The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-02-28
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Mr.. and Mrs. Jonathan J.. Pitcher celebrat.
cd the sixty.fourth anniversary OF their mar.
riage at their residence near Rivesvllle,
Marion county, last week.
Tbs sI-soldiers OF Preston county are go
log to haye q reunion some time during tho
summer. Comnitlees TO enroll all e1.sold.
ers have been appointed and matters are be.
ing vigorously pushed. cry
The Hon. William @. Brown, Of Kingwooi,
was again taken seriorsly Ill, last week, and
has since been confined TO his rooui. His
condition on Monday night was alarming.
but he again rallied and 10 now much better.
An Official canvass OF Marietta. inside the
limits, shows one hundred and five houses
oil their foundations, q few OF which have
been swept away, q greater number wrecked
aud wholly unfit 10 be replaced, while many
are In condition 10 be placed upon their
foundations and made habltable at compara.
lively little expense. This does not include
four or five hundred barns, sheds, outhouses,
| etc. M N9Ih4,6g ISG1flaeJ ggFlf
During the past week John Gore and
George Gauch, OF Charlesto w, were arrest.
ed for Illicit distilling, and lodged In the
Clarksburg jail. Jacob Cunningham, George
Robbins and Jeppy Moore, all Of Marion
county, were arrested for contempt OF the
United States Court. These latter were dis,
chatged, as the matter was the result OF q
misunderstanding. z
Tho Tyler County Star says: The survey
OF the route for the W. & r. Z. r. was com.
inenced on Wednesday, with Major Edward
Mcconnell chief engineer. Tbs start was
made at the narrowS between town aud the
mouth Of Point Pleasant near the toll houss,
and follown the bench TO the bridge aud up
l Paint ploo INIT nHaat . H& Ia tk. - ..As.- Il
very good, aud a solid roRd bod can be made
at slight cost. Tho location Is to be psrma.
nent anu will DO upon ths best possible fouu.
dation.
The Huntington Advertiser advocates the
building, OF q new embankment along the
corporation front TO Guygadotte, a distance
feet wide at the bottom, 20 feet at tho tor
and ten feet high. The wall Is 10 be utilized
BY the railroad company, thus insuring liz
being kept in repair. Suitable openings ar
to be left for river traffic and sewerage, oil
such openings to be provided with heavy
gates. The estimated cost Is So, 900 per mile
The loss from the flood Of 1888 was $40, 900
from that Of 1884 ut least $25, 000. SHOWING
that in a few years 1t wonld pay for itself.
Mes,rs. Lsgg & Duncan, OF Fayette county,
recently entrusted 10 the care Of Richmond
commission men u crop Of tobacco that car.
RED oil the blue ribbon price-$l28 per hun.
dred pounds for one lot, and au average oil
more than 500 per hundred on the entire
shipment. This price has not been. obtained
for nearly a score Of years. The Hiesiern 70.
6acco Journal says, in referring 10 this sale,
that West Virginia Blight Tobacco Is obtain.
ing . fame which will result in giving 1t a
standing equal 10 that held for years by. the
Virginia, North Carolina and Eastern Tenne.
see growths. "For some weeks past we have
chronicled fancy prices obtsined for tbs
crops Of a few West Virginia planters,
and this week 70 have one s1ls TO chronicle
which e1cels all others as regards extreme
prices" t.
G: Berkbile, Superintendent OF the "Mead.
ow Branch Anthracite Coal, Iron and Timber
Company" Of Berkeley county, has made The
following report: After sinking a shaft lC
feet In depth the ou!-crnp OF n vein Of coal
was struck. A drift was driven IN q south
oy west direction, extending come seventy
feet, when Il coal vein Of ten feet was struck,
proving beyond doubt that the deposit is oil
as'z, and extent amply sufficient for proiita.
bic mining. Inequality OF the coal, az ascer.
tanned by practical tests OF burning i'll stoves,
open CRATES. etc, Is all that could be desired,
Of which latter fact fifty testimonials cf those
who have fused 1t can be furnished, being in
this respect fully ,qaal II not superior to the
nest grades Of Lyken's Valley anthracite OF
Pennsylvania, which in burning it greatly
resembles, az we'll as iu Its intrinsic excel.
lence, however, making no clinker, which
the Pennsylvania will do.