Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-12-25
BITS OF NEWS,


Picked Up Here and There By Register
| Reporters.
One marriage license was Issued yes
terdsY.
RIP VAN WINELE" at the Academy this
afternoon.
"FLoRETTE" at the Opera House this
afternoon.
THERE will be q Christmas entertain
ment at the Zane street N. Z. church to
night.
FRED THOMPSON, Of Green's saloon. says
be is not the person who was arrested yes
terdsy for being drunk.
LAST evening Mr.. John Bowers, book
keeper at Trimble l. Lutz was presented
by the firm with handsome gold watch.
THE B. l. o. Railroad Company yester
day paid its water rent for the six months
ending March 81, 1886, the sum being
$500.
GIDEON THOMPSON was before Justice
Arkle yesterday afternoon. charged with
assaultng the porter of the Stsmm House.
He was fined S. and costs.
MANAGER SHAY announces thst every
lady attending the Academy Of Music this
afternoon and evening, will receive large
and beautiful Christmas card.
IT is understood that Signor D AURA
has accepted the dictatorship of the choir
of the First Presbyterian Church, and will
assume the duties of the position after
January |.
AT the postofice to day, Sunday hours,
$50 to 10 q. m, will De observed. The
carriers will make one delivery in the
morning, leaving the Office about 8 q. m.
There will be two collections on the bust
ness route at 9 and 1890 q. m.
A cANTArA entitled Santa Claus Mis-
take" will be given this evening at the
Zane Street II. E. church by the Sunday
school scholars. 1t is very pretty little
entertainment and anyone wishing to
spend pleasant evening should attend
GRAND Christmas matinee st the Chap.
line street rink, at which double perform.
snce will be given. Prof. Aginton, the
monarch Of the wheels, and Miss Gertie
Gould as the Indian Princess" Every
lady in the city should see this perform
snce.
| LAST evening the employees of the Nail
City Lantern Company presented Mr.. w.
j. Quinn with handsome easy chair, up
holstered in plush, the presentation speech
being made by Mr. Robert Murphy. At
its conclusion Mr. Quinn invited all the
! boys to psrtske of q sumptuous repast
CASHIER HoLLIwAY, Of the Bridgeport
Bank, has returned from Cleveland where
he investigated the merits of the dynamite.
proof time locks, by which two-thirds OF
the bank deposits in that city are protected,
and one of these new locks will be placed
! on the vault door of his bank as soon as
possible.
A GRAND ball for the benefit of the La
Belle locked-out nail feeders will be given
at Nolte's Hall, on the South Side, New
Years eve, and large crowd should at.
tend and give the boys lift. A good
time Is anticipated, the committee in
charge of the affair fully understanding
their business.
A MAN named Rodgers from Wheeling
lett satchel at the Panhandle depot this
msrning, while be called at the Imperial
Hotel. While he was gone some one
stole the sslchel which contained a Ma.
sonic emblem worth $50 The pin was
afterwards recovered by the police, but
they do not give further information
Steubenville Gazette.
YESTERDAY morning about 7 o'clock
quite an excitement was created in the
neighborhood by chimney on the build
ing occupied BY Lukens, the grocer, on the
Island, belching forth volume Of fame
that would have done credit to Vesuvius
in her calmer moments. However, the
conHsgrstion did not last long and did no
damage, fortunately.