Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-07
NOTE AND COMMENT.


COOLER. .4..
BUSINESS slack.
The operate and theatrical season
gradually approaches.
TALLNAN's coal mine in Fulton has
suspended operations.
A SELECT party will be given at Will
bert's Garden this evening.
ONE more fishing party left South
Wheeling, yesterday afternoon
THE police raided the pleasure man
sions last night in way that made the
inmates feel sick.
Ii there is a duller place in the city
at present than the Capitol it should be
ashamed of itself.
A YOUNG lady wants to know why she
can't advertise for sealed proposals as
Council Committees do.
IT is said that Walter Marshall has
made arrangements to work the Tall
man coal mines at Fulton.
ABOUT fifty people will accompany
Coc<avne's band to the Harvest Home
picnic at Craig grove on Friday.
\ LARGE party from Bellaire went to
Iornbrook' park last evening and
danced until closed up by the rain.
ABOUT two thousand boys daily dis
port themselves in the creek at Amick' 8
Hole, and you can't begin to stop them.
A MEETING of Council will surely come
oifon Tuesday next, as that is the regu-
lar meeting night. Until then let us
rest.
"THE White Spirit OF Lake Erie; or a
Trip on the Steamer Pearl" is the title
Of Il forthcoming book by a Wheeling
author.
Ir was a novel sight last evening to
see gentleman running about hunting
up the sheriff to pay his taxes, Give
him Il harp.
A member of Council, in opposing the
street cleaning ordinance, said there
would probably be no rain in August.
Looks like 1t.
\ STREET car ran over canine III
South Wheeling yesterday morning and
broke his spine. A revolver shot put
him out of misery.
A BARREL of whisky tell on Charlie
Faris' right leg, yesterday afternoon,
and now he proudly announces himself
as the owner OF game leg"
THE new shell to be used 10y Louis
Felsing in his match with Weisgerber
was received by express yesterday and
carried in triumph TO the Nail City boat
house.
\ HORSE belonging to John DOugherty
iell from the Fulton bridge on Tuesday
evening and was badly injured. The
temporary loss to Nh. ID. will be quite
seriously felt.
BARRIERS and ice men don't mind this
weather, and could be as smiling as
ever if the mercury would suddenly
make a wild dash at the top of the tube
and stop at llO'.
A COUPLE of boys had anarrOw escape
from drowning yesterday afternoon,
their boat capsizing and throwing them
into the water. A skifi came oppor-
timely to the rescue.
IS accordance with instructions from
the Committee on Fire Department,
Chiei.Eccles has put his appOintees to
work and SAYS he has not a relative on
the force. But the muddle exists all the
same.
MERCHANTS of every grade, class and
description report business as stagnant
i'm the extreme. June and portion OF
July were above the average for this
season, but the bottom has suddenly
dropped out.
YESTERDAY, though not warm, was
exceedingly close and sitting, and it was
a general complaint that the heat was
ielt to a greater extent than during
many really warmer days. The dashing
rain showers cooled things off nicely.
THE Indignation of the North Enders
was Yesterday afternoon called down
upon two Bellaire bloods, who drove an
attenuated horse through the streets at
a killing pace, squirting him up contlnu-
ally with brutal blows from the but OF a
whip.
JUSTICE MIX is busy ornamenting his
office on Jacob street, between Thirty
fourth and Thirty-iifth. When COM
pleted it will be cosy and attractive in
every particular, so much so that 1t will
be pleasure instead of pain, to be sum-
moned before him.