The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-20
SMALL TALK.
Condensed Notes or Current eoessp
In and About Town.


Abbott concert tonight.
The Crescent mill has started up.
No marriage licenses issued yesterday.
"Comr down and I'll make 1t pleasant
for you"
Two divorces were granted by the
Circuit Court on Wednesday.
There are at present twenty-three
inmates of the city prison.
The Lessure boat club gives q social
hep at Steubenrauch's hall tonight.
Patsy Aegean, charged with robbery,
was acquitted in the Circuit Court yes
terday.
Sunday games OF base ball BY pro'es-
sional nines are being agitated IN fitts'
burgh.
Council Committee on Market House
held meeting at the city building last
night.
Wheeling manufacturers supply one
half the nails in the United Ssa;es.-E1-
change.
THE Mayor yesterday appointed Lee
NJ. Hamm a special constable at the
Opera House.
TEE Rev. Halsted was seen to 'smile'
last night while at the opera house. IL
was but nomentary.
Several Wheeling bloods were 'hurled
precipitatedly downward" last n1ght'
after the perioI mauce.
The Board of Education now meets at
u o'clock, instead of 8 O'Clock, as Tor
merry.
THERE was large audience assembled
in the Circu; Court rooms, yesterday, to
near the Patsy Aegean trial.
A movement IS on foot in the Second
ward TO have the old town clock moved
to the Second ward market house.
A cart horse created considerable ex
c,tement By running away on Sixteenth
street yesterday. No darnage resulted.
TWELVE thousand dollars are still re-
ouired from this city to secure the ex
tension of the Tuscsrawas road.
The Mathews Light Guards will here.
after drill at the armory every night
during the week, Sunday excepted, until
further notice.
The Wheeling Butchers Association
has been organized about eight years, and
hasa membership of twenty.nine per-
sons.
TIE expense of furnishing books and
suppIies to the schools of this city, for
the quarter ending April lot amounts to
S202l4.
OK the completion of :he laying ofthe
pavement about the Capitol grounds, the
paving of the streets surrounding the
same will be in order.
PROPOSALS tor reshingling the State
Normal School building 81 West Liberty,
are now being received At the I'll % oil the
department OF tree schools.
Those who are informed tell US that
the OHIO City Nail WORKS will be start
I'd up by the company next week, under
new and experienced management
!Nart.n's Ferry Neirs.
A MAN named Sullivan came all the
way from Boone county to get the office
OF ianltor OF the Capitol. 1t is said he
sold his cow 10 deiray the expense OF the
trlp-and then failed.
THE meeting at the Disciples Church
continues with increasing interest. The
ordinance of baptism will ba administer
ed this evening, after he regular services.
Meeting every night this week and en-
Sabbath.
The Waverly Literary Society has de-
cided ..tnat woman possesSo1 OF collie
piatc education is better fitted for the
duties of lite than one who Is not" Aud
now all tho unmarried women in Wheel
ing want to go TO college.
The congregation of the Second Pres
bvterian Church have elected the follow
ing officers tor the current year: Trus
teea, j. S Rhodes. w L. Hearne, Joseph
Lawson, w. B. Simpson, Root. Crangei
Treasurer. T. Z. Moffat; Secretary, w.
e. Dutfield.
Five hundred and fifty cars were re-
Gently sh pped west in one day over the
Baltimore and OHIO railroad, to meet the
increased demsLd for Shipping produce
east. The Cleveland and Pittsburgh
road Is said TO be shipping cas- west at
the rate of eight hundred per day.
The Pittsburgh Commercial says of
the entertainment to be given in this
CITY Monday night: Ihe 1.-TWO Or.
phans," as presented by the Harrison
Combination, is still the attraction here,
and will be the rest of the week. The
piece is put on the ooards IN good style,
with fine scenery and excellent appoint
ments.
The minstrels last night drew a good
house, ana d. servedIy so. The opening
act, Around the World in Fifty Min
u,es." WAS we'll received, it being de-
cided novelty IN the minstrel line, the
singing OF ID xie, Csrncross and Tempe
ton ellciting rounds OF applause. Hugh
Daugherty, "a the "Gitted Orator" in his
spread-easie flight, and l.. f. Mettler as
the farmers bog, in imitation of birds
and beasts, are also well up in their bust
ness. The company lett this morning
for the East.
Mr.. LEROY S. ATKINSON died at MS
residence on Market street, yesterday
morning, of consumption. He wssTore-
man at llallday's planiug mill pryor TO
his sickness, y position he mad flied for
number Of years. MIR. Atkinson wss a
man Of excellent traits and worthy citi-
zen. His warm heart and genial nature
drew around him large circle OF friends
who deeply sympstbize with his bereaved
family and relations. He was a member
of the Odd Fellows fraternity, who will
take charge OF his remains. Tne deceased
leaves q wife and three children.