The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-16
SMALL TALK.

ONE marriage ilcense hsuoo
ALL bustles are smalland unobtrusiVe.
The gymnasium Is closed for repairs.
SMOKED pearl buttons are all the 90
for basques. 49,
THIS is the month for domestic renov-
alton.
TIME warm days make the fish stands
smell loud. r-...
The clerks in the Auditors Office are
pushed with work.
FRKIGHT shipments from the wharf
was very good yesterday.
THE Fidelio Society will excurt TO
Powhattan Sunday week.
THE police received their summer hats
yesterday. They are hobby.
YESTERDAY the mercury took . long
stride toward the boiling point.
TIE warm spell has had the effect OF
bringing out numerous straw hats.
THE Island people living along Zane
street should hire street sprinkler.
JABEz GosNEY and Albert Price were
locked up last night for drunkenness.
BRIDGEPORT is shortly TO have news
paper, yet the people are not contented'
Z FORCE of workmen we're engaged in
grading South Huron street yesterday.
The new curb has been set on the
east side of Market street, as far s
Twelfth.
AN ugly mud bole exists on the lower
Chapline street corner. ot the State house
square.
The steamer Star of the West is lying
at the B. s. y. shops waiting repairs on
the boilers.
The mercury began boiling early In
the morning, yesterday, and at noon
reached IS degrees.
The average number of passengers
per day for the st. Clsirsville narrow
guage railroad is forty.
The Board of School Commissioners
will hold their regular meeting next
Tuesday evening.
THE Wheeling National Temperance
Union No. l, will continue its Sunday
evening meetings.
THE delightful melody of the mosquito
will soon be heard in the land. He will
make himself felt, too.
QUITE number of our citizens took
advantage Of the Little Washington e1'
cursion yesterday.
The pavement around the Grant
House ruins is now passable, all the de-
bris having been removed.
SQUIRE HAMILTON has located his
office in the Schenck building, No. 6
Twenty-second street.
THE remains of Christian Wolf were
inferred in Green wood cemetery yester-
day afternoon.
The average Centre Wheeling gro.
Gerry man will now be happy, the heaters
strike having been settled.
SEVERAL persons visited the OFT Hall
temperance reading room yesterday, and
INDUCED in read ng and singing.
The change OF time on the b. &. o.
railroad inconvenience our merchants
in tho shipment of local treights.
TIE Washington Council No. /, Or
der OF Mechanics, will give ball in
Kochs Hall, next Friday evening.
THE thirtieth day of May is near at
hand, and there is no sign Of prepare
tlons being made for Decoration Day.
A TEMPERANCE meeting was held at
the North street church last night. A
fair attendance greeted the speakers.
YESTERDAY was not a good day to
purchase thermometers, rs they were
higher than they have been since last
summer.
THERE are comparatively few build
ings going up this spring, considering
the cheapness of building material and
labor.
ART is progressing. They can weave
q dog INTO parlor rug so naturally, that
y fellow would like to kick it to near the
dog velp.
ONE thing now exists that is more
complicated than the Capital hurrah, and
that is the breath of the average Wheel
ing barber.
KRAMER's BAND plays tonight for
the Mannerchor Singing Society, and to-
morrow night for select party q. the
residence of Mrs. Frinch.
ONE of the pleasures of spring is to be
hustled out of bed early in the morning
with the pleasing intelligence that your
10 Tho HrCt 70 ha nlau ad
OFFICER ROBINSON shot a dog in East
Wheeling yesterday. 1t belonged to
John McNabb, and had bitten little
child by the name of Nj Oore.
The festive bed-bug now wakes from
his torpidity, takes lunch off the rem
nauts of last years poison and gains
strength to start on the summer cam
paign.
The Bridgeport Ladies Temperance
Union ale still going on with the good
work of holding meetings, and gettin 6
signers; but the town maintains two or
three mills or more.
TIE new water works in course OF
erection at the Top Mill, with which 1t
is intended to supply the mill and blast
furnace, is over halt completed, and will
shortly be in use.
1T was thought by many yesterday
that the early closing of the East Wheel.
ing bakeries aud groceries would not
go into effect. rs one OF the members
seemed determined to persist in disre-
gardlng its obligations.
The piles of dirt scrsped up by
Jimmy Hays force, on Market street,
about week ago, will soon be ready for
scrsping up again. They are so beaten
dowr by the passing wagons, that they
are scarcely noticeable.
Z. SEIBERT the ice man is out IN a
card this morning, announcing that he
will furnish the clearest ice at the lowest
rates of any ice firm in the city. Mr..
Seibert is noted for his fair dealing, and
our people will consult him before en-
gaging ice for the season.
UPoN the complaint of Peter Hylsnd
warrant was issued by Squire Philips,
yesterday for the arrest Of John thinner
who indulpei his blcod .hirsty opDat;ta