The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-01-03
SCRAPS or SEws,
Gathered Here aAd There by InIslll
EeneeF Reporter.

AAANNAEA
EeneeF Reporters.
TIE demand for Scott Siddous seats Is
large.
TuR Liusly Institute will reopen to-
morrow.
VIZ are indebted to B, Fisher & Sons
for q beautiful holiday card.
REMEMBER that the sale Of seats for Mrs,
Scott siddous engagement opens this
morning.
jog BARrLET ran VIM. Burt a foot race
Saturday, at West Wheeling, for $50.
Burt got the money.
"Say! look hyar! My water pipes
busted" was the way Jimmy Riddle was
greeted New Years Day.
AsLIaHr hre occurred yesterday in the
second story Of the residence OF DR., Geo,
Baird, on Fourteenth street, above Eoff,
No damage.
THE Room Committee OF the Lincoln
Club hGI been working as rapidly as possl'
bic, and expects TO snnounc soon the
opening oil the club rooms.
An old lady named West, who lives in
East Wheeling, returned from q visit to
WOodsield, Ohio, last Saturday evening,
and while crossing At Benson's Ferry on
the ice fell aud broke her arm above the
wrist.
MARTIN THORNTON began the New
Year by generously furnishing q large
number Of poor families with q substan.
tial dinner. Those wretChed hablues oil
the lock up are fed nightly by Martins
generosity,
Mr.. FRANK BOwERs, Of the Fourth ward,
and Secretary Of the Butchers Association
wss nominated for City Clerk, Saturday
night by the Republican City Executive
Committee, to fill the vacancy caused by
lAo resignation Of j. Ed. Faris,
SHERIFF BRowS took charge Saturday
with the following deputies; John W
MitcheA, Court House and office; JohI
q. Reister, city; and Pat Daily, iailor
No country deputy WAS appointed, as none
will be required for nearly q year.
SKATING on the river was the popular
amusement yesterday, and Saturday
Many fond msmmRs, were delighted with
the anxiety displayed by their sons to &c
to Sunday School yesterday, but the little
ones didn't 10 farther than the river.
Mus. john MOONEY, who lives with heI
!. hushand in alley y, above Tenth street
; put her three months infant In Its crit
Saturday night and set one other children
to rock 1t. After a while she went to thu
child, aud II was dead. 1t had the Group
and Il Is supposed choked to death.
A MAN named Holden johnson, who
lives at No, q Twenty fourth street, eitheI
fell on the ice or was knocked down a
Sixteenth aud Market streets, last night
and was picked up and carried into ShirE'
drug store, where he was attended by DR.
Harvey, who put a stitch or two In hiI
mouth, which was badly torn, and dressed
. other wounds. Mr.. johnson was intoxi
Gated.
THR Sigma Literary Society OF VALLEY
! Grove, Is 10 a ilourishing condition ant
is meeting with success. At the last en-
tertainmentthe performances Of the Claspel
] were varied and Of excellent merit, TIT
question. RsO'red, THAT inventions bene
6t the laboring classes" will be ventilated
at the next session. The beneficial effect
of r well conducted Literary Society can
not DO oYeTestimated.
TnR new Board OF Commissioners viii
meet this morning for the purpose o
. organizing. The members arc MiChae
Stein, Washington district; John A. Arm
strong, Madison; Joseph Speidel, Clay
B. i. Caldwell, Union; ThOs. j. Sweeney
Centre; George II. CarnRhan, Webster
/; John W. SChuItzs, Richie; O.. s. Terrell
Liberty Ed. NJ. Atkinson, Triadelphia
and - Nichollp, RiChland. OF these
MeEsrs. Armstrong, Speidel, Caldwell,
SChuItze and Atkinson Rrs Republicans
the others Democrats.