The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-19
nrlef Mention.

THR luxury of dust is at hand on the
railroads.
SEVEN marriage licenses were issued
last week in this county.
THALNAN, the coal dealer, lost u valuable
horse by the collie the other day.
TflE summer season is making passenger
travel on the railroads quite brisk.
The fountain at the Fifth Ward market
has been repaired and Is again running,
TnE Mathews Light Guards will hava a
squad drill on the Capitol Square Tonight.
TnE Leonard Grover "our Boarding
House" combination stopped at the Now
Mcclure.
CHARLEY %SEABRlunT, the South Side
clothier, Is having his business block re-
painted.
STRAW hats are becoming plenty, but
the boldest man has not yet Yentured to
wear a duster.
WoRE will be resumed at the Whitaker
Iron Works In a few days, and a steady
run oil a year Is expected.
Tue Martin Guards, Of Fairyiew, will re.
ceive their arms in time to participate in
the sham battle on the 30th inst.
The State Medical Society will meet at
Martinsburg on Wednesday, June 4th,
and remain in session three days.
The freight business is brisk on all the
railroads, and there are large stocks await
ing shipment at the freight depots.
The Mannerchor Singing Society will
give u concert and social dance at their hall
on Wednesday evening next. Kramer's
music.
IT is likely that the three military com.
panies of the city will be called out for a
wing drill upon the Capitol Square, next
Saturday evening.
TIE Hempield Road is TO be laid with
new cross ties and steel rails. Sixteen cur
loads OF rails were sent out the road on
Saturday afternoon.
The VIM. Englehardt whose name ap.
peared In our police court report on Friday
morningis notthe gentleman OF that name
who keeps the Sixth Ward meat market.
A CHILD on Sixth street, North Wheel.
ing, on Saturday evening last got an iron
Jack stone" fastened in its throat. The
obstruction was removed with great diff.
fculty.
MEssRs. Ed. NORTON and Vim. Schwert-
fegcr,of the Mathews Light Guards, went to
Marietta, Ohio, on Saturday, to extend an
Invitation to the Putnam Light Artillery
to attend our sham battle.
JACK Frost has a wife; there can be
little doubt Of 1t. Mary S. Frost, Of
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, has just taken out Il
patent for q corpse cooler" Jack cools
the livingan Mary attends to the dead.
TIE Maynard Rifle Club visited the Isl
and, Saturday afternoon, and engaged in
target practice. Mr.. Richard Stewart made
seven bulls eyes out Of eleven shots, the
distance being 200 yards, off hand posi-
ton.
"PNAFoRE" will he reproduced by the
Lyric Opera Company, ON the 10Th and
Both insts., for the benefit OF the volun.
teer militia Of the city. The first perform
ance will be given in Washington Hall,
and the second in the Opera House.
TIE newest thing in high art, girls, is 10
paint your brothers clay pipe a delicate
sky-blue, with a cluster Of lillies-oftho-
valley on the bowl. II you haven't got a
brothers clay Pipe, some other brothers
clay Eloe will do as well, or perhaps
better.
Or Friday evening last Thomas Cox,
while employed in hauling material for
Myles' new building on Main street, South
Side, was knockeddown and trampled upon
by an unruly horse he was endeavoring to
manage, His injuries are not OF q serious
character.
DAVID SHAFFRR and John House are
matched to run n foot race for n purse oil
500 Mt the Brown Boat Club picnic, next
Saturday. A forfeit Of $40 has been put
! up on another race ut the same time and
place between Otto Kurtz and VIM. De,
vinney, for SIS side.
CoCHAYEE, the musician, has received q
letter from Mr.. Lively, OF New Martins
vile, containing information that the
Crescent boat house was caught there, and
asking thatthe Clubsend some one after it.
The boat house was carried away by q
freshet early in the spring.
FARMERS will have q hard time OF it this
year fighting potato bugs, Several have
already been captured on the Island, with
maps in their possession containing the
location Of every potato patch in the viCin,
ity, and they are SO ferOcious this season
we may expect 10 hear OF young children
DCluS SOpUleu up ny llCtl u any LLlc'
The outlook is bad.
CRY Council meets tomorrow night in
special session. 1t is quite likely that
the election for n Clerk OF the Municipal
Court will be held at this session, as Mr..
Darrah's term expires with this month.
In consequence n number OF anxious can.
didates are marshalling their and
counting noses 10 see that none will be
missing when the struggle comes.
AMONG the cases booked for q hearing al
the police court this morning are the fol.
lowing: Tom Parker and VIM. Clator,
charged with fighting on the corner oil
Main and Twelfth streets, between 70 and
! O'Clock Sunday morning; John Tracy,
charged with assaulting Henry Harris, on
Market street, about II o'clock Saturday
night; John Tracy and Burke Watson, as.
saultinG VIM. Mitchell near Bulger's cigar
store, Market street, ut IL o'clock Saturday
night.
PULPIT NorEs. = Thursday next, 92d
inst, being Ascension Day, services will
he held Mt St. Matthews' Church nj 10 A. N