Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-18
LITTLE LOCAL LOTS.
Brief Jottings OF News I'm and About
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Brief Jottings of News I'm and About
tine City.
The reporter rsclines on his Turkish dtyan,
And Irehashes" reports nom Arab Bey,
The exchange man sleeps on the new tete-a-
There's no news afioat IN the city to-day.
The competitors doze In their plush covered
chairs
The devil his fragrant Havanas disports;
There's no news afioat in the city to-day.
The pressmen enjoying a champagne lunch,
Some way to dispose OF their surplus week
And al over the once tranquility rsIgns;
There's no news afioat In the city to-day. Z
BASE ball, to-day.
BErs run that the Athletics will not score
BARNUM is coming but the date is not
yet known. ......
WHOLESALE merchants have about laid in
their fall and winter stocks.
TIE ferrying skiffs did q big business yes
terday from the wharf to the Island. -
CIrY hotels are doing a good business,
considering the slack condition OF affairs.
WATER rents are coming in slowly and
the ten per cent discount is being steadily
knocked of. ..
CHAs. Z. VANKERRES has secured the
privilege of the ice cream stand at the COM
ing State Fair.
DETECTIVE HAGGEErY captured the thief
and got $l25 stolen from lady on the b.
& o. train near Grafton, yesterday,
YESTERDAY was a cool and delightful day
and altogether q grateful change from the
former sitting weather. A fresh breeze
prevailed all day.
The reception to be given by number OF
Young ladies on next Monday evening,
near Tenth street, will be a grand affair.
Cockayne will be on the stand.
A LARGE number of people returned from
the West yesterday and went home on the
steamer Courier, to points down the river.
They had been to camp meeting near
Chicago.
A CORRESPONDENT keeps on writing the
REGISTER that a certain card party in the
North End is carrying on disgracefully.
He says the married ladies drink too much
wine. Shocking,
AN attempt was made to burglarize the
residence OF Mr.. Schmatzinetze. on Market
street, last evening. but he heard the noise
and scared the would be burglars of before
they had effected an entrance.
JOHN COOPER, who lost his eye sight
about the lst of March through an injury
received about the 18th of last November,
will return to Baltimore the first Of next
week to have the final operation performed,
with everything in his favor to have his
eye sight restored.
YESTERDAY Councilman Miller received
postal card from some unknown party, I'M
doubtedly 8 lady's writing, stating that
certain parties intended burning his resi-
IL, . 10 nj 10 i ian fnn-
ant Sylyis, who posted couple OF police
men on the ground TO catch the would-5e
incendiarieS.
Two gentlemen from Wheeling, West
Virginia, passed through town last Wednes-
day astride bycicles. They came through
on the pike, riding up hill and down on
their queer steeds.-COnnslLsUiLie Courier.
Two newspaper reporters-too modest to
travel in public-were stealing march on
the other papers to the KeySer HOge. Lucas
conventiOn.-AOrg Post.
ThERE is considerable quiet talk of FORM
ing joint stock company for the erection
of a nail mill to be run in connection with
the Upper Furnace. Some of Steubenyille'S
capitalists, as we'll as practical iron workers
heretofore connected withe Jefferson Iron
works, are disposed to take hold OF the
scheme and there are good prospects that
il will develop into a solid fact. Nothing
that could be done would add 50 much to
SteubeEyille's prosperity, and We hope the
project will be pushed through to success.
-!SeuJe1,riUe Gazette.
MARRY in haste and repent at leisure, is
an old maxim, but a young married couple
Of GAINESVILLE are doing it all up in a hnr-
ry. 1t seems that the cruel parents were
opposed to the match, and as a consequence,
the young folks repaired, to the chIldrens
paradise, Hard Scrabble. Returning, they
commenced housekeeping for themselves
week ago last Saturday. Domestic infeli-
city "Set in" and after just one weeks
trial. they concluded to divide their eff
fects, and both returned TO their parents
last Saturday. and on Monday the prelimi-
narieS for a divorce were entered.-Barnes-
ellie Enterprise.
\ CERTIFICATE of incorporation was yes
terday issued from the Office of the Secre-
tary of State To the Spaulding Iron Com
pany, of Brilliant, o., giving 1t the power
to mine and ship cCal, ore and limestone,
coke, pig iron. steel muck bar, merchant
bar. cut and wrought iron, steel rails and
spikes, and carry on general mining and
business. The principal
office is to be at Brilliant and the corpora
ton expires August Is, 1882. The capital
stock, which is $500, 900, is divided into
shares Of $3.50 each The corpOrators are
David Spaulding, Thomas b. Taylor and
Charles III. SPaulding, Steubenyille. Theo.
pholuS Pugh, Wheeling, and Lewis Clohan,
Bellaire.