Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12
WASHINGTON WIDOWS.
Peculiar Fascination About Them
Which is lnexplicabIs
To the Lasses-Happy Marriage-A Town
0Ter-un With Legal Lights
BicyeIing-Some Rich and
Racy News Items.
Spec;al 30 The Rsqisser.

Special 10 the Reaiter.
WASHINGTON, August u.-There seems
to be q peculiar fascination in the compost
ton of our widows which is inexplicable
TO many of our lovely lasses, who forlornly
group themselves together In punches oil
female sweetness, while the victims oil
second love meander about gently leaning
upon the strong arm of her male escort.
We don't know Thy it's thus, but thusiy
tits.
The marriage OF Miss Ida Steep and Sam.
uel Mccormick was an event of this week
Miss Steep is a lady weiLfitted to be the
companion of as highly respected and in
telligent a gentleman as the one who won
her. They Immediately started for Den
yer, where Mr.. Mccormick has accepted
position paying s., 500 per year.
II opposition is the life OF trade, our town
presents an excellent field for those oil
legal lore to display themselves in, as we
have about sixty five praeticing attorneys;
and vet the citizens have a little money
left. :,
The Masons and the Heavy Hitters played
a game of base bail yesterday, which
resulted in the discontinue of the former
by a score OF 90 TO g. with one inning in IA
vor of the latter club.
Company H, Tenth Regiment n: GU,
went into camp at Conneaut Lake, on
Thursday. They will remain ten days. As
the company was filled up with verdant
Youths from the rural districts, who know
more about holding pillow than musket,
it is not likely the company will return
with the flag or even pass a creditable In.
spection.
If il be true that the wise man remaineth
at home during the summer, and In his
shirt sleeves and siippered feet loungeth
about on an Sxl0 grass plot at his own door
step, our town is full OF wisdom, for there
hasn't been a man escaped from the Dor =
ough TO 60 on pleasure trip for 10, these
many days.
A festival at the McGugin gas we'll on
Tues lay evening next, is feature OF the
day that will catch many OF our younger
people.
Mr.. u. T. Sample, Jr., contemplat erect
ing a steam cracker factory their summer.
Thos. Hall, alias skinny who has been
confined in Tail for some time, on charge
of attempted rape upon Mrs. W. White, has
succeeded in enectng a compromise, and is
again free.
A society known as the NJ T. Organ So
ciety. is endeavering TO raise S2,5OO TO pur-
chase new plpe organ for their church.
The iinkcy and Observer are Zealously en-.
deayoring 10 prove by windy" articles,
II
that the contents of one is more elevating
than the other. Considerable mud sling
ing is indsIged in. This sort OF thing may
he good exercise for their brain, but sub.
.criUers do not want 'rehsshed stuff re
published simply TO show how "hashy" il
,s The fact OF the matter is, each wants
10 he considered the Republican organ, and
~ Jealous of the other
George Davis S25, 900 building is being
rapidly pushed forward. Mr.. ID. is quiet
unbusiness-like looking gent, but 1t Is safe
20 say that he does more business than any
our establishments in the place. No al
yer isement.
At last We are to have a circus For two
wears past christian mothers and religious
FATHERS have not had an opportunity TO
lake the children" to see the elephant
and monkeys OF those "horrid circuses,"
hut now the little dears must go, for Sells
Dros will favor us next month with their
greatest aggregation on the road.
Some OF our God.fearing brethren are a
title opposed to holding their Sunday
school picnics at the much favored Bower
Hill, as its proximity 10 Allegheny county
makes it too convenient for some OF the
boy lambs to jump over the line and indulge
in little hop extract lust for their stom-
ach's sake" And they do jump.
Robert Nankirk, who has been attending
Princeton college, came home few days
ago. He rode most of the distance on
bicycle. One day he made seventy miles:
There has been bicycle class organized
here with twelve members, but as yet have
gotten but one machine" Others, how
ever, have been ordered over two weeks,
and the boys are becoming discouraged
and inpatient