The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-06-07
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

1t was only Little Rock that hit
Blaine
Blaine and Colfax is the latest ticket
suggested.
1.-THE noblest Democrat Of them alP' is
what tie Rochester Union calls HOratlo
Seymour.
Mulligan, Blalnes accuser, is said to be
very worthy man, worth half million
of dollars.
They now talk in Illinois of sending
President Grant to the United States
Senate as the successor of Senator Logan.
Chicago owes her firemen, policemen
and other servants of the city over u mill
lion OF dola-s, with no encouraging signs
OF early payment.
Hon. J. Pr, tor Knott is candidate
re- election to ''Ongress from the Fourth
district of Kentucky. and is not likely to
encounter much opposition.
This Hudibrastic couplet is from the
New York Worids funny man:
He who writes and mails n note
May live to be invcstigote.
"The National Prohibition Convention
has nominated Green, Clay and Smith
| !or President, and George II. Stewart
for Vice President" is the way the Lon
don Times puts it.
It seems to b. an accepted opinion that
if the chances of auy OF the candidates ut
Cincinnati are strengthened by Mr..
| Blaine's misfortune those Of Mr.. COnk-
ling will be the least conspicuous.
Ii we except the idiotic verse relating
| how the President docs To Don cling,
no very satisfactory rhyme Tor Conkling
has vet been found. There is no trouble
about Blame, however. Explain"
rhymes perfectly.
The secretary of the Washington Ma
tional Monument Society has issued n
circular to the people Of the United
States soliciting aid and asking ministers
and superintendent of Sunday schools
to take up collections on Sunday, July 2,
for this object.
The Springfield Republican says: ut
must certainly be admitted that MIR
| Blaine has exposed himself 10 suspicion
| a good deal. We wonder it it all was
the recklessness of Il simple and guile.
ness nature, ready to DO everybody n
friendly favor, but never taking "A good
thing himself" .or,.
This shows how the Baltimore Ameri-
can sticks to Blaine: I'VE should like To
see partisan majority attempt to expel
Mr.. Blaine from his seat in the House.
There would be such an uprising of the
patriotic of the country TO protest against
the outrage as has not been seen since
1851"
The New York Graphic says OF Mr..
Blsine: .His smartness has been his
| rum. He has too much speculation in
bis eve. He has outwitted himself, and il
is wirh profound regret that we drop the
nameAof this really, experienced man,
from whom the country expected so
! much, from the list of possible Presi-
dents
The indianapolis Journal Senator
Mortoh's home organ, does not accept
Mr. Orths explanation Of his connection
of the Venezuel air bond claims and a.;
serts: 'TfMr. Orth cannot mrke better
EXPLANATION of his connection with this
disreputsbls and uaereensry transaction,
he is not the man to represent the Re-
pubiicahs Of Indiana as the head Of their
State ticket"
MrG G. Fulton, who has seen con-
siderable of Europe through Ameri-
can spectscles," and was st Vienna dur
ing the Exposition there, writes to his
paper, me Baltimore Amsriodn, his i'm.
pressions Of our Centennial effort closing
with the following remark: "The whole
Exhibition is creditable to the energy
and perseverance OF Philsdelphis, and
! every American citizen who visits it will
feel proud Of his country and Of people
who could, under all the Instructions that
have been thrown in their way, get up
such vast and creditable display, rival
| ing and distancing all the best efforts of
4 Enyiand. France and Austria"