The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-04
GONE A HUNTING.
ALExANoER SEEKING a MaJoRlTY.
A nl.l.s Accident a. n.I.t.-lwhs.llps n.n
Hurt-nlssr.' Wage. R,dae,d-prsssntAtlOa
at Bridg.pOrt-Neu Bridge at BsllaIrs.
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Various Matters IN The Vicinity.
VIM. g. Wiley, Esq, has been confirmed as
postmaster at Little Washington.
In Little Washington since 1873 there have
been one hundred and seyentysnine changes
IN business firms. ul e
/. At steubenyille yesterday, James II. Big.
ger, Esq, "A lawyer, fell on the Ice and dis.
located mis- wrist receiving also other severe
injuries
The stove and bed in the Washington coun.
ty, Pa, pest house were stole few nights
since. Several smallpox patients used the
bed last winter. .l.
The colored people OF Cumberland. Nd,
held union meeting in that place last
Monday evening, in celebrationof the.eman'
cipation proclamation.
Parties from New York and Philadelphia
have leased 1000 acres OF oil territory be-
tween Mount Morris, Greene county, Pa,
and Fairmont, W. Va.
Rev. J. N. Farrar. OF Huntsville, Ohio,
lectured in tse U. z. Church Of that place, oil
which he Is the pastor, on '"rhe Sphynx,'
Saturday night last, His lecture Is highly
spoken Of.
Last Tuesday evening at the residence OF
James Amber, in Meade township, Belmont
county, P. McCune Cash was married to Mr..
Amber daughter, Miss Alice, by Rev. Mr..
Scott Of the. Wegee N. Z. Church.
Recently Mckee Bros. OF SteubenyiAe,
bought nine sheep from man about %
years old, who looked like drover. He
said he could not get them In the car as II
was too full. A few days since Mr.. Mawha,
q West Yirginian claimed the sheep as having
been stolen from him.
A very serious accident occurred on Buffalo
Creek, Brooke county, last Sunday evening.
Miss Jennie Bowers and Mr.. Chas. Scott were
returning from church In buggy, when
within few yards OF her home the horse and
buggy went over very steep bank, throwing
both out aud breaking her leg twice.
Six men with seven boxes passed along the
road on the farm OF Mr.. Lewis Colvin, not far
from West Brownsville, Pa, one night last
week, and dug up some old Indian remains
on Colvin's farm, and hauled them to
Brownsville. Some excitement was caused In
the neighborhood by report that resurrec-
tionists were about
BRiDoEpoRr.
A. J. Baggs and E. P. Rhodes have gone
to Cleveland on railroad business.
AL. Conoway, who was fatally" shot at
West Wheeling by Amos Curly two or three
weeks ago, was well enough 10 vote last Tues.
day. 20
The Nail City Glass Works will commence
making glass next Monday. They were
burned Sept. %, and will have been stopped
about so days.
According TO the new schedule OF stations
just issued by the Pennsylvania Company,
~ niu 40 q
HouseAS5, Etnaville, 1856, Bridgeport, 4S1.
The Diamond Touring mills Of +. P.
Rhodes l. Son will resume operations to-day,
after a stop, OF ten days, during which the
machinery has been put in thorough repair.
The officers OF Branum Post, G., A. r., will
be installed with public ceremonies next
Monday evening, and the occasion is ex-
pected to have many other interesting
| features.
Henry Crawford, the book.keeper at the
Diamond Mills, L. z. Rhodes & Son, received
as his New Years present check for hun.
bred dollars from his employers. His lines
have fallen In pleasant places.
Ross Alexander's office was locked very
tight last evening. when the lSTELLI0ESCEg's
man passed along, and bystander reported
that he had heard man say that Mr.. Alex
his majority in Belmont county.
Ada, the little four.year.old daughter Of
William Dlggins, who was 50 severely burn
ed on Tuesday by falling into burning
l'grate, ID suffering intensely, and 1t is feared
she cannot recover. Much sympathy Is ex-
pressed for the family in their trouble.
There are three sufferers in the lookup,
Stewart Rolla, for abusing his wife, Richard
Ia fnH Il rixt
conduct and drunkenness. George Galloway,
for assaulting John Sawyer, was fined 50 and
costs yesterday morning which he paid.
It. Is a source Of great satisfaction to a
majority Of our people that We have lost
nothing by the election OF Mr.. Taylor to Dr..
Updegraif's vacant seat, and that Hon. Ross
J. Alexander will be spared to his friends
for manya hunting and fishing expedition
IN the future.
Squire John Crooke, so long and fayorably
known in this community, grand old rep
resentatiye OF the past generation, diedat the
residence OF his son.in.law, Capt, Thos.
Clarke, at Emporia, Kansas, on Thursday
last. The Squire had host OF warm friends
In this community, who will read this an
nouncement with regret
Thelittle suspension bridge has been de-
clared unsafe, and Council at its meeting on
Tuesday night, ordered q notice to be placed
on the bridge warning all using II thst they
did so at their own rick. This Is not the
proper way to get at this matter, Council
should close the bridge entirely, or repair It
SO that 1t can be used, or build q new one.
The Council aud police Of this city pre-.
scented Mayor Junkins Tuesday evening with
a handsome combination gold pen and
pencil. Mr.. VIM. Howells, Of Aetnaville,
presented the gift in happy speech, ID
the emotion induced by The surprise, re.
being NICE supper at Maggie AdolpaS,
Richard Lloyd, one Of our leading colored
citizens, was approached by Mr.. Alexander
on election day in his most winning manner,
and Mr.. Lloyd said he would do all he could
to help Mr.. Alexander to seat in Congress,
but for one thing. "What Is that, Dir ~ said
Ross, willing to meetevery objection, "Why,
sir" was the reply, you are TOO goJd
man to leave this community We cannot
spare YOU" And Ross left in disgust
MARTINS FERRY.
Deputy Marshal Linn is almost yoiceless
from an attack Of qtAnsy.
The verdict o! Tuesdays election pleases
the Republicans OF this vicinity very much.
The foundry OF Spence, Baggs & Go. is of
this week, and the annual process Of taking
stock Is going on,
hbaut forty oars oil. coke and seven or
eight cars ofore are on the side track here for
the Benwood furnace,