Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-09
THE CITY IN BRIEF.
Mere Mention of Miscellaneous Matters of
General Interest.
DILL very dnll. Yesterday.

Mere 1IenG1On OF MISCELLANEOUS ukhtlcrb VI
General Interest.
Dull, very dull, yesterday.
YESTERDAY was cold and raw.
TIE ice gorge in the creek has run out.
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS this morning.
ONLY four cases will be up before Police
Court this morning.
TIE gas lights in the central portion OF
town were very dim last night.
The Council Committee on Finance will
meet at The Guy Building this evening, at
7! o'clock.
Two MEN were arrested in the East End
yesterday by Officer Burns, charged with
being disorderly.
THE locked.out glass workers will have a
grand benefit at the Chapline Street Rink
next Saturday week.
THERE was a knock.down on Market
street, just above the Opera House, late Sat
urday night. No arrests.
SOME unknown party fired a shot on
Chapline street, south OF Sixteenth street,
about. s o'clock last evening.
A SPECIAL. car was Iun out on the Elm
Grove line TO accommodate those attending
he Opera House concert, last night.
THE ice has run out OF the creek, leaving
he shores lined half way up with a lot Of
iirty gorge ice not pleasant TO look at.
THE Lights o London Compauyfeft yes,
erday afternoon for Steubenville, whence
hey 90 TO Pittsburgh, where they open an
Engagement this evening.
TIE Council Committee on Lights will
meet at the gas works at . o'clock this
afternoon to view the works. \ full at,
enhance OF the committee is desired.
AurTLE war has been stirred up among
he participants in the Excelsior skating
club in regard 10 the receipts, and the boys
are touching up each other rather severely.
YESTERDAY was the tbirty-ffth a%nniver.
sary of the Rev. j. 7. McClure's pastorate OF
he United Presbyterian church. Commun'
ON services were held at this church yester,
day.
THE State Board of Public Works will
meet at the Capitol this morning, for the
purpose OF considering appointments Of SUI
perintendent and toll keepers on the Ma
tional road.
IT is dangerous for a man who is suspected
of having any money to go within two
squares Of a skating rink. Some chap is
bound to strike him for a quarter to try the
dizzy wheels.
THIS evening Francis Murphy, the great
apostle of temperance, will inaugurate his
course of lectures in the First Baptist
Church, corner of Twelfth and Byron streets.
There is no charge for admission.
A COW belonging to Mr.. Linden, who re.
sides on the Peninsula, got on the track of
he Elm Grove motor line, yesterday after.
noon, and the motor struck her amidships
and the wheels passed over her, cutting her
almost in twain.
Mr.. WM. II. BURNS, of this city, and Miss
Maggie Welty, of Pennington, W. Va, went
o West Alexander yesterday, where they
we're made one. They leave for the East
this morning on a bridal tour. Lots of good
wishes follow the happy couple.
A large number of citizens spent a pleas
ant hour last evening, at Maennerchor hall,
listening to the rehearsal of the Opera
House orchestra. The programme as pub
lished yesterday, was gone through with in
he orchestra's usual t~aultless manner.
One night last week some villain entered
he livery stable of John Dumas, at 1909
Market street, and cut a valuable hOrse's
hroat from ear to ear. The horse is still
live. but will not live long. No clue to
0 the villain has been discovered, aud
therefore, the cause for doing the ~cowardly
act remains a mystery.
Mr.. Jostru DrrFSER, of Cleveland, Ohio,
accompanied by his son, is in the city. Mr..
Dutfner, il will be remembered, is plaintiff
in the large land suit against D. +. Farms,
worth and others, ofBuckhannon, which was
decided in the plaintiffs favor some time
since by the United States Court. A motion
for a new trial has been made by the
defendants, which will come up for consid.
eration before Judge Jackson some time
this week.