Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-15

Improvements-Fall of a Wall Measles
and Other Sickness = The Woodheld
Case.
The LaBelle Glass Company improved
the dry time by laying a bOX-plpe from
Low water mark, near the Island, over
to the well on the Ohio side, from which
they pump. 1t is several hundred feet
long, made of inch oak boards, about
one foot in diameter and will answer
the purpose if the floods do not wash it
away, which seems probable.
In excavating for the foundation OF
the new furnace the diggers came
too close 10 the northeast
corner Of the work room OF the glass
house, and about one O'Clock one morn
ing it fell out. 4 temporary closing up
OF the break was made and work went
on undisturbed. Work is being pushed
on their new furnace and the reservoir
is receiving the finishing touches. \
large proportion of the brick to be used
in this furnace was brought from the old
steel works at Martins Ferry.
Archie McClaren awaited himself OF
the opportunity just before the rise
in the river to cut up and
secure for wood to use in burning brick,
a number OF old trees which formerly
stood on the bank near his home but
had fallen or been chopped down. From
one old sycamore he secured a number
of cuts for chopping blocks, worth two
or three dollars each. He has made a
very large number of brick during this
season and has a large kiln still on hand.
He finds il more profitable TO work up
his soil into brick than to market-garden
! it as formerly.
Andrew Baggs, superintendent OF the
glass works, is havinga neat portico put
on his new dwelling, which gives II Il
more finished look.
A. J. Baggs, OF the T. Y. X. r., has
| Just had put down around his residence
a pavement OF sawed slabs of freeslone.
1t makes most beautiful and durable
pavement, and is more costly and hand
somer than any other in town.
\ neat job OF paving has just been
completed around c. VI. Rhodes's new
| dwelling.
The old building formerly used as
! threshing machine and wagon shop,
when owned by Geo. Bartholomew, has
been stripped of its machinery, and is
beng fitted up for a temporary round
! house. Should the present boom in the
! river give water enough ties will be
brought here and track-laying COM
menced soon. Two engines will he put
on as soon as the road gets fairly started,
and work will be pushed forward.
Many children in town have the
measles. II very seriously affects
the attendance at the public school,
! as all the children from
families where the disease exists
are excluded till danger Of con-
tagiOn is past. Some few cases OF scarlet
fever and diphtheria have occurred but
so far none have proved fatal.
The fertility with which We coin new
words and new uses of words is well
illustrated by young lady who
on her examination recently, in Natural
Philosophy said that if you put sui
phuriC acid on sugar and ChlOrate
of potassa mixed it combus's
Sh" might have left the first syllable off
and still have been graded 100 per cent
on her answer.
Samuel Coleman is the new landlord
OF the Rhodes, while n. Strahl, former
proprietor, has gone out near st. Glars
vile to spend the winter and in the
spring proposes 10 start for the bonnd-
less West.
1t is possible that a former druggist
Of our town, will soon 90 10 Kansas to
engage i'm sheep raising.
1t is a good thing for town to have Z
good drygoods store in its midst. Weare
fnrtunatp i'm having one of that lpScrip-
ton run by an atlable gentleman who
always votes the Democratic ticket, but
would Just as soon sell Gen. Grant or
any other Republican goods ii he is 4
greenbacker or silver advocate, also, To
the extent OF possessing the "ready.'
And still the question is, what of the
! Woodfeld case2 Isn't it compromising
felony TO let such a proceeding 20 by
default? Our impression is that il We
! had a little more vigorous enforcement
| of the law, we should have fewer such
| criminal cases We have had within II
few years two secretaries OF building
associations here deiaulted for large
amounts and escaped punishment 10y
giving up their property, thus partially
making good the loss. II they had been
prosecuted and punished, We doubt
whether this last case would have oc-
Cured.
Some writer in last Sundays N,,rs-
Letter., over the signature of "Welsh-
man" doubts our statement that some
coai diggers are making SIS per week AT
Sl.7j per hundred. II he wants evil
dcnce he can have it by calling Tor it.