Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-24
CITY CULLIN9s.

The premium war is raging now 10
diplomas decide?
TIE Keene troupe left for Washing
ton, d. G yesterday.
ANOTHER tournament is on the taps.
This is hard year on plough horses.
BRIcEIAHD closed up things for this
village IN the proper manner last Satur-
day.
The French and German delegates to
the Yorktown centennial will not visit
this city.
COUNCIL will meet tomorrow night to
take action on the appointments OF the
gas trustees.
PITTSBURGH papers 60 into ecstacies
over the victory OF a man who don I
even live there.
TIE new bridge at Steenrods will be
ready to be carried away by the first
rise in the creek.
Gov. JACKsoS's stop-watch was Dor
rowed by gentleman at Yorktown who
forgot to return it.
The Michigan sufferers and Garfield
monument subscriptions did not bank
rupt this community.
SWEENEY & Son will place the new
batteries OF boilers in position at the
water works this week.
Those beautiful ornaments, the thirty
inch water pipes, are still used as lodging
rooms by cosmopolitans.
TIE Pittsburgh Commercial says, "Boli
had a walkover." Boil don't say so,
but OF course the other knows.
THERE is a strong probability that
there will be some spring races on the
State FAIR grounds next year.
CHARLEY FRAIL, an old blind negro
who was known to all the charitable oil
this city, died at the Infrmary Saturday
last.
G. ID. J. BINGELL, Main street whole
sale druggist, has assigned his effects to
Peter Welty for the benefit OF his credi'
tors.
A CAR load or two OF 80 inch pipes
were added, Saturday, to the already
handsome collection distributed along
| the streets.
The gubernatorial party has returned
from Yorktown. They are so mad that
they unanimously agreed not to attend
the next one.
THE backdoorists were rather mor<
circumspect yeste riay. Some OF the po
lice were singing. "Oh, what a tangled
Webb We weave"
IT doesn't seem 10 be hot enough in
the First and TnIrd ward schools. That
seems Strange, too, as the teachers are
all females bnt one.
HENRY MoEEKsMoELLER, OF the Sixth
ward, had one OF his fingers amputated
Saturday forenoon by the large shears
at the Belmont mill.
An election will be held next
month for Superintendent OF the City
Prison. Col. Msloney, the present su.
perintendent, is the only candidate
heard from.
TIE family of George Hill, Esq, 1873
Sixteenth street, surprised him Satur-
day night, with handsome gold headed
cane, that day being the sixty-iith birth
iay OF the old gentleman.
"a WHITE lead works would pay in
this city. There is one at Washington,
Pa, that is reported to be a bonanza"
said a man TO US day or two ago, and
his idea is worth reproducing.
The poles OF the Mutual Union Tele-
graph Company have ben planted to
point near Washington the diminutive,
and it Is expected that the construction
lists will be here within fortnight.
A MINISTER OF this city asked one Of
the Iateiligsnc,r local force the other day
if he was a Christian. The local refer
red him to the senior proprietor for his
iieas of the moral status of the force.
The Fair Association mourns the loss
OF its share OF the proceeds that should
have arisen from the restaurant on the
grounds, but the restaurateur is said 10
/ ave flown, and with him their money.
WILL HOLIDAY, a yonng photogra-
pher OF this city, died at Cincinnati last
Friday morning and was buried in this
city yesterday afternoon from the resi-
dence OF his mother on Eleventh street.
Rev. T. F. CLANCY preached at the
Baptist church last evening. We learn
lecN. 10 pAONCu III
health and is expected to return home
this week and resume his lobors next
Sunday.
D. r JONES, Secretary of the Miners
Union, was last Saturday sentenced to
pay fine OF 500 and undergo one days
Imprisonment for conspiracy, at Greens.
burg, p. He took an appeal to the
Supreme Court of the State.
TIE new reel at the Vigilant Engine
House was badly broken yesterday at
Tenth and Market streets by being
caught in the rails of the street car
track at that point. The spool is much
injured and the expense OF repair will
be large.
B. STANLEY, ESQ, there says is some
mistake about the statement OF those who
are backing him for the Elm Grove post
Office. We never pretend to keep the
run of political rumors, and only give
them as they come to us-for what they
are worth.
Would it not be good thing for the
City Council to compel the Mutual
Union Telegraph Company to lay their
wires underground when they come to
this city? Other cities have made it a
condition, and why not begin now when
the opportunity offers.
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