The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-22

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o'clock, and from that time until alter
midnight last night at brief intervals.
Abont s clock last night pouring, DASH
ing, drenclling rain came up, accompanied
by a strong wind and vivid lightning and
sharp thunder. Many of the streets were
converted into rivalels and left with q
thick coating Of Shiny yellow mud washed
down from the hills. No damage was re-
ported, except a little crossing oftelephone
wires.
Enduring Tokens That Refrosi tho Memory
Through Countless Ages.
Whence once allowed and loving parent
has passed away-a kindred, friend or
hero has returned to dust-the most
graceful rewardwe can tender is, unques.
tionahly, a generous, kindly and lasting
remembrance in the shape OF an imper-
ishable monument. Hence, has 1t never
crossed your mind how portraits, arto.
graphs and even the countless little keep
sakes bequeathed are subject TO decay,
loss or a thousand other yicissitudes such
as life Is heir to-? And once these tender
links OF remembrance are thus broken,
lot the whole chain Of fond recollections
rapidly pays out until every trace is buried
in Undergraduates.
But like the towering clills-the gigantic
rocks and time.proof pyramids Of the
Holy Land-are not tho NEST enduring
mementoes ever found to partake Of their
majestic strength, grandeur and lasting
the massive and artistic granite memori-
ais now go prevalent in every cemetery
throughout the land?
No other stone-no manufactured
natural material or scientifically construct
ed composition, can begin to resist the
rayages OF time, climate and exposure like
the impregnable granite monuments that
are by nature, art and skill combined,
made perpetual monuments OF human
record and distinction.
The old time slab, tablets and trivial
embiems found in We ancient church
yards, or in the cloisters Of We sanity
monasteries, have been discarded, and In
lieu has the sculptor's chisel penetrated
vast masses Of granite and fashioned for
the Information OF countless successive
ages where rests the worthy, honored and
beloved ashes Of a once beloved and noble
being.
Thus unused in while casting our eyes
over the numerous and imposing designs
OF art memorials, that own their origin in
design and manipulation to the skill, labor
and artistic accomplishments OF I. A.
Moore Il Co., Of our city, designers and
producers Of granite and marble memorial
specialties.
This tirn, beyond question, have fur
nished the finest specimens Of granite
work TO be found in our State, which may
be attributed to the fact that their facilities
are unexcelied, and hence their aDiiity 10
successfully compete In every contract
submitted 70 them. Their granite quar-
ries at South Thomaston, Maine, and near
Concord, New Hampshire, are among the
finest in the world, and they are daily con-
trihuting the finest and most beautiful
blocks Of stone we have ever seen. While
the firm, as original designera Of art me-
MORALS, are unsurpassed in our State, as
their finished work more than demon
strates, samples OF which may be seen at
their office, 1873 Market street, Wheeling,
w. Va, orin almost any cemetery in Cen.
trail or Southeastern Ohio, II not the entire
State. ~