Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-17

pose recharter.
The story that Eli Perkins was suffer
ing from q cancer on his cheek is denied.
The facts are that the cancer came
around, and after one leok at Eh's cheek
went away and died ofs broken heart.
No witness upon either side has testi-
fed to a single act Of generosity or man
illness on the part of Guiteau. His life
has been a net work of little schemes
to get along without work and beat his
feIlowmen.
About this time people on the coast
should keep q sharp lookout for Mr..
Powell. member of Parliament, who was
carried from England out to sea in s
balloon. His amiable weakness was for
crossing the Atlantic through the upper
air
Massachusetts, does not seem to know
how to carry on an investigation. An
elaborate report, detailing and admit
ting q great number Of outrages commit
ted by the Ninth Regiment in Rich
mond, and now the men accused are
reduced to eight, and they all swear
they knew nothing about the affair.
Thousands Of wire pullers who have
run with the Republican machine"
have gone to Washington from all
parts of the country to get their reward.
As the number of offices is limited, the
majority of them viii soon be posted OH
the condition of the various highways
OF the States.
The death of Charles G. Breummer,
Republican member-elect to the New
Jersey Assembly, gives the Democrats
= msjOrity in that body. The Cover
nor Of the State may, if he choose, or
der special election. If he does not,
the board of chosen freehOlders may
ask for one, when he is obliged to Or
der it.
The Republicans propose to make
Secor Robson chairman of the Com
mittee on Naval Affairs, and then ask
Congress to appropriate $50, 900 to
rebuild our navy. If this little arrange
ment is brought about, the next Repub-
lican campaign fund will probably be n
big one and the next President will
Cnly have to devote another paragraph
to the necessity Of large appropriations
for our "dilapidated navy"
The number of immigrants To this
country for the fiscal yearlSSl, is $50, 4Sl.
Ii collected in one of our Territories it
would give Us at once an embryo State
with a population larger than the pres
ent population of Maine, Connecticut,
Colorado or half dozen other
States. The greater portion of this new
people have distributed themselves over
the hitherto untitled lands of the far
West along the lines of the new rail-
ways, which have penetrated the viii
,Iernls,; bringing poPuIaIIUn AMI ot'ni
zatiou in their train.
Never in the history of the AmerI-
can republic" remarked veteran SEN
ator, twas there gathered in Washing
ton such a gang of political cormorantsi
they come from every section and they
are OF every shade. They waylay me
before awake and find them at my
Goor when retire for the night. They
ale ~ indecent as they are persistent III
their demands. Why, when l retire to
n place which is always considered sa-
cred from intrusion, find one or more
of them on the lookout to button-hOle
me. For the Lords sake, give me some
civil service reform"
Kansas, land of grasShopper plaques
and Door whisky comes up smiling with
a magnificent showing Off agricultural
products for 1881. Eight counties har'
vested over $4,000 bushels of wheat
each, and the total yield is given a
GOATS, $50 bushels. Forty-twO counties
raised over 100000 bushels of corr
each, and the total crop is estimated a
SO,TGO,542 bushels. The yield OF oats
harley, buckwheat, sweet potatoes
castor beans, sorghum, flax, hemp anC
tobacco was immense. Long continued
dry weather and big army of chinct
bugs did their level best to spoil thes'
cops, hut they signally failed.
There is no reason why the cOntro
versy between the doctors should no
have ended at the dead President
grave. Dr. BoyntOn seems To be deter
mined to make mischief, and DR.. Bax
ter, OF the army, shows disposition t
give him all possible encouragement
and assistance. Neither can have ;
good motive, and both are open to ;
suspicion that they wish to prevent DT
BliSe from receiving generous fee
which Congress is disposed To give hin
and the people are willing he shOul'
have. The conduct of DIR. BOyntOn
mprofeSSional and childish, and his at
tackS do more injury to himself than L
Dr. BliSS.
II is announced that the English gov
errment cOntemplateS indicting OCOn
nor and Healy for conspiracy on thei
return from this country, basing the &c
cusatioa on the part they took in th
Chicago Land League Convent pn
They certainly signed the call for tn
convention, but in the deliberations q
that body they took no part. The.
were invited to consult with the Com
mittee on Resolutions and possibly iii,
take part in the all-night session of tina
body; but it would be pretty Difficult
thing for the English government t
lind out what share they had il