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

PRESIDENT HAYES says his message at
the opening Of Congress will be brief,
and that he does not intend to recon-
mend any legislation OF importance.
THE Hartford Times informs its read
ers that the names Of the pretended
drawers of big lottery prizes are the
names of stool pigeons. This is true in
nine cases out OF ten.
THERE have been four highway rob-
berries in the Yosemite this summer, and
the hotel keepers up there are very Bit
ter about it. They say any more com
petition will drive them right out OF bus
mess.
President DIAz, OF Mexico, is deter
mined to enforce the civil service rules
in his Republic. He has issued orders
to all government employees to abstain
from participation in election organiza-
tons on pain OF instant removal.
A PERMANENT school OF cookery is to
be established at Albany, New York, as
the result of interest awakened by
course of lectures by Miss Amelia b.
Dods, who will be pleasantly remem-
bered by all who became acquainted
with her sn the occasion OF her visit to
this city.
THE advance in butter and cheese
during the last sixty days has been
something remarkable. The wholesale
price of butter at Boston has advanced
since September from % cents to 80
cents, and New York dealers are paying
80 cents to farmers for the best lots.
The advance has been caused by the
fact that the European demand has
been in advance OF the supply, last
years low prices having rather discour'
aged the butter makers.
THE impression is fast growing that
there is little use of having any Con-
gress in this country, il we can only get
a real good Postmaster-General. Con-
gress does not know the true effect or
intention of the laws it passes, at any
rate, until the Postmaster-General has
tortured them with construction"
1t would therefore be much more econ
omical to appoint Mr.. Key, or some
other competent person, boss, and dis
pense with the services of Congress and
the accompanying officials.
GEN. GRANT has had another chance
to decline to run for the Presidency
and didn't. When he was with the
Colorado delegation in the parlor of the
Railroad house, at Cheyenne, some
overzealous admirer said to him: 81
saw you last in the White House, Cen
eral, and | don't mean to rest till you
get there again" al am now chiefly de-
sirous OF getting to my own house at
Galena," replied the General, and con-
tinued that he thought when he got
there he would be unwilling to trade
that house for any other, "white or
black"
IT comes from a source close to the
throne that last year S225,0 did not
cover Gen. Buffers campaign expenses,
while this year $4,000 is the maximum.
-LOWeH Courier.
An article in a Greenback paper is
headed, Organize and save this ma
ton" What kind of nation is this,
anyhow A man don't more than turn
his back to 90 about his business before
some one is pulling at his coat tail to
come and save this nation. Better put
tins nation on ice.-N \. World.
The Society for Propagating the Cos
pei Among the Indians yesterday voted
to give from their limited funds four
hundred and twenty-five dollars toward
the fund to enable the Ponca Indians to
prosecute their suit in the courts OF the
United States. This was liberal act,
and was performed only after very
careful inquiry into the facts of the case,
and with the conviction on the part OF
the custodians of this trust that it could
be put to no more practical or Christian
use. Whatever prepossessions one may
have in regard to the Indian character,
it is impossible for any one whose heart
and mind are open to listen TO the
story of these people, as they them
selves relate it, and not sympathize
with them. The question is asked, why
they do not go to the government with
their grievances? Certainly the Presi-
dent, the Secretary of the Interior, the
commissioner OF Indian affairs, DO not
wish to do them any wrong. Unfortu-
nately, under our system, sustained by
law and custom and the interests of
powerful body of people, it is not in
their power to give the redress which
these people think they are entitled to.
They will no doubt 90 to Washington,
nevertheless; but the most they can
hope to do there is to induce some men
influential in the government to re-
examine their case and see whether the
laws may not be modified so far as to
make it possible for them in the future
to defend their rights, as white men,
negroes, Chinamen-everybody, indeed,
save the In lians-deiend theirs.-BOs-
ton 1drertiSer.