The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-02-29
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News Presented in au Interesting and
Kcndnble Form.
This Is leap year with O vengeance. Down
a young mau who has been abducted-per.
haps by somo young ladies.
A meeting OF the Directors Of the West
Virginia Fibre Company at Parksrsbure,
will bs held IN tho near future to determine
It is thought by many that the works will not
be rebuilt.
The State Journal says: "Why not move tho
State Fair 10 parkersburg2 Onr city has The
finest grounds, high and dry, Is accessible BY
rail- and water and hes the capital necessary
to conduct The came. Let US have tho State
Fair here. Why nol?"
Richard Hoosac, OF Kessar, a brakeman on
the Third division OF the b. 4 O., wu1irstan!.
ly killed Wednesday night by falling from
tho top OF q freight train along which ha was
running. The accident happened 1T the foot
OF Terra Alta grade. His neck aud one LIZ
were broken. He was aged As yesrs, anu
leaves a wife aud four children. He was q
member OF the masonic fraternity and 3. i
o. Relief Association.
Merrs. Shelter & Co., OF New Cumberland,
have had n force Of men at work for the past
ten days cleaning away the debris from thsir
wrecked foundry. Tncy propose to rebuild
al once, and work will commence as 0 a,
they Can get the old brick and timbers cleared
away, End the new material on the ground,
They will build on the same foundation,
which Ia az good as ever, and will pat m Il
two story brick building, same eliza Oh the old
one. u.s. p
Some time in 1888 T. G. Johns, represent
Ing himself as a Baptist evangelist. csnie
into the neighborhoGd OF Cairo, ". Va, aud
In 1884 wcr received into the u. B. church al
St. pauls, Rltohis county. A short time sgo
q revisory meeting wss held, at which three
separate charges Of immortality we're prefer.
red and sustained against SAID r. G. Johns,
aud OH motion, he WIS expelled from the
church by a unanimous vote. Is
Ir. James I. A. Trotter, one of the Oldest
~c!tizsns OF Staunton, Va, died in that city
recently, aged 10 years. Mr.. Trolter was well
known ill over Virginia and West Virginia
and part OF Maryland. as an extensive mail
contractor when the United States mail was
carried by stage, and fer thirty five or forty
years the stage lines CT Troiter & Brother
were the regular carriers where now tbs Bal.
timore & Oslo. the Chesapeake t. Ohio, the
Shenandoah Valley and other railroads ere
operating.
GAINESVILLE evidently needs c j all which
will hold prisoners for at lee7t twenty.tour
hours. ABOUT two weeks sgo William Dett-
ling, Of 6omerton, lost q lot CT furs, and two
negroes, Je..e Peterson aud Ellsworth Dun
more, were suspected OF the theft and arrested.
While in jill they acknowledged their guilt,
but while taking an Girisg outside their
cells, mounted through the heater end hied
themselves for Weat Virginia. They have
not been caught ard are no donbt, at this
time, residents Of 'ths solid south."
The Marietta Register states that Col. Stone,
OF Belpra, who WIS one OF tho oldest aud bes'
posted men in Ohio on he. early history, ire
quently said that he had been told by In.
uiaps that IN the gear 17C0 d flood in the Ohio
Valley had reached half way up Harmar
Hill. This would seem 10 sill further bear
ont Romberl's statement made In the Par
kersburg State Journal OF tho food on
Lees Hill, though giving the date ~ a few
years earlier. In Cincinnati there seems to
he q general belief that thu Indian traditions
Of l20 feet Of water are true. 1gb
Last year a gentleman representing the
Emperor Of Brazil visited Washington cour.
~, Pa, with q view to the purche:e OF q car.
80 OF American Merinos for export to his
maiessy's plantations. He msdaa very quie,
survey OF several OF our best tlocks. a few
days since q celebrated wool.srower living
jnst north OF Washington, received a letter
s7kipg him TO ''hold fifty good bucks ready
for early spring SHIPMENT Several prime
docks will be cu!led to. fill tho order, aud
soon half a hundred Of tho couuty's boosted
BEAUTIES will leave the Alsace clover of Buff Ito
hillsidss to browse in the chapsral Of south
America, A G2