The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-29
NEIGHBoRHOOD- NEWS.
July 30, 1874.


Street Commissioner we mean. From the
general condition of things generally, ne
must have been absent for few days.
We only Judge this by the looks of our
streets, which in some places look very
bad indeed. On the corner Just above the
postoffice is a small reservoir of filthy,
dirty water, which could by very little
work be made to run of. There is another
of smaller dimensions on the south
west corner of Third and Bel
mont streets, which would be
served in similar manner to advantage,
by giving us purer air. of which in city
of this kind We have not very much.
Such seemingly unimportant matters
should be attended to. The health of the
community in general requires it. and he
whose business it is to attend to such
things should be insisted on to fulfill the
responsibilities of his Office.
SOME of our prominent citizens were
remarking yesterday, in tones not very
"chilA like and bland" of the appearance
of the sidewalk surrounding our city
lookup, which presents to even casual
observer not overly fascinating appear
ance, it being covered by sundry articles
such as wagons. pile of lamp posts,
some few hundred bricks. sticks, stones.
dirt, etc. Taking our City Hall and its sur
roundings in its best dress, il is not the most
beautiful spot we know of. We are not
aware that those sidewalks were leased
BY any one for the purpose of allowing
them TO be used rs II place for storage.
| If such is the case, We presume We have
trodden on orbdden ground; but if not,
immediate measures should be taken To-
rid the pavementS of those annoyanceS
which give our City Hall the appearance
of being wagon shop, or place for
making brick or lamp posts. Give the
inebriates who may be confined in the
calaboose something more pleasant 10
look at and muse over.
THERE is to be, on next Saturday at
about o'clock in the evening, foot
race between two of the incest young
men of our city. 1t Is to come of on the
Public Square. The distance is one hum
drcd yards for purse of twenty dollars.
Young men of thi, city are certainly
fond of getting up excitement, and tn"
above race is expected to be the racir>t
thing Of the season.
The Bellairc Nail Works Is doing Il
good bushes, 1T present. The addition
on the south end which is about finished,
will be capable of containing sixty-tour
nail machines, about fifteen more than
the old part. 1t is expected that they
will have some thirty machines in the
| new addition in operation on the first Of
September.
WOULD it not be policy TO sweep the
dirt, etc, from the stores and grocrrir,
out the back way, instead of into til"
bitches on the streets, thereby accumu-
latng pile Of rubbish in them tmat pre-
vents the water from passing oil
A WOMAN was arrested, Monday night,
for disturbing the peace, and passed tn"
intervening time from that till morning
in the lookup, when, no charge being
made against her, she was released. We
understand she was slightly drrangrd.
The rumored report of the finding Of
Mrs. Coonrod's body proved II mistake.
Her body has not yet been recovered.
Music, sweet, pensivc and sad, cmanat-
ed from the sympathetic touch of strings
and floating on tho calm evening breeze
away in the far distance till the sweet
tones struck some board pile, and rs if in
the contact gathered th"r"trom
solemnity and beauty wandered
hack IN tbn nars nf tho Dl,yrr.