The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-03-23
THE TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 49, 1880


BRIEF Mention.
THR Cleveland and Pittsburgh road will
ny steel rails Immediately.
Our military companies will be ordered
o stand muster soon, but can theyF
Mr.. EDWARDS was busy yesterday serv.
ing the subpPnas in the sweeney'DayiS
case.
TIE State Treasurer's office at the Capt.
tol is being re.carpeted, and otherwise i'm
proved.
TnE Wheeling City Band has now .
membership Of seventeen men, all good
musicians.
Mr.. WILL H. MARTIN, Of North Wheel
ing. leaves this morning on.a business trip
to Pittsburgh.
TnE forge departments Of the different
mills are still in operation, only the nail
factories being down.
HAIRY McLuRE is threatened with ty-
phoid fever, and is confined to his fathers
residence on the Island.
JuDaR CRANMER gaveno decision in the
telegraph squabble yesterday, and itmay be
some days before he does.
CLARK and Manion are trying to make
the city pay for street cleaning. II they
ever had these streets clean, pay them.
The. streets underwent thorough
cleaning Yesterday, and now look better
than they have this winter. 1t will rain
to-day.
EDWARD EVERETT asked and answered,
"What good will the monument do?" but
we ask and cannot answer, Where will
the monument be?"
The following letters are unclaimed at
the postofiice: Black, Miss Ada, Eyes, s.,
Fonnan, J. A., Hamilton, Harry, Hoyt, ii.
B., Joslin, J. D., Woodman, II. I.
JAMES ToDD, JR,, formerly Of List &
Todd, Of this city, has accepted a position
with Palmer, Fuller & Co., Of Chicago,
and left last Saturday for that place.
SEVERAL German immigrants arrived In
this city, Sunday, from "Vaterland," and
attracted much attention by their strange
dress. They purpose remaining here.
A LITTLE child about three years Of age
was picked up near the Capitol yesterday,
and taken to the City Building, where 1t
was claimed later in the day by its parents.
DEPUTY SHERIFF CURTIS, Of Wellsburg,
came down yesterday, and removed Dr..
Parkinson to the Brooke County Jail.
The DR.. has been confined in Ohio County
Jail all winter.
THIS afternoon at three o'clock the Com.
mittees on Ordinances and Streets, Alleys
and Grades are called to meet at the Cap
itol, TO determine the location oil the sol.
diers' monument.
vAAs' Wheeling City Band has been
augmented recently by the addition oil the
Viewig brothers and the Lohman broth.
err, ali good musicians. 1t now numbers
seventeen members.
THROUGH a Misrepresentation as TO the
time OF meeting, the Committee OF Ways
and Means for the Moral Improvement
Society, did not meet last evening, but will
meet nezt Monday evening.
STANTON & DAVENPORT laid April num-
scrs OF ".Scribner," Harper" the AT.
lantic," "Appleton's" and other periodi-
calls on our table, last night, They all are
unusually good and bright.
KRAMER and his band will go TO Little
Washington, Pa, tomorrow evening to
play for the annual contest between the
Philo ald Union and Franklin and Wash
ington Societies. He also played for them
last season.
THE Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad
Company are preparing to build, in Cleve-
land, $50 twenty.ton gondolos, at the rate
OF DO per month, tits the style OF freight
car the Pennsylvania line is adopting for
general use.
TIE funeral OF Max Becker, the Young
German who died at the Hospital Friday
last from typhoid fever, took place Sun.
day, and was largely attended. His BROTH
or Richard, who came on from New York,
leitio home again yesterday.
A SCARED bovine, which was being
driven through South Wheeling yester-
day, ran into an open door Of the resi-.
dence OF Adam Stoker, on Jacob street,
and caused CONSERVATION to the family.
No damage was done, however.
A CITIZEN enthusiastic on the park
question, and for the hill for the park,
stopped US last night and said, "why can't
the question OF taxation for park purposes
be submitted to the people, have heard
come OF our best citizens say they are
ready for the measure and want 1t done
at once"
THE telegraph constructionists brought
here by the W. U. Telegraph Company,
operating the A. & P. Telegraph Company,
are intended for work east OF this city, and
we were informed yesterday by Col. Rowe,
General Superintendent, that no overt act
was intended, as that sort OF work is not
in their line.
The Theatre Comique was crowded last
night, as an entire change OF programme
was presented. The two boys, the Craw-
ford brothers, attracted much attention
from their youth and their wonderful kick
ing and dancing. The 0'Briens, mother
and sons, are still big cards. This show is
immense and all should see 1t.
HoLr and Morgan, the verdant victims
OF Mortified, Morris and Sutton, were re-
leased from the Lookup yesterday, but
were in sorry plight, as neither had any
money and no means OF getting home.
They were around the city until late in
the evening, and whether they got away
in any manner we did not learn.
YESTERDAY afternoon, between two and
three o'clock, as Charles Conner, about %
years OF age and scrubber on the Andes,
was engaged In washing Oft the railing
around the upper deck, he accidentally
fell of into the water and was almost in.
stantly drowned. The bucket he had
with him at the time fell with him, and as
be did not rise again after sinking, 1t is
supposed he was struck on the head by it.
He shipped on the l9th,at Cincinnati, as a
scrubber, and this was his first trip. His
hndy Uaa mt racnyarad
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION MEErINa.-At q
meeting Of the Directors Of the Wheel
| ing Library Association held at the Ii.