The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-27
SMALL TALK.
Csndensed Notes Of Current Gossip
In and About Town.

. SrASpAaps Va. Picked nine to-day.
No MARRIAGE licenses issued yester'
day.
ONE addition 10 the work house force
Yesterday.
The Board OF Commission meet IN
special session this morning.
TIE stock sale at the East Wheeling
yards, yesterday, was well attended.
TRE cutters on South Penn street,
Island, are undergoing repairs.
TIE new Board of Directors Of the
penitentiary holds its first meeting May
10th.
The Greenwood Cemetery Association
has declared five per cent annual OWL
dend.
THERE were no transactions In real
estate recorded, yesterday, in the of1ee
of the county clerk.
The saloon keepers will holt mass
meeting IN one OF the rooms OF heymsn 3
! block at PIP. N. to-day.
KRAMER's orchestrs will play a. the
! Centennial Hotel ball at Beilsire to-
night.
| ABOUT 1000 stogies are manufactured
daily at the Moundsville penltentlary
So says An exchange.
THE Standards will play the Fries, OF
Erie, Pa, two games OF oase Daii on
Monday and Tuesday next.
The Alleghenies got away with the
Louisville base ball club on Wednes-
day by score OF 3 to /.
THE next meeting of the Eastern Ohio
Medical Society will be held 10 St. Ciairs'
vile on Thursday, May 3D..
YESTERDAY was The fifty eighth ami
versary OF the establishment OF Odd Eel
lowship IL the United States.
TIE Britt boat club hop at Mozart
hall tonight. The Britt boys are noted
for their terpsichorean entertainments.
A VALUABLE horse belonging to Mr..
Walter Marshall, in North Wheeling,
took sick and died yesterday afternoon.
THE saloon men have inaugursted a
move ment in the way OF concerts, which
are given nightly at either one or the
other OF the saloons.
The denizens OF the Eight ward were
somew hat startled at the trst sound OF the
"swill mans" horn In that region yester-
day.
ABOUT ten o'clock Wednesday night
the daughter OF Rukin Bronson, residing
at No 1886, died Of brain fever. The
child will be inferred NJ P. NJ. to day.
The west wing of the gas works build
ing was raised yesterday, that the roof
mig BIT be placed greater distance from
the reto:ts, and the danger OF fire les.
soned.
The town council of Welsburg in q
fit Of economy, abolished the street lamps
and now some o: the members propose
to dig up the lamp posts, and sell the
holes.
A NUMBER of the gas house force was
yesterday engaged in extending the gas
pipe from Alley n netecn TO Twenty
third street, on the east side of Market
street.
PETITIONS are being signed by mill
men and others of the South Side, asking
the County Commissioners to appoint
ex- Squire BellviIle to the justiceshlp,
lately held by George Forbes, E.q.
HANNAH FITzsIMMoNs, notorious Old
demirip, WAS psrading South Wheeling
yesterday, hunting '.jIstls for poor un-
al
TO hunt up the Swamp Angel.
The correct thing for man to do
who is caught cheating his creditors is to
take dose Of poison under clrcum-
stances which insCre his beng pumped
cut and antidoted. 1t diverLs sympathy
from the creditor to the debtor.
BUsINE ss is unusually brisk AT the Ex-
celsior glass works, Martins Ferry; one
mail during the present week brought
eleven generous orders. FROM present
indications the company will be COM
peiled to star, another furnace
SATURDAY, May 9Th, All examination
will be he'd at Beliairo for tho purpose
of selecting cadet from this Congress
sional district for the Military Academy
at West PCint. Now let the boys brush
their heads little and enter the lists tor
the prize.
HERMAN THOMAS, against whom Nc
Connel, driver OF car No. 8, made COM
plant last Wednesday, was on Thursday
fined 81 and costs tor tumultuous and
disorderly conduct on said car. Thomas
WAS put on his good behavior for six
months in the sum OF $50 on his own re-
cognizance.
THERE will be temperance
meeting at OTIS hall on Saturday night
aud Sunday afternoon. Rev. A. q.
George, Thomas e. w'st, State Treas
urer, and others will address the meetings.
The ladies are requested to meet at
the ball this evening ut i o'clock, as
important business is to be transacted.
THERE having been failure to elect
any one TO Ill the vacancy in the town
council Of ST. CIsirsville AIR. w. 5. Ken.
non has been reappointed to the vacant
position. The council now consists of
Messrs. w. +. Stsmm, j. j. Burns, w.
:. Kennon, Il. q. Welday, Marshal
Thompson and Thus L. Clark.-S. c.
Gazette.
THR members Of the Board o. Com
missioners, who visited the poor farm
yesterday, report the institution in
fiourishing condition, the building aud
grounds in GOOD order, and the inmates
happy. Poor Agent Stanley and lady,
as usual did the honors of host and hostess
TO perfection. The party returned home
over the Elm Grove road.
OUR people will rarely have more
delightful opportunity to benefit the
Chlldren's Home, and at the same time
please themselves, than by attending the
May Queen Concert AT the Opera Ii use
next Tuesday evening. The csp,ata has
been carefully rehearsed; the singers
have committed their parts to memory;
the costumes and dramatic effects are
carefully looked after, aud will greatly
add 10 the musical effects of the csntata,
which, as musical production, is greatly
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