The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-11-26

Ohio county bar will become benedict
this evening. joy!
THE usual number OF grand balls" are
announced for Thanksgiving eve and
Thanksgiving night
THERE is good display OF fancy goods
in the show windows OF the Wheeling es-
adjustments which deal in this line.
HENRY A1nroS, formerly boiler at the
Top Mill, was recently committed TO the
st. Clairsyille Jail as a ravipg maniac.
WE have authority OF the highest char
acter for announcing that, on Thursday
next, war will be declared on Turkey.
JACK CowL says the mud on MeColloch
street is only BIS feet deep. Then the
street scrapers have been out there lately.
LETTERS addressed to J. McIain, SO 18th
street, city, and H. Hamill, city, are held
at the Postoffice for non-payment Of post
ago. Gt2sSiif ] fpS
TIE clerks at the P. O. &st. L. freight
depot in this city are so busy that they are
frequently compelled to work late into the
night. , -
FouR deeds in fec, one deed OF trust and
one release decd were admitted to record
yesterday by the Clerk OF the County
Court. 1a5
ga coLoRED roustabout named james
Campbell was the only occupant Of the
city cooler last night at II o'clock. In for
disorderly conduct.
THE festival given at the Thomson NJ.
Z. Church, on Thursday and Friday eve
nings OF last week, melted something like
$500, above all expenses.
TIE little daughter ofMr. Robert Woods,
who was recently accidently shot. contin-
ues to improve, and her friends confident
ly hope for her early recovery.
TIE SCOT in one Of the chimneys Of the
Mcclure House caught fire and burned out
last evening, attracting considerable atten.
ton from passcrs by. No harm done,
A COUPLE Of Island lovers were discover.
ed by an ISTELLIGEScIR reporter last
night swinging onthe gate. They were
pair OF swinging sigh uns, as 1t were.
TIE ladies' of the Zane Street NJ. Z.
Church will decorate their church with
flowers and evergreens for the special ser
vices to be held there on Thursday morn
ing.
JouN TASNEllILL,th the Washington county
farmer who shot and killed VIM. McNutt,
and was sentenced to the penitentiary for
two years, was lodged in that institution
last Saturday.
A FEW DAYS since little child OF John
Shaffer's, residing in Bridgeport, while left
alone for few moments tell upon a hot
stove and was badly burned about the
face and head.
YESTERDAY morning Albert Geisey, an
empIoye at J. A. Holiday 4 Sons planning
mill, in Centre Wheeling, had one OF hls
hands severely injured by being caught in
the shaiting OF the machinery. i" lst
TuE case OF Kemp VS.. Mccoy and Ed.
wards, now on trial in the Circuit Court,
gives promise OF becoming as great an at
traction 10 loungers about the Court House
rs the celebrated Centrlpetal case. -
A rouR-YEAR.oLp son Of Mr.. Balzer, the
brewer, living back Of the. Upper River
side Mill, was badly burned a few days
since by his clothes taking fire, while he
was playing In the mill. He Is now doing
well.
CART. NEWT. LrNCrr, ofthe new Sheridan
Rifles, says he does not expect to bring his
company out before the 22d OF February,
but when they do come out they will
make some OF the older companies open
their eyes.
Or account OF the increase in Its bust.
ness, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Company has purchased the hull OF the
old Andos, which has been used as q
whariboat at Catlettsburg, and will locate
it at Huntington.
SEVERAL umbrellas were stolen from
Miss Wilson's school room, inthe OFT Hall
building, Yesterday, by some juvenile sneak
thieves. We undertand that the boys are
known and will be prosecuted II the UNI
brcllas arc not returned. {,
SOME of the Main street merchants are
letting light into their upper stories by
washing tho windows. A country fellow
few days ago was looking Tor q oortain
store. and remarked, "I'd know 1t by the
dirty windows up stairs II I'd see II" They
had washed the windows and the man was
lost.
LAST night John G. Large and James
Campbsll, roustabouts on the steamer
Andes, quarreled over game OF "chuok.a.
luck" on the boat, and engaged in rough
and tumble fight. Large went to police
headquarters and had a warrant issued for
Campbell, charging him with disorderly
conduct. Large is white, and Campbell
an Anglo-African.
THERE was man before our police court
recently who tried to prove that he was
not drunk. He was found in saloon and
when they poured a bucket OF water oyer
him he asked where the fire was. This
was considered strong circumstantial EVIL
dence by prejudlced policeman, and he
was thrust into the deepest and darkest
dungeon in the bastile.
TIE Board OF Commissioners will hold
q stated meeting at the Court House next
Monday morning. This will be the last
stated meeting held by the present Board
During tho week the Committees OF the
Board will meet as follows: Court House
and Jail, Friday afternoon; Finance and
Poor Committees, Friday evening; Roads
and Bridges, Saturday morning.
TIE sidewalks arei q horrible condition,
They arc covered with q thick paste that
would do credit to Oil City. On rainy
days they afford such treacherous footing
rs they might do II literally furnished
with orange peel. The streets arc Us bad
as tho sidewalks. In respect to mud they
are like the cross roads OF the country.
Streets and sidewalks alike are disgrace
to the city.
ESTHER, the Beautiful Queen" will be
produced at the Opera House by local
talent, under the direction OF Prof. Seager,
on Tuesday and Wednesday, December
10th and 18th. Tho cast Of characters, 70
for as made out Is as tollowsl Queen
Esther, Mrs. O. w, Eoff; King, Mr.. Oscar
seeley; Haman, Mr.. Upton Kelley; Proph.
ct, M. G. Y. Lucas; Mordecai, Mr.. Nv.
Arkle; Kings Scribe, Mr.. Gustav Gutten-
berg; High Priest, Mr.. Mac Kelley. Solo
parts will be assigned to Misses Ella linn,
Aggie Murine, Annie AeadeGT ,,i Atts n Dill
Taraan philIins