Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-13

antilles Of the Nihilist martyrs:
RiotouS ChaldeanS have been deSecra-
tips graves in the Holy Land. Let us
hone they did not disturb the tomb of
Adam, at which Mark Twain wept.
A Denver paper is in danger Of tenn
Dorary financial embarrassment, if the
m .OOO, 900 claimed in libel suits now
,ending should have to be paid at once.
Fully forty million of WehstRr'S SIall-
70 hooks have been offered up on the
,rfsr of knowledge in this country, and
,iyl we turn out some OF the worst SPELL
n, in creation.
" De Freyeinet, Gambetta's success
-, ! sailing on smooth sea with no
NIX, in sight. How many dangers
here are before him. just under the sur
So remains to he found out.
Opponents of vaccination will prob
rly fortify their position with the case
"a child which has died from the ef-
Get, of vaccination in MiddletOwn, o.,
, rlsce which has thus far escaped the
smallpox.
ur George o. Jones, Chairman of
.rs National Greenback Labor party,
t,s iS,ued a call for a meeting of the
safe Committee at the Sturtevant
House. in New York, at noon on We'd
lesiay, February -.
The sub Committee of Ways and
Means having in charge the revenue re-
Gsc,ion. propose To repeal the tax on
.tauk checks and deposits, patent medi-
r1e-. perfumery, soaps, playing cards
,gi matches. This is only the opening
v-l.e. The same subcommittee is
Known to favor reduction on tobacco,
va.,ky and malt liquors.
The Democratic Congressman were
raucuS saturday on the tariff COM
sion and funding bills. Most of the
>u,hcn and Western members are
srposed to the commission and will do
\ in their power to defeat it. They
~ that the tariff should be revised by
1agess at the present session, and
anl the duty on many articles scaled.
Divorce reform is likely to be made
q i,,uc in New England politics. The
nv and Others are aSSailing the laws
|9ri the courts mercilessly. 1t is sseven
/ said that the marriage tie is quite as
/ ETu,hlessly severed in New England to-
day as in the barbarous Western States.
|COy. Long, of Massachusetts,, lends his
lame and influence to the new move
/ Fnent.
\ The JapS persist in pulling the queues
4 the Chinese, and trouble is inevitable.
FTne Loochoo question is in state qHo,
Eud can doubtless be settled without
\ oodNhei; but it makes the Celestials
bowl with indignation to see the Japan
be going over into Corea with their
baggage, prepared to stay. We may
bet witness an Oriental, Acknowledged
Far.
The Virginia Senate Saturday passed
De bill Incorporating the Virginia and
Ne, Virginia Railroad Company, whieh
- for its object the construction of a
siIroad from any point on the West
Nirginia line, and thence to the City OF
alexandria, or to any point on the
potomac river above that city. The
a apital stock i to he not less than $780,
~ nor more than SlO,OOO,OOO.
h Postmaster General Howe has written
! letter to the pOstmasters of the United
iates stating that the secretary of the
army Of the Cumberland appeals to
hem for aid to procure contributions to
be tlnd for the erection OF monument
the National Capital to the memory
James y. Garfield. He hopes they
.Il respond literally.
Ireland has $4,000 holdings, 5000 Of
rm less than an acre-mere town
s. OF the rest, about 10000 tenants
! excluded from the benefits of the
ind Act by the size of their holdings,
I'd OF the rest, 800, 900, 1881. have al,
ady made application to the Land
ourt. In the go cases decided, the
Errage reduction in rent, is about TWEEN,
~ five per cent.
q The following is the New York banl
atements for the week: Loan de
.a,c, $93S, so; specie decrease, s., $50.
legal tenders decrease, SS5S, 800; de
Z SITS decrease, S5,674,6OO; circulation
crra~e, Sli9,6OO; reserve decrease,
4 SnGp The banks now hold ST.,
U l75 in excess Of the legal require
: rDts.
idge Washed dAwRy-Repablican Con,
Ventiou.
LoutS, February l2.-Adyices from
4 Sas says the big bridge over the east
OF Trinidad river, on the Texas and
nc railroad, twenty miles east of Dal-
was swept away by the Hood Friday
, ht
u mass convention OF the Republicans of
ID Hds IS called 70 meet at Fort Worth. on
I'D instant, to decide upon a plan of
Ss ION Tor the coming campaign. Ex-
'etary OF the Navy Thompson and J. G,
a ny, OF Indiana, and Governor St. John.
- 'NAS. are among those expected to be
sent from abroad.
Reasonable Complaints.
I, I!. NG", February l2.-The workmen OF
IUlLman shops, to-day, had an indigua,
meeting, the complaints being that
&c they have been receiving b1t two