The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-20
OUR LETTER.
The Recent "MiIl''-IIancOck All
Richt-The Tax Levy.
Editors of the Register:

August IL, loif.
Editors of the Register:
The excitement circumStancing the
great Edwards-Collyer prize fight, which
materially disturbed the habitual quiet
ude of the bailiwick the early part Of last
week, has all died away and our people
are down to sober thoughts of peace
again.
True, those thoughts are much
concerned about matter that, in the
| slang dialect of the times is talked about
in terms most warlikc-(we mean, of
course, the now initiated conflict for
| the seat in Congress, vet the Hancock
oman, take him at the average, is serene
and pacific. Having in her Democratic
and therefore her better-part and ma
ture gone down, in the person of her
rightly constituted delegates, from the
utmost tip of the Handle into the seeth-
ing centre of the Pan-yelcped Ellen
| boro-and there had dish cooked for
| her-not SO Good to her taste rs
she had desired, bnt, maybe the more
beneficial for that-Hancock county
partook of the same with right fair relish,
and came away healthy and strengthen
cd. Disappointment must befall; and
how often does the future reveal them to
us to have been real blessings done up
only in deceptive habilimcnts. And how
often have we been forced to own-as
may we not now, perhaps, own-it was
good for us to have Bc(e)n dealt with So
The truth is the SENSE Of justice cx-
iStcd in too strong force in the Democ.a-
cv of the district to admit of any other
nomination for Congress than the one
that was made If ever such thing can
be said of any man it may be- said of Col.
Wilson, that he was entitled to the nomi-
nation. 1t would, nevertheless, be more
correct to say that tie purity was entitled to
place him in nomination. The wrong
done him in the rejection of his first
claim to seat in the National Lcgis-
lature, was far less IL personal one to HIM
than a public one demanding vindica-
tion, through him, from the people of the
district.
Col Wilson, sound, eloquent and able,
and being known rs such the Democracy
of this county will give him a hearty en-
dOrSemcnt | have discovered no reason
to believe that John J. Davis or the most
popular Radical that may be nominated
ut Wheeling on the Sd of September, can
neither get up an enthusiasm among our
opponents or materially break in upon
the ColonclS vote. 1t is the courtlv am
bition OF our people to be represented in
the Congress of the centennial by dis
ciplc of the author of the Declaration of
Independence, and they will, according
ly, strive calamity for the reelection of
! Col Ben Wilson.
The levy term of the County Court
was held to-day. The amount levied
was 35 cents on the 800 valuation. This
compares favorably with the 20 cents on
the 500 levied under the old diSpeusa-
ton in 1870 Another important levy
land the one that creates the dogondeSt
biggest excitement among certain class
Of anything yeti is that of 81 each on al
CANNES of the male denomination, and
s. on all of the other kind. A very
large number of sheep are annually de-
stroyed by dogs in this county, and the
last year has been particularly fatal to
the innocent muttonS. That is why the
dog tax has been increased.
Mr.. Samuel J. Wilson, late Sheriff of
this county, was appointed Land Asses
sor for this year CAILLUs.