Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-06-03
NOTE AND COMMENT.
A GOOD rain.

The busy hum of the nail mills was
heard yesterday.
SUNDAY nights rain cooled the atmos-
phere considerably, yesterday.
The firemen's ball at Fulton last week
realized the neat sum OF nearly 500.
A LARGE surprise party will steal a
march on SOuthsider this evening.
A GAS main is being laid on Thirty
third street from Chapline toward the
river.
THE temperance people will dramatrze
at Parker's Hall on Friday and Satur-
day evenings.
The hinge factory is running again,
and the prospect is good for a steady
working spell.
THE crops throughout the State and
neighborhood are reported rs being IN a
most fiOurishing condition.
THE Crescent Boat Club will hold its
first annual picnic on the 2lst OF tins
month. Cockayne's orchestra will play.
THESE are good nights for sleep. En-
iov the interregnum before the festive
mosquito begins his annual nocturnal
scrCnade.
Work is being rapidly pushed forward
on the new daylight packet for the Par
kersburg trade. The hull arrived here
last Sunday.
Two weddings will come off to-day,
and there will be four souls with but
two single thoughts, four hearts that
beat us two.
A FINE view of South Wheeling may
he had from the observatory on the
Eighth ward engine house. a railing
makes the sky parlor secure.
SEVERAL OF our fishing clubs will
camp out during this morning, and a
portion will lend its assistance toward
making a night trip on the river wierd
| and picturesque.
4 NoRTHENDER lost his valuable cana
~ bird Yesterday, it furnishing a meal
for a Thomas cat. lie has bought q
shotgun and sworn vendetta against
every cat in the county.
The Board of Commissioners granted
| license yesterday TO the Fulton coffee
houses, and the average Fultonlte can
sip his SChnapps without coming all the
way over the hill.
TIE Steubenville Loan Exhibition
wound up on Saturday. The gross re-.
ceipts were in the neighbOrhOOd oil
| $1,000 and the city COngratulates herself
on the success of the enterprise.
The brave soldiers, the SCARED heroes
| of many a sham battle, are exercised over
the talk Of the prospects OF their being
called out 10 90 to the wilds OF WetzeI
and save the Justices from the avengln2
/ fury Of the Red Men.
WM. L. BISHOP yesterday swore out a
warrant for Mrs. Mary Bounds, charg-
/ ing her with breach of the peace Sin
| that she did use loud and abusive IAN
guage toward the defendant" and the
| hearing is set for Saturday. All parties
concerned live in the Eighth ward.
TIE cleansing Of the sewer leading
| down Thirtv-first street is as dirty job
| as the Street Commissioner ever tackled.
II is filed with a solid deposit OF tar
/ from the old gas works OF the La Belle
| Mill. 1t makes an unsightly spot at
present, but the work will soon be com
/ pletei.
WHY is IT the old name OF coffee house
| still clings to saloons? Coffee is about
| the only drinkable you cannot get there.
/ What a change from the days OF Wash
| iugtOn and Franklin, when those indl-
/ viduals used to 90 to those places tn
drain Il social cup that cheercd but not
I iucbriatcd.
THE German Benevolent Society was
/ to hold its annual picnic at the Fair
/ Ground, yesterday, but, true to- name
/ of Umbrella Society" in encountered
| bad weather, and was compelled to
change its plan and hold a ball at Tur-
/ ner Hall. The memory OF man runneth
not back to the day when it did not
/ rain on the day set for picnic by this
unfortunate organization.
THE street car turn-table in front OF
| this office is often the scene OF ludiclouS
occurrences which may prove danger
| Gus, and passengers and drivers should
| be careful on turning the ear. Some
persons start up as soon as the car stops
/ and are caughtaS il whirlS and sometimes
/ thrown of their feet. Last evening an
/ old gentleman came near being preclpl-
tatcd into 4 puddle.
SOME fun loving Eastsiders played a
I practical Joke on one OF the Pittsburgh
excursionists otter his return yesterday
morning. \ bucket of Ice water was
suspended CVl nr the bed in such Il posi-
I ton as to be EASILY overturned. After
| our Manchester friend had snugly ar
ranged himself in bed, the drenching
shower was launched. There is cool
ness now between the jokers and the
joked.
The Committee on Lights met last
night, ii the necessary quorum was
found, to make up its annual estimate
for the expenses of the approaching
fiscal year. The charter OF the city re-
quireS this to be done not later than
/ June. The Committee on Water Works
will probably hold its meeting for the
same purpose on Thursday night. The
I Committees on Fire Department and
| Streets, Alleys and Grades have already
reported their estimates.
4 MAN came into this office last night
witt the air of one who knew something
/ that would sell an extra edition Of the
I paper llllN lubl lAli-' oilN Nl'IINA AilN'
an easy chair. The editersaid: "Well?'
| Thus encouraged, he moved close to the
table, showed aside pile Of copy and a
/ couple of proof sheets, upset the paste
pot, and resting his elbows on the va
| cant spot said; ooh, | heard the best
thing to-night-the richest thing-Oh,
| by George, it waS-ha, ma, ha-by Jove
can't tell it for laughlng-a fellow came
into a saloon and said Jupiter PluviuS
rei.ned supreme; see, rained, reigned'
there was Il sound as of contest be-
tween a cyclone and an earthquake,
with the chances two TO one in favor of
the latter, and as the editor wiped the
blood and brains from his scissors, he
mutterel something about "reigning
supreme i'm that office and that was
the kind of Red Man he was"
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