The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-12-11
SMALL TALK,
condemned Notes OF Current gossip
In and About Town.

condemned Notes OF Current gossip
In and About Town.
COUNCIL tonight.
No marriage licenses issued yesterday
BISHOP KAIs preached four sermons
last Sabbath.
Four additions to the workhouse force
yesterdy morning.
THE latest is, ait is wise cow that
knows its own fodder"
THE aInvincibles" will dance at the
Beethoven Hall tomorrow night.
The Supreme Court will render q
number Of decisions to morrow.
One deed in fec was admitted to record
by the County Recorder yesterday.
The lecture OF DIR. George on "Mrs.
Grundy," last night, is highly spoken OIL
LECTURE at College Hall IN the Peo-
pies Bank builing, tonight, by ex-GoV'
Jacob.
The Council Committees on Fire De-
partment and Accounts met at the city
building last night.
Bishop BOWMAN will lecture at the
Zane Street M. Z. Church tonight. Tor
the benefit OF that church.
Ex-N1GHTwATCHMAN Edwards, 10 the
happlest man IN the city. A boy OF 10
pounds weight is the cause
Tx sheet rolls were off at the Ores
cent Iron Works yesterday. The rolls
were being changed for others.
Four large turkeys were stolen from
Henry Schwartz saloon on Market street,
South Side, early Sunday morning.
A WAGON loaded with cord-wood
brcke down on Sixteenth street, In front
of the pos!oftice about noon yesterday
Two cases have been issued against
James Bulger, by Squire Phillips, for
selling liquor 10 minors. The cases Will
be heard to-day.
THE Fidelio Society is making extern
sive preparations for Msrdi Grss day
This society added five new members 81
y recent meeting.
The Happy Family will give q parlor
concert at the Cnspllne Street NJ. L.
Church, for the benefit of the Sunday
School, next Tuesday.
CT. BRUEs has reduced the prices On
mis- immense stock OF goods, and now OIL
fers them cheaper than any other estao-
lishment of the kind in the city.
FIVE HUNDRED barrels of salt and one
hundred tons OF pig metal were brought
TO this CITY on the Andes last night. The
pig metal is for the Belmont mills.
IL the war with Mexico Is fully in.
augurated, no doubt but the President
will call on our gallant Guards and
Zousves to help suppress the trouble.
THE residents OF St. Charles street are
complaining bitterly against the condl'
ton in which the rains leave that street.
The mud Is washed down into their
houses.
WoRKMEN are engaged in tearing up
the upper end of the wharf, leading to
Twelfth street, in order to make the
grade correspond with that of Twelfth
street.
OFFICER STANLEY arrested suspi-
cious character yesterday evening, who
had in bis possession . pair OF new boots,
for which he could not satisfactorily &C
count.
THE new whistle ut the La Belle mill
excited some of the neighbors yesterday
morning. The whistle was pat up Sat-
urdsy, there having been nothing OF the
kind about the mill heretofore.
Four unfortunates were locked up be-
tore l o'clock this morning. They viii
have hearing before the Terrible" this
morning on the charge of violating the
fortv-thlrd section of the city ordinance.
The Maenerchoir Singing Society is
making big preparations Tor d grand ball
| and concert to be given at Germanla
Hsll New Years eve. Kramer's full
orchestra has been engaged for the oc-
oasion.
OFFICER BAUM, of the Eighth ward,
Yesterday wrote to the sister OF the sui
eide. Fritz Samhammer, and inclosed an
account of his death, with memcran-
dunn found among his papers giving to
her al his property.
THE following letter and package are
| detained dL tuc DNobOLAANN 4'A BS~S''s1~'
Mr.. Beker, p. NJ, Hills, Washington
county, o., three cents. A package Is de,
tanned for postage, and is addressed to
Miss Clara Clandennin, Mansfield, o..
two cents.
MEssRs. Scheuk & Zoeckler slaughter
ed, Yesterday, al their packing establish
ment at Fulton, S54 hogs. They have
| about seven hundred more hogs to re-
celye this week. Citizens wishing to
purchase n good supply of oiiai will do
well TO call on the above firm.
MRS. S. A. HALL of Darlington, died
on Saturday last from a tumor IN the
stomach. Her remains were taken to
Wellsburg for Interment. Mrs. Hal
kept q millinery store, and Is generally
known among our city merchants. She
was an excellent lady and highly
esteemed.
AFTER burning about month, the
fire In the river bank Just below the sus-
pension bridge, on the line OF the T., w.
IL XIV. road. was extinguished last night
with hose reel from the Hope hose
house. Some one should be promoted
Tor promptness (?) IN abating the NUS.
ance,
KNOWING the impecunlosity of the
reportoral fraternity OF this city, and
feeling the necessity for relief from
toll, it has been suggested that saur
kraut sociable, on Christmas Eve, be
given as being productive OF the max
mum OF good cheer for the minimum OF
the filthy lucre.
Iris thought that the old Washington
mill will be turned lLto glass factory
at an early day, by company of gentle
men from Baltimore and Pittsburgh.
The proposition is thst the Drake.ey