The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-23

ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS mas oeeh pro-
scented by the people of-Richmond Win
an elegant chalice, costing $500.
STANLEY MATTHEWS is so completely
reconciled that he votes with BLAINE
and CoNKL1Se. A. dEl tn ic
We see it stated in the New York
Herald that rs. s. Cox is fnnnier man
than old RANDALL" - y ..a (,
The ONO postmasters rather pittituily
complain that the GROWING oftEe Demo
cratic rooster disturbs their rest. o.
THE Western papers are so mixed up
thst-we believe it was not Senator NC
DONALD bat Dr. MARY WALKER who
offered to pair with MORTON.
PACKARD is still fishing but IN diHer-
emf waters. he has thrown his line for
the New Orleans Custom House, and has
become recouciled expressly for that Pur-
pose.
PRIVATE DALzEL1, the old friend OF
the editors waste-basket, has been elected
to the Ohio legislature by one majority
aud he hugs himself over his forethought
when he thinks where that one vote came
from. .r....s ..
The Ohio State Journal says that those
Ohio Democrats who don't pick up some
thing around Washington will return to
their homes in time to gather around the
new Legislature when it organizes and
ask for recognition.
THE Washington RepublicG" wants
Chief Joseph sent to West Point as pro
lessor of Indian tactics, and to teach the
cadets how to fight the aborigines. This
is not bad idea, and fully in keeping
with the eternal fitness of things"
The ruling passion was still in at the
death with HOWARD, and his only con-
graduation to MILES was fervent
"Amen!" That man is too good Chris
tisn to fight anybody. He ought to keep
a savings bank.
To reach the North Pole-Polarize
Cleopstra's needle and send it adriit
with I've mariners of England" That
load.o'-stone ought to be strong enough
to drag the pole up by its roots and
bring it home to England by simple mag.
netic attraction.
BEN BUTLER keeps flower garden OF
his own near Washington, and that's why
he has bouquets on his desk every morn
ing. He deals in the article and adver-
tises them himself The contrast between
old BEN and full blown rose is very
marked.
The organs that are so disturbed by
the political persecution OF the thiev-
ing officials in South Carolina are kindly
requested 70 notice the fact that OF the
iurymen drawn for the trial of these
cases 10 are colored and II white, 10 are
Democrats and q Republicans. That
does not look very violently partisan.
john KELLY, according to cOrre-
spondent OF the Springfield Republican,
was well educated at the Catholic school
and college, talks French and reads Ger
mad, has an excellent library, and
though a true Democrat in appearance
and dress and manner, he is free from
vulgar vices, hates losfers and frauds OF
all sorts, is down on all dishonesty, and
as sincerely religious as a politician can
well be.
AN Oregon paper says that ia great
lot of young ladies welcomed General
SHERMAN at Albany. The old warrior
went right in and kissed the whole OF
them, while his son, cowsrdly young
fellow who had never been through the
wars, stood back and looked sheepishly
on" 1t isn't very strange tina: Mrs.
SHERMAN Is opposed to round dancing.
THE unpublished life of General
GRANT, written by his father, MIR.
JESSE r. GRANT, is in the possession OF
the Connecticut State Librarian. This
manuscript gives new version OF the
way in which young GRANT got the
ULYSSES; it says that the name was one
of a lot drawn from hat when his pa
rents were debating what to call him.
An amusing story is told concerning
the Rev. DR.. BACKUs, the first President
of Hamilton college. Before he went
to Clinton ne was settled At Bethlehem,
Conn, where his salary was fixed at
1920 and his fre.wood. During
one very cold winter his woodpilo
became exhausted, and he bought q
cord of a neighbor, who, while praising
his wood enthusiastically, delivered u
cord of unsplit white birch. Of course,
after the bark had sputtered furiously
and burned out, the birch itself would
burn no more than so much iron. The
good doctor rushed away to the sly
neighbor. 81 want twenty cords more
of that wood" be said. Twenty cords,
doctor! What can You do with so much?'
Smother the flames of hell that's all ITS
good for!"-N J. Tr7bu11e.
Tho Game and Eottou CronS