The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-11-23

SUPREME Court to-day.
Enrsm hnAns--rnlenlnrs for 1870.

BrieI hentIOn'
SUPREME Court to-day.
FRESH dates-calenier for 1879.
MATINEE at the Opera House this after
noon.
TuE Diplomacy" company are at the
Mcclure.
SEATS are selling brisklyat Lucas for the
Ingcrsoll lecture.
pnMo KIMBERLY is building new coal
chute in Manchester
TIE Esther Cantata chorus rchearsed ut
Germania Hall last night.
lsH'T it about time to let "My Grand
fathers Clock" run down?
OSE commitment to the city prison and
one to the county Jail yesterday.
MuXIclrAL Court sits ut 10 a. NJ. to-day,
pursuant to adjournment OF Wednesday.
TnE Baltimore and Ohio road has not
thus far joined in the war on passenger
rates.
TIE Nail City Brewing Company re-
ceived u car load OF ice from Baltimore
yesterday.
Two deeds oftrnst and one deed in fec
admitted to record yesterday by the Clerk
OF the County Court.
TME new Childrcn's Home over in Bel
mont county will be located on the Bailey
Farm, near GAINESVILLE.
THIS sort OF weather is uncomfortable
for corner lOafers and "mashcrs,' and they
have disappeared from the streets.
LETTERS addressed TO Mrs. Mary +. Nc:
Gee and Charlie Simpson, city, are held
at the city postotIice for nOn'payment Of
postage.
A WAGON belonging 10 George IOccklcr,
the well known Fulton butcher, was bro
ken down near the PostolliCe yesterday
evening.
SwoRMsrEDT, the prophet, says the world
will end on the 18th of December. This
is l3ly vcry.gratifying intelligence lift ISIS
to happen.
TmE street cars are doing q good bust.
ness, the muddy condition Of the side and
cross walks rendering foot travel very
disagreeable.
A CIIIIDREN's concert is TO be given in
Washington Hall on Thanksgiving night,
by the st. ,Iacobus Evangelical Lutheran
Sabbath School.
TIE weak, inglorious boarder at cheap
restaurant wishes his jaws were circular
saw, moving 10, 900 rcvOlutionsin second,
when he attacks the deceptive celery
stalk
IT is rumorcd that new freight depot
aud warehouse will, ut an early day, he
erected by the Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad
COMPANY, on the site OF the old one at
HcllNrc.
PITTSBURGH and Wheeling will bcmatch-
ell in foot race on the Island to-day.
Charles Porter, of the former city, and
Fred Warner, OF Wheeling, are the con-
tGstants.
CRY taxpayers are informed that the
new City Collector is Mt home and prcpar-
ed to receive calls; ready in fact for n sort
OF donation party, every man to donate
what he owes the city.
INVITATIONS have been issued for ball
Mt the Sherman House, bridgeport, Tues
day night next. The affair will be under
the management OF Messrs. W. ROwlcs,
North West and John llcnlein.
TIE officers OF the Cleveland 4 Tuscara-
was Valley Railroad are cndeavoring to
negotiate loan OF $50, 900, which is the
estimated amount required to finish the
road, build the depots and furnish the roll
ling stock.
IT is said that the tramp arrested for
drunkenness on Thursday night feels
highly indignant Mt the name by which he
was designated in the morning papers. lie
proudly boasts that he has never yet been
II Register reporter.
TIE ladies' OF the German Reformed
st. Stcphanus Church, South Wheeling,
held fair and festival last evening, at Ar
benz Hall, which was well patronized by
the public, notwithstanding the bad wealth
err twill be continued this evening.
Mrs. BuRcnARD, Of GAINESVILLE, has
brought suit against Mcssrs. Davis & Star
buck owners Of the mill in which her hus.
band was killed last July, claiming $4,000
damages. She has retained Judge Cowcn
and lion. Lorenzo Daniord as counsel.
TIE familiar old building in Bridgeport,
the estate OF the late DR.. AtlliCk, is being
torn down to make room for improve
ments. 1t was in this old building that DR..
AilliCk printed his various publications..
TIE defendant in the famous Belmont
county SANDER suit of Mrs. j. +. MCGrew
VS.. John II. Watkins has made motion
for new trial. The jury gave Mrs. Nc
Grew $500 damages. II is said that the
costs in this case already amount to ST.
200.
COMPLAINT comes to us OF irrcgulArity in
lighting the street lamp ut the intersection
OF the B. 4 o. X. Il. track and SD street.
1t is highly necessary that this lamp
should be lit, it being at a railroad cross
ing, and especially so during inClcment
weather and upon dark nights. As the
city pays SIS n year for having 1t attended
to, We see no reason why It should be
neglected.
TIE Board of Directors Of the Wheeling
Library Association have about concluded
to abandon the proposed lecture course
this winter, owing to the lack OF interest
shown on the part OF the public. The re.
suit Of the canvas for the sale OF tickets is
reported MS very discOuraging, and the
opinion is freely expressed that the course
cannot be made success. The Board will
take some definite action at an adjourned
meeting to bo held on Monday evening
next.
THIRD WARD SCmooI.-Thc Grammar
Department in this school contains be-
tween sixty and seventy pupils, who are
divided into four classes TO correspond
with the four years course OF study MS
laid down by the Board of Education. The
highest three of these classes Is divided
about equally into two literary societies,
called respectively the PericIesian and
Whittier Societies, which have perform
ances on alternate Friday afternoons.
observation-disclosures the PcriclCsian held