The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-24

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In new water motor for operating his
coffee and spice mills.
TEE blast box at the Hinge factory
caught fire Friday, and burned badly.
Work was suspended during the afternoon.
CARL BAxKR, tobacco stripper who
works for Bulger, fell in fit on Twelfth
street Saturday evening, and was restored
with difficulty.
THE art sale will begin this evening at
the sales-room, No. ll42, Main street,
Hornbrook's block, and will embrace the
first forty pictures in the catalogue.
The picnic out at Gaston's orchard on
next THURSDAY, promises 10 be q large
affair. West Liberty and the surrounding
country will send large delegations 70 u.
THE first engine passed over the 9. l. '
& W. railroad tIestle between bridgeport
and West Wheeling, Saturday. The strpc.
ture stood up to the strain firmly as copla
be wished.
TIE glass houses are to stop for two
months during the hot season, II the direc-
lions OF the National Convention oil Manu-
lecturers, held at Philadelphia last week,
are carried out.
The Geo. H. Parks fishing club left Sat
urday evening for four weeks camping
ont season, near Barresyille, o. The boys
have our best wishes Tor happy and
successful time.
TnRspirit OF disorder seems to be abroad.
There was row Of formidable proper
lions over at fulton last night, the Parlie
ulars Of which, however, are not Of sum
Gent interest to justify going into details
THE physicians Of Julius Lohse, who
was thrown from buggy and sustained
fracture OF an elbow joint on Thursday,
think that he will be cripple for lie, as,
according TO present indications, the joint
will be still.
The knights OF Pythias excursion &c
Martins Ferry and Wheeling promises to
be one OF the incest affairs OF the season.
A large number OF invitations have been
extended by the lodge, and will be accept
ed.-Steubanriis Pres.
BARLOW. WILSON, PRIMROSE AND WEST
will hold the boards at the Opera
House on the Sd proximo. The Rents
Santley Variety Combination on Wednes'
day night is the only other attraction SO
far announced for The iutnre.
LAST week eight persons died in the
city, ranging in age irom two months TO
3 tilty.iouf years. Two died Of typhoid
fever, one OF measles, one scarlet fever,
. one malnutrition, one commissions, one
consumption and one insanity.
The benefit performance at the Comique
Saturday night, is described as most
amusing performance, as much Of me en-,
tertainment aud more OF the noise being
furnished by the audience than BY the
company. The affair was financially a
4 great success.
: TIE hands employed at the Wellsburg
Glass House will, after the first OF June,
J, work through the day, but none at night
as formerly. This company has ordered
lot Of new presses. They shipped over
three hundred barrels Of glassware on
last Saturday 10 the West. They are doing
: heavy business.
A "rELEMYcRAPHoNE" was put up be.
tween the rreasurers and Secretary Of
States offices at the Capitol Sunday, TO
show what the machine could accomplish
! in the way OF transmitting sound. Those
who tried it were not well pleased, either
on account Of the failure OF the lnstru-
ment TO work properly on this occasion,
or habitual lack OF success in that
direction.
A DANGEROUS animal, OF the bulldog
variety, belonging to young man named
James Gillespie, in East Wheeling, at.
tackled It's owners mother, woman OF
upwards OF sixty years oil age, Saturday
evening, and tore and lacerated her flesh
in a most horrible manner. The old lady
was rescued with difficulty by her son and
neighbor, the dog having broken his
chain. The brute was dispatched with an
axe after Mrs. Gillespie's injuries were at
tended 10.
A PRE- broke out at Chambers Coal
Works, out at Elm Grove, Saturday after.
noon between one and two o'clock, and
owing to the lack OF any facilities for ex-
. tinguishing It, the wooden stack, or hoist
ing house, which was structure some
twenty-five or thirty feet high, was en-
tirely destroyed. The loss will probably
: reach $500. No one was working in the
mine at the time the FIRE started. 1t Ia
; supposed 1t originated from the furnace in
I the air shaft.
! A CHANGE Of time goes into effect on the
{ B. & o. road to-day, by which arrange.
Y ment the morning train for the Central
Ohio road will leave Wheeling at 4:40
A. NJ, instead OF sos as heretofore, while
the east. bound train will depart at $40
A. NJ, instead OF several hours earlier, as
under the old schedule. The evening
train from the West will also arrive abont
: an hour earlier, and the midnight train
!. likewise. The time between important
: points is greatly reduced, through trains
making the run from Baltimore TO Chi
cago in twenty;six hours instead Of thirty.
six, as before. The arrangement ia ex.
pected to prove much more satisfactory to
the travelling public than the former one.
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE -ltemS from he
CHURCHES and Sunday Scholastic Little
Jewels" department Of the English Luth:
: eran Sunday School will enjoy picnic
next Friday afternoon, weather per-
hitting, in the grove just beyond the
Hempfeld tunnel.
Rev. Father McElligott, OF this city, con-
ducts services in the Catholic Church at
Moundsyille on the first Sabbath OF each
month.
Ex-Governor Pierpont, Of this State, is
a member OF the Committee on Rules and
Order at the annual session OF the General
Conference Of the Methodist Protestant
Church in session at Pittsburgh.
Rev. CASTOR, OF Bellaire, preached in
the Presbyterian Church at MoundsvilIe
yesterday, and Rev. Pomeroy occupied
Rev. Gaston's pulpit at Bellaire.
The members OF the Christian Church
contemplate having an excursion to
Wheeling on Saturday, the Goth, on the
steamer Abner 0'Neal, providing there is
water enough for the boat 10 run.-Stsstbe1.
rille Gd;ette.
Rev. t3eo. @. wildiDg, pastor OF the
Thomson NJ. E. Church, on the Island,
recently wrote an article on temperahce
aud the church, which was published in