Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-01-09
OVER THE RIVER.

Ir is said to be 50 cold in some parts
oi Ohio, that whisky Is cut into chunks
and sold 10y weight!
FRANK ATKINSON has the push in
him tn make the tobacco warehouse AT
Bellairc success llGOt.feId SPIRIT.
TnE Woodruff Il Sons Manufacture
ing Company, OF Salem, iileda certificate
oi incorporation at Columbus on Janu-
AIRY ii. Capital, $4,000.
SCHULTZ Il Co, OF GAINESVILLE, have
contracted for the plans for the new
Opera House. They will also make oi
the Zane House modern affair, con-
Meeting it with the Opera lloust, Tor the
benefit of troups.
l'HE ice is over twelve inches thick ON
our suburban ponds, and yet there are
scores ui amateur skaters who persist in
their impctuous efforts to punch holes
through il with the bluntest portion 0f
the human form divine CdlipH Re-
puSdOrg.
MR. THEO. G.. SULLIVAN, son Oi Col.
j. IL. sullivan, OF Bellaire, and Miss
Lizzie Cox, OF GAINESVILLE, were married
at the latter place last week. Miss Cox
is a niece of eX-IiOvcrnor Cox, of Ohio,
and a cousin oi MIR Sullivan. The
newly married pair Will reside in Prov
idcncr, Rhode Island.
FANNIE HINES il the name ut re-
spectacle dressmaker oi Akron, who has
sued Dr. John Wcimer, u wealthy citi-
zen of that city, for breach ui promise.
She wants fifteen thousand dollars, and
has engaged Hon. John McSweeney, OF
Wooster, and Hon. III, VI. Kinney, OF
Cleveland, rs her lawyers
TmE ladies OF Akron are circulating
and obtaining many slgners toa petl-
ton to the Legislature tOprotect, by ap-
proprate legislation, the common
wealth against the evils resulting from
the manufacture, traffic in and use as Il
beverage of Intoxicating liquors. They
ask the cooperation 0f the women
throughout the state.
1T is pity that the Ohio stat, Joar0d
persists in keeping AZ It's Belmont
county representative man who l. IN
no way tit To till the position. lie
is irresponsible, and has been repeatedly
dismissed from other papers on account
oi his unreliability. lie recently tele-
graphed from Bellairc to the STATE jour
ugi statement that a meeting ul prumi-
nent Republicans OF Eastern Ohio had
endorsed Ex-Governor Tom Young ior
reelection, and the dispatch was resent
all over the land, and the information
it contained is still being published uc-
casiOnally. There is not u word ui truth
in it. No Endorsement of Young was
made, ior no such meeting was held.
\ NuUNG man name Geo. G.. With
eral. of Washington, Pa, graduate oi
Washington and jefferson College,
made determined effort at suicide at
Wcllsyille on SATURDAY evening. lie was
visiting friend at that place, and
showed signs Of mental derangment.
While walking along the street lac
hruke away from his friend aud made a
dart fur the river. lie was followed ~
rapidly AS possible, and overtaken a lew
ieet from an air hole in the ice, for
which lac MAS making, and after strug-
gle Was removed from the ice. lie
seemed, afteTward, t. he perfectly sane,
and not at all sorry that his attempt
had been frustrated.
TmEY are having a big sensation at
Leetonia. a., over the marriage OF Mr..
Harvey Wcc,len and a Miss Anderson.
Rev. Alexander, of LectOnia, was in
yited to perform the ceremony, but,
when ready To commence, the discovery
Mas made that no license had been OH
tained The parents OF the Young lady
oppnsed the match, and Sot the necessary
papers could not tie had. The woman
was equal to the emergency. At her
proposal, the party adjourned over the
State line into Pennsylvania. and the
minister then pronounced them man
and wife, the ceremony taking place IN
the public road. And nov a hr,aherpi
the Young lady has made ms appear
ance, assaulted his new brUtheT-in-laW,
threatened the officiating clergyman
with death, and caused lively state oi
affairs generally. .....'..