Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-07

Wbeelins Resistes
DAILY. TRI-wEEKLY, WEEKLY
LEWIS BAKER & COMPANY.
prRlrSHKEs AND PRoPRrxrORs.
The Supreme Court OF Pennsylvania
has decided that the Pittsburgh riot
losses must be borne by Allegheny
county,
THERE are atpresent about SO,OOOe con-
yicts in all the State prisons OF this
country, and there are about ten times
that number who ought to be there.
AREwARD is offered for a recent copy
of a newspaper in which the "oro
"boom" or blooming" does not occur,
According to the papers everything ana
everybody is blooming, especially III
business and politics.
A NEW use has been found for the
telephone in London hospitals Tor COM
munication with the fever wards. by
doing away with the necessity OF mes
senrers. the risk of conveying the iniee-
ton has been greatly diminished.
Tux report that JAMES REDPATH, oil
the Boston Lecture Bureau, who mys-
teriously disappeared week or two
ago, had turned up in New York, was
not true. His family and friends are
as vet utterly at loss as to his where
abOuts.
The Chicago banks did an immense
business last week, showing how rapid
", largely and surely trade and COM
MERGE are reviying. The clearlngs Tor
the week foot up a total OF So, 4O7'oO9'-
So, being over S9,5SS,OOO in excess OF
those of the corresponding week last
year.
THE projected establishment oil a
GRANT organ at Washington under the
management OF W. J. MURrAGH, late OF
the National Republican, has fallen
through and the paper will not be is
sued. 1t would appear from this that
political capitalists do not look upon the
boom rs a desirable investment.
A MARrISsBUEG correspondent oil the
REGlsrRR makes rather broad and UNI
complimentary contrast between the
Vet Tirpuia J0,UQGi Of Education OF the
past and that OF the present. That there
has been some little letting down in ITS
spirit and sprightliness perhaps the
Journal will admit. Why is this thus?
CONGRESS. at its next session, viii be
urged to reduce the tax on whisky, and
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
will be pressed to favor such a reduction
in his annual report. The whisky men
have been encouraged to take this step
by the success of the tobacco men in Sc
curing a reduction in the tax on manu-
featured tobacco at the last session.
SEC. SHERMAN will try his hand again
in the Ohio Campaign. JOHN is inter
ested in Ohio, and a little uneasy about
the stakes he holds. All his eggs are in
that basket. lie will leave Washington
next Tuesday night for Ohio, and will
speak at Newark on Wednesday night;
at MaSsillon on Thursday night, and at
Alliance on Friday night.
Iris singular that some additional
use cannot be found for the vast oil pro-
duction of the country, while it IS run
ming to waste, AMI being sold at less
than the cost OF pumping. We suppose
it might be utilized by the gas COM
panies, and the cost OF gas thereby re
duced, but maybe it is not what gas
companies are seeking.
The Democracy Of Martins Ferry Will
have another grand rally next Friday
evening at Commercial Hall. The meet
Ing will be addressed by Gen. j. b.
SrEEDNAN, "the hero Of Chicamauga."
The Martins Ferry Democrats show
much discernment in selecting their
speakers. They always have man who
is worth listening 10, and the selection
Of Gen. STEEDNAN is no exception TO the
rule.
NORTH CARoLINA makes the smallest
appropriation for educational purposes
OF any State in the Union, according to
its size. II expends Sl.35 upon each
public school pupil. The Wilmington
Morning Sarattributes to tn spenurious-
ness the fact that there ar within the
State boundaries more whites, proper
tionally, who cannot read than in any
of the other States, and it calls upon the
public men Of North Carolina to devise
better ways and greater means Tor in
creasing the public school facilities.
The excess Of the gold and silver inn
ports over the gold and silver exports,
at New York, from September l TO Sep.
TENDER p, was SO, 81, 0j9. The excess
of imports OF specie over the exports
from July to September p was S32,-
567 ,2S7. OF the apecie imports 95l per
cent were gold, and a silver. The ex-
cess of all kinds of imports, including
merchandise and gold and silver, over
the exports, during the month OF Au-
gust, was 81, 7O7, 2S7, and for the twelve
months up to the end Of August, S25S,-