Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-26
LOCAL LACONICS.
Various Brief Matters In and About the
City

City.
REGULAR semi-nonthly meeting OF
Council to night.
A LIrrLK daughter Of Louis Stab, OF
the Eighth wand, had one OF her nsgers
nearly cut off yesterday by keg falling
on her hand.
Tux Island society folk are busy talk
ing about the hop 10 be gwen al Mrs'
Henry Brues' next Wednesday evening,
for which Kramer will play.
LAST evening, at Fox's clothing store
ON Twelfth street, a gas burner was put
too close 10 the window, and the heat
cracked the large plate glass.
WV. CARNEY, q helper at the Belmont
mill. las, evening in passing rapidly
along, dashed his hand against a pile OF
iron and cut it badly on the sharp edges
OF the metal.
Tax Committees on Elections and
Health were called 10 meet at the City
Ballding last evening, but there was
not a quorum in either case, SO that
nothing was done.
. THOMAS STRICKLAND yesterday swore
out warrant before Squire McCready
for the arrest Of q lad named Edward
Mcnamara, who has been stonlng his
son. Mcnamara is said 10 be slightly
demented.
LETTERS remaining in the postotiice
unclaimed April 10Th: Thomas l.. Ache
son, Chas. :. Brooks (3), II. NJ. Clair, Jr.,
John GREY, Thomas j. Hammond, Nj.
r.. Keel, Mrs. Annie Runnels, ". 3.
Welby.
The famous calf at the st. Alphonsus
fair, which brought sos 10, is to be
carved into outlets ard roasts. Who
wants TO buy any OF it from Butcher
Henning, at % cents per poundY Don't
all speak at once!
The new Fire Department ordinance
will probably come before Council this
evening, and it should be passed by all
means. A paid department, even If 1t Is
small, is better than than a large one
that does not work.
The fire department yesterday pur-
chased for the Atlantic engine team OF
bav horses from Philo l.. Kimberly,
ESQ, for 500. The animals are good
strong ones, and on the trial trip yester-
day gave general satisfaction.
TIE attention OF the Municipal Court
was taken up yesterday IN partly hear
ing the arguments on defendants de-
murrer in the case OF j. L. Lukens 4
Bro. vs.. Joshua Burly ct al, in debt.
The Court adjourned until to-day at ~
A. NJ.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT BUTCHER yes
terday received letter from the prlncl-
pal OF the Huntington Normal Sch Dol,
dated the 2lst, in which he stated that
within as many days six new smallpox
patients had been developed, and there
were prospects for more. The school
had suddenly thinned from 20 to AZ
pupils.
AFTER an awful delay and much
swearing on the part of teamsters and IN
habitantS, the horrible mud hole ut the
corner OF Fourteenth and Chapline
streets, caused by the change OF water
mains last summer TO accommodate the
Soldiers Monument that was TO be
placed there. was yesterday filled up
and paved by the Street Commissioner
Col. PURDY, OF Moundsville, was in
the city, yesterday and gladly proclaimed
the news that $500, Marshall county's
quota towards the W., p. & G. road, had
been raised. 1t was mostly done in
Moundsville and shows the good sense
of the citizens OF that place who should
now stick and procure the right OF way
in certain cases. The road will benefit
Moundsville an untold degree, by giving
competitive passenger and freight rates.
The other counties have fallen into line
and the survey will probably begin at
Moundsyille this week.