Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-12-30
sTEUBENvILLE GOSSIP.

Special Correspondence Of tAs Sunday Register.
STEUBESvILLE, December 29.-The
street cara lave been running constantly
since thrir start, and the amount Of pat
rorsgs they have received astoniste'
everyone, and the fellows who all along
predicted that the venture would be fat
failure ere now rs dumb as an oyster VIXEN
the subject is broachei. On Saturday,
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, the five
cars on the line could hardly accommodate
the pt ople VIII, wanted to ride, and since
then the business has been very good. Ga
last Wednesday evening q break occurred
| In the trolly wire at the corner Of Tenth
and Washington streets, but the delay
caused thereby was not of long duration,
"a the cars were running as1suai the next
moraipg.
The tews of tie killing Of Thomas Il.
Brown, BY c. & P. engine at Bsllatre, on
Monday evening last, was at list discred-
tied but when il came be generally known
THAI no mistake had been made, and that
il wss in fact the man who for years had
resided in Steubsnvills, and whose friends
were numbered along with his scqusin'-
srcas. expres sions of sorrow and regret
were numerous, and his sad fate was the
subject of conversation every where. The
remains were brought to this city, aud
taken to the residence of james Gregg on
! North Fourth street from where the
funeral took place F.iday morning at ten
O'Clock, his old comrades OF the G.. A. X.
attending in body.
It'll, claimed that Col. Coulter and h
G.. Richards are after the position o! Si1to
Auditor of the Treasury, which Dan Nc
Conville is expected 10 vacate next sprirg
! Coulter is backed by SInstor Sherman,
ard + chsrds gels his support from some
unknown statesman, probably Charley
! Foster, whose henchman be was for many
wears. To hear Republicans figuring on
| what this man and that mau was going to
get one would think that the big end 9th
party would be transferred 20 Washington.
The leaders Of the PSF y may have in mind
that if this is Goae Stsubenville is likely
TO 20 Dero:ratic, end 20 tut their foot
down on the movement, whether Pfesi'
dent Harrison bids it it o: Lot.
The merchants of Steubenyiil 10 are oil.
most unanimous in declaring that their
trade during the past two weeks wss the
largest holiday business they have had for
wears. And it was not confined to citizens
of the city, either, for every rsiGo1d train
arriving was packed with peop'e coming
here 10 purchase their Christians goods, 60
that hundreds of dollars flowed into
the drawers of S;subeuvile msIchants
from outside sources. Still there sre people
ready 10 d clare that there Is no business
enterprise in the place, and that the to Sn
is declying. A competing line Of railroad
and aysteu of p;keJ will make Steubsn'
Vile one Of the lvelielt Business centres
in the Ohio Val:y.
The Acme glass house boys cleared over
two hundred dollars by their ball at Tdntr
Hall Christmas eve.
The churches Of the city have effected
asst improvemel IT 10 their choirs within
the past year, aud now church-goers enjoy
first-c.sss musical treat each Sunday,
morning and evening.
The SpAuljing nail works at Brilliant Ia
doing a rushing business, stliing all tins
nails il can make.
An Injunction was allowed in Probate
Conrt this week restraining the Bridge
water Natural Gas Company Ir0m shutting
the gas of from the Empire fire clay works
at Toronto The trouble is that TIE
Bridgewater Company continued ID take
contracts for supplying gas 10 new con
suuers when the amoun; furnished tie
Empire Clmra2y was not IN sufiicLen'
quantity 10 be satisfactory. The Bnhga'
water Company also increased TIE pnct
over one hundred per cent. The Empire
Company Was ole Of the first customers Of
the gas company, and in their petition SCI
forth thst the gas company is adding new
consumes TO it's list when it has not suih
Gent gas tn supply those /. already nos,
which IL contrary to Law according IN de
cisions already made in tie Courts. Steu
beay!lls can congratulate itself on the ex
cellent supply of gas it has always hsd
and it, immunity f;om accidents 90 com
mon in other cites.
IlNIiss Mary r Tolle is home from Cleve
lard for the holidays.
James Crawford, Esq.,, Of Pittsburg, wal
the guest this week of W. II. Mooney
r. G. Atkinson, vile aud daughter Flor
exec, Of New York, arc spe7oiug :hs to!i
days with Mrs Atkioaou's mother, Mrs
D. s. Mccoy. Of North Fourth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. DR.. Payne left Tuesday
70, California, where they spend the win
ter.
W. II. Lampson, editor Of the Washing
ton Poa. we'll known az the author OF tn
"Mary Jane" letters, written while on
tour through Europe last yta-, Is spend
ing the holidays With his parents i'll TIN
city.
james S Bigger, E>q formerly OF TIT
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