The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-20
NE1aHSoRHooD NEWS.
BELLAIRR.

New Trains on the q. q p. Road-Tem.
pernnce Notes-Tax Leyy-LocaI Notes
and Gossip.
The Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad
has never run night trains or Sunday
trains, but is now talking Of Sunday
train, and has just put on night freight
train that leaves here at nine o'clock P. N.
and arrives at four A. N.
Miss Kate Merriman, who has been
visiting W. @. Stewart, sr., on Gravel
Hill, is about returning home.
The strangers attending the women's
Temperance Convention were given a
lunch, supplied by the women Of Bellaire,
in the vacant store room OF Capt Fink's
building, on the Square.
Robert Chisholm, the engineer on one
OF the passenger engines Of the Cleveland
and Pittsburgh road, has been running on
the road Just twenty.six years, having be.
gun when he was eighteen years old. He
has seldom missed even day.
A foundation has been made ready on
the lot at the north east corner OF Belmont
and Thirty.fiith streets, for the old office
Of the Bellaire Window Glass Works,
which will be moved there from its site on
Union street. The building will no longer
be used as an Office A new office will be
built on the site OF the old one.
A slate roof Is 10 be put on John Chris
tia,a housa nm Relmont Rtreet
Tobacco packers in Somertion are haul
ing their tobacco To Jerusalem, Monroe
county, and shipping over the B. & S. W..
10 Bellaire, and thence to Baltimore.
They find this better way snd cheaper
than via GAINESVILLE" So says the Inde
pendent. Certainly. Do not Barnesville's
foundry men confess that to ship, their
goods they had TO send them TO Bellaire
aud then back past Barnesville 10 get
cheap rates?
The Ohio river Is to be surveyed at
Bellaire TO find whether. an ice harbor can
be located here. Many boats already
find refuge here in the winter.
The stockholders Of the b. & S. W. road
met here in the Building Association
rooms, Wednesday afternoon. There was
good turnout, many coming 10 on the
train, which did notleave In the even
ing until later than common, to accoma.
date them. A committee was appointed
to ''raise the wind" but 1t was not decid-
ed what plan TO adopt. The sale Of bonds
and an assessment were mentioned.
Some inscrutable wisdom has caused an
order TO go forth requiring applicants for
Bellaire schools to be examined on Satur-
day the Goth inst. As innumberable pic
mics md excursions, are OF course arrang..
ed for that day, the teachers do not feel
In the best OF humor.
Mr.. Adam Warnock, OF Martins Ferry,
who lived here at the time OF the Dun ar
Strineer protracted temperance meetings,
and made several telling speeches then,
spoke at the Convention in the Disciples
church, Wednesday afternoon. There was
not very big turn out in the afternoon;
but that session was generally regarded as
rather business meeting. In the even
ing was a mass meeting.
Wonder what Motive inspires the Inde.
pendents editorials against Company D
and everything pertaining to 10y 1t is
rather probable that member ot the com.
pany writes at least some OF them.
The Fourth ward pump, on Belmont
street, that was chained up all winter. has
been unlocked and the Second ward pump,
on Union street, is being repaired,
The tax levy was filed by Council Tues
day night, as follows General fund, mill |;
Police, / mill; Road and Street. mill /;
Fire Department, | mill; Street Lamps, t
mill; Water Works Bond, 4 millsi Inter
est and principal, mill Park mill.
The last item looks like tie square was
to be improved in some way. The com.
mittee on public buildings was authorized
to put a new floor in City Hall, paper 1t,
paint it, etc.
ii. NJ. Ingler presented, as bis bonds;
men. @. S. 8. Baron, Andrew Schick and
John Kelly. 1t was approved.
Mayor Crisswell presented new bond,
wbir,s was approved;
The real ec, c,.ateexalization board was ap;;
nointed for the next zen years. First ward
-Wm. Harvey; Second Tard-MM MaI.oe ~, y.
Cochran; Third ward -h9ot; p, elson u
Fourth ward-Jas. B. Darrahi FUN Sstl
Wv. McGraw, and David Rice, a. large.
For personal property the board IS: rits' fvs
ward-W. H. Meek Second SsFaIWm'
Drugan; Third ward-H. Roemeri fea'Ln
ward-j. w. Sanders; Fifth waId-I. b.
Litten; and Murray Mercer, at large. :,
The Gre companies reported theIi
wsrdens as follows: Liberty No. J, ". =
CrozIeT and George Muth; Hope No. Z
A. La Roche; No. 5, NJ. Bates 40 b "
Mr. Eberle made an energetic speech
about police matters. r., a.,
Father Gull is said to have offered the
council $50 to free him from the annoy
ance OF loaiers. Some others would pt
glad OF the same relieL
Ant alarm OF freat eight oclocS
Tuesday night was caused by tht
burning OF some straw In the tirs
Ward. Does that ward want all the hTes'
r.. o. F.
virginia Convention.
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