The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-02-16
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A lite child OF G. w. Bailey, Of Hinton
fell in the FIRE few dayR slnoe and wa
fatally burned.
Fayette county farmers are selling thei
tobacco in the Richmond market at N
cents to 81 per pound.
The body Of Mr.. Suck, the St. Mary
merchant who was drowned in Middle
Island creek, while crossing on the ice
was recovered few days since abou
thirty feet below the spot where thu
drowning occurred,
Major B. F. Eakle has been engaged by
W. A. Stuart, Esq, to whom the famous
Greenhrier White Sulphur Springs were
recently leased for one year for $40, 900, t.
manage the place for him during the com
ing season. Major Eakle managed the
Springs last season.
At Rush Run, Ohio, Saturday morning
as Edward Cooper, a littlO son OF Joseph
Cooper, was playing near an open gratt
at his home, his clothes caught fire and
before they could be extinguished the boy
was fatally burned. He died at half pas
three in the afternoon.
In Maryland a few days since, lust ovel
the Berkeley county line, young Lad
named Williams shot q companion, Lewis
Kreps, in the leg, inhicting painful
wound. The former with some eompan
Ions, was holding ''penny show" and
the latter stole In without paying.
Hettie, four year old daughter Of I4u.
clan Fortney, Of Browns Mills, Preston
county, was SO badly burned few days
since by her clothes catching fire from Q
CRATE that she died in few hours. Hel
mothers clothes also caught fre while
she WIS endeaVoring 10 save the child and
she was only saved from death by the
timely arrival Of nelghbor.
An appealto the Synod has been taken
from the decision Of the Presbytery Of
West Virginia in reference to.the dissolu.
ton Of the Calvary church Of ParkerS-
burg and merging the congregation with
that OF the Birst, which gives the former O
lease Of life for nearly one year longer.
The opposing parties have also met In bat.
tie array before Judge Jackson updiflhe
question oil transfer,
Peter Bosley, Jr., OF Cedar Creek, Bar.
hour county; was found dead in bed one
day last week. A ooroner's inquest was
held but the Jury failed to agree and it ID
now proposed to hold q post morterD exam.
nation. II Is thought by some friends Of
the deceased that there was foul play, as
he was in perfect health when he retired
for the night, and the corpse rapidly dis,
colored after death. Mr.. Bosley had been
married but six or seven days.
A school teacher named Allen William.
son WAS discharged last w6ekh tho Board
OF Education Of a Taylor county school for
cruelty, immortality and incompetency.
Detecting two boys in the act Of pummel,
ing each other one day, he procured q
couple Of switches, and handing one 10
each boy commanded them 10 punish one
another. The boys relished the Joke and
engaged in the atfray with the greatest
reIiSh, although they each were well
thfashed. ~
The Fayette Enteprise says: The old
forts constructed here during the first OF
the late unpleasantness, are still command
ing the attention Of the passer.by.' AL.
though most OF the wood work has rotted,
yet the works generally are pretty we'll
preserved. We have been informed that
It took three regiments nearly one year to
build the Notifications, viz: the Twelfth
Ohio, Ninety.frst Ohio and Ninth Vir-
ginia, under command Of Colonel White.
These regiments were here from the fall
Of '82 till S0th OF May, '64. Not only do
these Notifications present grand scene
10 those who have never seen such earth
works, but they are harbors for game, and
much sport . often had killing rabbits,