The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-03-05
NOTES OF THE DAY.


| NOTES OF THE DAY.
WELLS, PERCIyAL & Co, the London
bankers, who have lately failed, were in
business hundred and seven years.
HENRY WARD BEECHER holds the
rank of Captain by virtue OF his being
Chaplain IN the Thirteenth New York
regiment.
CONGRESSMAN MULLER is accused by
the Washington Republic of addressing
the ladies gallery instead of the Speaker
of the House.
IL Hayes doesn't make some change
in the Federal office holders of LOUISIANA,
it will be necessary to remove the GUS
tCm.house to the penitentiary.
The New Hampshire Republicans
show very little courage. One OF the
organs says OF General GARFIELD: cat
this juncturc lis presence in our State
could do no good and might 90 much
| harm"
The Baltimore and ONO Railroad
Company put twenty five additional
carpenters tc work Saturday. on the new
coal buns al Piedmont, preparatory to the
consolidation of the Keyser and Pied
mont agencies, on the 10Th inst.
The Steubenville correspondent of the
Cleveland Herald says: "Being linked
with our sister city Wheeling by
two roads of iron, and constant commu-
nics!ion by OFT noble river, We hope TO
be more closely united in commercial
and social intercourse. So say we all
in Wheeling.
THERE is rumor, lacking contrma-
ton, that the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company will shortly terminate the
present arrangement with the Pullman
Palace Car Company and put palace cars
of its own on the main line and branches.
The railroad company has been for some
time running its own psrlor or chair
cars.
TIE Romney Mteihgsncer says that at
an early day there will be rolling mill
started at Winchester, Virginia, under
the auspices of Anderson Brothers Il Co.,
of Wilhamsport, Pa. The business men
of Winchester presented the firm with
the land on which to cree. the mill, and
the blooms used will be drawn from the
Valley furnace.
AT meeting of the citizens OF Key
ser, lsst Friday evening, committee was
appointed to confer with President Gar
rett, of the Baltimore and OHIO Railroad
Company, and tender to him the sum of
$25,00O as bonus il the company would
consolidate the stations of Piedmont and
Keyser, and mako Keyser tho terminal
gcnCy of he second and third divisions.
A GIGANTIC army lobby Is at work in
Washington, and has been at work for a
long time, while the wives, sweethearts,
daughters and mother.in-law Of army
officers are helping in their natural silly
way by giving Mrs. Banning the direct
social cut Wash. Cor. 81. LOUIS Dis
patch.
We really mus. congratulate Mrs
Banning. If the above Is true, she is
most fortunate lady.
Mr.. LEWIS NJ. CoLE, general ticket
agent OF the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, left Baltimore yesterd sy for brief
sojourn in Florida tor the benefit o. his
health. Finance Commissioner james
Hodges also Contemplstes 3 trip 10 the
South, and may arrange 10 go in COM
psny with Mayor Kane, who expects 10
leave in day or two.
SENATOR JONES, of Nevada, calls the
veto message the worst "fsp.doodle" he
ever ssw in = state psper-wesker than
dish-wster and insipid beyond COMPARE
son; Senator ingalls,, poor rehssh of
what the country has heard thousand
times, IN shocking bsd language, toe;
Senator Allison, weak production ST
best, sll the points in it old; Another
Senstor of prominence, who voted to
sustsin the veto," there isn't country
edi,o. who hasn't stated the case in bet
ter style, and more forcibly. On the 9TH
err hand, Kellogg, who voted the other
wsy, calls the message simple, strong and |
dignided, good presentation Of the
facts.
Mr.. CoNKLING's home organ, which |
naturally sdmires sll modest men, says
Mr. Hsyes' chief ability is seli.concei,. |
He is in fslr wsy TO hsve his dissbli-
ties removed if thst is All they consist OF.
-Boston Herald.
Nothing in the Quaker City has re-