The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-04-25
THE COMING PARADE.

Programme Of the. Day I'm Honor Of
the Firty-seventh Anniversary OF
Odu In Wheel
ing. April 2sth, 1876.
The procession will form on Chapline
street, opposite Odd Fellows Hall, at l:8O
Pm. Chief Marshal-A. q. Britt. AS.
sistsnt Marshals-Wm. Ellingham, J. B.
LukeLs, R. F. Darling, j. T. Holman,
John Devine, r. q. Sweeney.
ORDER OF Proc ssIoN.
Baud
Visiting Lodges In the Order OF their Ar
90 rival.
Centennial Lodge No. ~.
Eureka Lodge No. 48.
Excelsior Lodge No. 40.
Concord Lodge No. ~.
Pamela Lodge No. Il.
Wheeling Lodge No. 8.
William Tell Lodge No. q.
Franklin Lodge No. 8.
Virginius Lodge No.2.
Offic. rs of the Grand Lodge.
Officers OF the Grand Encampment.
l. Orator OF the Day and Invited Guests.
state and City officials.
ROUTE OF PROCESSION.
They will form on Chapline street
opposite Odd Fellows Hall. Up Chap
line to Eleventh, down Eleventh to
Market, up Market to Ninth, down
Ninth to Main, down Main to Twenty
fourth, up Twenty-fourth to Chapline.
down Chapline to Thirty-third, up
Thirty.third to Eof, down Eoff to
Thlrty-sixth, up Thirty-sixth to Jacob,
up Jacob to rhlrty-thiId, down Thirty
third to Chapline, up Chspline to Tween
tielh, down Twentieth to Market, up
Market to Sixteenth, up Sixteenth to
Jacob, up Jacob to Fourteenth, down
Fourteenth to Market, and disbsr d at
the Opera House.
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
At the Opera House in the evening -.
Lecture by DR.. j. NJ. Wise, Past Grand
of Cincinnati.
At the conclusion of the lecture. all
wishing to remain can do so. All fail
ing to procure tickets previously, can do
SO in the evening at the box office, or
from the committee.
The promenade concert will open at 8
o'clock. Kramer's full orchestra will be
in attendance the entire evening. The
hall will be appropriately decorated for
the occasion. The entire lower portion
of the house will be hoored, thus afford
ing ample room for dancing and prone
nading purpoces. The spacious gallery
will be at the command of those in at
tendance, and afford an opportunity to al
who do not wish TO take part in the exer-
else complete view of the entire hall.
PROTECTION FROM LIoHTNING.-The
itinerant vendors of lightning rods are
not, rs ru.e popular. The meagerness
of knowledge on the part or The gonor~l
public, aud even on the part of scientists,
rs to the laws which govern the action
OF the electric fluid, has rendered it easy
for INSCRIPTIONS persons to speculate
upon the fears inspired by its terrible
phenomena; and so it has come TO pass
that as often as the prudent householder
mas had lods placed upon his buildings,
along comes the vender OF some new
tangled conductor, who asserts not only
that all other kinds are worthless, but
that the particular kind then on those
buildings invites general cataclysm.
Down comes the round rod and up goes
q square one, which by and by sLrrenders
to fiat one, and that finally disappears
in disgrace to make room for tubular
one, wire rope, spiral ribbon, or a
corrugated rod of which transverse sec
ton presents the form of q star. Prob
ably many of the inventors and vendors
Of rods really believe in the superiority
of those which they respectively present,
but the person who has run the gauntlet
of their several opportunities and ma
nipulations is apt to conclude that he
has been subjected to unnecessary dis
bursements, and, not to put 1t too finely,
that he has been badly "tsken in by
some of them. When he again patron
ICES "lightning-rod man" it is with the
like cheerful alacrity with which one en-
ploys tooth carpenter, or as Gemoral-
lied heather Chinee patronizes the JOSS.
house to have his soul tinkered up-when
his ter-ors forbid longer delay.
PEEsoNAL.-Mayor A. J. Sweeney left
for Philadelphia yesterday on business
connected with the Centennial
Councilman Horkheiner contemplates
a visit I, Eurona in n short time