Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-25

of criminals OF every degree OF guilt to
the jails and prisons. Another instance
OF heredity in crime has just come to
light in New Bedford, Mass. Charles
Phillips, young man OF eighteen years,
has been convicted OF burglary. He is
a great-grandson OF Malone Briggs,
who was in the State prison at one time
with seven OF his sons. For more than
one hundred years this branch Of the
Briggs family has furnished in every
generation criminals whose names are
found on the rolls of penal institutions.
The ancestry OF Malone Briggs can be
traced back in direct line to a noted
pirate in the time of Earl Bellamont.
Ok the 30th of this month the Ma
tional Militia Convention, which
met in New York City last
January, will reassemble at st.
Louis. In the stirring scenes Of sum-
mer and autumn encampments many of
the Eastern friends OF this movement
may have let the Missouri convention
slip from mind. st. Louis, however, has
not neglected her duties OF preparation
for the reception and entertainment
of delegates from other States. Local
Mill ia parades, concerts, and river ex-
cursons will supplement the business
meetings OF the convention, and the SIM
ultaneous presence of the Agricultural
and Mechanical Fair is considered an
attraction to delegates. Viewing the
Importance OF the movement as a
whole, it is to be hoped that there will
be at st. Louis as widespread and intel
ligent representation of the active mi.
litia as at the original gathering OF last
winter; if not, the fault may be partly
that of the Adjutants-General OF the
States, who have the appointment Of
d elegates.
FROM all the long dispatches giving an
account of the reception OF Grant IN
San Francisco, the name OF Sargent
is conspicuously absent We suspect
this patriot has fallen into an involun-
tary retirement that is likely to be CO.
extensive with his term OF residence in
this vale of tears Washington Post.
THREE days have drifted down the
tide of time and mingled with the years
beyond the food since Mr.. Hayes last
that tGrag,, ,,tinn - N
accomplished fact, and the country is
becoming more prosperous" II Mr..
Hayes is going to halt in this great work
there is reason to fear that Mr.. Sherman
may become careless and let up in the
matter of big crops.-BOStOn Post.
The great political problem of the
hour seems to be whether the New York
Tribune can get Mr.. Kelly elected Gov
ernOr OF New York before the New York
Times can get Mr.. Tilden nominated for
the Presidency. 1t is not so exciting
perhaps as the great walking match, but
those who like to bet about it at least
need not sit up o nights in garden to
wait for results. We recommend it to
invalids as a harmless and interesting
amusement.-N Y. World.
HARDLY any better retort is on record
than one made TO Professor Bonamy
Price, of Oxford University, on his late
visit TO this country. He was not re-
markable for his geniality, and at a din
ner party at which popular ideas OF
heaven happened to be under discussion,
he turned to DIR. II. w. Bellows and
said: ave would like to have your
opinion of heaven, DR.. Bellows, as that
of one who stands outside the pale OF
civilized religions" DR.. Bellows replied:
"My idea of heaven is that of great
dinner party, where we can have every
thing we want without money and with
out Price" All but one joined in the
laugh.-N Y. Independent.
OUR sympathies are with butcher,
who started early, il not bright, on Mon
day morning, with a dozen others, all
| hungry for the Ashley Belt, and tainted
| away, and gave up the ghost, so To speak,
after % miles and laps. When he be-
can ne was considered TO be in good
form. He was also in red tights, while
the proudest anticipations dilated his
"stocky figure" to say nothing OF a
variegated handkerchief about his neck.
Poor Dutcher The others will 90 round
and round, and men will cheer them,
and one of them will fairly, if there
should be no cheating win the Asst
leyan cestus; but butcher is done for,
retired, dismissed to oblivion. We
never heard of butcher before, but the
painful point is that nobody will proba-
Div ever hear OF him again. How, as he
sat beaten man in his tent, must he
have loathed his own treaCherous legs.
He is described as "a bald man" but
what hair he has is probably grizzled
with grief ere this. Will not some
benevolent person, of the Sir John
Ashley stamp, offer a prize for the pc
destrian who breaks down first? Iiwalk-
ing is really getting to be something ofa
bore, butcher ought to be presented
with something pretty.-N J. Tribune.