Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-13
TIMELY TOPICS

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CoLuNBus had Grant yesterday, and
Pittsburgh boosts the boom to-day.
O'LEARY, the pedestrian, is attempt
ing to organize awalking match at Pitts
burgh, but So lar has not met with
phenomenal success.
IL WOULD rather says the editor OF
the Okolona States, "be a living ass than
dead lion" That is one newspaper
man who has his preference, anyhow.
We learn from q business letter from
a Marshall county man that the wheat
throughout that county is looking well,
and so far has kept in excellent condi-
ton.
TnE Charleston Co'viT contains the
timely and welcome announcement
that "Thc freight business over the
Chesapeake and Ohio railway is very
rapidly
Is England just now "the Roze that
all are prasing" is Marie Roze. She has
| made a brilliant success in opera, and
the Prince Of Wales personally congrat-
ulated her on her PRESERVATION of Car.
men recently.
A CERTAIN Justice OF the Peace would
never hear but one of the parties in a
case before him-"becauSe," rs lac said,
cit always puzzled him when he heard
BOTH Ills plan is original, and 50 easy
that it will probably be widely adopted.
Hos. JONI A. BINGHAN, Minister to
Japan, informs the Department OF State
that the exports To the United States cX-
ceed those to all European States COM
bined Compulsory education has been
introduced into Japan and is found to
work with some satisfaction.
THE present activity oi railroad pro-
jrcting is something remarkable. Hard
/ ~ day passes in which some new plan
OF greater or less magnitude is formed;
and the best oi it all is that majority
Of them seem 10 bee in ilir way to sue
cessiul realization.
SURGEONS who examined man in
France five minutes after hc was guillo-
/ tined SAY that the LESSONS in his brain
| prove him an irresponsible lunatic. 4
mans life isa serious thing, and for any
but an iniallblc tribunal to be entrusted
with the. right to deprive him OF it a
serious wrong.
THE New York GrdpLir comes to us
with a blue-pcnciled communication
| from Cincinnati iavor;ng GOV. Bishops
nomination for the Presidency. We
fear Uncle Dick 50 has not been wise
/ " invested. The Democracy will not
take much stock in the expression OF
correspondent OF purchasable Repub-
lcan paper beside which, this country
wants 4 President, and not Bishop.
TIE Hayden murder trial, the result
of which, the acquittal OF the prisoner,
was announced in our dispatches ycStcr-
/ day, must not be confused with that Of
| Rev. HAYDEN. at Rockland, Conn. The
latter case will not be completed for some
/ DAYS. The other was the case Of the State
OF Massachusetts against one Hayden
| who was charged with poisoning his sis
ter, while in the Connecticut case the
/ alleged victim was Mary Stannard
| domestic.
THE counsel for the proprietorS Of the
Louisiana Lottery Company claim that,
inasmuch Us the new constitution of
Louisiana recognizes the Lottery Com
panv, the POStmaStcr-Gcnerals order
interteres with the vested rights OF the
State, a considerable portion Of the rev
enue being derived from that source.
| IL does seem unreasonable, even if
it must be admitted that the States have
no rights which the Nation is bound to
respect, to give the Postmaster-General
the right to run things in an individual
State, by his personal dictum.
McKEE RANEIN's dramatic company
was compelled to pay heavy license
fee at Savannah, and Mr.. Rankin re-
taliated bv issuing no free tickets to city
officials. Five policemen marched past
the doorkecpcr however, notwithstand-
ins a demand iur pay. The manager
went before the curtain, and said that
/ if the fveGcadhrals insisted on remain
ing no performance would be given,
! and the money would be- returned to
the rest OF the audience. Groaus and
7 Kisses for the policemen finally drove
/ them out.
WHEx the Longiellow OF the next aye
sets himself to the task Of writing the
modern New England tragedy he will
find his theme waiting Tor him in Glou-
cester, the old town 10y the sea whose
streets are dark, year in and year out,
with the broodiug shadow OF death.
Fancy what life in that town must be;
not so much to the men who sail away
cheerily enough 10 the Banks, but to the
women who watch them sail away with
dim ewes. KNOWN. that they will never
see some Of them again until the sea
gives up its dead, and that their own
fathers. husbands, or sweathearts NAV
be of the number,
We learn from an exchange that
under the name Of simplicity" a So
ciety of ladies has been established in
Leipzig to oppose the extravaganza OF
fashion in dress and ornaments. The
members Of this association are pledged
not to wear false hair, nor train, or
TUNES, nor any double skirts. Pat
terms of simple dresses are plainly trim
med, although fashionable bonnets are
worn, and certain dressmakers have /.
Ns.rsed T., conform 10 u,sse patterns I'm /,
working for the members OF the society.
The new departure is entirely too wise
70 become popular or have large fol-
lowing.
The New York World calls attention |
10 the fact that Montgomery BLAIR was
kicked by Mr.. Lincoln out OF Republic |
can Cabinet into the Democratic party. |
Mr. blair seems TO have saved some /
boJv's shoe leather by kicking himself |
ont of the Democratic party.TBdhtH'0re !
Gazette,
IMPOSING as are the mountains OF !
cheese and bastions of butter tubs at an. |
international dairy fair, the statistics OF /
the dairy orators are also impressive
L =. ,,aarl(Ean Rutlar took his hearers !