Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-07

the Democracy and support Iohgre>s-
man G. NASH JONES for Governor.
IoHN BRIGHT is of the opinion that
the United States will eventually take
~ the entire North American continent.
This will afford comfort to the states
men who have designs on Canada and
Mexico.
INSTEAD of doing anything with the
the tariff the Congressional idea Is to
appoint commission to investigate
such multitude of subjects that life
will be too short to hear anything more
than that they are making progress.
WHEN General Hurlbut was in COM
mang at New Orleans he used to re-
mark that he held louisiana in the
hollow of his hand. II seems TO be the
present impression that he is trying To
cram Peru into his breeches pocket
TIE blaekmailing body-snatchers in
scotland are meeting with no better
.pccess than the wretches who carried
off \. T. STEWART in this country, a.
tbr son of the late Earl Of Crawford says
that he will pay nothing to the thieves
hut a large sum for their arrest and con-
viCtion.
ILLINOIS was admitted into the Union
- a State siXty-three Years ago last sat
urlay. 1t now ranks fourth in popula-
lion, has the fourth city, and i ON the
top wave of material prosperity, with
rrnnortionate increase i'm wealth unNur- /
ra~sed by that of any other State east Of /
the Mississippi.
THE Pittsburgh Post ofyesterdaS say:
Ifanybody i under the impression that I.
the smallpox epidemic has spent it, force /
IL, this locality all ne has got to do Is to
turn to the returns from the health
office to satisfy himself Of hi~ mistake. 3
The disease seems to have taken up F.
,yrmanrut abode among IL.
TuE"Jnitcd States Underground Ca /,
BE Company" invites subscribers to it, /
,;,pital stock of SGOO,OO0. This company
has contracted for the purchase OF the
Rerthoud- Borrl patents, we'll known III
France, for the laying of underground
and specially prepared wires for tele-
graphic purposes.
OF late years the amount of surplus
capital in Philadelphia always seeking
rc;nvc>tment has increased beyond all
rrrc,,lrnt. while at the same time the
rate of interest has declined very heavt-
IL. ana the public securities Of the ma
tional, State and municipal government
steadily diminish i'm volume.
THE action Of the faculty of Purdec
University. in Ohio, in cXpelling stu
dents who persisted in maintaining So
crct societies against the rules of the
COLLEGE, has been sustained 10y the Cir
cult Court nj Cincinnati. 1t only re-
main, for some college H. prohibit boat
inc and football and our entire system
of higher education will 20 to the dogs.
There can be no sort of doubt that our
country contains an ample supply OF
capital To enable it To- become the great
r,t commercial nation i'm the world, and
that, too, without dctracting from the
importance attached tn investments in
domestic agriculture and manufactures,
hut solely by investing the surplus capi-
talin foreign commerce instead of Or
Canizing colossal speculative corners.
PRINCE BISMARCK's bold statement
i'm the course of debate i'm the German
Imperial Reichstag of the peculiar Off
cial tenure of his position shows clearly
that representative government has
really no existence in the Empire. Bis
'NARCK declares openly that he repre-
.rnts the Emperoralone, and il not sub
iect to removal by the popular majority.
This is declaration of autOcraey which
makes the German government rs des-
potic and irresponsible as that of Russia.
A. long ago a. 1858 Thomas &. Baker,
well-tO-du citizen of San Francisco
suddenly disappeared. His relatives ap-
piled to the proper court for settlement
of the estate. Proof of death was not
readily forthcoming, and there was
long delay in making satisfactory ad-
ul~tmcnt of things. Two years ago,
however, the estate was settled. Last
week Baker, hale and hearty, aStonished
his former friends by landing from Il
China steamship, he promises to makea
great deal of trouble for his CN-UdminiS-
traitor.
THERE will be no great opposition to
large reduction of the internal tax
on spirits. II Is hardly to he doubted
tia, ~ cents gallon would in year or
two yield more revenue than the rate of
- cents, which i now imposed. This
may hc inferred from the past expert
CuCe of the Government with the excise,
Snd also from the results of the last re-
duction of the tobacco tax. COmmiS-
Sjoncr Raum's report shows that now,
two ycar> having elapsed, the receipts
from tobacco are considerably in excess
81 those of the year preceding the r,du,.
don. The total Internal ryvrnu, ~
.r"ip'~ "i the year euilcl Juu' - "N'.'I
those "I l>-U by ST,0nRN0D.
krTFE i tn, ursl Ohio nan ever
elected Speaker Of the House of R,pre-
Scntativcs. The first Republican Speaker
e,ccteI Was y. p. Banks of Mas S&lchu-
SettS, who, after prutracted struggle,
was elected to that office in the House
"i the Thirty-fourth Congress in the !