The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-01

all round.
THE great annual swearing of day
has come at last.
SENATOR PATTERsoNs disease Is "ner-
vous botherstion."
SECRETARY OF STATE EvARTs has be-
come the Attorney of the Erie Railroad.
Mr.. AND MRS. hayes celebrated the
25th anniversary of their wedding, last
evening.
THERE is no hell now; 1t went out OF
business, as it couldn't compete with
Brooklyn.
BALTIMORE paper is reproached for
getting new head without experiencing
change of ears.
THE feather edge Of that Rocky Noun
tain snow storm reached Wheeling as
the year was dying.
The Electoral thieves are turning
States evidence-leastways,t the few who
have not been rewarded with fat offices.
BETWEEN q brass band leadsr and his
Inen there is nothing but word and q
blow.-Ne1o Orleans Picayune.
INK. BEECHER," says the Boston
Herald, "our heartfelt thanks are yours.
Since hell was abolished we are sbso-
lutely happy"
IT is pleasing to see "holidsy goods
marked down fifty per cent in the stores
Just now. If they had only been marked
down just before Christmas!
\ PAPER of Ohio suggests that u good
way to get rid OF trsmps would be their
enlistment as soldiers. The only trouble
is that tramps are "peaceably Inclined
THE mission ofthe Republican party
in the future says the Boston Post, ais
apparently to offer opportunity for mu-
tusl throat cutting among It's members
and Mr.. Blaine already has his razor
out"
Mr. MOODY will labor in Hartford in
Januaiy, try to convert Springfield in
February, work in Boston for two weeks
and in New Haven for the same length
OF time IN March, and then rest for the
simmer.
LADIES: Do not convert your par
lors into bar-rooms on New Years day.
If you object to your brother or husband
coming home drunk, don't contribute to-
ward SCI ding somebody else's brother
or husband home drunk on that day.
Ex-GovERNoR PIYCHBACK says the
solid South will hold together Tor the
next presidency; that Indiana and New
York will go with the South, which after
1880 will break; that the Northwest Will
hold the balance OF power; that negroes
in the country ave not dying out, and
that this country must have three or
more parties.
SAD accident in St. Louisville a
young lady OF that city WAS at work on
oneof the slippers intended as Christ
mas present for her sdorer, the scstfold-
ing broke, precipitatlDg her violently to
the ground. and the slipper went down,
crushing two OF her little sisters, who
CHANGED to be playing under it, to death.
- Chicago Times.
That accident happened in Wheeling,
and the slipper was tor the foot OF
we'll known Bohemian.
A PEN.PICTURE of Jere Black thus
describes him: He is large framed and
vigorous, though spare rather. than feshy,
and his irou-grsy wig surmounts very
dsceptively his high, square head. He
has slightly-sloping forehead, bursting
"pcrceptives,' and small, shrewd blue
ewes, arched over with white and foxy
brows, and his face is close shaver. HIS
square lower jaw gives truthful impress
sion OF strong combative force.
"RUM did itr That's lie, and false
charge against dead, unconscious thing
that has no power to defend itself! The
man himself committed the crime, under
the influence, perhaps OF an insanity ex.
cited by the use of rum, but the man and
not the rum is the responsible agent.
The temperance reform will begin at the
right end and move onward, when men
are made to realize that they, and not the
liquors they drink, are the parties with
whom the law must deal. "Rum did III
is false and pernicious sentiment thai
is doing more mischief than rum itself
SHAwNEETowN, Illinois, comes to the
front for its simple method of bringing
about an agreement among jurymen.
The Shswneetown method is for the
Jurors to pull strsws to see whether 1t
shall be guilty or not guilty. A man
was lately on trial for his life at Shawnee
town, and the twelve Shswneetowners in
the box, at the end stood three for hang
ing and nine for imprisonment. The
three then pulled against the nine, and
the result was that the entire twelve were
for hanging. But the secrets of the jury
room leaked cut and the murderer gets a
new trial in consequence.
So FAR as there is any difference be-
tween the President and our Vermont
Senators, We believe that nine tenths of
the Renuhlicans of Vermont are with