The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-19
nrief lIentlon.


NEXT Sunday will be the shortest day Of
the year. a
TIE seventeen year locusts are booked
for next summer.
FREionr business on the river is still
booming.
Nor a single case in the lookup at mid.
night last night.
THEBoard Of Education held very brief
session last night.
No SHOWS at the Opera House during
Christmas week.
"MLlss" will be Miss Annie Pixly's per-
Torrance in this city.
TIE german" gave It's weekly at
Fanzheim's Hall last night
one deed Of trust was recorded by Re-
corder Hook yesterday.
BLACK has collection OF Mary Ander-
sons pictures hung up in his den.
WILLIE, a little son Of Squire W. II.
Caldwell, died from diphtheria last night
GEORGE BAIRD, JR, lost q valuable mare
on Wednesday night which died OF lung
fever,
TIE Sigourney Literary Society will
give an entertainment at the college this
evening.
SQUIRE WAIT yesterday committed
Anna Ward to jail to await examination as
q lunatic.
Lori II. JOY resigned his position as
manager ofthe Upper Riverside mill on
Saturday last.
COMPLAINT comes from the Fifth Ward
that considerable sneak thieving Is going
on in certain quarters.
ROUND trip tickets are now sold on the
p, W. 4 Ky. TO Pittsburgh forSS rs each.
The order was issued yesterday.
A PLEASANT party was given to Mr.. Ed
schaeHer at his residence on Chapline
street, near Twenty.illth, last night.
The funeral OF James Campbell, a
mailer, took place yesterday afternoon
and was attended by The Belmont naiers.
INVITATIONS are ontfor reception at the
residence Of p. Harden, Esq, onTwelfth
street, on the evening Of the 23d, 10 Mr.. 4
Mrs. A. s. Harden.
A DILAPIDATEp, forlorn female sat fol
hours, last night, on the corner Of Market
and Twelfth street, grinding the the Last
Rose OF Summer" out Of an asthmatiC or.
gan.
JOHN CARRIER was before Squire Wal
Wednesday night on charge Of assault
ing Mike Shaughessey on Monday
Dismissed on payment Of costs by de
PENDANT.
OFFICIALS Of the r., q. & ST. L. r. Il
state that The exhibit Of their years bust
/, ness, which closes with December 81, will
/, show the fiscal condition OF the road 10 be
: far in advance of that Of last year.
A STORE was robbed at Warrington
Wednesday night, by tramp. The Chic
I, Of Police OF this city was notified by tel
!, egraph to be on the lookout but no one
|, turned up answering the description.
Tue first bridge west Of Bridgeport or
the Tuscarawas railroad was completed
and an engine run over II yesterday for
the first time. The span Is about III
feet long. Work is going on rapidly OF
, this road.
: The hearing in the case OF AL. Rose
: charged with stealing set OF harness from
Chris. Siebke, and set for hearing yester
day afternoon before w. II. Caldwell
J. p, was again postponed on account o.
the sickness Of witness.
A HORSE attached to an express wagon
ran over the platform OF the B. & 0. depo
yesterday and on to the tracks below, i'm
: mediately in front Of an approaching en-
CINE, which strucksthe wagon MASKING II
I to pieces, but the horse was uninjured.
o IT turns out that the body which wa
VI Irn Nn.1 ~ tR ,ko hIa,t
) that OF member OF the Presbyterian
Church ofRey. George Payson, at 1nwood
N. Y. The deceased expressed q grea
desire that his body should be cremated
and his request was complied with.
ABOUT 3A. NJ. yesterday man, who sale
he was from Martins Ferry, came init
Martins restaurant and said that he haC
been robbed Of $40 at the Bellyiew Gar
: den. His lace was cut and he was in AZ
intoxicated condition. He also said tina
he had lost set OF furs and an over
coat.
The Knights OF Honor will give grant
entertainment at their hall on the 9th o
January and afterwards banquet at thu
New Mcclure House. Their SteubenvillC
brethren will be invited guests and oul
Knights will thus have an opportunity o
! reciprocating the favors shown them a
] the latter city about year ago.
THE Pan Handle Agricultural Society
have elected the following Directors FOL
1880: James Archer, Robert Boyd, T. II
Buchanan, Samuel George, James G. Han
ma, G. D. KamiRsky, W. II. Mckee, Rob
ert Perrine, Joseph peidel, W. @. Barclay
D. Brown, @. II. Beall, J. N. Kirk, W. b
Faris, J. B. Gist, j G. Jacob, H. G. La.
gear, W. L. Miller, Adam W. Hall, G. P.
Waugh.