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


WASHINGTON hall IS looming up.
MINoE PIEs and egg-nogg are ripe.
OSE marriage license issued Saturday
THIS weather brings the ulster man to
the front.
MARTINS FERRY takes the palm LOT
gigantic schemes.
TIE Moundsville iron mill is running
steady on hoop iron.
EIGHT cases booked for the pohca
court this morning,
The Directors OF the Library Assocl"-
ton meet this evening.
FoRTY.r1vE arrests were made by the
police force last week.
1T has been recommended that Capt
Wilson be reinstated.
You who have summer clothes toshed'
begin to shed them now.
THE scrapers were at work on oIx-
teenth street, Saturday.
The repaving and grading at the stone
bridge is about completed.
The impecunious man with strs"
nat has disappeared entirely.
TAKE time by the forelock and get
YOUR cellars we'll filled with coal.
LAST month the Etns mill shipped
1000 worth of merchant iron.
THEU. p. Church, of Bellsire, will be-
gin course OF lectures next week.
IT is said that twelve miles of the fire
alarm telegraph wire has been put up.
The Barrett company will arrive this
morning. and take rooms at the M'Lure'
TIE favorable weather of yesterday
br .ught out the church goers In iulI
force.
The Benwood Democracy celebrated
last Saturday night, over the recent veto
nv in Pennsylvania.
REGULAR cars will be run on and after
to-day from the market house terminus OF
the Elm Grove road.
TIE work of completing the Twelfth
street Improvement to the levee, was
commenced Saturday.
THE week of prayer, as designated IN
the circular issued by the Young Mems
Christian Association, commences to-day.
JAS. CARBON, q brakeman on the B..
& o. K. K. At Moundsville, had three
fingers mashed Saturday morning, while
coupling cars.
Folks residing on the east side OF Mar
ket, between Twenty-frst and Twenty
second streets, complain about the streets
in that vicinity never beng cleaned.
THE probabilities are that the Opera
house embroglio viii be before the cir
cult court this week, Attorney, General
White appearing tor Manager Hamilton
Mr.. ISAAC ARBUTHNoT, a member OF
COckayne's orchestra has ordered new
cornet from New York, costing 500. 1t
will be the finest in this neck OF the
woods.
THE Grand Lodge OF Masons will
meet IN Martinsburg tomorrow, and
upon the adjournment OF the Grand
Lodge, the Grand Chapel will hold It's
annual session.
SATURDAY, Auctioneer Herver sold
for ID. Thorn burg, trustee, ali the per-
sonal property OF the estate OF Patrick
Clark, OF Triadelpha. ABOUT 5000 was
realized from the sale.
THE cutters on Twelfth street, facing
WashIng ton hail. ought to be cleared o!
the rubbish without delay. As 1t now Is
The whole street in front OF that building
is mud puddle and quite nuisance.
The usual mum Der OF people WAS notice
able out the pike yesterday, and the
street cars on the Elm Grove line were
unable TO accommodate all those desiring
- make the trip, so great was the rush.
The sidewalk around the Washington
Hall is being lsid in cement.-Leader.
Il piece of that cement were to
come in contact with the Leader mans
head, he'd think that two bricks had col
iIded.
WE have been requested to call the at
teation of the authorities to crowds that
usually congregate about the hallway
eading to Mozart hall, McLeans block,
and indulge In protane and abusive Ian
.uage.
A SCANDAL is reported from Belmont
county, wherein Maria South was seduced
by Albert Stephens, and is the mother of
ais illegtlmate offspring. The girl Is
aid to be only IA years of age. Ste.
phens. has left the country.
w. IL. HALLER & Co, auctioneers,
sold on last Saturday, at the court house,
he Sesbright property in South Wheel
ing, to A. Nolte for $50. Also the
James Rigby property, in the Sixth
ward, to Peter Schnell for 81 900, cash.
OUR dramatic critic has so riled Hal
stead and Dana that the former has de-
veloped into u right good "Lsdy Sheer
we'll" character for which he has
shown some adaptsbility heretofore,
while the latter makes an excellent
"Snake" to her ladyship.
COMPLAINT is being made in regard TO
the habit of street Arabs playing shiny
on the pavements. Several ladies have
recently been struck with the skinny
blocks" used by the urchlns, and If the
nuisance be not sbated, some unfortunate
pedestrian will, one of these days, turn
up minus an eye.
The statement in Saturdays REGIS
TER that Mr.. Rine would take charge of
the Christman house on the LIST of April
is incorrect, although negotiations have
been pending TO that effect, but no terms
have AS yet been agreed upon. Any per-
son wishing to lease good stand with
complete outfit OF hotel fixtures can do
so by calling on Mr.. Christmsn.
SATURDAY evening jimmy Speyer,
who had been to Fsirmont, rushed tran
tically into the Sunday h. dder office with
large white bird, and thereupon Drink
hsr1,.. the whilom editor, wrote up
lengthy criticism on the peculiarities of
the pelican. But imagine his surprise,
Yesterday morning, when the bird COM
menced to shed n quantity of whitewssh,
and developed itself into a full.hedged
black crow.
The lnspectOrahIp.
The Board for the purpose of appOint-