Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-03-24
TIMELY TOPICS

was Stored ont of that race.
IL remains to be seen what sort OF a
boom Gen. Grants alleged danger on
the voyage by gull will be.
Tue Wheeling inccndharics mast have
gone to st. Louis That city had eight
fires in six hours Saturday night.
ByRwise provision Of Providence,
An pleasures have their ALLOYS
The Wind That toys with the ladies' SAlrs,
BlOws sand In the eyes OF the boys
TuE republic Of Liberia has annexed
the kingdom Of Mcdineh, valuable and
fruitful track adjoining 1t. The trade OF
Liberia is reported to bo more promis.
ing than Tor years past.
A MOVEMENT is on foot IN BraNton
county, this State, tn encourage tobacco
growing there. \ firm OF Ohio buyers
offer to give seed enough Tor live acres
To- each iurmer who will promise to use
it, and to buy the crop alter 1t is
cured.
Tux New York Herald states that an
order has been received 10y the Win
chester Arms Company to make from
fifteen To twenty million Oi cartridges
Tor the Chinese government This is the
first order, it is said, ever given by tho
Chinese governments to foreigners Tor
the manufacture oil cartridges.
4 NEw York Tunes special from
Columbus says the events on Saturday
crushed out every hope OF compromise
between the two wings 0i the Republi-
can party Of Ohio so lar rs Presidential
candidates are concerned. The al.
dresses issued by the supporters OF
Sherman aud Blaine are caustlc IN op-
position TO each other.
Tux value Of the crops oi the United
states in 1879 IL estimated 10y the agrl-
cultural department. at SlWLiSo,OOO,
probably the largest SUN ever added To
the wealth OF country 10y the products OF
it's soil. The value ui the crops in 1873
was put at 81 iSO,57OOO0 by the same
authority We shall eat up and spend
the most oi it before the year IL out,
however.
TuE Cumberland Nr8 says that the
managers OF the g. " L. railroad put up
haud-blls all along their line advcrtls-
ing lot men To take the places OF their
striking employees. The strikers supple
mcuted this with written notices warn
ing all new corners not To accept the
employment offered. The Knights of
Labor are using all the machinery Of
the order to secure the success Of the
strike.
Az Erie stone.cutter has gone crazy
ever the tiitcen-block puzzle. A CORE
spondent writing from there says: He
is strictly temperate, a devoted husband
and kind father. For days he has neg
lected his business aud applied himself
constantly to the game, until his brain
gave way under the attempt to master
the "I3 1914" This morning hc grew
violent. seized his infant child and was
putting it on the hot stove when the
neighbors rushed in. lie was over
powered and carried to Jail. A reporter
visited him to-day, aud saw him couched
in the cell. scratching out the game on
the wall. Although haudcutlcd, he has
town off all his clothes, and at thus writ
INK is tliuglug himself against the iron
door. yelling "lj-lS'l4
TuKRE are persons who will cry out
against Washington and declare that It
is a sink OF iniquity. But it should DC
remembered that many Of the scandals
which come there tor publication are
scandals which originated elsewhere.
No city situated rs the National Capital
is can be pure in morals. 1t Is the cen
ter toward which tends much that Is un-
wholesome in the lie OF the States and
cities of all the rest OF the country. Men
aud women 20 there determined 10 gain
their point, cost what 1t may.-Nsg lort
Gruph,c.