The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-10
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COUNCIL meets tonight
THERE was big slate at police court
yesterday morning.
oxE camp-meeting upon anothsr's heels
doth tread so fast they follow.
A WHEELING paper alleges that certain
gentlemen took sail in "yatch."
TIE colored Garfield and Arthur clubs
meet in their respective balls this evening.
CONSIDERABLE complaint comes from
Alley G that the lamps are not lighted at
night.
JUDGE CaAxMER yesterday fined man
TOR swearing on the streets. Served him
right.
TIM meeting at the Court House
Wednesday night will be meeting OF the
early campaign.
ALL the almanacs predict SHOWERS
about this time" But "about" Is too
elastic to bet on.
A RuxoR was in circulation last night
that burglary had taken place at Mt. De
Chantal, but the sisters in charge con-
tradicted II.
The deck-hands on the Mallie Ragon
struck yesterday against @ proposed re-
duction Of their wages. New hands were
readily secured.
SOPHIA WISTRRHAITER filed bonds in
$500 and was appointed administratrix
yesterday, Of the estate Of John Winter
halter, deceased.
The Committees on Accounts, Finance,
CITY Prison and Fire Department met at
the City Building last night and audited
the accounts OF their several departments
for July.
The Republicans Of Fulton will meet
Thursday, the 18th inst, at A: O. Wagner's
cigar store, to form Garfield and Arthur
club and make arrangements TO raise a
Garfield and Arthur pole.
HANNAH FITsiMMoSs was found drunk
Yesterday afternoon in Alley Is by officers
Gillespie and Wilcox, and taken TO the
lookup. This is Hannah's first appearance
in public for long time.
THE surviving members Of Carlin's bat
terry will meet next Saturday night at the
commissioners room in the Court House,
| for the purpose OF perfecting arrangements
for their reunion and banquet on the 10th.
SEVERAL rooms and part OF the main
entry at the Top mill coal banks fell in
early yesterday morning. No one was
hurt, but large number OF tools were
buried under the earth and stone by the
fall.
TIE Ohio county delegates to the Con:
gressional Convention met, or attempted
to meet, last night at the City Building,
but there was not enough 10 hold meet
ing, and the few who came left without
transacting any business.
THg nameof the woman Of III repute ar
rested OF Holidays planning mill Sunday
night was Susan Weimar, and not the
name given by her to the officer making
the arrest. Miss Swarzback, whose name
the girl assumed, is lady above reproach.
WoRk has begun on the Improvements
on Thirty-third street, in the Eighth
ward. Now let these improvements COME
up Chapline street TO Twentieth, and then
to the Market street bridge. Wheeling
will then have one continuous street from
the Creek to Benson's Ferry, in passable
condition at all seasons.
The camp meeting Of the colored Meth.
odist congregation ministered to by Rev.
Draper, closed a very successful and pleas.
ant bush.meeting at Gaston's Orchard, on
the Hemp6eld Railroad, last night. II
lasted three days, and was largely attend.
ed by both white and colored people. Il
Is estimated that not less than one thou.
sand persons attended divine service on
Sunday.
AoooD deal OF excitementwas caused last
night by an alarm sent into police head
quarters from East Wheeling, where 1t
was said that alburglsr had been surround.
ed in Hess's meat shop. Maybe there had
been one there, but when the police force,
fire department, reportorlal stats OF the
morning papers and about one'third oil
the population Of the city gathered in the
vicinity there was no sign OF anything oil
the kind having been the case.
By some sort Of heterophemy we were
made to say yesterday that Mayors Band
played at the Democratic meeting in the
First ward, Saturday night. 1t was the
Wheeling City Band whose sweet strains
redeemed that occasion from utter failure,
and twas cruelty unfair to deprive them
OF the honor which was their just due for
80 arduous an achievement so well at
tanned. It certainly is creditable in the
extreme TO make such an affair pleasant to
the beholders.
The welcome announcement is made in
our advertising columns, this morning,
that Hon. John A. Hutchinson, Repub-
lican candidate for Congress in this dis
trict, will address the voters OF Ohio
county on three evenings this week, his
first meeting being at the Court House to-
morrow evening. On Thursday he will
speak at Potomac, in Liberty District, at
1880 Pm, and at the same time Friday
evening at the vacant lot near Wilson's
saw mill, in the Eighth Ward.
The knights Templar, Of this borough,
will be Joined by body OF the same or
der, from Wheeling, and will leave here
at ten o'clock A. N. on Saturday next, via
the CHARTERS Railway, for Chicago. The
knights will 60 fully equipped, wearing
sword, baldrick, black frock coat, pants
and vest, and regulation hat. They will
be accompanied by the Washington Cor
net Band. The fare for the round trip,
which outsiders may also take advantage
Of, is only So Washington Reporter.
THE Democracy are all in state OF sus.
pense that is pitiful TO behold. There Is
only one subject that interests them.
Hopes, fears, aspirations, "all are lconcen.
tired in one thought intensep' how not TO
do II at the Congressional Convention 10.
morrow. 10 far only one oil the delegates
has arrived. Col. W. P. Thompson, Of
Parkersburg, came in on the late train
last night, and at once sought his room at
the Mcclure House. To day arrivals will