Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-13
TIMELY TOPICS.

FoRTY additional Swiss immigrants
have arrived at Alpha, the Colony in
Randolph county, this State, in the past
week.
RUSSIA holds herself in readiness for
any amount of thanksgiving. She
would take in all OF Turkey with or with
out a proclamation.
SENATOR MCDONALD, of Indiana, says
that at the session of Congress this win
ter less sectional and more national leg
islation will be attended to.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT has conclu-
ded to let this country run itself for
little while while he shoots tigers and
sees the naughty naucht girl dance in
India.
THE potato crop is short in Ireland
and there is lack Of peat fuel, owing to
the protracted rains. Much distress
must result-distress which the sooth-
ing words OF Lord BEACoNsFIELD, deliv-
cred at the Lord Mayors banquet will
not remove or assuage.
THAT obelisk is coming. 1t has been
dug about and nearly sheathed, and is
almost ready for shipment. Yet little
while, if the wild Atlantic waves permit,
and it will take up its position some
where in New York, and lift the finger
OF scorn at the exceeding newness OF the
city.
NORFOLK, Va, did an export business
last year of 100000, and with her
cotton returns now ranks as the second
cotton exporting port in the United
States. 1t is the first peanut port in the
world, receiving the entire crop OF Nir-
ginia, which is much larger than the
growth of Tennessee and North Caro-
lima. 1t also does large business in
sassafras and other essential oils.
PoF. HENRY MORLEY has been giving
lecture on newspapers, i'll which
lac said there was much in the newspa-
per world that they might well wish
away, but did they wish away that
which represented society, or that in
society which represented certain fea-
lures in the newspaper world? 1t was
of no use to break the mirror because
they did not like the look of their nose.
The newspaper was the mirror Of Eng
lish society.
Wren burning is not recognized as q
crime in Russia, although this is the
nineteenth century and the age OF holy
missions. Seventeen peasants OF Mimi
Novgorod met the other day, and SOL
EMMY cremated an elderly female resi-
dent in their neighborhoOd, who was
suspected of black cat and broomstick
tendencies. The court acquitted them
all, but directed three of them to make
their peace, by penances, with the
| church.
THERE seems to be feeling in Wash
ington that Senator Conkling is on q
still hunt for the Presidency, and that
he is Just waiting to catch the Grant
strength when Grant shall officially an
nounce that he won't run again, To
give Conkling a fair start, his man Cor
nell is candidate for chairman OF the
National Republican Committee, a posi-
ton made vacant by the death OF Sena-
tor Chandler. 1t is confidently pre-
dicted that Cornell will be successful,
and from the moment OF his election the
! Conkling boom will be heard.
THE cred Men" have appeared in q
new sort Of a role in Kentucky. There
an organization calling itself by the
name of Regulators" and claiming to
number two thousand men, notifies the
Circuit Court that it must not continue
anv cases of felony on legal TECHNICAL
ties. The alternative presented is the
establishment of the Court OF Judge
lynch within three days after the Cir
cult Court shall adjourn, and the meet
ing out OF summary justice to the felons
so reprieved. "Thieves, robbers, house
burners, men who slay their wives and
are handy with their pistols" are noti-
fled that the Regulators" mean bust
ness. This is, OF course, an outrage
upon the Courts; but in all probability
the Courts have brought it upon them
selves.
The heroine of the day is a Miss
Sprague, of Newark, Ohio, the daughter
OF lawyer. She has written the most
charming novel that has issued from
the American press since the negro was
hung. The lady is only twenty years
old and she wrote her story without
really thinking that she was doing any
thing extra. 1t was published in Boston
and all the critics and lterdti OF the Hub
are in ecstacies. The language is beauti-
full and the stOry-"An Earnest Trifier"
is said to be dramatically told. As
consequence, the young lady, who has
suddenly jumped into fame, is receiving
about a dozen offers of marriage per day.
Every mail from New England brings a
handful Of offers. There is nothing sur
prising about all this, because Miss
Sprague is on Ohio man.
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A MACHINE, invented in 1861 by w.
II. WASH, millwright, for the manu-
facture of gun caps, has been unearthed
at Danville, Va. The machine first in
vented by WASH had a capacity OF So
900 caps in ten hours. He sold it to the
Government for $4,000, returned to
Lynchburg, made another, which had
a capacity of $4,000 per day ten hours,
and sold it for 5000. He subsequent
w manufactured another with a capaci-
tv OF T., 900 caps per hour. When Rich
mond was evacuated this last machine
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