Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-08
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters Of Interest Briefly and
Plthlly Told.

aBalh, last nlgnLa Tor drunkenness.
THERE viii be meeting Of saloon keep
ers at Beethoven Hall, Friday evening.
L. COLMAR, JR-, was yesterday appointed
an attorney for the Hall Company, Of Chi
cago, III.
THERE is bad break In the sewer on the
east side Of Main street, at the intersection
Of alley twelve.
ALL postals sent TO this Office containing
personals must contain the name of the
writer to ensure publication.
Mrs. REITz, of No. SO Seventeenth street,
is suffering from a broken arm, sustained
BY fall down flight Of stairs.
CHRISTIAN FRY was yesterday appoint
ed guardian for Phoebe Ann Smith. Bond,
300; T. I. Hutchinson, surety.
TRADE this fall, so far as the manufacto-
ries Of this valley are concerned, is remark
able good; better than last year.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union viii meet this afternoon at 2:3O
o'clock in the Christian church in Bellalre
AT last evenings session Of the Commit
tee on Finance, there was a renewal OF the
talk about charging the wharf and putting
ii in good state OF repair.
THE Synod of Ohio, which is composed
Of delegates from the different Presoy-
teries of the United Presbyterian Churcn,
is in session at Steubenville.
THERE was but one case in Police Court
yesterday morning, the offender being VII
liam Leahy, charged with disorder. he
was fined three dollars and costs.
NEsBITT s. DEvINE yesterday sold to
William Murrin a half lot on South jacob
street for $500; also lot in the Handlan
addition to BenwoOd, TO Chas Seaorlght,
for $3.50.
THE farmers say the hot spell which has
lust come to a close will be worth millions
Of dollars 70 them. 1t has forced the corn
and toba~co TO maturity, and forestalled all
danger Of injury by frost.
THE local lodge Of the B. P o. Elks will
hold a social session at Arion Hall tonight
Members of the aunt Bridget's Baby"
company will take part, and the event
promises 70 be a most enjoyable one.
THERE were many disappointed people,
yesterday afternoon, when 1t was an
nOunced that there would be no matinee at
the Opera House. Despite the very dis
agreeable weather, the attendance would
have been large.
AT a meeting of the Wholesale Mer-
chants Association, held Tuesday night,
the scale OF prices Submitted by. the Ware
hOusemen's Union was rejected. The AS
ISOLATION submitted a scale Of wages 10 the
warehOusemen yesterday and the Union
will take action on it Friday night.
THE river continues to fall, and ii is now
lower than IL has been in years. Jester
day morning teams commenced TO ford the
river from the ferry landing to the point oil
the Island, and down the beach below the
suspension bridge, and from that point over
to the Wheeling wharf, says the Martins
Ferry Times.
The window glass workers organization
at Pittsburg, L. A. 800, is taking steps to
withdraw its connection with the Knights
Of Labor. They claim the Knights are
constantly in trouble, drawing upon their
supply Of funds and have never contriout-
ed enough to even up what is drawn out
Belldire Independent.
A. G. MCCLELLAN, the well known
Splinter Of Pittsburg, is in the city for a
few weeks. InaSmuch as he has neard
considerable talk indirectly from Jack
Reed, Of North Wheeling, he is anxious to
run him a match. He will run him any
distance for from $50 to $500. Answer
through the REGISTER.
A REPORTER was yesterday shown an
election ticket, voted for Henry Clay, for
President of the United States. The name
OF the voter, Isaac V Barton, is endorsed
on the back Among the electors is the
name of Allen T. CapertOn, the only one
familiar at this day and generation. The
ticket is the property ofsC d. Noble
DIR. a a WILLIS, a most entertaining
and instructive speaker, will open the
Young Mems Christian Association course
Of lectures this evening. Seats can be
secured at the Y. 81. G. A. building. DIR.
Willis lecture on 1.-THE Philosophy or
Happy Life" is a happy combination OF
sound philosophy, pure morality and genial
humOr.
1T Is given out by grocers and butter
dealers that famine Of butter was ABOUT 10
come. The continued drought had, made
the pasture fields bare, and the farmers In
consequence were compelled TO feed their
cows. and have done so for a month past.
The creamery butter is getting very scarce,
and the wholesale price had been greatly
raised compared with the corresponding
rate of former years.
TUE recent rains have made coon hunting
in this section q possibility. For the past
two or three weeks the weather has been
so extremely warm that IL was an lmpossl-
bility for the dogs TO get on and keep up
the trail Of the frisky little animals. sew
eral parties of young "nimrods" were In
the woods last week, with all the para
phernalia necessary for the capture or
cOons. but were compelled to return early
in the morning without having gotten any
game. Now that the rain has ceased
scents will be easily discovered and coon
stories will be in season.
CoAI. Is still king in cold weather. 1t
NAV be displaced for time by something
else. but the new found fuel is adopted De-
couse il il don't work or last they can drop
back 70 coal again. The fact OF the matter
is that counting the losses, the perpleM-
ties. etc. there isn't factory in the ONO
Valley but what would have done as well
10 have continued the use OF coal even
when natural gas was at its best. None OF
them at the end can count their prohts
from its use with any certainty, because 1t
would be hard for them TO count all tney
lost by the Observation-Disclosures IRdepend-
cut.
"NEvER has the competition for the
trotting stallion crown been so hot rs IL Is
this year, " said well known local horse
man yesterday, NOR has there ever been
q time when there were so many tast stall
lions as at present racing for the price.
Between AllertOn and Nelson there is but
a narrow margin Of three-quarters OF
second. At any day this is liable TO dis
| appear or be widened by one Of the horses
indulging in a record breaking perform
ance, and this may not be an unlikely
event when the two meet at Grand RAPIDS
| tomorrow. Next in rank comes Stamooul,
but one second slower than Nelson, as
records now stand. No one would be as
/ tonished If STEAMBOAT were to knock
seco nd or two OF his record this year"
NnHWa nR TEE RIVER