The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-22
.THE SMALLPOX SCARE
IN THE SOUTH EMO or THE STATE,
ADd varIos, za.t.rs Of I.t.rsain NEST TlrsiAIl.
Ohio aad Western PsansIlv.Ala-L.ttsrs
Prom Three Belmont csuaty rOWnS.
AIsso Matt.n-P.nouAlH. News, Etc.

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Prom Three Belmont Csusty ToWAE.
hIpso Matt.n-PusosLEsws, Etc.
Dr.. James E. Reeves, Secretary Of the
State Board OF Health, last evening received
q letter from Dr.. Isaiah, Bee, President of the
Local Board Of Heal b OF Mercer county, re-
ladye to the epidemic Of smallpox o pre-
yailing In that section Of the State.
The Doctor says the epidemic seems to
have reached q climax. The most stringent
measures have been adopted to stamp out
the disease by the authorities OF Mercer
county, and that county has done all that
has been done TO arrest the spread Of the
contagagion and furnish nurses and medl.
cal attendance. The origin and present To-
cAiity o fthe epidemic 10 about tqui distant
from 0ceana, the county seat OF Wyoming
county, and Princeton, the county seat Of
Mercer, yet the Mercer authorities have
done ali that has been done In both these
counties, as we'll as in Mcdowell
DR.. Goocb, Of Summers county, has been
engaged TO enforce the quarantine regulations
and superintend the organized effort to
stamp out the diieAse, acting under the ad-
ylcs Of the Local Board OF Health. He says
be now has enough nurses, and the death
rate in the future Is confidently expected TO
be lower than 10 the past. The disease IS
prevailing In the locality Is unusually
malignant, which, taken, with the want OF
nurses, medical attendance, etc., has con-
tributed to the terrible fatality.
DR.. Bee concludes: you can rest assured
that we are profoundly grateful 10 you for
your kindly interest In behalf OF sur suffer.
Ing people. L, in common with other gentle
men here, am trying to do my duty; but l
feel grateful for the complimentary notices
OF my poor services to which you 30 klLdly
people 10 the very synonym OF devotion to
official duty and the cause Of humanity"
The debt that has been %oyerhanging the
Shelton Baptist College, St. Adams, has been
removed. A
A lunatic from Writ county who was re-
cently taken TO the Weston Asylum, scaled
o ten foot fence and escaped. III.
Congressman J. D. Taylor, Of the Seven
teenth Ohio District, intends leaving to-day
TO attend the opening Of the Brooklyn bridge.
John Teter, OF Upshur, living near the Bar
bour county line, had his house and all lis
contents entirely consumed by FIRE last week.
Frank Brooks, Of Harrison county, was
found dead in bis bed at his farm near VII.
sonbuig, He had been complaining, butstill
kept ct work. Heart disease 10 the cause
given. 81
Saturday, the 2nd Of June, has been fixed
on as the day 10 decorate the Confederate sol.
diers' graves in ElmwoOd Cemetery, at Char.
Iestown, Rev. John Landstreet, OF Martins.
burg, will deliver the address on that oo-
casion. I.,
Dr.. Edmiston, assistant physician at the
Weston Asylum, has been removed. The
Clarksburg Telegram says he was at that place
q few days since with some lunatics under
his charge, and that the guards were drunk
and Emission las full as . goose"
fall of O breast OF coal In the Armstrong
m,re, near Window, on the West Virginia
Central and Pittsburgh Railroad, caused the
death Saturday morning OF Michael Riley,
aged twenty. four, and serious injury OF an.
other miner by the name OF Abnothy. ,.
Black marble ola fine quality has been
discovered on the lands Of Mr.. John T. Van;
meter, Of the Old Fields, Hardy county. And
o vein OF black and gray marble has been
found on the land OF Senator Joseph VAN
meter, near the entrance to the Trough
road, san county.
The Jackson county Herald says that II has
interviewed several farmers from different
parts Of the county concerning the prospect
Tor q wheat crop, and they all report that
the prospect Is better than 1t was sometime
sgo; butit will not be more thau two.thirds
Of a crop as compared with last year.
On the ten,h'of September the Greenbrier
rresbytery will meet At Lewisburg, and will
indulge In exercises commemorative OF the
centennial Of the Lewisburg and Fort Spring
Presbyterian churches, each OF which will be
one hundred years old during the summer
SEINE rare historical addresses are expected
on that occasion. 90 :
Cumberland, Md, has an inhabitant who
claims to be 40 years old, in, the person Of
lAunt Susan Johnson, colored. Her hearing
and eyeight are good, but she can NO longer
walk. She remembers with great clearness
happeriut 0 of Is years ago, aud all thu: little
details connected with them.
At a meeting Of. Hardy county citizens,
held to protest sgainst the action OF the
Board OF Public Works, in raising the valua-
| ton of ! ands in that county 80 per cent over
the reassessment, Senator. Joseph Vanmeter
and Hon. Benz. Daily we're appointed a com.
mittee TO visit Wheeling and endeayor to Sc.
cure Q reduction. 80
A. ". woodford, OF Weston, denies ilstly
that his son Is q student at the University OF
Virginia, and that he shot Que OF bis pro.
fessors MORALLY and was confined in jail
awaiting a trial for felony, a sensational
story to that effect having gone the rounds
for the past four weeks. His son Is astudent
at Lexington, and has had no trouble with
any ONE.
Ten or u dozen years ago Joseph Mccoy
was drowned In Buffalo creek, Washington
county, Pa. At the time be was supposed 70
| ba ~ ~ hta RaF0nn n VAInah1a fnlA witch
but 1t was not found with the body. A few
days since n gentleman named Miller found
agold watch, In tolerably good stale OF pre-.
seryation in the creek, near Dutch Fork,
which Is supposed TO be the watch OF Mr..
Mccoy.
As an early freight train was nearing
Rowlesburg on the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road Saturday morning, the engineer saw
lying on the track Ia front Of his train the
body Of q man. Heimmediately stopped the
engine, went forward with other men and
found that the man was dead, having been
stabbed to the heart by some person and
placed on the track, thinking he would be
run over. The name OF the murdered mar
was not ascertained.
While the Clarksburg council was inves-
tigating the charges against Policeman
Brennans, the man who came out second
DtSt IN u Iuuhpu5 WIN EhiVuuIusi VI the
Telegram, the fact was discovered that he had
not been sworn In, and therefore no case
could be sustained against him for breach Of
discipline as an officer. The case was dis.
missed aud he was rein,tated rs policeman
and the oath administered.
The Parkersburg State Standard says: 1.-THE
excitement on stillwell Greek nine miles
east OF This city over the recent heavy oil
strikes has not ab9ted any since our last re.
port. Leases arc being taken and prepare.
lions made to drill a number OF new wells at
once. Land In the vicinity Of the new wells
has taken a boom and the tendency 10 still
upward. The outlook Is decidedly encourag-
Ing TO the prospectors and owners" NJ
MARTINS FERRY.
Mr.. J. Il. Mcclure will 70 East to-day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Williams are home
fnn0N Alabama