The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-02
HANCOCK COUNTY.
OR Senators and representatives
in CoBgresa-Dramat POtato
Bug.
FAIRvlEw, HANCOCK Co,
Nav 3lst. 1874.

May 3lst, 1874.
Editors Of the Register.
1t is pleasant thing to see the two
Senators in Congress from our State act
in harmony 90 questions OF vital inter-
est. 1t is seldom that Senators Of diff
terent politics from the same State do
vote together, unless upon local bills
touching their constituency. / have
observed how very often they make il
point TO zee in opposite direction.
upon uDimportsnt questions, or ques.
tions of no concern to their State
whilst upon great questions OF priuci.
pie, almost the migbtiest obstacle TO-
ward preventing the average Senator
from voting right and thus effectuating
the will OF his constituents. is the fact
that bis colleague proposes to vote the
same way. Hence, now pleasant TO
find Senator Boreman coming up like
map," by the side OF Mr.. Davis to
resist Intellectually, alas y that wretch
ed last aggression of insane Radical
lem, the Civil Rights Bill, and Success
fully) the less dangerous, yet bad
enough folly, woman's suffrage.
Will Hsgsns vote for the Civil
Rights Bill, now tina. it is pending in
the House2 / do verify believe that il
be should yield 10 party demand and do
so, he will be repudiated by his con-
stituente-the scattered remnant in the
four out OF the nineteen counties in the
Second District. Will John j. Davis
vote Tor il? Like all other men who
are governed by the impulse OF the
hour, he is inclined to 20 to extremes ;
but he would hardly face The popular
dieapproval and indignation that favor
OF the bill will excite.
As evidence that there is life IN our
community, (and death, too) | may rec
late that new cemetery has been COM
menced. 1t is Immediately adjoining
the town, on the farm OF Mr.. Robert
Hudsou. Several iDterments have al.
ready been made in it, and plumber OF
bodies are to be removed into it from
the old bnrying ground.
There is a pretty thick vein OF dra-
matte taste running through Hancock
county. The Helen DeEste troupe
played nine evenings to paying and sp-
plaud,ng houses, in New Cumberland
They are now billed TOR Monday and
Tuesday evenings, this week, in the
court house. Thus, you see, that whilst
Wheeling and other settlements OF
that class can't stand the pressure OF
histrionic entertainment at this season
OF the year, Hancock county can.
You will. of course, expect me to re-
port the state oil the potato bug in this
region. Well, he is undoubtedly
healthy and numerous. The prospect
now is, that the potato crop will be
ruined. Some OF the small patches that
can be we'll watched and doetored may
be, to considerable extent, saved, but
unless a sweeping remedy is speedily
devised and applied (Which does not
seem very likely the general crop will
he failure.
The corr and oats, though backward,
are in fine growing condition. The
wheat promises above the average. The
fine rains, commencing on Friday even
ing have had an excellent effect.
Mr.. Thomas Webb, about whose
sudden illness from apoplexy I wrote
two weeks ago, died on Tuesday night
last, and wac buried the next day in the
new cemetery in this place. He was
about sixty.four years old, and was
very quiet and respectable citizen.
Mr.. Frew, of the Intelhgencer, sbowed
his handsome face in New Cumberland,
one day last week.
The Rev. Mr.. Pomeroy, OF this plsce,
breaches frequently at Martins Ferry
Your Wheeling Radical polite aus,
who are interested in the congressional
nomination, can interview him there
quite conveniently, nearly any Sunday
afternoon. CAMILLUs.