Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-05-25
FAIRMONT.
Railroad aud Other Interesting News From
n Lively Town.

Railroad aud Other Interesting news rom
Lively Town.
FNRMoNT. Nav 2l.-Special terms Of
the County Court, both of this and Harri
son county will be held next week for the
purpose of making the subscriptions OF
$3.50. 10000 and 100000, voted by Har-
rison and Missouri counties respectively q
part of the capital stock Of the W. Va,
Il Pa, Railroad Company. Where these
subscriptions are at the command OF the
companv. the whole line will be immediate
" prt under contract. The f. NJ. 4 p.
road is working steadily with force of
nearly 400 men. MesSrs. Bennett are
working over one hundred men, Foster has
one hundred and twenty-five and FrlzzeII
has about one hundred. Col. Moore, the
B. 4 O., +. NJ 4 p, right-Of-way man
has secured all rights, with prices from
Buffalo to Pricketts creek. Our pubic
schools have just closed after
another years successful work Pro-
fesSor Miller is an undOubted sue
cess "a teacher, and Fairmont
could not we'll do without him. Some writer
in the Index proposes to the Board Of Edu-
cation TO put mp an additional structure IN
connection with our school building. II is
a good idea and the new house should be
built A young man, twenty-one years old,
named TrainOr Smith, and who lived on
Pharoahs $ run, in this county, WAS found
dead on Tuesday morning last, with bull
let hole through his body; he is supposed to
have committed suicide but the result ot an
inquest held over the body was a verdict OF
accidental death. A WomanJ Christian
Temperance Union was organized here last
SUNDAY evening. Officers were elected and
committees appointed, and another meeting
will be held tomorrow night 10 perfect the
organization. Mrs. NJ. l.. Wells, ot indI-
ana. will lecture here under the auspices
of this society on Friday evening, June l3;
On Wednesday evening, June I, Monroe
Hopwood, ESQ will address the Fairmont
Literary Society. and on the following even
ing the society will hold its anniversary eN-
ercises in Monroe Hall. We hear that all
operations have been stopped at West Fair
mont shaft. The particulars could not be
learned, but we presume the price asked Tor
mining was 50 high that the company de-
cidcd to close up The Grafton Eagle
makes the alarming statement chat Fair
mont Girl has her eyebrows ina composition
intended Ia bleach them; il did; it bleached
them bad: and nov She goes about with one
eve brow as white rs the drifting snow; as
the Earle mans facjl,ic, for close inspec-
tion of "A Fairmont girls eyebrows are
first class, We suppose that the
statement Is true The Odd Fellows Of thIs
place are improving the appearance Of their
building by giving it a handsome coat OF
paint. Adam Thorn, an 'old and well
known citizen Of this county died at his
home in Paw-paw district, on Tuesday last
of consumption. We regret to learn that
&rs. J. 4. Leeper is ling at her home
dangerously III and her death is hourly ex-
pected. Andrew McCray of Fairview, a
prominent citizen of this county, died
today. The measles in the Nor.
NAL school are now we'll under control and
that other blessed complaint mumps, Is
becoming fashionable among students,
Either the REGISTER or It's correspondent
90; badly mixed last Sunday on the Quincy
street excavation. The street was so badly
mixed with the railroad tha, neither Sherlf
Corney or James Hair were able TO unraye
the thing.