The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-27
SM ALL TALK.
Notes or Current Gossip
In and About Town.

In and About Town.
LOOK out for autumn poetry.
FIVE case booked for the police court,
this morning.
MORRIS and Luther will come together
in October next.
BASE BALL and summer are nearing
the home plate.
THE season for the leaves to fall ana
fade away is near at hand.
THE Cleveland excursion of knights
Templar leaves this city to day,
MoTTo for lawyers: where there is q
will there is q wsy"-to break 1t.
THE Erening Standard printing office
will be sold under the hammer on Sep
TENDER Goth.
TIE well known and popular Seguin
Institute commences It's college term for
'77l78 this morning.
The Nail City boat club have under
Consideration the ACCESSIBILITY OF taking
out incorporation papers.
The members of the Wheeling City
band looked well in their new suI.s. Z
Hess & Son made them.
The astronomical business is over
done. There's altogether too many
planets beng discovered.
LYMAN Cox, an employee OF the River
side iurnance, was bad y cut and bruised
on. Friday, by being thrown from
wagon.
The Pittsburgh Leader reports most
of the IRON manufactures IN that LEGALITY
in operation, and those idle al present to
commence soon.
YESTERDAY LIP persons went by
rail from this city to the Moundsvllle
camp meeting, against 1000 the same
time last year.
The "beer ierkers" have so depressed
the LIQUOR trade, that it is estimated that
over 1900 persons visited one OF the beer
halls yesterday.
EASEMENT notice in another column
will possess interest to many OF our
readers. The meeting of the committee
will be on Wednesday.
DAVID DAVIDSON, son of Mr.. David
Davidson, OF Martins Ferry, fell from
n tree, and broke his leg just above the
ankle, Friday evening.
On Friday evening last, at West Alex
ander, Rev. q. ?. Hays delivered lee
ture at the Presbyterian church, on
Manner and Character"
TIE School Board of West Alexander
has selected Prof. T. B. Cain and Miss
Montgomery as teachers Tor the next
session of the public schools.
HE report on the streets, yesterday,
OF An attempted outrage at the upper
point of the Island, is without founds-
ton, so far as can be sscertslned.
WE have been requested to state by
parties employed by the Baltimore and
Ono r, ad, that the report that the men
are working full time Is incorrect.
The Booking residence, near the cor
ner of Thirteenth and Byron streets, was
sold by Auctloneer Hervey, Saturday
morning, to Mr.. Jacob Hall tor So 600
IT's bad policy for n farmer to eat all
his cucumbers simply because ne cant
sell them, as q Washington county far
mer did the other day. Hes dead now.
ABOUT thirty men are at work oppo-
site this city on the 2. w. u h. road.
We learn that their wages are 81 10 per
day. Boarding costs then So 80 per
week, AT the boarding houses across the
riyar S}s1bgUrilIc EsTOLd
EX-STREET COMMISSIONER LEoNHART
has secured the contract for grading and
repaving Market and Chsphne streets,
between Twelfth and Fourteenth. Mr..
Leonhari being an experienced man at
this kind of work, insures that 1t Will be
well done.
Col. w. w. ARNETT has received sd
vices from Mrs. Bohsnna", the Texas
lady who was arrested in this city some
time since, authorizing him to take legal
proceedings against Squire Phillips and
the parties having her arrested, for ilIe-
gally restraining her OF her liberty.
The Leader man twisted and writhed
Yesterday good deal worse than snake
with us head chopped of, over the eyre
gious blunder be committed on the 18th
inst. in his editorial reflection on the
Light Guards. His attempt to squirm
out of the unenviable situation in which
he had dumped himself, rs the illustrious
Vaughn would say: ats too rotten
thin"