The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-28
CITY CHIPS.

YESTERDAY was regular sprung u"y
THE lenten season begIus next We'd
nesdsy.
ONE addition TO the workhouse force,
yesterday.
SULLIyAN's Hiberneurn will exhibit
at Westwood's Hall on Tuesday evening
next.
No business of public nature was
transacted at the County Clerks ONCE
yesterday.
MARION Lodge 1. o. U. W. met in
usual weekly session at Wslther's Hail.
last night.
THE HI. Leasure Boat Club have
received three handsome new boats from
Pittsburgh.
All O'clock last night, only four cases
had been booked tor the police court
this morning.
A GOOD board walk has been put down
at the end of Seventeenth street bridge,
| over the creek.
SEVERAL members OF the Gilmore
band visited Father Kreusch's wine
vaults yesterday.
THE establishment of Trimble and
Hornbroo on market street is under
going some repairs.
1T. HoDaRNs, of Portland Station, Is
having neat and comfortable ounce
built to his store room.
We are informed that Major Miller
will be present at the military meeting
at Koch's Hall tonight.
WIZ. McENTEE. who attempted 10
destroy his life in East Wheeling some
months ago, Is row a mainsc.
FROM information received, we learn
that their is sufficient coal at Cincinnati,
to supply sll demands for one year.
Mrs. GEO. K. TINGLE entertained q
number of her friends at her residence
last evening. The Governor was pre-
sent.
THE German will give full dress ball
on Friday evening next instead OF Thurs
day. This is the last of the season before
Lent.
Mr.. LASH has assumed proprietorship
of the Columbia House on Market Square.
The house was formerly kept by Mr..
Nader.
SEVERAL of our young gentlemen Will
leave the city to-day for certain parties
good. The grand jury is the cause OF 1t,
You know.
AN entertainment for the benefit OF
the German Lutheran Church, South
Wheeling, will be held at Westwood's
Hall, tomorrow night.
SEVERAL prominent musical gentle.
men of the city are talking of organizing
musical society to take the place OF the
Wiesel musical society.
THIRTY.FIvE couple held select
dance at Walther's reception rooms last
night. Birch furnished the music. FestlyI-
ties were kept up until late hour.
THE sewer on Fifth, below Main
street. caved in recently, causing an ugly
hole Just in the middle of the street.
Workmen are engaged in repairing it.
Mr.. THOMAS SWEENEY, the Superin-
tendent of the Cumberland road, is after
the people living along the road, for
throwing ashes and other dirt on it.
THEtwo shares of the Nail City brew
cry stock sold by the City Sergeant in
front of the city building, yesterday,
brought $Sl per snare-par value 800.
The Maennerchor and Harmonic So
ceties will give a grand mssque carnival
ball tonight. The masquers will parade
the principal streets before going to the
hall.
A NUMBER Of young men Of this city
are preparing to visit the Paris Exposi-
ton. The boys calculate on having q
huge time on their trip over the "briny
Deep"
A BUNCH of keys was lost last Mon
dav, somewhere between Eleventh street
and St. James Cathedral, which the
finder will leave at this office, and confer
favor.
Two thieves effected an entrance into
Benz. Exley's carpenter shop, on alley
thirteen. between Jacob and Eot streets,
yesterday morning, but were scared away
before they hsd time to steal anything.
MIR. FRED DgpRIGH, of South Wheel
ing. will celebrate his twenty-ninth
birthday by giving party TO his friends
of the Concordia Singing Society, at
Koch's Hall, on next Sunday afternoon
In passing the water works on the T.,
w. II Ky. trains, it would be well for
passengers to keep their heads inside the
car ut the water works, rs the train
passes within few inches of the corner
OF that building.
The representative George Washing.
ton, in Father Grimes Centennial Old
Folks, wears beautifully embroidered
waistcost, braided with gold, that was
worn by the Father Of our Country at
one of his own levees.
THE new iron mash tub that has been
undergoing construction at Reymanns
brewery in Manchester, was completed
last evening and will be ready for use
to-day. Mr.. Reymann added five large
watts to his cellars yesterday. They wero
received from Cincinnati last Monday.
MUCH complaint is made by the citi-
zens in the vicinity of the old Washing
ton mill on account of the encroach-
ments made by parties who have bought
the cinder pile there. Efforts have been
made to step them, but thus far without
success.
TUESDAY evening Ed. Williams, enc
Of the children at the Home, had his nose
whitfield with an AK in the hands OF .
companion, John Dixon, while breaking
coal in the cosl.house st the Home. The
accident is very painful to the little fell
low. Medical aid was rendered and the
nose properly attended to-
THE Virginia Lodge, Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers of Wheeling and vicinity, have
accepted Al invitation TO repeat the dra-
mstic entertainment recently given by
them at Westwoods Hall. to take place
ut an early day succeeding Lent. The
exhibition will be held at Washington
Hall, probably. The request is hand
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