The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-11-08

Adopted.
The Committee on Printing recommended
payment OF bills aggregating $lS2 50. The
Committee on Roads and Bridges recon-
mended the payment Of bills aggregattng
$sl8 90 Both adopted.
The Committee on Poor House and Farm
recommended that bills aggregating 81 ,s6S y
be paid, which recommendation was adopted,
The Superintendent OF the Poor House re-
ported the number OF inmates as IS, Of whom
50 are males, one being colored, and 10 te-
males One white male and two white
females are under one year, and five males
and two females over and under ten. There
have been two births In the past month, one
male and one female, and one colored male
died. The inmates and premises are reported
in good condition.
The Bank OF the Ohio Valley petitioned for q
reduction Of assessments OF It's personal prop
erty Of 81, 900; that is from $SS7OO to SS6, 100
Referred.
Major AlonEo Loring represented In q petit
ton that by the blasting out OF the rock at
the place near Elm Grove, where there was
formerly q falls in Wheeling Creek, had
injured his property by making the creek In
that part shallow, and preventing his secur-
ing supply OF Ice as heretofore; that the
pool Of water heretofore there was valuable
both In winter and summer, and that the
rock was removed to render the bridge near
that point safer by protecting 1t from heavy
drift, but at the petitioners loss, He there
fore asked that the Board construct dam Of
point on Big Wheeling Creek Just above
the confluence with Little Wheeling Creek:
Referred to the Committee on Roads and
Bridges with power to act
Zane Philips, Of Washington district, a.
well Us Philip Darby, petitioned the Board
to appoint him Justice OF the Peace. MT
Stein, Commissioner from Washington dis
trict, reported that he had appointed John
ZoeckeF temporarily and on motion the
nomination was confirmed.
The petition OF John Burns was read. II
represents that certain work was done on thu
p, W& KY Railroad bed In Ohio county By
Michael Green 4 Co. while that road was In
process Of construction, and that the sum
II, 00002 remains due upon account; tina
suit having been instructed to be brought
the attorneys so mislnanaged the case tina
the company was enabled TO plead the statute
OF limitations, and he was estOpped iron
recovery that the petitioner alone Is inter
eSted III the case; that on one occasion HI
had been awarded 500, but that SO pucl
was consumed Ia costs, etc., that he only re
ceiyed $33. lie prayed the Board, as . larg'
stockholder IN tho company, TO grant him o.
least fair compensation. Deferred.
Squire lulgpE petltlolcd for the appoint
ment Of James Henry as Constable for Unior
district, vice SadleT, resigned, The mattel
was referred to Commissioner Caldwell.
On motion the tax OH every second malt
dog owned by one person was fixed at y
and on every additional female dog 81,
W. ). buchanan called attention 70 thu
inquest held by Squire Philips upon Maut
Shepherd, the girl burned 70 death in Eas
Wheeling, and pronounced II illegal on &c
count Of there being nobody present. III
protested against the payment Of any OF thu
expenses OF said inquest, The communica
ton with tho bills for tho inquest, were re
ierred 10 the Committee on Court House ant
/ iJuil.
Clinton 1filligan petitioncd for certificate
Of good moral character, ETC., Us provided, II
order to comply with tho law regulating aP
pllCatlOns for admission to the bar, whici
was granted.
After some other unimportant business tn
Board adjourned,