The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-21
rRIPLINa TopIcs.
Minor Matters Culled In ali Parts Of
the City Yesterday.


the City Yesterday.
Nom rain.
LitAcs are sproutlng.
corNeiL this evening.
MoylSo day approaches.
"FREsn, the American" tonight
Artistic Easter cards are all the rage.
sPEciAL session Of Council this evening.
oSE deed Of trust was admitted TO record
yesterday.
AccoRDrSo to the almanac this Is the first
day Of spring.
TnERE were only three cases in Police
Court yesterday.
Bu@SEss was dull in the lower story Of the
State House yesterday
The period Of official mourning for the Ia.
mented Garfield, expires to-day.
sFRiSO onions are ten cents bunch, six
microscopic bulbs being a bunch.
TME House Of Delegates refuses to commit
itself to adjournment by any special Tine
THREE shows to.night-Council, the Legis-
lat9re aud Raymond. You pays your money
and takes your choice,
" the poor oyerworked committee clerks
could vote on the question the Legislature
would adjourn forthwith.
]. L. RHEIs, the Market street newsdealer,
has received Harper for April. Its an I'M.
usually attractive number.
TnERE was fall In bread stuffs at the cor.
ner Of Market and Twenty.lirst streets YES.
terday when Prachts bakery wagon broke
down.
TnE first lumber raft Of the season arrived
from up the river Sunday evening, and
passed down the back river TO Bags mill at
Bridgeport,
TIE packing boys at the Belmont struck
yesterday afternoon for an advance Of twen.
ty.tve cents The matter will probably be
settled to-day.
THE DIRTY Dozen" OF Martins Ferry, las
luieted down wonderfully since Mayor
Mitchell put Watt Cline out OF the way To
the tune OF $50 and costs.
SEVERAL carts and other loaded vehicles
stalled yesterday at the dead Fall' IA very
expressive name given II by Mayor Egertef)
at the intersection Of Market and Eleventh
streets.
ADDIE WlLSoS yesterday swore out war.
rant before Squire Ankle charging Name
Johnson with aSsaultinS her daughter Cora.
The case was heard yesterday aud Name fined
s. and costs.
CHARLES MYERS, keeper OF a bottling
cellar In the Eighth ward, confessed judg.
ment yesterday on charge OF selling beer 70
be drunk on the premises, in violation of
license, and was fined $50 and costs, $3.50 in
gil.
LETTERS advertised Tuesday, March 81,
1882: D, D. Lodge, Lieut.. N. +. Eggleston,
Adam FOose, Mrs. L, HartIy;-i--S. Heils.
bower, John Hess, Henry Miller, Lizzie NJ.
Rodas, Conrad Ruehl, jacob Strauss, il.
Wehrle.
Col. FRANK WALTER, the iovial host OF the
Two Mile House, yesterday afternoon served
his friends with grand "metzel supper at
his place out the National road Considering
the weather large CROW i was in attendance
and enjoyed itself hugely,
About o'clock yesterday afternoon, lit
tie boy named Bladkensop, aged about 5
years old, while walking along the edge OF
the Big Five fishing club boat house, mOOred
Just below the water works. fell into the
river. He was rescued by his father, who
was fortunately near at hand.
LAST evening Justice Ankle fined James
Lawless S and costs for committing an as
tsauit on his wife Kate, on the 18th inst
Kate swore the warrant out and James con-
fessed. These parties are connections OF the
Drummond family, which has figured in the
courts rather extensively OF late.
A YOUNG man named Charles Cason, com.
milted to the WorkhouSe two or three weeks
ago for drunkenness, died yesterday morn
ins shortly after seven o'clock. He had been
subject TO epileptic fits, and died In one OF
them. He was twenty.three years old, and
had been at the county iafrmary some time
before his arrest in the city. His home prior
to that was at Martins Ferry. but he Is not
known to have bad any relatives living.
THE testimony in the Philips case, now
pending IN the United States Court, was CON-
pletcd yesterday afternoon about O'Clock,
and Mr. Caldwell at once opened the argu.
ment for the Government. He was follow
ed by Mr.. Frame, of counsel for the defense, the
two speeches consuming the remainder OF the
days session. Gen. Golf, for the Government,
and MeSsrs DOYener and Good, for the de-
PENDANT, are yet to speak, and their argu.
ments will probably take up the entire seS-
sion to-day, so that the case can scarcely be
given TO the jury before this evening, II then.
YESTERDAY morning about o'clock two
men were noticed by Patrolman Wilcox,
lounging along his beat They passed down
Market TO below Fourteenth. Wilcox fol-
lowed down, In order 10 notify Patrolman
Perry that they were suspicious; while the
two officers were talking, crash OF glass was
heard and hurrying to the corner OF Six
tecnth, the two men were seen leaving the
Corner,on which the Senate saloon issituated,
in hurry. Wilcox called on them TO stop,
and they refusing, he fired two shots but
without effect. They had broken show
window and taken several bottles oil brandy,
one OF which was found during the day In
alley in the rear. This mode OF stealing is
getting 10 be quite popular.
JoHx T. RAYMoXD will appear al the Opera
House this evening in A. Q. Gunter's com.
edy, Fresh the American" This play was
first presented 1.-THE Park Theatre, New York,
on February s, 1881, where 1t ran upwards OF
TOO nights. ltE subsequent success, which is
entirely due to the comedy ability and un.
doubted talent Of Mr. Raymond, Is a matter
OF record. Messrs. Brooks & Dickson, the
directors, have spared no expense in putting
the comedy on the road. The company is
unexCeptiOnally strong and specially select
ed. The scenery includes the famous harem,
which is the only correct representation OF
the Eastern holy OF holieS ever placed on the
York.
A REroRrEE met Manager Riester, OF the
Opera House, yesterday, and in the course OF
the conversation referred to the closing sea.
sons business. at has been good season,
has 1t not? asked the reporter. '"rhe best
since Wheeling has had an Opera House.
People have spent more money than ever be.
fore, and poor houses have been the excep-
ton. The patronage has been unusually
discriminating, too Good shows have been
well attended, and poor ones poorly, as
general thing" "The people seem to be get
ting educated up 10 metropolitan ideas In re.
gard to the drama, do they?' "Yes, to some
extent The more and better attractions you
give them the better they patronize each one
l think In few more seasons we could have
u full house every night In the week" "But
not this season. "'"No, some other season: per.
haps next season"
LAST evening shortly after dark members
OF the family OF Mr.. Geo. s. Feeny smelt an
odor OF burning cloth, at his residence on
Thirteenth street, and their suspicious be.
coming aroused they traced the odor to the
cellar. This was found to be filled with
dense smoke, and further search revealed a
bundle Of burning rags, which some incen.
diary had placed on swinging shelf in
dangerous proximity to the floor OF the room