Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-27
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

The theatrical season is opening out
with great boom.
No marriage licenses were granted
yesterday. Two deeds Of trust were re-
corded.
The Council Committee on Fire De-
partment met at the City Building last
evening.
Is there any significance in the pres
ence of so many Of the B. x o. officials
in the city?
The Etna Mill made large shipment
OF iron on the Andes, yesterday, TO
southern parties.
THR world renowned Joe Jefferson
will personate Ragged Rip" on Tues
day OF next week.
UNCLE BILLY MILLER, as the boys call
him, is again back at his old post, police
man of the First ward.
RESERVED seats for the Wallace-Nilla
Combination will be sold at Lucas
music store this morning.
The Maennerchor Singing Society
gives ''the last picnic OF the season at
The West End NJ. f. Church, oil
Bridgeport, will give grand social on
Friday evening OF this week.
Mrs. VIM. MILLER, wife OF Officer Mil
Ter, is now visiting friends and relatives
in Parkersburg and Marietta.
The Municipal Court met yesterday
morning, pursuant to adjournment on
Monday, but transacted no important
businesses.
A PARTY was given last evening at the
residence of Mrs. Thompson, on Market
street Sonth Side, in honor OF her
daughter.
Mr.. FRED. WIENER, the Fulton butch
err, received fine lot OF porkers from
Powhatan, yesterday, on one OF our
local packets.
MARKET street, between Ninth and
Tenth, is undergoing much improve,
ment. The sidewalks are being widened
and smoothed.
ALFRED TAPPAN had Jesse Meyers be-
fore Squire Philips yesterday ON a
peace warrant. The case was dismissed
at the cOmplainants cost.
Ir is thought by many that the appli-
cation by the b. < o. X. K. for injunc-
ton, will be argued before Judge Mel
vim at the end OF this week.
ONO river water again gives evidence
that rain has been falling. Its color Is a
cross between clay and gutter mud, and
its taste is sometimes worse.
A NUMBER of the young folks OF the
city held hop at Maennerchor Hall,
last evening, and had an enjoyable
time. Billy Mayer played for them.
THE cold Home" Hotel, on Market
Square, is offered for rent, as will be seen
in another column. 1t is an old estab-
lished house, with a good patronage.
A MEETING of Council for next Tues
day evening looms up in the distance as
a probable event, in which case 1t and
Joe Jefferson contest their respective
drawing powers.
Our friend, Mr.. Ben. II. Humphrey,
of St. Clairsville, has our thanks for some
superior specimens of Tyson and Bart
lett pears. They were as fine and deli
cious rs any We ever saw.
The ball to be given at SistersvllIe,
next week, promises to be the grandest
affair of the season. Some two hundred
invitations have Deen issued for 1t.
Cockayne's orchestra has been secured.
ABOUT niae o'clock last evening some
one put a torpedo on the horse car track
and when the car came along and crush
ed it the passengers imagined the day OF
wrath was at hand. This was on the
South Side.
THERE is a German family living in
one part of our city who have had their
children out begging for the last year or
so, but lately the old gentleman bought
himself lot and is about TO erect fine
residence on it.
II somebody with a shotgun and no
conscience would visit the Fifth ward
and polish off the bowling dogs, he would
confer an everlasting favor on the citl-
zcns down there. And he might take
i'm an amateur musician or two while he
was in the business.
A Mrs. MILLER, who lives above Fifth
street, was found at her residence on
Monday afternoon lyingin fit. There
was no one at the house at the time
but a small child The neighbors soon
had her restored and she islnow able to
attend to her domestic affairs as usual.