Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-10
CITY CHIPS.
Facts and Fancies Gathered LIN ana
Abonf the village.

Facts and Fancies Gathered In and
Abonf the village.
TRE rain seems to be over at last.
Topaz is the last of grace on gas bills.
TIE Committee on Markets meet to
night
ANOTHER whitewash at Clerk Hook,
Office yesterday.
The Board of Public works has tackled
the problem Of crooked Penn street.
THE first heat in the new air furnace a
Sweeney's foundry was taken yesterday.
GEO. BowERs viii open an every morning
market at the Second ward market houst
soon.
CRY officials will have plenty Of room
when they get possession OF the STATE
\ House.
0RyILLE L. RoGERs Yesterday received {
commission OF notary public, for Ohio
\ county.
THE Standards will soon have their book
| SLED with engagements, as they are pour
ing in every day.
IT is said bear was seen, the other day
| on the street, at Deer Park But il is init
mated this is huge joke.
HENRY RoBRKcHT was fined $40 and costs
at Police Court yesterday morning, fol
i AA4oOA vi
The Standards and Riversides will play
their much talked Of game tomorrow after
noon at the new Fair Grounds.
IT looked q little strange to see people
with heavy wraps on their arms last even
ing. Cool weather for August 8.
JOHN CULBERrsoS and wife sold their
property on Main street to Geo. Z. Stifel
for the sum of 5000, few days ago.
E.Asn. olnh nnpnnnaaA ~
Island boys, who have been down the river
for some time. returned on the Diurnal
Tuesday night.
LAWRENCE HELLER will to-day celebrate
his 37th birthday. His many Wheeling
friends will not fail to present him their
congratulations.
On Monday the ethyl Water Board will
regularly assume control, and the rules be
in force The office on Main street will be
ready by that time.
A COUPLE of very fine iron doors were
made for the vaults in the basement of the
Court house by B. & ]. n. CharnOck and
hung few days ago.
A SHEET roll was broken at the Crescent
m i'll, yesterday. The employees were not
working last night in consequence, but ex-
pect to go to work to-day.
The Zane Street NJ. E. church gave agrand
supper and festival at their building in the
East End, last night, which was largely at
tended, and financially q success.
The Blue Ribbon Fishing Club sends Us
an invitation, a very handsome and elabo-
rate, one, to attend their dinner next Satur-
day at point opposite Powhatan.
A NEGRO driver of one Of Speidel's teams
beat and abused his horses in such ar in
human manner, last night, that citizens
were finally compelled to interfere.
SALLIE McLAUGHLIS. John Smith, Joseph
Burton and William Watkins, will be taken
to the Asylum at Weston, to-day. DIR.
Bland furnishes the escort for the unfortu-
mates.
The Joint Committee of Council, who
were called to meet yesterday afternoon to
select suitable quarters for the city officials,
none Of the memrSrs appeared except MIR.
Kimberly.
CRY water rents for the first six months
of 1882 will be due and caa be paid on
Monday next. A discount of ten per
cent. will be allowed on all bills paid with
In the ensuing month.
The boiler has been set up and the ma
chinery arrived from the East for the pro-
posed electric light. Sweeney & Son will
soon have the engine ready for service, and
propose using it Immediately.
THERE is general complaint among the
funniest Society about high prices and bad
beer forced on them at Pittsburg. The
Opera House Orchestra carried OFF the
laurels from the Smoky City bands.
The case of the State VS. Albert Price and
Toby Vance, on a charge CT grand larceny,
was tried before Squire Philips. last even
ing, and in default of s., 900 bond they
were remanded to Jail until the next term
of court.
The Board of Public Works needs money
for street improvements and wants the
benefit of statutory privilege of levying
10 cent tax for that purpose. The revenue
from such a levy will amount to about
$4,000 per annum.
The foot race at Fulton, between Gusta-
vus Hanke and John Hair, which, in con-
sequence of the rain on last Saturday, had
been postponed took place last evening.
Hanke won, coming in about four feet
ahead. The time was not kept, but was in
all probability between Is and II min
utes.
RoUND trip tickets good until August %,
are now being sold to Mountain Lake Park
at a very low figure. The price is the low
est ever made on that line and will no
doubt result in great many people going
up there to enjoy the fresh mountain
breezes. The Park is becoming very popu.
lar
Mr.. WASH. CLINE met with very severe
shock. Tuesday afternoon, while using
Kasley & Brooks telephone during the
thunder storm, and was violently thrown
across the office by the severe electric
shock. As Mr.. Cline expressed it, "he felt
as il the entire thing was ramed through
his head" In few minutes afterwards
Mr.. Cline was all right excepting u queer
feeling in the head.
OUR reporter dropped in Sweeney & Sons
foundry, yesterday, and among other work
being done, we noted the following which
is being buried along on special orders:
a lot OF iron columns for q Main street
merchant; large spike machine for the
Mingo Iron Works; the machinery for the
new cotton boat, and also for the transfer
boat, which machinery will be completed
in very short time, as the dressing de-
pariment is running night and day.
AS STREET CAR No. II was coming down
Market street, yesterday afternoon, the
handle of the brake rod jumped off just
south of Eleventh street, and as it was
down grace, the horse was naturally pressed
into a lively gait. Several gentlemen
standing at the corner of Twelfth street
noticing something wrong, ran ont and by
many struggles stopped the car. The above
may forcibly illustrate the necessity of
having two distinct brakes on a street car.
LAST night abou: Il o'clock Mr.. p Wen
die, who resides on Water street, between
Twenty second and Twenty-thir,l, noticed
three men in the act of entering the rail
road house." which is adjacent to his. He
commenced firing at them, which caused
the wouldbe burglars to decamp in hurry.
On being closely pressed by Wendle they
ran for the river and getting into skitf
started for the Ohio shore, which OF course
stopped Wendell from pursuing them any
further. He was unable TO recognize any
the hen.