Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-01-29
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IoIANrHE TONIGHT.
CouEcm tomorrow night
The Citizens Street Railway Company
have tive miles Of fiat rails on hand.
PETER LOWRY, who has been very i'll with
smallpox, was able to set up in bed, yester-
day.
The County Commissio ners committees
on Court House and Jail and Poor HOUSE
and Farm meets to-day.
TIE Opera House Orchestra, last night,
gave q delightful sacred concert as Arion
Hall, which was largely attended.
MISS F. ISsKEEr, of Lore City, and Mr..
JEFF r. Simpson, OF Wheeling, will be
married on February 18th, according to
the cards just issued.
The Joint special committee appointed
by Council SATURDAY to select suitable gen.
z tiemen for the stInding committees, meets
at the city building this afternoon at 4
o'clock.
The Wheeling REGfsrEE assures rs that
there is no valid reason why a man should
not live a hundred years" True enough.
1t is the invalid reasons which reduce the
average longevity. -LOgeH Courier.
THE Pittsburgh Leader says in its society
column: Miss Fannie V. ALL arrived home
from Mount de Chantal last week to attend
the marriage of her cousin, Miss Ida NJ.
Hyke, on Thursday evening, January g."
Mr.. WALTER MARSHALL, who has the con-
cract for furnishing stone TO macademlze
McColloch street. has been very unfortu-
nate. Last week not less than four Ian
terms. which were placed on the stone piles
as danger signals, were broken.
r. L..l.o 800 oosN of Tria1a1.
phia was repai. ed Yesterday, and trains
will run as ususl to-day. This old bridge
will in a very short time be replaced by a
new structure capable OF holding up the
large B.'& D. freight engines.
FASHIONABLE ladies dime matinees will
be given every Wednesdays and Saturdays
at $50, at Charley Shsy's theater, when the
entire evenings performance will be given.
Ladies ACCOMPANY ed by gentlemen will also
be admitted free 10 the night performances.
IT was reported on the streets Saturday
night and Yesterday that under the man.
segment of the new board of directors the
fare on the Citizens railway would be re-
duced in q few months, but we were una
bic to ascertain whether the report was
true or not.
Mr.. ED CHRISTIAN, who barely escaped
being elected to Council in the Second
ward-hsying lead his tickets rather
proud Of the manner in which his friends
stood by him, and he desires them all to
know that he appreciates the compliment
and will endeaYor to make them all feel in
the future that be desires their confidence.
THE other yilles around here want their
changed by cutting off their tails, as
Steuben, st. Clair, ETC., but GAINESVILLE will
not consent to an abbreviatiol. Barnes
would not do at all. 1t is a good name for
a man, but in the name of reform we will
have tO,be conservative and stick to first
principles. GAINESVILLE is good enough for
US.
The old stable at the western terminus
of the Elm Grove Street Railway is being
changed for the accommodation OF the
new motors. \ large turn table will be
placed in the building. The street car
company have not used this building for
some time as a stable. All their horses are
kept al Fulton and at their stables in this
city.
Mr.. Ed CHRISTIAN, late Democratic can
didate for Council, for the Second ward,
has been requested by a number OF promi.
nent Democrats to contest the election OF
DR.. Wingeter, who beat him seven votes,
A Democrat, writing to him, says the votes
were recounted, once, and a difference OF
eleven made. MT. I. says ne does not care
for the position and will not contest.
KENPLE's recent Washington lecture has
been encored. Several prominent Congress
men nave requested a repetition and in re-
Spouse Jake says: "If it is thought by the
honorable gentlemen who sign the request
that | can brighten back to their homes an
ofiice-seeking constituency, and thereby
save myself aud other embryonic states
men from walking home in the future
and the mud-I cheerfully accept the
tender and designate Tuesday evening,
February 6, as the date, and Lincoln Hall
as the place"