Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-21
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THERE is nothing new in the glassWorkers
strike.
A-xS1vERslar Of the battle of San JancitO
in 1888.
The BOYS are still engaged settling up
with Clerk Mitchell.
The streets in the South End are bsing
cleaned. Good move
The creek bank was well lined with
fishermen, yesterday.
The Top mill started up full in all de-
partments yesterday.
TuE WAFER main on Twelfth street is
broken between Chspine and Market
streets.
SoNE of the older boys" are putting in
their spare time on the South Side playing
marbles.
THERE are . number of holes in the Six.
teenth street pavement which should be at
tended to.
Such weather as yesterday makes q
boom in the garden seed and rake n
spade trades.
The BOYS at the Hook Ladder House are
repainting the ladders and making other
improvements.
Mr.. ANDREW ScHATsrICE will open a
6ntcIass saloon at No. l22 Eighteenth
after May lst-
THE bids for the removal OF the State
archives, ETC., viii be opened this morning
by the Governor.
The champion skater who beat Jesse
Rurkett At the Island rink last week is named
Will Laue, not Lane as formerly stated.
It's said the State House attaches are
thinking Of giving q grand farewell recep
ton to their many friends in this city.
The boys over on South Chapline street
are still giggliug over a joke perpetrsted
upon a certain gentleman, In which q Ger
tain doctor took part.
SoNE of the urchins have been down to
the river investigating the temperature ct
the water previous to INDUCING IN their
usual evening baths.
Mr.. VALENTINE BELLINGER 2255 Market
.treet will shortly erect q commodious three
story building on the lot adjoining his pres
emit place Of business.
Tax Committee on Fire Department will
meet at the City Building at ! o'clock next
Thursday afternoon to make the annual In
s~pecrion of the different engine houses IN
The city.
The prospects of the pleasure of having
Theodore Thomas and his great orchestra
here in MAY, was the subject of much com
ment on the streets yesterday.
TIE Top mill started up yesterday morn
ing, but after making one heat had to QUIZ
work on account of the boilers leaking
They will resume work to-day for a steady
run.
Tbs doctors are looking forward with in
terest to the advent of new vegetables and
their consequent results, and the druggists
are preparing large supplies OF cholera
morbus cures.
IT was learned yesterday that the glass
workers held q meeting on Saturday and
the strike Of the Wellsburg men confirmed.
What other business was transacted could
not be discovered.
IT is learned that the mills Of Irouton,
Ohio, will soon 90 into the manufacture OF
steel nails. This will throw somewhere be
tween $50 and LOO puddlefs and their
assistants out Of work.
The South End Human" Society will
soon hold another meeting, when some in'
teresting developments are looked for, as
several of the members are hunting up
some astonishing data.
A STRANGE man in the Mcclure House
last evening asked what minstral company
was in town. 1t was discovered that the
gang all had their plug hats on, and 1t was
| this tact that led to the remark.
Why not take the mud cleaned off our
streets over to the Island and FIJI up som
of the low places. One gentleman informed
| a Exporter that be had offered to pay the
toll over the bridge if the dirt was dumped
on his ground, but the offer was refused.
A QUANTITY Of grass in the rear of the
residence Of Hugh O'Hsre, 43 North Huron
street. Island, became ignited about Il
o'clock Yesterday, ~endsngering the stable.
| The Island reel was called out and the
flames were distinguished without damage.
ENTHUSIASTIC Gospel temperance meet
ipgs are being held in the NJ. +. Church at
Fulton, and much good is being accomplish
I'd. The meetings will continue every night
this week, and all are cordially invited to
attend. A number Of conversions have al
ready been made.
THE nail feeders of this city were organ
lied in the knights ofLsbor Hall last Sstur.
day afternoon, and were duly installed By
Mr.. Lee Hammond as members Of the Ohio
Valley Trades Assembly. An effort to learn
something Of the object Of the organization
beyond that of being connected with the
Trades Assembly was utile.-Indepeudent.
some excitement was caused On Market
street yesterday by q man breaking into
Oailor's shoe shop window. When the mat
ter was investigated, it was found that Capt.
Rennett had been leaning against the sill OF
the window when his feet slipped from under
nm and he was precipitated through the
glass, however, without hurting himself.
THERE will be q Dime Reading in the
Third Presbyterian Church Thursday
night of this week. A fine programme is
prepared for the occasion. Mrs, Hair will
render the beautiful descriptive organ num-
Der entitled "Recollections of Petersburg"
Several vocal selections viii be presented
during the evening and some choice read
ings.
ENGINEER CHARLES KLEvIs, Of the Mag
ara, is certainly the right man in the right
place. BE, with the assistance of the other
boys, has taken down the old, rickety steps
and erected q handsome new fight, and
made other commendable and handsome
improvements about the house. Another
fact is that he makes his Owl repairs should
the engine need any.
The entertainment given last night BY
the Sidney OFT Mission Band, which is
composed Of the little folks Of the First
Presbyterian Sunday school, was a decided
success. The little folks are about thirty in
number, and the programme rendered BY
them consisted in songs, recitations, &c,
which were sll given IN a delightful and
entertaining manner. The children are
under he charoe of Miss Mattia Tavlor