Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-19
CITY CULLINGs.
A Brief Resume ola Days Happenings
I'm and About Town.

Belle Mill
Saturday was payday at the Contra.
Glass Works,
A DWELLING is being erected on South
| Jacob street for Albert kratze.
JOIN MARBLE has been commissioned
postmaster of Holly River postottice, this
State.
GAIT. ROBERT CELLAR has been appointed
night clerk of the pOstOfice rice J. Il. En-
glish, resigned.
\ DEED OF correction from 4. s. Howell
and wife to A. 4. Howell, for $500, was adj
mittel to record yesterday.
THERE was no insurance upon the ma
chine shops destroyed at Whitaker last
Friday night. The next one will be in
sured.
OK the new schedule Pan Handle trains
leave Wheeling (city time as follows 6:3l
4. NJ, S:3I \. N, ID p NJ, 3:JI T. NJ. anu
j:42 ?. II.
A PROJECT is on foot to establish amOnth-
" publication in this city TO be known as
the Mechanical RcrieT It's name sufficient
~ explains its object.
- THERE will be an entertainment ut the
Fourth ward school next Wednesday night
for the benefit of the library. magnlt-
cent programme Is being arranged.
IL sending Christmas presents through
the mail remember to write on the corner
the address of the recipient rs well rs that
OF the sender. to assure their safe delivery.
BLACK Prince Lodge, No. 10. X. of F., will
give their ninth annual social on Friday
evening, December 23 at their rooms, Oh
the corner of Twenty-siSth and ChaPline
streets.
MEs. FEED. WIEMANN, of the Eighth ward,
fell down a flight of stairs Saturday morn
ing and sprained her arm badly. She was
carving a lighted lamp in her hand at the
time. but fortunately it did not explode.
We frequently hear persons complain
that if they want TO cross at Benson Ferry
after o'clock P NJ, they are Obliged to hire
q skif. Would it not be as well to run
the ferryboat until o'clock in the evening?
Two very fine horses hitched to n wagon
on which was inscribed the name OF \.
BOtt. ran down Eleventh street Saturday
TO Main. where they upset the W on and
were caught. No damage was done to the
vehicle.
We omitted inadvertently, yesterday, to
intimate that with the approach of Christ.
mas the good people should not allow the
fact that there are eN-faithful little car
riers i'm this city to elude their memory for
a moment
A HORSE and cart belonging to Ike Smith,
backed over the bank into the creek near
Warren'S Oil Refinery. yesterday. and the
horse was drowned. The driver of the cart
also started in the fall, but managed to
escape before reaching the water.
EARLY yesterday morning thieves under
took 10 force an entrance to the house OF
Mrs. Long. who lives on Chapline street in
the Fifth ward. They hOisted window
near which was bureau, and had partially
lal a mi l.
uables. when lady asleep in the room
awoke and screamed, when they ran off,
The December number of the Cricket on
The Hearth, a New York publication, con-
tans a picture of Mr.. 5. c. Malone, a
young gentleman of FairmOnt, W. Va, who,
Us that paper states, executed entirely with
the pen a magnificent tribute to President
Garfield. representing on an immense sheet
of paper. in beautiful pen drawings. the
career of our chief magistrate from a poor
canal boy, driving the horses, to the Presi-
denCy.
HUMAN deprayity has Just had striking
illustration in this city. Two daughters of
an honest old German, one of them only
sixteen years OF age, recently left their
home and entered den OF sin. In spite OF
the old mans pleadings and protestations
they persisted in their downward course,
| and the father, with broken heart and o
diSSraced name, threw up the position
| which he has held in this place for over
fifteen years, and left his home to become a
| wandeIer upon the face of the earth.
| JOSH BILLINGS axiom that "a lie we'll
| stuck to is as good as the truth, seems to
I be the golden text at the IstsiiigcRcsr Office.
both with the c. e. and the ''ehromo." The
terrible wrath of the editor at the publica-
ton in this paper of the school statistics
will not soon bC forgotten. The c. e. Dor
| rowed few foOtings from the State Super
| intendent and palmed them or on his chief
| as original matter when he knew that they
/ had no merit whatever in that direction.
| The REGIsTER published all the matter in
| the report nearly week before, and left
| nothing for the other to publish. The
| REGISTTR only asked of Mr.. Butcher that
| he would not volunteer the information to
1 the c. g, and this he was gracious enough
| To consent to. We laid no embargo upon
him. II the enterprise of the other man
had suggested, the question the report
would have been at his disposal. Marshall
county was not included in our report and
we explicitly so stated; nor was it included
| in the report of the Hteliiqeacer from the
| fact that il has not yet come to time. Any
one can satisfy himself by reference to the
reports of the truth by our statement.