The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-28
SMALL TALK.
Cond en.ed Notes or Current Gossip
..a- In and About Town.

fonde ed Notes or Current Gossip
,..si- In and About Town.
LETTER list to-day.
STANDARDS vs.. Buckeyes to-day.
SCARLET fever in North Wheeling
THREE. card monte men are in town.
No MARRIAGE licenses issued yester-
day.
Two divorces granted by the Circuit
Court, yesterday.
The threatening weather of yesterday
was decidedly gloomy.
TEE followers of Gambrinus continue
to "bock" beer.
The small boy looks sad and sighs for
q circus.
PAYMENTS are badly needed along
Belmont street.
Two old shsnties on Crescent street
have been torn down.
The Independent entered on its eighth
year the 26Ih Inst.
THE City Light Guards will wear dark
blue Uniforms.
ZILcH gives free lunch at his saloon
to day.
The Board of Commissioners meet
this morning.
A SOCIAL dance was given IN Zelch's
Hail Thursday night.
The wheat fields in this vicinity are
said to be IN fine condition.
Bo baer and free lunch ut No. SO
Thirty-tbird street to-day.
YESTERDAY was pay day at the Top,
Riverside and Belmont mills.
CHARLES POPE, in the play of Sam
son." is the next attraction.
AN outdoor temperance meeting will
be held on Gravel HIll tomorrow at q
Pm.
NoTAKIEs PUBLIC are required to
make their returns to the Sheriff by the
first of May.
THE young lady with exceedingly
neat and trim ankles il the tondest OF
croquet.
The May Queen Cantats combination
were rehearsing at the Opera House last
| night.
TIE Britt boat club ball last night
was we'll attended and good time had
by those present.
The Sherifi's Office has been materially
improved BY the addition OF q "brussels'
carpet.
The sunken barges just opposite the
B. Il o. K. K. should be removed, as
thew are detrimental to navigation.
THE Temperance Union has appoint
ed n mum Der of its members to canvass
the several wards in behalf OF the cause.
The East Wheeling grocers and
bakers will close their places OF bcsiness
during the summer months ut o'clock
Pm.
THE Street Commissioner has taken
time bv the forelock and RECOMMENDED
the filhr up of the southside OF Viz
ginia street, Island.
EFFORTS are being made to reorganize
the Wheeling Gymnastic Association on
a more substantial basis than that which
chsrscterlzas it at present.
PROF DARE attracted large crowd on
Marke. street, Yesterday, to witness q
tight-rope performance. The Professor
is only mediocre as ight'ropist."
ALBERT LoNG, Jacob Bean and VIM.
Collain have fitted up boat, and will
load it with glassware for the lower
river trade. They Will depart next Mon
day, and sell goods alor s the river.
DANIEL OCoNoR QUIHLAN has been
released from DURANGO vile at Bellaire,
and is how in town. Look out fer his
little knife, unless you possess tho "open
sesame thereto.
A LITTLE boy named Fo,tney, resid-
ing on Main street, in the Sixth ward,
Was badly scalded about his legs ard feet
yesterday, by upsetting coffee pot fill
ed with boiling liquid over his limbs.
THERE will be the regular services by
the pastor, q. Z. Miller, at the Disciples
church tomorrow at l0t in the morning
and y in the evening. After the regu-
lar service IN the evening the ordinance
OF baptism will be administered.
AN eastern bound train over the b. j
o. r r coIlidcd with an engine, last
Thursday, that draws the passenger trains
over the bridge, at this point, near the
stock yard, which resulted with some
damage to property. No lives lost.
The vestrymen and deacons of the
city churches are considerably exercised
over the number of counterfeit nickles
tina; are dropped in the plates as they
are passed around each Sunday among
the congregation.
PARTIES who visit the cemetery are in
the habit of destroying shrubbery, flowers
and other ornaments that have been
placed there by friends and ether rela-
lives of the deceased. Persons are warn
ed To keep u watch or they will DO
arrested and dealt with according to law.
A NUMBER of practical men employed
in the Machine shop, in Wellsburg, are
making arrangements to establish a new
planing mill. They have, we learn, pur-
chased all the necessary machinery in
Wheeling, and intend embarking in the
enterprise immediately. - Panhandle
NeioS.
Gus BRrpGEMAN, the man who was
Drained with hatchGt at Sardis, o.,
on "Wednesday WAS still living At last
accounts, but there was no hope OF his
recovery, although his condition was
somewhat better than last reported. No
effort has yet been made to arrest. Long
well the person committing the act