Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-01

SENATOR SHERMAN and Representa-
live Tucker will probably be selected to
deliver addresses at the National Gar
field Memorial Meeting in the hall of
the House of Representatives mt WASH
ingtou City.
W.O. DODD, President of the South
,rn Historical Society, announces that
the members will meet in Louisville
this evening. General b. +. Cheatham
will read paper on Hoods Tennessee
Camraign.'
MIR. LoRIII ARD, the tobacco man,
who. current report says, is - marry
Annie Louise Cary, has lost his .''dawg,'
a black poodle, and offers $500 reward
for its return. Mr.. LOrillard evidently
has more money than dogs, not to men-
i'u brains.
Bl>m1P SIMPSON is reported rs say
ING at a Methodist meeting in Philadel-
phia that ne had not found a single
Protestant abroad on the side of the
Land L,agucrS. The Bishop didn't
look Very far; the founder and leader of |
the Land League, Parnell, is a Protest
ant.
ANOTHER conspicuous IriShism has |
been perpetratcd at Drogheda, where |
All imprisoned suspect" has been elect
ell Mayor. 1t will be a comical state of
affairs if in course of time the majority
ofprOminent Irish officials shall be ten
ants of prison cells during their terms of
office.
DURING the past six years we have
sent to foreign countries more wheat
than during tiie preceding half century,
and within these six years our exports OF
that staple have nearly trebeled. We
exported 55,OOO,OOO bushels 1876 and
about l5O, 100000 during the year end
ing June 80, 1881.
DR.. URIEL FERRELL, of Orange, Va,
member-elect Ofthe Legislature OF that
State, is in his 90th year. He is proha-
bly, the oldest man in public life, and has
full possession Of all his faculties. He
attributes his wonderful preservationtoa
good conscience, and the fact that he has
ALWAYS voted the Democratic ticket.
THE New York Daily Bulletin tabti-
late, the records relating to shipwreCks
fOr twenty-siX weeks out of the forty
two-frOm January l to November !,
1881. The statement shows that SS3
vessels have been wrecked during the
twenty-Six weeks named, giving an ag-
gregate loss of property amounting to
$40, 700, of which S457, 100000 fall'
upon Boston shipping.
JOHN SHERMAN has been taking
hasty look ut the Solid South, and re-
turns to Washington expressing plea,-
ure at his reception and at the abundant
evidences of the South's prosperity and
lawfulnpSS. This expression will proba-
bly, stand until the next election time,
when Mr.. Sherman will be apprehensive
that the South is Matching new rebel
ION, and will declare that it is shiftleSs
sud tumultuOuS section.
THE ghost of George Washington is
said to be prowlmg about the old home
at Mount Vernon, its first exploit being
to make an old clock strike three times
that had not been wound mp for forty
years. To see Ma one ruling the desti-
nies of his native State, and the seats
once filled by jefferson, Madison,
Henry, Taylor and Richard Henry Lee,
occupied by Malone MOngrels, is
enough to make the Old man turn III
is grave.
IT i authOritatively stated the Re-
publican party is not going to neglect
any Southern State where reputation
prOffers alliance. Arkansas, North Car
Olina and Tennessee are next to be Ma
hOned, and in fact the party may be
considered rs indiSsolubly welded to re-
pudiation, and hereafter it may be
counted on to aid vigorously the work !
OfSponging out bonded debts. Wher- !
cy,rthcrc is repudiation ticket it will |
get ;hc solid Republican vote.
Ir :, understood that General J. H |
Devcreux, President of the rcOrganize |
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and
indianapolis road, is soon TO be given
charge of all the Vanderbilt railroads
west of Buffalo, and is in reality to be
VandCrhilt's first lieutenant in the rail-
road business. Gen. DeyereuX was one
Of Hancock's brigade commanders at
Gettysburg, and was the only Democrat
elected OH the Democratic ticket ut the
IrCrat election in Hamilton county, y.
TnE Spcakcrship fight is bringing out
tie records of those Republicans who
aspire TO the place. Dunnell, Of Mime
sofa, once a salary grabber, Orth was
head over heels in the Venzuella frauds,
KassOn, o; Iowas, retired from public !,
life on account of the scandaloIis devel-
opment of divorce trial, HiscocS, OF
New York, was GreeIeyite and Keifer
Is tie better than a X roads politicion,
with more broth than brains. Altogeth-
they constitute q pretty fair representa-
ton of the good and morality party, and
no matter which 10 taken, the result
vii be disgracefll. |,