Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-21
TIMELY TOPICS.

$4,000.
As against Grant ex Senator Hender-
son is for Bayard Governor b. Gratz
Brown is for Bayard as against anybody.
\ GOOD many Of our exchanges of the
Democratic persuasion are telling their
party GLOW to Lose Indiana But who
wants to lose Indiana?
JOSH BILLINGS has discovered that ut
IL 4 good deal ov a bore to have others
luv us more than we luv them" And
Simon Cameron could have told the
same thing in more correct photography.
ris stated, Officially" that the wheat
crop of the current year in the United
States has exceeded the crop OF last year
bv 26,COO,OO bushels, and that the corn
crop is 2OO,OOO,OOO bushels larger than
last year. How much We have to thank
John Sherman for. (For the benefit Of
the Steubenville Herald wo will explain
that this Is sarcasm.l
The Republican National Committee
is to meet at Washington on the Sth OF
January, and the Committee of the
Union Greenback National party are to
meet on the same day and place, for the
purpose of agreeing upon the time,
place, and basis of representation OF the
National Convention to be held for the
purpose Of adopting platform OF princi-
pies and placing in nomination candi-
dates for President and NiCe-President.
4 NEW system of cremation has been
described by Frenchman, who thinks
ne will be able to do away with the very
intense temperature necessary to reduce
the body to ashes. The difficulty is to
decompose and reduce to ashes tissues
containing - per cent OF water; but the
inventor Of the new system overcomes
this by exposing the body, first OF all, to
the action OF super-heated steam, which
chars the tissues, and enables them to
burn easily in an ordinary furnace at
very much less cost of fuel.
A SHORT time ago a terrible uprOar
was created in Milwaukee by 4 sensa-
ton published in the .SliiHcl about hor-
rible outrages alleged to have been per-
petrated by the officials in charge OF the
House ofcorrection. 1t has leaked out
that the reporter OF that journal got his
information from the inmates, who had
a scheme to secure the removal OF the
officials, 50 they could carry out a move
on hand to take their departure. The
scheme was detected by intercepting a
letter from one prisoner to another.
The author of the letter then made 4
clean breast of the whole conspiracy.
Now that Bismarck has dared Russia
by the Austro-German alliance, mill
tary critics all over Europe are waking
up to the act that the level stretch of
country which Germany turns to Russia
has been converted by military science
into one OF the best defended frontiers
on the continent. A military critic on
the Austrian staff, in an article pub
lished by the austrian Military Gd-e'te,
pronounces the German line Of defense
on which large part of the French in
demnlty was spent, practically impreg-
nable, unless the Russian force advance
out of Poland and were protected by an
Austrian alliance.
Nix. WILLIAM ID. KELLEY, OF Pennsyl-
vania, some months ago had an inter-
view with Bismarck on the silver ques-
ton, in the course of which Bismarck
criticised the course OF his former sssO-
ciates in the German Government for
demonetizing silver. Mr.. Kelly wrote
a full account of the interview to
Philadelphia paper, from which it found
its way into general print. Bismarck,
perhaps unwilling to trust any more
leaky vessels, declined seeing the Uni
ted states Commissioner, Mr.. Walker,
on the subject Oft proposed information
al conference on the double standard,
and he has accomplished nothing.
Tow PRATEI, a moonshiner, was trap
ped upon a sham bridge 10y Government
officers, in Kentucky, and fell headlong
over a cliff siXty-tive feet. Next We
shall hear of Government officers trap
ping people into lighting fires with kerr
osene, and we canlthen feel proud of our
glorious naturalization Globe.
MANY of General Grants old COM
radcs will have twinge of regret that
he has decided not to be present at the