Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-07
NOTE AND COMMENT.
How's your head ?

THE South Side is given over to foot
racing.
The Wheeling military forgot to bring
away that prize sword from Washington
on Friday.
The Council committees on ordi-
nances, health, market, and accounts
are called for tonight.
THE hanging gardens OF the city build
ing are in iourishing condition, as a
handsome boquet now under our nose
can attest.
THE Board of Commissioners meetsin
regular session this morning and Coun-
Gil on tomorrow evening. OratOry will
be free as air.
THINGS have been fearfully and Won
dertully dull in police circles during the
past week, which is all well for the city,
but blank rough on the reporters.
IL a foot race at West Wheeling on
/ Saturday, Vim. Schaier beat Charles
Rolf lew feet and won $40. Roll chal-
lenges his victor TO another match.
A BEAUTIFUL night blooming Cereus
arrived at maturity about l o'clock, yes
terdav morning. at the residence OF H..
Il. Shriyer, North Front street, Island.
4 PLEASANT lawn party was given on
| Friday at the residence OF Mrs. Jacob
Berger, at IL Zane street, Island, closing
with Il fine display OF fireworks in the
/ evening.
A LARGE number OF persons spent
their Fourth ut HOrnbrook's Park, and
| ..,NI 0rnnnrnIlV ara
ME made a fine pyrotechnic display IN
| the evening.
The Turner's convention will meet at
Steubenville on July 20, q and %, and
an excursion will 20 up from this city.
\ large picnic will be held at Walker S
Grove on the last day.
PERRY Tracy, the Father Time OF the
/ Third Ward, was called in on Saturday
night to drive AZ obStreperous party
from the back gGte OF Madame Wells
/ pleasure mansion. No arrests.
Mr.. EMsHEIMER explains to us that
his horse, which fell dead on the bridge
/ the other day, was victim OF sun
| stroke or some other mysterious disease,
and denies that death was caused by
| cruelty.
SISTER MARY FIDELIs, teacher OF st.
| Joseph's Academy, died yesterday
| morning about one o'clock. She was a
noble woman and an accomplished in
! structess, and her demise will be univer-
sally regretted.
AT eleven o'clock yesterday morning
/ the alarm OF fire was sent in from box
| los at Reymann's brewery in Manches
| ter. The cause was a slight blaze at
| Humphreys slaughter house and was
/ easily eXtinguished without loss. The
| department was out in creditable time,
| but its services were not required.
\ LARGE number of people gathered
/ at the Jingle range, on the Island, To
witness and participate in the shooting
| tournament held under the auspices OF
the MAYNARD Rifle club. Several OF the
| crack shots of Brooke county We're pre-
| sent and carried of two OF the five prizes,
! The other three were won by Charlie
| Dwight.
4 FIRE cracker at Hornbrook's Park,
/ badly injured Frank Ingram's eye on
! the Fourth. DIR. Hardesty at first
thought the vision would be lost, but
/ finally succeeded in partially restoring
! it, and placing it in fair way TO recOv'
err. Frank is a bright boy OF seven
wears, and the loss of an eye would have
/ been indeed catastrophe.
THE REGISTER has several times called
attention TO the diSgraceiully inhuman
treatment to which livery horses are
| subjected. Two more cases were
brought 10 our notice on the Fourth, in
which Frank Simpson had one horse
/ killed and another seriously injured
| Complaints are often heard OF the stiff
charges made by livery men, but under
| such circumstances what else could bC
expected.
4 SOUTH SIDE saloOnist made an anus
ing spectacle of himself on Saturday
afternoon. lie has a poodle, the pride
of his lie, over which he watches with
paternal care. A goOd-SiZed mastiif at.
| tempted to chew his poodle up, and his
master coming to the rescue, launched a
/ vicious kick at the mterlOper. But he
missed the mark and suddenly sat down,
to the amusement ola large audience OF
market people.
IT is estimated that fully two thou
sand persons attended the Parker Hall
temperance picnic at LockwOOd's Grove
July 4th. Presses string band furnished
the music. The picnic was conducted
bv the Executive Committee, assisted
bv Mr.. William Cox, Mr.. William Hill
lcbran and Isaac Shields, Esq. The
very best order prevailed throughout
the day. Everybody seemed to enjoy
themselves hugely.
Ok Saturday morning, man named
Jack Brown SwOre out warrant before
Squire Miller, charging James Newly,
a colorpd barber, with robbing him OF
so at Kain's tOnsorial apartments, near
the upper end of the Second ward
market house. The evidence failed to
establish the guilt OF the accused, and
showed that Brown was too drunk to
know in what manner he had lost his
money; so Newly was discharged.
\ NUMBER of Wheeling young men,
most OF them military, ranking from Adj
iutant-General down to corporal, and
includinga L. ). officer, took the campus
of the Washington and Jefferson Col
lcge by storm on Friday. The horizon
tai bar was a great attraction, and aE
athletic match took place, i'm the course
OF which the party formed mutual adj
miration society and applauded each
others efforts But presently Wash
ington youth came along and ecipsed
them all, and they left in disgust.