Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-18
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Minor Notes % InSsrzaasiea Small
= LEGAL Matters.
ToDAr is Ascension Day. -

Topaz is Ascension Day. - #
BoARD of Education tonight
TIE picnic season draws on apsce.
BRING out your croquet and lawn tennis.
TIE trial of the fire bugs is set for the
30th inst. @# III
.IKrxRxsr Is increasing in the horse races
set for Saturday.
Guns you didn't see the eclipse, yester-
day, did your.
Two more straw hats were spotted on the
streets yesterday.
TEE Odd Fellows entertainment at the
Opera House tonight.
RoBr. LUKE's coach dog bit Geo. Williams
on the left leg yesterday.
A SCRUB game of ball was played on the
old fair grounds yesterday.
TIE oratorios Messiah" and Creation
are nearly ready for presentation.
LAWRENCE HKLLIR gave a concert and ball
last evening at his Fulton saloon.
Two hundred Wheeling couples were on
the watch for the occultation, last night
YESTERDAY was somewhat OF spring
day. A few more such days would be &C
ceptable.
ABoUr this time the average young per
son wants q photograph Of himself in
spring custume.
ONE marriage license was issued yester-
day. Therefore, one more pair Of lovers
licensed TO link.
The case of the B. & o. K. r. VS.. the
Whitaker Iron Company was still on trial
at the Circuit Court yesterday.
FORTY days after Easter is Ascension Day,
n. a. arr - lnhr NnA il ha
Catholic and Episcopal Churches.
FRED. wEIsGERBER, who fell and struck
his head on the sidewalk, on Tuesday even
ing, was in very critical condition last
night.
An Intelligence reporter is talking OF
taking an excursion. IL he will take IL
kindly, we suggest he exeurt to the nearest
school room. .....
1T is thought, nov, that the special meet.
ing of Council will not be called for to-mor-
row night. 'Tis q contamination deyoutly
to be wished.
pirate for Ascension Day will be held at
iO:SO A. N. Sermon by the Rev. c. c. Pear.
son of st. Luke's church.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Board of Educa-
TONS Committee ON Buildings and Grounds
peariDg they adjourned.
The Maennerchor Singing Society will
give a grand excursion to Parkersburg, on
Saturday, June 3, on the Diurnal. Particu-
lars will be found in the advertising col
umns.
To-Day the graduating class will be ex.
amined in the third series, at the Union
school. The examination will embrace
physiology, physical geography and al
zebra.
THE Mcclure House billiard room was
open, yesterday, by permit Of the Mayor,
granted until decisive action is taken. At
the next meeting of Council license will be
granted.
SAM BARKLEY has received from Barnes
willie an invitation to bring a nine out there
to play base ball, with promise OF half the
gate receipts. The boys will go, provided
they are guaranteed their expenses.
A PARTY of young folks called on Miss
Louisa Haberstick, No. 1926 Main street,
last evening, as a surprise party. The en-
tire party, numbering about twenty
couples. adjourned to Mason's Hall, where
a pleasant evening was spent in dancing.
The music was furnished by Hanke's band.
On the nth Of May, 1882, say the patent
medicine almanacs of the country, there
will be q total eclipse of the sun. Yester'
day was the 18th Of May and no doubt the
eclipse came off in good style. The astrono-
mer of the Hatelligencer will probably have
seen il, though it is invisible TO sane per
sons in this locality.
Jos. A. BRUroN, the "Wild West Virginia
Panther Catcher" was in town on Thurs
day last, apparently little or none the
worse for the terrible encounters" which
we read about" IN many OF the papers.
We are more than ever convinced that he
is one of the best "story-tellers" that ever
visited these parts BGyReSblTg Messenger.
THERE was a game of ball on the fair
ground, Yesterday afternoon, which ended
When the scores had grown
so numerous that the notched stick could
not contain them, a series of flies were
batted up. During this sport an alteration
arose, followed by fight, in which pistol
was drawn. bats houriShed, and fists
cleffehed. One young man was cut over
the eve. by blow from the tiSt, which was
the sum total of the damages.
1T is said there were twenty-six railway
engineers in this place when the new corps
arrived from Wheeling on Friday last. As
these were all employees of the new South
Pennsylvania company between Harris
burg and Wheeling, even the most skePtl-
cal on the subject OF the new rallrodu'
could be heard declaring that "this looks
like business in earnest! Well, We wait,
we hope, we puff and publish Hdy'esbHrg
Messenger.
SPEAKING of the suicide of the Ball wo-
man, of Wheeling, the Pittsburg Leader, OF
last evening, says: 1T was rumored this
morning that Maggie Schultz had written
letter explaining why she had attempted
suicide. Our reporter went down and was
met with grand salute by all the women
in the house. They said no letter was ever
written, and any person who ever said
there was had lied, and that they would
their house And you can bet said one
of the women, If any more of you report.
ers come around here again you'll get your
heads mashed in. for you're oil lot OF
liars One girl in particular was very
louG in her remark about what she would