The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-11

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Thirsty men will soon catch straws.
The Municipal Court will sit to-day.
EAsrER'D the course Of winter takes It's
way,
THIS fair weather is bringing out the
~promenaders.
TIE ladies' walking hats look like sugar
scoops In front and derriCks behind.
TIE Board OF Directors OF the Peniten.
tiary met at Moundsville yesterday.
CouNcL meets tonight In special ses.
sion to dispose Of unfinished business.
THERE arc at present 222 male and 0 fe-
male prisoners in the State Penitentlary.
TIIE Street Commissioner Is putting a
layer Of broken stone Oh Seventeenth
street.
TitE "Pinaiore" chorus and orchestra
held q full rehearsal last night at the Opera
House.
Gov. MATHEWS has pardoned ]. g.
Walker, a two-year convict at the Peni-
Tertiary,
TIE Hinge Factory resumed operations
yesterday, and the managers look forward
10 q full run.
Eionr deeds Of fec and one deed Of trust
were recorded yesterday at the County
Clerks office.
THEN Z. Church Social, OF Kirkwood,
will meet this evening at the residence OF
Warren Hollister, Esq.
Work will be resumed on the Wheeling
4 Tuscarawas Railroad as soon as the
weather becomes permanently settled.
The Bible Glass OF the United Presby-
terrain Church will give q social and liter
airy entertainment tonight at the church.
RICHARD GRElNER, OF the First Ward,
has purchased q farm over in Belmont
county, o., and removed his family to It.
OK Wednesday last Isaac Stewart, q
mailer at the La Belle Mill, injured one Of
his hands quite severely while working at
o grindstone.
OTIS only a spring opening, ma" OK.
planned an urchin yesterday, rs he eX-
hibited his torn trousers after a leap over
a picket fence.
TIE lower animals have caught the in
lection, and cats In various portions OF the
city are organizing caterwauling matches
for the Spring season.
SOME fifty ladies and gentlemen left for
Washington, Pa, yesterday morning, in a
special car, to attend a meeting Of the
Ladies' Missionary Society at that place.
TIE original and only Hannah Fitzsim-
mons was locked up last night, on the old
charge Of o plain drunk. Hannah was
"scoOped" in front Of Jake Grubb's lew
elry store.
A LITTLE child OF Mr.. Helmbright, re-
siding on the corner OF Sixth and Market
streets, died yesterday after a very briei
illness. Its death is said to have resulted
from the bursting Of a blood vessel.
TnE Wonan's Foreign Missionary Of
Bridgeport will hold anniversary exercises
next Sabbath eveningin the n. u. Church
at Kirkwood. The addresses will be de.
liyered by Mrs. ]. NJ. Carr, Of GAINESVILLE,
Ohio.
YESTERDAY morning Mr.. Chas. O'Hara,
an attache Of the Asylum for the Insane,
at Weston, left for Weston with John
Archie, a lunatiC who has been confined
in the Ohio county Jail for the past two
years.
The notorious Dallas Smith, who broke
Jail in Bridgeport some time ago, and who
subsequently adorned a ball and chain in
the Wheeling Workhouse for thirty days,
was captured in B%ridGeporton Wednesday
by Officer Burdett and put safely away be-
hind bars.
Tue contract for furnishing coal for the
Ohio Valley Iron Works, at Moundsville,
for the coming year, was awarded to
Messrs. F. Davis 4 Son, successors to the
Union Coal Company, at the following
prices: For screened, 81 40; nut, s. 45;
slack, s. 20: delivered at the mill.
An original operetta, composed by one
Of the Sisters, will DO given at Mt. De
Chantal, May l4th. A special train will
be run to Mt. De Chantal on that occasion,
when it is expected the people will be sur
prised at the excellence OF the composition,
and delighted with other musical exer.
cises.
TIE St. Alphonsus Society, Of this city,
has received an invitation from tho st.
Joseph's Society, Of Canton, Ohio, to visit
Canton and participate in the ceremony
OF consecrating a Catholic church in that
town on the L22d Of May. It is probable
that a large number OF the st. Alphonsus
Society will accept the invitation.
A BRIGHT little fve-year old son Of Mr..
Lorenz Walther, Of the Sixth Ward, who
died on Tuesday afternoon OF that dread
disease diphtheria, was buried yesterday.
The funeral took place at 9 =. NJ, from Mr..
Walther's residence, No. POOL Chapline
street, and was largely attended. The re.
mains were inferred at the Red Mems
Cemetery.
TIE Register local is evidently a little of
color in religious matters. We clip the
following from yesterdays issue of that
remarkable sheet:
To-day is Holy Thursday or Ascension
Day in the Roman calendar, the thirty
ninth day after Easter Sunday, a festival
in commemoration Of Christ's ascension.
appropriation ceremonies will be conducted
in the Catholic and Episcopal Churches oil
this city"
Put him in the bag!
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