Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-27
TIMELY TOPICS.

ENGLISH papers are ehueaNoiihS W
keep mechanics from coming to the
United States by telling them that they
will have to work Is hours day.
BRIGHAM YoUXe's estatehas been set
tied finally, and the seven heirs have
divided $4,000, the sum total OF the old
reprobates's wealth, among them.
GERMANY is increasing the strength OF
her army by the addition OF seventy
two new batteries and one new army
corps. Where is the angel OF peace?
THE manager 9th Globe Theatre, in
Boston, has employed boy ushers, be-
cause men are always trying to be
"mashers" with the ladies of the audi
ence, and he says that some day he in
tends to have lady ushers.
THE Jews Of Europe are to hold a
conference for the purpose OF consider
ing the propriety OF adopting the Chris
tian Sunday and of abolishing the He
brew Sabbath. The Jews find it a
losing business to keep two days OF the
week.
RUSSIANS have a jury system that
works without regard to law or testi-
mony. A mail robber was arrested
and confessed, but said he was drunk
when he stole the letters, whereupon
the jury brought in a verdict Of "not
guilty"
THE Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial has information
that Secretary Sherman has stated in so
many words that he would not be a
candidate for Thurman's seat in the
Senate and that he would publish a
letter TO that effect in the course of a
few days.
WARD II. LAMoN, the biographer OF
Abraham Lincoln, tells the story that
from his boyhood Lincoln had apresen-
timent and firm belief that he should be
President of the United States. He also
had Il presentiment that he should die
4 violent death. What is still more sim
griar, his wife, from the first, enter
tanned the same belief that he would be
President Of the United States. She
said, "He's going to be President, and
that's the reason married him, for you
know he isn't pretty"
WHEN Dan Rice, the famous circus
owner, was with his show at Washing
ton, Ind, last summer, he made the ac-
uuaintance of Miss Mary Alderman, a
young girl of the place, whose pareuts
are respectable as well as well-tO-do.
The Vinccnnes Sun charges that after
his departure Rice wrote TO the girl and
led her into a secret correspondence.
On Tuesday OF last week he induced
Miss Alderman to elope with him to
Chicago, where, without such tritling
thing as marriage, they put up at hotel
as man and wife. The girls father
traced her to Chicago, and on Thursday
returned with her to Washington. Rice
eludcd arrest.
PROFESSOR LOOMS continues his ex-
periments in the mountains OF West
Virginia TO demonstrate his theory that
at certain elevations there is a natural
electric current, by taking. advantage Of
which messages may be sent without
the use Of a wire. 1t is said that he has
telegraphed as far as eleven miles by
means Of kites flown with copper wire.
When the kites reached the same alti-
tulc, or got into the same current, COM
municatiOn by means OF an instrument
similar to the Morse instrument was
easy, but ceased as soon as the kite was
lowered. He has built towers on two
hills, about twenty miles apart, and
from the tops Of them has run up steel
rods into the region Of the electric cur
rent.
HENDRICKs and Hancock would suit
the Democracy better than Hancock
and Hendricks. The latter is too good
a man to be made the end ola Presiden-
tial tlcket.-Ciuidad Plan-Dealcr.
TALMAGE says there are no clocks in
Heaven, but he finds there are several
timckeepers in Brooklyn that report the
exact time when the synod meets TO try
him for lying.-IndianOpolis Sentinel.
TWENTY thousand, fity-nine thousand,
fortv-one thousand, thirty-iour thousand
these are old time Republican major
tiles IN Ohio, from 1860 down. Ohio is a
Republican state, but she's shrinking
Ntr York World (D,m).
THE Greenbackers of Ohio begin to
hope they have saved at least eight
thousand votes this year out of the
thirty-eight thousand they had last
year. At this rate it will take about
! three months more to wipe out the last
of that Organization.-Chd 5. C.,
NegS and Courier.
THERE might be some excuse for the
subtle craft and trickery of the Massa-
chuSctts Radicals if they were waging
war on a tricky, wire-wOrking politician !;
! but L. ply their arts on man of General
Buffers simple, guileleSs and credulous
nature is not the fair and decent thing.
-UdshiRg'on Post, Dem.
A GROSS INJUSTICE