The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-22
NOTES OF THE DA Y.

NNhNAIOh pbri''N, VI 1NO' H'S
by bullets six times during the civil war
AMERICAN women cat more candy
than those of any other nation in Il 0
world.
Tux silver bill, as proposed to be
amended by the Finance Committee Of
tic Senate, will pass.
The Chicago 7riJ1ne refers TO the
Senators who oppose the silver bill AS
"tbe bondholders' sttorneys."
ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER talks Of
organizing ~ party of her sex TO visit the
Southern Capitals and address the Legis-
la!urCs on woman suffrage. Aleck Ste
rhons thinks they would be "listened TO
with attention.
GOV. HOLIDAY, OF Virginia, being a
cndlcss widower, with no use for fine
house, finds 1t more comfortable to live
q. hotel than NJ the Governors Man
sion, but the Nirginisns are very much
scsndalizcd thcrest.
The Saturday afternoon reception of
Mrs. Hayes was largely attended. The
afternoon was as crisp and bright as Oc-
to5cr, and the ladies turned out more
numerOusly than on any former occa-
sion. The Cabinet and Diplomatic Corps
were fully represented.
THE 81. Louis Globe. Democrat docs
not believe Mr.. HAYES will veto the sill
yer bill. ale may pocket it and thus
allow il 20 become law without his
signature, but we doubt If he will face
The majority in each House with step
ofrosltive opposition
WHEN Zach Chandler is interviewed
by the Washington correspondents, he
,nttnts himself with telling how he ran
his farm the first year on the civil-service
reform theory, taking fer an overseer
man who had gone through al agricul-
tural education and passed many exsmi-
nations, and the result was loss of SlO,-
900, when he relieved the scientific over
seer, started anew On the machine priE-
cjple. and has been making money ever
since.
THE numerous friends of Mr.. Schuyler
ColfaS will be pleased TO learn that he
has at last found some useful employment.
A Western paper relates that Mr.. Colfsx
arrived ut an Inn in Wa rep. ILL.,, the
Other night at late hour, snd as he was
to take All carly train he told the lsr g.
lord that he would not 60 to bed. The
landlord, therefore, who did not know
his cuost, asked him to act as clerk dur
ing the night, keep the fires going and
wake the porter in the morning. The
ex-Vice President did 80 and doubtless
continued to smile.
WHAT women need and Whist the pow.
orty of men is daily forcing them to
seek is work that Will command pecu.
mary reward. And the crying wrong
that women as a sex are suffering is the
failure OF their education to enable them
to desire work. They suffer enough of
anxiety of modification and sorrow in
the fear and finally in the experience of
poverty, to teach them the glory of Pc
cuniary independence. The strong, hope.
full sprrt that is born of self-relisnce
they do not understand, snd more is the
pity. On all sides are seen the results OF !
tho false system under which they have
been reared, and in discordsnt marriages, |
dependent women and Wholesale suher-
ing is recognized the effect of plan
which is disastrous TO the interests OF the |
rsce.
THAT "theoreticsi" SchurZ has inside |
the practical fellows mad agsin. The |
Freedmsn's Hospital a. Washington, for
which he is responsible, having got into !
bad way, he appointed Board Of H.
vestigation. They took testimony which
showed gross mismsnsgement, but msde
a wbitewashing report. The Secretary,
instead Of accepting the report unQucs.
toned, read over the evidence, and has
removed the otficisl inculpsted, DIR.
Palmer. His friends have tried TO get
HAYES TO interfere. but be does not seem
inclined. Republican.
PATRONS of first class hotel Justly
consider themselves entitled 10 cOmferta-
BILE rooms, bountiful bill of fare, and