The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-08
GRAFTON.
Gathering Flowers and Leaving "A
Bud Behibd-Eire-The Narrow
GauEe-A Big Blow Threatened,

. Correspondence OF the Register.
GRAFTON, May :, 1878.
We bsd fondly hoped that the
miserable twaddle about our City COun-
/ Gil was ST al end. But the shoemaker
/ has deserted his last and has made the
wonderful discovery tbst we hsve no
City Council st all. Great Jupiter and
all We OlympIan Gods sre you not as
tonished at this prodigy, who, having first
consulted with his worthy snd worship
/ Honor, the Mayor, has discovered that
we Lave no lawful Council, because they
did not qualify within ten days when,
forsoCth, and IN very truth, they did, my
worthy reporter" Tor the Clsrksburg
Telegram, qualify on the Friday follow
ing their election. Bear witness, y Ju-
pIter, and dash him to pieces My
friend, was it the office of weighmaSter
thou soughtest2 Next?
Grstton deserves credit for being very
law abiding Only four arrests IN the
last two months.
A tramp who pretends to be Chris
tian brother, or something Of that kind
in tie religious line, has been gulIing the
gullible.
A Mrs. Simeon Lang, whom the coun-
ty has Tor some time been boarding, and
Mss Ellen lthe Lord knows what left
the Holmes House. the other day, to
gather flowers, but tailed to return with
the sweet roses which they must have
gathered Mrs Lang lef. little baby
Hover behind her.
A fire broke out in a house belonging
to Mrs. j. NJ Royse last night. The
house was tenartiess, and the fire Is be-
lieved By many 10 have been caused by
an incendiary. But very little damage
would have been done had It not been
for the choPping and cutting done by
some very eXCtaOie individuals. We
would say, in tho words OF our colored
fellow citizen, Investigate the fire be-
fore you tear the house down." More
damsge was done with the AK than by
the fire. We would further suggest that
the City Council should have the bell so
rung that people may, a. least, have an
idea OF the neighbOrhood of the fire, and
not have to depend upon vague rumors
and guesses for its locality. At.er the
alarum has been gIven, let the bell be
tapped once for the First ward, twice
tor the Secold, and three times for the
Third
Presldent Thompson and Hon. j. NJ.
Hagsns did much good for the \. q. K.
L. by their addresses on Saturday. Pitts
burgh will soon b8 rs near to Grafton AS
Wheeling.
w. A. MestrCzat, of Morgantown.
challenges any cornet player in West
Virginia, and any cornet soloist of his
sge in the world to trial Of skill. We
have champion prize boxers, billiard
players, stars, kings, queens, bosses and
champion dancers who can shake their
legs longer than any other man, woman
or child, but West Virginia now enters
the field and produces the champion
cornet solOist. VIVA. q wonderful
man tlis MesLrczat must be,
and with what glory will not the Athens
OF West Virginia be covered when this
crack Drained genius shall have accom-
plished his task ut the coming lair. We
imagine the gentleman surrounded on
one side by champion pigs and hogs,
cows, bulls and horses, and on the other
by gaping muIti.udos from the rural
abodes Of old Monongaheia. On, what
sounds will not the students of our great
and glorious University have heard.
Verify the fame of Mes.rezat will ascend
to the heavens and the sun will be OBJ
scured. Successful Mestrezst will be- for
NJ one will dare compete with him, and
then he will pursue his iniquitous
career with impunity, and will
chuckle auJibly with seli-grsti-
ficstion as he filings his villainous
music in the ears of an outraged, but
helpless nubliC. |. l.. II.