The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-04
Brief Mention.



KEEr cool.
TINS Is an ice harvest.
WATcH your water pipes.
No cases Of sunstroke were reported yes.
terday.
TIE Germania Singing Society. elected
new officers last night.
OVER 600, 900, 09Oo below zero yesterday
on the Suspension bridge.
THE hotel doCkets showed rather
thin registry list yesterday.
CoUNcn. will make another attempt TO
secure q quorum next Tuesday evening.
TnE new Law and Order Temperance
party will make their nominations to-day.
THESE are the nights when the young
lady says her lovers moustache tastes like
Ice cream.
The b. 4 O. trains were late getting in
yesterday, on account Of the snow In the
mountains.
TIE cutters, when asked Ms to the thick
ness Of the ice on the creek, say It's just
about square.
" you feel In need OF constitutional
these braCing mornings, takea walk across
the Suspension bridge.
tbs Top Mill will start up full in all de-
partments next Monday, for prospective
steady six months run.
TIE ladies OF the First Presbyterian
Church gave supper in the lecture room
Of the church last evening.
A BRAKEMAN named Nuzum jumped Of
freight car near Moundsville on Thurs
day, and dislocated his shoulder,
THERE are said to be sixty saloons II
BeIlaire. Wheeling, with six times the
population OF Bellaire, boasts Of eighty.
TnE weather was too cold yesterday
even for cutting ice, and the dealers here
abouts were obliged to suspendoperatlons
What Is that, mother"
1.-THE frost, my child,
Another pipes busted
by freaks 10 Wild"
TME hat and cap men are signing ar
agreement to close their places OF business
at o'clock r. NJ. daily, except on Satur
days.
A MAN entered drug store yesterday
and wanted that thermometer broken sin
stanter," before it made the weather any
colder.
BARNEY MCENTEE, the letter carrier, wa
taken suddenly i'll ut the postoffice yester
day, and was removed TO his home in the
Eighth Ward in carriage.
TIE employees at the Riverside Mai
Factory were obliged to quit work yester
day on account OF the extreme cold. Both
hot and cold machines were Off
"WHY should we celebrate Washington'l
birthday more than mine?" asked teach
er in : Ward School. because he
never told lie!" shouted little boy.
TIE coopers in North Wheeling were
compelled to shut down yesterday on &C.
count OF the cold wave, the frost interior
ing with the working OF the main belt.
THE new officers Of Germania Lodge
Knights Of Pythias, were installed or
Thursday night, at their hall in Peterson's
block, by District Deputy Henry Roemer.
A COUPLE OF men employed by Seibert in
cutting ice on Wheeling Creek, east Of the
city, are reported to have had their feet
badly frozen yesterday. We did not learn
their names.
A sLEIGutNG party OF fifteen or sixteen
couples went out the National Road to q
point near st. Clairsville last evening, and
enjoyed themselves dancing to CoCkayne's
music. Well bet n button they didn't
enjoy the trip, though.
JOHN MILLER, cigar manufacturer on
Market street, near Twenty.second, LOST
about $500 worth OF cigars and tobacco by
the burning Of Koehler's bakery, on New
Years eve. The goods were insured in
the German Company.
THE millinery and notion houses Of the
city have agreed to close their places Of
business at 6 p. N. daily, except on Satur.
day, until the first OF March. By typo
graphical error in yesterday mornings
paper, we were made to say "except on
Sunday"
PEOPLE were crossing the river on the
ice at various points yesterday. Quite a
number OF Islanders took advantage OF the
"short cut" afforded and crossed on the
ice at the foot OF 18th street. At Martins
Ferry many were observed crossing dur.
ing the day, as was also the case ut Ben.
sons Ferry.
O'LEARY made more money out Of his
legs in one week than Kemple has ever
made out Of all OF his brainy lectures put
together. This fact reminds us that Jake
came into our office late the other night,
with the smell of-cold water-on his
breath, and asked II we had heard that
part OF the Washington monument had
been at last finished. Weasked what part
He replied, the fund-and slid out.
The statement that the parents oil
Stephen D. Richards, the Nebraska muir.
derer, resided in Bridgeport thirty years
ago, is incorrect. There was Quaker
family named Richards in Bridgeport
some twenty-five or thirty years ago, but
none Of the same name as the Nebraska
fiend, and the youngest member OF the
family would now be thirty years Of age,
or eight years older than the murderer.
The Richards family that lived in Bridge
port have not resided in this vicinity Tor
many years.
CHARLEY KocH.-Constable Love is back
from Weston, where he landed Charley
Koch, the South Side saloonatic, in the
Asylum Al ClarkshurV Charlav ont oh.