Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-02
SMALL TALk.
Minor Matters Of Interest Briefly and
PlthilY Told

Minor Matters Of Interest Briefly ana
Plthiiv Told
At Opera House this afternoon, r. d. Mac
Lean ami Marie Prescott in Romeo and Ju-
liet.' This evening, "The Dukes Wlie."
At Grand Opera House this afternoon and
evening-Orr's Meteors.
AtMusee Theatre-No performances hourly.
Empty is the theater. Scoheld's gone.
THERE will be considerable New Year
calling in this city to-day.
TIE annual election for directors will
occur at the Y. M. G. A. to-day.
THE new Board OF Commissioners will
meet for organization at ten o'clock this
morning.
THE reserved seat sale for the "Robin
Hood" Opera opens at Houses mnsic store
this morning.
THE Silver Spur Fishing Club expect to
have good time at their ball at Turner
Hall to-nigh'
Miss Az sfE SANDRooH. of North Front
street, W, 4 have dancing party at her
home tb 3 evening.
KEN RITcEIE, aged ten, fell of shed
in Kirkwood, Saturday, breaking his left
arm and cutting his head
THE plumbing firm of Mansberger. Lott
& McKown have dissolved. The firm will
hereafterbe known as Mansberger & Lott.
SUNDAY hours will be observed at the
postoff1ce to-day. There will be one deliv-
cry at s a. m, and the stamp window will
be open until noon.
WHILE working about his ice house, in
Bridgeport, yesterday William Koehnline
was struck in the forehead by the flying
end of chain, a bad cash resulting.
GEORGE JOHNSON, alias "Shine," well
known colored chap. is under arrest for
stealing a watch from John Conley, up
about the Second ward market house.
THERE is an awful mud hole on the brick
street at the the west end Of the steel
bridge viaduct A change in the grade Of
the brick pavement there is badly needed;
also hoe.
NEW CASTLE, Monroe county, o., he's an
oil boom. The prospects of an excellent
field there are good. One well will pro-
duce as estimated by conservative oil
men, from 300 to 500 barrels per day.
Other wel1 located there also show pros
poets of good production.
TICKETS for the Charity ball, to be given
by the Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Society
on January -, at Arion hall, are going off
rapidly and big event in social circles is
promised. The committee in charge has
perfected all arrangements and all rooms
of the Arion have been secured for the &C.
casion.
In Squire Rogers Court, yesterday, the
case of o. G. Springer against the cred
itors of J. w. Coulson, who failed some
time ago, was heard. The defendants were
Wilson & Chapman, Wood Bros, j. :.
Roberts and Strauss Bros. The evidence
in the case was heard, and court adjourned
until this afternoon, when arguments will
be heard.
THE rain and slush left the streets gen.
orally in a horrible condition. yesterday
and last night, but none were worse thau
Market street, in the vicinity of Four
teenth street 1t was regular mud hole.
A man with scraper could have made the
crossings passable in one hour, but the
man wasn't there. Some day we shall do
this sort of thing better.
MRs.eSAMUEL p. HnDRETH, Of Chap
line street, has sent out cards for the
marriage Of her niece, MISS Lulu Grace
Hildreth, to DR.. Edmund Caldwell Gibbs.
Of Baltimore, next Wednesday afternoon,
at st. Luke's p. E. church. The wed
ding will occur at 4 o'clock, and the cere-
mony will be performed by the Rev. Jacob
Birmingham. The wedding will be quiet
one.
SOME fakir in Pittsburg has telegraphed
a story over the country to the effect that
II. M Crisinger, a Greene county, Pa,
farmer, had been left legacy of $4,000
by David Dallison, Of Wheeling, as q re-
ward for the loan Of money to buy rail-
road ticket from Pittsburg TO Wheeling,
three months ago. There is no such name
as David Dallison in the Wheeling direc-
tory.
IT rarely happens that three holidays
within year fall on Monday. Christmas
came on Sunday, and New Years will
there will have really been FIVE Monday
holidays. February % (Washington's
birthday, May 80 Decoration day), and
the Fourth of July, besides Christmas
and New Years. This arrangement of
the calendar has been very pleasing to a