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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-04
PRESIDENT. THOMPSON'S LEG
TURE.

President THOMPSON of the West Viz
ginia University, delivered his lecture
on Lord MACAULEY, for the first time,
. in this city last Saturday evening. The
Audience was an intelligent one, but not
AS large as the merits of either the lee
ture or the lecturer deserved, nor so large
as il would have been had a more GEN.
trally-locsted hall been selected for the
purpose. Some time ago Bishop Bow
NAM delivered very able and enter.
tanning lecture to small audience at the
same place.
Our reporter presents the readers of
the REGISTER this morning, with quite q
full and satisfactory synopsis of Presi-
dent TuoMPsoN's lecture, which will be
read with interest. OF course no con-
dersed report or synopsis could convey
t. the reader just idea of the scholar
snip and eloquence displayed by the emil
nent speaker. The whole production is
as beautiful as 3 dream" marked with
strong originality of thought and ex-
preston, and was delivered with faultless
ttste.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-04
opIuMEATING an STANTON.

The StsuDtcn indicator prints start
ling statement of the amount Of opium
eating in that vicinity. Between eighty
and one hundred pounds of that debasing
drug are claimed to be retailed each week
by the drug stores of that town. This
seems lEcreditab!e, and the statement
which charges that many OF the young
ladies attending the excellent Female
Seminaries Of the place are addicted to
the hsbtusl use of opium and morphine,
we cannot believe.
Ono excuse given for the rapid increase
in the use Of these narcotics, especially
among the poorest classes, is the high
tax on whisky. Then let higher tax
be plsced, without delay, upon the
poisonous drugs.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-04
MIR. LORD ASDHIs NEW WIFE.

The aged and wealthy Mr.. THOMAS
LORD of New York, who recently mar
RED the fascinating widow HICKS in that
city, is again alive to the world. After
a fortnight of seclusiou, during which
time of honeymoon gossip has located the
couple in various parts of the continent,
he appears to his bereaved family
OF sons and daughters in Gotham,
and tells them that they, not
he, should be sent to the lu-
matte asylum, and surprises the world by
declaring that he and his bride have
been all this time happily ensconsed in
the latter's fine residence on Fourteenth
street, in New York. In explanation of
his matrimonial step, he says that no has
contemplated the union with Mrs. Hicks
for great while, and that his engagement
to the lady was OF several years duration.
He accuses one son, Mr.. &. LORD, with
having written crazy letters to Mrs.
HICKS, threatening murder and suicide
unless she loosed her grasp on the old
man. In conclusion, the old gentleman
saws that he knows what he is about, and
furnishes atIidavits from eminent physi-
clans, which pronounce him hale, hearty,
cheerful, coherent and sane. Now, hsv-
ing given the old man q chance TO ex-
plain, and he having done 1t quite salts
faclorily, it is due him that he be given a
rest.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-04

JUDGE JOE BRADLEY has decided
against the application Of the Returning
Board scoundrels to have their cases re-
moved TO his Court. He has been in one
cauldron OF hot water for setting law and
decency aside to secure his party tri-
umph, and no has no idea of deliberately
stepping into another. The public are
in no humor for such trifling, and TO one
knows it better than Judge BRADLEY.
There now seems TO be no escape for
the members of the Returning Board, ex-
cep.ing WELLS, of course, who JOHN
SaERMAs seems to have hidden away
somewhere.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-04

one OF the later battles Of the war,
which took place, strange to say, upon
the time regarded as fatal by his mother,
Dan McCook was ordered to charge
the enemy as q forlorn hope. As he sat
in his saddle waiting for the final order,
he turned 10 his officers and in rich,
thrilling voice said:
urhen out spake brave Horatius, the
captain of the gate,
To every man upon this earth death COM
eth soon or late;
And what could ne more noble than 10
fight with fearful odds
For the ashes OF our fathers and the affairs
OF our Gods"
Macauley's great life work was his
History OF England. Edward Everett
wrote to him and told him that no
book had ever had such sale
in this country, except the Bible. His
history Is not dry and didsctic, but is in
teresting and absorbing. In his hands
history is fascinating as we'll as lnstruc.
ting. He shows US the England OF the
curfew and forest laws, as clearly as he
does the England of William of Orange.
Frazier, Buckle and the greatest of Eng
lish minds combine to praise this work.
How our minds are fired at his descrp-
ton of Jeffres, the cold-blooded, cruel
Jeffries, ana how we are moved by those
beautiful lines on the acquittsl of the
seven Bishops in the House OF Lords!
How undying is his portrayal OF the
character of William OF Orangel
The charges OF hesrtlessEess which
have been brought against Ma
csuley have so often proved to be
false that it is unnecessary to dwell upon
them at length. When his father be-
came poor, Macauley took charge OF the
whole family, and his devoted love for
his sisters is we'll known. In 1886 ne
resigned his scat in Parliament, and IN
1857 he was created peer without his
previous knowledge or seeking. On the
18th of December, 1859, nc died in his
library, sitting in his tavorito arm chair,
with book open upon the table beside
him. His own eloquent descriptions OF
the deaths of famous men and OF grand
funerals in the old Abbey were applics-
BILE at last in his own case. On
the 9th .of January, 1860, he was
laid at rest, while mourning
assembIage Of all OF England's best and
noblest in every rank of life stood round
his coffin, and dropped their tributary
tears upon his grave. There in Grand
old Westminster Abbey he lies, with
Garrick, Goldsmith, Addison, Shakes
peare and others as well known, in tit
ting companionshlp around him, and
where the sun slips through the colored
windows and lies in a golden band upon
the slab which bears the name OF
Thomas Darlington Macauley."
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-04
Funeral Expenses.

At meeting of the Pittsburgh
Preachers Association, Revs. w. G.
Smith, A. l.. Petty and Jos. Holdings
head, committee appointed at former
meeting to report resolutions on the sub.
iect, presented the following paper,
which WAS unanimously adopted, and re.
quested to be published in the Pittsburgh
Christian AdrOcGte:
We are convinced that the time has
come for US to speak out plainly on the
great, and as We fear, increasing evils,
growing out of our present custom for
the burial of tho dead. They have be-
come burdensome customs. While we
do not think it possible to treat out dead
With 100 much respect, or 10 bear them
TOO teAderly and reverently to their last
resting place, yet we fear the hustle aid
parade 81 ending those occasions at pres
ent, are sadly out of harmony with the
solomnity OF the occasion, and sscredness
of the service; and further than this, the
e1travagant custom thus established and
largely maintained by those well able to
meet these e1penses,i presses heavily
upon luUSC VI LlOlc l4lulICu
whose family pride and real love for
their deceased will not allow them 10
fall behind in the public. expression of
their respect.
II is time too, when they are but
poorly prepared, and little disposed to
count the cost, and if they were even in
clined TO reduce, they feel that the IRON
hand of custom is upon them, and they
dare not fail, without exposing them
selves to criticism and censure. Thus
yielding, very unwisely, as we think, to
an improper fashion, many persons of
moderate means have incurred financial
Obligations, which, in some cases have
embarrassed them for years, and in 9TH
ers have never been discharged. This,
we think is q state of affairs to be lament
cd on every account and one which we
ought to strive by all proper means to
correct. We, therefore, kindly, but very
earnestly invite our people, and espec-
islly those OF more abundant means, and
who must set the example, carefully TO
consider the following suggestions:
Frst-The procursl of palmer and less
expensive funeral caskets.
Second-The propriety of providing
by the family, Of no more carriages than
are needtul far themselves and relatives
and bearers.
Third-The propriety of entirely dis
continuing the custom of wearing mourn
ing apparel, rs in itself meaningless and
therefore. needless.
FoGrth-The propriety of entirely
changing our funeral customs, so that
tia desired services can be held at the
house Of mourning, st some suitable
time prior 10 the burial, and then the
family and the Imme1iste friends, at
some other convenient time can bear
away snd bury their dead. with the quiet
and so!ennity most BETTING an occasion
OF such deep grief. This custom, we
lesrn. is prevailing in the eastern part OF
our country, and We hope soon to see it
adopted here.
But whatever may be the course
adopted IS the best means to reach the
desired end, We sincerely hope thst some
immediate steps will be taken towards
the correction of the evils attending our
present custom.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-04
MIR. HENDRICEs AND SILVER.

In the REGISTER of the Doth ult,, We
printed the views of Hon. THOMAS A.
HENDRICKS upon the silver question, as
detailed IN an interview with cores
pendent of the Cincinnati Commercial.
On the 30th, Mr.. AUGUST BELMONT, 3
German banker OF New York, printed a
short communication in the Herald
questioning tie consistency of these ex-
pressions of Mr.. HENpRICEs with his
past public record upon the subject. To
these restrictions Mr.. HENDRlCKs has
seen fit TO reply, opening with this sem
tence: al very much desire TO be con-
sldered consistent, but would rather be
certain l am right than consistent on this
question. l think / have been consist
emit"
Inc distinguished statesman then pre-
ceeds TO q review of his public acts and
speeches, which bear him out SIS q
consistent man. he opposed the
vicious legislation of 1869, which
hypOcnticslly proposed to streng-
then the public credit but whose
object and effect WAS to add grstulty Of
many millions of dollars 10 the Golfers of
the then bond.holders at the expense of
the taxpayers. But after that act had
become the law of the land, and bonds
had changed hands under it, he opposed
declaration in favor of paying those
bonds on terms other than those provided
by that legislation. Mr.. HEEDKICKs
further defends his consistency on the
subject OF silver; and Whist is better, he
shows clearly 10 our mind that he is
right.
On the first page of this paper will be
found Mr.. HENDRICKS letter in full.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-04
Your Health and Pocket

VIII both be benefited in using Logan,
List 4 Co.'S Excelsior Baking Powder.
There is no real economy in inferior and
adulterated Baking Powders.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-04

THEpublic debt statement for the last
month shows that Secretary SHERMAN
has succeeded in boarding up S64,OOO,OOO
in gold with which TO "resume." This
sum Is, we believe, some 100000 less
than this fuuctionsry had IN the Treas
ury month ago. We seem to DE crawl
ing toward resumption tail foremost.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-04
EN- GREssENGEB,

STEPHEN GREssENGEB, Esq, for
many years editor of the st. Clairsville
Citizen and in later years Of the Gazette,
has become one of the editors of the
Bel!sire Leader. With Mr.. GREssEN-
GERS ripe experience and matured
ability added to the youthful vigor of
of our young friend Cow, the Leader in
IFS enlarged form ought 10 take leading
position among the Weekly papers of
the country. Here's hearty good wish
for success.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-04

THINGS in Europe begin to wear
more peaceful aspect. The Sultan says
he wants peace, the Gar says he wants
peace as badly as the Sultan; and old
John Bull rosrs as gently as sucking
dove.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-04

TIE Fsiimont hder enters upon the
fifth year of its existence, with fresh
vigor and fresh hopes. The Inder is q
good local paper, and its editors, Messrs.
OHLEY and Dick, should be encouraged
in their work.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-04

The Colonnsde Ii otel, Philadelphia
Pa, by its iudicious reduction of rates,
will maintain its famous reputation as q
model frst-class house, alive TO the de-
mands OF the time.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-04
GOD closed Saturday at l02.

Tue Gar says he is as anxious for
peace as the Sultan, and moves on toward
Constantinople with his army.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-03-21
The st. Louis Journal of igricui

The st. Louis Journal Of igricui.
fure has these very just comments
We can afford to allow the grasping
sharks Of Wall street. and the brain
less asses who serve them. to bray
about the want of integrity in the
west. while such grand old philosO-
piers us Ralph Waldo Emerson will
stand up in the old South Church of
Boston, as he did on the 25th of last
month, and tell his audience that, if
our republic succeeds, it must be by
the employment Of American brains.
American arms and American princi-
pies, and that the aoestern settlements
present the best types of American
honesty and fra giiity.
He says the people who go to Lon
don and Paris year by year, land come
back filled with the ideas of those
capitals. are dangerous to the nation S
welfare and destructive of its best
interests. If they cannot stay at
home, and employ their means in
developing the resources of their own
country, they had better remain
abroad. and not continue to bleed the
nation as they now do.
To buy and import goods and fash
ions from England and France does
not make us better men.
The fashions of Europe are now
threatening our free institutions.
We want men of originality, who can
take in the interests of the race, and
advance.
He said Columbus was not back
feeling crab, nor was Luther. John
Adams, Patrick Henry or Thomas
Jefferson. The genius of America is
not sluggard-it is an incessant adj
vance. Our civilization is yet incom-
plete. II is not question Of whether
there will be a large number of people
here-that is settled-but whether
we shall-have 4 ne.r nation. 4 guide.
and idU-giUer for other nations.
The rugged. stern sense of justice
of the western men, their persistent
efforts. their industry. and their sue.
cess as a result of all. 90 to show that
the native genius of the western
world must direct and lead to final
victory the young republic.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-03-21

That cold-bboded quack. John
Sherman wrote letter the other day
in which he said:
What is driving the people, to pau
perlsm. etc. is the insane warfare
upon capital. which, destroys conf
dence and prevents prudent men from
embarking in new enterprises. Could
any one expect sensible people. hay
ing property or money, TO embark 1t
in the hazards of trade in the face of
such rs are now quite common. and of
which this is specimen
At this point our country is more
prosperous than any in the world.
though many are idle and ont of en-
ployment. What is needed most is
confidence in the stability of values.
and this can only he secured by a re-
sumption of payment in coin.
This reminds us of the old clamor
that it was the Grange that had bank
rupted the railroads.
The bankruptcy begun before the
grange was started. and it continues
now long after the grange has ceased
to be a sensible factor in the politics
of the nation.
! Where was 1.-The insane warfare up.
on capital when the crisis of 1872
came and swept the land The
warfare upon capital was an out
growth of the crisis. not the crisis an
outgrowth of the warfare.
And who commenced the warfare !
Who made the bonds payable in coin
when by law they were payable in
greenbacks: thereby largely increas-
ing the burdens of the people Who
insisted that they must be paid in
goldi Who insisted that all debts
must be paid in 1879 in gold. Who
made war on the greenbacks to drive
them out of existence Who con-
tracted the currency from a billion
and a half to 500, ,0OO, 600!
And now foxy John turns around
and charges that the effects of this
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-03-21
The Nationals are winning victories

The Nationals are winning victories
in different parts of the country.
Here are some items of news in ad.
dition to those given last week:
At auburn n. Y. the nationals
carried the city by pa majority
This kind of news being unsavory to
the old political Press they, as MAJ.
ter of course, do what they can to
suppressie.
At Pittsburg. Pa. the Nationals
elected six members Of the common
council. The town of Carbondale. Pa.
elected the entire National ticket.
From Chase S Chronicle we learn
that the National Greenbackers won
some victories at the recent elections
in Maine. at Auburn there were four
tickets for Mayor, Republican polling
6l4 votes. Greenbacker polling 460,
Citizens polling 40. and Democrats
polling l03. No one receiving a
majority of all the votes cast, no
choice was made, and another trial
was to be made between the highest
two. At Paris the vote stood as
loIIo"S. htpuDllcdL, l7o. bIttH-
hackers. l42. At Livermore the
Greenbackers carried the day. At
Buxton they east $50 votes against Is
last fall.
1.-The People" says, that in the city
of Des Moines. Iowa, but one eX-
cluSively Republican candidate was
elected on the general ticket. The
People S candidate for mayor, solicitor
treasure, assessor and market-master.
were all chosen by large majorities.
At Oskaloosa. Ia. the Nationals
elected the entire city ticket.
Santa Clara county. California,
elects a greenback member to the
Legislature, over democrats and re-
publicanS combined.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-03-21

The Minneapolis Tribune, speaking
OF the desperate fight against the
Merrill text book law says:
Our legislative correspondentlbriefiy
outlined how. in the desperation of
certain defeat Mr.. Donnelly used
false pretense to give prestige to the
report of the conference committee.
He secured in the senate a committee
entirely favorable to the Merrill in
tereStS. while the committee on the
part of the house was nOtsO constitut-
ed. The joint committee, ten in num-
Der. were equally divided in their APP
probation and disapprobation OF the
bill. An agreement, therefore was
impossible. The Merrill men did
not want the law submitted to the
people before 1885. The anti-Merrill
men insisted that it should be in 1873,
at the fall election before the law
should put in effect. A compromise
was proposed, but no report was sub
mltted to the committee for approval,
but as the session drew to close Nh
Donnellv drafted report, embracing
an amendment submitting the subject
to q vote of the people in 1890. He
obtained without difficulty the sigma
lures OF the senators faVOrrble to the
Merrill law, but when the report was
submitted to Messrs. Mcclure and
Gillian it was with the representation
that the house committee had acced-
ed to this proposition. With this un-
derStanding the senators signed it,;
hyf oe ~ ~
house committee never saw the re-
port until it was submitted in the
house and their signatures were not
attached.
This is a strange mixture of truth
and error.
The Senate committee consisted of
three members who had voted for the
text book bill, viz: Edwards, Good
rich and Donnelly; and two who had
voted AGAINST it, viz. Mcclure and J.
B. Gilillan. SO that the charge that
we secured committee favorable to
the bill in the Senate was false. 1t
is also false that Senator'S Mcclure and
Gilfillan were given to understand
that the house committe were favora-
BILE to the proposition embraced in the
report. On the contrary Messrs.
Feller and Colville came over on the
floor of the Senate and labored zeal.
OuSly with Mess. Mcclure and Giltill.
an 70 induce them to withdraw their
signatures from the majority report
any sign an adverse report, and they
refused to do so.
The matter is of no great import.
ance but we do not desire to labor un
der the imputa'ion of dealing unfairly
by the committee.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-03-21

We were partly instrumental. dur
ing the last session. in procuring
some legislation which will, we fond
ly hope, be productive of good to the
people of the state. long after we are
dead and forgotten. We refer to the
act establishing an experimental
fruit garden. with view especially
to the production of long-keeping va
rieties of the hardy apples. The act
provides that 81, 900 of the permanent
fund of the State University shall be
expended in the purchase Of ll6 acres
of suitable land ON the shores of Lake
Minnetonka: and that 81 900 per an
mum shall be appropriated from the
state treasury for the pay of super.
intendent and the necessary labor re-
quisite to carry on experiments in hy.
bridizing the apple. These expert
ments are to be conducted by Peter
N. Gideon. the famous horticulture
ist. and the Inventor" of the ALREADY
celebrated Wealthy" apple. 1t has
been found that if the blossom of the
crab apple is crossed with the fertiliz-
ing principle of the standard apple.
the seed from the crab apple so pro-
duced will produce trees which are
hybrids between the two present
stocks, combining the fruit qualities
of the one with the tree qualities of
the other. If one hundred seedlings
are thus raised. most of them will be
worthless. but out of the numb one
or two may be new and valuable va
rieties, suitable to our climate. which
can be indefinitely propogated by cut
tings. 4
The great desideratum is an apple
having the long-keeping qualities and
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-03-21

When Congress was discussing tile
Silver Bill the hard-money papers
were filled with prophecies Of the
innumera Ale misfortunes that were to
follow the passage of the act our
bonds would fall in pieces: gold would
rise and silver would only be worth
ninety cents on the dollar. All these
forebodings have been strikingly dis
proved. Silver is once more legal
tender for all debts public and private.
and gold is at one per cent premium.
and has even for time fallen to par.
while the silver dollar is worth 90
cents. and our bonds are in AS great
demand us ever.
The Pioneer Press says:
The reaction consequent upon the
failure of the original Bland bill,
carried gold down to par with green.
backs for Il short time in Wall street
yesterday.
The original Bland bill passed. with
an amendment. limiting The coinage
of silver 10 about S50. 900 900 pei
annum. This is probably ali the
silver attalnable for coinage in any
event. There is nothing in this
amendment to Justify the Pioneer
Pr5ss in its statement. The fac,
that silver can be paid for dutie:
decreases pro rata the demand fol
gold and this decreases to a lik,
extent the value of gold. hence golc
and other forms of money approx
mate In value. If now green-back
were receivable for duties on import.
the premium on gold would disap pea
at once and forever.