The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-04-07


1t was commendabIe practice nitro
duccd bv 4. Ward, to insert within
brackets after anything he wrote intend
ED 10 Ice witty or humorous. the caution
airy explanation, 'this isagoak.' Strange
that +. Ward, who is Il mighty sight
funnicr sort of man than Artemus was.
should omit the same prccaution. That
unapproachuble piece Of irony of his
the Injunction ON the Capital-would
have been appreciated at its full worth
by everybody, had f. Ward only suiliXcd
il. rs the more sensible and practical y.
Ward would have done, with the explain.
a,orv hint-'thIs is COAX. A. it i,
however. half fear that some of the
Charleston people really take it for scri-
Gus; and so they are detraudcd out oi the
hearty good laugh that everybody el,e
takes over it. The genius that Is requir-
eli to evolve Wizard Oil may be of the
most towering altitude; yet after all, give
u, Wax Figgcrs' Tor good, sound sense.
Never in the history Of Hancock c"un
tv have the complaints Of tight times
been 50 general as at present. The
sheriff informs me that he has never
found it half so difficult to collect taxes
rs this spring. 1t almost seems As II mo-
BODY either will or can pay his debts.
Even those who have money are reluc-
tant to pav-fcaring that the worst times
have not vet come and desiring to keep
reserve on hand for the day Of ncvita-
BILE necessity. If those who owe and can
pay would do so, II greet relief would be-
I experienced; for then many who would
pay but cannot would be enabled to 90
So Much of this financial embarras-
mrnt Is attributed 10 the Unparalleled de-
preston of the fire brick business. Until
this source of industry and ofincome
revives. our local times will continue to
Doe dull. OF course we shall soon have
another wool crop ready for market; yet
1t /, di,couraginG to think that the money
We got for our last years crop is already
apparently, di>sipated and vanished, with
three months of the year yet to run. Nor
WAS last wear one of disaster IN any mark
&C.! manner with our farmers in general.
en- the contrary, 1t was not only II good
wool year. but one of general abundance
of farm crops might here make an
observation which perhaps some may re-
gard st, having at least q partial bearing
ON the state of business in cur midst;
there Is hIGhIy I"rN o' economy VIZ"
our farming population C"'hP"f'u Will
what there was twenty-five years ago
Modern "Ntyiatlon eats up all TIE Pf"htN
of the years hard labor.
\ daring burglary WAS committed near
Frrrmau's Landing on" night last week
\ man named VIM. Grimes, lahore:
M the brick yards, had by dint Of close
saving of the earnings Of himself and
BOYS, laid hy the snug sum OF SiOu, with
which he Intended going of the next
day. to purchase himself home. lie
had kept the money sccretcd in the bel
tick on which himself and wife slept
but the day before had placed 1t III Il
drawer IN his room. The burglars enter
cI 10y the window, crawled under the
brdiu which Grimes and wite were sleep
irG, ripped open the TICK ana maze
search for the treasure; without ever
waking tn" Sl''p'r>. fM''"S J." """ ~
here" they then went 10 'it drawer, Il" u
Hk'ng thence III" Wh'I' Pc 'J'"'p '"
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inspected robbers were arrested D{ C2 ,
-,anl' N"an'y I'm" taken D''or' ErI i''E :.
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