The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-24
DI:LLAIlsE,
All Sorts of Local Now.'nnh Gosdp from
this elias, City,

,hp elias, City
The quarto.ccntcnnial celebration OF
the colorcd people was concluded ut the
Elysian theatre Inst evening, when that
building was packed with people to
llear DR.. Price. president OF Livingston
College, salisbury, n. G., and DR..
Uoler, OF tho samc place. Their nd.
dresses wcro OF tho jubilee character,
aud yet solid enough to command tho
attention Of everybody In tho audience.
10th are orators. Mr.. A. j. Lee 'dcliv.
cred q comic address and entertained
tho audience with songs OF tho old plan.
tatlon kind, in which all tho cotton
plckers joined In tho chorus. Tho scr
vices wero opened with q PRAYER by
ltcv. J.. W. Barr, OF tho Firat Freshly
terrain church. Tho reception ut city
hall during tho afternoon WINS inter.
fcred with by tho rain, hut the splendid
gathering last night fully made up for
it. Rev. NJ. NJ. Ponton, 10 whose on
crgy the great success OF tho cclcbra-
ton Is duo, Is co%nildentthcv will roal-
ize over $500 from It, aud tho proceeds
are to be used in wiping out q church
debt.
Col. G. i. Poorman, j. L. Blackburn,
DR.. II. 9. Kcmple, VIC. Cochran, John
Davis, Postmaster Darrah, Of this city,
DR.. &. A. Keepers, chairman OF tho
Monroe county Republican committee,
Hon. j.. Danford, Senator Nichols, Hon.
G. !. Wcems, County Treasurer Archer,
cX.County Treasurer George Robinson
and W. A. Hunt, OF st. Clairsville, all
wont to Steubenville yesterday TO take
q hand in tho congressional convention
that meets there to-day. A special
train leaves hero at 5 this morning for
tho convention.
The Ohio Christian Mission Society
will hold its forty-frst annual meeting
here, beginning this evening and lasting
Tor three days. Eminent leaders in tho
Christian church from all parts OF tho
country will be here. among them
Elders Williams, Of China; Powers,
Tyler, Handin, l%Iaines, collars, Updike,
McDiarmid, Graves and others. 1t Is
expected 10 be tho largest religious
gathering ever held in the city, and
will bring several hundred visitors.
Tho city board OF equalization, com.
posed OF ". @. Bergunthal, George w.
Yost, 7. 0. Criswell, James Hackett,
Richard Heslop and John Fallen, organ
lied at the auditors office in st. Glars
vile yesterday, by clecting P. 0. Girls.
we'll president and J. P. Lowman mes
songer. Auditor Henderson is clerk Of
the board by virtue Of his office. They
adjourned to meet at city hall hero on
Thursday morning.
Tho Bcllaire iiremen, though not en-
tirely satisfied with tho adjustment Of
the prize they have been contending for
from tho Ohio Valley Trades Assembly,
have concluded to .acquiescc and win 1t
over again with tho addition proposed.
The eightieth anniversary OF the
Rock Hill Presbyterian Church will be
celebrated in August. 1t is the oldest
organization in all Eastern Ohio, and
from it sprang tho churches in this
city, at Bridgeport and Martins Ferry.
The stockholders Of the Crystal win
dow glass works do not all want to wind
up business, but enough of them do 10
make it reasonably certain that they
will either wind up or r%eorganize, and
q wind up is most probable.
Hon. C. L. Weems has been secured
to make the memorial address here on.
the 30th under the auspices OF Spangler
post and the Woman's Relief Corps.
The services will be heldin the evening
in the First NJ. L. church.
Farmers have to be prevented from.
stunning the pixies west OF town By
heavy wire fences. These keep them
from coming right down the creek to.
avoid p%ayingtoll. =
Not long ago q scandal separated o
man and his wife on Gravel hill. The
man took n room with n family down
town, and now he bears the brunt OF n
separation between that man and his
wife.
The Knights Templar met in Bellaire
lodge room last night and completed.
arrangements for Ascension Day SER,
vices Thursday evening. These services
are for the public as well as Knights.
Glen. Darrah, who left here a few.
years ago and located.in California, was
married at Stockton last week to Miss
Bessie Woods, the daughter Of a wealthy
resident Of that town.
Tho directors of tho Bellaire Gas and
Electric company organized by electing
Captain R. L. Dovries, president; Mil
Ter Booth, secretary, and John Fergu-
son, superintendent.
The merchants hero are kicking Wig
orously against the new B. & o. sched-
ulc, which does not bring the accommo-
dation train in any earlier than on the
old time card.
Misses Hester and Josephine Ray left
yesterday evening for their homo at
Little Rock, Ark, after n visit with tho
familyof their: brother, Roy Ray.
Tho D%uqucsne Hook and Ladder
Company has fitted up its room in tho
hose house with brussels carpet, q IL
brary and elegant chairs.
William Henncs, q we'll known farmer
OF this vicinity, will leave next month
for the Emerald Isle, after. an absence
forty-six years. L.,
j.. L. Blackburn reached home from
Cincinnati yesterday and the machinery
for a new industry will be hore this
week.
Tho City Council will meet this
evening.
NorE the f~o7o'ring opinions OF leading rIIYsI.
CLANS and HOSPITALS rs to the merit OF
LIVE ACE RyE