Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-04-03
THE SMOKY CITY.
Nall NOtes-A Week Of Sensa-
tions The Bribers - The
Church Fight GOehring's
Death-Dramatic Dots.
PITTSBURGH, April =, is

/ was W ict tlc btoShs VI mans "hi'h h"u
accumulated at certain points be dis
tributed over the country before any
more we're made. But they were not,
for the reason that the country roads
had not improved 30 much as was hoped
for. In many places they were and are
yet next TO impossible, and drawing
loads over them is out Of the question.
Bsilding is delayed, and 80 must be the
demand for nails until the highways are
ia better condition. The rains and the
generally soft weather have had bad
effect on the roads everywhere, and par
tieulsrly 50 An the Wese where people
,lAve had neither the time nor the means
10 build bridges and make fills, and in
! other WAYS perfect their means OF
travel. As the West, at last beginning
TO ieel the impulse OF the good times,
will have much building 10 do and much
need for nails, the Association has To
wait for nature to dry up the roads out
there. BY the 10Th, the period at which
the machines are ~ start again, this VIII
be done and the season 80 lar advanced
that building can 60 on without inter
ruption. And vet it is not certain now
but that when that time arrives a still
further suspension will be resolved
upon. The design originally was not
only TO allow the present stock 10 be
distributed among consumers before
more nails were turned out, but also TO
strengthen the market and repress spec
ulation. To do these things IT may be
necessary tO continue the existing ar
ringement longer than would otherwise
b needed. There have been so many
rlmors oflarge holdings Of nails, and they
have been repeated 20 often that only
an actual scarcity will convince the
credulous that the rumors are unbound.
ed, andthat there is no danger OF spec
ulators breaking the market by any
stocks they can command.
80 far the arrangement has worked
we'll and the manufacturers are pleased
with their prospects,. Some of them
think that the day is not lar off when
the condition OF general business will
Justify an advance in price.
This has been week Of sensations
for Pittsburgh. First there was the news
that Kemble and the others convicted
Oi bribery in connection with the riot
losses bill, had jumped their bail. The
excitement which IL caused was not
loud, but all the more intense, for no
one knew what would be the next move
Of these scamps to defeat the ends OF
Justice. They had been powerfully sup
ported in their plea for pardon, and the
flight was looked upon as u means 10
gain time for new scheme. Although
they had been tried, convicted, and we're
to be sentenced in Harrisburg, that city
did not feel hall the interest in them
that this did and does still. For il is an
open secret that their plea of guilty was
not simply trick to win the
court 20 mercy, but was intend.
ed to avoid judicial injury
which might uncover the doings OF more
important men than themselves kem-
blr could tell story which would be-
worth reading were he to unbOrom
himself about the famous riot losses
bill. What caused the sensation here,
Vas less his fight from sentence than
the possibility that he would grow DIES.
pcrate in the straits To which he was
driven, and make clean brcas, OF IL,
showing at the same time that u he Is q
cofruptionist he has some distinguished
company in his crime. AT this writing
he is in hiding, but says through his
friends that when he gets his business
affairs in order he will surrender and ~
to prison. lie says also that the Board
OF PardOns had promised To recommend
HIM 10 the mercy Ui the Governor, aud
that II the promise had been kept he
would not have run away. IL will mark
an epoch in the history Of this common
wealth when W. II. Kemble, king Of
the Roosters," who has ~ long dehed
the arm OF the law, aud used MS money
and his political influence in lebauch-
ing our Legislature, finds both unable to
keep him from a ielon's cell.
The second sensation was the fgnt
between the Woodside and anti Wood.
side factions Ot the First Reformed
PRESBYTERIAN Church. The news Of that
outrage YOU have already had by tele-
graph. This makes twice that these
factions have come TO blows, and unless
the superioPchurch authorities take tue
case IN hand they will come 10 blows
the next time they meet Another such
set Of hut.headed and belligerent
Christians 10 not in the country. The
congregation is composed OF Scotch aud
Irish, many OF the Irish being draymen
and teamstcrs employed on the whATyes
Their daily associations make them
rough in manner and ht them for a
rough AMI tumble breakdown at a
moments notice. While there vas never
until the advent Of Woodside any yio-
lentr at the church or in congregational
meetings iOT business, the society had
rather hard name. Oas preacher left
through fear Of Just such trouble As has
occurred recently, amt because the
members bull-dOzed hlm Silh0ai
mercy They then employed another
prearher who could give them a. good
n they sent, and who Sas not sCared
in doing II. One sunday he scored A
young fellow In a sermon for some bad
conduct, and was hardly out Of the
church when the Young fellow told him
that II he did On the next sunday take
back What he said, he would get bis head
Knocked OF The preacher thought
dIsrretion the better part Of yAluf, AMI
when next SUNDAY came smoothed
the matter over by kind OF apolog,
irnm the puluit. This il the class o
nsonls ,ba, 6li the news Of lannon's Oal
Alley Church. WOodside, the present
minister, is largely 30 blame for the cry
ing scandal there. There we're CERTAIN
u'eu've oppu " -.
VINO i'e'u .aiA' VIC al va no' s"aa'
ProiIe. icing 'oted ~i,tou' 1u'l'"'i'y
Instead OF stepping Asl9e anu Proi''sln !
thai the dispute be settled by the ohurci
/ indiCstOry, be stuck 10 the puiPIt and
dared his enemies % Pot him out.
There Was first disputing, then kicker.
ing, and then rist- TIE socss's might
specs snd fosss-'-Aes = sh s~"r-' rs'-
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