The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-01
SMALL TALK.
Cond ensed Notes of Current Gossip
IN and About lOw8.

THE Board OF Commissioners meets
this morning.
The equinoctial storm has gently
passed us by this time.
A PIN.PooL tournament, with $500 as
the entrance fee, is talked OF.
Now is the time Tor autumn lear
parties to HE themselves to the woods.
WoRKMEN are engaged in laying new
cutters on Fourteenth street between
Chapline and Eotf streets.
The road from CaldwelPs run to the
top of Chspline Hill will be open ioi
travel some time this week.
ONE deed of trust and one release deed
were admitted to record, Saturday, IN
the office of the County Clerk.
ANOTHER death from scarlet fever l:
reported. making two deaths from thai
dread disease within the past few days.
THE Ladies Turnverein intend havlng
dance at their hall October 10th. Ar
angements for a .happy time are under
way.
THE putting up of the spire on the
Fourth Street Church steeple, last Sat-
urdsy, attracted the attention OF large
crowd.
MEssRs. Gillespie and Slater have
secured the contract for lowering and re-
paving Chspline street, from Eleventh
to Twelfth.
MIS-. TARR, residing at No " Four
teenth street, drew the silver mug or cup
at the "Trip to the Moon" matinee Sat.
urdsy afternoon.
A MEETING will be held at the Second
ward market house (old city hall, on
Wednesday evening, for the purpose OF
organizing beneficial Rifle Club"
AT the trotting races at the Smithteld,
Ohio, FAIR, on Friday, Wilder came In
first, W hite Cloud second and Wild Tom
third. The best time made was 2:4O.
A NEW certificate was prepared by
Justice Schultz, Saturday, for the Evan
gelical German Reform st. Stephsnus
Church, of Wheeling, West Virginia.
THERE will be q temperance mass
meeting a. Parker's Hall tonight.
The speakers will be the Rev. j. T. Nc
Clure, James Cunningham and Jacob
Kemple.
The new projects in regard to the
Wheeling Library Association will pro-
badly be brought up at the stockholders
meeting 10 be held at the library rooms
tonight.
TIE different worklngmen's clubs OF
this city have now all approved OF the
workingman's Sunday paper, and com
mitrees have been appointed to solicit
subscriptions.
ALL the stockholders and others in
terested in the Wheeling Library Associ.
ton should attend the annual meeting
OF the stockholders this evening at the
capitol, as business of Importance will be
transacted.
Two OF the largest and most promi-
nent tableau cars Of the London show
will not be in the street pageant to-day.
The roof OF the back river bridge is not
high enough to let them through, so they
must remain at Bridgeport.
NEARLY all day Saturday lightning
rod man played gymnastics on the top OF
the gilt ball that surmounts the new
steeple OF the Fourth Street M. h.
Church. He seemed delighted at being
so close to the realms above.
AT the "Trip to the Moon" matinee
Saturday afternoon, q Miss Oglevay
visiting friends on South Penn street,
Island, drew the silveI card basket, and
Miss Clark. residing st 30 South Broad
way, Island, drew the cake stand.
THAYERs CIRCUS appeared at New
port Yesterday morning. lis first and
only patron wss Sheriff White, who yes
terday afternoon attached the whole
col Germ, tent, horses and wagons, for a
dett of 81, 350.-Cm. Enquirer.
a SUPREME Castle of the knights OF
the Mystic Chain, which order is well
represented IN this city, comes oil at 20
lumbus, Ohio, October 10th. Messrs
VIM. Frazier, OF Piedmont; George l.
Evans, OF Msrtinsburg, and DR.. j. Il. s.
Hall, of Wheeling, are the representa-
yves from luls CLaLc.
Mr.. J. b. BRoDIE informs US that his
bid tor the erection of the tobacco ware
house at Bellaire was Sl3,7l3, and did
include excavating and painting. 1t
also included everything else as covered
by the plans and specifications. The
next lowest bid was not made by j. b.
Schanaield, but by Mccoy of Marietta,
and was between fourteen and fifteen
thousand dollars.
TgE temperance meeting at OTIS hall
Saturday night was addressed by Geo
Holinger, Mr.. Roles and j. c. Stock
The usual Sunday afternoon prayer
meeting by the Ladies Temperance Band
were also held Sunday night The hall
was filed to overlooking. Speaking by
w. S. Buckhannon, Wash Baggs, Capt.
John Baggs, j. 9. Stock, of Carlisle, Pa ,
and Sergeant Chiders, OF Grand Rapids,
Mich. There were two signers to the
pledge.
DR.. j. A. CAMPBELL, we are sorry to
say, takes his leave of Grafton on the lst
proximo FOR the purpose of locating per-
manently in Wheeling for the practice
of his profession. The Doctor is regu.
lar graduate ofthe Jefferson Medical Col
lege of Philadelphia, and during his two
years sojourn in Grafton has been very
successful in the practice of medicine.
He has chosen Wheeling as a permanent
location, and we hope the same success
may follow him in the future that has
attended him in the past.-Grafton Sen
taneL.
Aquatic.