Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-18
TIMELY TOPICS.

IL Chicago, family supplies OF all
kinds have advanced about 10 TO 20 per
cent. since August last.
EUGENE HALE, it is thought, will be
obliged to quit politics for the present
in order to take charge Of his iather.in-
laws large estate.
THE county fairs all being over, Presi-
dent Hayes is getting in his work on
fairs and festivals. He commenced with
the New York Seventh Regiment fair.
EYGLAND's bugaboo, Fenianism, is
again frightening her statesmen. 1t is
now asserted that the brotherhood in
America has offered arms 10 the Irish
tenant farmers to enable them to resist
their landlords. None are so easily
frightened as those who wish to be.
A YOUNG man who can write four
original poems a day, desires to know
what he ought to get in first class
newspaper office. lie ought to get fired
out through back window the minute
he shows his head inside the door, and
will please call at this office when the
fighting editor and the dog are in.
The apple yield in the eastern coun-
ties OF this State is said to have been
almost unprecedented this year, both
in abundance and the quality OF the
fruit; but they do not seem to keep
well; even those that look sound and
good are found to be defective, and rot
quickly.
A "RoMAY Catholic" writes to the
New York Sun that General Hancock,
who was to command at department
of the Army headquarters at Washing
ton, at the time OF the execution ofMrs.
Surratt, had no responsibility for her
sentence or execution. lie states
further that General Hancock fully eX-
pected that she would be reprieved.
ALFRED TENNYsoN, Poet Laureate OF
England, is amour ccd TO contribute to
the pages of 81. Nicholas two Child
Songs, written especially for it, which
the editor hopes to publish in the jan
uary number. We believe this will
be the first contribution Alfred Tenny-
son has ever made to an Ameri-
can magazine, though some time prior
to the war he wrote brief poem, eng
land to America, " for Mr.. Bonner, editor
of the New York Ledger.
CoNNEcTrCUT's morals are beginning
TO look up. Not a single new poisoning
case has been made public for as much
as three days.-Ne,r Harm lC.) Register.
THERE is some talk in this State in ia
vor OF our Legislature selectingOur next
presidential electors, and that they he
instructed to cast their votes for Mr..
Tilden. Rather thru see this done, we
prefer To see them sell their votes TO the
highest bidder and turn over the money
To the Superintendent OF public instruc-
ton for the benefit Of the public
schools IjcksbUrg Mss Herald.
TuR Stalwarts should not fail to no
tice that John 4. Griffin, wicked Nir-
ginia Democrat declared elected State
Senator i'm the Portsmouth district,
magnanimously declines to accept the
certificate awarded him, holding that he
is not entitled to the seat, as Jonathan
Il. Boush, his Republican competitor,
received the bigger vote, if all the bal
lots cast underseveral different sets OF in
itials were counted for him.-Spr6Af,H
Republican.
The news that the Imperial govern
ment of Germany proposes to enlarge It's
army will have depressing effect on
Europe. One of the results of this move
ment will be to increase the emigration
of Germans to America. What with the
distress i'm Ireland, the agitation and de
preston i'm business in England. and
the uneasy political situation in Ger
many, compared with our own prosper
itv, it would not surprise us to see the
emigration TO the United States larger
next year than it has been for long
time.-M y Herald.
WE trust that our readers will not be
alarmed by the dispatch sent by Gen
cral Toombs to Chicago in reference to
'thc death of the Union" General
Toombs is q frank, eccentric person, who
holds a position i'm the South something
like Wendell Phillips in the North
doing what he pleases, saying what he
plcaSrs, nobody disliking him and no.
body caring particularly what his opin-
ions are except that they are frank,
fresh, original and generally amusing.
General Toombs is in no position to
speak for the Southern people on any
subject, and an effort to quote any OF
his freaks as an exponent OF public
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