Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-11
TIMELY TOPICS.
PoMTIcAL observation-disclosures.


The poll-er wave will strike Ohio
next Tuesday. II is not cold wave.
PITTSBURGH reporters are to have
walking match at the Exposition build
ing tonight.
No matter how much candidate
itchcs for office, he never likes TO be
scratched.
"Wmo Are Our Ancestors asks the
Binghampton Republican in its leader OF
Saturday. Send a three-cent stamp for
reply to Mr.. Darwin.
RoxcEvERrE has discovered n White
Sulphur Spring. Let the "Old White"
look to her laurcls. Roncoverte is de-
tcrmined to have all the attractions in
the market.
The Brooklyn Times regards Talmage
as the greatest preacher this country
has yet produced. The choir will please
sing con c,preSsione, GOOD help our ma
tive land"
THE regular Democratic nominee for
Governor in Massachusetts, is John
Quincy Adams. The Boston Globe says
one of the light-mindcd and irrevercnt
delegates to Fancuil Hall remarked that
the convention had "put itself on ice
Tue Republican campaign speeches
have been on National supremacy with
little regard to thclawiul doctrine OF the
rights reserved 10y the States. The Re
publican party is proving its lineage
daily. 1t is the grandchild OF the old
Federal party.
CONNECTICUT having defeated the
proposition to hold biennial sessions OF
the Legislature, will elect new Legis-
lature in November The complexion
of the Legislature will be comparatively
unimportant, as no United States Sena-
tor is To be chosen.
ENGLAND has been suffering from
long season OF depression and is paying
heavily for American grain, but the Lon
don Economis, Of September27 says, chat
the amount of reserve of the Bank OF
England at that date was COZ 1000,
the largest published sum hitherto on
record as held in that way"
A POOR fellow at Newport, formerly a
drunkard but for several years reformed,
has lust died from the effects OF drunk
en- spree, having been overcome by the
systematic persuasions OF gang OF fel-
lows who had planned beforehand to
get HIM drunk. There may he no hu-
man law to punish the knavcs who led
this poor fellow 10 his ruin, but in moral
and divine law, as well rs in common
sense, they are murderers in the very
first degree.
GEN. GRANT writes TO George W.
Childs, Of Philadelphia, that he will
start for Gaena on the eth, but ex-
poets weeks vacation on the way, and
probably cannot get east Of Chicago be-
fore the holidays. He expresses his ap.
probation of his universally kind reccp-
ton. The General and his party re-
turned to San Francisco from the Gose-
mite Tuesday, and the grand banquet
given 10y Senator Sharon, for which
over / 800 invitations were issued, came
off with great erldt Wednesday evening.
SOME extracts from Puck's Dictionary
OF Definitions: Burlesque-A play in
which poor actors struggle hard to show
a double meaning in words without any.
Insane-The owner Of pistol when it
goes off and kills his enemy. Ovation
from the Latin ova)-A throwing of
eggs, G. e., "The Count Joannes re-
ceived perfect ovation" Style-Put-
ting on a swallow-tail and a white tie to
90 to the circus. Nerxes-Was a great
man; this is lnot definition, but then
y ISIS mighty worrisome letter, any
how.
II it had only been Paul Boyton and
Eli Perkins Instcau OF Wise and Burr,
Columbus Dispatch.
Nh. BLAINE tells his audiences 10 vote
for men who fought for their country.
We suppose he would wish 10 include
those who fought by proxy.-Boston
Post.
SAYS one Irishman 10 another: can
faith, who is this Denis kearney!
"Arrah, bedad, he is a workingmon.'
"a workingmon? But what does he
do?" "Du? Nothing. He's a work
ingmon. Richmond Dispatch.
The Cincinnati Gd;otte continues to
use It's Mill Creek bottom vulgarisms in
abiding to Senator Voorhees,. The Gin.
cinnati Republican press is evidently
under the impression that Hendricks
and Voorhees, are running for some
thing on the Ohio State ticket-Indidn-
dpOlis S,T,iinel.