The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-14
Brief Mention.
WAS there frost last night7

Brief Mention.
WAS there frost last night2
YESTERDAY was thecalm after the storm.
TIE circus Is coming, and the old iron
men will have brief boom.
THE Mennerchors will give grand
picnic July 9th Of Cresap Grove.
MARRY all the delegates to the State
Convention returned home yesterday.
Mr.. j. W. DlckEY, the sheep breeder, Of
West Alexander, Pa, was visiting friends
in the city, yesterday.
THEannual contest between the junior
and sophomore classes Of W. and j. Col
lege will take place May ed.
A MEETING Of the Ladies' Temperance
Band will be held at 8 p. N. to-day at the
Second Presbyterian.s Church.
THERE will be favorite "German" at
Mt. Belleview Hotel, out the pike, to-
night, for which Kramer will play.
.KRAMRR's band will go down tomorrow
on the st. Lawrence excursion TO Cincin-
natl. This excursion will be very large
and pleasant one.
II the people Of West Virginia keep on
getting good the Office OF justice Oh tne
peace might as well be abolished, or lts
Jurisdiction confined 10 civil cases.
ALL the kilns at the pottery have been
finished and work is now being vigorously
pushed on the new buildings. The cast
ings for the machinery and mill arrived
yesterday.
SOME OF our citizens are preparing to re-
move their families to the Moundsville
Camp Grounds for the summer. These
grounds are rapidly becoming a popular
summer resort.
Two boys, who were riding on the "cow-
catcher" OF q helper on the B. d 0. yester..
day near Benwood, were thrown off and
badly bruised. That's right, boys, jump
on again, the next notice may be louder.
The arrangements for the grand re-
union picnic at Wilbert's Garden, on
Decoration Day, are completed, and 9
large crowd will be in attendance. 7. T.
Cockayne, with his orchestra, will be on
the stand.
THE bank in the rear OF the residence o.
Market Master Edwards, North Main
street, caved in upon the p, W. 4 KY. X
R., night before last, and the "mud team
was engaged all day yesterday in remov
ing the debris.
THERE is a probability that the ole
Phillips machine shop and foundry viii
be purchased and new machine shof
started. Some Of the finest engines or
the western waters have been turned GU
from these works.
THE large flag which floats across Mar
ket and Twelfth streets, at the McLur,
House Topped about the gas-lamp yester
day, and carried the lamp up with 1t whel
lifted by the wind. The glass was demol
ished, and the frame badly bent. The &C
cident was certainly unique one.
THERE is a miserable creature almos
constantly on our streets who carries al
infant few months old, and both attrac
attention to their filth and poverty. TIT
woman, when not on the streets, is on tn
street cars, for which she appears to hay
a mania. The child should be sent to tn
Children's Home and the mother TO tn
Poor Farm.
Tue GREAT Boar RAcE.--Au admirable
opportunity is now offered to persons de
string to witness the great boat race be
tween Courtney and Hanlan. Rount
trip tickets good for one week are on sal
| at the B. & o. depot at $40 60. Thes
tickets are also good to Ivy City, the seen
Of the race, and also admit the bearer y
the Fair Grounds. We doubt not man!
Wheeling men will take advantage OF tn
terms and 20.
A GREAT many stock shippers between
this city and Chicago are saving $40 pc
car on their cattle shipments by the FOL
lowing schedule: The freight per car OF
cattle between Chicago and Washington
Pa, via Wheeling, over the B. & Q. r. X
is s25, while the freight between this cit
i. and Chicago is sos. The shippers sent
their cattle to Washington and drive then
overland to this place, distance OF thirt.
miles.-P Pittsburgh Commercial.
TuE Mnnnerchor Singing Society gay
one OF their occasional balls at their hal
Fourteenth and Market streets, last night
at which large number OF ladies an
gentlemen were present. Yiewigs o.
chestra furnished the music. Anon
|, those present we noted Prof. HERNIA
J Schockey, Prof. Herman Rbeling, and MI
,, VIVA. Arbenz. who but recently arrive
! from stutgadt, Germany, where he was
. student OF music. All three OF these ger
tlemen were attendants at the same cor
servatory, but with the exception OF Nj
Arbenz have completed their education.