Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-28
FACT AND FANCY.
Minor City News and Pertinent Talk
and Comment

Minor City News and Pertinent Talk
and Commens
GuENTHxR scHSELLE Is still growing bet
ter.
oFrcER Frebolt arrested FVag" yester'
day.
INPEcUNIous hotel clerks patronize birth
day parties and smoke good cigars.
DAVID G. KILLER, was discharged from
Jail, yesterday, by order of Judge Boyd.
Mr.. ALkck DuRsr's little son entertained
snumber of his Juvenile friends last even
ing at his fathers residence.
NIeHr watchman Crawford and Officer
Junkins ran two Ohio men In last night
for being drunk on the street.
The County COMMISSIONER Com mittee
on Finance met last night. Nothing but
the regular monthly business was trans
acted. .-
The fire plugs throughout the city viii
be blown out by the Superintendent OF the
water works, commencing in the North
End, to day. -
MoyrNG has commenced. Yesterday
quite a number of families were busily en-
Gagged loading their household goods and
having them removed to their new DWELL
iDes
A FRIGHrFULLY poor audience last night
witnessed the MAGNIFICENT rendition OF
"Esmeralds." II this is the way Wheeling
treats the best of companies and plays,
how can she expect them to return?
The first negro has been appointed to
Federal Office in West Virginia Robert
Grant, headwaiter at the Mcclure House,
has been appointed night clerk at the post
Office, to take effect on April LIST. Now let
the hewgag be sounded!
LAST evening Officers Junkins and Dun
lap raided a house of illfame, kept by 9
colored woman, Celia Williams, corner OF
alley and Market street. Two white men,
and colored and a white girl. with the
madame, were in the house.
THE following conveyance was admitted
to record at the clerks Office yesterday: A
deed made the It'll day Of March, 1888, by
Mary V. Hamilton and husband to JOS. N.
Connolly. in consideration of 81, 800 for the
south one-half of lot No. LOG.
The County Commissioners Committee
on Roads and Bridges met yesterday after
noon and opened the bids, as per adver-
tisement. The meeting was strictly pri'
yate and the members would not dlyulge
ANYTHING Of q ne Tsy nature in regard as
TO whom were awarded contracts.
TRACK laying on the Citizens railway
line will be commenced as soon as the tim
bers arrive. Mr.. Adams and Superintend'
ent LOTUS, while away, bought all the nee,
essary material for laying the track and
the only thing delaying the work IS the
non-arrival OF the timber or "stringers."
THE postofice authorities at Washington
have issued an order directing that all
offices be closed to-day. from 2 o'clock P. NJ
to 5. Our office will accordingly be closed
for three hours, but the usual deliveries
will be made. This move is in respect ia
the memory of the late Postmaster Howe
EARLY yesterday morning thieves made
two unsuccessful attempts to burglarize
stores on the South Side. TIE first place
attempted was the bakery under Arion
hall. A piece was cut off the door, but the
yould-be burglars were scared off before
effecting an entrance. They repaired to
Nesbitt's, No. 2253 Market street, and tried
10 cut way through the front door, but
unsuccessful, and while at work at the back
door, q lady living near heard them and
raised an alarm which frightened the
thieves off. No clue at this writing has
been discovered which would lead to the
. detection OF the burglars.
LAST evening the Arion Singing Society
repaired to Mr.. H. Blumenburg's resi-
dence as a surprise party in honor Of it be
lug that gentleman's 3Oth birthday. Presi
dent Rester made the opening address
which was responded to by the host " no
forthwith opened his house aud possession
TO the amusement of the gn ests. Toasts ant
speeches were the order of the evening
About IL o'clock the Opera House orchestrs
appeared, and rendered quite a number o.
select pieces. The evening will long bC
remembered by those present as one OF the
most enjoyable spent this season.