Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-02-03

amenab,e if it could be proven that il al
lowed the maintenance of slaughter houses,
the cffal from which is supposed ID be the
cause of the typhoid fever epidemic. II IS
qnite a nice little legal question, and If
some one cared to it might be made to cost
the town several dollars TO prove that 1t Is
not party to the Cffense by knowingly
permitting it to continue.
There is some talk of street being paved
in the spring. It has not been definitely
settled which street nor which spring.
Among the very few things this town
needs badly is telephone in the Mayo $
office. AS it now is an officer cannot SEND
private message 10 Wheeling or Bridge
port, ror an officer cannot be called from
any part Of town without annoying some
of the business men in the vicinity of the
City Building. While the police were at
work on the cases of those Harrisburg
thieves last week, the whole preceding
was very nearly given away several times
by public use Of the the telephone. vi
course there are few other things reeoed
by the city, but the telephone is needed
worse than anything which can be had "a
readily and cheaply.
Charley Coss, an employee 10 the ste.t
department at the Ena mill, had ore OF
his hands severely cut while separating
two rough sheets on Friday. The cut was
deep and severed the tendons in the back
OF the hand.
It is charged by some few malicious
pe1sons in this city that certain well
known and very prominent young man
actually followed q travelling photographer
from corner 10 corner SO that he might sp-
pear in all the views taken of stores al d
public buildipgs OF course it is not 60.
The Knights of Pythias Of this city sre
arranging for the celebration of the silver
anniversary Of the founding of the order
on February 49, Ohio City Lodge, No.
81. will give an entertainment in LsFay'
/ cite Opera House on that evening.
On Friday evening Miss Minnie Cox en-.
! tertained a number of her friends at hel
home in the Third ward. Those present
were Misses Jessie and Beta Sheets. Mat
tie Mcdonald, Bessie Brady, Gertie Hanes,
Mamie Thomas, and Messrs. James Rails.
ton, Walt Griffith, Ernst Smith and Ed
Exley.
The proper place for people TO say good
/ bye is at home. II person is leaving on
a short, or even a long trip, the fnal
faIewells, hand-shakes and goodbye kisses
should al be msde at home. 1t is not an
uncommon sight to see man and womsn
90 10 the depot and place themselves on
exhibition for half an hour before the train
arrives. Bat after TIE train arrives i
when the actual tIoube tegins He would
no more think OF allowing the conductor
or brakeman to put her away in comfort
able seat than as if such furctionaries did
not exist. No, he must get on the train
with her, block the car aisle while he kissss
her goodbye and says a few words Of Ell.
dearment, and finally, Just as the train
starts. crowd past all the people in the cal
and jump stiff-legged to the platform after
the train is well under way. Sometimes
he manages to retain his equilibrium,
| but, fortunately, tometimes be
does not. When it is actually
desirable to spend a few minutes more
with a friend than the schedule allows,
the person should enter the car, sit down
and make the best of his time till the next
station is reached, when he may alight
ard walk back or wait for another train.
A few weeks since saw q man get on al
Martins Ferry to say goodbye to one OF
the ugliest women l ever saw. He block.
ed up the aisle till the train started and
then broke for the back door of the car,
which the trainmen had fortunately lock
ed. The train had no occasion TO stop
until Portland was reached, and the CON
ductor evidently knowing with whom be
was dealing, made the leave taker stay
and pay his fare 10 Portland. But thai
was not all. The fellow lives in Mt
Pleasant and missed the hack by hi
escapsde, and had to stay in town twC
days and right.
Mayor NJ. G. Mitchell yesterday ap
pointed Isasc Il, Wagner member OF tn