The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-07-03
SMALL. TALK,


In and About Town.
COUNCIL meets tonight.
THE glorious Fourth to- morrow.
ONLY one case at police court yes'eF-
day.
SATURDAY is pay day al the Benwood
mills.
The Riverside Iron works have shut
down tor repairs.
PAY day at all the mills, except the La
Belle, next Saturday.
No gunpowder or explosive materials
will be allowed to morrow.
THERE was full drill OF the Lhght
Guards at the Capital last night.
OSEt tenth of the subscription to the I,
T. V. & w. railroad stock is due
THE Germania hall will beilluminated
ON the nights OF the Sd and 4th OF July
Mrs. ANTHGHGER Of the Eighth ward
died very suddenly Saturday evening
The City Board of Equalization and
Appeals will meet at the city bal! next
Monday.
lr is said that wedding will be cele-
prsted at the Crsig's grove picnic to-
morrow.
TIE cold iron nail machines in the
Belmont nail works shut down last
Saturday.
FRANK JONES, with his Black Hand
troupe. will initiate the Elm Grove hall,
this evening.
THE Whelan Literary Society per-
formed in the st. Joseph Academy hall
last evening.
The Enigos dancing club will dance
at Mozart hall, tonight. Music by
Mayors band.
Two TREES were struck by lightning,
on the Reid farm in Pleasant Valley, last
Sunday morning.
THE factory of the Benwood works is
running. but will shut down tor repairs
after the Fourth.
TIE Clipper base ball club, of Bell
ARE, will play the Standards, on the Far
Grounds, tomorrow.
A HORSE belonging to Messrs. Erb u
Mccormick was badly injured from fast
driving last Sunday.
VERY near all the Grant House H.
surance money has been paid to Messfs.
Lewis u Woodmsnsee.
Gov. MATHEWS leaves for Richmond
Va, to-day He will spend few days
in Greenbrier county before he returns.
The foot bridge over the creek near
the Crescent iron works, has been almost
completed. 1t will be finished, III all
probability, this week.
The fashionably dressed young lady,
as she stands on the street corner waiting
for a car, reminds one of q standing mon
ument 10 suffering humanity.
A KNIFE grinding and scissors sharp
ner's wagon, drawn by mule, created
quite sensation yesterday. 1t drew
large crowds wherever it stopped.
The case of the State against Charles
Isenburg for assault and battery, which
was to have been tried before Squire
Bulger yesterday evening, was postponed
until I p. NJ. to day.
Miss DcCTREss HUGHES had her frger
badly bruised on Friday last while leav-
ing a street car. 1t was caused by some
careless person closing the car door before
she had removed her hand therefrom.
The spiritual reporter OF this paper
saw bed tick move, yesterday, from the
banister on the porch at the Duvall
house. 4. woman turned it over tC give
1t more air.
The erin 90 Brsgh" fishing club,
composed of glass blowers, from the
works OF Hobbs, Brocuner " Co, left
Yesterday morning for an excursion to
Proctor. They Will be absent two or
three weeks.
The Committee on Streets and Alleys
held meeting last evening to take into
consideration the petition of the Riverside
Iron Works 10 build tram road from
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad up
Wood street to the upper Riverside mill.
AT spiritualistic sesnce held on the
south side few evenings ago, the spirits
made a promise TO visit DR.. Hazlet. AID
Mr.. Jacob Grub. They also promised
to demolsh the latter's jewelry establish
ment and give the former stussie Tor his
interference in the McComss mysteries.
CONSTABLE MARTIN OF Richie district
came very near being drowned Mt Cresaps
grove last Sunday. A man from Bel
laire. who had gone down with the Con
cordis excursion, became some what I'M
ruiy and Mr. Martin took charge OF him,
when 8 resistance began. The two men,
in their scutiie, got TO the river bank and
rolled into the water, from when both
were dragged out IN IN almost drowned
condition.
YESTERDAY sixth warder had two
doctors housed between two dwellings
practicing for the base ball game. One
of the disciples OF Aescuiaplu' had an
old broom handle and the other slab
from nay bale, with which to strike the
ball. The batting was heavy, and n
colored wash woman in an adjoining
ward was heard to say, II wish dat dem
boys would stop that ball PLAYING" At
this stag of the game one Of the Acscul-
apain lads begln to sing out:
Betty in the garden, hanging out clothes
There goes uasc hall to hit her on the
nose.
The last seen of one of the said lads
was his marching across the street with
MI sir OF victory on his brow, and human
gore dripping from his lacersted fingers,
CRYING. .Arnica! srnica! o, fer the
arnica!' The other was left on the field
of carnage horS dc combat