The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-14
SMALL TALK.


A RKeArrA on the back river 10 talk.
cd of.
TIE alarm Of Are, Saturday, night.
was false.
ONE lonesome straw hat made it, ap-
pearsnce on the streets yesterday.
on Saturday, June 10, the Central
Hotel will be sold at public auction.
AN entertainment IS scon to be given
py the North Street NJ. 4. Church.
Mr.. /. ). Plant, representing Back q
Fishel, OF New York Is in the city.
A FESTIVAL will be held about the
first OF June, by the Disciples church.
TIE opening ball At Charley Kochs
hall, last Friday night, proved success.
THERE was q good attendance at the
temperance meeting at oIts nall last
light.
The Seminary girls now indulge in the
delightful sport Of gathering WHO
| flowers.
| The usual number Of people were out
the pike yesterday on their regular Sun
day irolic.
A LITTLE child of Mr.. John Kite was
run over by horse and buggy Saturday
afternoon. No serious damage resulted.
EIGHT amateur base ball clubs eIer-
cised their muscles At the Dat, saturday
evening, in different parts OF Cald wells
field.
In Belmont county there will be Q
plentiful yie,d OF pears, cherries ana
plums, but only about halt crop OF
apples.
1T does look as though there was ,ome
little crookedness in the amount o. Taxa
bic property returned Tor assessment oy
the banks.
DAN QUINLAN was committed to jail,
Saturday, in default OF bail IN the sum OF
$500 charged with assault and battery on
the person of George Frazier.
| AT the confirmation services held at
the Zion German Lutheran church, yes
terday, tweLty-six were confirmed, and
at st. Johns church thirty-lour.
w. RIPLEY, nail plate roller at the
Top mill, was presented by Harry Hast
ing, on Saturday, with handsome PAIR
0: steel toDgs, for use ut the rolls.
TIE United Engine No. l was on
parade Saturday 1T the State House. This
engine ha. undergone some repairs, and
Is now IN splendid working order.
Miss ISABELLA CALDWELL is the vale.
dlctorian OF the graduating class OF the
Wheeling Female College this year, and
Mss Minnie Max we'll the salutatorian.
Mr.. HEN STAMM has had laid q
stone pavement, similar to that around
the Capitol, in front of his hotel on
Water street. 1t improves the appear
ancs OF things wonderfully.
The Germania Singing Society open
the picnic season here on WHIT Monday,
May 2lst. The programme OF the DAY
will consist OF dancing, singing, wheel
barrow race, balloon ascension, foot race
prize shooting and sack race.
HENRY GsIM was brought before
SQUIRE Shunz last Saturday evening,
charged with trying the mani y art on
John Washington Adams Hopple.
Grim knocked him down. once for each
name, Tor which he WAS fined and put
under bond for his good behavior.
The funeral of Mr.. Patrick O'Shaugh.
ressy took place Saturday, the llterment
beng at the rev Catholic cemetery.
The ST. Patrick's Society and two
divisions OF tie Ancient Order OF Hi.
bernisns turned out; also the IRE c)m-
pany OF which the deceased was men,
Der.
The first great excursion OF the
English Lutheran Sunday school will
take place between the 22d and 26th OF
May. The school aud its friends will 60
to the beautiful grove OF Capt. Harry
Thlrls, Washington, Pa. The b. q U.
officials will make every effort TO furnish
ali the cars that will be needed to carry
the great Sunday school with comfort.
Nix. ISAAC KoPLIN who has been
working at the nailvrs trade for some
wears IN this city, went west last March,
and in n letter to his friends here, says
that the cold weather has destroy ed all
the gra-shoppers in his new Stats-kan-
sas-except one burly ole hopper which
he managed to kill few weeks ago.
Thus endeth the hopper tribe in that
Sta O.
A LITTLE six-year-old lad of the Sixth
ward WAS very bLsilv engaged, the other
evening, and upon being asked by his
mother, what he WAS doing, re-
Piled Nothing His mother insist.
ed that he should tell her, when lie
raised to his full height and replied that
he was tying to cut hole out OF his
shoe. That mother smiled at her young
hopeful and went on her way.
WALTER BURKE the sexton OF Mount
Cavalry cemetery has added greatly to
the beauty of that silent city since he has
had the care thereof, by the many land
scape improvements he has made. 1t
will be remembered that Mr.. Burke was
formerly one OF the conductors on the
street railway, and when that company
gave prizes TO the most deserving Of
their employees each month, Walter was
always sure To be among the lucky ones.
MARKET STREET, on Saturday night,
between Twelfth and Fourteenth streets,
and rom the hours of dusk to sbou. 10
o'clock, Was a scene Of more than usual
inter est. 1t was the first fine evening
for the past several days, and
being Saturday, of all the nights in the
week the one that most suited the masses,
to turn out and do their shopping or
aiding. Both sides Of
the street, but particularly the
west side, were thronged beyond
their capacity with pedestrians
coming and going. One might say with
as great density rs even in the great
thoroughlsres OF our largest cities. Just
here it might not be amiss to say that the
widening OF the sidewalk on Market
street is not q whit too som. While the
throLg was the main cause of comment,
there were other items of interest. There
were shop windows lighted up and skill
fully decorated with attractive merchsn.
disc as, tor instance Messrs Moffat &