Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-12
A MINUTE WITH THE NEWS.

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AT present rates the thieves OF this
city will soon be thinned out.
TEE street crossings were all cleaned
in the north end Yesterday by Mr., +.
Kenney.
A COLD wind started up, last evening,
and the temperature fell several degrees
during the night.
THE hay market was not so well at
tended, yesterday. The rain has made
the roads bad in the country.
Two men were injured, yesterday, at
the BenwOod stone quarry. We are not
in possession of the full particulars.
The ladies' of the Reformed Episcopal
Church will have social and bazaar
Wednesday evening, December 18th.
MARY ANDERSON will arrive from Co
lumbus to-day. She played Evadne last
night in that city, to,a crowded house.
BALLOON hoop skirts are again in
fashion, and soon the dear girls Will
prance about, looking like animated
hOgsheads.
A CERTAIN individual is trying to get
ND a loan exhibition for Wheeling. lie
saws there is one or two Councilman he
wants to exhibit.
THE cold Home" on Market Square,
was opened last night with a grand
spread and dance. Niewig's band FUR
nished the music.
OFFICER MCCULLY yesterday recovered
a set of buggy harness during a trip IN
the country. The harness can be had
upon naturalization.
TIE Mathews Light Guards enter
tanned their numerous friends at the
Armory, last evening, by ball. Cock
ayne furnished the music.
The weigh scales at the corner OF
Seventies and Market streets have been
sent TO Pittsburgh To he repaired. 1t
will take some eight or ten days to com
plcte them.
l. III. MORRIS was badly hurt, yester-
day morning, by being kicked IN the
groin by horse. He IS now confined
TO his residence, corner OF South Broad
way and Virginia streets, Island.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was oc'
casiOned on the Island, last evening, by
a report that burglar was in the resi-
dence Of G.. NJ. COen, Esq. "A crowd
gathered, but no burglar was captured.
BROAD gauge coaches can now be car
ried on the trucks of narrow gauge
roads, and transferred to the broad
gauge, without much inconvenience.
This overcomes the greatest objection to
the narrow gauge.
AMONG the recovered goods at the
Sergeant's office, awaiting Identification,
are a smOothbore rifle and an overcoat.
The latter is a brown sack with velvet
collar. The owners can have them upon
proper Identification.
TuE little steamer Lilly that attends
to the government lights along the Ohio
river is furnished in as grand a style as
a palace, and the expenses per day
would run the fine steamers Thompson
Dean, NatcheZ or any OF the large
steamers below.
DIVINE service will be held this even
inc at $50 by the temple congregation,
worshipping at the |. o. o. +. building.
The feast of lights is i'm cOmmemOration
of the victories of the Maccabees
over Antiochus, Epiphanes and the
Svrians, and the re-dedicatiOn OF the
Temple OF Jerusalem.
Ixa crowded street car, yesterday, a
adv said to her fair neighbOr, in an
audible whisper: "li see John speak
ing 10 that Memner girl again I'll cut
him right dead the next time | meet
him on the street" Her hearers be-
came so interested she stopped short.
The Steubenville G0,ette gives expires,
sion 10 the following opinions: Mayor
Irwin did right in refusing a license to
Cooke, the Spiritualist, for a show in
CARROTS Hall on Sunday night. II is
bad enazgh To allow such exhibitions
as thA given in Wheeling on week
DAYS, am on Sunday it is simply out
rageOus.
YESTERDAY evening an enterprislng
couple from Ohio called upon Rev.
Masden TO be bound together, having
procured a matrimonial permit from
Ohio. They were told they must have
a West Virginia license, and started out
in search Of Clerk Hook. They found
him, again sorght Rev. Masden, and
now are in blissiul oneness.
The John Porter took the largest tow
Of friedrich from this place last Thurs
dav that ever went into Pittsburg, the
total number OF brick being $4,000
Capt. Stewart and Sam Reno were hei
pilots. The Captain says he regards
her as one of the best handlers he was
ever on, and that not one tow boat IN
fifty would take such tow into Pitts
burgh on the same water the bargeS
were drawing.-Nc'r Cumberland Int
pendant.
A LITTLE girl at the festival, last night
met with quite loss. She was a candi
date for a large doll and had collected
quite a sum OF money, which she KEEP
i'm a small brass bucket. Upon leaving
the hall, she stopped on the stairs to adj
lust her circular and put her bucket OF
the steps. Her companions hurried hel
of, and she forgot her money and re
turned i'm a few minutes 10 find 1t gone
Besides the financial loss, her chances
OF success are quite gone, and she wa
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