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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21
FAIHMoNT COAL REGION.
Everything IL looming Pcnnsylvnni
Capital Coming West ylrEIniawartis.

Everything IL looming - Pennsylvania
Capital Coming West yirEiniawards.
Captain n. D. 1lelmick, ono Of Fair
monts leading manufacturers, was in
in the city last night, onroute home
from an extensive business tour in
Pennsylvania and Maryland. Captain
lielinlck is one Of the most progressive
and enterprising business men in the
state and Is an enthusiastic believer in
the future prosperity OF West Virginia,
Speaking to the lNTELLIGESCGR last night
OF the great coal and coke development
now in progress in the upper Mononga-
hcla region, OF which Fairmont is the
centre, he stated that the newspaper re-
ports OF the activity now going on there
are not exaggerated. On the contrary
the half has not been told. Thousands
oil acres OF rich coal lands are being
opened up by the new railroads, tho
mines and works now in operation arc
running to thciriull capacity, the towns
arc growing rapidly and everything is
booming. During tho coming year the
work OF development will DO even more
active.
Thousands OF acres OF coal lands
which have been purchased by capt.
talists from other states will DO devel-
oped and n number OF new mines and
coke plants will be begun. In that
time 1t is also expected that the rail
road connection will be made through
TO Pittsburgh, and the West Virginia
d Pittsburgh railroad will be completed
on through TO its southern connection.
81 was agrecably surprised" said the
captain, ito note in my recent trip,
the interest that is manifested in West
Virginia's progress by the people in
other states. In Pennsylvania, for in
stance, the coal men are making in
quiries about West Virginia coal lands
At Somerset, the other day, capitalist
who had noticed my name on the hotel
register hunted me up. lie wanted q
host OF information about our coal lands.
And so it is everywhere go.
Zone thing that astonishcs the Penn
sylvania men, is the chcapncss OF our
lands in the midst OF the development.
When | told them that right in the
midst OF the most active operations the
very same veins OF coal they themselves
are operating arc held from one-third
to one-halt the price prevailing in the
Pennsylvania coal region, they opened
their eyes. This fact alone makes
West Virginia desirable field for in
restments. Millions OF dollars have
already been placed on this account
and millions more are coming"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21
BADLY HURT WITH a BRICK.
Lad struck on tho Head and Serionsl.
Wounded Yesterday Afternoon.

Lad struck on tho Head and Seriously
Wounded Yesterday Afternoon.
Yesterday afternoon just after the
public schools were dismissed, Frank,
4 young son OF Hon. A. J. Sweeney,
was walking up the alley from Chaplne
TO Thirteenth street, when several boys
got into half playful and hall serious
fight with brickbats and stones. Young
Sweeney threw stone in fun, and
started on up the alley. Bart Jones,
another boy OF about his own size,
who lives on Jacob street, picked up u
brick and threw it at tho Sweeney boy,
striking him terrible blow on the
head, breaking the brick and cutting
4 serious cash OH the boys face and
head. lie bled terribly, frightening
the other boys badly, and they all
scattered. Young Sweeney was taken
to Bookings drug store, where DR..
Charles Frisscll dressed his injuries.
Several stitches were necessary to sew
up one cash on his forehead, and his
lip was also cut pretty badly.
The incident only illustrates the evil
OF the stonc-throwinG habit. The Won
der Is that there are not more such ac-
ciden.s. There is scarcely day passes
that some narrow escape from death or
serious injury is not reported. 1t is
only when some grave result occurs
that the police pay any. attention to it.
Ii they would give little attention to
it habitually it would soon result in IL
reform.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21
DOWNING as yIRGLNIUS,
\ Large and Apprccintive Audience at til
Opera House last Evening.


y Large and Apprccintire Audience at tho
Opera House last Evening.
Mr.. Robert Downing, Miss Eugene
blair and n vorv comnslen4 comn,r,.
,1,vod Ero,rro:,,, tr,nal,. sv;r.;,,;.. y
pi''!eu n''om 'cs ''"seuy' ''s'hlus'
atthe Wheeling Opera House last night.
The audience filled the house as full as
it would comfortably hold down stairs,
and there was an unusually good at-
tendance in the gallery for such Il
drama. Not only in &zc, but in the
make up OF the audience it was OF n
character to encourage any star. Intel
li.cnce and culture marked it in an un-
usual degree.
To win the enthusiastic approyal OF
such an audience were reward worthy
OF the efforts OF any actor or any com.
pany OF actors. This Mr.. Downing and
his company won, and won in increas-
ing degree as the plav progressed.
Really, his finest work was done in tho
last act, where the transition from the
insane Iiyyini,ts, with his victim Mt his
feet, to the loving father OF the dead
but not dishonorcd )iriuia, gives tho
crucial test OF the play. In the forum
scene he was satisfactory, and he was
especially admirable in the scenes in
which the tender and the heroic aro so
welded rs to be almost one.
OF Miss Blair's Fiyis,ia it is scarcely
necessary to speak. In appearance sh9
is the ideal OF tho fair Roman p;rl, and
mediocre acting would be tolerated with
such Virginia; but with her natural
charms she unites those OF inished
and intelligent artist, making OF the
part as nearly what the mind conceiyes
rs would be possible on the stage. Mr..
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21
DIED,

GIESEY-On Thursday. November 20, 1891, n,
2:lj y. H., JAMES ELMER. youngest son OF VI,
i. md u Z Giesey, aged . years, months
and days.
Funeral from tho residence Of his parents, No.
2l27 Market street, on Sunday afternoon at
$50 O'Clock. 1ntcrment private.
WlIITE-on Thursday. November 49, 1891
BRIDGET WHITE, aged Sc years
Funeral from her late residence. No. 49, -Four.
'eenth street, Saturday morning at o'clock.
Services 1t the Cathedral at 9:lja. IN. Friends
OF the family respectfully invited to attend.
ln;ermcnt at Mt Calvary Cemetery.
PRioR-On Friday, Novcmbcr2O. 1891, ut GEO n.
m. Nns; C.JASE PRYOR, wife Oi Oliver Pryor,
deceased.
Funeral from her late residence, Elm Grove, W.
Va, Sunday, November o.. 1891, ut $50 p. IN.
lntermcnt at Greenwood Cemetery. Friends
OF the iNm!ly invited to attend.
DoSOVAN-At Cygnct, Ohio. on Friday, No.
vcmber 20, 1891, at 80 O'Clock n. M, JAS
A. DONOVAN, aged q years.
Funeral notice hc:puitcr
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

The finance committee OF the Board
OF County Commissioners at its meet
ing yesterday passed the ordinance
assuming control on the part OF the
county OF the National road. The
sheriif's dog tax settlement, showing Il
balance on hand OF SiSS o., was found
to be correct and ordered to be filed.
In the matter OF the map OF the county
it was directed that civil engineers
Smith and Gilchrist confer and present
to the committee an approximate esti-
mate OF the cost oil map, the one pre-
pared by Mr.. Gilchrist to be the basis,
but to include also the county roads,
the distance OF each from the court
house, the road precincts, etc. The
insurance on the annex at the county
intirmary was ordered to be renewed
for three years. The county librarian
was directed to write to publishers and
ascertain the cost OF the Texas reports,
which it is designed TO add to the law
library this year. The matter of the
division OF the county into new election
precincts to comply with the new ballot
law was discussed at some length, but
final action was deferred.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

Mr.. HARRISON, OF Woodlands, is in
the city trying to get his son Thad out
OF the regular army. Thaddeus is
under twenty-one, enlisted about six
months ago without his fathers con.
sent, and is stationed at Columbus. His
father has an order directing his dis.
charge, from the secretary OF war. Cap.
tain Dovcner has been attending to the
motter for him
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

One Of the comedy successes OF the
season, Ellis Nibs, the Baron" will be
presented at the Opera House Monday
and Tuesday, November % and "a. The
play is said to be q deviation from the
stereotype style OF iarcc-comedics, in
asmnch rs it enjoys plausible plot,
and n legitimate reason for the comedy
complications and ludicrous situations
that constitute the body OF the per-
formancc. While the story is being
tod. incidentally numerous speciatics
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

OF tho higher ordcrarc being INDUCED
in by the company, the concerted cvo-
lntions and dances by bcvy OF pretty
girls being II marked feature. The
mirror and shoo shoe" dances arc
among the recent tcrpsichorean invcn.
tons and will be given here for the first
time by ellis Nibs" company.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

plI,T III,


Word was received here Yesterday
afternoon that james A. Donovan, an
old Wheeling boy, who has been work
ing in the glass factory ut Cygnet, O.,
had been run ovor by the cars and
fatally injured. Later word came that
he had died. No particulars we're re-
ceived. Mr.. Donavan was brother-in-
law OF D. D. Ingram and William
Halter. Word was sent to forward the
body to Wheeling for intermcnt.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21
Where Did IL. Get III, Money ?

Tyrroll, the man who has been in iail
Tor some time, under the charge OF OBJ
taining goods under false pretenses, was
released yesterday morning. Last night
he was brought to police headquarters
in 4 drunken condition, and claimed
that $50 had been stolen from him. He
was locked up to enabled him to get
sobor
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

Last night while Michael Bailey, an
employe OF the Riverside steel works at
Benwood, was engaged in coupling cars
in tho yards OF the works he got his
right hand caught between the bump
ers and it was terribly mashed. lie was
taken to DR.. Haskins's Office and the
hand nmputnted.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

Mems patent Railroad Shoes, 50 So
worth So 50.
Mems finest Dongola Caters, 50 %,
worth IS.
Mems latest style Seamless Caters,
81 10, worth 8 so.
Ladies' line hand welt Button Shoes,
50 so, worth So 80.
Ladies' elegant Dongola Button Shoes,
81 rs, worth 60 50.
Ladies fine Kid Or Pebble Button,
81 %, worth 81 10.
Ladies' and Childrcn's Rubbers, CSC,
worth i0c.
Stones CASH SHOE STORE.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

Councilman o. r. Blackburn, of the
Fifth ward. Bellaire, died yesterday
afternoon alter tedious illness, aged
about sixty-seven years. He will be
buried Sunday at . p. IN, under the
auspices OF the X. OF 7. and I. O. O. f.,
OF both OF which orders he had Ion.
been q member. as well as OF the Masons'
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

R. TEAsDALE sells Pittsburgh coal, in
Hempfield yards, the cheapest and best
in the market. Prices low. Try It.
Corner Sixteenth and ChapIinc streets.
Telephone Is.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

The Daughters OF Liberty milk and
mush social, held last night at G. A. R.
hall, was IN unqualified success, socially
and financially. a big crowd was there
and enjoyed itself thoroughly. Supper
was served. and afterwards the articles
remaining were auctioned off and Noted
n handsome sum.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

THERE is nothing like DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil to quickly cure cold or
relieve hoarsencss. Written by Mrs.
NJ. j. Fellows, Burr Oak, st. Joseph
county, Mich. Dkw
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21
TO.mOrrow NIGHTS RehcnrsnI,

Following is the programme to be
rendered by the Opera House orches-
ira ut the Arion hall tomorrow even
ing, at its bi-weekly public rehearsal,
under the direction OF Prof. L. W.
Spell:
Part
l. March-'Turrer' from the "Goldiuchs".
+. Roth
.. Naltz-"summernigh in the Cntskil Noun
Wills i. Moquist
New York Herald Prize Waltz)
rAErIl.
I. Fantasia from "Rlgolcttor. Verdi
5. ldyl-"Ilerzigcs Kind" ianre
6. Medley Overturc-"Bonnie Scotland".......
I. n. Cltlin
:. Observation-Disclosures songs"..M. Koblmann
$. "Chant de Syphes." for String Instruments.
II. Erichs
CO -nt
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

CD. WEBSTER, OF Harrisville, will sell
a lot OF fine horses ut auction on Decem-
Der u.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

SUFFERED most severely from rheu.
matism during winter. After using
Salvation Oil two days the pain entirely
subsidized, and now l am q well man.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

TIN Wheeling Building Association
is still open Tor new members. Meets
Saturday evenings Mt Office OF Franklin
insurance Company, No 81 Twelfth
strrnt SIar
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

CATAREu is not n local but consti-
tutional disease, and requires n consti-
tutional remedy like Hoods sarsaparilla
to effect cure. Is
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-21

Go where you will, you will find pco.
pie using DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, and
unanimous in its praise.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-03
STYLES That seldom Change.

The cap trade is largely in the hands of
Jobbers who buy from the manufacturers
and distribute the goods. Every consider
able city west of ofPittshsrg has large jobbing
houses that deal in caps and the widest
Rocky Mountain hul .er often wears cap
sent him through joober and retailer from
the cap mauufactor.es of the French quar-
ter. The taste of western folk does not
easily change, and this fact gives to the cap
trade a certain 81 ,adIness that il would not
have Were il or,rely dependent upon the
vagaries Of 70 ug people on the Atlantic
coast You E.ay see by the goods in the
cap houses o. this t@wn every variety of
frontiersman cap, along with the beretta
of the priest the shovel hat of the bishop
and the mortarboard of the university
student.
Curiously enough, there is little or no de-
mand for the odd headgear that reaches
this town upon the heads of newly arrived
immigrants Foreign caps and the pecul-
laritles of attire that thus come in rapidly
disappear. The Italian women cling to
their gay kerchiefs. but men and women
of other nation2litles make haste TO con
form TO the customs of the country. In a
few western stsIes. where there are large
colonies of foreigners. especially Germans,
living in communities of their own, pecul-
iarities OF dress survive, and for those peo
pie the capmakers design distinctive head.
Rear.-New York World
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-03
HOW WSWELLSSHOULDACT
ESSENTIAL NlCETlES IN "CULcHAW"
AND DEPARTMENT."

Points That Distinguish Peculiar Sc
in the Metropolis from the Recognized
Gentlemen of Leisure and Refinement
An Interesting Satire.
~By Jovel What cad See the way ht
carries his stick"
''Yaas, and notice the way he holds his
gloves"
'Yaas, and he walks like drayman."
"Gad, he's goin to bow to that gel Sor-
ray faw the paw gel Watch him"
"Ahi ahl What an awful dufTer. If ]
couldn't bow better than that I'd stop at
home"
"Yaas So would l."
"Let's go to the club and sit down; that
sort of thing makes me awfully tired"
The man criticised was conspicuous, and
/ it was all because he hadn't sufficient
/ knowledge OF culchaw and department.
/ He was fault .ssly dressed, but that didn't
save him. Whether to take soup from the
1 side or from the end of spoon is a mat
/ ter of cultu but whether to carry the
! gloves with t1e fingers forward or with the
! fingers back D., matter of culchaw.
| Everybody that is anybody knows all
about culture and department, but cul-
chsw and department include the little
Diceties of manner and conduct about
which many people have a great deal TO
learn Without culchaw and department
it is impossible 20 be a swell.
THE WALK.
A swell must walk at times, no matter
how many broughams and horses be may
have, and it is no more than proper TO give
the walk precedence. The walk is an ac-
ouirement a man gets very early in life,
but be never begins 10 walk in the proper
way until he is proposed for membership
in a good clab. This is the way: LEGS
stiff, no elasticity; body well forward, no
elasticity; head well back, no elasticity,
and steps about two and q half feet long.
OF course there are variations c ing TO
funeral the man about town should ak
briskly and as if be enjoyed il. Thereby
he demonstrates his perfect repose of r7au-
ner and shows that II Is not influenced by
mere external circumstances Going 70 a
wedding he should walk slowly and look
bored and thoroughly convinced that m4r
riage is failure.
In entering a ballroom the walk may be
elaborated to almost any extent a man
should wear his evening walk Just as lie
wears his evening clothes, for the occasion.
Then there are variations OF the wsis
aside from thoA ot fornslity and stiffness
The most noticeable OF these is that en-
ployed when the expe-- walker walks With
a gel" When thus sgr0e2bly employed
be should invariably face her md walk
sideways like a crab This viii p fTs. Ae
found rather dificzit. t7- practice s1skss
perfect. and the gel vno viii rot pat a ,
With being stepped on few tsrrss sr6
bumped with a pair o. uHaccssstomse kzees
a few times has not proper appreciation
% culchaw and dspawtme-- u waking
with the "ge." the student shOuld care
fully avoid keeping step Ine sep %
gether IS Tor common soldiers, convicts,
clerks going together 70 business ard czds
who disregard cuIchaw aud cepawtmsnt.
Gentlemen never ysIk in stsp. Il Shows
TOO much ogefl.sSIitstiop and thouzht and
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-03
Sock and Buskiu.

In the early ages theatrical performers
disguised their faces with wine lees or a
rude pigment Eschylus, the famous tragic
poet, introduced masks, which were of
various kinds expressing every age, coun-
try, condition and complexion. All were
constructed with the greatest nicely and
precision. The dresses were also adapted
to the characters assumed by the actors.
What was known as the buskin was a
hunting boot Those worn by tragedians
had soles three inches thick, composed Of
layers of cork, and were laced up in front
as high as the calf
Sandals were also worn, and many of
these had thick cork soles. The colors of
the foot coverings were various, red being
the favorite hue for warriors and purple
for other characters. Slaves wore low
shoe, bearing the name of sock, which was
also the ordinary footwear of comedians
From this circumstance arose the well
known phrase of "sock and buskin,n so
generally associated with the drama.-De
troit Free Press
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-03
Some pIotbers, super,titiop..

The superstitions concerning babies ex-
lst in almost every household If the
baby's nails are cut before it is year old
it will have propensity to steel. If it is
measured it will cease to grow. 1t is lucky
to take a new born babe up stairs. 1t is
unlucky to take it down stairs. 1 know a
very intelligent mother who, because of a
superstition of i'll luck, will not name any
of her children until the rite of baptism is
about to be performed.
Another lady just as refined becomes
nervous if some one in the house has placed
three or more chairs in a row, as that fore
boded an early funeral. A third, upon re-
turning soon after having left the house,
will sit down for few minutes to break
the spell OF Ill luck accompanying such
return. rn.-Philalalphia Ledger
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-03

| It, and finally began playing again bare
headed, with his scanty gray locks tossed
about in the wind.
People came and went, happy, well
dressed men and women in silks and vel
vets and sealskins. in warm overcoats and
gloves and muflers. But none of them
paid any attention to the old man.
By and by a woman came out of an al
ley, an old woman in rags and tatters,
with a great bundle of boards and sticks
on her bent back. Some of the boards
were so long that they dragged on the
ground behind her, and it had evidently
taken her long time TO tie all the boards
and bits of lumber together and get them
on her back.
She came along, bending low under her
burden. until she was within few feet Of
the old organ grinder. She saw his cap
lying by the pavement. She saw him sit
ting there baEeheaded.
She stopped and united the rope that
bound the bundle to her back, and in a
moment the boards were lying on the
ground. Then she picked up the cap, put
it on the old mans head and tied it down
with a ragged string of handkerchief
taken from her own neck.
"Cold, hain't it?" she said
He nodded.
"Ain't gittin much todayW
He shook his head again.
She fumbled in her ragged skirts for a
moment and finally brought forth cop
per. She dropped it into his little cup,
hoisted the great bundle on her back and
went on her way-Youth's Companion.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-03
The Victorious Banana Peel.

Ayoung man came along fremont street,
near the West End side line, eating ba-
nanas. The rain was pouring down, and
the young fellow, to save releasing his
hands from the umbrella, gracefully tore
the skin from banana with his teeth, let
ting it fall to the sidewalk. An idea seemed
to occur to him, and he stopped to kick the
banana skin into fremont street But the
banana skin had glued itself TO the wet
walk. After several Intellectual kicks he
gave up the attempt.
After his departure a newsboy, who had
been watching, approached the spot and
renewed the kicking The obstinate ba-
mana skin, however, had fastened itself
firmly, and the newsboy's attempt resulted
in the spreading of the banana skin over
quite a number of square inches, also in
detrimeRt to his shoes.
An old, kindly disposed gentleman next
happened along. He esDied the banana
skin, and at once began an animated dis
course TO the several people waiting for
the car that didn't come ION time).
There, said be, there is an Instance Of
carelessness which should be punished.
If we had an ordinance in Boston forbid
ding the throwing Of banana skins on the
sldeHtlh IL WO1Iu De 4 DleSSeQ thing. !
VIII throw it into the street. If nobody else
viii" and the poor old man waltzed over
TO the spot where the innocent looking
banana skin lay, waiting Tor its prey.
1t resisted his attempts He lifted one
foot high and brought it down upon the
skin. The yellow skin remained, but the
foot passed by the spot with an annihilat-
ing energy, and the old gentleman and the
umbrella sat down in the muddy water,
the umbrella on top. That was the last
attack on the victorious banana peel 1t
was eyed respectfully 10y the spectators,
but no one cared TO renew the struggle
Boston Journal