The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-09-18
OUT In THE STATE,
AND COUNTIES ovER THE BORDER.
Accident. and Incident, ia all FaI,s of wa. rlr.
slul,, aud Some Parts Of Psan,Jl,asI. and
OhlO-Wsll,barr Ralr-Aaa KilIsd-Bls
Snake slIn-A Costly Frost. Gle.

!, Hon. D. A. Hollingsworth Is booked for
, q speech at st. Clairsville on the 2lst.
The Brooke county tair commences to.
day at Wellsburg. A good fair Is prom
ised.
Six boys in Grafton have had their
arms broken this summer by falling from
swings.
/ The Randolph Enterprise says muskrats
are doing much damage to cornfields near
the small streams.
The cast of skin OF q serpent, nearly 20
feet long, has been found near the mouth
OF Gross Creek, Brooke county. The inhab-
itants think Il must have been sea serpent.
The change OF the name Of Cranberry
Preston county, to that OF Terra Alta, has
been adopted by the Postoffice Department
and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com.
pany.
II is reported that the frost in Fayete
county was 50 severe on the night OF the
9th, that the entire tobacco crop was
almost end,elv destroyed. The loss Is esti.
mated at $4,000.
a military company has been organized
at Ceredo, called the Ceredo State Guards.
Geo. X. 04good, an old University boy
and member Of the Corps Of Cadets, was
elected Captain.
Mr.. W. I. Boone, artist OF the Powhat-
an Design Company, is at Ironton making
the large equestrian picture Of General
Custer, to surmount the main entrance at
the reunion OF West Virginia G. A. R.
The City Council has granted, to the Char
lesion Heating Company the exclusive pri-
yi!ege and right oilaying pipes in the streets
aud public grounds OF the city to convey
gas to the citizens for heating and cooking
purposes.
The annual reunion Of the Army Of West
Virginia commences tomorrow at Ironton
and lasts for three days. Gems. Crock,
Hayes and Mckinley are to be there, ana
they expect Gems. Sherman and Sheridan
10 attend. An elaborate programme has
been prepared.
The Normal School at Glenyille has
started off this year with an attendance OF
thirty.seven pupils. A reading.room has
been opened, containing leading educa-
tional journals, political and religious peri
odicals, and county papers. A good
library will be added.
While some men were boring for water
about three miles from Greensburg, Pa,
last Friday, they struck heavy vein OF
water which poured ont stream OF living
frogs OF reddish color. It ia said that
there were as many as hundred in all.
Where they came from it Is hard to say.
Samuel L. Blaine, an uncle OF James G.
Blaine, died at the age OF 20 years, in
Rsvenswood, w. Va, on Thursday. He
lived in Maysville during the greater part
OF his life, and was one OF the four men in
that city who voted for Abraham Lincoln
in 1850, for which he was burned in efiigy.
Frank Ssyre, young carpenter, met
with terrible death on Thursday
last, near Pt. Pleasant While making
some repairs in cav mill he was caught
in the belt which runs in the fly wheel
and dashed TO death. No one knew OF the
accident until several hours afterward,
when his maugled body was found in the
fly wheel pit.
The Braxton Central says: eve are told
that many Of our cattle buyers are apt TO
be heavy loaers this year, owing to the de-
pressed state Of the market Agreat many
cattle have been bought for future delivery,
but the market 10 such that every transac-
ton OF the kind means loss TO the pur-
chaser, and but little will be realized by
those who ship their own Stock
While man named Cherrie was driving
downKnably mountain about one and al half
miles from keyser, Saturday evening, the
double tree became detached from the
wagon, striking the horses legs and making
them run of. Cherrie, who was sitting on
board crossways on the wagon was jerked
from his seat, thrown under the wagon and
instantly killed by the wheelsrunning over
his head and neck, breaking his neck and
crushing in his skull.
"No 49," an Italian laborer on the o. r.
R., boasted last Spring that he intended to
capture bride from among the eligible
daughters with which Tyler county is so
bountifully supplied, and we learn that he
made his words good on Saturday evening
last by leading q young lady by The name
oi Baily to th.matrimonial altar. Il Ia re-
ported that .'ls" bought the young lady
from her father for certain sum Of money
amount not stated-but whether this be
true or not was impossible for us to learn.
Tyler IndepeadenL