The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-04-17
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If there is anything admirable in
our tariff, it is the classification Of
tobacco among the lugs-uries.
-BIaine or Morton will probably 70.
ceive the West Virginia vote in the
Cincinnati Convention.
The House military bill provides
for the reduction Of the army by seven
regiments and t.ro hundred officers.
Governor Letcher refused to have
the expense of his late Illness paid by
the State as the Legislature proposed.
They call it professional servi.
css' 10 Washington now. when they
mean one OF tho Cabinc! officers has
been stealing.
-Colfax declares in his lectures
that in his retirement from the cares
OF public life he has found his life.
dream 'Sh don't awake him.
AT tho municipal election held in
Huntington on Thursday. ..tha Dem.
ocra,ic ticket was elected BY 100 ma.
jority-again OF 10.
And now comeg The intelligence
that ex.Speaker Blaine is implicated ia
the general rasca lily that is being IN.
earthed by our so.called Confederate
Congress.
The immense immigration flowing
into California from China, i, causing
considerable excitement. There are
said to be already in that State some
100000 Cinnamon. An effort is TO be
made to check further importation.
The Bloody Flag is to DO the
banner nudcr which the Republicans
are to fight the canvass. Anything to
distract attention from the pctrcscent
condition Of the Radical administra.
lion.
Governor Stone is the first Demo.
cratic Governor Mississippi has had
since 1868, when Governor Hum.
phreys was dismissed by military or.
der. A popular majority of thirty.onc
thousand backs the present Governor
in bis position.
The New York World takes it
gu. on New Hampshire BY calling it
"sterile place where corn is planted
with a crowbar md The sheep arc held
up by the hind legs to obtain intro.
qucnt pasturage on the prevalent bnul-
ders."
The bill reducing the Presidential
salary to S25 900 per anum has passed
both branches Of Congress. The ques-
ton now is, VIVA. will the Prcsiden,
do with it? Will no sign veto. or allow
it to become law BY doing moth.
ing
Tho substance Of General Ban
niug's report on the management Of
tho Indian Bureau is. that tho poli,i.
clans and ring ring men got seventy
FIVE aud the Indians twenty five per
cent Of the money appropriated forPthe
benefit Of the Indians.
West Virginia politics seem to be
in staiW quo. Tho name OF nearly
every citizen in the State has been
mentioned in connection with some
Office, and nothing more can DO doue
in that line unless they r.pca,.-Nar.
tinsJurg Independent
The House Committee on appro.
priations have decided to reduce, BY
consultations, tho districts Of Internal
revenue and under this arrangement
West Virginia will DO divided into two
districts. with the collecting Offices at
Wheeling and Grafton.
General Cook swcars that no Gled
charges Of corruption In tho War De.
poriment in 1871 calling forun iuves.
tigation. but no account was taken Of
them and no investigation would ever
have been commenced il . Democratic
House Of Representatives had not pro-
csrdcd with it.
"A prominent member or Congress
declares his williugiuguess to assert on
tho floor of the House that 453 ships
have been sold out of The United States
Navy since 1865, and that not dollar
Of the proceeds has ever been put into
the United States Treasury, nor does
Congress and the country know nor do
they have tho means Of knowing. how
much was received for the vessels nor
what has been done with tho money.
-Bristow got $4,000 for getting
mule case through the Court Of Claims. |
Geo II. Pcueleton attended to rail.
road case and got $4,000 These case,
required great legal attainments and
abilities and tho fees wero enormous.
But there is this about the cases that is
s,riking:-Bristow's case was a mule
case. aud characterizes tho comparative
and meuuness of the advocate;
while Pendlcton's which was railroad
case. is characteristic Of the power and
might Of his gigantic mind.
Suppose that in 1874 the people
bad not elected 4 Democratic Nation
al House. the Radical tiger would not
have been stirred up; Belknap would
still be doing little business in post.
tradcrships; Babcock, Joyce & Mckee
would very likely be turning an honest
penny in the CROOKED" while all the
vultures at national capitol. now arc
delnorulizsd with fright, would be qui.
city gorging on their prey. But The
Eagle has screamed. the animals are
being pokcd around, aud nobody is
happy but Democrats.
-It'snow settled that our democratic