The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-22
NOTES OF THE DAY.
There were nine deaths by violence in
Philadelphia last Sunday.


Philadelphia last Sunday.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND says
Hendricks will be nominated for the
Presidency on the first ballot in 1880,
whereupon the Boston Post remarks that
George is too previous.
The Cincinnati May Musical Festival
promises to be the great event Of the
year. More than $4,000 worth of tick
cts have already been sold, aud there Is
no abatement OF the demand. 1t will be
a great success financially as well as ar
tisticslly.
In speaking of the Taylor Strauder
case, the Keyser Tribune says: "Thus
by the ingenuity of counsel and techni-
calities of law $50 called, murder com
miLted six years ago has gone unpun-
ished, and, though there is no question as
to his guilt, he may finally escape alto
gethor. Itlsa good advertisement for
his counsel, aud one OF the many instances
that will be quoted tending to justify
Lynch law"
TALKING about Southern greediness, it
may not be convenient Tor some OF the
organs to state that OF the APPROPRIATED
in the river and harbor bill, Jwo-thirds Is
for Northern States.-Boston Herald.
THE enterprising gentleman who i'm.
posed upon Newspaper Row that ground.
robin" about the accounts Of Morrison 5
committee, should turn his mind to some
thing more enduring. He is evidently
the star liar OF the nineteenth century.
Hayes would probably like to hire him
as private secretary 10 entertain appL-
csnts tor Office Washington Post.
LYHCHINGs IN Alabama are conducted
on highly polished and scientific plan.
Instead of dragging murderers over q
railroad track, they are driven in 8
wagon to the scene OF the festivities, and
after the moose has been politely adj
iusted, the wagon is driven back-empty.
We entertain a faint suspicion that mob.
bing and lynching come to pretty near
the same thing.-BaLtiHlorc Gazette.
THE Circuit of Hampshire county met
on Tuesday, Judge Armstrong on the
bench. The Grand Jury, like the one at
last County Court, failed to find single
indictment, which speaks well for the
morals of old Hampshire. Hon. Charles
James Faulkner IS there as counsel in an
important salt vs. the B. Il .. Railroad.
We believe The same case was on docket
just before the last Congressional scrim-
mage.-KegSer Tribune.
Mr.. THoMPsoN, of Pennsylvania, seems
to be staying mad. He got angry the
other day in the office OF Secretary Sher-
man, and was the only Republican in the
House VINO proposed to give the Blair
fre-cracker resolution the honor of a
reference to q special committee. This is
sinful world, and Mr.. Thompson must
expect to hear people suggest that his
man was no. appointed Register OF the
Treasury'-N. Y. Tribune.
SOMETHING ought to be done to concil-
late Ex-Governor Wise, Of Virginia. In
suit in one OF the city courts yesterday
an affidavit made by HIM was read, in
which he describes himself rs an "unre-
generated and unrepentsut rebel."-N !.
Herald, llM.
The above is confession of ignorance
that we hardly expected from the all
wise Herald. Governor Wise has been
dead for a year and half.-CharLesto0,'
Free Press.
MRS. GOODRICH, the last, started for
her home Mt Mt. Peasant, Iowa, last
Monday. We learn that she married L.
+. Goodrich against the will OF her par
enls, they protesting at the time, fearing
all WAS not right. This TO some extent
will explain why it Is that she still chung
to Goodrich, after his arrest, saying she
would not desert him, until recently.
Alter the trial before the Justice she
began to lose her faith in him and wrote
her parents about the situation. Her
mother replied, and asked her to come
home but stated they had no money to
send her. Mr.. Seirs, the iailer, immedi-
ately set TO work to raise money for her
by subscription, and the citizens soon
subscribed more than the necessary
amount to take her home. She started
home, a heart-broken and wretched
woman. She doubtless loved Goodrich
with all the feIvor of true woman. Her
sad fate and wrecked lite is q warning to
all ClaTkSjurg Nescs.
"PRICFs TO suit the times, together
with every comfort the most fasudious