The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-09-02
Qhf gntelliqeMtet.
0aiesf Nos, 70 and ~ Fourtesnlh Street,
TaROUGH THR STATE,
Items and Events Of Interest Cleaned from
Exchanges,

Exchanges,
Aunt Sarah Gaddess, otTaylorC county
whose age is reckoned anywhere from
lilo TO 1iO years, Is III with the chicken
pox,
DR.. Archibald Mclean, who was 70
Gently elected President Of Bethany Col
lee, will decide to-day whether or no
he will accept the position,
Leading Ohio wool growers who .hav'
visited the interior OF West Virginia 70
Gently, giyeit as their opinion that tht
country Is the best adapted Tor WOO
growing in the Union.
Arthur Cooper, Of Parkenburg, re
Gently appointed a cadet at West Point
failed TO pass the physical examination!
and his alternate, VIM II. Monroe, has
been appointed in his stead.
It is reported that a mob Of negroes
are threatening the peace at Echo, OWNS
to the killing Of one Of their number by
q clerk In the employ Of Cooper & 90.
1t is thought the militia Will be called
out,
j. O, Painter & Bro, Of Thornton,
Taylor county, are getting out q car load
OF the Thornton fire clay to send to
Chicago as a sample, They have. an
order for q large amount OF clay II II
gives satisfaction,
Ellie Robbins, the female horse thief
and jail breaker, OF Putnam county, was
captured near Buffalo last Wednesday,
The stolen horse, which was the prop
erty Of DR., Carpenter, OF Poca, was
found in her possession,
One OF the missing faces among the
iakir crowd at the Ravenswood fair was
that Of Marsh Calvert, who is said 20
have come to an pnholy end while
riAipg dead bodies at Johnstown, Pa,
IRON hre-arm in the hands of an officer.
The veterans OF the late Fifth Cavalry
Association will hold their annual re-
union at Grafton on the 25th and 26th
~instants. Many OF the members live
in the vicinltyIot Pittsburgh and have
been granted a railroad fare OF s. for
the round trip by the Baltimore 4 Ohio
Company.
Senator Faulkner Is slowly recovering
from his recent mishap. His physlcians
state that Ills knee IL considerably worse
than II sprained, The ligaments Of the
lower part OF the ,knee'Cap have been
pulled away, and 1t will require three or
four weeks before he will fully recover.
He Is still confined to his house and I'M
able to got about.
The slack barrel factory at Raven
Rock, Peasants county, is turning out
apple and potato barrels right along.
They have Just finished fifteen hundred
for an eastern gentleman, who has
bought u lot OF russets near Newport, TO
be shipped to Baltimore. These apples
arc TO be picked ut once and kept by the
cold storage process, They were bought
at 81 per barrel.
Monongalia county has a pretty 70.
male mail carrier In the person Of Miss
Lizzie Arnett, who carries the mail from
Georgetown to Morgantown and return
daily, the round trip being nineteen
miles. Miss Lizzie has q nice little road
cart and good horse and always gets In
on time. She is n blonde Of good face
and figure and ono oil the most popular
officials in the county.
John Dreppard, Of Pocahontas county,
has discovered a means by which the
water once used in running q wheel Is
not lost, but is reversed and used Tor the
same purpose again. In this way q con.
slant stream Is unnecessary. Mr.. Drep.
pard has demonstrated tho practical
working Of his discovery by applying 1t
to a ohurn and other light running ma
chinery, and thinks ten or fifteen gallons
OF water will be sufficient 10 run q
threshing machine.
Bill Salisbury and Jake Hashman, Of
Pleasants county. made the prize record
OF snake killing last week, on Schultz
Fork Of French Greek, They discovered
q largo rattlesnake about toenter . hole
in the rocks, and one OF them killed II
with an axe. On cutting II In two, 1t
was found 10 contain ten young ones,
from eight 10 ten inches long, each OF.
which had a well developed button.
Tho old snake was between three and
four feet long, and as thick as a mans
leg, when the young ones we're in 1t.
A large stone, In the shape oil a wheel,
used by James Rumsey, the inventor Of
thpsteamboat, in grist mill in Allen dis
hibitlon in front Of The Court House, the
hrst boat ever propelled by steam was
launched by Alr. Rlmsey, In the Poto.
mac river at Sir Johns Rup. " has
been proven that he was clearly entitled
to the honor Of the inventor Of the
steamboat Mr.. D. T, Wright. has
offered to present the above mentioned
stone TO the Bath Square Trustees, pro.
Yided they erect anlce PEDESTAL 70 place
itupon In the grove.-Berkeley Springs
NeIs.