The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-30

The Charleston Courier prints q quar
ter of a column Of head lines over the
announcement of the taking advantage Of
the Bankrupt Act by Dana L. Hubbard
Of the Standard.
Miss BENNETT, sister of the proprietor
OF the Herald, is about to marry az Irish
peer, who is also an Orsngeman. The
lady ia an uncompromlsing Catholic, but
love laughs at creeds.
THE Boston Post wants TO know "why
should anyone growl at the printing of
three hundred thousand copies of the ag-
riclltural report of 1877, even if 1t Is
three years old when it reaches the
farmers? AS Colonel Sellers says
"What are governments for?'
THE Philadelphia Ledger suggests that
the benefits OF the EighL-Hour law might
be extended to q much larger class If it
was made to apply to the working hours
of housewives, with a special clause pro-
viding that tAe babies should sleep dur
ing the hours devoted TO the rest and
recreation of the mother.
EIGHT years ago there worked as
"devi" IN the Office Of the Wytheville,
Va, Dispatch, boy apparently eighteen
years of age. He was shoeless, penniIess
and trouserless when he entered Now
he is a commissioner to the Paris Expo
sition, chief editor of the Atlanta Constl-
tuition, and one of the best known humor-
lists in the country. His name is 5. w.
Small, or "Old ST."
TEE West Union Observer says that
on May 10Th, Mr.. VIM. Scott left all
we'll at home, to attend the funeral dis
course delivered by Rev. &. w. Dakon,
at the NJ. L. Church, on Sycamore Creek,
about two miles distant from his home.
On his return, q hurried messenger in.
formed him that his wife had fallen from
the porch and was killed, only living
about ten minutes, never speaking after
the fall. Mr.. Scott Is an old settler.
IT was very kind IN the Legislature to
thank itself all around just before sd-
iourning, because this was a iormahLy
the people were quite likely to forget
philadelphia T1neS.
II this investigation "vIndjcstes" Mr..
Tllden it will remove the supposed nee
essiLy of his vindIcatIOn IN 1880. In
that light, let the investigation proceed.
-Nel0 Orleans Ijmcs.
BoB INGEEsoLL mas not been heard
from much of late. He is supposed to be
quietly maturing plan to get out 3 writ
of custer against the Creator, unseat him,
take his place, and create the world over
again. in accordance with advanced here.
Chicago Times.
WE think man truly called to preach
will furnish better sermon than any
woman with Rev to her name, but we
know many women who practice the VIZ
tues inculcaled far more perfectly than
the preacher herself.-MTs Henry Ward
Bsecher IN tie Christian Union.
The St. Louis GLobe.DemocrGt every
day uses up some of It's space devoted to
humorous matter to inform folks that
Grant will be the next President The
editor Of the st. Louis paper, who ran the
moral features of the whisky ring and got
IN jail for it, knows what convenient
thing it is to have Grant in the White
use.-PhilqdeLphlG Times,
The people of West Virginia desIre
that our next Legislature submit to them
an amendment 30 the Constitution,
sweeping out of existence the county
court system, even including the alterna-
tive method to which we have referred.
When it comes to voting on TINS, we
shall hear the slogan sound, and not n
relic, even, will be left. The system will
be defeated by such q majority that the
scattering individual who now leans to-
ward it will want to deny that he has
ever heard of It.-RiLchie Gazette.