The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-28
SMALL TALK.
Condensed Notes Of Current Gossip
In and About Town.


FLOUR is rs cents per barrel lower.
ONE marriage license issued yesterday.
TURKEYS are selling at s@l0 cents per
pound.
IT tried hard to snow yesterday, but
couldn't.
TIE coal feet reached Wheeling yes
terdsy morning.
TURKEY and oyster dressing will be
the order of the day tomorrow.
The nail feeders intend giving grand
bail at Turner hail on the 7th prox.
THE mills ard workshops generally
will shut down on Thanksgiving day.
THE jury in the Curtis Cox libel case
yesterday decided to give Curtis so'ooo'
ONE deed of trust and one release deed
recor ded yesterday, by the County Clerk
PEDESTRIANS are thankful for the re-
cent improvement of raising the Cross
ings.
The BOYS are amusing themselves by
shooting wild ducks IN tho river now
days.
THE barge Giant sunk az Beliaire, day
before yesterday, was valued at S4,
and was uninsured.
THE street scrapers, General Haley in
command, were a. work on North Mar
ket street yesterday.
TAKING appeals from police court de-
cisions in bawdy house cases seems to be
the order OF the dsy.
Ex.SUPERINTENDENT of the work
house, Sylvis, will quit official life and
90 into the coal business.
THANKSGIVING services will be held
at the Zane Street M. +. Church at 1881
A. NJ, on Thanksgiving day.
TIE Second Presbyterian Church So
cial will meet at the residence OF Mr.. b.
+. Caldwell Oh Twentieth street, Friday
evening.
The condition of Coal street, between
Third and First, since it was graded by
General Mahoney's force, is worse than
Il was before.
VIM. HIsER, son OF p. Hiser, the sex
ton, desii es 1t stated that 1t was not be
who was arrested on Saturday night IN
a house OF III repute.
SHERIFF Jingle informs US that the
German Bank is the only banking lnsti-
tuition in the city that has thus Tar paid
Its taxes without controversy.
WHEELING boasts Of dog which,
after Strengthening a rat, takes the dead
redent and Islaces il on rail OF the rail-
road, that the cars may run over 1t.
l. is reported that Mr.. and Mrs. King,
of Tillonviile, who have been separated
the past ten years, have oOndoued each
others faults, and have been reunited.
The ferry boat at Bellsire, "Here l..
AM caught fire Monday night from the
ash pan, but the flames were extin-
guished before materlai damage resulted.
THERE was a very fair attendance at
the Fifth ward market yesterday morn
ing, and the various stands were loaded
with q plentiful supply of turkeys,
which retai,ed at $3.50 to Sl.75 apiece.
WoRKMEN are engaged IN digging
out the gutter on the east side OF Market
between Alley 2 and Sevent street, alter
which it will be bouldered and the street
in that vicinity put in better condition.
DARDINE has been engaged to pant
the scenery for the new Masonic Tenn
pie told Washington Hall, and will
commence work on it in a few days. An
elegant drop curtain for use between
acts will be prepared.
A WELL known barber in town was
noticed, yesterday, in company with the
lady OF his choice, vending his way to-
wards Gretna Green. He returned q
married man, which scores another VIC
tim for Squire Mayes.
On Thursday and Friday nights next,
q festival Will DO given At ArSenz hall,
South Side, for the benefit OF the La
belle Mission Sabbath school. During
he progress handsome gold necklace,
which Is now on exhibition at Gru5bs
iewelry store, will be voted for. Misses
Fannie NJ Harris and Mary Steele are
the contestants.
MRS. PEPPERs says she hopes she did
net interfere with the pleasure of the
sportsmen st Frank Walters, yesterday,
by declining to allow her pet bear to be
hot Tor. She is too fond OF "Ephraim'
TO allow him to be made food for the
sporlsman's gun, so she determined to
present him 10 the Geological Gardens at
Cincinnati, whence ne was shipped on
the Andes yesterday.
A TRAMP printer, named Church, was
elected from box car on the Panhandle
s. short distance from Steubenvllle, Sat-
Irday, while the train WAS in motion.
He tell under the wheels and both
tf his legs were cut of. He was brought
back to the city, and is ut the hospital.
II is not likely that ne will recover. He
was in company with another partner,
n their way from Columbus to Pitts