Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-17
TIMELY TOPICS.

home, it is said that 10000 invitations
have been issued, the list probably eN-
actly fitting the upper ten thousand"
CONGRESSMAN AIKEN, of South Caro-
lima, proclaims his conviction that both
the political parties have Outliyed their
usefulness, and should be wiped out.
He is probably Aiken for nOtOriety.
SOME people who know as much as
ANYBODY about Tilden's purposes insist
that he intends to withdraw from the
presidential field in January. Some
saw GARRISON n. Potter is to be made
the old mans political heir, others that
Speaker Randall is Tilden's favorite.
TIE late John Blackwood, one day in
conversation with Miss Anna Brewster,
related how he and George Eliot had
correspondent some time before he knew
she was woman. al called her Dear
George" he said merrily, "and en-
ploved some easy expressions such as a
man uses only to man. After | knew
her | was little anxious to remember
all might have said"
one of those Chicago poets that ran
wild in the press OF that city during
Grants visit intertwined, so to speak,
his laurel with Robert f. Lees yew in
this fashion-through several stranzas:
The couqueror's chariotwhcelS to-day
Roll i'm the pride Of victory;
The world applause for L. ;. Grant,
The hero'S grave for K. L. Lee.
There's bcauty's blaze abroad to-day,
The pOmp OF Chiyalry;
There's ulauditS loud for [. $ Grant,
And worthless love for Lee.
The Cleveland Leodcr is evidently UNI
der the impression that Widow Be
dott" is creation OF James Russell
LowelTs. At least the LeadG, Directing
10 the widows personation by Neil Bur
gess. i'm "Nasby" Locke's play, says that
ono art can mask the incongruity Of
sex which appeals to every person OF
taste to whom Mr.. Lowells poem is
familiar" This is hardly so bad, how
ever, as the declaration by a Boston pa
Der that "Mrs. Stowe has written moth
ing else so cxquisitely funny as the Be
dott papers"
WHEREVER Chinese and Indians come
in contact, the former, with their supe-
r;or cunning and civilization. demoralizo
the latter. Gambling is a passion strong
i'm the Indian breast, and the Chinaman,
who is anatural poker sharp, inducts
the Indian in the mysteries OF draw po-
ker and keeps him flat broke all the
time. In Nevada, in addition to the
United States laws, there are strong
statutory cnactments against selling IL
quor to Indians, but the Cinnamon fur
nish the Indians with a vile and poison
Gus decOction that processes to be whis-
XIV, and makes the traffic SO profitable
that he can afford to take the chances OF
getting caught and being mulcted in a
heavy fine.
POTTERY manufacture in this country,
il was shown at the convention OF Amer
lean potters in Cincinnati, employs a
capital Of SG,5OO,OOO. invested in 500 pot
terics employing 1000 workmen, who
receive annual wages to the amount Of
8 5OO,O 600, and turn out products valued
at $1,000, 900. In spite OF the aid OF an
ad ralorln duty OF from 40 to 30 per
cent. on all foreign goods Of this descrip-
ton. however, American pOtterles sup
plv not much more than half the home
demand. During the last ten years for
cign imports have averaged nearly
S5,OOOOOO a year, although the value
imported in the last three years has been
less, ia 1877, $3,7O9,542; in 1873, Sl,O5l,-
7SG. and in 1879, S4,O44,SO5.
MR. JONI LANDEsNAN, OF New York,
has delivered, at Rio Janeiro, an address
to the people OF Brazil on the manuiac-
lures OF the United States. Dom Pedro
was present, and the speaker prefaced
his able presentation OF the advantages
to Brazil OF trading with our country,
with the following remarks to the En-
peror:
"SIRE:-As citizen OF the great Re-
public, | thank you for the exalted hon
or which, by your august presence, you
have deigned to convey upon the manu-
facturers of America, whose humble
representative | am. We, the Republi-
cans of the North, love your Imperial
Majesty of the SOuth-we love you not
so much because OF the proudest blood Of
chivalrOus Europe coursing in your
veins: not so much because OF Brazlls
imperial diadem glittering upon your
regal brow, and as the greatest OF the
Braganzas, welding your sceptre over
an empire mightier than any of your
illuStriOus ancestors reigned over or con-
ceived oi-but because OF the love you
bear our Washington; because, rs
George Washington was the Father OF
our Country so are you, sire, the
Father of your Country. again thank
your Majesty for the great honor con-
ierred upon us, and, by your gracious
leave, | will now read my address on
Competition by Americas manufactur-
crs i'm the markets OF Brazil
SoFAR as there have been any express
sions of opinion in the South favorable
10 the election OF Gen. Grant, they have
been merely conditional. They only IN
dictate the choice of the Southern whites
between possible evils. But except as
choice of evils, the Southern whites look
with no favor on third election OF Gen.
Grant.-N7c York Herald.
Spelling Reform
Is vet a thing OF the future, and until
il becomes generally adopted all persons
who use pen and pencil want a handy
n,.L,f lictippary The upotpSt and