The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-12-20
ACROSS THE RIVER.
speciaIIy Reported for the Register.

BELLAIRE.
ONE arrest made yesterday, for drunk
enness.
INDIAN summer Is showing itself
beautifully again.
Stock and grain trade on the b. & U.
road is rapidly increasing.
MR. GEORGE Ii. MUTH is expecting
fine large deer for Christmas.
THE Workingmen's Mutual Building
Association meets on Thursday, Deem
Der 9th.
CONGRESSMAN LORENZO DANFoBD, OF
St. Clslrsville, passed through the city
Monday morning.
The Belmont Glass Works goes out
Friday, and will no. start again until
alter the holidays.
w. II. EWING, John Gulern, w. 4.
Teihims, =. II. Lind and David Ewers
are at the Osborne House.
HENRY RANKIE, brakeman in the
B.. IL o. yards, IN jumping from a car
seriously sprains1 his ankle,
A FESTIVAL is to be given by the
colored NJ. Z. Church in the City Hall
on Monday evening, December oath.
YESTERDAY one of widow Leonsrd's
sons fell from stack OF nail kegs IN the
Beltaire Nail Works and broke his arm.
THERE will be meeting held this
afternoon as to whether the Ohio Glass
Company will commence work January
first or not.
Miss JESSIE WHITE and Miss Alice
Fitton, of Bellaire, are making quite
lengthy visit on Nineteenth street at
their friend Miss Rachel Hollis.
Col. c. 5. S. BARON started for New
York Yesterday on business for the
Baron Manufacturing Company; also on
military affairs. He will return via
Columbus.
If YOU want No. dish of oysters
served IN any style you may wish, call at
Jake Durst's. he sells the freshest and
finest oysters, at retail or wholesale.
Council met Tuesday evening last
Their time was occupied by ordering five
or six new lamp posts and employing
Saintclair Kelly, OF st. Clsirsvil!e, o.,
for their attorney on the Belmont street
question.
The Sabbath School children of the
ME- Church will assemble about 9
o'clock in the morning TO receive there
treat. Later in the day there will be 3
table set to receive rations and clothing
for the poor.
THE Baron Manufacturing Company
are still running full force, and the
hands are working until 9 o'clock every
night. They will 20 out Saturday and will
not start until the Monday following.
the hands who want TO work during the
holidays can, as orders are rapidly coming
in and they need the goods.
A DAUGHTER, aged 81 years, OF Rev. }.
Hargrave, (coloredl, died yesterday
morning about 8 o'clock a. NJ, disease
consumption The funeral will tsko
place from his residence on Gravel HIIi,
Friday al IL o'clock 4 NJ. Rev. Lawson
of Wheeling, Is requested TO attend the
scTElCts.
REVIEWING and examination COM
menced yesterday In the public schools,
and will continue until Friday evening.
Then school will be dismissed until the
second day in January, 1878. The
Fourth ward school numbers seven hun
dred and thirty-fve pupils, The other
four wards number about six hundred
and fifty, making total OF thirteen hun
dred and eighty-fve.
BRIDGEPORT.
PAY DAY at the Wheeling and Tusca-
rawat Valley railroad yesterday.
DR.. VIM. WATKINS, OF Pittsburgh,
will lecture here on Friday night at the
West End NJ. +. Church.
NOTHING pleases the average Bridge
porter AS much as dog fight. One took
place yesterday In which eleven dogs
and fourteen colored BARRIERS took part.