Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-04
THE KANAWHA VALLEY.
Journals vs.. Organs-POlitical
Points - Local Journalism -
The Buffalo Academy-Hard
Times and Bad Weather.
.udence Of the Register.

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Correspondence OF the Register.
BUFFALO, w. VA, April /.
In our search for news and items OF
interest with which t) make up our let
ter we have ranged around considerably.
The REGISTER is popular down here, and
what Walker aptly calls the Slate DsD,O-
crat cannot take your place in the atit c.
tons. We would prefer a HSwspaper
with principles to an organ, without or
with big O. The organ business has
played out in West Virginia politics, and
some little Organ-grindcrs will hear
something drop between this and 1850.
Perhaps they are going into the music
business, and will verify the old saying
that "he that bloweth not his own
trumpet the same il shall not be blown. y
You wouldn't blow for them, so they
"blowed" on YOU, and tried To- elbow"
YOU out Ofthe Democratic party. IL the
men that held that little caucus y at
Wheeling constitute the Democratic
party OF West Virginia, YOU can get
along without the Democratic party as
well as the party can get along without
YOU. But the upShOt Of the whole
matter in this reading out process
oi certain Caucuses Is a new departure
i'm West Virginia politics. Mason coun-
~ is becoming excited over her pros
uects for a county Judge. The Monitor
"ue don't like Guthrie's Greenback
IDEAS, but, a. Judge, he will not con-
troll legislation, and we are for him Tor
Judge" IL Frank Guthrie is ever
County Judge, il will be because OF his
Greenback ideas. Nothing else will
win in Mason.
Tippett, of the Point Pleasant Register,
and Gibbons, OF the MOnitOr, are iniulg-
ing in a little dirty personal tllt, IN
which the unterriiied Democrat Tppett,
gets his Radical record OF ten years ago
dragged to the surface. nPpett calls
Gibhon a "ranting radical lunatic,
while Gibbon retorts by mildly lnslnu,
ating that "Tppett IL devoid OF truth.
We suspect they are both telling the
truth.
The people are very reticent on the
proposed Judiciary amendment to the
Constitution. The representatives OF
the several political parties don't seem
10 know whose child il is, and cOnse-
ouently are in doubt whether to nurse
or strangle the infant. The Court
House rings will probably oppose 1t
when the issue comes.
Prof V. 4. Lewis, OF the Buffalo
Academy, will give grand eX-
hibition on the 4th of April
atiIkAcademy Hall. And right
here we will remark that Prof Lewis
article, Ancient Ruins in Putnam
County" which has several times been
republished, is void and without power,
being "A romance bound upon "A very
slender thread of fact.
The iron bridge across Paca river at
RAYMOND City, which fell down last
winter. is still lying in the river, and the
peoplc have To be iCrried over.
Friend Duwntaiu, of the Putnam
Dsulocrai. proposes To unite the Demo-
cratic and Grcenback parties; but the
question is: How is he going 10 do 1t?
"It cant be did" saws prominent
Grecnhack friend OF ours, without We
get Green all over or the Democrats get
green on the back.
Why didn't the Legislature enact a
law prohibiting the publication OF "Dr.
Bulls Baby syrup advertisements as
local matter in our local papers? We
are getting, wearied with such state
monStony. Old bachelors ought to
abate it as a nuisance.
4 shooting club has been organized AZ
-. Adams ior target practice, but We sus-
pcctthose fellows will be- shot oftener with
/ the contents OF a quart bottle and dubbed
with the bottle than any other way.
Mr.. :. T.. Blake, OF Buffalo, was mar
ried last week to Miss Lizzie Davis, OF
I Crown City, ohio, and has caged his
bird on West Virginia soil, or III other
I words has put his pullet in his coop al
Buffalo. Long may they live and pros
per.
Notwithstanding the repeated promise
of better times af.er resumption, the
I people Of this section are suffering more
from hard times than ever before, and
! the demand for greenbacks and more
\ money continues 10 increase.
The farmers are very much behind III
their spring work, owing 10 the conrn'
usi cold rains which have fallen almost
daily for more than two weeks.
| With high appreciation oil your efforts
to make the REGIsTER good news
psper rather than an Organ,
am yours, &c, L. VINE