Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-14
FACT ANDFANCY.
Minor City News and Pertinent Talk
and Comment.


Circus day.
JUMBO has come.
SEvERAb noted pick-pockets arrived in
the city last evening.
The seasons have changed-we had sum.
mer and now spring is here.
THR members of the Oscar Wilde base
ball club were very much agrieyed IN not
having the base ball bats turned over to
them on Saturday.
The Fifth ward policeman was Kept busy
last evening keeping little children from
being injured on Water street at the I'M
loading OF the circus cars.
A MOST enjoyable literary entertainment
was given by the Alfred Society, on Friday
evening, at White school, near Nc. Oliver.
The programme was a rich literary feast.
SLARGE crowds OF people lined the cor
ns,s at the intersection Of Tenth and Main
streets last evening watching for the large
elephant Jumbo to see him cross tue
suspension bridge.
WATER street south of the B & o. depot
was crowded with parties watching for the
arrival of the circus. To a stranger the
crowd would indicate that sport OF some
magnitude was going on.
WALKER PETERSON has recovered valua.
bic watch he lost during Republican ex-
element following Gen. Goff s election. A
small boy found it in board pile where
the thief had evidently hidden and forgot
ten IL.
Ar all the cemeteries in this vicinity.
persons who wish to have the soldiers
graves decorated will find small flags at
the sections house which are TO be placed
on the graves to designate them to the
committee.
Ms. D. l.. THOMAS, the press agent of Bar
mum and London Shows, is in the city.
His courtesy and kindness will not be Tor
gotten by the members of the press whom
ne escorted about the show when it was
here two years ago.
SATURDAY afternoon a twelve-year-old
son of John HoetlRer, of the North End,
met with very serio US accident. He was
riding on a box car on the p, W. 4 Ny.
road and fell off, breaking his right arm.
The frscture was reduced by DR.. AcSei-
man.
THE pump at the workhouse would not
perform its allotted duties Saturday and
plumber was called in. Upon taking the
pump apart a large water dog" was found
fastened in the valve. After removing the
ANNA. the pump responded promptly TO
the calls for water.
YESTERDAY afternoon Esquire Mayes
threw the silken bonds Of natrimony about
one more couple. Mr.. Charleys Mayer
and Miss Flora, daughter OF Capt. Henry
SeamOn, were the happy pair. In COM
pany with two friends they drove out TO
West Alexander yesterday and returned
about 10 o'clock. Congratulations are in
order, in which the REGISTER joins.
LAST evening a woman visited the Police
Headquarters aud asked for ticket To
sleep in the lookup. She claims Clncln'
natl as her former home and was now en-
route for Pittsburgh, her parents living at
the former place. She was bare footed, and
looked decidedly the worse for wear tShe
further stated that she had been three
weeks on the road from Cincinnati and hal
rot slept in a house during the time.
Judging from appearances she IS about
thirty five years OF age.
A CORRESPONDENT in the Eighth ward
writes of a low and deprayed act committed
by some Bellaire roughS on Saturday even
img. respectable LAZY was kneelins on
tie steps OF her home scrubbing when
these rOughs passed. They suddenly APP
preached her, and catching her skirts
threw them over her head and in other
WAYS grossly iusulted her. She called for
aid and her husband and a few friends
started in pursuit but Jailed to overtake
the ruflians. Had they caught them con-
dign punishment would have been visited
on them.
The Pittsburgh baby show has sixty-six
entries. There are seven classes, as fol,
lows: Handsome babies, best behaved
babies, bright babies, large babies, small
babies, fat babies, and twins. Among the
features of the show is a small bIby from
Allegheny, five months old. 1t can be
seen with a microscope, but IN dim light
il would ia good pair OF eyes to locate
the little cherub. A baby from Bellheld,
three months old, has two teeth. One OF
the fat specimens from Sharpsburg year
old, weighs twenty.six pounds; another
eight months old, weighs twenty seven
pounds. Three of a kind beats two pairs;
but Manager Schwab shows up with tive
pairs OF twins. One pair, from Pittsburg,
are eleven weeks old; another. from ALLIE
gheny, two years old. Mrs. Strong from
East street, Allegheny, is present with
pair ten wears old. They are entered for
the special prize for twins nearest alike.