Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-02-05
LOCAL GLEANINGS
From All over the Surrounding News
Field.

COLDER.
MARTHA" this evening.
Nor quite so spring -feverish this morn
ing.
The Board of Commissioners this morn
ing.
TIE ledies were out in fore, yesterday
afternoon.
WILLIAM HAYS lost q valuable mare By
death yesterday.
NOTHING worthy of note occurred in po-
lice circles last evening.
0FFIcER MORRIS has declared war against
the Fourth ward loafers.
THE ground hog saw his shadow, aud
winter has taken y fresh hold.
MoSr Of the streets on the Island are
nsyigsble for light draught scows.
THERE is q terrible odor of gas at the
north end Of the Market street bridge.
OFFICER WILLIAMS haured in a plain
dunk last night, labeled w. K. Smith.
SWEENEY & Sons are at present working
their hands on fiys different steamboats,.
SOME Of the denizens Of the Garden Spot
were feeling decidedly uneasy last evening.
SOCIETY folks are making great preplra-
tons for the Governors reception this eve
ming.
ONE OF the windows in Hoge's hardware
store was broken Saturday night, and a tine
gun store.
HARRY HOBBS was arrested. at the corner
of Forty fifth and Chapline, last evening,
for assault and battery.
The wharf is in a very bad condition and
should receive immediate attention at the
hands OF the authorities.
A STRING of limestone is being placed on
the National road iTOm the head OF Seventh
street to the top OF the hill.
The rainfall st daylight yesterday morn
ing Was one of the heaviest experienced in
this city for a long time past.
The Capitol clock was suffering from q
partial &c lpse last night, the supply OF gas
appearing TO be somewhat limited.
The Board of Public Works has a job Oh
its hands in the way OF cleaning out the
cutters of the streets along the base OF the
hill.
INTEREST was about equally divided yes
terday between the Salvation Army, the
Washington Hall temperance meeting and
the river.
JOHN SrRoBEL. aged forty.seyen, for
twenty-five years past an emplOye OF the
3. & 0. Railroad Company, died yesterday
morning about 3 o'clock.
THERE is a gang OF lOaters who make q
practice of hanging around the lower end
of the Centre Market al er dark, making it
decidedly unpleasant for ladies who are
compelled 10 pSss. The crowd should De
Iequest,d TO move en-
4 COLoIED brother attempted TO clean
out Bruenhaus' restaurant, at the upper
end of the Second wari market, Saturday
night, bat when q policeman mace was
broken over his head by the indiSn4nt
cook he gave up tue Job.
john MUHLEMAN. Of Ruckhill Bottom,
shU a hawk which measured four feet and
a half from tip to tip Of wings. He killed
il ct a distance Of one hundred yards, with
No. 8 shot, but then John has a gun tina.
will shOot.-CilriRgton Independent.
WHILE several small boys were riding
about On a log at the Riverside landing
Yesterday afternoon q large cake OF ice
struck their imprOyised boat, aud one OF
the Youngsters was thrown into the water.
\ cold bath was the only harm done.
Ir's q cold day when the Wheeling re.
pOrters can't discOyers daring attempt -
break Jail which was frustrated by the
vigilance OF Jailer Davis" Recently, how
ever, a REGISTER has had a a monopoly
of such buSinesS-Dayis having become so
'yigilant' that the LateLigencer young man
is afraid he THE Y. IN. will be taken for an
escaping burglar and disciplined with a
club-RciLIire Tribune.