The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-16
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Belmont county has hiy.nins postofices.
Guernsey has only thirty.two, but more are
needed.
General Alfred Beckley is preparing q his.
tory Of Raleigh county. General Beckley 10
the oldest living graduate OF West Point.
The Washington and Jeffarson College stu.
dents are going to give a burlesque oil
'komeo aud Juliet next Friday evening.
John Washington, colored, has had bis
name drawn from the Kanawha county jury
box. He Is the first cOlored man drawn In
that county.
Recently. while Samuel Millikin, Of Greene
county, Pa, was blowing OF his farm on
Wheeling creek, he turned up q stone and
beheld the skeleton Of a man It Is supposed
to be that OF an Indian. When exposed to
the air itseparated at the joints.
The Lincoln Clipper says that arrangements
are being made by A. 7. Mossman, assistant
In the United States Coast and Geodetlc sur.
vey, to erect an observatory on Pigeon Knob,
that county. This knob. which Is the most
elevated point OF land in that part OF the
State, was visited some two or three yearsago
by Assistant Mos mao, snl designated as q
suitable place for an observatory.
Hon. Robert Martin, Of sieubenville, who
has bees reported q candidate for Attorney
General, was maj yesterday upon the street
by an 1STELLleENcER correspondent. 10
reply, to an interrogatory as 70 the
truth Of the report, he stated that he
was not q candidate, but In the event Of
the selection falling TO Eastern Ohio
he would urge his claim. He said that there
was a manifest desire. to have o strong ticket
nominated at the State convention, and
should the candidate for Governor come from
Hamilton county and the Judgeship from
the western portion OF the State, Eastern
Ohio would, in that event, lay claim TO the
candidate for Attorney General. He stated
that he bad received letters from prominent
Republicans ut Columbus urging him TO be a
candidate, but that he had not given his
consent 10 enter the field. '
T. ST. cLAIRsyILLE.
President Patterson, Of the marrow gauge
railroad, Ia on q Western trip.
A Union temperance meeting will be held
at the N. e. Church tonight
o. J. swaney, E4q., and wife have been
spending q few day'sat Burrs Mills.
II seems that petty thieves are In this
neighborhood. They make visits to hen roosts
and cellars a speciality.
The grand Jury convened yesterday morn.
ing. with John W. Kennon, Of GAINESVILLE,
as foreman. Judge Kelley delivered his
usual charge.
Auditor W. n. Coffiand and, Deputy Audi
tor NJ. T. Coffland have returned home from
meetings OF County Auditors To appraise
railrosd property.
D. K. Tyler, OF Ulrichsyille, has resigned
his position as conductor on the Northern
Railroad, to take effect June 1. The com.
pany have not yet decided who will succeed
him.
Rev. Samuel Frazier, who has been with
Hon. John A. Bingham, United States min
lister 10 Japan, his father in-law, who was
compelled by Ill health TO return TO this
country, arrived at bis fathers home, near
81. Clairsyille, last week. Hewas accompan.
went to San Francisco to meet him. Mr..
Frazier's health has been much improved.
The charge made by a member OF the police
that the mayor refused 10 issue q warrant Tor
the arrest OF a person who was running a
gambling house, which he (the policeman
bad seen open at all hours Of the night, Is
likely to be misunderstood. When Mayor
Riley bought the Gasette, knowing that his
time would be occupied by business, he APP
pointeda police justice who could issue war.
rants aud try offenders. When the COM
plant was made against the alleged gambling
house the policeman was instructed 10 go be.
fore the police justice aud make affidavit to
that effect.
The talk about The burglars has almost
subsidized, and the pursuit OF them has been
abandoned. The burglars are evidently the
same ones who have been at Morristown,
Burr's Mills and Belmont. Last week the
store,o W. b. Kirk, at Morristown, was
frightened them away. One of the burglars
LOST bis hat, and one OF the three men sus.
pected OF committing the burglaries here
wore a new hat. They arrived IN Town at 1
P. N. Sunday and stopped at the National. At
4 they paid their bills and started away.
Three hours later they were seen within the
town limits. On Monday morning, after the
robberies, J. B. HOge started in pursuit.
accompanied by William Clark, clerk at the
National, who could identify them. Inquiries
along the National road developed the fact
that they had passed along the road some
hours before. John Patterson, who lives at
the Stone House, saw the men dividing their
'"swag' a short distance from his house.
f1Ugb hTIlNeu AT oElukepuEt uhil al HuuI
after the burglars. They were followed 10
Martins Ferry, where pursuit was aban-
doncd. They have been working" the
western part OF the county for over a week.
They are believed to belong to Martins
Ferry.
BELLAIRE. {. r...a
The bank is paying out lots of the new
Joseph Carter Is at Dayton, Ohio, attend.
Ing a meeting oil dslegates Of the Order Of Red
Men. s''a
James F. Morrison left yesterday forenoon
for New York, whence he will sail for Scot.
land.
Mrs. Mary selby, OF Barnesville, will preach
again tonight at the A. NJ. E. Church on
Rose Hill.
Miss Annie Hoge yesterday took her place
IS one OF the clerks in Wiley & Wetherald's
dry goods store.
Some Bellaire people who wentto the show
ut Wheeling from Bellaire, have not yet
turned up ut home.
Some tees were broken and one or two
blown down by the storm, but otherwise
Bellaire escaped damage.
The Ohio Valley Cement Works has a
contract for 1000 barrels Of, cement for the
new railroad on the other side Of the river.
Twenty-Five years ago yesterday Robert
Chisholm began working for the c. & P. Rail.
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