The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-10-23
OUR WESTON LETTER.
Triumph or Money I'm the Ohio EIec.
lion - Magnitude of the National
Debi.which it IL Proposed TO Pay
In Coin.
WESTON, LEWIS Co., W. VAr
October -, 1873.

October -, 1879.
Editors Of the Register:
Coop those roosters of yours; we have
no more use for them-"Bilallen" defeat
ed for no other reason than this: He
did not receive enough votes to elect
him. This is no theoretical fact, but self
evident. To write editorials on causes
tending to defeat, after fact demonstrat-
ted, is very much like theOrlzlng on
o Leary's COW: If that COW had not
kicked over the lamp, Chicago would
not have been burned, The canvass IN
Ohio WAS well fought battle. Money
rcrSus muscle. Money, AS in all contests
of lite triumphed But government
with two and one.fourth billion of DEBT,
able to pay in coin is too presumptiouS
Tor any beaddled brain that inhablts the
State institution at this place. a DiI-
J lion" is a word easily written 1t i
/ million times million. But VINO caa
count il? You can count, say -oo
per minute; at this ratio 100, l2o,OoV per
wear. Had Adam from his existence
been counting to the present time lie
wouId not have reached our present debt,
but would require - hours daily labor
for 80 600 wears. Yet in the face of these
facts we have pratings from the stump;
pratings from the press and pratings
from fools and demagosues, how soon
the national debt will be paid
oil in coin. Not remembering, yet again
that all the gold Of the earth, in coin
shape, Is not sufficient in quantity 10 pay
the national debt OF the United States.
Figures never lie. Let your 6 600 readers
ponder over these facts. 1879 to resume
specie payment. My God! what ab5ur-
dItv and nonsencc. During the last ear
icw 70 cent. silver pieces have been
coined, yet they are sold by the govern
II cnL AS sell bill, to him VINO gives the
most in grcenbaCks. 1t Is useless to dis
cui.e plain facts. We live in and have
u government that il bankrupt, yet op-
pressing the major portion Of her people,
and the producing portion, by heavy
taxation to uphold the favored few that
few the bondholders and owners Of
national barks Yet the toll, the sweat
and the votes Of Ohio say amen. So may
it be. The wise and the prudent will ar
DAYS in the future.
Rev. Bristow, of Wheeling, dedicated
a Baptist church near here on Sabbath
last. He IS good preacher and most
excellent begga!.
The examining board Of this county,
Messrs. Crook, Bennett and Morrison.
have issued 100 certificates 10 teachers of
tins county.
We have $500 pupils enrolled on the
schoo. list, yet 80 per cent OF them do not
attend school. am for compulsory ed
uation unquivocalIy; or the abolition OF
our free school syslem. might go into an
argument on this point, but decline bor-
inc YOU, AS the school tax Is bore enough.
Hons. j NJ. Bennett, William f. Ar
mold, II. Brannon, j. Brannon, a. y.
Lewis and several other distinguished
gentlemen less honorcd will spend por-
tion Of the coming winter at the Capital.
Our corn crops are now being gathered
To say they are good - too tame; but TO
say greater yield was never Known IN
this section, is solid fuc..
We read the report Of the "lndian
Commission They call a man thief,
vet say they dismiss him for honesty and
poverty, and the biggest thief, by their
own report, they commend. | like that
report; it sounds "Grantish' To read
the same on Sunday, after preaching Tn"
solIloquay of"Ah S.n," with tricks that are
dark, &c, in native richness are brought
forth.
The Weston and West Fork narrow
guage railroad has, presume, died the
death of hundreds of its kind, want of
money, want of lberality by property
holders to give right of way, and last,
but not least, want Of energy by Its
propagators and officers. After assessing
IL ror cent. on the little amount sub
,cribed presumed sufficient to pay con-
.iusent expenses and collecting the
,arncl. il died and will soon be buried in
oblivion. This is the fourth time our
people have suffered the torture and tax
Tor paper railroads.
Our town is gay and lively, possessing
ali the gems of village life: gossipy
women, beautiful misses, fast young men,
sedate old bachelors, loving hubbieS,
hogs running at large, dllapidatcd houses
muddy streets and filthy alleys.
We have been scourged by sickness the
pa,, summer, yet through the skill OF
Drs. Bland, Dent, Camden and Slmp-
son few have died from disease.
Business is reviving, and consequently
our merchants are more cheerful and our
mechanics more busy. loN.