The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-03-26
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MISCELLANEOUS Notes.
\ Mrs. Davis Alexander, OF cresap's Bot
4 tom, was in town yesterday.
The Mound City Mil received two ca
loads Of corn from Chicago q few day
ago. &
Afrs. Sep Hall and children, Of New
Martinsyille, are visiting friends in the
First ward. 95,5tI 3
DR.. Rodgers is filling DR.. Bruce's place
as prison physician while the latter
gentleman Is taking I'M the New Or.
leans Exposition.
A number Of Italians are here, ready Ia
commence on the branch road from the
b. i 0. railroad to the Moundsville coal
works rs soon as the weather will permit.
Reuben link, Esq, an oId-time member
oi the County Court, Is lying very low at
his home inthe Third ward, from the
combined effects Of phthisic and partial
paralysis.
E. Fl. Cresap, Of Cresap's Bottom, has
been awarded o contract for furnishing o
large quantity OF stone to be used by The
Government In rebuilding the dams at
Captina aud Fish Greek Islands.
Hon. ]. w. Gallaher returned from
Washington city Sunday morning last. It
is said that Mr.. Gallaher's visit to the Ma.
tional capital was not entirely disconnect-
ed with the securing Of the appointment
OF successor to District Attorney w. Fl.
H. Flick.
The eiectment suit OF Alex. Hood VS.,
w. L. Dowler, with Messrs. Robt. White
and ]. L. Parkinson for the Plaintiffs and
Melvin & Riley for the defendants, was
put on trial in the Circuit Court yester-
day. Tho trial OF this case will probably
consume several days.
A Second ward merchant said to The re-
porter yesterday that just as soon as any
firm or corporation would indicate their
purpose of'establishing q manufacturing
business here that would give employ
ment 10 seventy-tiye or more hands, a
bonus Of S. 900 would be ready for them.
That Council would be liberal in the way
OF exempting such an establishment from
municipal taxation for a number Of years
there Is not much doubt.
That there Is not anything like the
amount ofwant destitution and suffering
here as Is reported, and apparently upon
the best OF authority, as that prevailing in |
some OF the inland and southern counties
OF the State is true, yet there are plenty
Of cases in this town where little Judi
cious charity would not only be thank
fully accepted, but would prevent actual
suffering. Certainly in town like
Moundsyille no human being should be
permitted to suffer for the actual necessi-
ties Of life. N
The jury in the case Of the State against
George Q 'Brien, the ex.eonyict, indicted
for stealing lot OF carpenter tools and
harness, OF the value. OF $40 from Mr.. An.
guish, failed TO agree upon verdict, stand
ing eleven for conviction and one for ac-
quittal. Judge Jacob reduced the bail
bond from $500 TO 500, which was fur
nished by the prisoners step-father, and
George Is again at liberty until the next
term oil the Circuit Court. The general |
opinion OF those who heard the evidence |
Is that the one Contrary" man on the
Jury was in this case right that the testi-
mony did not warrant a verdict Of guilty.
81 Scott, a colored convict from Putnam
county, died at the prison Sunday morn.
ing last Of dropsy. Scott had served
little more than two years Of q five year
sentence for attempting 10 kill his wife,
whom he charged with being unfaithtul to |
him. After attempting to murder. his
vile, and while stil thinking he had been !
successful he turned the pistol upon him
self and fired, the ball striking him on |
the forehead, but failing to penetrate.
He has suffered greatly for months past,
being afflicted with asthma as well as
dropsy. He was entirely unrepentant, as
in speaking to the physician OF his at.
tempt to take his wife's life, he declared
that he still thought himself fully iustifia-
BILE. This conversation occurred the day
before his death. That the benighted
creature actually and honestly believed
he had perfect right to kill his wife there
can scarcely be a doubt.
William Logan, Of Clay district, appear
ed before Squire Jefferson on Monday
last and made complaint against William
Bowen and Patsey Callahan, charging
them with assault and battery, committed |
upon the complainant at the Baltimore &
Ohio "watch-box" on Sunday evening last.
Warrants for the accused were placed in
Constable Kellar's hands, who had the par
ties, together with the witnesses, in the
Squire's office yesterday afternoon. The
complainant, whose face looked more like
one Of the alleged war maps Of the soudan
than anything else, Il appears had changed
his mind since making the complaint, as
he not only withdrew the charge against
but actually plead guilty 10 vol
participating In the fracas which
10 completelyan unartistically decorated
his physiognomy, and gave it so much the
Squire assessed fine Of SIS and costs
against both Logan and Bowen, amount
ing in Logan's case TO $40 90 and Bowen's
TO s. IS. Logan, 1t will be seen, got the
worst OF II all around.