The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-17
SMALL TALK.
Copdsnss& Netss or Current Gossip
In and About Town.
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In and About Town.
BOARD of Bducation tonight.
No marriage licenses Issued Yesterday
"URoKA" has seized the Island people,
TIE thermometer reached S2e IN me
shade yesterday. -
TIE mills are all on, the heaters hav
ing gone to work. 4 IT. -s
New potatoes, tomatoes and peas have
appeared In this market.
COUNCIL Committee on Claims met at
the city building last night.
SQUIRE WHEELER has been confined
to his room tor several days.
STRAWBERRIES have put in an appear
ance st the ice cream parlors.
DANCES were held at both the Ger
mania and Mozart halls last night.
In the L. Belle mill, the heaters have
gone on iull turn, but the boilers are
running single turn.
The Chapline street Temperance Hal
has been renovated. The reading room
will be opened Saturday.
FRANK WALTERS has grand opening
at his Summer Garden today. Vaas
band has been engaged for the occasion
THE steamer Express is due down to
night, with part! OF excurslonlsts IRON
Steubenville, en- route to Parkersbure
and return.
AN effort is being made to reoganize
the old Nail City base ball club, and 1t
is probable that they will play the Stan
dards on Saturday.
WHILE bail of iron was beng re-
moved from one Of the furnaces ut th'
Top mill, yesterday, it exploded, taking
the top of Of the furnace.
The foolish man seizeth on the hot
and goeth it blind on the garden, but the
wise man pssseth when spades are trump
and letteth his wife take it up.
AT Swsbacker's. = second stock o
Parssols fashionable handles) and the
best qualities OF silks, also somethln!
quite new in children's Balbrlggsn Hose
AUGUST SPEAR and Margaret Spear
children OF Casper Spear, OF Centre dis
trlct, were committed to jail as lunatlc
yesterday evening, by Justice Hamilton
The Italian band at the Tivoli Gar
den have the thanks Of the REGIsTEl
office for serenade last night. Th'
music was delightful and pleasant to TIT
| ear.
A LITTLE daughter Of Constable
| Saunter, Ct the Filth ward, wandered
away from home yesterday morning, anc
when found was near Hamilton's foun
dry.
TIE Mcclure House bar room wa
| opened yesterday for the first time since
me license trouble. L. Ii. Ludwig still
holds the tort in his usual accommodate
ing style.
WITH one furnace, 205l3 pounds o.
5-l6- round iron was rolled in eight
hours and forty minutes, the other day
at tie Atna Iron and Nail Works
Bridgeport, opposite Wheeling.
TIE compact between the East Wheel
ing grocers and bakers has been broken
one Of the number refusing to close his
bouse rs per agreement, in consequence
of which all others in the business viii
hereafter close 1T their leisure.
ScHARFF mas received his new boat,
in which he will row against Morris IL
June. 1t is twenty-nine feet long, eleven
and half inches wide, and weighs thir-
,y-seven pounds. rrsnk Denmarsh j;
Schsrtfs trainer, and Morris, 1t Is
said, will have a Boston man.-P1tts
Com.
A NEW confidence game is out. A
man with pawn ticket Tor alleged val
liable articles meets another gullible In
dIvIdusl with plenty OF greenbacks and
sells the ticket for good sum. When
the purchaser pays the pswAbroker for
the articles, he discovers that they are
anything but valuable.
GEORGE HAHNE, "hook-up" at the La
Belle mill, died yesterday morning at one
O'Clock, and will be buried to-day. Mr..
IlabDe had been sick but Jew days be.
tore his demise. The Anna! gamsted Iron
Association will turn out at the funeral,
this evening, which will take place al the
Mount Zion cemetery.
brother" CHARNoCK was passen-
ger on the $40 train up from Cameron
Yesterday, and while On the train some
one cut at him and split the back Of his
coat about tour inches in length. The
knife cut through, but did not strike the
flesh. For what purpose, and by whom
did, be is unable to tell.
3lIT is chronic habit OF the Pittsburgh
press to cain partial umpire" when
ever the Alleghenies are scooped.-
Wheeling Register. Just wait until the
Standards come to Allegheny, and
they'll get licked without an umpire
Pits. Com.-Gdz. In the absence of
Curry, that's the only way the Ale
ghenies can dick n visiting club-"with-
out an umpire"
THE following from the evening paper
savors very strongly of the fact that the
Standard reporters were of their beats
yesterday, and met At a given point,
hence the aromatic morning breezes:
Centre Wheeling would be good
place to start geological garden. There
is breed of billy goats over there that
scent the morning brcezes "like the
sweet South, breathing upon a bank OF
violets."