Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-12

inthe navy, while the seamen receive
-, 49O, 900 for their services.
There are signs of a silver storm from
the mighty West. 1t will reach Wash
mgton about the time Congress gets 10
work on the paternal dollar.
1t j. said that Secretary Hunt haspro-
vided places for sixteen Of his relatives.
Well, what does a man want with
family ifhe can't keep them.
The time has come when Mexico Is
worthy to be admitted to the United
States Union. \ postmaster in that
country has run away with six hundred
dollars.
Ii il understood that the six Gov
,rnors of New England are all total
ahstainers. The Governor Of North
CAROLINA would have no fun in a irater-
raj visit to this region.
Pttsburgh's postofiice fight IS waging
iurious!y at Washington. If everybody
- to believed, the rivers will overflow
ti,c.r banks and carry away the city un-
les all the candidates get the office.
Ia Chicago building operations are
brisk. Stores and dwellings are taken
A. soou as finished, and rents are BOOM
ing with higher tendency. Real estate
men explain this by the heavy influx Of
population.
The cOlored "man and brother does
does not seem TO have the courage ora
blind mule when the right to the polit-
ical corn which ne cultivatedis brought
in uuestion-he won't even kick when
his hind legs are tickled with brier.
Congress is to be asked for a few mil
lions with which to build navy. Ex-
actly what is 10 be done with our pres
ent navy, which has been built and re-
built 20 many times that the naval sta
tions are clogged with wreckage, no
body appears to know.
1'Time was when the word Hoosier
was synonym of illiteracy," the In
dianapOlis Journal admits. To-day"
it says, 'nearly fifteen thousand public
school teachers are at work in Indiana,
and private academies and colleges are
flourishfng in all parts of the State.
Ofice-seekers now shrek through the
corridors at Washington. Why not
adopt resolution, pass law, or deter
mine in some other way, that no person
shall be appointed to any office who
personally approaches within ten miles
Ofthe Capitol or by more than one rep
.esentative, who is at least admitted to
pract ce in the Superior Court ola State?
The failure of the Spragues, coupled
with divorce suit, was more than Lit
tie RhOdy could withstand; but as the
Sprague creditors are likely to accept
General Buffers offer of thirty per
cent. and as Sprague himself offers
compromise with his wife, perhaps the
Safe may gather itself into knot and
resist dissolution for some time to come.
1t is proposed in Connecticut to COM
pei railroad companies to provide coup
lers that will work without u man be-
tween the cars. In view of the fright
ftl mutilation and slaughter of brake
men, 1t is the duty of every State Legis-
lature to do something for their protec-
ton. The present method Of coupling
cars numbers annually about as many
victims as the concealed weapon.
General Apathy, of whom we heard
more or less frequently during the re-
bellion, seems To have full command OF
the star-route eases. Nobody connected
Herewith exhibits activity in anything
except in trying to throw the accOunta-
bnity for failure on somebody else's
shoulders. We refer tn this mvestiga-
tiOu only u rciterltc what we have
heretofore said, that the whole RESPONSE
bility for this inevitable failure rests
with the Republican party, and no part
or parcel Of it belongs 70 any Democrat.
Cur Republican friends may divide the
hI;me among themselves - they pleas.
ZEN PERLEY POORE, "A Washington
correspondent of high repute, makes the
following mention of the situation ofthe
United States Supreme Court in letter
to the Boston Journal:
The Revised Statutes state that "the
Supreme Court of the United states shall
consist of a Chief--JIlstice and eight ASSC-
eiate Justices, dR1 sir Oj IDitoIR shall c1Js-
@ttSte q gtfOrt,a." There is y vacancy
on TIE bench, caused by the death OF
Mr.: JE:t.ce Clifford; Mr.. Justice Field is
10 Europe, and Mr.. Justice Hunt is in
capacitat1d by disease for the perform
ancr ofjudicial duties. This leaves bare
HlOrum Of the court on the bench. ltsO
happened a few DAYS since that q West
eth railroad case of some import
Snee Was argued, in which
Mr.. Justice Mathews had been re-
famed as counsel before he took his seat
on The bench. He could not, therefore,
81 Oh the case, and without him there
Was not quorum. In this emergency
VT Justice Hunt was brought up to the
~ hlt r nee room of the court, and when
We Shlef Justice announced the opin-
uie court he said that Mr.. justice
;laIlhewsdid not participate in that opin-
"G' run that Mr.. Justice Hunt concur
1. iEgal gentlemen erlticise this with
severity.