Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-05
LUMINARIES
That Have Gone Forth From Wash
ingtOn, Pa.
The Claims Of the Denizens Of that Place
to Many Notables - The
Home of Cremation.

WASHINGTON, PA, August 4.-To claim
that this is the home of everything is pc
culiar faculty characteristic OF the denizens
of this place. IL matters not, or very lit
tie, whether q person has meritedly been
forced to the pinnacle OF envied fame or
whether he has fallen TO the lowest stages
of degradation, just 50 he is the general
topic Of conversation, We claim him. The
Plumed Knight Elaine and the desperate
Frank Mayo are both ours. We claim to
be the home of cremation where with
'.neatness and dispatch" we reduce to ashes
the forms of dear departed friends. We
claim one of the finest country cemeteries
in the State, where with feelings of solemn.
iIy may be lain the lifeless bodies OF loved
ones who sleep the eternal sleep. We
claim the finest
Educational Facilities
offered 10 any people, and many are the
luminaries who have gone forth from the
grand old halls of Washington and Jetter.
son College and our Seminary TO llluml.
nate with effulganCe the literary world In
fact we claim almost everything, but some,
We regret are grouudiess. We claim to be
a local option town and our ministers
praise God for the moral atmosphere that
peryades US in consequence. But, while we
have TO sal, oDs, on Saturdays aud Sundays
dozens Of reelIng youths and aged men
may be seen and heard in their debauch.
iug revelries. Moral atmosphere! Yes,
within the sacred walls of Gods temples,
Tut our preachers forgetto look beyond the
church doors, out upon the highways
where sin is rampant-where drinking,
gambling and Righteousness are their
neighbOrs. We claim to be a business
town. One paper publishes column OF
alleged improvements, and the others
COPY. And " hat are the facts? Washing
ton is dead town, and il something is not
cone to animate the corpse our reighbors
i'll silently rear rs TO
Cremation Hin.
rom which We shall return no more for.
,,er. Talk of our enterprise and lie. Is
> al bOsh. Our merchants are all com
aiming. Where one family moves in six
]. owe ont, AT to-day cobwebs cover the
Is, CTs and windows of many tenantless
ou.e. We reed manufacturing establish
D. Cnts We let the iron mill slip through
ur fingers, tecsuse few college welded
cranks absu,dly believed it would injure
society by bringing mill men mere.
Away with such ideas We wish no
man harm, and don't wart to"
dictate to the Almighty. but the sooner he
summons TO their eternal homes these clogs
in the wheel of progress, the better for our
town. We need business camp meeting
with about seven good, old.fashioned, en-
thusiastic, shouting Methodist brethren to
awaken us, or sooner or later Canonsburg-
srs will have the pleasure OF writing our
cpitaph for stealing their college.
General Notes.
Rev. Armstead Skinner, whose name IL
suggestive of his character, was "resorted'
for thirty days by Burgess HaZlett for being
too full of the spirit-fuidly speaking
lie is an African gentleman Of "prepos'
SeSSipg' ways who figures cOnspicuously
IN religion, politics or whisky, just to suit
the occasion.
Quite q number OF dashing bellies and gay
lads are visiting our town during the sum
mer.
An organization Of our young men sail
very pleasant hop at Capt. l.. NJ. Marsh's
on Thursday evening.
The third annual picnic OF our carriage
makers will be held at Moss Grove, between
here and Pittsburgh, ON the 18th inst.
The incoming Of % car train on the b.
& o. Friday evening caused many OF our
citizens to open their eyes, as it was the
largest ever passed through the town.
George Thompson and family start for
'Greely's country" on Monday, where
they intend &c make their home.
The NJ. p. Sunday school picknIcked at
FiiZwilliam's Grove yesterday.
The NJ. l. and the Christian Sunday
schools hold their picnic mex. week at
Bower Hill.
Nv. Jones, Of this place, last Saturday
paid out over SO, 900 for wool.