Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-18
MANNINeToN.
A slick Stranger swlndIes People In q
Lumber Racket.

Special % Re Ssnday Reaieey.
WASHINGTON, January Ill has been
raining necessarily here for nearly three
days, and il begins to look as If the August
food of 1875 might be repeated.
Mr.. E F. Philip and U. A. Clayton, Of
this place, were in New MartinsVille last
week on business.
W S. Raymond. q prominent young at
torney of Fairmont, was in town last even
ing.
Capt. A. N. Prichard and w. B. Sine
started to Parkersburg last night in obedi-
ence 10 q forthwith luminous to appear as
witnesses before the o.. 5. Court, now in
session there.
MI. o. N. Koon vas in Baltimore last
week looking aiier one George Fl. Dobson,
late ofthis place, who represented himself
as agent for d. C. Morgan & Co., lumber
deal rs of the former place. who recently
failed. Mr.. c. A. Pritchsrd, ST., whose loss is
The heaviest. is now in Baltimore looking
after the affair.
Hon. James II. Furbee has been in Wet
eel county the past week.
Mr.. f. r. Stewart telegraphs home that
had arrived safely in Havana, Cuba.
Several young men of this town are talk.
ing Of forming themselves into a colony and
taxing Horace Greeley's advice. Mr. j.
Frank Jones is the prime mover. They
want to 90 BY New Orleans, and take in
tie Worlds Fair, and from there to south
western Kansas. II the boys are in earnest
NAV success crown their efforts.
John Barnhart made a trip to New Mar
t~insville this week to see how the land laid
for a first class shoemaker. He reports
chances gecd. but no houses to rent
Aaron Turbee, Of Gloyers Gap, was in
town Thursday on business.
Capt. H. A. Spies, Of Moundsville, was
in tow Thursday evening on business.
At a meeting of the Warrington Read
ing Society, held on last Tuesday night, the
following corps of officers were elected:
President, C. r. Snodgrass; vice president,
Fred A. Prichard; secretary, John Il.
Stewsrt; treasurer, Howard r. Furbee;
librarian, Norris StartSman; marshal, John
]. Crowl.
Miss Bette Hough, of Fairmonr, on her
return from a visit among. relatives and
friends at Bridgeport, GAINESVILLE and IaneS-
vile, Ohio, stopped off here IN Thursday
night TO see her cousin, Miss LIZZIE Clayton.
The protracted meeting is still ia prog.
ress at the NJ. (. Church here, under the
charge of Rev. C. ]. Trippet. Thus far
there has been but one conversion, Miss
Ret;a Stattler. There win be a children's
meeting held this afternoon Some inter
est appeared to be manifested at the first
meetings, but it now seems as if the mem
btrs think they are approaching the North
Pole. A warming and an awakening in.
fuence should be brought to bear on them.
If they were as Jealous, energetic and as
much interested in the work as their pastor,
the town would certainly be blessed with a
grand revival of religion.
DR.. N. +. Hamilton, who has been con.
fined 10 is bed for some weeks past, is still
no better. In fact, he is gradually growing
worse. He is suffering intensely with
rheumatism, and is also undergoing an at
tack Of bilious fever.
DR.. +. A. Rymer has been called to see
him several times and thinks that he will
recover.
Elias Blackstone, an aged and very highly
respected citizen, living three miles east Of
here, who has been sick for a number Of
days, is now much worse. For two days
be has been unable to hear, and his face is
so swollen that his eyes are closed. His
silmen; is inward erysipelas of the head
and throat. His case, it is said, is regard.
cd by DR.. j. H. Brownield, Of Fairmont,
bis attending physician, as hopeless. and
quite likely before this reaches the readers
Of the REGISTER the old gentleman viii be
numbered with the dead. His son. DOC"
Blsckshere, OF Baltimore. is at his bedside,
and another son, ]. 4. Blackstone, Of Cot
tonwood Falls, Kansas, is expected TO be
here to day.