some of the Baltimore and Ohio rail.
road officials were in the city last week.
1t is their intention to replace nearly all
the wooden bridges west OF here this
summer with substantial iron ones.
Capt. Vt. Morgan and wife, and Mr..
$. X. Wetherald and wife, are making
the tour of the lakes and Niagara.
Miss Aggie Hanlan, an attractive and
intelligent young lady OF GAINESVILLE, is
visiting one OF the Misses Muth, on Bel
mont street.
The editor oft Martins Ferry NeTS,
in regretting his inability to accept an
invitation to accompany the b. & s. w.
excursion last Saturday, says: THE
construction of this road must necessa-
rily add largely to the material wealth
and business of our sister, not rival
town, penetrating as it does the hill
bound vallies Of Belmont and Monroe
counties, and carrying the agricultural
wealth of a partially undevelOped re-
gion to Bellaire to seek market there
or elsewhere. We are glad to hear that
the business of the road even in its un-
finished condition exceeds the calcutta
tons OF its projectors, and have no
doubt that when finished to Woods.
field it must undoubtedly do heavy
carrying trade, in the products OF the
Monroe hills"
There will be q meeting OF the
Ladies Aid Society in the Nj. +. church
tomorrow evening.
f. G. Morgan, Esq, assignee OF the
old Implement Works Company, has
sold all the machines that were left on
hand at the time Of the assignment,
together with some that were made up
under his administration for the pur-
pose of utilizing raw material on hands.
The real estate will be offered for sale
soon. The courts have recently decided
that the stockholders of the company
are liable for twice the face of their
subscriptions, under the law. This
will be nice for creditors, but it will
fall hard on the few solvent stockholders
The wheat in this section of the coun-
try that was cut before the rain and
storm OF last Friday, is said to be badly
sprouted. The storm blew the shocks
down and the rain thoroughly soaked
the grain.
A meeting of citizens will be held in
the City Hall, Saturday evening, for
consultation as to the best plan OF oper-
alton in the county seat matter at the
coming election, and in the conventions
previous thereto. The action of the
meeting is anxiously looked for by the
wistful would-be candidate.
Bellaire people were nearly sunstruck
yesterday to discover from the Intelh-
gsncer's locals that the thermometer had
ranged from llS0 to l420 here the day
before. Several left for Florida last
evening in search of a cool spot.