The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-09-29

Condensed Notes OF Current GOSSIP
I'm and About Town.

I'm ana ABOUT Ao"h'
p LETTER LIST to-day.
TARGET practice to day.
THE German Shsrpshooting club has
fallen through with.
ONE deed of trust recorded yesterday,
by the County Clerk.
THE furniture was placed in the Nail
City boat house yesterday.
THE Goff Guards ball, at Mozart Hall,
last night. was well attended.
The Bridgeport Brown Stockings will
plsy the Wheelings a game OF ball al
Bridgeport to-day.
THE new county road, from Ca.dwelrs
Run to the top OF Chspline hill, IS TO De
opened next Monday.
The Mayor will let the contract TO-
dav. for the improving OF Chapline street
from Twelfth TO Eleventh.
The temperance meeting at Otis
Hall tonight will be addressed by Mr.
George Hollinger and others.
Prizes will be given at the "Trip to
the Moon" entertainment tonight They
are on exhibition at Hebrank's.
The striking miners arrested at Steu-
penvile, day before yesterday, were put
under bonds in the sum of $3.50 each.
Tag Opera was reopened last nights
with "Dougherty" as the leading man,
and Will Brady as boss tumbler pitcher.
The work of covering the framework
for the roof of the new Washington
Hall building was commenced yesterday
THE annual meeting of the Board of
Directors of the State Hospital for the
Insane takes place on Wednesday next
PETER Mcclellan was srraigned before
SQUIRE Phillips, yesterday, and held 10
the sum OF $500 to keep the peace Tor
one ear. His wife was the complainant.
THE cause of the changing fire" of the
Twelfth street Improvement, from MAN
street to Water, is owing to the lndlspo-
sition Of the Peoples bank, to have their
pavement widened.
A MAN by the name OF Seamon sWore
out a warrant before Squire Wheeler,
Yesterday, against Mary Berry for using
abusive language. The case was booked
for hearing late last evening.
A LARGE number OF the society OF
Friends passed through the city yester-
day morning, en- route to Mt. Pleasant,
Ohio, where the Yearly Meeting COM
mences on Sunday.
YESTERDAY warrant was sworn out
before Squire Mix against Frank Bake
more tor obtaining money from Robert
Cowen under false pretenses. The case
was set Tor trial before Squire Mix last
evening.
SOME of the citizens of the Eighth
ward would like to know whose business
# is to clean the lamps in that ward
They are in miserably dirty condition,
and should be cleaned.
A PARTY OF young men caught large
rat on the steamer Express, the other
day. cut off its tail and released it. In q
short time swarms of rodents were no.
tied leaving The boat, crawling ou'
shoreward on t chains and cables with
which the boa IS tied.
BIDS for the $4,000 of county bonds
last issued, in aid of the p, w. y Ky
r. r.. include one of the German 1nsur
ance Company for $4,000, at lOl O-l6
one of the Fire and Marine Insurance
Company, for $4,000, at from 100 Sit
to l0l, and one from DR.. AS. Todd iol
$4,000, at lOl!.
The woman Hamm, whose house wa
stoned night before last, by unknown
rnr.ies, is n noted character and has
fearful reputation, although this fact doe
10. entirely excuse the perpetrators o
the deed, but merely explains the cause
The impression generally prevails tina
cher room is far preferable to her com
pany.'
TIE Committee on Streets and Alleys
were out yesterday, examining tn
sewer on Twenty-third street, and ate
examination concluded that II the waite
nine on Main street was lowered or raised
that there would be no use OF making
new sewer, as it is the water main tina
obsIructs the passage OF the contents o
the sewer. The water pipe takes up
space of % inches of n SO inch sewer.