The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-09
NEWS FROM NEAR TOWNS
GATHERED By IHrELLIaEAcER RE
PoRrERs.
BELLAIRE.

Gov. Foster has accepted the resignation
T Of Second Lieutenant George R. Graitol
, and an election will be held by compan.
: D. Monday evening to fill the vacancy
The resignation bears date July 10th.
Gen. Geo. W. Morgan is to speak her,
, for the Democrats Saturday. the 2lst.
platform will be begun on the square the
first Of the week.
Jno. Robinson from his quarries on thu
creek is furnishing some very large stonel
for the foundation Of an engine in one o.
the Wheeling nail mills, and also some
large stones cut to stand on edge, with q
curve to ct the circle Of the new gas tank
in Wheeling.
Mord Nelson and family left Saturday
morning for visit TO relatives at Beth.
any.
Two large barges OF melens were at our
wharves Saturday. One came In the even.
ing; but one with 1900 filed the town
full during the day. The melon men re-
port poor crop; the weather was wet
but too cool. The musk.melon crop Is
poorer than the watermelon crop.
Mr.. Hattery has commenced the erec-
ton Of two-story house facing the
Square-the eighth building on his lots.
Mr.. Fletcher has resigned his place in
the Goblet Works office, and Mr.. Mercer,
the teacher OF the High School. has taken
his place. Mr.. MERGERS position Is now
vacant.
Officer Curran Is acting as City Marshal
In tha ahaanaa ~ n N,;aawa1I NJ th n
Smyrna camp-meetipg.
viii Morrison has returned from visit
TO Allegheny county, Pa.
Company D has accepted the offer OF j.
II. Heed & Bro, Of Barnesville, to furn.
ish the regulation rations, while in camp,
for % cents per day per man. The State
allows 3St cents for subsistence, 30 Com
pany D will have 81 cents left for extra
delicacies. Two cooks will be taken along
by the company and the boys expect to
have COED time.
The St. Cecilia band escorted the Turn
ers on their departure for Pittsburgh Sat-
urdsy.
The Republican stand on the square
was opened up, alter its long rest, Satur-
day, new benches fixed In 1t and seats for
the audience placed as usual. The St.
Clairsville band paraded the streets in the
evening and on its return TO the square
Chas. Baltzell introduced Capt. Daniord.
Mr.. Danford spoke 90 as 10 be heard dis
ttnctly by the entire audience, although 1t
was his first outdoor effort this campaign.
He did not contrast the candidates OF the
two parties, but warned US that behind
the face OF the handsome Major.General
Is the hungry Democratic wolf hungry
for otfice-more hungry than DR.. Tanner
was Saturday noonl The Doctors task
was self imposed, not 80 that OF this wolf.
He glanced at the record Of the Democratic
party In the past-not all OF Il, but that
part which bears upon the action OF the
party in the future. The Cincinnati plat
TO the principles and traditions that dis.
tinguished It's great leaders in the past and
Mr.. Daniord showed what an unenyiable
record that was in the last twenty years,
on States rights, negro suffrage, and the
tariff. The tariff that has built up Bel
laire has been maintained against the
utmost efforts OF the Democrats. He
said he remembered when the whole
Republican party meiIin one room, twenty
feet square, south OF the creek, with the
gent eman who had sent up the bouquet on
the speakers stand, in the chair. (rhis
was Captain Nicholl). And the whole Of
Bellaire at that time might have got into
the rest OF the house, and not been much
crowded either. All the growth OF our
town was directly attributable to the tariff
laws OF the Republicans. At the conclu.
sion OF the speech the bouquet was pre-.
sented TO the speaker by Mr.. Baltzell, In
behalf OF Captain Nicholl
The audience. was as large as the meet
ings generally are when the campaign has
got red.hot The number Of seats were
increased just before the opening OF the
meeting, but half Of the audience stood
even after that.
Mrs. Mary Arrick, OF St. Clairsville, WIS.,
iting Alex. Darrah, Clerk Of the Common
Pleas Court, spent Sunday with relatives
here.
Can any one count how many velooi.
pedes the boys OF Bellaire hayer
R.C.F.