The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-03-08
NOTES OF THE DAY.

SENATOR EDMUEDS would describe |
junction as place where two roads sep
srate.
A CALIFORNIA farmer lost 200 sheep
and 5000 acres of wheat by the recent
floods.
THERE is considerable talk in both
States about annexing the eastern shore
of Maryland TO little Delaware.
Mrs. ABRAHAM LINCOLN is living
secluded life in an interior town In
France, and declines to return TO America
lest she may again be placed in an
insane asylum.
GEN. SHERMAN says that there ought
to be at less. 5000 to $4,000 men In the
army, and declares that Eat this moment
there is almost absolute certainty OF Il
renewed war with the Sioux"
Mr. SCHUYLER CoLFAX continues to
say that no vote, however large, would
induce him to accept an Office. Perhaps
Mr.. Collax believes what he says, but ne
Is the only man who believes 1t.
The editor of the Augusta Times has
received his first installment of spring
poetry. 1t wa: on L'qror, and seven
teen stanzss 10. & lie read to mint
iuleps, and the suggestion was irresisti.
BILE.
AN extraordinary grave robbery Is
reported from Natick, Mass, where a
man is said TO have broken into a
tomb and stolen the slippers from the
feet snd the rings from the fingers of
his recently buried wife and sold the
former.
THE London Times blunder in giving
the United States Senate 27G members, is
only equaled by that journals famous
discovery that Burnside's expedition in
the war time was "landed on the cosat CT
West Virginia" 1t would seem that it
is decidedly vulgar in journalistic circles
abroad to be posted in American affairs,
while ignorance in such matters is q
mark OF high breeding.
The New York WorIds arithmetic
man has been at work, with these curious
results: There were just as many votes
cast in the House against Mr.. Hayes
veto as Mr. Tilden got in the Electoral
College, 196, and for the veto there were
precisely 100 votes less than Hayes re.
ceived, he being entitled to l73, while the
veto was supported by 70 members. In
both Houses the veto received 81 votes,
or Just half OF the 1874 that the Electoral
Commission gave to Tilden."
II the country ever gives thought
to what Congress is doing and what the
President is not doing, 1t probably Won
ders what such expensive establishments
are kept up for any way.-PhiIadetPhtG
Times.
PROBABLY one reason why Mr.. Hayes
does not find time to renew the effort to
get Mr.. Conkling's friends out of the
Custom House in New York is that it
takes all the strength OF the administers
ton to keep John Sherman's accomplIces
out of the penitcrtiary in louisiana
Washington Post.
HAYES happened n year ago to-day.
He was insugurated in private on Sun
day. He had powerful party at his
back, and three quarters OF the people
wished him well and had fslth in his
ability and character. He has been very
successful in losing his party, turning
friends into foes, unsmsnaglng affairs,
and proving TO the entire satisfaction Of
everybody that he has neither capacity
nor honestv.-N J, Express.
The New Orleans papers learn that
Secretary Sherman has finally decided
to transfer the duties of Anderson, at the
New Orleans custom house, to one of the
other deputies-one who is not yet in
Jail. This will save the sheriff great
deal of trouble and prove much more
satisfactory to the people, but the action,
even if it has been decided upon, comes
altogether too late to help anybody's
opinion of the Secretsry.-Philadeiphia
Times.
Mr.. HAYES has further illustrated the
besuty of civil.servlce reform by nomin-
ating for paymaster in the army one j.
IL. & Smith, relative OF his wife's, and
lately chief Of one of the Treasury Blu.
resus. Army officers are naturally in
dignsnt that Smith should be nominated
over their heads, and want to know IN
what respect Hayes is an Improvement
over Grants conundrum which is mere
by respectfully referred to Roscoe Conk-
hng.-BditO. Gazette.
NeighbOrIy Compliment.