The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-12-28
NOTES OF THE DA Y.
New YEARS day next.
Form YOUR resolutions.

BEAUTIFUL snow is now in demand.
BETTER be prscticing in writing 1878.
No country papers printed in this
State this week.
Mr. AND Mrs. HAYES celebrate their
silver wedding tomorrow night.
GEN. BUTLER predicts that the silver
bill will be law within 20 days, veto or
no veto.
REPRESENTATIVE KEIFER, OF Ohio,
will return 10 Representative Tucker, OF
Virginia, the sword which the latter sur
rendered to him In 1865.
ALEXANDER STEPHENS entered Con-
gress fcrty-,cur years ago, and is still
there as member Oh course he has
not been n member all that time.
ACCORDING to statement OF the Gin
cinnatl GGsctte that paper has the largest
circulation o. any paper OF that city,
while the Commercial has the smallest.
MEXICO, like Virginia, is denominated
the "Motber OF Presidents" from the
number she ks had lately. She has had
fftv-six OF them in fourteen terms, some
times having as many as three at time.
GEN. SuERIDAN's testimony on the
Mexican frontier confirms the popular
impress. on that raids from Mexico into
Texas have been growing less frequent
for the last year or two, though there has
been some stealing.
SENATOR WITHEgS. OF Virginia, is
confined to his bed al his residence in
Aiexqndris, Va, by a severe attack OF
neuralgia OF the head The disease has
attacked his eyes, which are naturally
weak, and he has suffered great pain.
A LETrER-wKITER describes Senator
Gordon, of Georgia, as = perfect type Of
the cbivalrous gentleman. "He j.
straight as All arrow" says the writer,
"weli formed snd why, rather above the
medium height, with straight black hair
worn longer than the New England Gus
tom Is, but shorter than is the habit iu
the South, with prominent, hlsn fore
head, and small, keen, dark eycs
LITTLE story about * President Juu.-
son. by Mr. RcdHed, OF the Cincinnati
COMMERCIAL: "Msior PettIbone owned Il
dog which was great isvortc OF John
sons. Tue very day before the eX-Pres-
idsnt died he strcRed the animal upon
the head, saying, Prince, you and l are
getting old; we are not long for this
world This was Sunday; Monday
night he died. short distance from
Greenvlle, and Wednesday train
brought his remains home. PriEce WAS
at the depot, and the car containing
Johnsou's remains ran over the faithful |
dog, crushing out his life. Curiously |
enough the dogs name was Grant out |
johnson had predujce against that
cogromen and always substituted |
Prince"
REPRESENTATIVE BLAND's wife
say- the Boston Post, 'has presenter him
with son, which IS both childhke ana |
Bland, And being CHIP OF the old |
block, it cries ioudly for the dollars Of its
dad Chicago Times.
The poorest family We can think of
lust now Is the Vanderbilt family, with |
their scores Of millions of money, their |
consuming greed, their sel'-def!ed home |
anC the bourdlyss contempt they have |
So Justly provoked from maukind.-
Phtsads.pbia Times.
SIMON CAM eKoN has taken run down |
o. Washington, ard language fails him |
T. express hi. disgust with the admins
t-ation. He thinks the Republicans had
better abandon Hayes without any more
aio, unless be will surrender and re-
o-ganize his cabinet -SDrinstieid Re |
PUBLICAN.
Don't you suppose, il the Lord had |
known the time was coming when suCb |
fellows as John MorrIsSey and Hamburg |
Butler and Scalawag Patterson would |
make laws for this country, he would |
have told Noah to pay of the men and |
s op work on the ark, as he had decided |
t. postpone the Hood five or SIX thous |
AMI years. Darlington Hat0keye.
WE may applaud some of Mr.. Hayes
appointments and approve his endesv-
ors to pacjly the sections and restore
god government TO the South, but in
tl.s, neither Mr.. Hayes nor Mr.. Key |
81 uld misunderstood US. Georgia will |
be- solid and the South will be solid, aud !
tlev will remain solid until the last
ves,lge OF Radical misrule Is swept out
OF the land.-AHdHta Constitution.