Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-09
FACT AND FANCY,
Minor City News and Pertinent Talk
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COUNCIL tomorrow night
IKE stock yards will have boom to-day.
woS'T the bad heads turn out Thursday
evening.
The ladies were out en- masse yesterday
afternoon.
YESTERDAY was dull, as far as news Is
concerned.
The river, yesterday, had sWelled to very
fair proportions
Two or three DRINKS were run in yester-
day by the police.
HIS Honor will have lots of business be-
fore him this morning.
The wheat Is reported to be almost total
failure in this vicinity.
SEVERAL Of the X. of L. assemblies viii
hereafter meet at Parker Hall, South Side.
THERE are two prisoners in Jail over sey-
envy years of age, and six under sixteen
years.
THE hook and ladder horses behaved
badly on the way to the tre Saturday
night.
THE grand Jury will report this morning,
and q great load viii be removed from many
burdened souls.
THERE was a runaway on Twelfth street
Yesterday afternoon in which buggy was
badly used up.
The trip from Martins Ferry, via the
Climax and the street cars, can now DO
made tor ten cents.
The Mutual Loan and Building Associa-
ton met Saturday night and sold all but
about 200 shares of stock.
HoUsEHoLDERs and merchants who
changed their quarters on the LIST inst, are
pretty well Strengthened up.
IT would not be surprising il the river
would 90 dry this summer, there having
been so much water all winter.
OVER one thousand boxes Of glass was
shipped from the North Wheeling glass
works, last Saturday, to the Southern mar
ket.
THE telephone line from this city to
Steubenyille is an assured fact. A large
lot Of poles have been received at Bridge
port.
A woNES's assembly K. of L., with
membership of twenty-five, was organized
at Parker Hall, Saturday evening, by ID. ..
Bennett.
An intoxicated individual, seated fiat on
the sidewalk was one of the attractions at
the corner of Sixteenth ard Market, yester-
day afternoon.
WELLsBURG is to have a new insurance
company in which several Wheeling gen
tlemen are interested. About $4,000 has
been subscribed to the capital stock.
THE Wheeling delegates to the meeting
OF District Lodge No. 80, X. of L., al Bel
laire, will leave the wharf on the steamer
Princess at o'clock TO morrow morning.
The ball at Welsburg Friday night
wound up in big fight in front Of the hotel,
in which about q dozen parties par
ticipsted. Several of the gang were badly
hurt in the row.
J. r. ARBAUGH has recently been given
charge of the new engine ll5 on the h. &
o. Mr.. Arbaugh is genial, clever gentle
man. and has made many friends since he
has been on his new run,
A BROTHER of Martin Clark. of North
Wheeling, who is at present in Texas,
writes him that he has lost from thousand
TO twelve hundred sheep since the LIST OF
January, with a disease that is among
them.
MASTER BUrEs, the little son OF Joseph
Hail, has some handsome oil paintings on
exhibition at Floods art store, which show
decided talent in youngster who has only
completed his ninth year. His teachers
Snd friends predict brilliant future for
the young artist.
The Sunday Leader yesterday editorially
announced its withdrawal from among the
journals Of this city, after a somewhat
checkered career of about eleven years. Its
proprietor, Mr.. ShallCross, has associated
himself with Messrs. HalSted, Atkinson,
and other prominent business and news.
paper men, who contemplate embarking
in the new evening paper, announced to
appear on the 10th inst.