The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-12-02
NEIGHB0RHOOD NEWS.


OUR ponce lOTCc TttUuHCd NUM- 'N'i'
w oodsleld last night.
IT is about as hard 10 get local item
of interest these days as it is to get dol
lar bill.
THE Centennial year will soon be here
PAY your gas bills.
WE have but one policeman left in
Bellaire. The rest are all away attend
ing Court ut Woodstield, Ohio.
THE committees of the different
churches are around making arrange
ments Tor the purchase Of toys, &c, tor
their holiday entertainments, and the IN
tercst of the children in the matter Is IN
tense.
MEN who are interested are setting
their ice houses in order so as to be pre-
pared for the first crop.
\ DRUNKEN man let dozen Of eggs
fall on the pavement yesterday, breaking
everyone of them, but ne said he didn't
care, us he didn't like eggs anyhow.
Mr.. JOSEPH Smiths horse wan away
Yesterday, near Gravel Hill, but WAS
caught before he went far. No damage
was done. except the breaking of one OF
the hand wheels Of the buggy,
AGAIN we have the best gas in the
country. so that our business men need
not complain If it should happen that tor
a night or so the gas was not rs good rs
they would like it, tor nearly all the time
-. how. a standard
The festival at City Hail. for the bene-
fit of the NJ. f. Sunday School, should
be well attended.
MANY of our shop windows are strung
full of toys, and the eyes of the little
folks brighten Mt the sight OF them and
the thought OF the holidays.
a VERY exciting attachment suit was
tried in Squire Powell's Court yesterday,
between Mr.. Cots, of Wheeling, and
James Boyce, of Bellaire, and at the
time Of this writing Boyce seems TO be
having the best side Of the case.
i LITTLE boy in South Bellaire had
his head badly cut by Il tall yesterday af-
tcrnoon.
The farmers in this vicinity are in
town now engaging turkeys, chickens,
ducks &c, for the holiday trade.
The following shows the range of the
temperature rs indicated by the Their
mometer ut luSb bands X lnskecps drug
store, 3OS South Union street, Yesterday:
At9 \. NJ, 26o; u NJ, 80; ; +. NJ, So.
The health Of the city is pretty good
at present, although there are great
many who have very severe colds.
DR.. SATTERTHwAIT has removed his
office to No. 337, corner Of Belmont and
Thirty-tirst streets. opposite the terminus
Of the Street Railway track.
THE usual prayer meetings Mt the va
rious churches were held last night.
THERE is prospect OF BcIlaire hay
ing All opera house by next winter.
If an entertainment of merit would
come along now it would do well here
The committee appointed to solicit
stock to the Belairc and Southwestern
railroad reports tonight.
MARTINS MERRY.
Mr.. l.. SILENCE left on Wednesday. on
an extended trip through the West
and South, IN the interest Of hi, eslab-
lishment. He will be gone about four
weeks.
CHAs. \. JOHNSON, Il major at the
Ohio City Nail Works, met with a very
painful accident OH Wednesday morn
ing lie was dressing down a grind stone,
when the tool caught and threw his hands
forward no the stone, lasccrating one
of them terribly. DR.. Barr was called
and rendered the necessary medical atten-
or.
ALI. the miners, about fifty in number,
employed in Runcy's coal works. above
town, are out out on strike. They have
been working tor siXty-dve cents per
ton, which, they claim, is Il starvation
price. On Wednesday the proprietor
notified them that he would reduce the
price to sixty cents, when the men
struck, demanding seycnty-hve.
BUSINESS in the justice and police
court, has been very dull this week. one
case before the Mayor, for disordcrly
conduct, was fined one dollar ana costs.
SwARrz * Son received "A letter Il few
DAYS ago, from some point in Kentucky,
with genuine ten cent Confederate
States stamp on it, Postmaster Dean
captured it rs curiosity.
A LARGE force ofmen are ut work re-