Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-20
PERSONAL pLEAsASrRrEs.
Pokes and PelIets-at People-Thei
Coming and Going

Pokes and Pellets-at People-Iheir
Coming and Going.
Will Sadler is home on visit from New
Castle, Pa.
Capt. Z. P. Chancellor, of Parkersburg,
is at the Mcclure.
Leo Reister has returned from three
days jaunt in Ohio.
Secretary Of State Stalnaker is expected
home to-day or tomorrow.
Geo. NJ. Jacques, of the Glassware and
Crockery Journal, is at the Mcclure
Major J. O. Anderson and Dr. R. S. Har'
vey went to Pittsburgh yesterday.
Simms Powell and VIM. Maynard, two
clever Baltimoreans, are atthe Mcclure.
Mrs. RIA. .McCabe has returned from
visit TO Chicago aud other western cities
Miss Katie Kincead, a Charming young
lady of Lancaster, is visiting Mrs. ". a.
Isett.
Mr.. Wolf, superintendent of the tele-
phone company, was in Steubenville, yes
terday.
Messrs. ]. A. Hanlon, B. F. House and
c. W. Baxter. of W. & l.. L. engineering
corps, are at the Mcclure.
Harry Watkins, New Bedford. Mass, a
Young gentleman well known in the city,
is registered at the Mcclure.
c. c. Johnson went to Allegheny, yester.
day, where he will act rs a pail bearer at
the funeral of the late Charlie Lenkard, to-
day.
Mrs. DR.. J. B. Reed, OF Wheeling, West
Va, who has been visiting at her fathers
DR.. J. Il. Stone, at Greensboro, left for home
on last Monday. Hdynesburg Messenger.
Misses Efie Thompson, Josie Herretson,
Emma Pennington and Anna Steevins, and
Messrs G. V. Brown, G. f. Steevins and G.
S. Baker, compose a st. Clairsyille party
which came to the city, yesterday, and stop
ped at the Mcclure.
A party OF gentlemen from Wheeling, W.
Va, consisting of Messrs. John Oesterllng,
Robert Campbell, B. A, Galligan and Hon.
Alfred Caldwell. arrived in the city last
evening, and are stopping at the Hotel
Emery. The visit to Cincinnati is paid for
the purpose of inspecting theWater Works.
and also 10 examine into the workings OF
the Board of Public WOrks.-CiR. Enquirer
Twenty.eight years ago, Mr.. John Nc
Clelland, brother OF VIM. McClelland Gocu-
larly called "Billie'D went West; and when
he started he said: "Well, Billie, twill be
long time until you see me again, for
am not coming back" well, John. said
Billie, III not cut these whiskers off until
see YOU again." And thus il is that our
old friend billie McClelland wears long
whskers, sprinkled with grey; he has kept
his VOW, and he has worn the whiskerS Tor
twenty.eight years, for his brother John,
now a citizen of Missouri, has not yet come
back .-RurH Notes.
His Eloquency." F. G. Cracraft, gets a
big boom from the Writ county papers
which 90 into rhapsodies over his philippics
against the Red Men, who were on trial
there recently. The palm has always been
awarded Bridge for his ability TO start the
tear by his pathos or rouse enthusiasm by
his eloquent periods, but no one has yet
defined what class OF orators he belonged to
until the Writ Mentor discovered he was
diamond throated orator" We confess to
a feeling Of relief. We never knew what
diamond throated orator was, but If Bridge
is one we are very well satisfied, and shall
not pursue INVESTIGATION further.-intcjti-
Gcnccr.
In our notice of the speech OF Mr.. era
craft against the Red Men marauders, we
see our exchanges all over the State quote
our allusion to him as a diamond throated
orator If you could have heard his many
poetic gems on that occasion, you would
have thought of no other expression
that would have conveyed Your idea OF his
sparkling beauty. except the one SO often
quoted Of late To convince Bro. Camp
bell, OF the IntelIgcncer, of the truthfulness
of the assertion, we suggest that he and Mr..
CraCraft run for Congress in the first dis
trict, and ten days after the election tell
his readers what kind of an orator a "dia-
mOnd thrOated orator is,-Wir Mentor,