Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-24
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

RAIN again.
The great race is the absorbing topic.
A SLIGHT rain fell about midnight last
night.
The levy for water tax has been txed
the same as last year.
Has Wheeling DIR. Mary Walker IN
the person OF Gooseberry?
NEXT week is the committee week at
the Board of Commissioners.
WHAT has become OF the proposed
hop at the Mcclure House.
Tux Starlight Social will give dance
at Goetze's Hall on October3.
Ten cases are in the cooler at this
writing. Most of them DRINKS.
jim BLAINE, OF Maine, will be at
Clarksburg to-day and tomorrow.
RAILROAD accidents seem to be loom
ing up. Another at Bellaire yesterday.
THERE will be love feast services held
at the Fourth Street NJ. f. Church to-
night.
DURING the next two weeks Hymen
will be the evening star and ministers
i'm demand.
REv. A. c. GEORGE, of this city, is to
deliver a temperance lecture at PalatIne,
next Monday night.
THE managers of the German Social
talk of holding their weekly meeting at
Laramie's Assembly Hall.
THE heaters at the Belmont mill were
off Yesterday on account OF there being
no metal, but viii resume this morning.
THE reservoir, yesterday, was lowered
at the rate OF an inch and half an hour,
with both engines running 10 per cent.
faster than usual.
THE final deposit OF stake money in
the Felsing-Weisgerber race will be
made tomorrow night, and the referee
will be selected at the same time.
TIE race between Hunter" owned
bv Mr. Urich, of Urichsville, and Will.
Iiandlan's Hermit" has been postpon-
ed from next Saturday TO the one tol-
lowing.
Puck. OF the Associated Press, has a
pair of things on his feet that can dis
count the "seven league boots OF fairy
lore. His approach on calm night re-
sembles distant thunder.
If truth were not indestructable, it
would have been broken up long ago by
the veraciOus HtsiiigeHcer local. As 1t Is,
its back is badly wrenched in the many
struggles he has given it.
A MARKET street peanut vender, who
had his first experience at selling paw
paws this season, says they are not a
profitable article Of merchandise. They
gets soft so quick, an l have to throw
'em awav.'
FRANK EMBLEM strained his back bad
IL, Yesterday, at the Il. d o. machine
shops. lie was lifting a heavy truck
axle, when he slipped, and the iron fell
upon him, intlicting the injury above.
ALTHOUGH a perfect test has not yet
been given the new gas furnace at
Hobbs glass house, it can be told 1t is a
success. Glass has been melted, but the
furnace has not vet attained the maxi
mum temperature, nor will il for some
days yet.
IF YOU wish to see anybody tO-mOr-
row night. YOU will have to attend the
IOuIlu Nllttl Nb'idl = mum i'"N =.
where YOU will find the bright man and
lovely woman. Every thing desirable
in the way of entertainment will be
furnished.
Two gentle ladies, Mrs. Schwartz and
Mrs. Shutiler, both residents OF Alley g.,
East Side, had Il slight disagreement yes
terIav and determined 10 settle 1t by
the rules OF the p. r., and accordingly
pummeled each other to their hearts
content. The remainder of this highly
interesting story will be heard at police
court this morning.
The children of Centre Wheeling
have contracted a dangerous habit OF
hanging on street cars to steal rides.
Yesterday little girl had dangerous
fall nj the corner of Main and Twenty
first streets, and it was only one of the
many that are constantly occurring. The
drivers cannot keep them of, and yet
are blamed ii anything serious happens,