Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-25

A Collection OF Brief ChrouIcies Abeui
the Village.

A Collection OF Brief Chronicies Abeui
the Village.
TIE Talmsge lecture has been declared
of for the present .
THESx are certainly the piping times of
dull days in the news line.
Tue Senate attracted the ladies, yesterday
aud the House was deserted.
SQUIRE ScHuLrZR was confined in bed
with sick headache, yesterday.
The creek is solidified- and the skater
mourneth because it is not smooth.
The Carrier viii not start out for points
below until more favorable weather. =.
Ar three o'clock this morning the ther-
mometrlc mercury was playing all roand
zero.
The semi.annud examinations of the
seguin Institute, on 18th street. began yes
terdayS !
ALI the butchers on the South Side were
cutting ice yesterday. The ice will average
pa inches.
SoNE Of the music in Council last night
was louder il not more tuneful than at the
opera next door.
TAXPAYERS will do we'll to remember TIL
is the last week of grace on city taxes.
Then comes the interest.
The festival published for Parker's Hail.
next Friday evening, has been postponed
until Friday, February TO-
The Whitaker Iron Works resumed
work yesterday. They had been off for
two days repairing the boilers.
ABOUT twenty-five or thirty workmen at
the b. & o. railroad shops, at Grafton,
struck for higher wages on Monday.
A RUMoR Of a case OF smallpox on Seven
teenth street obtained rather wide circula-
ton yesterday, but there is no truth in it,.
NoBrH WHEELING complains that the
lamps on Coal street and Alley = are light
ed only on moonlight nights when they are
not needed.
THE removal OF the bell from the hook
and ladder house to the Seventh ward house
is opposed by Mr.. Butterfeld, and will
come up again.
ENGINE No. 400 broke her air pipe at
BenwoOd yesterday morning and had to re-
turn TO shop for repairs, which delayed the
freight trains short time.
AUGUST HErSEICpoCs, q workman at the
B. & O. shops, yesterday had his nose bro
ken by a nut flying off OF bolt which he
was trying to loosen by striking it with his
hammer.
THE gathering boys at the Nail City bot
tie works struck yesterday, giving to
REGISTER reporter rs the reason that the
company had employed number Of UNI
der wages boys.
Hon. MARSHALL DEPCE has two sons and
Hon. L. y. Orr one son attending Prof.
Frasher'S Business College, there is an un-
usually large attendance at this popular
institution this year.
DE-. PIPES had his buggy badly broken
on Chapline street near the La Belle Store
yesterday BY Mr.. Hubbards delivery wag-
ON running into ii. The doctor has only
had the buggy out of the shop few days.
AT meeting of the stockholders of the
Belmont mill, yesterday, the following
directors were elected: A. Wilson Kelly,
4. Wilson, L. NJ. Delaplain, ThOS. OBrien,
q. G. Hannah, John Reid and J. ID. Dubois.
The Second Semester OF the Wheeling
Female College will open this morning.
The public examinations closed yesterday
afternoon, and those who had the pleasure
of attending speak OF them as very thor
Ough and interesting.
From private letter to 4 member OF the
House of Delegates, we learn that some
fifty tons Of steel rails have been received
at Point Pleasant for the Atlantic and
Northwestern railroad and that trac&-lsy-
ing will be commenced at that place some
time during this week.
We are informed that little ten year
old daughter of Mr.. +. ID. Hoy, Point Pleas.
ant, this State, fell from chair 2 Few DAYS
since and badly fractured one of its arms.
Mr.. Hoy has q number of relatives in this
city who will be panied 10 learn Of this &c
cident to his daughter.
A VERY handsome compliment will be
bestowed, on Thursday night, by one city
social organization upon another The
German Of 1SS0-lSS1 win tender a compli-
mentary german TO the German of ISL
1852. The hop will come Off at the Mcclure
House, tomorrow night. Prof Joe Kra-
mer will furnish the music, and no doubt
the occasion will he exceedingly enjoyable.
The heaters at the Top Mill, Monday
evening, called for their wages. They stated
that they could not make any money rs
they only get paid so much per ton OF good
nails cut and the learning boys wanted a
great deal of iron. The officials at the mill
told them to GO back to work and they
would allow them whatever they, the
heaters, thought was right for the waste.
They went.
IL our statement Yesterday showing the
business Of the iron and nail mills in this
part of the Ohio Valley, we inadvertently
made an error IN the total amount OF tue
dividends for the year, and singularly the
Wheeling htsliiJeRcsr, although changing
our order OF the mills, made the same
error this morning, while the REGISTER,
which paper gave proper credit, published
the total correctly, -Beiiairc Independent.
On Tuesday and Wednesday evenings
Prof Richard Stahl meets q number of the
members of the English Lutheran Sunday
school and instructs them in vocal music.
His methods are plain and practical. He
uses the black board extensively, and takes
pains that each member OF the class thor
oughly understands each step in the rudi-
ments of music before he leaves it, and
each scholar has all the advantages he
would have il taking private lessons.
A MARSHALL from East Liverpool, o.,
came down here yesterday on the hunt of
one Jim Hively, who had stolen gold
watch and chain aud 81 from party thele.
He enlisted the services of Capt. Bennett
to catch him, which the Captain did be-
tween IL and - o'clock last night When
arrested he had the watch and chain and
$27 81 ON his person. They took him over
to Bridgeport, where they will stay till
morning. when they will leave for East
Liverpool.
An IMPORTANT SUIT.