The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-05

SEVENTEENTH street 10 nearly ilnpassable.
otRculT and County Courts alternate at

SEVENTEENTH street 10 nearly impossible.
CtRcuiT and County Courts alternate at
present.
Mr.. CHRis. KLAeEs, otthe Eighth ward,
% seriously i'll.
Two Of the prisoners escaped from the
work house last Wednesday.
A SPECIAL term Of the Brooke County
Circuit Court will begin Monday.
Sherry TINoLE has very handsome
geological collection in his office.
To-Day Is the first Friday in Advent,
and Is fast day among the Catholics.
THERE are $50 prisoners now in conhne-
ment at the Nloundsville Penitentisry.
SAMUEL MovEY, Constable Of Webster
district, has rendered his resignation.
TnERE will be quiet wedding at 81.
Mathews Church next Tuesday afternoon.
SCARLET fever and several cases Of diph.
iberia are reported from the Eighth ward.
The new ice house at the Nail City
Brewery is rapidly approaching compile
tion.
McKEE, the Pittsburgh poet laureate,
took In several Of our public schools yes
terday.
Par RooSEY's Star Combination opened
three nights engagement in Pittsburgh
last night.
EIGHTH srREEr, between Market aud
Main, is in fearful condition, being nearly
all torn up.
MIKE EiLAN, a well known.runner ofthis
city, ran ten miles in Pittsburgh recently
for purse OF 800.
QUITE good case was made out
against the Holtsclaws, the alleged high
way robbers, yesterday.
A FAIR and festival is being held n
Washington Hall under the auspices Of St
Johns German Church.
CHAPLISE STREET, below Twenty.iourth
was thoroughly scraped yesterday. Bet
ter try that up this way.
CHIEF EccLEs, Thomas, Kenny and Billy
Cots, visited Pittsburgh last Wednesday
and took in the FIRE department.
The work Of resetting the Curbing on the
north side Of Filth street, was completed
last evening, and Is good job.
The work Of glazing and painting Swee
ney's new foundry at Twenty-seventt
and Chapline streets, Is nearly completed
TnE large nail plate shears in the L,
Belle mill were broken Wednesday, Caus
ing delay for some time in that depart
ment.
QUITE lively littlerow took place We'd
nesday night, between the Second Mate
and one OF the deCkhands OF the DiuTnal
on the boat.
The towboat Jim Brown was engaged
all day yesterday in an attempt to pull
of q barge that Is aground near Benson
Ferry, but without success.
NEXT Monday is the twmty.flfth ami
yersary Of the PRONUNCIATION Of the Doc
trine Of the Immaculate Conception b.
the Roman Catholic Church.
The site OF the old Hempfeld depot i
now the scene Of much railroad business
Coal, oil and lumber in large quanlitie
are stored and handled there.
Mr.. HENRY HISS, Of our city, is DOM
some fine granting and painting at tn
residence OF Captain Thomas Moore, nea
Tiltonville, Jefferson county, Ohio.
ENoCH BOYD, whose death notice ap
pears in this paper, was for many years
paper mill employee in this city, ant
was the father Of twenty-one children.
BENJAMIN ExLEY, Esq, Of Martin
Ferry, celebrated his list birthday yester
day at his home. A large number OF hi
relatives paid their respects during til,
day.
A BOX sewer from the hill above Nintl
street is admirably constructed to overflow
Market and Ninth streets and make thing
very unpleasant in that neighborhoot
every freshet.
AN excursion party will 60 from GU
city, and points along the river, to Par
kersburg on one Of the packets during thu
holidays. TT. CoGkayne's orchestra will
accompany it.
The employees at the United Engine
House complain OF the large number o.
children who gather around the house
when an alarm Of fire is struck, as they
are in danger Of being run over, and are
very much in the way.
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