Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-03
A MINUTE WITH THE NEWS.

Snow. ...+I.
Blue Monday.
BOARD of Commissioners to-day.
YESTERDAY was All Souls Day.
WHEAT brings Sl,l0 in Washington
to-day. Reporter.
That was an icy breath that came
down from the North, yesterday.
THERE is no brilliant outlook for a
heavy police court this morning.
STELLA DAVENPORT will walk at the
Bellevue Garden Saloon this week.
The Office Of Reyman's brewery is
now heated by gas from his gas well.
FROM all that can be gathered the in
dications point to no scarcity OF coal at
present.
OFFICER MARTIN MALoSEY has gone
the way of all the good looking men
and has been married.
THE effort 10 make a Lazarus OF the
Waverly is taking palpable form and
will soon be heard from.
Ir was currently reported that whisky
had declined so cents on the gallon since
Zachariah ceased to live.
4 LARGE party .oi excursionists went
to Pittsburgh, on Saturday, but most oil
them returned the same day.
Two spans OF the new Steenrod
bridge are up and the third, or north
one, will soon be completed.
The hull of the new Iron Valley Is
now lying at our wharf. From present
indications it is likely to lie there.
AT Benwood, on Saturday, Galley
and Miller ran race for 500, which
was won by the former by five yards.
THE Nous letter corrects a statement
which it says appeared in one OF the
dailies." That daily was not the REGIS
/ TER.
! A RoUsING temperance meeting was
| held at Otis Hall, last evening. Good
speakers and fine music enlivened the
meeting.
A BOY named Steele fired a stone
| through Bookings drug store window,
on Saturday. and his father had to come
down with the price OF it.
The Parker family has fallen heir to
some money which give the members
about 81. 600 EACH "Seme have great
ness thrust upon them"
TIE Sheridan Rifles, twenty-four in
number, paraded on Saturday night.
| Their maneuvers were executed with
precision and won them many cOmpll-
ments.
CoNN's boys (Steubenville Herald
struck for part OF business boom
OF which they had read so much in the
! Herald, but the old man persuaded them
the boom" was "all in his eye, and all
but two went back to work at the old
| Tates.-Gd=ette.
NlEssRs. PORTER and Fendt, two lads
who live in Pleasant Valley, went out
| for fan on Hallow Fen. They egged
| several doors in Leatherwood, when an
/ ariStOcratic crack shot opened on them
with a shotgun. Porter caught 1t IN
| the face and Fendt in the rear, and will
think a while before trying it on again.
This shotgun policy is bad thing.
THE Bethany College loss by fire was
| adjusted bv j. n. Cole, of the Amazon
| Insurance Company, OF Cincinnati, o.,
as follows: Loss on buildings, $500
insurance $4,000; in Amazon, $1,000;
loss s.. 2O6G6; Franklin, $1,000, loss
| 3. 2O667; Peabody 5000, loss 81, 1868.
! No insurance on library, furniture and
paintings. The loss and damages were
assessed by Alex COen for the College
and A. II. Sheppard for the insurance
| companies.
TIE social hop given by the River
side boat club at Goetze's Hall, Friday
night, was most successful affair. The
entertainment was gotten up and car
ried out principally by the efforts OF
Mr.. Daniel Snyder, VINO deserves the
| thanks of the other members for the
time and attention he devoted to the
enterprise. About one hundred dollars
were realized, and though the hall was
| crowded to excess, everybody seemed
to enjoy themselves hugely. The music
| Of BoStOn'S band was universally
/ ,.r.,igal