The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-18

Minor Matters Recorded In Few wor,lI

aE And to the Point. .U
'rnr D. 4 0, pay arts circulating In this Vi
Ginity. E6.stH rn..
LErrrn advertised Tuesday, July IS, 1882,
liorner Joseph.
I 'rnE.wagon ways on the suspension bridge
are being reiloOrcd.
q Awe mile race between Driceand and
3Weisgerber would be fun. MA 4,
n E.D MARTIN and wife were raising too much
of u racket yesterday and officer Darum pull
ed them In. Fl
], OFFICER RAGuM yesterday arrested James
Rider Tor Fighting and raising II general row
In the Fifth precinct.
y. SUNDAY! EVENING thieves broke into Nc.
3Ginley's saloon. No 2Gls Chaplinc street, ahd
stole about SO and II large number OF cigars
\. 'l'ilE Hope hose boys want to know what
has become OF the reel Council ordered re.
paired for their use. They have seen moth
ing Of IL yet.
3 SOME persons confined In the Moundsyille
& Penltentiary attempted to break Jail Sunday,
4 but they were discovered In time and tueir
little plan was frustrated.
~ LAST night an attempt was made to bur-
3glarize the residence OF Mrs. Clark, In the
}sixth ward, but the thieves were frightened
oil by some OF the neighbors.
4 lr was generally believed among sporting
circles last evening that Geo. Wcisgerber
would challenge Billy Bricelnnd either this
morning or evening; anyhow within day or
Z two.sy5, ,.rs
Z Tie State Fur Directors had meeting
yesterday afternoon and decided to make the
premiums for horse racing OF such proper.
+ tions that good lot Of horses would be sure
Z 10 be in attendance.
s.t:A MEETING OF the Board OF Directors OF the
West Virginia Humane Society will be held
tonight ut 1880 o'clock over the Franklin In.
surance Company, Twelfth street. A full
attendance is desirable.
SOME malicious persons are circulating
Z report In the Sixth Ward that It was at
Squire Murrin's instigation that the boys
!; kenney md Campbell were arrested for
stealing iron, which Is not so.
TIE boy Kenney, caught in house OH the
corner oil Main and Twenty.seventh streets
Saturday night, was yesterday bound over to
{ court in the sum OF 500, by Squire Phillips,
7 to answer to aclarge OF house6reaking.
III TIE Wesley NJ. L. Sabbath School held II
Z picnic ut Walnut Grove, Martins Ferry. O..
o. Saturday last. and had IL very enjoyable
lime. The G. y. Lucas conveyed the mem.
isbers OF the school to and from the grounds.
BILLY BARBEr, n colored boy thirteen
years old, had his hand badly lacerated and
+ mashed yesterday In the cogs Of hay cutter
= with which he was playing ut Sliallcross
livery stable. Two fingers were amputatcd
Six members of the Wheeling Wheelmen
Z had delightful trip last Sunday on their
Z mlchines. They started ut o'clock in the
lnnFnlnU unI raj M IL, lao
: going 10 MI. Pleasant and neghboring Ohio
towns.
TWENTY dollars side was put up last night
s NJ bischofs saloon, on Eighteenth street, Tor
sthe boat race next Saturday between Butler
ind Kelly, from the upper TO the lower point
iof the island. The stakes in all are 10 be
500 side.
N, A L,EoE fishing party composed mainly Of
( The Island Crowd. .chaperoned by three or
4 four young married couple, leave for two
weeks stay In tile woods OH the G. r.. V, &
gW., this morning. About % are going and
Jolly time they will have.
4 Tie Pan.l1andle route Is doing a big busi.
hess in the summer tourist line at present.
About fifty were on last nights train, en-
route for summer resorts and the seashore,
gin charge Of Captain Hammond they always
make an suspicious start. -
,uE County Commissioners Committee on
Court House and JUL met yesterday and
awarded the contract for building n brick
building nj the west end OF tho fail, to be
Used Tor straw shed and engine room TO
Jerry y Brien, at his bid OF 800.
nd GAIT. BENNETT yesterday received dis.
( patch from the Chief OF Police of Reading,
: statlug that n man was there named homus
! Sheppard, aged about 25, who had been IL.
! tally hurt on u railroad, aud wanted To see
his father, VIM. Shepherd, who lived in this
5city. =lss.5 ~ -
The July term OF the Municipal Court met
: yesterday. The docket was called, but no
cases set Tor trial. The docket will be again
called to morrow and all cases in which
], there Is no appearance will DO continued I'M.
I'LL the next term. The court adjourned till
9:S0 IN. to-day.
Sur. Riddle Of the Water Works has an
pointed John Farley in the place of Yiddie
Jones who Inns resigned to accent position
I In the SpOStoilice A better uppointmpnt
could not hive been made, US ifor twelve
years MIR. Farley was connected with the
Works and he knows all the pipes aud con.
Sllections. f.s -
< The. only conveyance OF real estate nd.
United to record by Recorder Hook yester.
Z day was u deed made July 10, 1852, BY Mary
~ Merritt, OF Cleveland, to Thomas VI.
5kll!een, Of this city. OF the north half OF lot
NolG, In division L, us designated on the
f1nnp OF subdivisions Of the Joseph Caldwell
estate anu additions therelrom to the city;
consideration $500. -
DURING the cleaning OF the water basin on
I last Saturday,a water dog" some fifteen or
eighteen inches long, went ont Of the thirty.
inch pipe into the iour-inch pipe that sup.
!: plies the county Jail with water, aud was
where the supply pipe for the upper cells
Stands. 1t required u half days labor by the
plumbers TO lind his fishship and get the
pipes and hydrants working ull right again,
fSIhe cutoif began Saturday evening about S
o'clock, and lasted until Monday noon,
sgt EsrERpAr morning there came near being
j serious accident In the coal bank OF the
Whitaker Iron Works. Robert Teasdale the
foreman was going In TO inspect chamber,
i when he saw car running down the grade,
I: lie stepped to one side In place that he
Thought was wide enough TO allow the car 10
pass, but he did not calculate correctly and
/ the result was, he was horribly squeezed be.
tween the car and post. Ills back was
5scraped entirely raw and his breast was bad
Ky bruised. He was taken TO his home on
Sixteenth street. -, II, -
The manner in which Forepaueh introdu.
8ces the land Of Jubilee Singers now with
+ his show, Is n novel. one. They form a Tea.
tnre In the parade, and present u sketch of
southern HE never before seen nortl, Of Ma.
son and Dixon's line. The singers are seated
Supon genuine cotton bales, loaded In On Old
wagon which is lrawn by mules and driven
8by an old darkey. The mules arc attached
TO the ricketty old wagon by a rope harness.
THE whole furnishes true picture Of one
Kind OF life In the South-tho cotton picker's
Srcturn from tho field. The troupo sing
plantation melodies In loud tones as The Old
wagon rolls along the street. 1t will roll
along here in tho Forepaugh parade, Tu, sday,
August ]. a 81 ! 4 ~ i a. i'NH''
VI THE Board OF Water Commissioners hold
Us first business session yesterday afternoon
and disposed Of the trouble connected with
tho laying OF the ton inch water main on
Main street, from Fifth street to Inc Ton
Mill, by. awarding It TO Farley & Gallagher
allowing them ten cents for ramminc The
earth back, or making their total bid forty.
live cents per cubic yard. : In the morning
the Board nude u tour about North Wheel.
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