Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
SUNDAY GOSSIP
OF Town Affairs OF q MlscelIan-
eous Character.
The Small Matters That People Of lsis-
ure Find Time to Chat and
Gossip Over.

Yesterday afternoon two gentlemen stood
at the capitol corner watching the vain
efforts OF two mogul engines to take q
heavy train up the grade. THE HemPtield
is a great road" said one, land IL works on
a sliding scale, Just like the mills"
How do you meanP 49,.
There are so many slips and slides
about il. Two accidents to the day IS rs
ayersge record. Still it does good bust
ness"
Imsgine Hamlet, in the days Of old Elsi-
more, sending love letters by q. s. mail to
bis sweetheart, marked "0phelia, No. 2O7
Market Alley, Elsinore, Denmark" How
o6d that would seem. Yet, in the benef
play, when Ophelis tells Hamlet she has
ertain letters to retRrn him, she hands
over q packet of them, on the outside one
of which the emerald green patch of the
old 3 cent stamp is distinctly visible. They
had not reformed the mail, evidently, and
drop letters cost three cents
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Editor Hoffman, Of the Morgantown
Post, is bold man, else he would not
have challenged, as he did, spreacher to
a trial of astronomical powers. In an
eating contest between the preacher and
the editor, the latter slowed away half OF
turkey, one chicken, three mackeral, four
goldfish balls, two sandwiches five dishes OF
oysters and full yard and quarter OF
bologna sausage, and won the match. The
country editor and the country preacher
make good old team Of trencher men.
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Occasionally an audience is treated to
only half Of what transpires on the stage
and very often the scenes behind the
scenes" are richer than those before the
footligh.s. On Friday night, such was the
case. The Ghost, who had been absent for
some time, and grown unfamiliar with the
current politics of Elsincre, got into q
political discussion with Laertes, touching
the coming election of directors OF the
royal menagerie. Clsudius and PoloniuS
we're sneaking about, watching Hamlet
making love to 0phelia, but Rosencrantz,
who wss q Kingsman, espoused the cause
Of Laertes, while Horatio took ur for the
Ghost. As usual, fight epsued, but Ham
let, after getting Ophelia into a nunnety,
came oil and broke up the row.
George II Benson wooed and fondly i'm
sgined he had won Laura B. Feather. She
gave her consent and he FASTENED to the
Cflice of the county clerk of Preston coun-
ty, where the parties reside, and obtained
the necessary license. The wedding feast
was prepared and the guests hidden, but
when the hour drew near and Benson
called to escort his would be bride to the
festive scene where they were to be made
one, he discovered TO his horror and amaze
meut that she had been married the day
NJ fore tolAllen Crane, at Msrkley 'burg,
Py te county. Benson spo led ii stella s
news item by heartlessly declining TO make
fool If himself BY committing suicide.
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Charlotte Thompson has cancelled her
engsgementat VIII cling but no on account
of the q cd. Still the. flood will exercise
gtest influence over amasements for some
time. Companies are avoiding, as far as
possible, those towns which suffered most,
knowing well the people will have but
little money 10 invest in theatres. The
next attraction here will be the Lights o.
London, on March 4. 5 and 6.
The new tax deal in West Virginia pro-
misses to give the Baltimore & Ohio Road
some trouble. In Preston county the
county officials long ago compromised with
the company, aud the valuation of the
proper of the latter was fixed at 1882 900.
By a recent law, the board Of public works
is made the assessor Of all railroad proper
y, and that body has just doubled the
valuation OF the Baltimore u Ohio in
Preston.
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A number of young ladies and gentle
men have organized private theatrical
company and will play for the benefit Of
The flood sufferers. Only those receiving
invitations can purchase tickets, as the
affair is to be very exclusive. Some good
amateur work is anticipated.
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Col. Bill Exley tells q graphic story of
his trip down the river in pursuit OF the
fragments of the State fair property car
ried off by the freshet. He recovered much
Of il, principally pens and stalls and as.
certained there is great interest felt along
the river in the success of the fair.
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