The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-12-01


W1GGINs. w. Va. Nov. Goth, 1885,
Virgins is on boom. Within the
past two weeks there have been erected
at this place dwelling house, ni1e
one'story cottages, n blacksmith shop.
large stable, Il grocery store, powder
| magazine and pig stye. All this ae-
tivity WIS brought about by firm
styled Carpenter and BuXiey, who have
| contracted to build a culvsrt under
the railway at Big Greek, twenty feet
| wide and twenty feet high, and build
another of the same dimensions at the
| big trestle two miles above mo. This
| firm will also make another track for
tho Chesapeake and Ohio halfway
Company from this place two miles
easterly. They will he about one year
In completing their contract, There
is an immense ravine ut the big trratle
| which will take untold cubic yards of
rock and soil to finish it, being in span
$50 feet. and at the cent4r sixty feet
| deep. Often l anu startled by the
heavy blasting and compelled to seek
place OF safety, for rock as largo as n
mans head often fall all around mo
and my roof receives a pelting of
smaller ones from the size OF a pigeon
egg to that of a good-sized apple.
shall feel relieved when this blasting
Is over and peace shall reign once
more In Warsaw." ....
The weather has been eNcruclatingly
cold and unpleasant, Fodder and hay
are very scarce, owing to the long dry
spell OF last summer. Butchers are
only paying one ana a quarter cents
for beef on the hoof, and YOU can buy
young and tender beef at five cents
pound il you take a quarter.
| Butter is 20 cents, eggs Is, bacon 10
and II, chickens 80 cents pair, oppos-
ums 20 to 25 cents, raccoons Us to 80
cents, mnrmots II to 20 cents, rabbits
Is cents, squirrels cents, phaasants
20 cents quail 25 cents pair,
potatons so cents per bushel, onions
| sl.00, corn rs cents,
Without wishing to be thought
crank or Eighty desire to warn every.
| body that lives to see the coming
warm season to be- prepared to Uattle
against that dread scourge the chnl
era, by atstaining from all intOXiclt
| ing drinks, by personal cleanliness and
| freedom from imnurn surroundings
Tor this plague Is sure To come.
have lived ~ years in this large
pleasant world of ours and have seen in
that time the authorities close all the
saloons in the city, and the report to
the board OF health sIu yvcd that every
person who INDUCED in Intoxicating
drinks when stricken by the cholera
died. while only here and there one OF
two who were Temperate, and did not
drink, died from the disease. The al.
thorities in closing the saloons acted
upon the highest judicial authority oil
the land, which declared that no onn
had right to use his property 10 tilr
injury OF others or to sntlangoe the
public health
Before close | wish to say another
thing. God intended that the poor
should have the gospel preached TO
them. When | visited your neighbor,
ing city, Philadelphia recently, | at.
tended divine seryice regularly every
Sabbath, but where | worshipped
met with none that were poor. la it
not high limo that eIrusst Christian
workers should PROV la some Hlnae
of worship where the moor could feal
| welcome and have the gospe, OF Christ
preached to them? Let your reader
who profess to love and serve the Lord
answer this in tn, lr own hearts. anil
when they. pray thy kingdom come
say, how much they are doing to All
vance that Kingdom. W. b. W.