Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-08
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

A HEAVY rain fell last night.
Circus this day week.
The gong will soon sound for straw
hats. ID
THE steamer w. P. Thompson leaves
for Cincinnati this morning.
CAPT. BILLY LIST has been offered
$4,000 for the steamer Hudson, but re-
fused il.
The Ragon lost considerable time on
her last trip by getting on the bar at
MatamOras.
The Mallie Ragon put off ll5O barrels
of oil at Bellaire, yesterday, Tor parties
up the river.
A CURIOUS fragment OF petrified maple
wood. was left at this Office by Charlie
Miller last evening.
SOME shots were fired at chicken
thieves on Saturday night, by Alex
Laughlin, Esq, but without effect.
CAPT. WM. PRINCE expects to have
new boat in the trade to replace the
Iron Valley in about three weeks.
CocKAYNE's orchestra that went &c
Sistersville on last Friday, did not ar
rive home until yesterday afternoon.
A MEETING will be held at the com
mittee rooms, Bridgeport, this evening.
for the purpose OF organizing boatciuo'
A NEW boat club, the Riverside,
has been organized on the South Side
and starts off with a membership OF 70,
Mr.. WELLS, who resides near Long
Reach, Tyler county, is having most
handsome residence built on his farm
A son of Vim. Haller's had runaway
on Saturday afternoon, resulting IN
breaking wagon, but not damaging the
boy.
Ar the Sistersville ball on last Friday
evening, Miss Katie Fite was awarded
a most beautiful boquet as the best lady
WALTER.
Mr.. SAMUEL LANKORD, one Of the en-
gineers on the Mallie Ragon, Is now
rusticating at his home in Monroe
county, Ohio. sr. r..
THE little steamer "News-Letter" was
hailed by the Malle Ragon, near Mata'
moras, Yesterday, and her agent drove
thriving trade in papers. .
CAPT. WM. LIST and part OF the crew
of the st. Lawrence, returned home
Yesterday, leaving their boat at Parkers
burg. The river is too low.
\ LARGE temperance meeting at OTIS
Hall, last evening, was addressed 10y
.NIessrs. q. w. Baggs, DIR McCracken
J.. G.. Cracrait and Capt. John Baggs.
THE residence OF Col. y. Wilkinson
Eolf street, below Twenty-second, wa'
entered by thieves Saturday morning
'before day light. Nothing OF value was
missed. .... .
ALL who attended the ball at Sisters
willie ON last Friday evening pronounce
il the finest affair of the season. A very
large crowd was in attendance, who en-
loved themselves to Cockayne's or
chestra.
YESTERDAY afternoon a fight came OF
i'm paper mill alley" South Side. /
was an outgrowing of the Watson-Car
ney difficulty, one man averring tina
Watson was the best man, and the othe
allowing that he lied. No arrests.
A MAN, supposed to to be Frank Nor
gan, missing stOckyard man from Gin
cinnati, was found at the New McLurt
House, by the City Sergeant, on Satur
dav. He lett on the ll:27 train on thu
Pan Handle road. The Sergeant had M
orders to arrest him, hut telegraphed hi
whereabouts to Chief Wappenstein, o
Cincinnati.
THE following are our sentiments, ex
actlv. naturalization and harp TO
the genius who penned these lines:
I'll hate 10 be an editor,
Shrieking fOl reform,
I'd hate tn be- u comp
While making up form.
Ia hate tn be q typo,
Standing AT the case,
Ia hate 10 be a prcSSlnan,
With such dirty face.
I'd hate To be the devil.
And have such ugly feet
Id rather bc local,
And like the local eat.