Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-04-08
rIMELY TOPICS.

WISE sukksedoAi, hAe s'A~1yi
Washington POa; "Ii the news dissem-
inators Of New York would drop the
foot-racs business. their action would
tend to squelch an affective nuisance
PRoF. vESSoR, whose predictions re-
garding the Spring have thus lar proved
generally correct, predicts cold ana
wet weather for May and up to the mid
die of June. After that comes extreme
" dry weather and drought to the END
of the year.
TIE Chicago Times, following the ex-
ample Of one or two papers published
in Great Britain, proposes in future TO
vary the number OF columns to page
with each days issue as the news and
advertising require, instead OF issuing
supplements as has been its past prac-
tice. A volume OF such paper bound
must have a striking appearance.
BUILDING associations in Illinois, as
elsewhere, are in the habit OF glvlnga
priority in the loans they make to the
member offering the highest premium,
this premium often exceeding the legal
rate of interest. The Supreme Court OF
the State has just decided that such
premiums are usurious, and that the
loans made under them cannot DO col
lected.
THEY are in peck Of trouble over at
Bellaire as result Of their municipal
election. The Democratic candidate
for Mayor was elected by only
two majority, and a recount
has been demanded. The Dem
ocratic candidate Tor City Commits
sioner, was also elected, but IT has since
been discovered that he was ineligible
on account OF being a member OF Coun-
Gil. At Martins Ferry a hot-bed OF
Radicalism, as 1t were, w. NJ. Lupton,
a representative Of the young Democra
cy, was elected Mayor by handsome
majority. lie deserves the compliment.
lis the bright lexicon of John Sherman
there does not seem to he any such word
as boom.-Phiiadtlphid Times.
BLAINE has drawn first blood from
sherman in Ohio. The Jefferson County
Convention, the first held in the State,
declared for Blaine. The Sherman fences
seem 70 be in bad repair out that way
Philadelphia Times.
A GLANCE at the imported luxurle5
and at the appalling aggregate OF the lLn-
portatiOns, far beyond the needs oil the
people and all former comparison, Is
enough TO excite alarm IN the minds OF
all thinking meu.--Ne,o York Sum
Tie Baltimore and Ohio railroad, like
the Pennsylvania railroad, has Just been
taking precautions against strikes. They
have done this, not by calling on Hayes
iOr troops To put down possible future
riots, but 10y restoring the wages OF en-
ployees 90 where they were prior to
July, 1877. These precautions are more
sensible than some OF a different KIND
that corporations have been known to
taEe.-Ntw York Sim.
HTuE tremendous cyc-OpenCr which
Lord Beacunsiicld has got from the Eng
lish people at the polls is n solemn
warning To the American statesmen oil
the spectacular and magnetic school,
who believe in a Strong man, IN "a
candidate who will take his seat and
that sort Of thing. II they put any Of
their fancy notions To- the test before
5. 900. 900 voters in November they will
find that those S,OOO,0OO are more saga
Ci0us. more valiant and honester than
the COuklings and Camerons take them
to be.-SDriRldeId Republican,.
NEITHER genuine religion nor piety
towards God has anything to fear from
Darwinism or any other scientific thco-
rieS, and religious teachers who aSsall
scientific theories as injurious TO rCli-
giun or scientific men rs hostile tn reil-
giun in mere virtue OF the results OF
their investigations, do much harm and
no good And those who employ any
small talent for ridicule they possess for
the purpose OF casting popular odlum
on scientific men or their pursuits seem
to us such offenders against truth and
deCenCy that it is scarcely possible 20
treat them too roughly, - Pittsburgh
Times.
TINS loud demand for Grant to come
out frankly aud say whether he is, or is
not a candidate for the third term will
produce no effect on the duCal mind.
That Grant has been u candidate Tor
third term ever since he was Inaugural
ted for second has been patent to all
intelligent observers. His managers are
working out plan that he has approved.
Aud yet this Unsuitable office hunter has
80 managed the cards that in case he is
compelled to back out of the fight he can
openly disclalm having been in it. lie
did this in 1870 after he had prosecuted
a still hunt Tor two years and had pros
tituted his office in the interest OF his
third term candidacy, Washington Post.
Tux iron manufacturers are getting
themselves into Il bad fix. The outlook
il anything but bright just at present,
There ia no use of their whlstling 10
keep their courage up, when matters
are in such a shape. The only practical
thing they can DO to better the situation
would sc, m TO he to drop their price list
and that IN short order, without waiting
for things to grow worse. What is the
sense Of keeping up high rates, at which
no one will bay? They ought by this
time to realize that they have foreign
competition TO contend with, and that
So long as they maintain the
present prices they are PLAYING
directly into the hands of their oppo.
neuts. They couldnot do anything that
would please foreign manufactures more
than persist in their present course.
The only sensible thing TO M done now
is TO drop down TO healthy market
price, and in this way prevent the mills
from coming to standstill. The pres
ent production is far in advance Of the
demand, and lust as sure as two and
two make four, the present trouble will
continue 10 increase unless there is an
immediate lowering OF the prices Of