Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-08
LOCAL LACONlCe.


tetday.
ANNIE PlxLEY in.M'liss at the Opera
House this evening.
MAYOR EeERrxR has called special
meeting of Council for tonight.
One marriage license was issued yes
terday. Good weather will bring them
out.
A BOARD Of Control for each city de-
nortment is what Councilman HIldreth
wants.
YESTERDAY was the style OF Jay
that countless thousands have been
praying for.
Ar a late hour this morning, DR.. r. +.
Turner was no better, and his death was
hourly expected.
The delightful weather OF Yesterday
brought the ladies out in large forces;
the streets were thronged.
The Committee on Streets, Alleys and
Grades held its usual monthly meeting
last night, and merely audited bills.
Dox'r place YOUR hopes too high on
the weather We had yesterday. Ven
nor predicts a snow storm for the 2Oti /.
TnEC., 4. V. Railroad Company is
hriuging long train loads OF gravel into
Bridgeport, and will soon have their
track up to the grade and in good condi-
ton.
WHEELING people will have an oppol-
tunity Of hearing the celebrated lady
lecturer, Mrs. DIR. French, of Philade i
phia, next Sunday afternoon, at Parker's
Hall.
ONE OF the Twelfth street crossings,
corner OF Chapline street, was raised yes
terday, it having sunken badly during
the winter. IL was much.ntedcd I'M
provement.
THIS evening Nine. Fry and her
daughter will give one OF her enjoyable
concerts at the Wesley Nj. +. Chapel:
These concerts are highly spoken OF, and
all who can should attend.
A SERIOUS runaway occurred early
Yesterday morning near Fulton. The
team OF milkwoman named Mrs Tall
man ran oil, throwing her out, inilictlng
serious wounds and smashing the wagon
up.
WITu the return OF warm weather
will come the corner stItuary, and then
| Can't. Bennett will have his hands ia
enforcing the ordinance. A visible i'm
provement is already noticed in regar l
10 lounging along the streets.
Cart. BENNETT Yesterday received the
new police accOutrements. They con
sist of handsome clubs, new buckles
for the belts, neat shield shaped badges
and police whistles with chains attach
ed, which are to be fastened to the
clothes.
The name OF the party who wal
fleeced by sharpers, an account OF which
appeared in yesterdays REGISTER, Wal
Paul lIeinbrod, formerly OF Clarlngton
He had sold his farm and purchased
leather store in Cambridge, and wa!
moving to that place with his family
when ne was robbed.
A LARGE surprise party was given las
evening in the store room OF Juliu:
HAYS, on Jacob street, in the Eighth
ward. The room has been lately com
pleted, and the dance was given before
stocking up. Meyer furnished the mu
sic. A large sized crowd was present
and all enjoyed themselves.
IL regard to the reports that have ap
peared in the press, to the effect thai
smallpox was raging in Littleton, letter
| has been received from ). Il. Owen, oil
that place, in which he says that DIR. /
| y. Owens has q mild form OF variOlOld
and that that is the only case. II is no
thought that it will spread. as his hous'
| il in an isolated quarter.
SHORTLY alter six o'clock last evening
an alarm of fire was sounded from boz
81. Ii was occasioned by the burnin!
out of flue of Olbert's grocery, corne
Of Sixteenth and Jacob streets. 1h'
blaze was communicated to the roof, bu
was extinguIshed by buckets OF waite
before the arrival OF the Department.
The only conveyance OF real estate
admitted 10 record by Recorder HoOI
Yesterday was a deed from Arthur Litt!t
and wife TO VIM. Busby and wife, mad
March l2tR, 1881, OF part OF lots No
and in Square No. l., situated OF
Market street, near the postotiice, tn
same being deed OF partition, boil
having been joint owners.
PIERCE MCCULLOUGH, we'll known
colorsd person, died at his home in thi
city very suddenly, yesterday, iron
drOpsy. Pierce was possessed OF a mag
nifcent bass voice, which many hav,
heard and admired. Some time ago
attracted the attention OF outside par
ties and OF late he has been travelling
with a Jubilee troupe. He sang il
Pittsburgh Tuesday night, came hOm
Wednesday and died yesterday.
OFFICER JUSKINS Yesterday Afternoon
arrested Paddy Mahoney and II. Am
mond. Almond was partly iull an,
claimed that MahOney had insulted hi
wife; he was thereupOn proceeding Il
whip Mahoney. The tables were turn
Ell, however, and Mahoney punished
Almond bailey. Mahoney objected 4
being arrested as he claimed he was {
policeman. He vas lately appointed ;
special at the Academy, but was ar
rested all the same.
The Wheeling Butchers Association
has dissolved, not on account OF any
financial embarrassment, but owing tC
a disagreement. The Association has
sold the store house for hides aud otrd
in Manchester, or depot, as it was called
to the Reymann Company, and the city
authorities refused to allow anything
the kind in the city proper. To 90 &c
Fulton the Rltchietown butchers Oh
jected and rice rSrsd; hence dissolution
took place, the material was sold and 8
handsome dividend divided.
A MOST shocking, horrible and coward
| ly act was seen On Twelfth street last
evening about s o'clock. A large raj
was caught somewhere in the Washing
ton Hall block. The cage was carried
into the street, and the dumb animal
saturated with coal oil; it was then LEI
out and set afire; il dashed across the
street, in horrible agony, being large
brrning ball; 1t lived for at least three
minutes and drew large crowd of boys
and hall grown men who seemed to en-
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