The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-23

TuE slelgh.bells iingled right merrily
! ~ III S'se e5.s.ik, I. JE.oo.sa 10 j en-.
.tirely TO familiar thess days. w.
2 SATURDAY was the shortest day in the
year, and also the most disagreeable.
Il KRAMER's Orchestra play in steuben-
vile tomorrow and Christmas nights.
TIE Belmont Glass Works, at Bellaire,
have declared afse-per cent.dividend.
TIE Arlington Stove Works will shut
down tomorrow until after Christmas.
ONE deed OF trust was admitted to record
at the County Clerks Office on Saturday.
SINNERS did notstand on slippery places
-bled. HUtEW ] 3Is0US tGBl
TfIE employees at the Central Glass
Works will have four days holiday this
week.
on Saturday morning Joseph Warner
had his thumb crushed in Manchester
coal bank. r~,.g.t4,
The staying season was here about
Thanksgiving time. The sleighing season
arrived yesterday.
The Wellsburg High School will give an
ENTERTAINMENT III tho 5SAuVA AAah ~ 1850
tOwpthi sYeptipg; gt9iHTD 'e1la
a NEW car ior tic carpenters on the
Hempfeld Road arrived Saturday morn
Ing, ria the B. & o.
THE Hinge Factory. will lose only two
days, Christmas and the day following, on
account Of the holidays. y, vi. -
n TIE Pas oohey combination LEFT for
\ Pittsburgh last evening on the steamer
Katie Stockdale, and will play in Altoona,
Pa, tonight.
| THE mail due here ct GA. NJ. yesterday
from the East did not arrive until dark last
! night, having been detained by snow IN
the mountains.' 'S''V - - ~
Mr.. WILKINS, living above It'll street,
Yesterday buried q four-year-old child, .
victim OF the dphtheria. An older child
Is lying very low with the same disease.
A DISCOURSE on the Rights Of Labor y y
to be delivered at Tapes Hal, South
Wheeling, on Saturday evening next, be-
loren ineetipgof mechanics and laborers.
B TIE Supreme Court adjourned on Satur-
Il lay, until the Charleston term, which be-
tgins on the Sth prox. The Judges nave
gone to their homes to spend the hoii-
days.
4 OPERATIONS will be suspended at the
Riverside Mill, tonight, until the opening
Of the New Year, in order to take stock
and give the employees chance to ENJOY
the holidays.
~ OK Saturday morning Mrs. Emma Sci
| bert, Whilell eaSing Tie \ orth Street ~ ~
Church, SLIPPED on the steps and had an
ugly fall, but fortunately escaped without
serious injury.
MANY ludicrous scenes were witnessed
: Ion the icy pavements Saturday. Pedestrl-
ans werecompelledJto put their feet down
with mathematical precision 10 prevent
them flying into the air.
MARKET will be held in the Second
Ward tomorrow afternoon, instead oil
I Wednesday morning, for the accommoda,,
Pttion OF country people who desire 70 spend
thei Christmas ut home, t9s at0ihiHi
1 on Saturday Norah McGinty, the young
efgirl who recently sustained serious in
iuries by her clothing taking fire from an
open CRATE before which she was standing,
was taken to the Hospital.
4 FlooDlock last night five arrests had
been reported by the police-three for
DRUNKENNESS and disorderly conduct, and
one for prostitution. Two were tramps,
and three residents OF this city.
THos. GRAY was drunk and disorderly at
the "Roaring Gimlet Saloon" in North
I Wheeling, Saturday night, and was run IN
to the cooler by Officers Lukens ana
Shorts for a hearing this morning.
THE near approach OF the holidays is
Frightening up the matrimonial market.
Uncle Bob Woods issued four marriage
licenses on, Saturday, theSlargest. number
Issued in any one day since the Slst OF De-
cember, II.
The Wheeling Hinge Company report
larger sales during the present month than
for December OF any previous year since
the COMPANY has been IN existence, and
I orders are being received daily from oil
parts Of the country for goods.
AT the Top Mill, on Saturday, car was
pushed over the incline railway without
Ibeing hooked to the rope attached to the
!, roller, and made rapid. and rather dan.
a perous descent, tearing up aportion' OF the
track and doing some triaing damage be-
u side.
1, TIE ball given by Pro. Jno. Mullen, at
lsteubenyille, last Friday night, was very
, largely attended, fully fifty couples being
. present. 1t Is spoken off being Sone d
y the incest afairs % the kind eyerGyenin
that "ancient burg. Prof Joe. Kfameri
Y Orchestra did the musical honors.
An alarm Of fire at $3.50 p. N. Saturday
called out the department. The alarm
Was causedaby sthe burning,of SCOT in ht
chimney II 4 dwelling house on Alley -
between Eotf and Jacob streets. The
flames were cxtinguished by the Atlantic
i steamer before any damage was done.
III TIKI rumor that Col. Jesse Plattenburg,
.1of the Hancock Courier, has designs upon
: the throne fjKaiser Wilhelm Sehultgao
the 1hfe Indep dent Republic 81 Ritc hie,
is dfscredited In high official circles. II 4
!, hconceded that at a South Wheeling ball
on Friday night, the Colonel wrapped
!, the drapery OF his stomach about q mug Of
an amber.colored fluid known as beer
D and occasionally drank as a beverage by
fast young men ;:and also that he made O
iew.remarks In. the Choctaw tongue to the
ladies and gentlemen from ,"der fader
\ land'n wholweres present on that occasion
ibut no political significance is attached e
Il either Of these important events.
p,,,.,nr Ino.,a-Mra Mary Conk1o