Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-02
SMALL TALK
Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
Pithity Told.

December.
The present cold snap is wave from
Wisconsin.
THERE were no cases in Police Court,
yesterday morning.
The Board Of Commissioners meet to-
day for auditing purposes.
VIM. Ellingham is in ST. Paul, where he
will remain about two weeks.
THE Council Committee on Cemeteries
Is called to meet this evening.
Tue Nail City Stamping Company has
appointed T. NJ Strong its attorney.
WN. HENDRICKS, drunk, and a female
drunk, both arrested by Officer Herbert,
last night.
TIE Wildey Lodge, Daughters of Re
bekah, will give an entertainment at Odd
Fellows Hall this evening.
Misses Terese and Sails Rapp. of Park
ersbUrg, are the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
II. Hebrank, on Fifteenth street.
THE John Foster mentioned as before
the Police Court Saturday morning for in
decent exposure is not John Foster, the
molder.
TuR addition TO the Cannonsburg Steel
Works will be put in operation January
LIST. About one hundred men will be en-
| ployed.
NJ. OlNHAL was arrested by Officer
/ Cruce Yesterday, for drunkenness, and
Poodle Price by Officer Donovan, for
disorder.
| A MARRIAGE license was issued yester-
| day toJohn Never, a native OF Germany,
aged 81, and Mary Burke, a native OF
| Wheeling. aged 80.
A BALL will be given by the Bloch Bros
Union at Westwood's hall tomorrow
I night. Mayer will play, and most happy
/ time is anticipated.
REV. HEyIoTT, o. Bethany, is soliciting
subscriptions TO pay the principal sum of
/ 81, 200 on the permanent endowment fund
Of Bethany College.
] TIE Committee on Court House and Jail
\ of the Board of Commissioners, met yester-
\ day, and made change in the turrets or
/ the new Jail, substituting stone for tin.
THE Stone Bridge Commission made an
| other effort 10 meet, yesterday evening, but
a quorum could not be obtained. They are
/ called again for o'clock this afternoon.
NEARLY all the seats are already reserved
/ at the Y. NJ. G.. A. Hall for the lecture on
! Friday evening. The great humorist and
impersonator, Prof. r. L. Cumnock, will
appear.
THE Primus Club sent out handsome
/ invitations for dance at FranZhelm's
| Hall Tuesday evening, December Sth.
/ Kilmeyer will furnish the music, and
delightful time is anticipated.
The Parkersburg police believe that
/ Charles Smith, the colored man who so
| brutally assaulted Mrs. Marquis, few
days ago, led by freight train to this city.
] The local police are looking for Smith.
F. A. BRAMER Of Ironton, o., yesterday
wrote TO Frank Church, giving the career
/ of the late Elias Neeld in that town. Mr..
/ Bramer reciteS Neeld's insults TO mem
! Der of his household, and says he followed
him to Kentucky and thrashed him, as did
another indignant citizen.
Nor even the recent rains Of the past
| two weeks have caused any too much of a
/ water supply for the railways W. H.
/ Harrison, Superintendent of Motive Pow
| er on the B. & o., says that their supply
I OF water along that railway has not yet
/ reached the average amount.
THE farmers lust across the river are
getting desperate. Their poultry corn and
fruit are being stolen while they sleep.
Hunters range over their farms during the
day breaking down their fences and doing
about as they please. Scarcely night now
| passes that poultry yard is not raided and
all the fowls that can be caught carried of.
THE iron-work of the roof of the boiler
| house of the electrical plant is nearly all in
place, and in a few days the building will
be under cover. The boilers are expected
| daily, and will be set at once. The power
house roof has not arrived. The founda-
tiOns for the shafting are well under way,
and the concrete for several Of the dynamo
| foundations is in.
THIS is We season of We year when We be-
lated and anxious commercial pilgrim sit
\ teth for hours in We l2X5 railway station
and sweareth at We dilatory train. For
| hours he stitch and sitting ever swearing.
| Ye red-hOt stove parboileth his wrinkled
| front, while he hyperborean blasts chase
each other up and down his shivering spine.
/ Verify, he earneth his salary.
IT'S A poor quail season. That is, the quail
/ is plenty enough, and cheap enough, but
| the people won't eat them. The complaint
among restaurant keepers is that they
never had fewer calls for quail. The
weather probably has much to do with this.
If the weather were crisp and cold, ian
! eager cold, a nipping air, as Shakespeare
has put it, then appetites would be whetted
TO the point of relishing quail on toast.
TEE Panhandle Railroad Company is at
| present making more extensive improve
ments than have been made for years. A
| third track is being laid between Hays and
| Bulger stations, the road is being double
/ tracked for few miles west of Bulger, ad-
| ditional tracks are being laid west OF Steu-
/ benville and large force Of men are en-
/ gagged in widening the tunnel near that
| city.-McDonGlG Outlook.
THERE will be a partial eclipse of the
sun to-day, invisible in this portion OF the
/ globe, and, in fact, 1t so happens that the
/ eclipse takes place between the space 0cou-
! pied by the far southern countries OF South
| America and the northern coast OF Austria
| liza, and so viii be visible to but very few
| Of the worlds inhabitants 1t lasts q little
more than three hours and half, during
which somewhat more than one-hah Of the
suns disk will be obscured.
The pastor OF a certain church in this
| city has happy faculty by which he can
often obviate dit1eulties- AT the service
| Sunday morning, wishing TO urge the at
| tendance Of the ladies at meeting he was
announcing, he said, I'VE especially invite
/ the Young ladies and the" He paused
| for a moment. the thought occurring to him
/ that il would not do TO say "old ladies'"
/ He then said, THE young ladies and the
/ other ladies are invited" A smile spread
/ over the faces of the congregation, and
/ lasted till the strains of the organ silenced
/ the whispering.
/ ONE OF the pleasing features Of church
work IN the First Presbyterian Church IS
| the way in which the children and young
| people are taught to be interested in the
/ benevolent activities. An industrial enter
tainment will be given on Thursday even
/ ing Of this week in tAe lecture room, where
/ the skill Of the young workers and artists
! will be exhibited by beautiful dolls dressed
| in costume There will also be singing,
aud an hour Of social intercourse, and re-
/ freshments for those who may desire them.
| The proceeds will be used for sending the
i Cosrel 70 tia children ~ Syria