The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-06-27

Chnreh and Personal GOssip-ExouIuiOv,
Pienie and CAMP MeetRg-BOy Drown.
ed, eIe., etc.

ChnFeh y Personal GOssip-EGcuIHlOD,
Pienie and Camp Meeting-BOy Drown.
I'D, eIe., etc.
Nm. Dewitt Dantord is quite III.
Lyle Thobnrn Is home for the vacation OF
Meadvills College.
The County Seat Committee holds a meet.
ing Monday evening.
Notices are posted Of the semi.aunual water
rent It is due July lilo.
There was no Methodist church Sunday,
owing to the pastors absence.
Rev. Heinze being absent there was no ser.
vice at the German church Sunday.
Dr.. Mcclellan has charge OF Dr, Wood.
bridges patients during his absence.
The Haymaksrs' picnic at Cummins' Grove
Saturday was q success in all respects,
Father Gull assisted Bishop Kahn in con-
irmAton services at BenwoOd Sunday,
Star Woodbridge, Bellaire correspondent Of
ths RsgitT, is down the river for Arrest.
A large number OF Belmont comfy teachers
were in town Saturday attending the exami-
nation.
Dr., A, ], Sanders, now OF Grand Island,
Nebraska, Is back here for awhile among his
old friends,
Some of the colored people from here at
tended Sundays services ut the Martins
Ferry camp meeting.
The funeral OF Miss LYDIA Gray, from the
Methodist Church Sunday afternoon, was
attended by a very large number,
The installation OF Rev Brown took place
In the church on Gravel Hill Friday evening,
a good number being in attendance,
Mr., S, s. Miller, Au old Mississippi steam.
boatman, and the inventOrl II the steam cap
Hill.
Tho Independent gives Jack away thus
Jack Kelly goes 10 Mt, Pleasant, next week,
~ostensibly to hunt squirrels, but really to see
the glrs,
Probate Judge Cochran, Col. CharleswOrth
Nathan Holloway, Of Belmont, were in the
city yesterday,
The Hibernians, accompanied by the Ben
wood BrasI Band, marched through some o
our streets Saturday before leaving for thu
picnic ut steubenville.
Rev, James Rodgers, formerly Methodist
minister here, now Of Urchville, was in town
Friday evening and Saturday. He has .
host Of warm friends here,
Tony Sheets, the youngest son of Mr.. Ste
phen Sheets president OF the BelIaire Window
Glass Works, died Of diphthsrin Saturday
night and was buried Sunday afternoon Al
Rose Hi ].
Mrs, Rev, James N. Thoburn arrived here
Saturday evening from her hone. She has
qualified herself for u physlCian's work
among the women Of India, and will join heI
husband when Miss Bella ThOburn return,
to that country.
The clty's plan for a bridge over the BlltI
more & Ohio tracks at The Belmont stree
crossing Is for two spans fifteen feet high
measuring from the present tracks, hut the
tracks are to be lowered three feet there, SC
the bridge will be eighteen feet above them.
The Delphos Club went down Tho river Sat
urday on the Courier, taking Fowler's orches-
ira along, They boarded the Diurnal when
she was met, but this boat was delayed by or
occident to her machinery aud the party did
not get home until an early hour Sunday
morning,
Doc HRwkenblry was drowned Saturday
evening In the river. HO was rowing In i
row.bOat when the currents around one OF the
Baltimore 4 Ohio bridge piers upset the mar
row boat. He was n good swimmer, but his
feet were caught, The body was recovered
before dark with graphing irons.
It's 10 be presumed that those who ara now
seen l0afing along the pavement between the
pOstOfilCe and tho corner are unable to read,
as a large board has been fixed up on two
stakes In the cPntIe OF the yard, bearing the
words Whose loafeIS who spend their time
on this pavement will do we'll to seek other
fields In which to labor
The following from the Independent relates
such an instance Of pluck and perseverance
that we ara constrained to reprint IT.
John Hamilton, the teacher OF tho COlorcd
scha0l, this city. endured during the entire
winter past, hartships that show him TO be
very determined man. Early In tho fall,
shortly after school opened, Mr. Hamilton
was taken with rheumatism In his right side,
and he was almost powCrlGsS at times. 10 use
either limb on that Lide. This would have
been enough 10 make ordinary mortals throw
up the sponge, as II were but II was not so
with Mr.. Hamilton. He purchased a cot, had
1t placed In one corner Of the school house,
and there he lay and succeeded in teaching
and governing his pupils qnitsas well as h0
had been well, but not with half the s~atlstaC.
ton. often In damp weather he has been
kept In the school room for a whole week at a
time, sleeping and eating there. Such deter.
mination and such devotion Is worthy Of
mention.
R. G.: F.