The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-02-19
CITY MATTERS.
Brief Notes on Current Events OF Minor
= Interests,

Brief Notes on Current Events OF Mino,
InterestS.
COUNCIL this evening.
The weather yesterday wa7 a commentary
on the ground hogs veracity.
LETTER LIST j, D. Drum, J.W. Lockhart,
Levi Becker md NJ. D. Doran.
A LARGE number OF drummers for the
different houses Of the city have left fol
points down the river.
ONE deed Of trust recorded and one mar.
risge license issued YVES the extent OF the
business at Clerk Hooks office yesterday.
The loss Of tie Citizsns Railway Company
by the a3ed has been placed by another pspe,
at $1,000. The Directors say it is fully 50. 600
pEopLE have behaved SO we'll since the flood
that the justices OF the peeee complain that
their occupation 9 gone, and the police long
for good weather to 90 i,hiog.
Il. T. NcGREaoa has had several offers 70,
bis famous COW. which w%sathered the fl 1od
in the second story Of NJ. T. Frame's 1esi.
dence, but he declines to sell her.
THERE W.T. a good audience at Charley
shsy's theatre Last evening, and the show
given wss a really tirs.-clf.J one. Tbs com.
papy Is the strongest seen here for months.
Tue Municipal Court met yesterday after.
noon, the opening OF the February term.
No businee1 Of public interest was transact.
ed, and the curt adjourned until Wenes.
day,
Our al No. 1917 Eof street last night Miss
Mollie Thompson attracted too much atten.
ton. Officer Freeboit took change OF tie
young lady, and d~isorderly ia the charge en-
tered against her nsme.
EVERY shower and every thnw Increases
the Danger 10 tho houses and Inhabitants on
Charles street. where q big slice Of the hill
eide Ia gradually but surely sliding down TO-
ward the lowlnnds Of the Second ward.
The policemen and extra night men are
having a bard time Of 1t these nights In the
lower South Side, with no gea or light OF any
kind, they 90 laundering into hole and mud.
Verify, "a policsmau's lot is not q happy
one." tl9
THE Germsnia Singing Society appropria.
ted, SIS for the relief OF those members OF
the society who suffered by the flood; Tie
fund ives distributed by tbe committee of
the society and put where it would do the
mos. good. G
JOHN kILrATtIcK Drilled a we'll si1 inches
In dia meter IN his barnyard across the river,
striking water at 10 feet. At SO feet a good
tour.ioot vein OF coal WI a 50 struck, winch
BE- thinks is the steubauyiils vcin.-&cu6su
ri1e Gazette
MAJOR ANDERSON yesterday received sub
scripuons OF $50 ana SIS respectively from
tue Williamsburg City AID Commercial, oil
New York, two Of the insurance c1mpaniet
represented By him, for the benefit Of the
flood sufferers. 5000
YE!TERnAY morning, about $3.50 o'clock, 8
severe rain storm, accompanied by vivid
lightning and resonant thunder, visited this
city. 1t was OF short duration, but those
who witnessed it thoagh5it was a little queer
for the 18th OF February.
IT WET Charlie Daub, not Dobb, whose
gambling room over the Crescent saloon, on
Market street, was raided Sunday afternoon.
Daub was fined so and costs In police court
yesterday, and each OF the ak players arrest.
ed q. the ssme time IS and costa.
THE gay tea swindler whose exploits on
the South Side were published in the INTEL.
LlaENcER recently, has been at hi. old tricks
again. This time the scene is laid in the
back part Of toe. Second ward, where most
Of his victims we're colored people,
The city schools, with the exception Of The
one on the Islata, opened yesterday with "a
average attendance of aboutthrae. fourths oi
the enrolment. In the Eighth ward school
only about ons.half OF the regular attend.
ance was present, Tires rooms are unfit fol
use and cannot be ocoupicd for ZONE time ret,
THE Sseubenviile Gazette well says: Stats,
tically inclined peraons may as we'll give IN
now the idea Of ever being able 10 approxi.
mately estimate the direct ADD indirect losse,
caused by this Ohio Valley Il cd. There il
sctual destruction OF propsrty" than can only
b. limited at In vague adj sctives, and there
are In addition losses incurred by the stop.
page OF bus'ness and enforced idlane.s Of
thousands OF workmep. sT.G :.