The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-12-07
SHALL TALK.
Condensed Notes OF Current Gossip
In and About Town.

In and About Town.
SANTA CLAUS is stocking up.
No MARRIAGE licenses issued, yester-
day.
No DEEDS recorded yeterday BY the
County Clerk.
+ ANOTHER large rise is expected in the
river at this point.
The average youth is saving his pen
MES for the holidays.
COUNTY Court will convene at .
o'clock this morning.
The Oates company performed in
Chillicothe, Ohio, last night.
THETA Belle strikers give benefit
ball at Turner Hall tonight.
THE Belmont mill was of yesterday,
owing to having run out of pig metal.
THEODORE TILToN IS booked to lecture
in this city on the 18th OF January next.
The choirs of the various churches are
busily rehearsing their Christmas music
al programmes.
A SMALL child of Mr.. Charles Fotte,
residing in the Eighth ward, died sud-
denly yesterday morning.
LAST night was breezy one, and
MANY a poor person in the city suffered,
no doubt, toI the necessary comforts.
TIE Kate Clsxton Combination ar
rived in me city, yesterday morning,
and are qusrtered at the Mcclure House
EIGHT unfortunstes were housed at
the lookup last night and will have to
appear before the Terrible this morn
ing. '-+
CHILDREN who expect something
from Kris Kingle, are on good terms
with their parents at present, and try to
be very good.
THE Twelfth street Improvement is
being pushed toward a speedy compile
ton. 1t should be finished before the
hard winter sets in.
COMMANDER HALEY wants the proper
persons to remove the brick, stone and
other rubbish from the streets near the
court house, so he can clean them.
THE Island car drivers have become
so expert when their cars are on the
turn-table, that they describe perfect
semicircle at the first attempt every time.
A FREIGHT train loaded with railroad
ties fer the 2. w. & KY. railroad. passed
up On the G. & 2. road yesterday morn
ing. Work on the road is progressing
rapidly.
TIE outside work on the Whelsn
Memorial Chapel has been finished. The
inside work will not be done until
spring, The chapel is very handsome
one, and cost $1,000.
THE crowd of boys and young roughs
who infest the pavement in front OF the
Opera House on the nights OF perform
ances should be severely dealt with by
the police, as they are nuisance.
IT is said that hereafter the Standard
intends to make arrangements with all
murderers and suicides to have them do
what they intend to in the morning or
very early in the afternoon, 30 that the
''evening journal~cs have some show.
OSCAR BUaDATTs, of the "Old Ex-
change" OF Eleventh street, has some OF
the incest ssusages that were ever pressed
between tongue and palate. he invites
his friends to test them. They are A, l,
No. and half without doubt.
THE Council Committee on City
Prison met al City Hall at 8 o'clock yes
terdsy afternoon. The Committees on
Streets, Alleys and Grades and Water
Works met at the same building last
evening, to make up their reports tor
Council, which meets In regular monthly
session next Tuesday.
A MEETING has been called for this
evening for the purpose of holding con-
ference for the Reorganization OF the
Young Mems Christian Association OF
this city. The rooms of the Board of
Education, in Crangie's block, have been
designated as the place, The meeting is
to be- called TO order at 7:30 o'clock.
QUITE fashionable ball was given at
Bird eport last evening. Messrs. North
West, John Heinlein and other gentle
men, VINO kr ow how to make successes
of such entertainments, d charge OF the
affair, and large number OF invitations
we're issued. Cooks Hall was secured
for the dancing and Mrs. Coss furnished
the supper.