The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-07-12

TaE City Council hasn't met since last
night.
Police items are as scarce as mosquitoes
In winter.
To summer: You are all that could be
desired, and more too.
STRIPED watermelons are in style. They
knock the spots out Of q fellow.
ALMOST every day reports Of children
being lost are made to the police.
TIE Board Of Education will meet next
Thursday evening, in regular session.
UPto 2o'Clock this morning no meeting
Of Council had been called for tonight.
A SuMBHR Of shade trees about town were
blown down and uprooted by last nights
storm.
TIE only paper fled for record yester-
day with the Clerk Of the County Court
was deed Of trust.
SURF. RIDDLE will have big force Of
men at work cleaning the basin bright and
early this morning.
0Xaccount Of the rain last evening the
concert at siebke's Sky Parlor was post.
poned until Monday evening.
TnERE'S enough water In the river to
come up to q small boys ankles, but not
enough to cover q coal operators lows.
The importance OF the bill abolishing
the tax on quinine cannot be over'estimat-
ed. There are several grains OF quinine
annually consumed in this city.
THE sewer on 18th street, in front OF the
Exchange Bank, run through ITSELF last
night. Jimmy Nicholas at once took meas.
ures to have the damage repaired.
A CLERK in an uptown tea store com.
plains logically Of fifteen hours daily
work. 1t must be terrible Tedious, and
we wonder 0olong the barbarous EN-.
ployers will insist upon such hours.
AN Elm Grove street car containing
three passengers tipped over while turn
ing the curve at the Capitol building yes
terlay morning aboat hRlf-past six o'clock.
The passengers were little frightened,
but escaped unhurt.
INAsMUCH as there are only seven nights
in week, why not inaugurate series oil
Council matinees2 By this arrangement
our ward statesmen would be enabled to
shoot of their superauous oratory at least
fourteen times week.
The blackberry business was booming
yesterday, and commission merchants
were as busy as bees handling the lusci'
Gus fruit. The berries brought forty cents
per bucket at wholesale, and were retailed
at fifty cents per bucket.
STREET COMMISSIONER NICHOLS wa'
busy yesterday, with large force OF men
removing the mud and debris left on the
streets and alleys by the heavy rains oil the
preceding night. Every storm brings
work for the Street Commissioner and his
men.
THERE are:already about a dozen Wheel
ing families occupying cottages on the
Moundsville camp grounds. The location
is very pleasant, and with the advantages
afforded by the Camp Meeting Associa
ton, quiet summer resort may be en-
joyed at comparatively small cost.
For the remainder Of the season the
cool, shady piazza OF the rural boarding
house will be filed with rocking chair
and sewing baskets, and while inCompre
hensible worsted dogs grow upon canvass
the very leaves of the Virginia creepe,I
will whisper to each other the one word
Gossip"
An SIN, the belligerent Chinese laund
ryman who was sent to the Work House
on Thursday for starching customer in
stead Of his shirt, yesterday discharged hi
obligation to the city and was himself dis
charged from custody. All Sin has thu
: most supreme contempt for "MeliCar
mans" laws.
TIE heavy rains Of Thursday night ant
last evening have inflicted upon the ripen
ing wheat, SO nearly ready for the harvest
an amount ofdamage that itisnow Difficult
to correctly estimate. Much depends
however, upon the weather that shall fol
low. II cool and breezy, almost no dam
age will be sustained; but II the weather
should be warm and sultry, considerable
mischief might be done.
TnEcases ofthe parties charged with sell
ing beer at picnics on the 4th inst, with
out State license, will be examined BY
Justice Miller to-day. AS these are The
first cases Of the kind, the result is look
ed forward TO with no little interest
among the German people especially, t
whom a picnic without beer would bt
like the play OF Hamlet with the melan
choly Dane left out.