The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-12

yesterday.
THEaE will be q quiet wedding at Elm
Grove tomorrow.
THE Millerites were prepared TO 90 up
yesterday, but they didn't.
Two marriage licenses were issued by
Recorder Hook yesterday.
PRoH. sxowDEN and family will remove
10 st. Louis ina few weeks.
TUESDAY will be observed as 0 last day
among our Catholic churches.
THE manufacture Of leatherold will be
resumed OF Fulton In short time.
The property Of John Reed, at Pleasant
Valley, Is undergoing extensive improve
ments,
TnE Board Of Commissioners met yes
terday, and counted the returns oil last
Tuesdays election.
JAMES HANSON alias Anderson, escaped
from the solitary confines Of the work
house the other day.
SEVERAL new houses are going up on the
grounds lately occupied by the Washing
ton Mill, in South Wheeling,
TnRRE will be a concert at slebke's sky
parlor tomorrow night. Ntewegs Or
chestra will furnish the music.
NEARLY all the tickets for the Niagara
excursion have been sold. An extra boat
Is TO be secured TO meet the demand.
TnR Atlantic engine was tested last
night by Chief Eccles, on Eof and Seven
tenth streets. 1t worked all right.
RADCLGFp, the noted vocalistic clown,
gave q concert at the Postofice corner last
night advertising an Indian medicine.
F1vEs train left Washington, Pa, on Sud-
day for Ringland Camp Meeting on the
Washington and Waynesburg Railroad.
HENRY MRRx1H, the letter carrier OF the
Second and Third Wards, is rusticating In
the clark hills" OF Monroe county, Ohio.
A ROW occurred at Chris. Burkle's ga
loon yesterday morning, which will be in.
vestigated this morning at the Police Court,
TIM Geo. schad who was before the
police court o few days ago, was not Geo.
Schad the enterprising South Wheeling
butcher.
THERE will be O picnic on the Moses Ray
farm, two miles north Of Point Mills, on
the 10th inst Starr and Taggart's band
will be present.
The flags OF the different boat house
were displayed at half mast yesterday, In
respect to the memory Of Henry Budke, oil
the Brown Club.
THR case Of the State against Ben Jack.
son, for a~ssaulting Miss johnson, came up
before Squire VIM. Philips yesterday,
and was dismissed.
The following letters remain unclaimed
in the Wheeling Postofice: J.. w. Bailey,
A. ]. johnson < Son, Isaac Samuels, Ed.
Schafer, Ash Stills.
ALrTLE SON OF George st. Myers had
his leg broken yesterday morning by a
wagon running over it. The little fellow
Is only five years OF age.
TuE members OF the Catholic Church in
Washington, Pa, are completing arrange
ments for a large picnic TO be held at
Shirts Grove on the 23d Of this month.
OFFICER SULLIVAN dedicated the new
"cooler" in the Eighth ward yesterday.
A young and an ugly looking knife
were prowling around together, and were
put In.
A DOG belonging TO S. B. Chambers,
near West Alexander, going too near a
threshing machine, was caught In the
tumbling shaft and literally tlayed alive.
The brute had to be killed.
WoRKxEN were engaged yesterday in
putting the gas into the new hose house
in the Eighth ward. The carpenters are
busy closing up the list OF their work,
and the new building will Seon be COM
pleted.
The tile work in the New Mcclure
House was completed last evening. Mr..
Gregor Stuart, OF Cincinnati, finished the
work under the contract Of r. S. Coleman,
OF Cincinnati. The work Is spoken Of as a
model job.
OFFICER AsMUs found Ann. Kelly in a de-
plorable condition in theSixth Ward, up.
roarously drunk. She was conducted
down to the new cooler and introduced to
cell No. 9, which will be christened "Cas-
tie Kelly"
AN old German, living In South Wheel
ing, whose name we were unable to
learn, was run over near Bridgeport on
Sunday last by a passing vehicle and dan
gerously hurt. He was unable to get out
Of the road in time.
THIS morning an accident OF a very se-
rious nature was threatened TO the furnace
Of the Top Mill, but through the exertions
OF the employees 1t was ayerted. What is
known as a''chill" was very imminent,
but at present all is working right again.
The notice Of a foot race on Saturday,
between Messrs. Chris Hedrick and John
Foose was a joke %perpetrated by q young
man who thought it would be 'funny."
He left an account OF the race with us on
Saturday evening, and we published |. in
good faith.
A LOT OF guns belonging to the State,
and stored in Koch's Hall, in South
Wheeling, for some time past, will be taken
charge OF by Adjutant General Wood to.
day. They were procured for a German
company that failed to materialize.
An unusually fine specimen OF the bird
known in this section as the blue Crane
ornaments DR.. Turner'S Office, on Twelfth
street The bird was shot by DR.. viii
Bates, jr., e the Sister Islands ABOVE
this city, and was stuffed and mounted by
DR.. Turner, 1t stands nearly three feetin
height.
RuMoRs are in circulation that one Of our
wealthy citizens Is now negotiating for
the purchase Of the Hydinger estate In
the Eighth ward-a valuable property.
Hints have been made that a large manu-
factory will be erected on the premises, in
case Of sale. We hope the report may be
true. and something substantial erected
on this desirable property.