The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-04-05
The Capital.


The Capital.
The Wheeling SANFORD in speak
ing Of the number Of friends Of Char
leston ii the different counties in the
First and Second Districts, says:
These are confident views, but they
indicate, IN connection with the pro
iect to present the Old State build
ing at Charleston to the State for
Capitol, an earnest determination to
win in the location contest. Mean
time we do not noticcany movement
on the part Of Clarksburg or Martins
burg likely 10 be efficient in deter
mining the question in their favor.
There is some little advocacy ofthcir
claims in their county newspapers,
but we do not hear Of any buildings
or ground they propose 10 donate, or
any active canvass for votes in their
behalf throughout the State. They
seem to rest on the statement that
they are cligibly situated, are sur
rounded by a productive territory,
and are inhabited BY moral intel
lectual population, We may be par
doncd for reminding them that such
advantages are not likely to win in
contest Of this character. AsSolon
Shinglt remarks in his reflections on
the apple butter case, this is noques-
ton Of manner or words but a mat.
ter Of main strength. The people Of
this State are not only endowed with
frugal mind likely to appreciate a
substantial gift Of a Capitol building
hut they are open to cntreaty aud
apt to help those who help themselves
and if Clarksburg and Martinsburg
have any ten acre corner lots to give
away or any sheckels to invest in
donations or organizing canvass of
the State in their interest, they had
better be forthcoming at once. Sol
for as this end Of the State isconcern-
ed, in view Of Inst winters transact
ions, there is a feeling similarto tina.
Which filed the bosom Of the old lady
when she saw her husband and the
bear engaged in deadly conflict, 1T
will be remembered that she did not
care much who got licked.-Courtcr.
The Legislature at its recent sess-
ion passed an act, the object Of
which was 10 encourage the propa-
CATION of food fish in the streams of
the state. 1t provides for the APP
pointment by the Governor Of 4 com
mission of three persons, one from
each Congressional district, whoshall
| hold their Offices for four years, whose
Iduty it shall be to stock such Of the
rivers and waters Of the stateas they
shall select, with food fish, by the es
ablishment Of Matching houses and
pools, by the removal Of distinctions
lin tho passage Of fish, by the erection
Of fish ladders, and by such other
means as Shall recommend themselves
Ito the wisdom otsaid Commissioners.
The act appropriatcs 5000 TO be ex-
pended, onc.half this year and the
remainder next year, equally in the
.hrce districts, and requires the Com
mi sionc.s to serve without reward
except as to their actual cXpensesin-
Cured in the discharge Of their Of
fetal dutics.-Rcgiyter.
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The toadies and ollice.scckcrs' in
Washington are alIanazed to discov'
err that Hayes is Il man of noble pres
enco aud great intellectual power
There isu grandeur abouteyerything
he does chat causes his caunselors to
appear like pigmies. Ward politi-
ciansin Cincinnati who used to sit
Iubout the doors Of cngine-houScs with
Hayes talking politics, now remem
Der that he whitfield better than any
bolvelse those days. The fierce light
that beats upon the White House
has a tendency to magnify.-Ci0cja-
nq'j Enquirer:
Iftho American people had not
been cheated out of the President
| they excited last November, the
| long hopcd-ror revival Of business
would ere this have been in full ac-
tiyity, The counting in Ola Fraud
ulent President is the efficient cause
| Of the intensified depression that
now prevails in almost every branch