The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-08
LOCAL BREvITIEs.
Matters of Minor Moment in and About
tho City.

MATINEE at the Grand to-day.
The GRAND this evening-"Hilarity."
OPERA HOUSE this evening - RoSinA
Vokes.
FouR deeds Of trust were admitted to
record yesterday.
CRY Assessor T. NJ. JONES is confined
to his room by illness.
The annual crop Of valentines will be
ripe next Tueedsy. The stationery stores
are already in full bloom.
Four years ago this week about half OF
Wheeling was under water.
Travel Is reported unusually heavy Just
now on the railroads Of this vicinity.
A DOZEN or more people are going from
here to the annual iElks' benefit OF Pitts
burHh next Friday afternoon.
TIN DoRGAS, charged with disorderly
conduct, was the only case in Police Court
yesterday. he went up for thirty days.
A YOUNG man named German fell on
the sidewalk in front OF the Opera House
Monday night and cut q bad cash in his
forehead.
THE engine for the Warwick China
Company arrived yesterday morning from
the Buckeye Manufacturing Company and
will at once be put in position.
The Menuerchor Singing Society will
give It's annual mRsk carnival in its ball
on Market street this evening, and the ar
rangements assure grand time, as usual.
The lecture.at the Female College this
afternoon will be given by Rev. DR.: OuE-
L nnk NFYttl ho A
Of Scotland" The public Is cordially in
vited. The lecture begins OF s O'Clock.
RopISsaH'a precinct, Triadelphia district,
coast IS votes for the bridge subscription
and 8 against. The vote printed yester-
day ss from that precinct was erroneous,
but the total vote ID not ssrlously affected.
ABOUT ten days ago Miss Viola Peck, Of
Little Washington, lost pair OF earrings
with brilliant settings. Sunday, on open.
ing chicken, the lost jewels were found
in the gizzard, broken in seven peices.
A VALUABLE COW belonging to George
Atkinson, 81 West Wheeling, was struck
by train No. IS, on the Cleveland & Pitts
burgh road yesterday afternoon, and sc
badly crippled as to neCessitste its being
shot.
The G. A. R. Posts and Holiday Relief
Corps will give muaiCal and literary en-
tertainment in their new hall on Main
street, week from next Thursday even
ling. A fno programme has been ar
ranged.
Mr., 60. P. Perrin, late manager oil the
Belmont blast furnace, left last evening
for his new field OF labor in Wisconsin
He leaves many friends here who regret
to lose him from their midst
The nail manufacturers Of Wheeling
and vicinity held their weekly meeting
Yesterday, but report nothing OF interest
10 the public. The monthly meeting o.
the Western Nail Association will be held
here to-day.
TIE ssle OF reserved seats for tho en-
gagement at tho Opera House next Friday
and Saturday Of "a Rag Baby" opens a.
Bsumer'a music store this morning. It Ii
safe to count on packed house at each o.
the three performances.
Miss CLAIRE sCoTT, who holds the boards
at the Grand Opera House the last Of this
week, commencing tomorrow evening
announces o repertory Of classic dramas
which at the prices which prevail at that
house ought to draw all the people 1t car
accommodate.
MONDAY afternoon some person broke
into Westwood's hall, occupied by the
Mozart Singing Society, forced open the
lid Of the desk in the hall and stole S. in
change. It ia evident that the thief knew
Of the habit Of the society Of leaving the
dues in the hall from one meeting til
another.
THE contractors who work conviCts al
the Moundsville penitentiary remained
firm in the stand they recently tool
against Superintendent Robertson, as {
result Of which all the shops were idle
until yesterday morning, when they
yielded and work was resumed as II moth
ing had happened.
MRS. BUTLRR, q resident Of Alley O
some time ago sued Mrs. Williams, q
former inmate Of her house, for board
bin oil $500. The case came up before
Squire Phillips yesterday and after hear
ing tho testimony of fourteen hard look
Ing females, who told all manners OF sto
ries concerning the Bltuation, the justice
postponed the decision until to-day.
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