Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-02-18
TIMELY TOPICS.

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"BIG Irish tator"-Parnell, the agi---
tator.
TIE Terre Hsute Qnd.) Express says;
"Blaine stock is rapidly rising; Grants
u declining; Sherman's is below pal"
Mr.. n. NJ. LOWRY one OF the Fish
Commissioners for the State, placed thir-
~ thousand salmon in New River last
week.
TuR New York Herald Irish aid fund
has run up to over $4,000. The Amer
lean people seem to have great deal OF
love for the inhabitants OF old Ireland.
COMPLAINTS are general throughout
West Virginia OF the rayages OF dogs in
tiocks OF sheep, and the press and peo-
pie demand some sort OF protection or
compensation.
TwESrY-oNE entries have already
been made for the gubernatorial race IN
Illinois on the Republican ticket, and
the books are still open, with cheerful
prospect Of a larger field.
GERMAN Republican papers in New
York assert there are 10000 Germans
in that State who voted for Grant
twice, but will not vote for him for a
third term. Mr.. Conkling will find the
German bolter utterly deaf to his per
suasion and supremacy indifferent to
the party lash.
PRESIDENT HAYES seems to take kind
w to the Monroe doctrine. He has
taken the first step toward securing to
the United States a commanding posi-
ton upon the lsthmus OF Panama. lie
has purchased coaling station for the
United States Navy at Colo Dulcc, on
the Pacific, and ut Chiriqui Lagoon, on
the shores of the Caribbean sea. II is
not much OF a feat, and no long stride
i'm advance, but it shows which way the
wind blows.
FRoM the frequency and emphasis
with which Mr. Conkling finds 1t neces-
sary 10 issue his official proclamation
that he is not candidate, one might be
led 10 suppose that the nomination Is
seeking him in most persistent and
determined manner. The Senator will
hc able. however, tn resist the pressure
oi the clamorous populacc, II he keeps
on "dcniging oil it, two or three times a
week Washington Post.
THERE is something almost delightful
in the retributiye sort oi justice that
the present situation ot affairs IN
Virginia brings home to some people.
The Northern States robbed us at our
property in our slaves-utterly dcs-
;ruvCd hundreds of millions OF dollars
worth o( our property without shadow
OF compensation 10 us, and now these
same slaves are commencing the pois-
oncd chalicc to their own lips, by fore.
ing the State OF Virginia to rob them I'll
their property in her bonds.
There could bo no better lesson IN the
ueat moral law of retributive justice;
that law which has its seat IN the bosom
of God. aud which declares that the
RIGHT shall Ike done aud the wrong-doer
shall suffer for his wrong. Writhe IN
your anguish, gentlemen, and console
yourselves with the reflection that you
"nurscd the pinion that impcllcd the
steel
The State OF Virginia is to-day re-
pudiating State by the vote Of her me-
grors, by the vote of the Republican
party. while the rebel element, y which
that party has been maliciously SANDER
ing and yilliiyiug us the embodiment oI
lawlessness and disorder, is insisting
aud demanding that it shall have an OPP
portunity to pay back the money which
its State borrowed and spent. Richmond
Commonwealth.