The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-10
THROUGH THE STATE.
Accidents and Incidents In West VirGinl
and Vicinity.

and Vicinity.
The electric light Is to be introduced IN
the streets Of Wellsville, Ohio.
There are only seven colored citizens
in Nicholas county over 81 years OF age
The New England mines OF Marion
county are putting out over 100 tons oil coal
daily.
Several men were indicted for felony
under the "Red Mems Act" at the recent
term OF the Logan Circuit Court.
1t is said that should the Ohio River
road be extended down the river, another
nail mill will be erected at Clifton.
The Middle Island Tie Company, OF "
Ter county, has about $4,000 ties in the
creek, which they expect to get down on
the first water.
The coal trade at Piedmont is getting so
brink that II is difficult for railroad compa-
MES 10 furnish a sufficient number oil cars
10 carry coal to market.
Il is reported that all OF the creeks
emptying into the Guyandotte river are
filed with logs waiting for water enough
to. float them to Huntington.
Mathesou & Co., an enterprising firm
engaged in the venturetome business OF
drifting slaves out OF the Elk river, sue
ceeded in getting SC, 600 out recently on a
slight swell.
A rail spread at Armstrong; Mills, on
the B. z. & @. railroad, Saturday, and
ditched the whole train. No one was
hurt, but all trains were delayed about
twenty-four hours.
Quantities of walnut logs are being ship
ned from Jefferson county. They, are
shipped by rail to Jersey city, and from
there are sent to Europe. The prices
paid for the logs range from $40 TO sou
each.
A special to the Register says that on
Saturday "Hon. Robert 5. Blair, attorney,
was fined twenty-five dollars by Judge
Stealey, for contempt OF court, having
during heated discussion called Judge
Stewart damned liar"
The annual convention OF the Y. NJ. O.
A, OF Maryland, West Virginia and the
District Of Columbia will meet in Martins:
burg, commencing November 18th and
ending November 22d. A large number OF
delegates are expected to be in attendance.
An INDUCTION has been placed in the
hands ofthe Armstrong Creek r. Z. Com
panv, BY. Deputy Marshal RAIDER, prohibi-
ting them from proceeding with work on
their railroad until the work done by Gro
gan & Littlepage, the contractors, is settled
Tor.
The October number OF the Virginia,
quotes DR.. Fred P. Dewey, Of the National
Museum, and Prof. w. H. Seamon, Of
Virginia, as saying that the Glenwood
tin mines, in the lower psrtof this State,
are swindle, and that the oar contains
not one particle OF tin" Prof. Seamon ia
son Of Capt Henry Seamon, OF this city.
Geo. W. Fouk, eighty-four years Of age.
Of West Bethlehem township, Washing
ton county, Pa, committed suicide in q
singular manner on Sunday. He tied q
handkerchief around his neck and then
twisted it with stick until strangulation
ensued. The only cause assigned for the
deed is that the man was slightly de-
msnted at times.
The Grafton Sentinel says: Mr.. I. Davis
son was in town last Saturday attending
to the shipment OF two hundred A fat
cattle. They 90 to New York and thence
to Liverpool, England. A finer lot OF cat
tie is seldom, II ever, put on the market,
the average weight being about nIteen
hundred pounds. Three hundred thou.
sand pounds Of Taylor county beef will
make many square meal for some OF our
English cousins.
A strange thing happened at the late
reunion at Moundsville. Over 20 years
ago Sergeant @. O. Mathews, Of Company
A, Twelfth West Virginia, lost a book
while that regiment was making charge
on Fort Gregg on the I'd Of April, 1885,
which was fund by comrade Of Com
pany X, named Samuel Beall, and IS the
war soon closed they lost sight OF each
other until they met at the reunion. when
Beall gave him the book, saying, " have
kept It 20 years for you" 1t is priced
highly by Mr.. Mathews, not so much for
its worth as for the associations surround
ing it.