The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-02-04

TIE Ice crop Is nearly all gathered.
MARSSEscHoR masquerade tonight.
sPRiSo time has come, gentle Annie.
perhaps.
TIM Bridgeport people are talking Of
investing In q fire engine.
THR pedestrian lunacy Is rapidly be-
coming epidemic. twill strike Wheeling
soon.
TUE Parkers' Hall temperance folks gave
q social and literary entertatnmentat their
hall last night.
CRY CouNclL meets In regular monthly
session next Tuesday eyening-one week
from tonight,
The Council Committee on Fire De-
partment met at the city building yester'
day afternoon.
THERE was meeting Of the Council
Committee on Legislation, last evening, at
The city building.
HAvERLY's United Mastodon Minstrel
Company, torty.Six members, patronized
the Mcclure House.
TIIE Wheeling Sabbath School Teachers
Association meets at the United Presby'
terrain Church tonight.
"THE chambermaids In the big hotels,
they lifted their windows high" when
IIaverly's boys in their bigplug hats were
marching gaily by.
THR elegant new steamer Hudson will
leave for Cincinnati this afternoon at 8
o'clock, in place Of the Andes. Shippers
and others will please take notice.
TnE Triadelphians held meeting at
Flyers Hotel on Saturday evening last,
and adopted series Of resolutions pro.
testing against the use oil steam on the
Wheeling & Elm Grove Street Railway.
YESTERDAY afternoon the official bond
Of Mr.. Hugh Sterling, the new Postmaster
In this city, was prepared-and will be
sent 10 Washington to-day. Messrs. John
Frew and Henry SchmulbaCh are the
sureties.
Yesterday afternoon q car on the In
cline at tho Top Mill broke loose from It's
iastenings and took run down the incline
i6n It's own hook, colliding with car on
the r. W. & Ky. Railroad, and doing some
considerable damage. A similar accident
occurred but week or two ago.
The Board Of Commissioners yesterday
reelected Barney Stanley to the office Of
Agent Of the County Inhrmary, which he
has filed very Rcceptably for q number ol
years past. His salary, however, was cut
down from 81 900 to $500 per annum. He
gets his house rent and coal free.
TIE funeral OF Mira Ella P. Clayton, Of
Grafton, which took place In that town
Yesterday afternoon, was one Of the
largest ever known in the vicinity. Flu
neral services were conducted in the
Methodist Protestant Church, by Reys
Cowan and Flanagan. Deceased was IN
her twenty-ninth year.
THERE was bit OF row In the colored
Baptist Church, at Bridgeport, last Satur.
day night. Several OF the congregation
became no disorderly that it became ne
cessary to call In the police to preserve the
peace. The difficulty originated from q
quarrel between rival ministsfa, the friends
Of each taking part in the fuss.
THE st. Matthcw'G Social tonight should
not be forgotten by tho public. The
Social is given under the auspices 81 the
Mite Society connected with the church
Supper wilt be served from Q 10 5 o'clock
and during the eveningthe company llbe
pleasantly entertained with choice musical
and literary exercises. The admission Il
only ten cents, and supper twenty-five
cents.
THERE are now two petitions out re-
ferring to the use OF steam power on the
Wheeling and Elm Grove Street Railway,
The first petition on the subject circulated
in East Wheeling opposed the introduc,
ton Of steam, and now there Is one in cir
culation in the same locality praying the
Legislature TO pass the bill recently intro
duced In the House, giving the company
the privilege Of using steam.