Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-05

Psragrnphsc Pcnciiings OF Pertinens
: .Foints About the city.

AsD tax bills likewise.
No more amusements this week.
. The Thermometer heldits own .o' all day
yesterday.
TIE Etna Mil resumed work in all de-
parnments, yesterday.
THE police have now a rest. 1t is too
cold for corner ornaments.
The horse car switch, at Fishers foundry,
is badone for careless driver TO pass. o
IT is on january IL, and not January o,
that the State Board of Health will meet.
The slippery sidewalks brought many a
thoughtless pedestrian to prostration yes
terday.
HOTELS complain of q slow business at
present. Where are the omnipresent drum
mers?
The new fire department horses take hold
OF an engine as though they were to the
manner born.
UNTIL the trench at the Second ward mar
ket is refined, the street-cars Will run no
further than Eleventh street
The hay market yesterday and the day
before was almost overrur, and hay was
selling at Sl4 and SIS per ton.
The position of engineer at the Top Mill
is being filed by William Otto, during his
superior's confinement by u sprained ankle
The temperance people will once more
try to make the rifle with the Legisla-
ture. Papers are being circulated for sigma
! tues.
| THE united Engine did not pump for the
| La Belle mill, yesterday. The committee
/ could not see ii, and vetoed the Mayor
/ proposition.
/ Born pumps in the Wheeling Water
| Works are out of order, and water famine
| is the result.-Ste,lbearilie Gazette. We have
| three, thank you.
| JOHN WAREHOUSE was yesterday appoint
| ed administrator OF the estate OF John
/ Stemple, deceased. Bond 500, with John
Speidel security.
| A YOUNG man named Watson was badly
pounded up in North Wheeling scrim-
mage on Tuesday night. His right eye
was seriously cut.
PERSONS living at the head of Sixteenth
street complained a great deal. yesterday,
of large NJ. U. telegraph pole left lying
across the board walk.
/ \ GANG of serenading fiends startled the
! midnight air last night Rest, my dar-
/ ling, rest" they sang, but the very cats
/ were aroused by the bowling.
To-yIGHr Mr. and Mrs Allen Howell give
| a reception, in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
| W. Oglebay, at their residence, corner of
| Chapline and Fourteenth streets.
GEO W. BRENER and E. Schaefer, yester-
| day, bought out Louis Braun, and will
| hereafter continue the business. More
/ young men to the front, and luck TO them.
THE Fair Grounds will now sport "a clear
| lake, margined by fruits of gold and whIs-
/ pering myrtles, CHASING softest skies,
/ ClOudleSs, save with rare and roSeate
4 shadows
A MAN named William RickuS, living
near Elm Grove, seriously strained his
| back, on Tuesday, while in the act OF
! mounting his horse. The accident confines
| him TO his bed.
Council will be asked by the proper conf
mittee so so amend the wharfage ordinance
as TO permit those packets which make sew
eral landings per day, to do so at less ex-
brilliant rate of wharfage.
| The ice on the creek is in very fair con-
/ dition, and all day yesterday was crowded
! with skaters From the Main street bridge
/ to the glass house there is tolerable skat-
/ ing, and at Leatherwood il is still better.
| OWING TO the want OF water there was no
| school in the Clay school bsilding yeSter
| day, and rs the prospect for water this
morning is not the best the school will re
main closed to-day. The building is heated
l OS steam.
FATHER McSIESAMIS, OF st. Johns Catho-
/ lie Church, BenwoOd, has changed the date
of his festival and fair. Ii will be held Sat-
| urday, Monday and Tuesday next. The
| prospects are that it will be very successful
and just the place to spend pleasant
evening.
The water supply has run short in
Wheeling. and rs on previous occasions,
the people of that place have to take their
whisky straight. Ii this was the only
drawback, we imagine the Wheelington-
! fans could stand it pretty well, thank you,
-SCl,JeHriHs Herald:
OFFICER KENNEDY yesterday morning,
arrested Phil. Medert, former proprietor OF
, the Columbia House, who was the indiyid-
ual who insulted certain ladies in horse
car, on Tuesday night. Medert claims TO
have been drunk, and irresponsible for his
act. remembering nothing of it, but that
will not soften the insult To the ladies. He
is now in the Lookup, awaiting hearing
this morning.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Bridgeport to
Pittsburgh, says: The two large mines OF
the Wheeling Creek Coal Company, about
two miles back of this place, are making
very successful run this fall, loading be-
tween sixty and seventy flats daily, or
about 25,OOO bushels. Mr.. J. +. Waters,
the manager, has succeeded the past year
in getting the works in good condition for
getting the coal out rapidly. A number of
new and comfortable houses have been
erected.