Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-17
NOTE AND COMMENT.
FROSTY weather, this.

JACK OONDRh VIII ne eAalhihou w
day.
BOARD OF EDUCATION in monthly SEES
sion tonight.
CocKAYNE's orchestra played at Horn
brooks Park last evening.
NEWSPAPERS laid between quilts pos
sess excellent heat retaining power.
IT will not be safe for skaters to ven
ture on the river yet for few days.
The Board OF Equalization and APP
peals was in session all day yesterday.
The river was fairly alive with bathers
last night. Fortunately they were be-
low the water works.
The Committee, of the Board OF Edu-
cation, on Buildings and Grounds, will
meet at 4 P. NJ. to-day.
The rumOr that couple Of boys were
frozen TO death last evening is we are
glad TO state, without foundation.
For the benefit of chilly people we
will state that camel coal makes much
hotter fire than the ordinary bituminous
coal.
A PROMINENT city official went TO
Moundsville on the Diurnal yesterday,
but while in town taking - walk,
was left.
WILL ExLEY lost valuable mule on
Friday. The animal was browsing on
Chapiine Hill and was caught by stroke
OF lightning.
SEVERAL OF the police were skirmish-
ing on the Island last night, but for
what purpose was too mysterious TO be
told by them.
Ir would really be relief ii one Ofthe
Steubenville papers would head Just one
death notice with some other words
than Failing Leaves"
The date for the Felsing-Weisgerber
race was not fixed last evening, owing
to the absence of Charlie Seabright; the
meeting was postponed to Friday.
Mr.. GEO. DEFFINBAUGH, who is en-
ploved at Sweeney's machine shop, had
one of his fingers badly mashed while
working at one of the boilers yesterday.
Mr.. d. C. LIST is adding considerable
improvement to his residence on the
corner of Ninth and Main street, and
when completed it will present hand
some appearance.
THE Bonanza Fishing Club left for
parts below yesterday. They took with
them one box of sardines and one half
loaf OF broad, also ten gallons OF lemon
ade. They will be gone two weeks.
THE attention of the Street Commits
sioner is called TO the condition of Alley
c.. near the head of Ninth street. The
late rains have made havoc with the
dirt and stones in the neighborhoOd.
OUR ordinary thermometer will not
register lower than 390 below zero, on
account of the mercury freezing at that
point. So if your thermometer acts
strange you viii know what is the mat
ter with 1t.
We are informed by q gentleman
from up the river that at Fast Liver
pool typhoid fever has assumed an cpl
demiC form, ut last accounts there being
So cases, while three deaths had occur
red on Monday and four on Tuesday.
Owing to the excessive work placed on
the physicians there, they were unable
to attend to all the calls upon them, and
appeals had been made to the neighbOr-
ING towns for medical assistance. II is
thought that the prevalence OF this dis
ease, as we'll as the diphtheria and scar
let fever plaques which preceded, is ow-
ing TO the inferior quality OF water in
use by the East LiverpOOlians, their
only source OF supply being directly
from the river, or from wells whose
Weld is invariably condemned by nom
residents as impure and unfit to drink.
--SieubeHrille Gazette.
Two little boys, aged and Is, stopped
at the Valentine House one day last
week, and said they had come from
Wheeling and were going to see their
grandmother at UniOntown. Their fare
was paid on the UniontOwn hack, and
in their childish innocence, they didnOt
seem TO think that food and lodging
would cost them anything. The kind
hearted proprietor OF the Valentine
House treated them with as much cour-
tesv as he would show his most distin-
guished guests, and in short time they
had made away with hearty supper,
got through with an interesting fight
AMI were sitting on the seat of honor be-
fore the hotel, handling their toOthpicks
with the grace OF old travellers. They
were given comfortable nights lodging
and breakfast, and were put on board
the hack for Uniontown, with gener-
Gus lunch to stay their stOmachs during
the ride Washington RerieC and Err
dmuer.