The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-25
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BELLAIRE.
All Sorts of Local News and Gossip from
the Glass City,


All Sorts Of Local News aud Gossip from
the Glass City,
Over a year ago a bright looking
young man asked James Dubois and O.
Q. Marsh for job shoveling sand at
their sand bank below town, The young
man was "roughing it." he said, TO see
the country, but had struck tough luck.
The sand firm dissolved and Mr.. Marsh
went to New York city recently to at
tend lectures and take q course as an
optician. He went east with Mr.. A.
Klotz, merchant here, and intended to
find u respectable clearinghouse at
reasonable rates, but they went to the
fremont house, and while Mr.. Klotz
was registering their names the head
clerk looked at Marsh, and with "Hel-
10, there" reached out his hand and
continued, "You wouldn't give me job
in your Ohio sand bank, but I'll take
good care OF you here" II was the same
fellow, sure enough, and he made, 1t
pleasant for Cash during his stay IN the
metropolis.
County Auditor Henderson and En-
gineer Dawson have made out tho state
ment recently called for by tho county
commissioners, relative to the cost OF
the Pultney township pixies, and it
shows that $l2l ,767 was realized from
the sale OF bonds, and that OF this
amount $i06, Ola Is has been expended
from that fund, aud S42, 4S2 8S has been
spent from tho county bridge fund,
making the total cost up till the date Of
this statement for the construction Of
the pixies, $l4S,407 06. There has been
one estimate allowed since. which makes
the cost over 100000 and leaves bal
ance OF pike funds OF about $4,000. The
commissioners meet next Monday To
hear hercomplaiuts about the roads
and to ferret out the cause OF the COM
plants.
At tho meeting OF the City Council
last night Colonel Poorman presented
the matter OF compromising the Bel
mont street crossing question with the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company as
q member of tho conference committee,
giving the Council the present status OF
the case and asking to determine what
to do in the premises.
There was splendid crowd OF people
at the United Presbyterian church last
night at farewell social given in honor
OF Rev. William Wallace and family,
who will soon leave for their new home
in Michigan, where Mr.. Wallace Is OH
gagged as pastor OF Congregationaliat
church.
Miss Alice Jones, OF this city, is being
treated at the Wheeling City hospital
for exostosis, or bony tumor, and her
father says the growth had become SO
hard it had 10 be Clipped from the
ankle bone with chissel, but the young
lady is getting along nicely.
Mayor MCGOWAN turned into tho city
treasury Sl641 10 for the last fiscal
month, and the $l55 fines was paid by
three persons. There were seven per
sons dismissed without being fined
marked IN. G."
James D. Arick and w. II. Briden.
stoin, OF this county, who have been al
the Ohio fruit farm in Georgia for some
weeks, have gone to Hot Springs, Ark.
to remain till spring.
Sylvester Dreamer, an old resident OIL
Mead township, was stricken with
paralysis while visiting daughter in
Indiana. He is an uncle Of County Re
corder Creamer n
II there are any Bellaire thieves
roaming about Fulton they are moi
missed from their haunts here The
story is not believed.
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