The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-23
SMALL TALK.
Condsn,esi Hstss ,srl current Gossip
In and XhonI Town. =

To-day. :----.
IsN'T it about time to say something
about fire alarm telegraph
MANAGES HAMILTON has telegraphed
to Pittsburgh for an orchestra. u
THE La Belle mill will shut down TO.
day on account OF Captain Wallace's
death. =. daf-t ~
Council meets, Friday night 70 can.
vass the returns of the election for mu-
nicipal judge -
TIE Mannerchor singing society give
q moonlight picnic at Neuhausen's sum-
mer garden on May 3Oth. ~
FLIES have already commenced COM
hitting suicide by drowning themselves
in the milk pitcher. ~, -.
THERE is considerable complaint beng
made about careless boys riding on the
pavemt nts on velocipedes.
TIE awning over the front door OF the
! CITY building IS 3 fixe fact. 1t wss sue
cessfully put up yesterday: as, ! i J
TOWNSEND ADAMS, of the Hegner
boat club, has been made referee in the
coming race between Barrett and Clator
SQUIRE MIx's constable, Charles
Funk, has retired from the constsbulary,
and gone to drive ear on the Elm
Grove street railway.
FRANK WALTERS will give another
one Of his pleasant concerts st his gar
dens, two miles east of the city, to-mor-
row, from p. NJ. tomorrow till MID
night. Go o., "a.
Gov. MATHEWS has been invited to
attend the celebration OF the lndepend'
ence of Vermont and the anniversary OF
the battle OF Bennington, August 10Th
and 10Th next.
THE G. p. Brown Boat Club will hold
their annual picnic at the Fair Grounds
next Saturday week. At the same time
they will give rege,ts on the back
river.
| Mr.. HEATING, father in-law OF Capt
w. q. Brown, conductor on the Hemp
field road, died yesterday morning from
injuries sustained q few days ago, 1T a
stone quarry near Washington, Pa.
The Chapline street temperance read.
ing rooms will be opened at Park ers'
block, Centre Wheelir g, in few days.
The old Rough and Ready Fire Com.
pany library has been secured.
AN Island couple have separated alter
four weeks of connubial experience.
| Hardly long enough to give it fair
| trisl.-Standard The gentle evening"
paper man must know more about con-
nubial experience in that direction than
the parties interested.
NOAH ZANE HUNTER. Of ll8 Zane
street, desires it to be understood that 1t
was not him who WAS before the police
court, as stated by the press. Further
more, if he ever comes officially in con-
tact with that Judicial tribunal, he will
proclaim his name IN iull.
Mr.. GEO. S. SYDNEY, agent OF the
Rose Ey;inge company WAS in the city
yesterday. George well knows how to
work up company, and always travels
with first class combinations. He says
he will return with "Fire Fiend"
Kate Clsxton next season.
YESTERDAY Mrs. Ann Campbell dom
ned her war paint, and with shillalah In
hand, accosted Joseph Bodemsn with
vile and u couth language unbecoming
lady of her standing. Justice Hsmil-
ton mad her up lat evening, and assess.
ed her 81 and costs, which she paid, ana
requested that her lame be withheld
from the reporters.
AN attempt was made by Ambrose
Collins Yesterday to jump the town and
get away with his goods and chattels, but
there being divorce suit pending in the
courts against the said Collins, in which
the matter of alimony is principal part,
Sheriff Jingle was called on by the dis-
ciples Of Blackstone to levy on the goods.
This the Sheriff did, aid Ambrose was
allowed to depart in peace, leaving his
goods IN the hands OF the mInions vi the
law.
One Of the most amusing sights we
have vet seen is an illustrated contrast
between this city and Pittsburgh, by q
tramp On the walls OF the station house
tramp has drawn picture OF man At
hard work, representing the Pittsburgh
work house; adjoining this picture is
that of large, portly man, with ten
cent cigar in his mouth, reclining in an
easy chair, representing the Wheeling
workhouse. And yet our streets need re.
paving.