The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-02-05
CITY MATTERS.
Brief Notes on Current Events Of lIino

THE Board OF County Commissioners holds
its regular monthly meeting this morning
NEARLY all OF the Wheelingites who at
tended the Opera Festival at Cincinnati have
returned.
The Salvation Army announces that II has
come to stay; that It is going to remain over
agar II proposes to do o great work.
A DICKENS CARNIsAI" will probably be
one Of the features OF the Union Benevolent
Society entertainment on the 18th inst.
SHORTLY after noon on Saturday, a chin
ney at DR.. Frissels Office, Fourteenth street,
called out the Department. Great excite
ment-no damage.
LEWIS SAITH was fined $40 and costs by
Squire Philips Saturday for striking Mary
Roles. Mary charged that Lewis was angry
because she would not let him escort her
home. Both are colored.
0ErfcER MORRIS pulled In man on sstur-
day who gave his name as 5owers, and was
fined $40 and costs at the matinee. He was
loafing on, street corners and would not move
on when told to. Served him right. a5
A wREckmo train was sent ont from this
city Saturday afternoon on the Hempfeld.
-Four cars Of the eastbound train jumped
the track one mile this side OF Washington.
The occident was caused by the spreading oil
the raila
A SLIP on the side OF the mountain east Of
Grafton, yesterday morning, came near caus
ing q serious accident TO the early morning
train from the east on the B. & 0. R. r. As
Il was, 1t tore away the steps OF one sleeper
and nearly derailed the other.
THIS evening the Arion Society will give
another delightful ball at their club rooms
on Main street. South Side. The affair will
be exclusive, none but the members taking
part. Competent COMMITTEES have been up
pointed, aud no pains will be spared to make
tia success. 1t will be masquerade ball.
AT late hour last evening word was re
ceived by telephone that there had been q
serious row in the Eighth ward, In which q
man named Miller had been cut Owing tC
the IateneSs OF the hour no further particu
lars could be obtained than that two arresti
bad been made, and the case will be tried
before Judge LETTERS lhis morning. TIL,
trouble occurred ut the Marshall county lin,
below the city.
The city authorities should at once compe
the SalyationiSts 70 make some radical chan
ges in their ball. The double doors at ID,
foot OF the steep stairs open In instead OF out
The one small door that leads into the narrow
hall also opens In. IN case OF a panic, with
the present arrangements, the results would
probably be disastrous. A policeman should
also be detailed by Capt. Bennett, to keet
order at these assemblies
THIS is from the Bellaire Tribune, a paper
which Is evidently not Informed Of the fac
t'ttmt Tailor Davis Is the reporter who
makes the discoveries-in his mind: "Its q
cold day when the Wheeling reporter cant
discover daring attempt to break jail which
was Frustrated by the vigilance Of Jailoi
Davis.) Recently, however: the Register has
had q monopoly OF such business-Davis hav
ing become so ''yigilant' that the INTEILI
GRScER young man Is afraid he 1.-THE y. M.
will be taken for IN escaping burglar ant
disciplined witha olub.n