Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-12
TIMELY TOPICS.

dom and no one was so inconsiderate as
to welcome him in "poetry" until he
reached Burlington, Iowa. Bob Burdette
would do anything.
GEN. PALMER, of the Illinois State Reg
lister, is very anxious that General Grant
should say at Chicago that he is not
candidate for President, and will not
serve if elected, because there "will then
be jolly Hades in the Republican
ranks"
The German Emperor recently at
tended an exhibition of glass ball shoot
ing, and expressed himself greatly
pleased with the American balls as sub
stitute tor pigeons. He expressed the
opinion that the invention OF this inno-
cent sport deserved the thanks ofall hui
name persons.
OLD Simon Cameron declares that mo
power on earth can prevent the nomi-
nation OF Grant in 1880. | never saw
anything like it except with Jackson.
There was hurrah started with him
Just like this Grant boom, and it went
all over the country" Simon should
remember that there be powers which
are not of the earth, earthly.
"CHCAGo pork packers think their
employees hoggish in striking for an adj
vance of % cents a day, but the latter
say it'll hardly be sufficient to enable
them to square with the increased cost
OF living" says the Lowell, Mass,
Courier. No doubt the pork creatures
are right; besides, they ought not to
shoulder all the inconvenience. The
packers professions are mostly sham.
The trade in sea shells is principally
in the hands of single Philadelphia
firm, who recently received cargo OF
10000 of what are termed the "com-
mon conches." They are brought from
the Bahamas at a very cheap rate, as
ballast. Negroes fish them out of the
water with long poles. The Queen
Conch" is a much rarer shell, and has
to be dived for. At all inland places
the shells are in great demand.
THE Tyler county Star don't want
railroad down the river on the Ohio
side fit will interfere with or postpone
the building of road on the West Nir-
ginia side" 1t is also assured that ii we
Organize a railroad company and go to
work without so much talk and urging,
and start the ball rolling, it will continue
to roll till we have a road from Wheel
ing to some point on the river below or
on the line of some other railroad"
MARSHAL CANROBERT was elected to
the French Senate by the Bonapartists
of the Department of Lower Charente.
The import of it, in connection with the
recent pretentions of the Prince Jerome,
is to indicate that Bonapartism is very
far from being about to disappear from
French politics, and that the restor-
alton of the empire may yet be among
the possibilities arising out OF situa-
ton from which it would seem we'll
nigh impossible to indicate what is inn
possible.
An Atlanta dispatch says Mr.. Tuggle,
one of the Georgia electors in 1876, and
an intimate friend of Mr.. S. J. Tilden,
has had an interview with Mr.. Tilden
since the election, in which Tilden said
Robinson's fight was not his fight. He had
been busy on an income tax suit and
other matters, and could not manage
canvass. He also said he had no doubt
that he (Tilden) could carry the Nation
al Convention next year. 1t was not a
matter OF nomination, but of election. 1
However, he wanted rest and quiet, and
was not candidate for President.
BISHOP HENDRICHEN, who is at the
head of the Roman Catholic diocese OF
Rhode Island, has just offered few re-
marks on the subject OF funerals. He
condemned the folly OF those who try to
honor the dead by vulgar display of
long line of hacks, in many cases loaded
with persons whose only purpose is to
enjoy a ride. and he cited the case of a
man, almost destitute, who sold his only
COW to pay for hacks to carry train OF
visitors to witness the interment of his
wife. The Bishop said that the really
well-to-do are seldom ostentatious in
funeral display.
Or Senator Chambers devotion to his
family, ex-senator Ramsey speaks warm
", relating especially how Mr.. Chandler
saved his daughters life at the risk of
his own. One night in their then new
residence in Washington, escaping gas