The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-08

1T is said that Senator MCDONALD, vi
Indiana, intends to marry very soon
widow who is now a clerk in the Treas
ury Department.
THE report that Senator MoRroN's last
words were 81 am dying; am worn out"
is denied by a person who was present
when the Senator died. About five
minutes before he stopped breathing he
looked up suddenly and said to one OF his
sons: JOIN, air." We prefer the
original version.
IsMAIL, Khedive of Egypt, is man
OF about forty.eight years of age, under
the middle height, but heavily and
s1uarely built, with broad shoulders
which, during the last year, seem to have
become bowec. down by the heavy bur
dens imposed upon him, under which he
has so manfully struggled.
The New York Herald takes this
olaomv view of the situation: at is too
evident that President HAYES political
party cannot help him. If he expects
much of it he will lean upon broken
reed For the last half of his term 1t
will have no power in either branch OF
Congress, and, even for the first half, 1t
: rowerIess in the House and fatally
crippled in the Senate"
GEN. DEvENs carried oil the honors at
the Richmond fair. When the Presl-
dent, IN introducing him, stated that the
General had in him bullet-made OF
Virginia lead, for all he knew-the
crowd yelled out their applsuSe-some
max have mistaken IL for delight-in
hssrlier manner than on any previous
occasion during the proceedings. Alter
that they seemed to take special con-
corn in General DEvENs, and rewarded
him at all suitable times with liberal sp-
plsuse.
Judge Shelley, delegate to the late
Episcopal General Council, in Boston,
SAID to a reporter of the Staunton Vindi-
Gator, that Bishop Whittle, of Virginia,
mats most excellent impression in the
House of Bishops, and a prominent Off
CIR of that body said of him, mo man
has grown more in the esteem and good
will OF the House of Bishops this season
than Bishop Whittle, Of Virginia. de
Was listened to with marked attention by
the House, and his views and opinions as
expressed there, so free from any ultra
ism. produced very profound lmPres.
sion"
IL an editorial upon the leading char
aa.erIstics of Senator MoRToN's mind,
tie Chicago Times says that "with him
expires the doctrine that sectional hatred
Is essential 10 the preservation OF the
Federal Union. SO boldly did he teach
il that among his disciples were dozens Of
politicians who were subjected to his lead
er,hip by sheer moral force. So desperate
WAS his determination TO govern the con
quered common wealths by force, after
tlcy had ceased 70 offer any resistance to
law, tha. his very violence produced the
rca ,tion in the North which compelled
MIR. HAYES, on entering the White House
to pyomulgate the Cancellation policy
o. his death.bed Mr.. Morton urged his
c,uutrymen to sustain Mr.. Hayes, there
by conlessing tina. the bloody shirt cpl
SIDE was over"
The Philadelphia Press on Friday
Published an obituary notice OF the death
o Senator MORTON, concerning which it
makes the following curious statement;
"Phe shove editorial WAS written by the
recent editor OF the Press, Hon. JOHN
w. FoRNEY, August &c, the day Senator
MORTON was first reported as dying, and
PIT in type that night, but not used, the
midnight kilograms reporting the tenn
porary recovery Of the distinguished SEN
ator. At the rcques. and suggestion of
mutual friends, to whom it Wa. read, it
Wa, communlcat ed to Mr.. MORTON, who
replied through his secretary, thanking
It's writer for the kind words and spirit
of IN, article. This morning we publish
it, no, only as a timely and brilliant edi-
i,or.al, but as dramatic illustration Of
the life of our day, aud also OF the fntS-
rior' Of newspaper