Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-26
SMALL TALK.
sIinor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PithilY Told

terday will do world of good out through
the country.
HAVE YOU heard Sam tell about it yeti
Take day of.
ONE o. the next biggest attractions COM
ing to the Opera House is Lost Para
dise.n The advance agent arrived last
night.
A LARGE meeting of the nallers OF the
city was held Wednesday evening, and
they decided to turn out in body on La
Dor Day.
THE Pink Carriers challenge the Martins
Ferry Base Ball Club for game Sunday
OF the Benwood grounds. Answer through
this paper.
AN accident happened to the Vigilant
reel, on its way to the fire yesterday after
noon. One of the horses fell and injured
itself, and tire was broken.
Mr.. CHARLES w. Coss and Miss Maggie
Carroll, of Bridgeport, were united In mar
rage Tuesday evening in Bellalre, at the
parsonage of the First Presbyterian church
by Rev. L. W. Barr.
Mr.. CHAs. SCHULTZ, of the postoffice
force, desires it stated that he Is not the
person referred TO in the RE GIsTER yester-
dav morning, who telephone for hack TO
the Intelltgencer Office.
In Police Court yesterday morning VIM.
Nixon, for disorderly conduct, was nned %
and costs. AL Bird gman, for drunken
ness. got 81 and costs. Joseph Faranch,
for disorderly conduct, got 81 and costs.
Dry GOODS dealers have begun to stock
ND with winter cloaks. Thus lar the gar
ments secured are similar TO those OF last
wear. though longer and perhaps louder
Cape listers will be worn quite extern
sively.
THE accident to Mrs. Alex. Campbell's
buggy ON Wednesday morning di d not occur
on the new bridge, but on Main street near
Tenth. There has been no accidents 10
either pedestrians or vehicles on the new
steel bridge.
CHAs. MILLER was arraigned before
Squire Ankle yesterday for selling liquor
on Sunday. There were were three sepa,,
rate cases against him, and he was bound
over in the sum Of 500 in each OF them. de
furnished bonds.
THE party Of gentlemen who were con-
templating getting tallyho from Pltts,
burg for the State Fair have abandoned
the idea. For the rates charged 1t was al
most cheaper to buy the tallyho, ana run
the risk of selling it again.
MARRIAGE licenses were granted yester:
day TO William Meyer, aged 81 years, Oh
Pittsburg, and Amelia Meagel, aged ~, OF
Pittsburg, and TO Barazlllai Scarlott, sgea
81, of Carrollton, Ohio, and Miss Ida NJ.
Pursell, aged 20, OF this city.
IT'S biggest catch Of the season. Harry
Campbell OF the Kywallipus Fishing CLUB,
caught a German carp weighing twenty
one pounds six ounces. The captain, Geo.
Reed, brought it home, and has oeen snow
ing it to his friends ever since
The landlord of Hotel Van Keuren can't
lose dogs. He tried it, He took those two
large, obfuscated CANNES that have been
loafing around the hosiery for some time
over TO Smithfeld, Ohio, Wednesday, TO
give to friend. But when he arrived
back in Wheeling the dogs were right here
waiting for him.
YESTERDAY morning work was COM
meuced to erect a scaffold in the audience
room of the Zane Street NJ. Il. Cnurcn.
This is done preparatory TO some extensive
improvements which will be made on the
walls and ceilings The improvements on
the basement of the church have been IN
progress for several weeks.
The congregation of St. PauPs German
Lutheran Church, in the Eighth ward, Will
celebrate the church anniversary on sep
TENDER 18th. Quite a number Oh clergy
men from abroad will be present, ana the
exercises will be very elaborate. Inc
church improvements will be completed by
that time. and the edifice will be one OF the
hapdsOmest in the city.
The discovery has been made that on
one side of the new quarter dollar there
are thirteen representations of the number
thirteen. II was probably the Intention OF
the designer of the new quarter to have
thirteen occur thirteen times, but there
are few people who have noticed this fact.
There are IL stars, Is letters in the scroll
held in the eagles beak, Is marginal feath-
ers. Is parallel lines in the shield, Is horl-
zontal zines in the shield, ID arrow heads In
one foot, 10 leaves on the branch in the
other foot, and - letters in the words
quarter dollar"
SEVERAL suits have been begun in Com
mon Pleas Court against w. >. Taggart
and certain sureties whose names appear
on notes. These suits are brought to test
the validity Of signatures and to establish
priority Of claims, and there promises TO
be some lively litigation before the Tag
CART affair is ended. 1t is stated that Tag
CART borrowed $4,000 since May, and If
such is true, it would seem that he left
with his pockets full Of money. SO far
nothing has been heard OF his whereabouts,
and no move has been made TO apprehend
him.
WHAT is probably an action to recover
the largest sum of money ever sought
through the medium of the courts OF Bel
mont county, o., has been begun by Il. II.
Stearns, who prays for the foreclosure oil
mortgage given by the Martins Ferry Ter
mlnal Railway Company to secure a loan
of S29S, 9S9.70. The mortgage covers all
the right Of way, tracks, depot, freight
,a1a nh lipnc and ali other nrOD-
erty of the Martins Ferry Terminal Rail
way Company lying within the village OF
Martins Ferry. Interest on the above
sum from December "a, 1891, is also in
Guided in the petition.
A DISPATCH from GAINESVILLE says; "a
B. & o. engineer, running helper be-
tween Bellaire and that place, got paid on,
dressed I'D and came ashore 10 have time.
After he had left, his wife found a note in
his pocket appointing place OF meeting for
him and woman Of thetown named Laura
Humphrey. His wife followed on the
next train and met her husband and the
other woman. Hair pulling, high words
and a general scene followed until the wo-
man. being the best sprinter finally escaped,
leaving the husband TO bear the wrath OF
the enraged wife. The names OF the par
ties could not be learned"
A MAN by the name of D. H. Ralston was
arrested by Officer Daum yesterday after
noon on Sixteenth street, out near the
graveyard A singular fact connected with
the arrest is the fact that this man Rails
ton came here about week ago from
Belleville, Pa, to look after missing son
about fifteen years Of age, who strayed
away from home and over whom the mother
was almost heart-broken. To add 70 her
sorrow. the husband never returned, and
she sent inquiries 10 the police here the
other day, He went of on q spree, and has
been drunk for week. He was pretty
well intoxicated when arrested yesterday.
THE potato market is again beginning to
attract some attention, and some OF tue
trade here say that advices from different
parts of the country indicate a light crop
However, it is early yet 10 make anything
like reliable estimate Of the crop, IL view
OF the fact that il is not in many localities
done growing yet. The reports in regard
- tho coming corn crOp continue very con-