The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-02-28
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THr remains OF Mrs. John N. Mathews,
who died at Fort Scott Kansas, Will arrive
here tomorrow. S0Nli
lOsE marriage license Issued, was the ex.
tentof Tho public business transacted In Rs.
coider Hooks office yesterday.
MUNICIPAL CoUEr met at $50 yesterday
morning, but there being no business OF i'm.
p~ortancs adjourned TO meet at the usual hour
this morning.
w. II. sYLyis, OF The North End, has had a
relapse aud Is quite sick with typhoid fever.
Mr.. Sylvia has the contract for lighting the
o | lamps OF the city.
JAeoB Fuua has built. up the side OF his
bakery, corner OF Jacob and Thirty.seventh
a~treeta, that was washod out by the flood. II
looks nearly Al good ns new.
TuE fro alarm Telegraph line. including all
the boxes, 10 once more In good working or.
iGr. and the Department generally Is getting
back 10 It's normal condition. 80
The Committee on, Ordinances meets to.
night, for the purposs OF considering The
Seventh ward COW ordinance. "The bovine
must co. Ia the 1slanders' cry.
Mr.. FREp ScHRApER had his left eye badly
burned at the La Belle yesterday. Standing
In front OF the blast furnace the flash caught
him and while II does not follow he will lose
bis eye, yet It Ia an ugly burn.
TIE members OF the Zion Benevolent 30.
ciety, connected with the Zion Lutheran
Church, have made up a pure Of SIS, which
will be distributed among the most needy
members OF the society, who are suffsriug
from the effects Of the flood.
The family OF J. A. II. Parsons, the pho.
tographer, which was temporarily driven
from their homo on the Island. have been
staying with friends In Little Washington
since then. Tuesday a little daughter, aged
fifteen months, fell and broke her arm.
The west side OF the Market street bridge
Is still closed 10 travel owing to the danger.
Gus slip Ut the north end. The ground ap-
pears Ia! bs slipping all the time, and the
rainy weather that Is prevailing at this time
must necessarily make tho place more dan.
gerous. .a y
iREv. WIN. D%EEEKMrIER, formerly pastor OF
Zion's Lutheran congregation OF this city,
ROW at the Lutheran Emigyant House, New
York, has sent To Rev. o. Meerweln. the pref
ont pastor OF this congregation, $50, to be
used In helping the needy, and expressing
in the letter his regret at not being able to
aeud more.
YESTERDAY morning at the Cathedral, Ash
Wednesday, the first day OF Lent was OBJ.
served by appropriate services. The aahes
made from the palms blessed on Palm Buu-
day were blessed md distributed. They are
placed on the foreheads Of the people to gym.
bolize the modification and penance that
they ought 10 practice during Lent.
Provisions and clothing still continue to
arrive Mt the central supply depot, and there
are still calls for the am Yesterdays 70.
ceipts were quite large and well selected. At
the provision depot yesterday, only about
sixty orders were filed and NJ the clothing
atation business was very dull. Rev. DR.. J.
E. Smith, of the Fourth street church, IL ID
receipt OF several Sums for the relief OF
churches. pastors and congregations that sut.
fered by the flood.
ANOTHER bad clip has taken place in the
Fourteenth street cut. Alarge mass OF earth
aud rock, loosened by the recent rains, has
slipped down from the hillside on tho north
side Of the street and nearly blockaded the
roadway. Tho Board OF Public Works will
have a force OF men at work to-day removing
the same. 1t is only n question OF time, I'M
less q heavy retaining wall is built, until the
houses on tha,side Of the hill go down into
the street, The cutting down OF this street
was one Of the brilliant pieces OF work done
by one OF the old Councils.