The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-03-17
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Charles Sumner is dead and writbing
| in the keenest agonies Of hell! So is
Abraham Lincoln, and every other dead
man who has supported the United
States Government under lis present
odious tax system.
Taxation OF the press is tyranny.
The Revolutionary fathers made war
against England for taxation on tea.
The press OF the country is a Get OF
moral mummies or they would coop"
eratiyely Tree themselves from worse
woke. That's what's the matter With
the printer. ... .' .'-
TIE WIND bowls and screeches
through the air and treeses, the sky is
broken with thin and watery clouds,
the waters OF the river are ruffied and
fosmy; no more evidence OF windy
March is needed, to convince the most
susp cious Rains stili continue, how
ever, making more mud, IS fast as the
sun, when he does come. out, dries and
corrodes to travelling purposes.
The InteHigencer clips from our COL
umrs a recent paragraph, IN whica we
"chan ged" the name OF MoundsVllie TO
Wheeling, and endeavors to make bus"
mess capital out OF it. AZ reply 10
his ipsinuatisns, we can only assert that
we initiated bis style OF commenting on
eyery little bit OF news that occurs,
perhaps = thousand miles from Wheel"
ing. Bringing the matter home, we
believe in commenting on matters mat
concern and interest the locality IN
which we live, in preference TO making
extra public mention OF outside trans
actions and disintertsted parties.
The Clarksburg Conservative says
that our changing the name Mounds
vile to Wheeling, is inComparaby Geo!
and that we take 1t upon ourseli TO
speak tor Ill the people OF the country.
We only attempt to speakth truth and
reflect the sentiments Of the people o.
the country" without fear or favor
The National stands upon its own meT-
cts entrrel, swayed by no creed or sec!
We believe that to speak the truth and
shame the devil, is one OF the mIssIoas
OF the prees, and we Intend to prosecute
| il 10 the bitter end.
SCRrNMAGE.-Tuesdsy last, Witnessed a
scene in this town, that probably rivals
ANYTHING OF the kind since the war. II
appears the Penitertiary Superlntend-
ent has been traduce and ltndertd
through the columns Of the Democrat
| without lust cause or provncatiou. As
q reaction 10 the insult, the superintend-
ent entered the dirty def, OF the Dem0'
crat man, and politely informed lin
that he would put bin where tue Pow
der and ball in the pistol IN h's hands
would send him, il he did not disclose
the writer OF the article, whose r&me
he hsd intentionally suppressed. He
was then very quickly informed that
| certain LAWYER near the Court House.
was the writer Of the article. The su'
periptendent then made straight head
wav to said lawyers Cttice, and mildly
sngsested a settlement OF the difficulty
by powder and ball. The latter SAID
he was unprepared The former then
offered a piPtol, and the latter declined,
or in other words, Refused TO- fight
personal combat. As we do not wish
to encourage duslIidg, we believe the
superintendent has tic symPa'hlts
the best class of citiZ.ns, wha. lew
there are, in the hole, aud his behavior
and conduct. has done lpestimahle good,
in learning such to mind their own bus
inees, and that they cannot t-lfe or i'm
pose upon the feelings OF the best and
most Responsible cirizpns