Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

st. Louis is alarmed at the growth of
Kansas City. There is no special Oeca-
sion for il, however,-a halfway house
between Chicago and Kansas City will
always I've needed.
Mark Twain made banquet talk to
the Montreal nabobs, the other night,
and they are still shaking their sides
over his local jokes. BY the way. some
body has been persOnating Mark out in
Australia. Mark is exercised over him,
for ne seems to have done about as well
rs Mark could, except that he stole
Marks thunder.
Miss Grmdy says ex-senator FrclinS"
huysen will be unqueStionably the hand
some man of the administration when
he becomes Secretary of State. At Sar-
atogo, where he spends every summer,
hc, though making no such pretenslonS
~ his own behalf, is considered to rival
i'm goOd looks the professional beauty,
Col. Nick smith, the late Horace Gree
lry'S son-in-law.
Tie census bureau has completed the
tables on the wealth of the country.
This shows, divided by sections, that
the average wealth per capita is S62%.l0
in New England; S452.24 in the middle
States; S32l. 90 in the west; Sl+5.4 in
the south and S359.59 on the Pacific
slope. The south, therefore, contains
third of the population Of the country
and an eighth of its wealth-nOt very
favorable showing, but better than that
made ten years ago.
The only way which the Chicago
TIi6l1lC sees to assure the advantages of
common school education everywhere,
and to enjoy the resulting benefits ofthe
more intelligent citizenship, is to create
a national fund that shall be ample to
support schools in all the States and
Territories, and to make the distribution
thereof subject to such conditions as
shall guarantee the extension of equal
school facilities to all races, all classes
and all sects.
Chicago handles about Onf-third Ofthe
entire forest products of the vast pineries
of the Northwest. Millions of acres of
timber lands in Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois are tribu-
tary to her market. The entire product
of these pineries last year in manufac-
tured lumber amounted TO about 5,T5O,-
ono, 900 feet, and, according to the best
estimates at this date, the production
for the present year will show an excess
of at least twelve per cent.
I'm Arkansas a couple of brothers,
whose evidence has been necessary to
enable the State authorities TO send a
criminal TO the penjtcntiary, have been
ruthlcsSly slaughtered in cold blood by
the friends of the prisoner. lfthe MUIR
degers shall he arrested by the indignant
citizens who are searching for them,
they may probably plead 'inspiration'
as an excuse for removing" inconven-
lent witnesses. 1t is ditiicultto imagine
where this sort of thing will end.
The prevalence of smallpox i'm places
- widely separated rs New York, Chi
cagO and Havana seems to argue that
the spread of the pest is not so much due
To local influences as to the long cOntin-
ned neglect of sanitary precautions
against this and other infectious dis
eases by densely populated commune
tie-. In this respect the rayages Of
typhus fever, although not so much
talked of, are nevertheless attributed to
sanitary neglect, largely due 10 the
effects of poisonous sewer gas.
The introduction of a bill in Congress
to- provide for the admission of New
Mexico rs a State is of course not now
city, H. it has often been done before.
But there appears to be a probability
that at the present session of Congress a
hOld push will be made to secure the
final passage Of the act. Most probably
an effort will be made to admit New
Mexico and Dakota at the same time,
n there is a chance that one will come
in ~ u Democratic State, while the
other will certainly be Republican.
When private persons deem it neces-
sary for mutual self-protcetiom to COM
bimc together for the purpose forming
an Irish Property Defence Association,
il looks very much aS though the at
tempt of the British government To adj
minister the law in Ireland had def
nitcly broken down. The difference
between such an association and the
Vigilance committee Of border town Is
not one OF substance. 1t does not how
ever, appear how the Property Defence
Association proposes TO carry on its
operations 80 aS To accomplish task in
which MIR. GladStone'S Ministry. backed
lay all the resources Of civilization, has
thus far failed. The association ha, un-
'drrtakcna large contract.
According TO statement furnished 10
Bro,iSi1tsi'S by Mr.. Robert p. Porier. of
TIE census hurcaU the total population,
assessed valuation and per capita valua-
Ton OF the United States, is as follows:
ASsc~>Cl valuation.
., S.Iv~. Population Amt Per CIpit
NG% England +n.o,i29 S2GI&U76. .IC SSi, =