The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-12-01
NOTES AND OMMENTS.

SAYS the Boston Herald: "Since
Conoyer's turnover, people ask why he
has gone over and how he was won
over"
THE Huntington Advertiser gives
that Shiny creature, BRACE, the Wash
ington correspondent of the Sunday
Leader, token of the editors esteem.
COLONEL INaERsoLL says: "People
who live in climates where no other
shelter is required than the canopy OF
heaven are natural revolutionists. 1t
takes winters to make homes, and homes
make good governments"
The tendency towards biennial, IN
stead of ANNUAL, sessions Of Legislatures
has been gaining strength all over the
country of late years. and no less than
"a of the SS such bodies in the Union
now meet only once in two years.
THE Richmond Dispatch thinks there
is gong to be an alliance between the
West and South. It SAYS: THE illio'
eral and dogmatical and presumptuou'
political puritsnism is eastern. The
practical, generous, really natural, and
wise-because natural-impulses belong
almost exclusively TO the West and
South. There Is natural affinity be-
tween them, and they williinevitably
combine and rule this country"
KELLcee is toe Only man who can
make anything out of the struggle tor
power IN the Senate. On the merit:
OF his case, he never would be admitted
and this fact is so apparent that
Matthews, and perhaps other Republican
Senators besides the ''renegades," will
vote against him in any event.-Spri'lg'
FIELD Republican.
The Baltimore Gazette thinks "the Re
publicans will soon be asking the ques'
ton: Did it pay to count in RUTHER
FORD b. HAYEs2" Why, bless your soul
ZACH CHANDLER, CAMERON, CoNKLINe
and all the pillars OF that church have
been asking that question for nearly nine
months, now.
A LOUISVILLE man has had three
wives in tour years. He traded one tol
a farm, another for pair OF horses, ano
the third for q mule. He is Only forty
wears old and expects 10 stock his tarm
entirely if he has good luck.
GAMBETrA was so intent in hitting al
MscMahon over the shoulders OF Grant
at the Girardin banquet that he seem;
TO have been unconscious OF the delicious
irony of saying that Grant, "ooedlent 10 the
laws OF his country, never permitted the
army to assume supremacy over the clvi
power" ,Gsmbetta, perhaps, never heard
about the troops marched into the LeSis-
lsture of Louisiana, nor OF the artillery
posted al the National Capital to help or
the electoral fraud by which Hayes was
counted in.- Baltimore Gazette.
IT is related that Col. Ingersoll once
gave an ingenious explanation, at a
Partisan dinner party, OF the American
practice oil carrying weapons. A French
guest turning to Ingersoll exclaimed
"Will the Colonel explain this matter!
Why, Messieurs, l can travel all over
France armed with only bodkin." The
Colonel rose to his feet and replied
"The explanation is this: A French;
mans rights are so few in number, and
so insignificant in character, that they
can be enforced with a bodkin, or for that
m.tter with toothpick. But an Ameri-
c=n citizens rights ara so numerous and
important that he needs whole arson al
to defend them. Hence the practice OF
carrying weapons in America. "-Ph'la-
dslphia Press.