The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-07-06
SMALL. TALK,
Condemned Notes of Current Gossip
In and About Town.

day.
THERE were 125 cases before the Ponce
Court last month.
EoFF street is to have a bridge across
Caldwell's Run.
The alarm OF fire on the South SIDE.
last evening, was false.
Council Committee on Water Works
met at the city building last night.
TaE Sumner band spelled at tie
Tivoli on the night OF the Fourth.
THE Top mill has shut down, and Will
remain idle for the next two months.
ABOUT one mile of Tuscsrswss road
has been graded At the Bridgeport end.
DESPITE the proclamation OF the
Mayor, great many boys used their
pistols.
The early closing movement among
The dry goods merchants went into effect
last evening.
THERE were no transactions in real
estate recorded yestered in the office OF
the county clerk.
THE Germsnia Singing Society had
their hall handsomely decorated and lIlu
minated on the Fourth.
A DEG fight was the attraction on Mar
ket street last evening. The other dog
as usual, came out first best.
MesT of the girls who went out rid
ing on the Fourth had to take the reins
when coming home, their escorts being
disabled.
HAIL fell thick and fast for few
minutes in the city, last evening. Some
Of the hail stones picked up were fully
as large as hens egg.
The temperance meeting at Otis Hall
last night was conducted by Mr.. Hiram
Young, and was addressed by Messrs.
Jacob Kemple and Thomas Smith.
ABOUT three hundred persons were
necessitated TO walk in from Hornbrook's
park, after midnight, on the Fourth.
The failure of the b. Il .. road to send
out train was the cause.
A FIRST class ghost is reported to have
been aboard the Benson Ferry boat
when she broke loose on Monday night,
and blew the distress whistle while the
boat was floating down the river.
The receipts at the Leatherwood toll
gate on the Fourth were S35, the largest
amount ever before collected in one day,
$25 being the largest amount until the
unusually large exodus from the city on
Wednesday.
A MEETING OF the Normal school and
other teachers of the State has been called
at Deer Park on the l6tn inst, by Prot
Pendeton, with view OF securing
greater uniformity in the text books
used.
A LIMB of the law from the Sixth
ward and one from the Fifth ward were
out the pike to enjoy the Fourth, and in
their skilled driving succeeded in break
ing several spokes out Of their buggy
wheels.
WEDNESDAY night, "Gamey" Nc.
And,ess and Pat Esgsn went into the
Belmont mill, and when ordered out by
the nightwatchman they opened up q
bombardment on him with bricks and
other missiles of ancient warfare.
The furniture men employed in the
establishment of q. Mendel, Booth X
Co. have challenged those in the estab
lishment OF Mr.. Kennedy Friend to a
match game of base ball, and 1t is more
than probable that the challenge will be
accepted.
THIRTY FIFTH street, at the junction
of Chaphne, is in bad condition. Chap
line street has been paved and made
higher than Thirty-ftth, and the drain
age from the upper street has accumu-
lated at this point, and no doubt Will
breed disease if not attended to.
EDWARD STRICKLIN was up before
Squire Mix yesterday, charged with wife
beating. Stricklin plead guilty to q
charge of assault and battery and was
fined 81 and costs and was put under
bond OF $50 to keep the peace for six
months, with Thomas Strlcklin as his
surety.
A YOUNG man, in trying to step from
car fourteen near the corner OF liver ".
first and Main streets, last evening, with
out ringing the bell, fell and by some
means was dragged eight or ten steps
A slight bruise or two and a quantity OF
mud on his clothes were all the damages
sustained.
TIE little evening sheet says that it
gave no credenCe of undue importance
to the McComas mystery, but last even
=. = 81,
from the Pittsburgh CoYmercigL, two
days after the whole thing had been ex.
posed by the REGISTER. That's enter.
prise on large scale.
Mrs HARRIS made compliant against
Mrs. Ryder, before Squire Wheeler,
YESTERDAY, for mistreatlng and sbusir z
the former children. The parties were
before the Squire last evening, and Mrs.
Ryder was fined one dollar and costs and
put under bond in the sum OF 500 to keep
the peace for six months.
The same party writing for the Pitts
burgh Commercial about the McComss
mystery, dished up the same thing for
the Bellslre Leader, and yet how differ
ent are the two statements. The Wheel
ing press cannot recover from the insinu-
alton that the discovery of the true
cause OF the manifestations is difficult
if not impossible"
Personalities.
Mrs. James Hamilton was IN the city
Yesterday. She returned to Titonville,
where she is spending the summer, last
evening.
Deputy Sheriff Phillips has returned
home from his wedding tour, and re-
sumed the duties of his position. The
Deputy seems to be well pleased with
benedictine lie.