The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-25


hasn't been heard from for ever so many
days.
WHEN the World suggests that the
army be reduced to ten men on wooden
legs, an exchange amends by proposing
single crutch.
The Georgia Constitutional Conven-
ton voted to give the Legislature the
power to regulate freight and passenger
rates on railroads.
SECRETARY EvARTs has eleven pretty
daughters. and when he travels with his
family they want to know whether It's
theatrical troupe.
BosToN Post: Judge WEST wants to
be Governor of Ohio and Judge EAST
Chancellor of Tennessee. Their chances
are Sou Sou West by Sou"
LECTURE on 'Foos'-Admit One,
was the inscription on a card OF sdmis-
sion 10 3 discourse by Philadelphia
clergyman the other evening.
Hon. ALEXANDER K. BoTELER, of this
State has been invited to deliver the an
nusl address at the Hartford county az.
ricultursl fair, on October IL.
ST. LOUIS Globe Democrat: Senator
MORTON has dismissed his doctors, and is,
therefore, in no immediate danger OF
needing the services of an undertaken"
The New York Sun calls on Minister
Comfy to either go to the Sandwich
Islands and earn his salary, or resign
Happy thought. How about this, Mr.
HAYEs2
TIE Globe Democrat gets around 1t
thus: Zone reason why Judge WEST
might be expected to make good Gov.
ernor is that he is very poor politi-.
clan"
FLORENCE made $4,000 in San Fran
cisco last year and put it into silver
mining stocks, now worth $4,000. Let
us hope they will continue to stand at
that figure.
A MAN locked up in the Allegheny
county (Md.) Jail for horse stealing, hs
amused himself by drawing on the walls
of his cell, in colored crayon, and hi Q
sketches are very much admired by the
local press.
A REPUBLICAN organ in Ohio says
that Judge WEST WIS nominated for
Governor in order to contribute ideas
while BISHOP was to contribute money.
AS lar As can be sscertsined neither has
yet come down.
WISDOM from the New York Sun: I'm
Tree government there is no safety IN
putting weak men into posts which they
Cannot fill. We should be glad to sup
port party which would never commit
any folly of this kind"
1T is thought more than probable that
Colonel john w. DANIEL, who was so
prominent a candidate for Governor OF
Virginia before the late convention, will
be chosen TO succeed Judge DANIELS as
Attorney-G enersl on the ticket
SPEAKING of Gov. HAMPToN's recent
soeech the New York Tribune observes:
"rhe North must accept the situation as
we'll as the South. Massachusetts has no
more right to doubt South Carolina than
South Carolina has right to doubt
Massachusetts.
DOM PIATT says of the rich man:
Gle never produced anything useful or
ornamental. He has from time to time
accumulated library he could not read
pictures and statues he could not enjoy,
and built tasteless monuments to his own
worthless memory.
WHEN Secretary EvARTs is at home,
in Vermont he sleeps on his left side,
When he is at home in New York he
sleeps on his right side. When he Is At
home in Washington he sleeps on his
back. When he has collie at any home
h, tries to sleep on his chm ard toes.
Mr.. JOHN &. THOMPSON, Chairman o!
the Ohio Democratic Committee, writes
to Washington to say that Secretary
Shermsns speech will be of more sdvan-
taee to the Democrats of OHIO than to
the Republicans. Mr.. THOMPSON will
doubtless make arrangements to keep
the Secretary on the stump.
WASHINGTON Capital: 80 accumu-
late property dos not call for an intel
lectusl process. 1t is mean instinct
As the hog gathers his ted before the
coming storm that no human being can
foretell, as the goat turns his tail to the
unseen and felt approaching wind, SO II
man of keen instincts, but q low order of
intellect, gets rich in worldly possessions
He has no tastes to crafty, no ambition
to feed, no affections to satisfy. He
gathers and holds"
The Ohio Republican managers are
preparing for a forlorn hope. They
have no confidence in success and are !
resorting to various schemes to save
something from the general wreck
STANLEY MATTHEWS is such a fearful
load that it is proposed that GAR
FIELD shall take the stump Ms the candi-
date for Senator, and let the other aspir-
ants do what they can. In this way it |