The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-03-01
NOTES OF THE DAY.

NOTES OF HE nat'
One of these times vigilance move
ment will sweep through this country
and not leave a murderer uncollected.
The Boston Post regrets that Mrs
HAYES has 50 far abandoned her tenn
perance principles as to wear c!sret
silk.
The Buffalo Express intimates that
this man Bismarck has sworn never to
step without treading on some ones
corns.
RICHARD REEDER, aged one hundred
ard eleven, died in Wood county W.
Va, last week. He was one OF the kind
of men you Reed-er-bout. Next
The Philadelphis Times says that
town is in danger as long as the Legisla-
ture is in session. There is no knowing
what new outrage will be perpetrsted
upon that unfortunate city.
BLESS usl here is the City of Brussels
arriving with 100000 in gold, despite
the silver bill. And yet We were informed
that all of the yellow metal was going to
run right out of the country.
THREE weeks ago the aggregate sum
which John T. Raymond had paid
Samuel l.. Clemens for the right to apply
the name OF Colonel Sellers to one of the
cieverest of original creations was
100000.
THE friends Of tho temperance cause
have started a daily paper at Psrkers
burg. 1t is csmpaigner, and is labor
ing in the cause OF mo License" the
question of licensing saloons having been
submitted to vote of the people.
THREE or four hundred dollars worth
of plate glass was broken by some scoun-
drels in Cambridge o.. the other night,
and a reward OF $500 has been offered
for the arrest OF the guilty party.
The County Court of Jackson county,
w. Va, has authorized vote of the
people on the question OF subscribing
100000 towards building a narrow
gauge railroad from Parkersburg to
Charleston.
NEW ORLEANS is not only IN need of
a new Collector, but Deputy Collector
likewise. 1t is believed that Colonel
Anderson will not be able To attend to
the high duties of his Office for some
months, owing to circumstances lament
able in themselves, but over which he
had no CONTROL Washington Post.
RETURNING Board Wells Is neither a
peer nor vassal, if Billy Chandler
knows. That statesman, in his last ger
ersl epistlo, exclsims: "Let Hayes and
Sherman and Matthews get their poor
dupes and victims out of The Louisiana
prisons into which their trcachery, per-
fdy, selfish greed and cowardice have
plunged them" That's spirited, isn't it?
SPEAKING OF the Agricultural de-
psrtment at Washington the Philsdel-
phia Times says: "Tho department is
giving evidence Of such wonderful things
under the present management, that the
people ought not to be surprised what
ever happens. With anything like a
fair attention TO business, We shall soon I
be able to grow seedless raisins AMI rsisins
in layers and figs, and, aftor little pTsc-
tice, it will be possible to raise Havana
cigars by the box, ready for use, by sim
ply importing few boxes for seed and
planting them in the back yard. Every
body must feel encouraged with the pros
pect of new and varied industries which |
the Department of Agriculture holds out,
although the department has never done
anything in particular for such sgricul-
tural industries as we already have
II is going 10 be the grandest war OF
all time, or the biggest back-down-snd
we don't exactly know which; but are
backing the bull against the field
Richmond State.
In regard to things done in Louisiana,
it Is pretty we'll established that you can
not go behind the returns, and Anderson
is "returned guilty. Ii he is not guilty
then the jury is TO blame but there is no
help for Anderson.-N J. Herald.
As SOON as the National party gets
fairly into power 1t will pass an act
making forty square rods an acre. Con-
fdence will be restored At once and
every farmer will be enabled TO till just
four times as much land as he does now.
-Na0 York Tribune.
air. HAYES ought to begin his veto
message in this sly lie: 81 have been re-
quested by the Hon. John Sherman, Sec
retsry OF the Treasury, 10 state that the
set known as the silver bill does not
meet the approval of the executive
Atlanta Consultation.
SIMMONS says that reported interview
in the Washington Post is l-lspsey
hnso.-Bost0n Post.
No he doesn't. lie says that for pre-
liminsry acquaintance with u mans in
tellectusl development before the sfore-
said man has fairly settled upon its arch
itec,ure, the Washington Posts reporter
is the ablest man "he has yet saw"
The Democrats of the Senate yester-
day paid Mr.. Thurman the compliment
of voting for him for President pro TEN.
pore, thereby recognizing his leadership.
Senator David Davis voted for Mr..