The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-25
MOUaDsyILLE
Two Very Bnd sho, s-niscelIaneon,
Mention From Marshall.

Two Very Bnd sho, s-Miscellaneous
Mention From Marshall.
Farmers and gardeners 10 this vicinity re
p7rt the potato crop as unusually large, and
Of remarkably fine quality.
The County Commissioners on Saturday
last fixed the rate OF levy for county puf,
poses for the current year at 20 cents On the
500 valuation OF real aud personal property.
The barsa loaded with lumber lying at the
| wharf sprung a leak Sunday, and men were
put TO work unloading thslumber and haul
Ing Il to the Webster Wagon Company.
yard, working late into tee Right.
Frank Gray, oithe Round Bottom, passed
very credita6le examination before the Board
OF school Examiners Of Belmont county,
Ohio, aud ha, secured one Of the d strici
schools OF that county fer the coming term
The Union Square Opera Troup's" en-
gsgement hers Was, In a financial sense, q
bad failure. The company was unsble, o.
claimed to be at least, TO liquidate their rrint
ing and hotel bills, amounting 10 some thipl
over $50.
An immense amount OF back berries ar.
being brought TO tow for sale, with buI
light demand, A disgusted female berry
picker said, Saturday: THE store keeper
would only give me . pound OF durned old
strong cheese for the bucket full l brought
in to-day"
Charles Morgan, who has charge OF the
masonry work of the Ohio River Railroad
bridges over Big aud Little Grave Greeks, ha:
secured a heavy contract for similar work on
he Baltimore Il Philadelphia division oil
the Baltimore & Ohio load. His wife started
yesterday 10 JOIN her husband In Delaware.
Rolla Evans, Gorge Rohm and Moses Jones
were received at the Prison Monday from
Wood county. Evans gets fifteen Years and
six months, ROBIN three, and Jones eight
years. Moses will In all probability find some
former companion u~ntortunates IN the p'n:.
tsntiary, as be served q Term there before,
having been discharged In March, 1878.
By some ~unaccouutable means the rumor
wasst4rted aud Q rcnlated all over the county
and also found its way into the Clar. ngton,
Ohio, papers, that Thomas Scott, Esq, Of the
Round Bottom, had shot and killed one OF
the coiored men employed on the Ohio River
railroad, whom he caugbtstealing sheep. The
rumor was entirely without the slightest
foundation. as Mr.. Scott never had the least
difficulty with any Of the colored men, and
rs he explains. II haven't a sheep in the
world, nor a gun to shoot q man with If l
had sheep aud caught soma one stealing
them"
The lavish display OF many colored a yer.
tisemsnt5 Of o'Brien's ciIcus and show had
tae desired effect, as, in fact, Is always the
case here. The people from the surround
ing country flocked into town In swarms,
and eagerly pushed their way to the vacant
lots near tue prison where the canvass was
erected. The almost unanimous verdict OF
these present is, that excepting a very few
redeeming features, the circus, show and
side shows, was a most u%nmitigated fraud.
In one sense Of the word, at lesst, the show
vas a success and th't WAS into the amount
OF fines assessed, and turned in the iown
treasury, ~aggregating something near 500.
-Four or ive special police were sworn IL on
Saturday, and they together with the rtgu-
lar iorce had just about all the business, af.
ter the show broke up at night, thst they
wanted TO attend to An old gentleman,
whose name your reporter did not learn,
was pretty severely hurt in a melee with
Of the railroad men, two OF whom
were arrested, after considerable trouble
and a pretty free use OF the niece, and
lodged in jill, where one OF them yet re-
mains In default OF a fine OF $50. The other
participant In the row paid $24 ard was