Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-19


There are said to be no pOOr-houses
and jailS in Norway. This is strange.
We always supposed Norway was a
civilized, Christian country.
Every day or two We hear that the
Star-route prosecutors are consulting"
about something or another. 1t is about
time they were doing something else.
The spinners Of Fall River and Low
ell, Mass, are preparing to demand an
increase Of 10 per cent. in wages-which
of course means more strikes, lock-outs,
tic.
Governor Neale, of Idaho, says that
Mormonism must be put down. He ev-
idently thinks it some sort of drink
which can be put down with crook
and gulp.
When the guanO-salpeter-Cochet
claim diplomacy of the State Depart
ment is brought into the bright sunlight
Of ofpublicity, high ex-oflicias are likely
To lie seen running for tall timber.
The New York Commercial Adrcrtiser
suggests, in view of the frequent im-
portation of able divines, that Congress
protect home talent by putting ad valo-
rem duty on fcreign-made clergymen.
Northern Republican papers which
last Spring said that Riddleberger, Of
Virginia, was not fit to be Sergeant at
Arms of the Senate, must now take him
90 their hearts aS a Republican Senator
Here is one OF the Chicago IribuRc's
conundrumS. IF we can have navy
now for about S3O,OOO,OOO in eight years,
how is it that in five years SSO,OOO,Om
have been expended and we have no
navy?"
WHY Is it assumed "a such q matter of
course that Boutwell, must have some
sort of an office? He has held COOL
many offices and filled none. He never
went out Of office without his retirement
being welcomed as public blessing.
\ Missouri paper credits Gratz Brown
with saying that he feels it in his
bones" that he will be President of the
United States yet. Mr.. Browns bones
must b, some relation to Eli Perkins if
they are telling the old man such tales.
Captain Eads wants a government
subsidy Of SlOO,OOO,OO for his ship rail-
way, as soon ~ his company has spent
$4,000, 900 on it. The way the vOuch-
crs for the outlay will be slapped up will
amazc mankind, and make Brother
Jonathan sick.
The business failures of last week were
l65, a larger number than in any preyi-
Gus week during the year. Fifty-two
We're in the South, fOrty-two in the
Western, thirty-three in the Eastern,
nineteen in the middle, six in the Pa
,ific states and twelve i'll New York
city.
Governor Shepherd, late of the Dis
triCt of Columbia, has met n melan-
choly fate. Visiting an old mine III
chihuahua, which he was examining,
he was bitten in the leg by tarantula.
The poison caused an instant swelling
in the limb, and the prospect is that the
saving of his life will depend upon am
putatiOn.
The New York World thinks that Mr..
Randall, Mr.. Carlisle, Mr.. Cox and the
other Democratic parliamentarians must
regard Speaker Keifer with the same ap-
prcciative interest with which in the
good old days den of veteran lions
greeted the advent in the amphitheatre
ola worthy martyr. He is meat for
them"
The announcement that Blaine is go
ing to spend the winter at Washington
will bring up uncomfortable visions to
torture President Arthur. Blaine can
not be in Washington without having
his finger in the Congressional pie. His
interference is bound to make the re-
past indigeStiblc to Arthur.
We insist that it Is not the lack OF
enough holes to accommodate the pegs
that worries keifer. That is, of course,
Il trouble that has always disturbed
Speakers, but Keifer's difficulty is to
find pegs that will fit the holes. Look
ing at the thing that way, he has a
great many more holes than pegs.
Senators Dawes and Hill are of the
opinion that the only thing in the way
Il perfecting Senator Pendleton'> re-
form measure is the indifference of
ninety-five per cent. Of the people who
are not Oihce-SeekerS being Overbalanc-
cd by the remaing five per cent, VINO
clamor for the spoils. There is a great
Geal too much truth i'm this opinion.
The ProhibitionsJS uI Kansas differ
widely as to the effect Of Governor ~.
Johns proclamation. som" fear that
it will breed dSsensions and pave the
way for the ultimate triumph of the
opponents ofthe prohibition Law. Others
believe that where the law has failed to
bring offenders to justice, the pr)clamt-
ti,D will.
PRESIDENT Henry Willard says that by
'he end Of next year the Northern Pa
cihc road will be completed to the far
theSt point il is intended to reach in the
Yellowstone Valley, and from the West
NWlll reach TO the base Of the Rocky
Mountains. This will leave but 100
miles to complete, including two tun-
mel, aggrcgating about l0,OOOfect. He
expects to run through trains by Sep
tember l, 1888.