Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-08
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMELY IOflOo.
WHAT we now want, says an eX-
change, is boom in honesty.
THE increase of National bank circula-
ton for October, it is estimated, will
reach 100000.
THE Louisiana rice crop for 1879 is
estimated at 70, 900 barrels-the smallest
crop since the season Of lS64-65.
A CALIFoRNIAN has seven acres OF
tuberoses, which pay better than 100
acres of wheat. Druggists buy them for
periumery.
CANNING crabs, a new industry at
Oxford, Md, gives employment to 27O
persons, who put up from 1900 to
$1,000 crabs daily, or over 100000 a
month.
KANSAS Pacific railroad stock has adj
vanced 800 per cent since last February.
This is attributed to the extraordinary
development now taking place in the
Southwest.
THE Hon. John d. Long, the Gov
ernor-elect of Massachusetts,, is the
Youngest man ever called to the execu-
tive chair in the Bay State. lie is only
forty-one years of age.
Miss LADD, Il Connecticut girl who
graduated at Nassar, and isat Johns Hop
kins University, has displayed mathe-
NAUTICAL ability so great that she has been
invited by Harvard College to take
special course under Prof. Pierce.
QUITE an unexpected shipment is
announced of 100000 pounds (l,666
bushels) OF wheat from Arizona to
Liverpool. England. From a land
having the reputation OF being made
up of rocks and desert, this announce
ment will be decidedly startling.
A VESSEL laden with cedar wood,
shipped from New Orleans and cut on
the banks of the Mississippi, has been
sent to Hamburg, Germany, and is said
TO be the first venture of the kind.
There is no reason, It is claimed, why
the cedar of America may not be in
great demand in Europe, like the ma
hogany of Brazil.
GENERAL J. W. WHITFIELD is dead.
Once his death would have produced a
national sensation. In the Kansas war
he was the leader OF the Southern party,
and his judgment and courage gave him
great influence. He represented the
Territory in Congress, but when it be-
came apparent that the Northern idea
was destined 10 rule, the General re-
moved to Texas, esChewing an active !
participation in politics. He was par
ticipant in the civil war, and raised a
legion which did important service. He !
was man OF great force OF character,
and much esteemed by those who knew
him best.
THR Italian traffic in professional beg |
gars is one OF those things which has !
come upon us within q very few years, !
and has been energetically protested |
against in every possible way. Offenders
have been hunted down remorseleSsly |
and severely punished, but still 1t goes
on. The latest case was the arrival OF !
two ex-monks, hunchbacks, several |
small fiddlers and harperS, and bind !
man, at Castle GIrden. The emigration /
authorities had been notified from Italy, /
and stopped the consignment on the |
dock. 1t appears the traders in this hor-
rid human merchandise actually prepare |
cripples for the market. They buy |
children young, and scar their eyes |
with hot irons, or twist their limbs with /
bandages till they grow distorted, on /
purpose to make them live life OF beg /
gary. Kidnapping Africans and making .
them work under the lash was really
mild thing to do in comparison with this |
method of Italian small capitalists toturn
a dishonest penny by the misery OF their
own kindred.
THIRTEEN days without food is apt to
reduce strong man to very light weight.
Such was the fate of stowaway on one
of the English steamers which arrived |
at New York few days ago. On taking |
out the cargo a breathing skeleton was
found who had sought free passage to
this free country. In utter darkness,
without a morsel to eat or drop to |
drink, the poor wretch had passed
through unutterable anguish. The pack
ing-cases which encircled his emaciated |
body were gnawed all over. OF course
he died. 1t was simply impossible to
restore strength to system so cruelty
taxed. This is the second instance OF
the kind within a year with the same
line of steamships, and it seems as If
some more careful watch at the docks
might prevent recurrence Of such
CHASTITY calamity. Stealing, whether a
passage, a pin, or a million dollars, is
bad, but starving to death is a too severe
punishment