The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-02-25
BELLAIRE'S BUDGET
OF INTERESTING NEWS AND GOSSIP,
And Also That Of Bridgeport and harfla'a FsrrI
COLONY OF lohsmiaua at Bsllaife-A Mock
Convention Il. u. ClalrAliis.
News from NoundMlllt, Ac.

The First ward schools reopen to-day.
Mrs. VIM. CASTOR, Of Cleveland, 10 In town,
visiting relatives. W ;
Chris. Rife will leave bis home In The
Fourth waid this week and make Ills home
on \ farm near town.
The street 10 the E!na glass works Ia still
almost stopped up by adwelllrg house that
tloated there, right side up, during the flood.
The funeral Of Mr.. Samuel Rice took place
yesterday afternoon from tho residence oil
his son, David Rice, on Noble street, Fifth
ward. !,
The case OF Mrs. Meek against The pennsyi.
vaniA company comes up ut st. Olairsville
to-day, and q good many will be In attend.
ancs from here.
Sherman Lloyd, the young man who waa
buried Saturday, Ii supposed 10 hnve died
from the effects Of Il blow received while In q
playful sparriug match two weeks sgo.
spangler Post @. A. Il. will havo performed
under lis auspices, by a professional troupe,
this evening aud Tuesday aud Wednesday
evenings, "Under Two Flags" at City Hall.
There were communion services at the
United Presbyterian church yesterday fore.
noon. Preparatory services and q series OF
NoLAth 2 NASCo AnA bVob SkA AVA Dukllo tlLllU
previous.
Thouss J. Liily's bondsmen, since his In.
dlctment for arson, have refused to remain
security for his remaining for trial, aud lie
has therefore been arrested and put In Jail at
81. Clalrsville.
i, Tho accommodation train that rum
between here and stsubenville has to come
back here wlthita engine running backwards.
This 10 because the Btonbenvillo turntab!e Ia
lying down the river on the head OF au
isiand, carried there by the food.
The B., Y. &c. passengers and such ligh.
packages as are transported, are taken 10
Pinch run by an engine, and there trans.
ported acres, to tho train on the other aide,
Saturday many people came In and 1t waa a
jolly company that went down In the after.
nooE. Tho men were In a flat car, with rows
OF milk cans, boxes, barrels and heaps OF mail
bags, TINT WAS showed ahead Of the engine.
William Cunningham, a Bridgeport man,
was brought here Saturday and given a pre-.
liminary hearing on a charge OF adultery. lie
had been living Tor some time with Mrs,
Griffith, q widow, they claiming to have been
married al West Alexander. Mrs. Grill,h's
father, Mr.. Watkins, somehow suspected that
all was not right, and investigated the claim
OF marriage. He found no such marriage
had been performed by 'squirs Mays, and
also learned that there wa a woman ut Pitts.
burgh who claimed to be Mrs. Cunningham.
Therefore be brought the charge, aud the
Mayor held him in $3.50 bonds TO answer at
court.
Qaite a number Of contests were decided
at the Liberty hose company'sentertainmen
Saturday night. John Bean took the gold
watch with over 500, against s35 for Thomas
G. Hyatt. Another gold watch was given In.
stead OF a necklace, the successful lady bring.
Ing in over 500. John Crooks, the Register
reporter for Bellaire, is the winner OF a sew.
Ing machire, he holding the lucky number,
Not 80 much was realized as would have
been had the Hood not come; although the
sufferers from the flood were made tue OBJ.
jects OF raising the money instead OF the hose
company itself, as originally proposed.
The Bohemians who have been working
here for a week or so, make a foreign com.
munity Of themselves, and have some curious
customs. They are very economical, one OF
them having lately ssved fifty dollars out OF
two months wages, and sent the money to
his family in Bohemia. Their Interpreter
says that amount will keep the family two
years, and IN the meantime money will be
saved to bring them over. The wife Of one
OF them has just come over, aud she Is III.
ranging to board aud lodge the whole ganc
according to their customs in their old homes
They each pay her three dollars q month.
This Is for her lsbor-what she gets for her
work. Then all theyeat, all that is bought
for the use Of the table, Whatever they de-
eide to have at any time, 4 key Of beer II thew
want it-all is charged up in a book kept by
the landlady, and st the end Of the month
tho total is divided by the number OF board
era and each pays his share. The landlady's
fee and everything else amounts to about
uine dollars per capita,