Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-03-18
SIDEWALK SCRAPS.


WALrKR MARSHALL is having four new
coal barges built.
The Top Mill is preparing to blow up
its old rolls with dynamite.
JkYF DAVIS say he is "the girls de-
light and the bows dispisery."
SEVERAL DRINKS and disorderlies were
pulled in yesterday by our P'lice.
The disabled survivors Of the late
war received their pensions yesterday.
1T is expected that the new hot blast
at the Belmont Mill viii be completed
in about q weeks time.
Ms. ANNIE SHEIB and her pupils will
give one Of their enjoyable soirees tins
evening at Germania Hall.
We learned yesterday that there Is
some talk OF turning the East wheeling
WOODEN house into glass house.
Tue Theatre Comique continues to
attract large crowds nightly. Inc SENT
weekly change OF programme takes place
tonight
TRACK.LAYING on the Cleveland, Tus-
carawas Valley aud Wheeling railroad
has been completed twenty miles out
from Bridgeport.
We are informed that about ten men
have been discharged from the gas
mouse, among them several men who
been in the service for some time.
Al. SWEENEY < Sons large wagon,
containing two heavy rolls tor one OF our
mills, broke down at the corner OF sixth
and Main streets yesterday afternoon
The street crossings in North Wheel
ing were scraped yesterday, and per-
son can now manage 10 cross from one
side TO the other without becoming
stalled.
FOREMAN CooPKR, OF the United, Is
engaged in the manufacture oil a hne
pair of crutches for q disabled friend,
having stopped the sled business until
next winter.
DR.. J. /. BRowXsoS and President
Pendleton, OF Bethany College, are IN
yited TO sit as Judges in the literary con-
test at Waynesburg College, on Wednes-
day evening.
Miss IDA DEBoUT, OF Buffalo township,
Washington county, Pa, has lust con-
pleted the task Of making quit com
posed of ,l06 patches, ,lOo OF which
are Oi different cOlOrs.
W. A. MCMECHEN sold his little Mag
gle" mare to Prather, the halter, oil
Wheeling, on Saturday last. Dir. FRA
ther also purchased Hammer 81 Mr..
Nc. some time ago. and now has palr
of tiyers.-.S. CiGiTsriue ChrOHIctc.
HIGH Mass was sung by Father Sulli-
van at the Cathedral, yesterday mora
ingat 9 O'Clock, after which sermon
was preached appropriate To the day.
This. We believe, was the only observa-
ton made OF the day by the churches.
A FREE fight. ''go as you please, Oc-
CURED yesterday morning about
O'Clock on the Pewiky track At the foot
of Fourth street, between crowd OF
drunken roughs, some OF whom were
badly used up. We were unable to
learn any names.
Deeply interesting meetings are in
progress in the First Presbyterian
Church. The Rev. Robert Alexander,
ID. H.. OF ~. Clairsyillc, Ohio, will
preach CA Thursday and Friday even
Iugs oi this week at $50 o'clock, ana on
Saturday at 3 o'clock p. ~.
Ton KNEFF, filler employed at the
Top Mill, met with an accident yrster-
day morning that will lay him up i1r
about two weeks. He was working IN
the stock-house, when he slipped, and
a heavy barrel iell and rolled over him,
bruising him up right badly.
THE poles and wire Tor the new line
of telegraph wires-uow being
erected by the Western Union Com
pany between Columbus and Wheeling,
have arrived over the narrow gauge,
and will be distributed along the pike
shor,ly.-S,. CiairsViIis CbroHic'e.
WHILE Hugh Harrison was exercising
the United horses Yesterday, a small
yellow dog undertook To take a piece out
OF SANS" heels; when that dog stop
ped lac WAS dead From the way that
horse kicked, We thlnx he must be reia-
ted in some way To mule.
TWELFTH street, between Market and
Chaphne, is without exception, the
yilest libel ON a street that could be
found. The mud looks as though some
storm-toSScd ocean oi filth had suddenly
been rushed in and fastened there.
Horses swim and wagons Aoat through
1t. 1t is simply shameful.
THE invitations for q ball to he given
by the Eighth ward hose company, will
be- issued to-day. The affair will come
OF in koch's hail, April "a, and Is 'Or
the purpose OF supplying the place with
readius matter aud various little articles
Of comfort. The object Is aworIhy one,
and We wish the boys success.
Ir is gratifying to think that Gail,
oi the htsllig,Hosr, is seeking the credit
OF being connected with an enternrlsing
Journal, rs il Is "an over true tale that
"he himself is the "vcry prominent
embryonic journalist that the floor ut
the Nigilant engine house refused to hold,
and uo wonder. However, Lawrence,
it, never too late to seek to ATTAIN IT,
spectacle name.
IL is an III wind that blows nobody
any good. The ST Clairsvil.e ChrOHic'C
says: Mr.. Wm. DaniOrd, son OF cx-
Congressman DaniOrl, has received the
appointment OF mail messenger on the
Beliaire and Southwestern railroad, vice
Isaac Booth. resigned. This is al APP
pOintmeut worthy to be made, besides,
Mr.. u. is young enough 10 outgrow
having his neck broken several times.
A ROUGH and tumble fight occurred in
East Wheeling yesterday noon at the
corner OF Foil and Seventeenth streets,
between Flute" MCCiinuis aud Pat.
Bolivar, both Of whom had INDUCED
slightly in the flowing bowl. During
the naeleS McGinnis hit Bolivar sound
ing whack on the head with a stone. and
10th men were in somewhat battered
condition when they were parted by a
by-staRdeT.
THE Steubenyille Herald man must
have been in Wheeling when he wrote
this:
Oh. look a. the girl In the handsome clothes.
A bran new bat. and striped hose,
With nj on Der cheek, and white on her nose,
Nadiug On mud wherever she gOes-
because the streets are 50 muddy she
can't help il, unless she stays in the
house, and who would ever know what
the Spring styles were II the girls
couldn't get out doors?
PRoF. H. l. EDDY, the eminent or
ganist from Chicago, was in the city
yesterday visiting some OF our musical
people. Mr.. Eddy will give OMAN reel.
tails in Pittsburgh and Steubenville this