The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-02

Timely TFInes OF all Varieties and from
all Paria Of Town.

LOCAL BklEfbs
Timely TFIfies OF all Varieties and from
all Parts Of Town.
TnH Is Pope Leo's birthday.
ST. PATRicE'S day Is next.
sPRSO f.ver will soon be epidemic.
KEAPLE at the Opera House tonight.
oSE marriage license was Issued yesterday.
EASTER Sunday this year comes or April o.
Tns winters backbone Is not stiff enough
10 break.
TnE police and fremcn received theft
monthly Stipends yesterday.
pROF WAITE Is doing Bellaire with his
spiritual and mesmerlc expose.
LITTLE WASHINGTON claims the prospects
for II rolling mill there are good.
TnE recent wet spell has not improved the
condition OF the streets greatly.
TnESouth Side Singing Society has been pro-
sented by John Becker with q handsome
clock.
Mr. Curtis, Of the Brush Electric Light
Company, talked to the Bellaire Council last
night
OyucER BARuN madesix arrests last month.
His name was nnintentionally omitted yes
tCAuuy ~ PubllAAiiHb Nic lSl
Tux robbins are beginning to return from
their winter soiourn In the South. But one
Robin doesn't make spring.
BALDwiN'S Row, east Of the Atlantic Engine
house, was sold yesterday by Auctoneer
Haller to James Emblem for $3.50,
TnR statement that Tailor Dailey's resgna.
ton was to take effect March lst was incor-
rect; It should have been March Slst.
c. n. HANcRER's racing horse, Buck.
shOt," which was disable Ia q running race
at Sandy Plains, Pa, last fall, arrived In the
city yesterday.
A ROW Of considerable proportions oc-
Cured last night at Gundiings saloon, on
Market square. Warrants were issued for
the participants.
A THREE HUNDRED FOUND truck fell down
the elevator hatchway at Spcidels grocery
establishment from the third story yeSter.
day, and smashed guard rail all TO flinders.
TnE Lyric Opera Company and the Opera
House orchestra will meet at the Academy
Of Music this evening to rehGarSe their parts
OF the programme OF tomorrow evenings
concert.
TIE United States Engineers, Generals
COmstOck and Weitzel and Col. Merrill, and
the Pittsburgh visitors. left for home yester-
day morning Tho official report concern
ing the bridge will be looked for with con.
siderable interest.
THOSE OF the Fire Department service who
intended to resign unless their wages were
increased, have agreed to Chief Eccles' prop
osition, to stay until Friday evening, in the
hopes that special meeting Of Council will
be had and their end attained.
TUESDAY afternoon the body OF f. II.
Worthington, the man who was drowned
about ten days ago Ola barge lying ut the
Riverside furnace BenwOod, which he was
guarding, was found in the willows short
distance below the place he fell in,
AnouT midnight last night, Captain Ben.
net, with u force OF men, descended on the
sporting house kept at No. lis Seventeenth
street, by Madame Kitty MannuS Three
girls and five men were captured. The money
was put up for appearance at this mornings
session Of the police court.
YESTERDAY morning painful accident oc.
Cured q the Eighth ward school. A twelve
year-old son OF Jacob llaneCker's was with
some companions playing and jumping
about the steps, when he fell of and broke
both bones Of the left leg The fractures
were compound ones, the jagged ends Of the
homes prOtruding through the flesh. DR..
Pipes attended to the lads injuries.
RcNoRs were rife about the Legislature
yesterdayot prospective duel between two
prominent members Of different Houses. 1t
was said that u challenge had been sent and
received. A little inquiry developed the
TACT that some miSchevious member had
forged note of challenge to mortal combat,
which gave rise to the reports. There is APP
parCntly no blood OH the moon, but lots OF
printers ink.
TIE health ordinance adopted by Council
last TueStiay evening, is the same as the one
that was IN existence, except In one or two
minor sections and that part relating to the
bringing OF smallpox patients in the city by
steamboats, or railroad trains. The company
doing so must give $500 bond for the pay
ment OF expenses connected with such u
case, and for failure to so do are liable to so
fine for every day the bond remains unified,
instead OF merely a $50 fine for failure to give
bond.
A sTOCEHOLDER'S meeting OF the "West
| Virginia8tate Land Title and Real Estate
Bureau was held at S02 Main street yester-
day afternoon, and the following officers
elected: Postmaster Hugh Sterling. Presi-
dent; A. j. Halstead, Vice President; j. Wise
Norton, Secretary and Treasurer; II. i. Fer.
guSon, Counsel. These gentlemen, with
Geo. Mendel, all Of Wheeling, and Joseph
Maitland and A. Rex, OF Philadelphia, were
elected Directors. The object OF said corpo.
ration was published in this paper some time
since.
SEVERAL Wheeling people coming from the
west yesterday on the evening train had for
travelling companion an alleged burglar,
whose arrest has caused some excitement in
Guernsey county, o. The store of ]. C. Gar.
den, OF Salesville, two miles west OF Quaker
City. was broken into last Tuesday night and
small sum OF money and some railroad
tickets taken from the office connected with
the store. Samuel Knox, a prominent resi-
dent OF Salesville, was arrested last evening
with the tickets in his possession and brought
to Bellaire.
A TELEGRAM from Washington, Pa, says
there was rumOr current there that work
on the Hempfeld extension had been aban-
dOned This isincorrect The engineers en-.
gagged there have finished their surveys. and
the estimates amount TO about $1,000, 900.
The Baltimore Il Ohio Company are endeay.
Oring to cut these estimates down to the low
est figure, and as soon as the remaining right
OF way is procured the extension will progress
rapidly. Two hundred hands are now at
work on the eastern, or Connellsville, end OF
the extension. Col. boyd, the contractor
states that President Garrett says the exten.
sion will so on.
SEVERAL changes took place in the clerical
force ut the POStotiiCe yesterday, necessitated
by the resignation OF Mr. George Henshaw,
who for some time past has been general
delivery clerk. He has decided to 20 West
and locate, and will leave in a short time.
Henry Myers has been promoted to Mr..
Hehshaw's place, and Mr. Myers CORNER no
sition us Superintendent OF Carrier Service
and City Distribution, will be taken by ].
Mex. Reilly, in addition to his duties as
Chief Clerk and Assistant Postmaster. J. B.
Goodwin, carrier No. 6, has been appointed
assistant distributor to Mr.. Reilly, ana bis
place filled by Bert Hobbs, of the auxiliary
force Of carriers, and Mr.. Hobbs place has
been filled by Ed. thinner from the sub