Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-07
BREAKFAST IA gle TALK
OF the Various small Matters Corrated
by Register HirelinEs.

Clerks office yesterday.
One deed of trust was admitted to record
ct Clerk Hooks office yesterday.
The Twelfth street entrance 10 the new
st. James Hotel is fast approaching compile
top.
TIE Com mittee on Police met last night
No business except monthly bills WAS acted
on.
The case OF the State VS.. Jerry Crawford
wss continued before Squire Peterman,last
evening.
A BOY was thrown of a mule near Edg-
ington lane this morning and was pretty
b .dly shaken up.
The second grand ball of the Wheeling
Ease Ball Club will be given at Germania
Hal, December Il.
MRS. JUICE BOYD has just flushed
handsome and extremely natural crayon
portrait Of her husband.
The match French carom game OF bill
lizards between Humes and Rice Is Oh.
Rice is eager to play Humes.
YESTERDAY warrant was sworn out be-
fore Squire Peterman for RUDE Norris, on
the charge of asssulting boy.
A NUMBER Of colored gentlemen are organ
iziDg coon hunt on grand scale; y dogs
and men comprise the party.
Mr.. MANSFIELD, of Bridgeport, sold three
car loads of wheat to Marshall, kennedy
& Co., Of Pittsburgh, By telephone.
REAL ESTATE AGENT HALLER sold the
Nesbitt Bros property on the north side
of Fourteenth street yesterday to Geo. Z.
Neff, for S., COO.
THE annual spelling contest in the public
schools will be conducted this morning at
the Clay school house Z. II. Collier will
announce the words.
THE farmers throughout the county are
bringing in wheat now, owing to their
taxes becoming due. This has caused
slight depression in the price of wheat.
A SEw lamp post is badly needed at the
northwestern intersection of Market and
Tenth streets to relieve the half square OF
inky darkness on the sides and frontage of
CoeR's planning mill.
Col. CHARLES SHAY, the enterprising
proprietor OF the Academy of Music has
secured the ex-champion prize tighter, Pat
Ryan, for an exhibition on the evening OF
December 9th, Christmas eve.
THE two cases against j. W. Pultz were
dismissed by Squire Peterman on the non
appearance Of the complainant, and the
two cases against Burwinkle were contin-
ued until next Wednesday.
VI. l.. i
committed to Jail for hearing before
Squire Ankle this evening on charge OF
threatening to shoot his brother in-law,
James Bowman, last August.
THE fog tor the past TWO nights has been
intensely thick and heavy. The atmos
phere, by day, has been murkv and smoky,
bearing wonderful reese blance to its ap.
pearanc &c for days after the Chicago fire.
THE saloonists in this city at their last
n, etiDg decided to abolish the custom OF
giving Christmas gift drinks, as they be-
lIeve 1t is productive OF great drunkenness
amorg the young people, who take advaut-
age of the occasion.
YESTERDAY the Directors of the Park AS
soCiati, organized by electiug the follow
ing officers: President, Anton Reymann;
Treasurer and Secretary, l. +. Stifel; Park
Committee. Henry Beberson, Aug. Rolf
Henry Stsmm, Frank Walters and l.. F.
Sufel.
SEA1sfor Rhea will go on sale this morn
ing ard there is every indication of rush.
Her engagement here will surely be q BIZ
success, as usual. LAST night Manager
Chase telegraphed from Rochester, y. y,
To Msnsger Riester, thar the house was
turning people away aud Rhea was doing
tremendous business there.
The Nashville Jub lee Singers, the lead
ing troupe of the day, will give a concert
in the First Baptist Church on Tuesday
evening, December llth. They are pos
sessed OF unusually fine and highly culti-
waited voices, and appear in the native cos
tune of old plantation days.
SATURDAY afternoon at o'clock Frank
Healy will loose bis fox in the rear OF
fox chase will begin. Six dogs have been
entered thus far. All persons wishing to
enter dogs can do 50 By calling at Mr..
Healy's saloon on Market street.
TIE first grand hop of the Elite Social
Club, at Maennerchor Hall, on last even
iug, was a grand success in every particu.
lar. The Elite" is composed of five of
Wheeling'S most popular leading society
young gentlemen, and. they deserve
great praise for the very creditable manner
in which they acquitted themselves on last
evening. Mayors delightful orchestra fur
nished charming music on this occasion.
A son of John Randolph Butts, OF East
" heeiing, had a singular accident and
narrow escape, day or two since. While
play ing on the b. x 0. freight bridge over
the creek, he fell through a hole, into the
creek below. The hole had been covered
by q box and he attempted to crawl into
the box and struck the hole instead. He
alighted in the creek and reached the pier
where he was taken off in skitf. His es.
cape is almost miraculous.
A RIPLEY dispatch, under date OF the 3D.,
says; Another snag has lodged about fifty
fee. to the right OF the present one opposite
the mouth of Red Oak, Just above town. 1t
makes q faint break on the surface OF the
water, and pilots should exercise care in
passing, as it is directly in the Channel,
and dangerous obstruction. The Katie
Stockdale, in making landing here last
night, jammed her swimming stage against
the whsrfboat, smashing the door and part
OF the upper works
YESTERDAY, Mike, a small son OF Barney
Burke, vas kicked in the side by horse
which fractured two of his ribs. The acct
dert happened in this wise, Mr.. Edwards
has an old horse which is allowed to run
loose near his residence on north Main
street, and the urchins of North Wheeling
amuse themselves by throwing stones at
the brute. Yesterday while at their usual
prank of teasing the animal, it turned on
them and kicked young Burke with the
above result. DR.. Baird is attending the
injured boy.
To NIGHT Wheeling audience will gaze
on Mr.. Lapgtry and be hsppy-perhaps.
Hitherto they have seen her only with the
eye of imagination, through the spectacles
OF newspaper, but now they can gaze their
fill at sboIte lauge. The play is tn we'll
known English comedy, "She Stops to
Conquer" and Mrs. Lsngtry will take the
part of Miss Hardcastle. Very few of those
TO he present tonight will look at Mrs.
Lsngtry from an artistic standpoint, with
a hypercritical eye. Few of them could
intelligently criticise her. 1t is Mrs. Lang
try the woman, and not Mrs. Laugtry the
actress, that they go to see. They go to see
the womsn made famous the world over as
the British beauty, first, then by the atten-
tons of the Prince of Wales, and finally by
her career here last season. That is why
they 60, and they are going in great
swarms too. The Opera House will hold
an immense and an ultra fashionable audi
ence.
POINTED PENCIIINGS