Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-22
FALLEN THRo0eH.
Tho Glass Works Project at Wash-
ingten, Pa.
An Unhappy Romance in Educational
C.rcles-Another Case Where Love
Smiles at Bullets.
Specsoi 10 tAe ReStaer.

.... 6Pec3o$ W thc hc3ts<0s
WAsH1xsros, Pa, July 2i.-Ths lo,al
surface Is calm, scarcely ripple marring
its placidity or an occasional wave to break
the monotonous stiffness. When say
local, I mean that which will interest or
surprise some one outside the pales Of this
now DER serene town. Just at present
there is relapse occasioned by frost-bitten
hopes and blasted anticipations OF what
was regarded as q sure thing in the way Of
soon having
Glass Works Erected Here.
Our citizens raised the required amount Of
capital after considerable effort, agreements
were signed, etc, but, alas, alas, the pro-
and cried with loud voices from Pitts
burgh, failed to show their boosted Of pie.
thoric hands of wealth, even when our
honest spectators called them. Talk Is
cheap, and they used plenty Of it, but
when il came to putting up they sub
sided, and now our storekeepers are blue
and more forlorn.looking than the heavy
loses in base ball pools.
By the way, base ball is raging epidemic
here, and he who is not honorable repre-
sentative in some nine OF the American
game is unworthy of the name OF man.
We have mines from every path OF life and
"Lean Mems Nine" will tackle the "Fat
Mems Nine" again on Monday next, at
which time "Skin Bones" expect to retrieve
their lost reputation by covering with ig:
nominious defeat the corpulent frames OF
the Fats" The defeated side treats.
Bicycles and Tricycles
are becoming very popular here. In con.
nection with this 1t is proper to say that
Mr.. George Buchanan, of this place, the
patentee of probably fifty inventions,
claims to have made the first tricycle. in
the year 1886,
At a recent meeting of our school board
one OF our finest teachers presented her
resignation, refusing TO teach in a school
the secretary Of the board served as direc-
tor Years ago he had plighted his troth
with her and broken it. He is now married,
while she remains miss yet, but, being a
lady Of fine education, excellent DISPOSE
ton. pleasant maDners and Of good social
standing, it is evident she is maiden lady
of choice. There was considerable feeling
manifested by many from the fact that our
directors selected a nonresident teacher 10
fill the vacancy, when we have many COM
petent ones at home.
PedestrianisH.
On a wager OF twenty dollars one OF our
Young men was to attempt to walk TO your
Iity from here in twelve hours, but the
affair did come of, as the non pedestrian
"saueaed" after the money had been plac-
ed in the Shareholders hands
Already the political cauldron has begun
to simmer" and aspiring Judges are loom
ing up for vacancy four years hence. We
have heard of the following candidates:
Thos Baird, AID. McIlvaine, and the pres
ent incumbent Geo. Hart
Our "colored brethren" are to have an
old time First of August, and are entering
into the preliminaries with enthusiastic
zeal.
The Catholics will hold picnic here on
August llth.
The Washington Signal, cold water
sheet, which has been silent for few
weeks owing to the attenuated condition
of the editors exchequer, will, so the PEN
cil.driver says, be again issued in the course
Of a week or two.
Love Laughs at Iron Bars"
and fears not gattllng guns, in witness
whereof we call an ex.railroad brakeman
who was recently shot in the leg while max
ing a running switch from the bed cham
Der of an untre wife, but who still persists
in lowering round that domicile, notwith.
standing he was shot once and since shot
at again by the "unkind" husband Of the
woman. The ex-brakeman is also married.