Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-01

Brief yottings OF News I'm and Aboai
theCtiy.

| Sixteenth street yesterday.
| TIE game of base ball was very poorly
attended yesterday afternoon,
TnE South Side street cleaning force were
| out Yesterday scraping Main street.
The Board Of Public Works had the cart
brigade at work in North Wheeling yester-
day. --.-..l
TIE Wheeling Turner Association viii
give grand select social at their hall tnis
evening f.
TIE Eighth ward hose house men were
giving their house general cleaning up
yesterday.
WALTER MARSHALL is at preseat deliver
ing twelve hundred bushels Of wheat to par
ties in the city.
TIE Committee on Finance met last
night. Nothing but the routine business
was transacted.
| The Eagle brewery's beer wagon broke
an axle at the corner Of Seventh and Main
streets yesterday.
SOME of the boys are working for dead
horse. They bet all their money on the
boat race last Saturday.
A GRATING was placed over the mouth of
| the sewer at the corner OF EOtf and Thirty
| fourth streets yesterday.
| YESTERDAY the Street Railway Company
/ received two car loads OF oats and corn,
which will be unloaded to-day.
The fremen throughout the city are
| getting rather dull. There has oniy been
one FIRE in the city during the last month.
Nh. JOSEPH MCLEAN, who met with the
| accident in the coal mine out in East
Wheeling some time since, is again able TO
resume work.
MEETING of the Liquor Dealers, Inn
keepers and Brewers Society, at AriOn
Hall, this afternoon at 2 o'clock. All inter
ested are invited.
COMMENCING to-day the Western Union
will make reduction in rates Of freI: 10
10 Is cents ps- 40 uOru message 10 points
| 0n chesapeake and Ohio road.
SEVERAL workmen were busily engaged
dressing stone on Twenty-siXth street yes
terday, 10 be used as curbing on the north
side of said street east Of Jacob.
SQUIRE GEO. W. NICHOLS has just re-
turned from a fishing trip up the river, and
| reports good success. The Squire is the
boss of this section with rod and line.
The new gas we'll at Wellsburg, was
ignited, yesterday. 1t is not as bright as
the McGugin well, but is not yet finished.
The depth is somewhat less than 500 feet.
The following is the monthly report of
transfers, etc, at Clerk Hooks office for the
| month Of October: Deeds in fee, SO; deeds
Of trust, 81, and marriage licenses issued, %.
The Junior Order of Rechabites will en-
| terrain their friends with grand oyster
supper at PeterSon's Hall, next week.
They are working hard to make it a sue
! cess.
A NUMBER of young ladies Of the South
Side will entertain their friends with a fine
reception on Twenty-fifth street, tomorrow
| evening. I. I. Cockayne will furnish
music.
ATTENTION is called to the advertisement,
| in another column, OF the auction sale OF
| lots on Saturday. These lots are situated
| west of the Standard and Etna mills, in
Etnaville.
On next Tuesday, the Metropolitan Liter
airy Society, of Bethany, will celebrate its
anniversary. Rev. Z. T. Williams, of Gin
cinnati, famous alummis of the society,
will deliver the address. Prof. Hogerman
will also speak.
THE Bryant literary society will give a
grand oyster supper at the old PreSbyter.
ian Church, in North Wheeling, tonight.
This building is to be torn down next
week and couple OF dwelling houses
built on the grounds.
Pile driving on this end Of the P, W. &
Ky. extension is nearly completed, and
they would have had a good deal farther
advanced, but were detained by the cast
ing not having arrived.
LOUIS F. SrIFEL was appointed admins.
traitor of the following estates, at Clerk
Hooks office, yesterday Augustus B.
Readman, Sallie Kiddy and Stewart Pipes,
deceased: bond 500 in each estate, with II.
NJ. Russell as security.
Mr.. JOSEPH NICHOLS who resides just
east Of the city, went up in Brooke county
10 take hunt few days since, and the
horse he was driving fell over high EN-
bankment, breaking the buggy and injur-
ing Mr.. Nichols very seriously.
A BOAT race was made last evening for
800 a side, between Harry Fallon and c.
II. Taylor. and $50 forfeit put up. The
race is to be rowed over the lower course
and under the same agreements as those
rowed under by Bri"eland and WeiSgerber.
CHAs. ELLER, q workman at Kimberly
coal bank, met with a severe accident. yes
terday. He was working with one of the
mules, when the brute kicked him on the
hip, emitting deep cash. DIR. Silvey was
Immediately called and sewed the wound
up.
THE County Commissioners Committee
on Finance met yesterday afternoon, and
after the regular routine business was tran
sacted adjourned to meet this afternoon to
examine county orders to the amount Of
| SIS, $50 SO, which were handed in by the
sheriff yesterday.
The evening train on the Pan Handle,
| last night, was stoned, near the junction.
| large rock came tearing through the win
| dow and Just missed the head Of CONNER
\ cial man seated there. The train was
moving rapidly and no effort could be made
| TO detect the scoundrel.
A COUPLE Of cars loaded with stringers
for the flat rails, to be laid on the streets,
arrived last week and will be Immediately
| nut down The steel rails are expected this
week. The Street Railway Company will
| not, Of course, lay very much track this
winter, but expect to push matters early in
the spring
| Nh. +. ". PLrANER, the Main street
photographer, desires the REGISTER to state
| that he was not the artist referred to in the
| SUNDAY REGIsrER's article entitled The
4 Nine Muses." which has attracted so much
attention. The REGISTER also adds its own
statement to the above in saying that Mr..
Plummer was not the photographer men
toned in the article.
A COUPLE arrived from Marshal county,
yesterday, and applied TO Clerk Hook fer
| marriage license, which was refused them,
| on the ground that the lady was not OF age.
| They were informed that West Alexander
was but sixteen miles from here, but as
they had rode all Monday night, the lady
concluded she would rather return home
than go to Hard Scrabble
ADoLPH BLUM and Miss Louisa Grebe
| were married at the brides residence last
| evening by Rev. Merwin, Misses Nina Greoe
| and Louisa Eckhart acting as BRIDESMAIDS
ard Messrs Gus Fink and Augustus Blum
as gIoOmsmen. The Beethoven Singing
Society, of which he is q member, called at
10 O'Clock last evening and serenaded them,
after which they were invited in and par
took of q magnificent supper.
Or the play of Irish Aristocracy" TO be
| given tonight, the Buffalo Telegraph says:
Irish AriStOcracy" at the Academy of
Music last evening was an Undesirable
affair. Barry and Fay as Michael Muldoon
and Michael Mulcahy, types OF high-toned
Irish gentlNmeS, were simply immense.
Mrs. Muldoon waSs rale dacept woman in
her sphere, the young people who did the