The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-03-28
Recent Doings OF West yirginianS and
.,. their Neighbours.

their Ncfshbors.
The st, ClRirayillo Presbytery will hold II,
sprinIg session in 'Cadz on Tuesday, April
22ad.
The wife OF Joe Q,inby, OF Mason county,
whom he shot recently while In drunken
rage, because she would not give him the
little money she had, to spend for whisky,
died last Wednesday,. -l
Frank N. Cowen, Esq, OF st. Clairsville.
has accepted the appointment Is Ct shier oil
the bank recently organized at Flushing. Tho
bank will begin busineyl about the 10Th OF
May.
The Sheriff OF Belmont county Yesterday
closed the millinery and ladies' furnishing
establishment OF W. A, Talbot, of Barnes.
vile, on seven executions in favor OF tina.
many creditors, ag2regatfng In amount the
sum Of s., 1860. The stock OF goods Is esti.
mailed to be Of the value OF s.. 900, Great
sympathy is exprer9ed on all sides at the mis-
fortune of Nh. Talbot.
Thomrs Psgram, Of Point Pleasant, few
nights Hince undertook 10 cross the Kanawha
river In a Bkit, with man named Mont.
gomery, and fell overheard and IVES drowned.
He wss considerably under the in f hence OF
liquor at the time and was sitting on the
stern seat of the Hkiif when he fell into The
river. He was married man and leaves
wife and several children to mourn his un-
timely end. "
sTATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.
Dave D. Johnson, President and Rev. Geo.
U. Wilding, Secretary OF the State Temptr.
ance Executive Committee, have Issued call
Tor State Temperance Convention to bs held
In PsrSereburg, June IS. Tho call contains
the following: "A great political contest Is
Just before us. State and National officers
nre 10 be elected. I:sues OF immense iupor.
lance to this Commonwealth are to be decd-
I'd for time. Among these no other Is OF
such vital interest to the Common veal az
the question whether there shall be submit
led 10 the voters OF the State, Constitution.
al Amendment prohibiting the manufacture
and sale OF alcoholic drinks. To-day, tens OF
thousands OF West Virginia voters are de-
nianding the submit ion Of this amendment.
Shall the men Of the State be allowed to ssy
under what laws they shall live? Shall the
sacred right OF pstition, 80 often trampled
upon by recreant Legislatures bat 30 dear to
every free people, be main lined and est.b.
iised for the present ard the future? These
questions arc to be determined. for time at
leest, in the coming election. That plans
may be devised for placing these issues prop
efly before the people, and securing, II posi-
ble their jast settlement, con ference Of the
temperance people Of the State is impers-
tive"
A ROMANTIC STORY.
The Parkersburg State Journal contains The
following romantic story: "Thirty.two years
ago In Germany brothar and sister parted,
the brother going one way and the sister an
other The brother came to America TO seek
his fortune. He sailed acrt } the ocean for
the new world, andin his waDderinrs lie ha1
psned to settle in Parkersburg. Hero ior
many years the brother, whose name is VII.
liam koontz, lived and labored, AS he grew
older misfortune overlook him. He ives EN-.
ployed by the Psrkersburg Mill COMPANY
and while engaged In his work lie had the
misfortune to loss oco Of bis arms. After
this accident he was made pightwatchmsn at
the mill aud has rot along comfortably eve.
sinca. Meantime the sister had also come to
America and had married a wealthy business
man Of Cleveland. Detectives vera employ.
ed to discover the brother Years pe-sea and
nothing WAS learned OF him until e abort time
since, when news reached her thu! her brother
WAS here In Parkersburg. She Immediately
started for this point arriving here Monday.
Captain Mehan conducted her to ths home
OF William kooniz, where the scene Of the
meeting Of the long parted brother aud sister
was very affecting, moving the spectators to
tears. The brother will return to Cleveland
with his sister and her husband. 1t Is not
often that such romance is found clinejpp to
the realistic tkiris Of old Parkersbure,"