The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-09
MEN AND THINGS.

Tax Cincinnati Enquirer has joined
in the Mexican war crowd.
TOM SCoTT don't care who's Speaker,
60 long as he is a Good (e) man.
THE Pennsylvania Observation-Disclosures
party has made local nominations In 81
counties.
uGo South, young mani -Four hunnred
Ipdianisns have gone to Alabama ana
2SS to Mississippi.
BLESSED are they who have no tres
sures laid up in the Swings bank LOT
they should hold on to their cash.
SENATOR ARMSTRONG of Missouri uses
Saxon osths, the kind that RALPH
WALDO EMERSON calls "fructiiying',
THE Midland Railway develop
ments in England show that English
railroad men can be quite as corrupt ss
tina same class in this country.
Tx Cincinnati Commercial says that
there are smaller TwEEDs in all our
municipalities, big and little whose
watchword is public Improvement"
Jupex WEST, Ohio Republican candi-
date for Governor, manages to put IN
six speeches per week, inspired by "a
tile stimmilent with not so much water,
II you please" ...
THE success achieved by WINsLow,
MORTON, SPENCER and GILMAN would
seem to indicate that the royal road TO
fortune leads through the Sunday schools.
-Nes0 York Republic.
Now GENERAL GRANT should come
home and be made burgess of Galena,
the city of which he once wished to be
Msyor, in order to get the sidewalk
from his home to the depot mended.
In the Boston and Albany Railroad
keeps on throwing express trains against
women, the surplus female population OF
Massachusetts, will no longer have to be
advised to go West and grow up with
the country.
The MoFFAT bell.punch, IN use in
Virginian barrooms, is good collector
of statistics for the temperance relormeTs.
The Richmond bell-punches registered
in seventeen days 255,0O0 drinks. What
q thirsty city!
FORMERLY every American lad sspired
TO be the President or at least Con
gresham, bat how lie universal amoi
ton of the advancing generation Is to be
come photographers; but good paragraph
ers are born, not made, and even the
born kind, like BURDETTE, BABBITT and
GoLpsMIrH, will often nod. Wit i:
spontaneous, or else it is elaborated stu
pidity.
ALEXANDER MCCLURE goes for the
scalp OF the lew National Uuion news
paper of Washington in this lively fash
ion: "Who that wants Washington
news will think of Journal that avow:
is purpose to play apologist for Presi
dent and Cabinet and those in Congre 5
wIo happen 70 sustain the Adminlstra'
ton through thick and thin? Such
journals were of value in the days Of
Gales and Seaton, of Blair and Rive:
and even OF Richie. but they belong q.
much to the past as do the wooden plo~
and the Conestoga wagon"
GENERAL WADE HAMPTON, being
President HAYES right bower, 1t Is tsii
to infer that the Charleston Is. o. Nea0|
ant Courier knows what it is talking
about when it says that il the vacant ses
on the Supreme bench sis really to b
given TO Southern man, the President.
choice is not unlikely to fall upon well
known South Carolina jurist, whose rip,
a.tainments IN his profession have lons
been recognized and warmly appreciated
by President HAYES. 1t would be d
pleasant proof OF the restoration of the
Union rs it was, If place upon the
Supreme bench should be awarded to a
Son of The Palmetto State"