The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-19
OF Harrison.
ODDS AND ENDS.

THE Democrats In Governor Hayes
own county gained 100 votes upon the
wear previous. Evidently the nearer one
|e,s to this gentlemanly candidate Tor
Inc Presidency. against whom "nothlnS
can be said" the smaller he looks.
MAN" says Victor Hugo, was The
conupdrum of the eighteenth century;
woman is the conundrum of the nine
,eentb century" An American editor
adds: We can't guess her, but Will
never give her up. No, never'"-E"-
change.
CurcAso gas rates have been reduced
70 $3.50. Courtships, however, are sun
conducted with very exaggerated idea
.: economy, rs the young people put out
the lights and sit in the dark every
chance they get Brooklyn Argus.
TuIs is not only an exciting, but
very interesting political campaign.
Women as well as men have duty to
perform to their country, and they should
It shrink from it. They cannot vote OF
,pear in professions, but they can cut
the wood and bring up the coal, ana thus
leave men more time 10 talk up matters,
-DanJury Nelcs.
A YOUNG man apparently from the
rural distr cts, knocked timIdly at the
toll bar oil Ihe Milwaukee plank road the
other day, and when the guardian asked
what he wanted, said: is this yere
Chicago" You bet it is' replied the
man. as Tim in?" continued the repre-
sentative of the rural democrats. 1t
appeared afterward that he was looking
for his brother Timothy, " no moved to
Chic tgo in l656- EcchGng'.
Gov. CHAMEERLAINs programme IS
producing its natural results. Race Is
srrayei against race; midnight arrests
are made; passions are intiamcd by cum
ming politicians; troops are asked Tor OF
the President, and there is danger OF Il
bloody conflict between the whites and
negroes. Nothing can avert this but
wisdom ut Washington and moderation
IA the state. General Hampton is doing
\ good work in this direction. -NoC
Fork HeraH.
MAN is the only animal that blows his
nose. The alligator has nose nearly two
ieet long, and ne never blows 1t. The
elephant can reach over his nose and
tickle his HAD legs, and he "!;en does,
but he never blows it The ue-nosed
baboon has ceerulean pr""oscis, Of
which the nOblest snim"l nav ioe, proud,
bat it goes unblowu. Inc duuble-ncse
pointer has immense capacity .pr DOW
in. but he never will and the oyster
whose nose reaches clear around To his
buck. refrains from exercising it. Man
al me has to reach to the height OF n
pJ.ket handkerchief, and he proudly
waves his bandana MS n sufficient evil
d nee of his superiority.-i Hreat In
LROrH.
The New York Times, nOtwithStaId-
ing the collapse OF It's labOrlously con-
structed income tax fraud and perjury
fabrication, still grinds away at the po-
itcal machine, and brings out horrible
tale of 'vIllainous treachery,' "low cum
ming" and designing knsvery' on the
part of Mr.. Tilden. But all this is moth
ing to what the Times is going to do. 1t
is now preparing, at the cost of most pro.
digious mental eXertion, Il fresh CAM
psgn supplement showing that Tilden
introduced the Colorado potato bug and
Kansas grssshopper into this country.
WE have our doubt if, when Mr.
Chandler goes the rounds next week,
with the hat in one hand and his little
hatchet in the other, to assess the clerks
another per cent, the response will be
Ms hearty us before the October elections
and the sale of Mr.. Murphy's household
effects. The average official will look
~ the law, and read the Republican
civil service reform resolutions, and az
u-e out on his waistband the question
whether, all things considered, il
wouldn't be rs we'll to declare that he
had always been a Democrat, ard run
the risk of msttyrdom.- Washington
capital.
The Chicago Inter. Dream is so mad at
the result OF the October elections that it
blameslthe Liberal Republicans tor the
result tssys: They demanded
policy of conclllst.on; they secuted the
bIoody-shirt us thing Of the imagina-
ton; they sowed seeds of bitterness in
the ranks of the Republican party; they
slandered President Grant; they quilted
the party and consorted with Democrats.
Their utteranCeS today are n constant
confession of their sins since last year