Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-07
TIMELY TOPICS.

THE Enquirer asks in agonized accents;
"Kentucky, are you still there" She
is-very still. So are We, all OF US.
THE Washington Post calls Gen. Gar
field zone OF the most inscriptions par
tisans and despicable hypocrites in the
United States"
MASSACHUSETTS will now suspend, tor
few months, the great industry OF de-
feating Butler, and 90 to making boots
and shoes and cotton goods.
GEN. GRANT remarked, on the intelli-
gence of Senator Chandeliers death, that
il was "the saddest piece OF news he had
heard yet" So it was,-fOr Grant.
CONNECTICUT elects Republican Leg
islature. The only National bearing OF
this result is that half the Senators ell
ected this year will participate in the
election of Senator Eaton's successor.
A PIrTsBUBGnER, Col. III. F. Mann, is
the inventor of a cannon said to be
fully equal to the great Krupp gun, the
main standby Of the European armies.
Mann's gun is to be tested at Sandy
Hook.
A LIVE rooster with his head cut just
back of the eyes, exhibited at ten centsa
sight, is one of the attractions in the in
terror of this State. People are just be-
ginning to find out under what unfavor-
able circumstances a rooster can sur
yive.
THIS is the caption under which the
stalwart Chicago Tribune dishes up its
election returns: "a Solid North-Na-
tional Principles Very Much in the AS
cendant.-This Is a Nation, and Don't
You Forget 1.-THE People Have Said
It, and It's Greatly to Their Credit"
TIE reader has a right to doubt this
story, told by New Jersey reporter.
He says that cat in Patterson, after
watching a rat-hole for hours without
result, went to the barn-bard, and secur-
ing chickens head placed it close to
the hole. The bait took, and tabby was
soon dining on the rat.
GEN. LoRIN, OPacha) says that the
ex-Khedive was very much surprised
when England paid the Alabama claims;
it persuaded him that no country in the
world so fearlessly held England re-
sponsible for her acts as the United
States. Thereupon he imagined that
American friendship might avail him
something, and he made us present OF
the obelisk, which Pacha Loring calls
the true Cleopatra Needle.
IT seems probable that the wretched
Ameer, who told the British of nine
laos of rupees buried in Cabul-eight of
which they dug up and confscated, with
one lac wanting-hOped with this bride
to buy his life. But they have repaid
him, as he might have expected, by
doubling the guards over him, and if he
does much more for them they may
hang him. Thus far the British have
put to death eleven prisoners at Cabul,
and the appetite grows by what 1t feeds
on.
Mr.. BUXTON is brewer and a Liberal
candidate for Essex. Mrs. Buxton is
benevolent and advocates temperance.
The other day, says Truth, she addressed
an audience of wOrkingmen on the
waste of money and loss OF time caused
by drinking and smoking, but her peror-
alton was interrupted by ludicrous in
cident which was the more unpleasant
as it left her with no dienihed or ade-
quate retort. "Ah, miSsus" shouted
one of the hearers, where 'ud you be
if us didn't drink? It's all along OF us
drinking as the Buxtons be so fine;
you'd be wuss off without it, now,
wouldn't YOU ,"
Gov. RoBINsON's defeat in New York
marks the unfortunate success OF the
worst elements of both parties, which
united To turn out an administration
distinguished for its economy and re-
trenchment His successor has never
been charged with personal dishonesty,
but Candidate Cornell has heavily
mortgaged the administration OF Gov.
Cornell to secure an election and the
payment of these political debts in 1880
is not likely to prove the best intro
duction to the Republican canvass for
the Presidency in New York State
SpringfsM Republican & Ind. Rep.)