The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-27
GRAFTON GRAPHICS.
New Paper-LOcaI POIiIics-RemOval
OF the County Seat.
COrrasnapdapaa nj the Register
GRAFTON, w. Va, April %.

OF the County Seat.
Correspondence OF the Register.
GRAFTON, w. VA, April %.
The green leaf Of the new-come
spring hsth appeared, snd the fruit
trees are sll IN full blossom. Now Is the
time for the frost thst kills the fruit.
The hot, sultry dsys will soon be upon
Us. and it would be well if our Town
Council could be persuaded TO give Us s
public pump or two.
Agricultural and mechanical societies
in this State have not been uniformly
successful, and the Taylor County AgrI-
cultural sud Mechanical Society is no
exception to the rule. The isir grounds
are advertised for sale under decree o!
the Circuit Court OF Taylor county. We
advise the formation OF new company
Of not more than one hundred stockhoid-
ers. No company csn expect to succeed
and issue FIVE or SIX hundred stockhold-
holders tickets.
The United States Government has
advertised Tor proposals TO build = stone
wall around the National Cemetery.
Somebody is going TO be bit.
The material and Mr. ). b..
Crouch of the new Democratic
paper about to born, have
arrived. VIII this effort fail as so msny
other ventures Of similar character
have? Not if the Democrats Of the
county are willing to support sn organ
devoted to their Interests, and one inst
will be sbly edited. The first issue will
probably make its appearance during the
first week OF May.
Aspirsnts for political honors are COM
ing - the front. The district delegate
seems TO have the greatest charm for our
Democratic friends. For county dele
gate We have seen Mr.. J. W. Mason sag.
.ested, as the Republican candidate.
Sir. Mason, we are assured does not
want the nomination and won't
have it. Our Republican friends had
better nominate Mr. Mason for Judge Of
the Second Judicial circuit.
The question of the removal Of the
court house will be the exciting theme 10
Taylor county. Grafton is beyond doubt
the place, and the only fit place, tor tie
county seat The question of removal IS
only question Of time, and it hal better
be done now than later. The advantages
posses sed by Grafton are so manifest that
a statement of them is hardly necessary.
The argument rs TO the cost is the only
one against removal and this we
have no doubt can be dIspOsCd
of. II has only been owing to the
factious opposition of few politician
that the court house has been kept, thu
long, at that dear, dead village of Prun-
tytown, honored only in this, that that
old war-horse and defunct political trim
mer "Uncle Joe" resideth there.
Payday and .tlll silver is not as plen-
ty as our Blandites expected it would be,
alter the pas sage OF that cure all, "Blsnd's
silver bill" Now we favor the passage
of the "Ircome tax bill" for the one good
reason that il does not affect us. The re-
peal Of the Bankrupt Act is also very
agreeable TO u.s. The uniform exper-
fence of our merchants has been that
after the Register, Clerk, Assignee and
Marshal were paid, the dividends were
very small. What will, then, become Of
that good old soul the Register at Clarks
burgh2 Thanks to the man with the
three capital is every bankrupt was
sure of discharge.
We had the pleasure Of meeting your
correspondent Charles Selby orchard X.
Nc MahoD) last week. Charles had been
up IN the mountains with the moonshiners
90 long that at hrst we nistook him for
veritsble distIller of mountain dew.
Selby is quite musician, but, unfortu-
nately, we could not persuade him to
sing any other song but the following TO.
train, which be. we are very sorry 70 say,
believes 20 be the best ever written:
Hey diddle dee diddle,
The new Southern fiddle,
And Rutherford counted In.
The thieves all laughed
To see such craft,
And the rOgues got away
With the tin"
We notice that Selby in his last letter
speaks kindly of two young members Of
the Taylor county bar. The native bar
is certainly improving, and with Hon.
b. +. Martin, Messrs. Mason and Nc.
Cormick in the lead, they will soon be
able 70 shake themselves free from the
leading strings held by some members OF
the Marion, Harrison and Barbour county
bars.
The Murpbys are still on the move S.
p. Mccormick was the orator 81 the last
meeting. Sorry we didn't hear him.
j. l.. II.