The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-07-14


A coRNucoPlous crop Of cereals.
Ar the County Clerks Office, on Satur.
day, one trust deed was filed for record.
Is the silent watches Of the night,
When all The worlds asleep,
By the struggling moOnbeam'B mellow light,
The muSkteter cuts you deep.
THERE was considerable quantity Of
gas escaping somewhere IN the Second
Ward Market yesterday. A leak, per.
haps.
TIE picnic given at Craig's Groyeon the
Fourth, for the benefit Of the Cathedral
Parish Schools, netted triae over $500
above expenses.
TIE Sabbath School Of the Wesley n. Z.
Church, South Wheeling, will hold jug
breaking" exercises on Friday evening
next, at the church.
TnE certificate OF incorporation Of the
Junction Iron Works, Of Mingo, was filed
for record with the Clerk Of the County
Court, on Saturday last. ....
TIE Hempaeld train on Saturday even.
ing was five hours behind time. The dc:
tention was oCcasioned by the breaking OF
an axle at Taylorstown, Pa.
LITTLE CHARLES RocYYELL, bright and
interesting four.year old son OF Mr.. L. Q.
Rockwell, Of the city Postoaice, died Of
dipththeria on Saturday, aud was buried
yesterday afternoon.
THERE are no courts in session in the
city now, II we except the morning ses-
siOns OF the Police Court. Times are pref
ty dull when there are not one or two
courts grinding away.
TIE Clerk OF the Board OF O Commissioners
on Saturday paid to the Bank Of the Ohio
Valley 81 ,425, being the rebate on taxation
allowed the Bank by the Board at Its
meeting on Thursday.
AT "little Washington" they are having
sensation growing out OF the marriage Of
q sixteen.year.old son OF retired mer-
chant to q lourteen-year.Old daughter Of a
lawyer Of the place. The parents have
respectively taken their babies home.
IT was pretty warm yesterday, the the.
mometer registering co. In the shade.
This was not quite so hot as on Friday
last, when 1902 in the shade was reached,
but there was more complaint made OF the
heat. There was not much air stirring yes.
terday, and old Sol shone for all he was
worth.
A HOUSE Of i'll shape on Main, between
goth and 2lst streets, presided over by
Annie Thompson, was raided by the POI
lice on Saturday night. The Thompson
woman, a girl named Mary Ford and
man who gave fictitious name, were or:
rested and locked up for hearing at the
Police Court this morning.
A FEW days SINCE the name Of George
Wait appeard in our police court proceed
ings, as Implicated ina row in East Wheel
ing. The name should have been West.
Mr.. Wait is worry respectable young man,
and we regret that owing to q typographical
error his name appeared before the public
in the connection that 1t did.
TIE cases Of several parties who were
charged with selling beer and wine ut pic
MICS on the Fourth Of July, without State
license, which were set for hearing before
Justice Miller on Saturday afternoon,
didn't materialize. The cases were report.
ed Settled, but the why and wherefore
Of the settlement was not given TO report
ers. ~
The annual cleaning OF the water basin
took place on Saturday. A large force OF
men were at work during the day cleaning
out the mud and rubbish. Those who
witnessed the work on Saturday, and no.
ticed the amount Of rubbish removed, are
unanimouslyof the opinion that the re-
servoir should be cleaned at least twice
year.
TnR members OF the V. G. B. Fishing
Club left last evening on their second an
nual fishing excursion up Big Wheeling
Creek, where they will remain several
weeks, hunting and fishing. The mem
bers OF the club are: John Snyder, cook;
Jim Robertson, huntsman; John Hook,
fisherman, and Harry Robertson, general
utility man.
1T is not alone the unripe fruit exposed
for sale on curbstone stands in the city
that makes work for the doctors and the
undertakers. Hanging on tho Dough,
with tho sunlight flecking it, it is more
tempting and not less deadly. Let the
country boys and village boys beware OF
all fruit which is not fairly ripened, that
their days may be long In the land.
STEELE MILLER, the irrepressible, was ar.
rested as a common drunk, Saturday
night, at the Second Ward Market by
Officer st. Myers. Steele didn't want 10
go, and the officer had to put the nippers
on him. Then he surrendered uncondi-
tionally, and begged that the dar-
bies be removed, as "they stopped the
circulation" He will be heard this morn
ing at the Police Court.
THE man with the excursion hat made
his appearance on the PostofIiCe steps last
evening, and while he stood on the corner
for moment waiting for q street car a
dozen small newsboys gathered under the
friendly shade Of the brim OF his head
covering. ltwould be impossible to give
the dimensions ofthe aforesaid brim with
out calling upon clvilengineer for super
fetal measurement, but II the style is sym
bolic at all OF Quakerism the owner Imust
be very high in the society.
CONSTANT complaints are made to the
police OF the dangerous habit OF South
Wheeling boys, in jumping on trains at
the B. & 0. depot and riding down to the
Eighth Ward, and jumping off at Hand
lans crossing. There Is an ordinance
against jumping on moving trains which
will be enforced II the habit is not given up.
Those interested should govern themselves
accordingly. Better stop, boys, before
you get into the Police Court bythis free
ride business, which is not only unlawful,
but also dangerous to life and limb.
How TO EAT FRUIr.-Now that fruits
are becoming plenty and cheap, and so
popular as to be in almost cverybody's
mouth, so to speak, a bit OF advice as to