Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-25
A POLICE PICNIC
At Observation-Disclosures Swindled-
Amusing Episode.


Saturday afternoon and evening was q
regular picnic" for the police, no less
than thirteen arrests being made, the
greater portion of which were for drunken
ness and d~isorderly conduct. Some of the
parties arrested resisted the officers and
showed fight, and in return received a Sc
we're clubbing and an additional fine.
About 500 was added to the town treasury
on that day.
An old farmer came near being out a
twenty dollar bill while attending
O'BIien's circus ON Saturday evening,
The party who was selling the reserved
seat tickets under tue canvas by some
ms ans got the farmer to make a display Of
his money, and by some preteXt got Pos
session OF a 500 bill, and instead
# handing back the twenty gave him a one
dollar bill. The farmer didn't discover the
mistake until after taking a seat, when h.
Immediately started in search Of the ticket
seller, but he had made himself scarce
The farmer began to raise a hubbub and by
threats Of various kinds succeeded in getting
bis money back, but not from the party
who took it, but from one of his confeder.
ates. The lemonade sellers and side show
men attem pied by a number of ways to
ewindle various persons, principally ne.
grOes, and in several cases succeeded in do.
ing so. We learn that they practiced their
game at Cameron and other points along
the railroad with considerable success. The
hangers on of this show are certainly a bad
set and other towns had better keep a close
watch upon them.
Mine host of the Mound City Hotel was
not in a very amiable mood when he dis
covered, on Sunday. that one OF his guests
had exchanged an old valiSe. with nothing
in it but an old shoe, for his new pair OF
boX.toed calf skin shoes and bad taken his
departure without appriSing him Of the ex-
change.
George Washington, a negro, was found
dead near the camp" below town, on
Monday morning. He had arrived the
night before from Richmond and was seek
ing employment on the new railroad. His
death was caused by exposure and want OF
medical treatment.
W. II. Gamble. Esq who has been sup
erintenGeut of Trinity i. =. Sunday-schoJl,
will adore IS the teachers and scholars next
Sunday FOR the last time, before leaving for
Jackson, Michigan, where he goes to re
main. Mr.. Gamble has been filling the p0
sition Of Superintendent of the Webster
Wagon Company, and has, by gentlemanly
department and integrity OF character,
made many friends in this place.
A rather amusing episode occurred IN
the middle ward, on Monday evening, that
might have resulted in blood shed. 1t ap
pears that a certain party, a member OF
one Of our large churches, was inveigled
into a game Of cards by a neighbOr, a Ecu
tonic gentleman. After the parties had
had their little fun manipulating the paste.
boards, the Teutonic gentleman thought it
would be a good joke to inform the church
members wife of his disregard of the
church ordinances, and accordingly dii
20. Just what action she took in the mat.
,rr, being a church member herself, is no
known to outside parties, but her LEG
ord vas so exaspersted at his neighbours
breach OF confidence, that on passing
bis residence be Missed his three dogs on
him. The dogs did their work to a charm
and took the Teutonic neighbor up street
at a "a gait, and TO the serious derrimsnt
Of his rear centre Of gravity.
Jesse Harris, With Lindsay, Sterritt (
Co., Pittsburg, is home enjoying a short
vocation.
The mischief that an error in figures
sometimes causes is astonishing; but the
establishment that was depicted on the
countenances OF about twelve teachers who
came TO this place on Monday, the 23d
inst, to attend the Teachers Institute,
which is bot until the 30th of July, was
something truly wonderful. They were
mjslsd by an error in the Reporters notice
Of the institute.