Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-19
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
rnr,Ncl. meeting Tonight.

COUNCIL meeting to-hlSht.
No marriage licenses yesterday.
The cutters on forty-third street are
being paved.
WArERMELoSs are about the cheapest
beverage in the market now.
SOME nice grapes are beginning to
show up in market at 10 cts. 10.
The attendance at Hornbrook's Park
Yesterday and last evening was unusual
ly large.
THE west end OF Fourteenth street
has qeen made to look quite decent by
the recent repairs.
MR. A. S. VAN SIcKLER, the proprie-
tor of the Market street glove factory,
fell yesterday and broke his arm.
THE last of the Pittsburghers who
came down on the Panhandle excur-
sion Saturday returned last night.
A LARGE number of excursion tickets
have been disposed Of for the Catholic
picnic at Washington next Saturday.
A GRAND wedding is booked for Bel
laire at an early day. Some two hun
dred invitations will be issued for 1t.
BALTIMORE & ONO stock sells at l2S,
Central Ohio % and Slt, preferred at 40
and AZ, and first mortgage skies at lOo.
A oNE-HoRsE run off at the corner OF
Main and Twentieth streets, created
palpitation in the heart of Centre Wheel
ing, yesterday.
HELEN PETTICoRD was on yesterday
appointed guardian OF Jesse Corbly,
minor orphan of Andrew L. COrbly.
Bond 81 900, with +. III. Burt as security.
OFFICER AsMUs yesterday arrested
Bridget Gristle, in East Wheeling, Tor
disorderlv conduct on Sunday. She
will consult with the Judge Of the Police
Court about her case to-day.
THE Bellaire rolling mill started up
Yesterday in the boilers and heaters
departments, and the factory will proba-
bly, be ready to resume on Wednesday.
The mill is crowded with orders.
TIE La Belle mill boilers went on
Yesterday, and the heaters will COM
mence work on Thursday, thus ena-
bling the naiers to start up the ma
chimes in the factory by next Monday.
THE Street Commissioner has gang
of hands at work putting the finishing
touches on the matchmaking and other
repairs on Seventeenth street, in East
Wheeling. They have done a very
creditable job.
THE b. 4 O. Railroad Company will
run an excursion from Washington and
way points on the Hempfield division
on next y nday morning to connect at
this city with the trains for the Mounds
willie camp-meeting.
TIE folks OF New Martinsville, Sardis,
MatamOras and Sistersville are COM
pleting arrangements for grand ball TO
be held at the latter place in few days.
| T. Il. COckayne's orchestra has been Sc
cured for the occasion.
Mr.. &. FENDT, the dairy man, who
lives at Pleasant Valley, had a mule to
injure itself very badly day or so
since by its stepping on board with a
nail in, which penetrated the loot. 1t
is thought the mule will not recover.
THE BenwOod rolling mill shut down
Yesterday to allow the employees to at
| tend the funeral of VIM. III. Hirth, a
helper in the mill, and member OF the
Ritchietown Lodge of Knights OF Pyth-
las, by which order he was buried yes
terday.
CONSTABLE MARTIN yesterday arrested
| John Huseman, on a warrant issued by
| Squire Phillips, on complaint OF his
wife. for abusing his family, who reside
on Mccullough street. He was released
on his own recOgnizance to appear to-
day ut 2P. NJ.
The Brown Boat Club boys had lit
sle tete last night in the grounds of Joe
/ Green's saloon, on Market street. Green
and Dan. Cochran, the confeCtioner,
both members of the club, entertained
| the BOYS in commemOration OF their
victory Saturday.
THE MOundsville campmeeting is to
| start up to-day. The prospects are that
! the session this year will be OF unusual
interest and profit. The association has
spared no effort or expense to put the
grounds into the best condition for the
health and enjoyment of tenters or visi-
| tors at the encampment.
THE temperance rally at Parker's Hall,
| on the South Side, on Sunday afternoon,
is said to have been attended by an I'M
usually large and responsive audience.
| Father Jepson and Messrs. Cartwright
and Dover made stirring addresses,
which were all received by the vast as
sembly with evident satisfaction.
THE numerous fishing parties from
| the South Side that have been camping
out down the river for some weeks, re-
turned home on Saturday. One of them
| will return to their stamping ground
near Cresap's Grove again this week.
One party yet remains encamped sew
eral miles down, but will be home the
last of the present week.
Mr.. J. b. CHADWICK, the general
agent OF the Eagle Lead Pencil Com
panv, is in thecity. He has our thanks
| for an assortment of the superior pen
ellis made by the company he represents.
We tested them practically last night,
| and confess that we were agreeably dis
appointed to find them fully as good in
finish and quality as Mr.. Chadwick had
represented them.
THERE was pretty bad case of run
off on Chapline street yesterday after
noon. A horse attached to a buggy
took fright at some object, and pro-
ceeded TO leave its vicinity with more
speed than care. Near the corner of
Fourteenth street the buggy was up
set and the occupants spilled out. Not
as much damage resulted as could have
been expected.
No one appreciates the realities OF
life more than the drunkard. This fact
often causes him to become poetical.
One of this class, as he was lifted from
the gutter last night, got off the follow
ing touching stanza:
Life is real life is earnest;
Life is not gaudy bubble,
For It gives us all the durndest
sight of cuSsedneSS and trouble
TIE Teachers Institute OF Belmont