Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-21
A MINUTE WITH THE NEWS.

ONE deed Of trust was recorded yes
terday.
The La Belle boilers are of on account
OF no iron.
THIS kind of weather will soon bring
down the river.
The Board of Public Works held a
brief session yesterday.
The Twilight Social gave dance last
night at Beethoven Hall.
THE local oyster trade has had cold
snap boom these two days.
AT one o'clock this morning the Their
mometer registered eighteen.
LET the children rejoice, there will be
no school on Friday after Thanksgiving
day.
The Excelsior Social gave one OF its
usual pleasant dances at Germania Hall,
last night.
OUR local packets are bringing large
lot of fine hogs to our market from down
along the river.
HUGH MCCURDY had his eye burnt,
at the Riverside mill. on Wednesday
night. Not seriously, however.
The lighting up of the capitol clock
was, alas only transitory. a blackness
of the darkness OF Erebus broods per-
putual there now.
Who was it that said we would not
have a rise in the Ohio river until De
cember? Put him on the coal fleet.
YESTERDAY morning, about 8 clock,
a wagon loaded with hay broke down
near Fulton. The farmer swOre in the
Ute language.
YESTERDAY was bad day for the JUS
tees. The only business they had was
TRYING to keep the stove warm by hug
ging around it.
THOMAS MCCOMBs, who was sentenced
to prison for one year for vagrancy, re-
ceived such term at his own request
as he had no home.
OK Wednesday night, number o
his friends surprised James &. Maloney
and the result was jolly evening spent
at his residence on Water street.
The school fund has reached bottom
as well as the city treasury. The CLERK
will negotiate loanof $1,000 at rate
OF interest not TO exceed q per cent.
RELIGIOUS services this evening at Csc
o'clock ut the Hebrew Temple. Rabbi
VOgelsdorff will lecture from Hosea XII
chapter x, vii verse. "Return to thy
God; keep goods and justice.
DR.. HALL. who has charge of John
Prossor, who was hurt on the AbneI
O'Neal on Sunday last, informs us that
the injured man is improving with
every prospect of entire recovery.
If the street crossings are too high
the teamsters will growl; il too low the
pedestrians will growl; if muddy, every
one grOwls; il clean, nobody receives
any thanks. But such is the case.
On Tuesday night there was an oyster
supper at the Lawson House, Triadel-
phia, which wound up in fight. The
Lawsons, the FOrmans and the Fendts
were engaged. Nobody was seriously
hurt.
THE steamer Diurnal broke the pit
man Of her doctor on her up trip, and
was delayed several hours in conse-
quence. Mr.. John Oliver, erengineer,
made n wooden one, and she came
through with it.
AT Germania Hall, commencing on
November 9th and running three days,
will be held a grand fair and festival,
for the benefit of lions Lutheran con-
gregation. The affair is in the hands OF
committee that will make it a success.
QUITE a number of Aug. Rolls friends
surprised him and his family last night
at his residence. He invited them to
his rooms in Washington Hall, where
they had a glorious time until early
this morning. Vaas' band entertained
them admirably.
THEsOcial held out at Mrs. Roeteger's,
near Elm Grove, last evening, was a
pleasant affair. There were some eigh-
teen couple present. 7. 4. COckayne's
orchestra furnished the music, and at
- o'clock a splendid collation. was
spread by Mrs Roeteger.
Rev. C. p. MAsDEN, pastor OF the
Fourth Street NJ. f.. church, on Chap
line street near Twelfth, will preach a
special sermon to the young people OF
Wheeling on next Sabbath at Z o'clock
p. NJ. Subject: Solving the Problem
of Life" Strangers made welcome.
The heavy winds last night did a
great deal of damage to the telegraph
wires, nearly all OF them along the Pan
Handle, G.. d p. and PewIky roads, east
and west OF this city, being down. All
trains on the Panhandle are late to-
day owing tOthe above fact, as they are
compelled to run wild" and therefore
cautiously. --StsubnrjV Gazette.
MosT persons in the city have become
familiar with a little girl with peaked
face and injured air, who goes about the
city with, please gimme cent" This
little nuisance, who tells forty different
warns per hour, infests the Capitol and
court house, and has apparently be-
come fixture. The general impression
is that she is a nuisance as well rs Il
fraud.
THE Steubenville Gazette says: The
stockholders of the new pottery held a
meeting last night and determined to
purchase the site of the old Wallace
wooden factory to locate their works on.
There was more than one argument in
favor Of this position, as it is near the
railroad, and the walls of the old build
ing can be used in the erection OF the
new one We are informed that DIR.
Stanton has donated the engine used in
the wooden factory and various other
things that will come in handy to the
new enterprise.