The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-04
SMALL TALK.
Condensed Notes Of Current Gossip
In and About Town.


LETTER LIST to-day.
Two additions to the workhouse force
yesterday.
ONE Gaze hooked for the police court
at midnight
The Brown boat cluS have recently
purchased new scull bost.
The temperance excursion booked Tor
tomorrow has been postponed.
BASE BALL entices the average young
man Of the city from his shady retreat
On every vacant lot IN the Eighth
ward can be seen game OF base ball.
The temperance excursion to Parkers-
burg is postpone. see advertisement
The Hubbard Board Pliers yesterday
defeated the Our Boys by score OF 70
to 10.
The new volunteer company VIII NEE
at DIR. Halls office, this evening tor Or
gsnizstion.
MORGAN, OF Pittsburgh, has not &C
cepted Felslng's challenge for single
scull race
TIE Schultz boat club will have .heir
weekly dance at Arbenz hsll tonight
| Music by Birch.
[ SOME of the street crossings in the
Eighth ward are having the dust knock
cd off by scrspers.
THERE were twenty deaths IN this
city from disrrhe,l diseases last year,
against twelve this year.
| The Vclocipedes and Busters will
play a game of bal! at the Peninsula
grounds this afternoon.
The Regulars played the Stump-plck-
ers esterday, and lost on score OF 3 to
10 in favor of the Stumps.
SAM BARCKLEY has received tele
gram from the st. LOUIS Brown Stocking
base ball club TO state terms.
THE Reformed Episcopal Sunday
school will be organized at Weize' Hall,
at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad is
said TO have lost upwards of 500, 600 daily
during the continuance OF the strike.
THE second nine OF the Atlsntics, yes
terday afternoon, defeated the second
nine of the Belmor is by score OF . to D..
The amateur Base ball clubs of this
city boast of some queer names, as Will
be seen IN our base ball reports from
time to time.
THE attention of the street Commls-
sionsr is called 10 huge brush heap on
South Broadway street, Island. It's re-
movsl Is asked for.
COMPLAINT has been made TO US that
the alley north of Zane street, between
Penn and Broadway streets, Island. is IN
very filthy condition.
TRAINS on the Baltimore and Ohio
road come TO q stop 1T oil bridges, ana
the engineer and bremen walk over the
bridges to see that all is safe before the
train passes over
MEssRs. w. IL. WOODWARD and >. n.
Wallace, the champion wing snootists oil
the South Side, are rusticsting at Camp
BELLS Station, Central OHIO railroad.
A cablegram received yesterday states
that woodcock are more plentiful in thst
locality than beer.
COMMISSIONERS Whitman reports the
| Patrons Of Husbandry in this County as
increasing in membership and material
prosperity. The store started last sprln
At Mill Point has proved q success. The
members in this section will hold pic
| nic at Gaston's Grove the third Saturday
in August,
WHILE loading "crsb" or holstin
machine on dray in front OF the Fourth
Street Nj. L. church, yesterday, the horse
attached to the drsy on which the ma
chine was being loaded WAS thrown vio
lently TO the ground and severely bruised
The animal belonged to Messrs. Bailey
| w oodward 81 Co A shaft of the dray
was broken.
MAYOR SWEENEY has discharged and
paid of the special police force, forty in
All. These gentlemen received two'dol'
lars day for their services. An ordl,
nance fixes the pay that special police
shall receive when called out by the
Mayor. Itrequred in the neighborhood
of 500 to meet the obligation. A small
item when compared to the possible
damage that might have resulted by
neglect to take proper precautions tc
preserve the peace