The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-03
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Matters Of Minor Moment in and About the
City,

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THE Stsubenville Rifle Club will sxcurt
o Wheeling next Sunday on the steamer
Telegram.
THE ladies Of the st. John Church will
1--WE a strawberry festival at the church
This evening.
A HANDSOME new desk and 9 hne hat
rack were placed in the office oil h Ponce
and Fire Board yesterday.
A o~SR-LRdaED Colored psddler otnohons
named Coleman, was Tun in last evening
BY Officer Watson for being disorderly.
Y~ESrERDAY's rains will assure a con;
tinued abundance Of strawberries, Good
strawberries sold in market yesterday az
seyenty-6ye cents a dozen quarts.
TEE jury in the case OF James Currans,
indicted for the robbery OF William haz'
lett, failed to agree upon q verdict yester-
day, and Judge Boyd discharged 1t,
Az appeal was yesterday taken from
the decision OF County Clerk Hook to the
Circuit Court in the matter OF the VIII
and estate Of Fred l.. Laughlin, deceased
MIS-. WELLS, the Colored woman who
was run in Tuesday night, and made such
q racket about 1t, was sent up ior sixty
days in police court yesterday morning
THERE was no session Of Part | oil the
Circuit Court yesterday, Judge Jacob
having zone down to New MaItinsyllle to
cit on the bench for the judge OF that
circuit,
THE last examination OF the course for
the senior class OF the public schools will
be held at Richie school to-day, the
subjects will be Algebra, Geometry and
Rhetoric.
F. p. MCNRLL yesterday qualified as
executor OF the last will and testament Of
John Mcneil, deceased, giving bond in
the sum Of $4,000. No surety was re-
Quired by the will.
CLERK Hook yesterday admitted to
record a deed made June !, by the heirs
Of Christian Hook to Henry +, Nolte, in
consideration Of $1,000, for part OF lot II
in spriggs' row, in the Eighth ward.
A RULE Of the Police and Fire Board 70
ouires all property seized by the police 70
be turned over to the Board, So far only
a "nigger.shooter' and one tommy
have been handed in by the boys.
HOBBS, BRocKUNIER 4 Co. announce
new styles OF glassware, which, as will BIZ
noticed in the advertising columns are
not sold at retail at the works. Their new
goods are worth inspection. No imported
goods surpass them for beauty
TIE Adams Express Company's Office
in this city has changed managers. George
Sterling, who for several years past has
been the agent, resigned yesterday and
was succeeded by ], =. Fettinger, oil
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald.
PRESIDENT WALLACE says that the Jet'
ierson iron works will not shut down at
present, and will probably run all summer
with the possible exception Of the Fourth
OF July, and he sees no reason now, why
the mill shouldn't run 3l3 days this year,
although regular holidays may be OBJ
served.
IT is a matter OF frequent remark that
there has not been a season Tor many years
when rains were so prevalent at this time
OF year, nor when lightning and thun-
der accompanied the rain storms with
such persistent regularity. II the old say
ing that "a wet May makes hay" holds
out, this ought to be an unprecedented
hay year.
Ed. FRAEcY has taken his trotting horse
to Wheeling to put him IN training on the
| Wheeling race track, under. the care oil
William Swearingen, well known as u
successful handler OF trotting stock. The
horse In question has o good pedigree, and
will doubtless make u good showing In
speed before the season is oVer.-IOrSnto,
Ohio, Tribune.
TnE people about West Wheeling arc
exceedingly glad the old bone factory, just
below that ancient village, has been burn.
ed out. In the evenings the aroma OF
burning flesh and bones waited from the
place was almost unbeArable, and though
the act was doubtless that OF an inCon-
diary there is little sympathy expressed.
The kettles, etc., were moved away yester-
day.
The West Virginia Natural Gas Com
pany brought in a powerful gasser on the
Paxton farm, Mt. Pleasant township,
| Washington county, Monday. The well,
which has been drilling not much leas
than sixty days, came in with a pressure
that blew the tools out Of the hole. II ls
situated about three miles east OF the Nc.
Guigan and in the same Canonsburg range
OF hills.
AwRlr Of habeas corpus was issued by
Judge Boyd yesterday for Dennis Gard
ner, now in the county Jail on commit
ment OF Squire w. H. Davis, on a charge
OF assaulting Lafayette Harden, and an
other Of resisting Constable Love In the
discharge Of his duty. The writ was re:
turnable yesterday at . =. NJ, but Of that
hour the hearing upon 1t was postponed
until Friday at Il. M.