The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-04-11
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SS $500 tne pAnEs nom Superintendent
Tn old furniture factory o, Ms,ruer
scbsilhAse 4 Co. was burned year aeo %
TIM new Board Of Public Work, qualified
and Organized last night DR.. Geo. BAIRD, s
Materhouse, n, and Robert Campbell atC
the members.
YEsrEEDAT the tower bell was plAced In
position on the Fifth ward school. Il has {
beautiful tone, resembling that OF the st
Mathews Church bell.
A DRUNKEN fellow with revolver caused
some excitement by firing II OF about two
O'Clock this morning on Market street, neal
Fourteenth. Nobody was hurt.
THE Council committees on Fire Depart
ment Streets, Alleys and Grades, Cemeteries
and Taxation and Finance, met last evening
and transacted the regular routine business
TBE boys In the Seventh ward and Hops
bose houses, and the Hook and Ladder hous,
are In hopes thew will get their telephones
TINS evening. They ought 10 have them by
all means.
CTrT CLERK BoWERs was busy all day yes
terday making out the papers Of applicants
for saloon licenses who desire 10 come befOFC
Council this evening. The time In which re-
neTals can be obtained Is now very short.
THE Moundsville correspondent Of the
Wheeling lSTELLIOEScER says: "our town /,
infested with sWAnns OF pestifeFous little
English sWalloWsn The writer makes 1
statement Is 4 fact without information
These SparrOWs are not pGsts. They are 4
very pretty little bird full OF life, and are
valuable as deStrOyers Of bug and worm pests
The claim that they drive off our native song
birds Is lie, started by some feeble Drained
person who wouldn't care II the song bird,
we're driven Off II isa fact that no country
in the world has better and more song birds
than England, the home Of the chattering
little sparrow. This is evidence that the
spaTrowS do not drive of the song birds
Steubenville Is full OF SparTOws. and we have
as many song birds rs We ever had.-!Se'tbai
rifle Gdse;is.
CHtEY EccLB yesterday received from Mr.. C,
Pond OtNew York valuable present, one both
useful and ornamental. 1t was q gas bracket
with large burner and globe, and attached to
it is little piece Of electric mechanism tina,
is attached to wire from the Fire Depart.
mont battery. The bracket the Chief has
substituted for the one in his bed room, di,
rectly under his private gong. AT night the
gas is lit and the levers adjusted 50 that the
/ Ath"E ~ bAN ANAkAE AAlBGA khull u Hiu uEAAi
With the first stroke OF the Hongthe circui,
Is broken, the levers drop and the gas flare.
| mp In broad light, 50 that no time is wasted
in illuminating the room, so that he can see
TO get into his clothes. 1t is burner that
is In use in all the Eastern departments
Mr.. Pond will be remembered as the agent
OF the Gamewell Fire Alarm Company.
THE public schools all opened yesterday
after weeks vacation, and in almost every
room in the various buildings was found ar
undiminiSbed attendance. School was alst
commenced in the new Fifth ward school
One year ago when the schools in this ward
were closed, the last months report showed
an enrolment Of 353 and 304 in attendance
Yesterday 42G scholars we're counted. Nine
rooms, including the grammar room, were
well filled, especially in the lower grades
This is very surprising, as It was thought
the building had been made large
enough to accommodate all tue chill
dren even after the enumeration
and possibly enlargement, OF the ward
had been made. Two rooms are yet unopened
tDiy. A, grade 2, and Div. c, grade q a,
they are extra rooms and teachers will have
10 be appointed, and that before the enumerR
lion, II the number OF pupils increases be.
toreathe close OF the week as much as ex
pected, Miss Wellington, q Sixth ward teacher
DIV. d, grade 81 who has been teaching heI
pupils in room outside the Sixth ward
school building, has room in the Fifth
ward building. The Fifth ward grammar
room will graduate no class this year. All
the Old teachers are re-engaged at this school
In the Seventh ward it has been found neceS
sary TO hire the room over Morris grocery.