The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-19
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
MR.. HAYES whispers very privately III
GARYIELp's ear that the Ohio majority .
Considerably stsggers him.
TIE correspondents are trying to ma
out in Washington what the Democrats
as n party, mean to do in Congress.
ACCORDING to the Chicago Tribune, the
Ohio Republican bank WAS "busted, be-
cause it tailed to make its Reserve good
GARFIELD didn't get it. HAYES III
teprons were good, but ne someho"
wasn't as powerful as he thought he wss
when he wrote that letter.
They say that man, woman ana d
child together cant earn, in New orA'
SO Der week at cigar making. Ihink Oh
that, We consumers of Hsvans.
SEVENTEEN weddings will take place
next week in Graves county, kentucky.
Commercial travellers, it is said, AVOID
that section of the country, as the heh-
lucky girls don't stand any trlfi'fg IN
matters of the heart.
A New Hampshire girl wrote to
the postmaster OF country town ASKING
for some geological specimens. Inc
latter handed the letter over TO real es-
tate agent, who opened up correspond
ence with the fair writer, who Is now MS
wife.
CHIEF JOSEPH is 50, nearly six feet
high. has regular features, black eyes,
and is of erect ard manly figure. lie
discsrds much of the Indian toggery,
and his toilet is extremely simple, con-
sisling principally OF pair OF blanket
trousers and moccasins.
AFAcT of decided significance rs to
The status of women is the establishment
bv that most conservative of all bodies,
the Episcopal Church, of the order OF
Oeaconesses, or sisters. An important
qualification is that all applicants for ad-
,nlttance to the order must be Is years OF
age.
ANOTHER historical point Is settled.
AS Robinson Crusoe," LYDIA THoMP-
SON wears six-button kids. Now "Robln-
/ son" used to wear great deal more
I clothes than that. 'Taint fair, LYDIA!
! lie had more than six kids, but he didn
button them. They did their own butun
Funny Exchange.
SENATOR BAYARD says IN regard to
Democratic policy in the Senate: 1--WE
mali not attempt to accomplish anything
by trickery; we shall not lay in wait for
absent member; we shall not connive at
nap judgments in anything. Our day
is iust ahead q US, and we should be very
unwise to 10 it." Senator BAYARD's
views are always just and sound.
In the opinion of the Baltimore Ga
.sttc "what the country now expects
from Congess is business. II Is rather
! sick Of politics, and wants TO see the en-
inent Senators and Representatives turn
their powerful minds TO the subjects OF
industrial and commercial development.
There are bad laws which hinder the
progless of various manufactures, and
which pu. obstacles in the currents OF
trade. These must be looked into with
clear-headed sagacity and remedied."
THAT WAsuINGToN was opposed to
traffic in slaves is shown in private let
ter ne once wrote to friend, which has
My recently been published. 1t says
Il never mean (unless some particular
circumstance Should compel me to it, &c
possess another slave by purchase, 1t be.
ing among my first wishes to see some
plan adopted by the Legislature whereby
slavery in this country may be abolished
by slow, sure and impercepti5le degrees
AND they keep insisting that the
policy had nothing to do with the set
tack in Ohio, yet, on the day before cleo
uyn, the New York Post, u policy paper
said that the State would 90 Republican
because the issues "prcsented to the pco
PIE an opportunity to declare their con
idence IN the President and in the
measures of his administration" END
the Cincinnati Commercial said: 1--WE
predict that Judge WEST will be chosen
Governor of OHIO to-morroH by a larger
majority than that Of ALLEN or HAYES
because the people are of the opinion
that his election will mean substantially
| sDprobatiOn Of the administration