Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-09-22
TOWN TALK.
Gathered Up BY Reporter on the
Curb Stone.
Bits Of Gossip and General Pertinent or
AimIess Chatter Of Interest to
Wheeiingites.

The worker is coming to the front
among the Republicans" said solid Rs
publican Muldoon, yesterday. II see the
faithful will reward their servant by pro-
motion"
What do you mean"
"Dnd you see this special in the Pitts
burgh Times2 No2 Well, it's a boom i
can tell you. 1t means something" and
he read the following:
A growing and important political boom
is beginning to manifest itself in this State
in the interest OF Hon. Geo. w. Atkinson
for the Gubernatorial nomination. Mr..
Atkinson Is now the United States Marshal
for the district Of West Virginia and 1t IS
said he is the strongest Republican in the
State for the nomination.
Capt. Plankey, the urbane Superintend-
OF the County Infirmary, and Mike Stein,
the smiling and energetic commissioner
from Fulton, are at daggers drawn over the
child case, but hostilities have not yet
been opened. 1t was reported in Court
House circles yesterday that Stein resented
Plankey's intimation that he had been 70 q
picnic and that . formal cartel would be
issued. This, however is without founda-
ton. The Watch on the Rhine" is kept
in peace, and grim visaged war has
smoothed his wrinkled front.
The New York World is great paper,
but il should not undertake the sarcastic.
The paragraph that follows is taken from
its columns, and the vein of sarcasm run.
ming through it is altogether too apparent:
A few month ago the Cincinnati papers
were filled with accounts OF the wonderful
promise OF q Mrs. Oscar Rammelsburg, OF
that city, who went to Europe to educate
herself for the operate stage. The most
magnificent things were predicted OF her,
and Patti really began to feel jealous. A
dispatch received from French watering
place, where the lady is sojourning, an
nounces that she has met with serious
accident. She has lost her voice. 1t is
very inconvenient for q prima donna to
lose her voice just as she is about to aston.
ish the world with her sweet warblings. 1t
is almost as great q calamity as for n Cd
ern emotional actor to lose hiAShirt cuff"
Have you heard the latest charity ven
ture?" asked a gentleman, last night, Of q
REGISTER reporter. He had not.
well, said the gentleman, "a party is at
work on Hamlet TO be given some time
soon for the benefit Of charity. cannot
! speak positively, bat have heard the cast
and II is follows: Hamlet, Edward
Larkin; HoratiO, H. T. Black
Claudius, Austin Beach; Lsertes,
George Mathison; Polonius, Squire
Schultz; Rosencrantz, +. G. CraCraft;
Guildenstern, c. S. Howell; ghost, Col.
OBrien; lst gravedigger, Jacob Kemple;
End, VIM. Wimms; 1st actor, Joe Devine /;
2nd actor, Oscar Seeley; Priest, P. Kenne-
dy; Marcellus, John Quigg; Fernando,
Martin Thornton; Osrie, VIM. Wier; gen.
tlemep, John McGammon; Queen, VIM.
Ex!ey; 0phelia, Tom Burke.
The costumes are to be furnished by
Worth and made in accordance with the
best belief in the fashion then prevailing,
The scenery will be manufactured express.
ly for the occasion, and an artist will go to
Elsenore for that purpose. 1t will be
grand thing"
A grand joke was recently played, in.
nocently, by South Side grocer. A lady
ordered sack of salt, and then forgot to
call for it. The grocer, who had not sold it,
found it standing on the counter and quiet
Iy emptied it back with the sugar, thinking
that was what it was He then sold to sew.
eral customers from the sugar barrel, and
The result can be imagined. The cakes
were made and the guests who partook OF
them filled their interiors with q mixture
the like of which they had never before
tasted. No one was killed, but q general
nfo he fal