The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-18

Brief Mention.
The butchers Of this city and Fulton
held picnic at Memminger's Grove yes.
terday.
TuE Misses Doddridge will close their
school year tonight at the Opera House
with grand literary entertainment.
TrcKErs are now on sale OF the B. & Q.
ticket office to Cincinnati and return, good
until June 2Sth. Fair for round trip So 90.
STANTON & DAVENPORT have placedupon
our table magnificent steel engraving oil
General Garfield as o specimen oil their
stock.
JOE REID, engineer at the Atlantic en-
cine house, has gone to his home In Penn
sylvania, and John L. Taylor Is acting In
his absence.
A SELECT party Of ladies and gentlemen
from Bellaife, with few friends living In
this city, enjoyed themselves yesterday AZ
Hornbrook's. /,
The Sunday schools Of the Second and
Third Presbyterian churches will go out
to Shirts Grove, Washington, Pa, to-mor-
row, for picnic.
TaE Hinge Factory yesterday shut
down on account OF the want oil iron. me
enforced rest will probably last until
next Monday.
THr Baptist sunday.school OF this city;
with number OF friends, juvenile anu
adult, had pleasant picnic at Horn
brooks Park yesterday.
The public schools Of the city will close
The 80 session next Thursday evening, Fri.
day being allowed the pupils by the board
to prepare for the commencement exer-
cises.
TINS Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in
tends to run their own sleeping cars after
The first OF October next, the contract
with the Pullman Company expiring at
that time.
THERE was little difficulty in the Nc,
Lure House Saloon last night about nine
o'clock. A customer and the bar.keepei
came to blows over some business matters
and the former was getting the best oil II
when the police interfered.
WILLIAM Asxus and man named
Never narrowly escaped drowning lew
DAYS ago, up the Big Greek. They hac
driven a horse hitched TO wagon into thu
creek and the wagon was hoated of. Boil
gentlemen saved themselves with Difficult
ty by swimming out
The Lindsey Literary Society will CIV
their annual entertainment this evening
at the hall OF the Institute, Eof and FIJI
tenth streets. These entertainments are
always OF a high order, and this one, l
| we can Judge from the programme, prom
[ises 10 exceed oil others.
TagRR were two deaths at the Peniten
tiary Monday night, one OF them . maj
named Wiseman, from Summers county
who was serving out o sentence Tor rob
berry, and the other negro from Marshal
county. The former died from typhoid
fever and the latter from asthma.
THE inipuitious and ubiquitous Carrie
Coleman was fined $40 and costs OF Policl
Court yesterday morning for variou
nauhRty actions. She paid the fine prompt
In. and occupied a prominent position
among the State witnesses at the big tria
at Squire Miller's Office last night.
THEREiis q contest concerning the Aar
shall county delegates TO the Democrat
Congressional Convention, very similar Y
that in regard 70 the delegates to u
. same convention appointed by the ohi'
. comfy Democratic Convention at tn
Cont House last Monday. Altogether, tn
Congressional Convention reiered 70 VII
be tolerably interesting gathering.
An alarm OF Gre in the Independen
Republic, last night, originated from tn
discovery Of flames in the stable lott II
the rear OF Squire Schultze's residence
on Thirty.third street, The Eighth war;
hose company were on the grounds in al
almost incredible brief length OF time, an'
promptly extinguished the fire before an
damage was done worth speaking Of.
waAr are known as the Bethany fire
bug cases, being the criminal suits Of tn
State OF West Virginia against Parkinson
and Cheek, charged with incsndlarlsn
came up for trial in the Brooke Count
Court at Wellsburg, yesterday: IN
prisoners were taken up from this city
where they have been confined in tn
county Jail for safe keeping, by Deput
Sheriff Curtis. A portion Of the Witnesse
;. were examined, and others being absent
the case was continued till Saturday morn
! ing.
Q Ma. GEORGE ALTON and Miss Ami
= Squiggins, OF Bellaire, were in the cit
! yesterday, and left In O private convey
: ance over the National Pikein an caste
j ly direction. When they returned Mis-
Sduiggins had been metamorphosed int
Mrs. Alton through the instrumentality
: Squire Mayes, at West Alexander, to VII
IL whom was the object OF the journe!
Congratulations are in order for the fri
h time with this couple, for all previous II
:, ports of their marriage were premstnr
and untrue.