The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-05
SMALL TALK.
Condensed Notes Of Current Gossip
In and About Town.

ONE marriage license lesueo yee'oiuo1
a TIE Beard of Public Works meets
to-day. 20
MEETING oF.the First branch Of eoun'
Gil tonight.
THREE additions yesterday 10 the
workhouse force.
The Municipal Court has adjourned
till court in course.
THE Zane Street NJ. Sabbath school
will picnic at Craig's grove on Inurs
day.
: PHE fines paid into the police court
yesterday amounted to forty-seven aoi-
lars.
TIE Capitol clock failed 10 light the
weary traveller on his nocturnal peram-
bulations last night.
TIE work of driving piles OF the Eoff
street crossing of the Csldwelfs hun Is
progressing slowly.
LEW BUsEHARpT. died at bis resi-
dence, No. 1927 Jacob street, about .
o'clock yesterday morning.
JAMES HALEY will have his full force
out to day, to clean out the sewers clogged
up by the recent hard rain.
SOME of the cutters of the Eighth ward
are filled with stagnant water, which
emits most disagreeable odor.
HENRY DRUMMoND was ined one dol
lar and costs by Squire Phillips, yester-
day, for abusing boy named Lyon.
BR1cE, of the Eighth ward drug store,
has fitted up his soda fountain and is
ready TO dispense the sparkling beverage
to customers.
The office of Fish Commissioner, Of
fered to MIR. Gibson Lamb by Governor
Mathews, has been declined by that gen.
tlemsn, and the place has been offered to
Mr.. II. b. Miller.
WARRANT was sworn out last Satur-
day by young man named Sweeney, for
the arrest of George Brucbsncks, for
abusive language. Squire Wheeler set
tied the case last evening.
TuK Eagles and Picked Nine played
a game of base ball at the Standard
grounds yesterday. The game resulted
| in a tie, the score standing l5 TO i at the
end of the fourteenth inning.
SCHARFF will row next Saturday in
his boat Lilly, the same in which he
won the race last year. DE IS IN splen-
did condition. and it IS asserted that the
race will be made in the quickest time on
record for q five mile pull and turn
| Pitts. Cam.
A LIST of childless married gentlemen
of about twenty in number, was pre-
sented to the lady managers OF the
Chlldren's Home. yesterday, as parties
who would exhibit their children at the
baby show. The joke, when it became
apparent, took the ladies by surprise.
LAST Saturday Miss Maria Davis
was arrested by Constable Cooper for
tearing down a portion of the ience be-
tween Mrs. Coppenger's and Mrs.
Kemp's residence in the Sixth ward.
The case was set for late hour last evea.
ing, and resulted in the dismissal OF the
case at plaintiffs cost.
ABOUT nine o'cooe yesterday m,rn-
ing a horse and dump cart belonging to
James Haley tumbled over the creek
bank near the Market street bridge,
while engaged in hauling dirt to be
dumped into the creek. The horse was
slightly injured and the cart somewhat
damaged.
DON'T forget the strawberry supper to
night at Mozart Hall, by the ladies OF
the Disciples church. They report
everything ready for delightful even
ing. Supper and refreshments hand
somely served, at reasonable prices, with
no lotteries, but good music and large,
pleasant company in prospect, must bring
almost everybody out.
TuE'curbstone on Market street hav.
ing been reset and the street paved, is 1t
not about time that the pavement be
| land? We believe there is An ordinance
giving the city the authority to lay pave
ments where property owners iail to do
so, and charge the same to said property
owners. An enforcement OF the ordi-
nance is asked for.
YESTERDAY evening about o'clock a
wheel was torn off buggy belonging to
Henry Michael, in turning of the street
car track just belong the REGISTER office.
The horse and buggy was taken home By
the owner. The vehicle was occupied
BY jessie Hague and Mat Pearl. No
damage resulted other than that noted
above.
OFFICER LIsToN yesterday arrested
Mary Green, a colored woman,
on the Island, for drunken
ness. The woman almost tore the
clothes from the officers back, and
and in so doing lost portion OF her own
raiment, at the same time making the
air resound with terrible oaths and OBJ
scene language. An express wagon was
found necessary to convey her to the
station house.