The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-11-12
NEIGMRoRuOOD NEWS.



The excavation for the soldiers monumer
foundation was begun and completed on Fl
day
Mr., Sheets who was SO badly hurt ut III
U, I, Church on Thursday, was little bette
Friday.
The regular fortnightly meeting Of til
Gravel Hill Mite Society was held Thursda
evening.
WIN Smith left on Friday for Washington
Pa, where he will DO ut his accustomed va
cation-selling organs
The time Of Thomas McCormick's funera
has been changed from Saturday morning I,
ten O'Clock Sunday. morning,
On Sunday evening series Iof Gospe
meetings will begin at the Disciples churcl
and continue every evening through mex
week,
The new churches in South Bellaire and OF
Gravel Hill prove great Conyeniences OF
rainy or muddy Sundays to all Church.goer
OF whatever denomination.
The Chaple Aid Society, society In con
nection with the Second Prcsby Church
Is going to build neat fence around thu
Gravel Hill Church at once,
Rev. VIM. s. Thompson, who preached a
the First Presbyterian church on Sunday
was pupil Of our Bellaire high school undeI
Prof. Melville's superintendency,
Superintendent II, s. Wilson Is engaged IN
laying new water main 10 Gravel Hill. TIL,
old wooden main was laid in the road bu
that road has since been abandoned and tho
pipe now runs under the lots on the west side
OF Noble street, The new main that Is being
laid is OF iron, and runs up the alley back OI
those lots The old main will not DO taken
from the ground ut present,
The recently elected directors OF the Fair
Association have been increased by the al,
dition OF VIM. Gorby and John A. Gallaher
and have elected Mr, GOrby president, W. c,
Cochran vice president, David II, Darrah
secretary and Joseph II. Grafton treasurer,
It will soon be decided where TO locate the
grounds, the place just now in Wow more
especially being that out by the old bottle
works on the south side OF the creek.
ST. cLAIRsvLLE.
Mrs. Prof. Hitchcock and Mrs. Editor Hunt
are off on jaunt to Cleveland.
Communion services will be held at the N,
u. Church on Sabbath morning.
The Northern railroad has been running
regularly since Tuesday, and 1t Is to be hoped
VIII continue 10 40 10,
Burlette, the funny man Of the Burlington
Mwkeye, Is again advertised TO lecture here.
This time he Is to bG Ghere on Monday evening
next. II Is to be hoped that hG will not dis
appoint us as he did last winter.
A coal famine was experienced here for u
few days during the strike among the miners
at Quincy. Many families were entirely out,
but the warm weather proved blessing II
Is plenty now but at eight cents per bushel,
where II was but seven.
The winter term Of tho Court OF Common
Pleas commenced here on Tuesday last, Judge
Okey presiding. Judge Kelly's term does not
commence until the second Monday OF Feb.
ruary, 1852. The Grand Jury have been
holding their usual reception, but To what
conclusions they have arrived has not yet
been made public.
1t Is strange that the Dellaire correspondent
Of the Register and the editor of the BelalrC
Tribune should be so reckless In their asser.
tiOns. They assert that there were "thrCe
deaths and thirteen new cases. from dIphths.
ria here last week. There has been but one
case ut any time. II was brought here from
Wheeling, u child OF Mr.. J. II. RittOnh0use,
Il died at the residence OF It's grandmother,
Mrs, o. J. Swaney. No one else has taken II,
and while, naturally, much alarm was felt by
parents at first, 1t has about abated, and peO.
pie are OF the opinion that the danger Is over.
WEST WHEELING.
Typhoid fever seems to be taking lis regtl.
lar course here. Several persons are bound
down In Its fetterS. Among those thusatlllC.
ted are Wm. and Luther SelVey, Samuel Nc.
Pherson and II. +. l.Oe.
We now have the advantage OF several
trains on the G. & p, road, as tho Superinten.
dent has granted the people here long look.
cd for privilege. This is one step In the right
direction and should be followed up by Others
us important, II not moro necessary. post.
office Is foremost among them, which Is, We
think, an actual necessity.
The first lecture OF the series TO be given for
the benefit OF the NJ. +. Church, was deliver.
ed Wednesday evening In the NJ. i. Church,
by Prof. J. Q. Shea, upon tho Progress Of
Nations" The exercises were opened by Miss
Emma Hamm, with music, after which Rev.
A. Il. Fortney offered n prayer. The lecturer
was then introduced and delivered very In.
teresting and instructive address, lasting one
hour and fifteen minutes. At the conclusion
Of the lecture poem entitled "Tlle Micli.
gan Sufferers" was read by J. u. l.oe. The
announcement was made that the second
lecture OF the courtc would he given We'd.
nesday evening, November 2Jd, by DR.. J. T.,
Smith, OF Wheeling upon the claws OF
Health"