Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-30
TIMELY TOPICS.

the field with their Presidential can
didates. Their convention is called to
meet at st. Louis January s, upon
which occasion Gen. Butler, OF Massa-
chusetts, will be put in nomination.
some scamp without sense or con-
science sailed the floor OF a hall at
Wellsburg with cayenne pepper on the
occasion OF an Odd Fellows dance. They
will be odd fellows indeed if they do not
cayenne him if they find out who he is.
CHICAGO bankers are in a strait owing
to the absence of small bills, Their Gus
toners do not want silver dollars, OF
which there is an abundance. "There
seems to be no escape out Of the predica-
ment," says Il local paper, Except to use
coin"
SINCE 1858 the Republicans OF New
York have elected Edwin ID. Morgan
twice. in 1853 and 1860, Reuben f. Fen
ton in 1864 and 1866, and John a. Dix
in 1872. The Democrats have had
Horatio Seymour in 1860 John 7. Hoit-
man in 1868 and 1870, Samuel J. Tilden
in 1874 and Lucius Robinson in 1876.
TIE Ohio nationals are circulating the
improbable story that Ewing intends to
resign in favor of Piatt, their candidate.
They have taken lessons in the little
game of the Republicans, over there,
and propose to make such ridiculous
they can claim they were testing.
Ir looks more and more as if the Prus-
sian eagle and the Russian bear were
going to have tussle. But they have
peculiar way of preparing for the fray
over there. The Russian government
is keeping a careful watch on all
IFS journals, and suppressing those that
publish attacks on Prussia.
Pnnp LABAR and Walter Barker, two
Princeton College students, were arrest
ed in Trenton, n. j., for smashing the
door of a house of ill-fame. Five stu
dents were in the disgraceful row, three
of whom escaped. 1t would be good
plan for President McCosh to aid the
law in taking its course with these semi.
educated rowdies. Princeton cannot al
lord to have these affairs every year.
SOUTHERN outrages running short, the
stalwart organs raise an alarm on the
rumor that half-dozen Southern States
propose empowering their legislatures
to appoint their presidential electors.
We don't know who can find fault il
they do. They have the right to ap-
point them in whatever manner they
will. South Carolina never elected them
in any other manner till after 1860.
They say the Princeton students who
made a row at Trenton theatre, the
other night, and afterwards banged in
the door OF a bagnio, were only pursuing
their elective studies. Springfield
Union.
We are sorry for General Grant. For
months to come his days and nights will
be filed with oyations and fire works.
The bones of his countrymen will be
thrust into his hands until his arms fall
listless. The politicians will make his
privacy uncomfortable. He will even
wish he was back in Japan or Galena.-
Philadelphia Record.
Gov. BLACKBURN's scheme to intro
duce yellow fever into the Union army
was a sOmbre joke OF the doctors when
he was tight, the Cincinnati Commercial
says, and the Louisville COUrisr-JourHM
accepts the explanation. DR.. Blackburn
ought not to drink. Ii makes him as
malignant as Boston
Herald.
4 friend hands us as a curiosity, spe- |
cimens of the tickets, three of them, |
used at the late California election. The |
strip of paper of which each ticket is !
printed is two feet long and contains /
the names of no less than So candidates,
ranging from governor down to ward |
supervisor, and closes with a blank /
wherein to vote for or against Chinese |
migration. Voting in the Golden State |
must be something Of a business, ii this
is an average sample OF the way they DO |
lIdiSJurg Herald.