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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08
FORCING A FALSE ISSUE.

A united yell. touched OH by the
election of CARLISLE, is going up from
the Republican party, East and West,
about the "Solid South" 1t has in it
Just about as much truth, common
sense or power as an exploded dyna-
mite bomb. The attempt to make use
of it shows to what straits the garrul-
Gus old party is driven. 1t has not the
ability to think of anything new, the
courage TO advocate new policy If it
had the intellectual ability to frame
one, or the moral force to bring it to the
front if it possessed the other two re-
uuisites. So it Is driven to the necessity
of hunting around among the dead and
gone issues of the past.
The influential partisan papers have
been guilty, this week, of some of the
most atrocious sentiments.
The Boston Traveller declared the
election of CARLISLE to be "a sectional
victOryp and that it 'slgnalizes the
complete domination of the Demo-
cratic party by the Southern BOurbons."
The Boston Journal said that sit is
declaration that the Democrats in that
section of the country are going to take
the party honors and the party respon'
sibilities." The New York Tribune
says that it means southern and not
Northern party" MURAT HALsTEAD
said that it was honest in the Demo-
cratic Congressman "to put the solid
South at the head of the procession of
their party" But it is useless TO multi
ply quotations. Through the East and
the West it has been the same cry of
the interests and the sectionalism of
the "solid South" The Washington
correspondents of partisan newspapers,
II tleeting, of course, from that centre OF
political movement, the intentions of
their party, have been even more viru'
lent and have talked even more eXcit-
eddy about 'rebel yeils" and the coming
battle on the line Of "the solid South"
And all this cutlery simply to conceal
the fact that nearly so per cent. of the
opposition to CARLISLE came from the
South, and that over 10 per cent. of his
support came from the West. 1t was
the West that elected him. Moreover,
10 per cent. of RASDALL'S support came
from the South. Does that look like a
solidified Southern region? But the
cry about the Solid South is entirely
too falsetto. 1t will not take. The North
and the South know more about each
other than they ever knew before. The
Moth knows that the South is making
4 heroic struggle, and the South knows
that il has the assistance and sympathy
Of the North. Business enterprises are
growing UP in which the two have
common interests. Social intercourse
is increasing between the two regions.
Never before was a thorough wiping
out of sectional lines, harmonizing of
interests and an era OF sympathetic IN
Outstanding aud good feeling between
the North and south so nearly attained
as now.
Hut what about the terrible disregard
Of the interests OF both sections that
would ovelturn all this and revive the
old feelings If jealousy and hatred, re-
new race dissensions and put the South
back ten years in her progress?
The party that does it must go.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08
GROCERs' CLERKS CORNERED.

The enterprising grocers' clerks who
formed an A Il Z blind-pool in New
York city for the purpose of swindling
their employers have come to grief. 1t
was very ingenious scheme and might
have succeeded had they unloaded at
the right time. They "held on" too
long, however, and now find themselves
in the hands of the police. Nearly
twenty thousand dollars, it seems, were
made before their peculiar system Of
operations was discovered. The fact is
they should have ''got out" when they
had, say, half that amount. 1t is curious
how they hit upon these cabalistic
letters as title for their association.
The date of the beginning of their 81
erations, too, is curious; only nine
months ago, or less than six months
after the exposure of a very famous A
Be blind pool in Wall street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08
THE MORMON MONSTER.

President ARTHUR, in his message to
Congress, says he is convinced that
Mormonism has become so strongly in
trenched in Utah that "it is profitless to
attack it with any but the stoutest
weapons which constitutional legisla-
ton can fashion," Some of the states
men who feel that the safety Of the Re.
public depends on them may object to
the heroic treatment suggested by the
President; but there can be no doubt
that it will be approved by the great
msjority of the men and women Of the
country who are anxious to see this
great stain upon American institutions
blotted out. the President has called q
halt in the march of the hideous Nor
mon monster. He has gone further
than any one of his predecessors in the
effort to suppress it. The people, ire
spective of party, will uphold his
hands in the contest to which he leads
the nation.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

4 FEW facts about the professional
tours of theatrical people are interesting.
In this country there are now 227 com
panies on professional tours, embracing,
say, 4,OS6 members. The following fig
ures will show the expenses of these
travelling companies: Transportation,
81 ,221 900; hotel bills, 3, 500, 600; haul
ing baggage, etc, $3.50, 900; salaries and
incidentals, S, 100000; total outlay,
S12, 98l 900. These companies play on
shares, receiving about % per cent. of
the nightly gross receipts. Some of the
leading attractions make IS much as
$780, 900 a year clear profit. In order to
lessen the hardships of these profession
81 tourists, i: is proposed to build special
cars for the companies in which they
can live and travel. 1t is believed tha,
such car could be run for Sl75 week.
Under this system probably $1,000
in hotel bills could be saved.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08
NOT HIs KIND or sPIRIr.

Tie friends of Gen. GRANT hasten to
deny an absurd report which, in some
mysterious manner, has found it way
into print to the effect that he has be-.
come a Spiritualist. The "old COM
mander," it is asserted, never attended
q seanee in his life, and has no idea of
beginning at this late period in his ca.
reer. There is an old story that the
late Commodore VANDERBILT was in
the habit of consulting the spirits in his
stock speculations, but the fact was
never clearly established. The spirits
do not seem to know much about the
ticker" Who ever heard Of a mill
lionaire Spirituslist ? or of Spiritualist
becoming a millionaire? No. Gen.
GRANT is devout worshipper in DR..
NEwMAN's church. He finds there
enough spiritualism for this world and
the world to come.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

national banking system. The debt
has not been psid, in order to procure
the tenure of the banks. The national
bank circulation now reaches $500, 672,-
900. If the 8 and 81 per cents. were
wiped out, it would have no basis upon
which to operate. So the national debt
iscontinued so ss to give as long a lease
as possible to the banks. This is the
attitude of the Republican party to the
surplus revenues in the Treasury.
The question, therefore, is this: Is
the problem of preventing contraction
of the $50, 600, 900 Of national bank cir
of more Importance than pay
ing the national debt? This is the ques-
ton for Congress to solve, and when it
reaches solution we shall have no
more surplus revenue in the Treasury.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN WYOMING.

For fourteen years the women of
Wyoming Territory have enjoyed equal
political rights with the men. Since
the passage of the act only two women
have held office, and only few have
acted as jurors. They vote when their
male relatives are candidates, but they
perform no other political act. The
city of Cheyenne is full of houses of
prostitution, drinking places aud gam
bling bells; it has filthy Jail and no
poor house; and yet the women have
not combined to remedy any of these
troubles. Repeating and bribery are
common in the elections of the Terrific
~, and the head of family often sells
in lump his vote and those Of his wife
and grown daughters. A man who
had acted for years in Cheyenne IS po-
lice officer, sheriff aud city marshal, re-
Gently said in reference 20 woman suf-
frsge in the Territory: 'The bad wo-
men are all for sale on election day,
and the good ones knife a man who
don't attend Sunday school," The re-
plies of women were mostly that they
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08
THE REPUBLICANS AND THE Ma.
TIONAL DEBT.

On the eve of each successive Presi-
dental campaign for the last twenty
years the Republicans have been es-
pecially solieitous regarding the national
debt But they ale so no longer. A
national debt is now regarded by the
Republican party as national blessing,
and they wish to prOlong it as far into
the future Is possible. II this be not
true, why is there surplus money in the
Treasury? During the year bonds were
redeemed to the amount of Sl34, 80.
Yet after all the expenses Of the Govern
ment are met, aud the bonds redeemed,
over 500, O0O, 900 remains in the Treas
ury. This is called surplus revenue.
Why should there be surplus revenue,
if the Government owes money and can
pay it at lis option: There are now
SSCO,CUo,C eco of 3 per cent bonds due and
payable. Why are not oDe-third of
these called in, il We have still 500, O0O,-
COO on hand and no other use to ap-
ply it:
4 man who should claim thst he had
q larger income than he knew what to
do with, and yet left his deb,s unpaid,
would not be regarded as an honest and
just person. Yet this is precisely what
the government is doing, OF rather is
what the administration party is doing
with the government. So long as the
country owes a dollar, it cannot be said
to have q dollar of surplus revenue
which it can honestly retain or dispose
of save in paying what it owes.
The fact IL, the large revenues which
are being accumulated in the Treasury
are designed for prodigal and corrupt
purposes; they are intended as semp-
tatioD to reckless legislation. Congress
should have no money tospend in spec
ulative enterprises while the country is
in debt. Under q reasonably provident
administration of the national finances
during the last four years, every dollar
of the and 81 per cent bonds, payable
at the option of the Government, could
have been redeemed. This done, we
should have owed $i5O, 900, 600 less than
we now owe. But it was not done. II
was not done because the party in pow
er claims that it is necessary 10 maintain
q national debt in order TO psrpetuate 3
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Reasons and Results.
UIdshinGto'I Post.

buSHItytHIS OSI.
A system OF taIstiop so fatally vicious
that it takes from the earnings of the peo-
pie annually hundred millions more than
are acquired for all Legitimate public
USES
A foreign commerce almost entirely sur
rendered to foreign ship Owners
A navy on which half a billion has been
expended since the war, but which is otic-
tally confessed to be utterly worthless as
to ships and guns
An army SO hopelessIy demoralized that
it is dissolved by desertion as fast as il can
be built by recruiting
The Mormon problem in worse shape
than it was when the Republican party de-
clared war on polygamy twenty-seven
years sgo;-
These are some of the rsults OF a quarter
OF a century of Republican rule. These are
a few Of the reasons why the country de-
mands a change. Let the Democratic
House set the ball in motion.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

PRESIDENT ARTHUR, who Is one Of
the esteemed Republican candidates for
the Presidency, has put little BILLY
CHANDLER at the pot for the purpose of
manufacturing some of the soap that
DORSEY used in the Indian campaign.
The gifted President beslobbered Dor
SEY with praise for his skillful use of
the soap. Tlis shows that the gifted
President knows when soap is skillfuIly
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

were glad of q chance to vote against q
bad man for q good man. Some said
they never had voted, excepting once or
twice to enjoy the novelty. A few
avowed that they had no taste for poll
tics and never voted.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

THEY have story in New York that
Young WM. X. VANDERBILT has sunk
all his fortune, and that his father has
refused to provide him with further
capital. He is 10 sllow him 100000
year to live on, however, and with that
the young man ought to be able to look
the wolf at the door square in the eye.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

THE REGISTER has, by sew
eral thousand copies, a larger
circulation than any newspaper
published in the two Sirginias
or Eastern Ohio. Its adSanta-
ges as an advertising medium
are therefore apparent.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

The inflamed editors of the Cincin-
natl Commercial are much alarmed at
the cour Of recent events. They be-
hold the wsr-like South marching
northwsrd, with fire and sword, drag
ging after them the full moon and
struggling comet.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08
The Most Popular Paper.

UTUTtVI LVyN'
The Wheeling REGISTER is now one oil
most popular dailies to be found anywhere
It's general makeup is, in word, neat, and
It's columns are well filled with the latest
Geographic dispatches, spicy editorials and
choice miscellany II you are in search o!
q good daily newspaper at a low figure, you
had better try the REGISTER.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

THERE was no applause among the
Republican Senators when RIDDLE.
BERGER was sworn in. This lack Of APP
probation cannot last. Applause or no
applause, the case of GoRIIAM must Oe
attended IN
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

Mr.. ARTHUR announces that he took
advantage Of the browning OF the Car
To tender him assurances of the con-
tinued friendship of the American peO-
pie. 1t is so very, very easy for 8 Pres
ident TO make an ass of himself.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

MILE. RHEA is making a good deal
of money this season. She will not be
seen in New York at all, however. In
the country there are profits for her,
and she is satisfied to stay there. Wise
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

THE first thing that CARLISLE did
after being advised of his nomination
for Speaker by the caucus was to say
to a friend: "GO telegraph to my
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08
A Society Personal from Texas.


UTJtctF TU7INuNut.
Jim Kelley, cow puncher, Of Green coun-
IL, has been here for few days. He is
tunning himself up lot and his comfort
ing smile is frequent.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

CHESTER a. ARTHUR, of New YORK,
and DAVID DAVIS, of Illinois, Is a presi-
dental combination which is being dis
cusSed by Republicans in different sec
tions of the Fast and West.
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The Thrift OF an Ex.statesma n.

Baton Rouge Ne,rS.
An ex.member of the Louisiana Legsla-
ture tceloredy stole aud sold in Houma
three turkeys for $3.50.
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Good Example for Bad Actors.

Chic0go Inter ocean.
Won't lot of actors be kind enough to
catch Joe Jefferson's temporary infrmlty
and keep it?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

THERE will be twenty-fOur national.
lists in the coming Congress
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SATURDAY. DECEMBER :. 1858.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRLbbRA
TIE date printed on the wrapper Of
each pGpsr denotes the time whSa tie sue
scTiption empires.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

nlTTSBURGH, WHEELING & KEN.
TCCKY RAILROAD COMPANY.-Ne-
tee 10 Stock holders.
WHEELING, November 70, 1883.
A SPECIAL MEETING % the Stock.
holders of the Pittsburgh, Wheeling and
Kentucky Railroad Company will be held al
the principal officc Of the company in the
city OF " heeing. West Virginia, on
THURSDAY, JANUARY q. 1854.
AT il 80 O'Clock q. m, for the purpose OF vot.
ing upon the matter Of the creating loan
Of $1,000, secured by mortgage upon the
whole lire, including the extension to Ben.
wood.
The special meeting heretofore advertised
tore held TUESDAY. November -, 1883, is post.
rolcd until January p, lesi.
Ey order OF the Board Of Directors.
& b. LIGGETT,
ro,Qi Assistant Secretary.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

CARLIsLE'S home is the center OF
population in the United States.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08
A Nose on the Grind stone.

Rochester Morning Ny1N.
Mr.. Vanderbilt is saving his pennies for
Christmas.
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DIED,

DIED.
TROLL-At > A. NJ. Deem Der 6, lSs3, at the
residence of her son, 1908 Jacob ttreet, Mrs
Lrederika Troll, in her eth year.
Funeral from late residence, No 'SOS Jacob
street, Saturday afternoon at 2o'clock. In
,elment al Greenwood cemetery.
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rarty i'm a bad Way for Leaders.

Smb,g6rN Rcpublic1n, htd. Rep.
1. seems to be "Keifer's grand old
party"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

NEW ARRIVAL OF PHAEToNs, BUG.
~ gtes and Spring Wagons. Great bar
gnins and AL warranted. Also secondhand
wagons for salel Cor. Main and Sixteenth
streea- ", FEKREL4
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08

ENRY ]. ARBENZ, GRADUATE OF
tt The celebrated Royal Conservatory OF
Music at Stuttgart,) thorough instruction In
piano and organ playing, tstGttga[t meth9d
and TThorus Singing. Orders can be left at
any of the muslc stores in the city, or at my
room ISIS Market street, over the German
Bank auon
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ntW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Justices and CoEstabias.

IA tees Of the Peace and ConstaSles now
IN hand and for sale at the REGnrKR once,
seplla
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-18

weapons first agreed upon were pistols; but when
little preliminary practice demonstrated 10 tne
undertaken that the side Of q barn was
too small target for him to hit oftener than
once In hundred times, he requested to nave
broad swords substituted, and the request was
granted.
The meeting was arranged for last Thurs
day afternoon, and the place was retired
nook in suburb of Chicago. The preparations
were made on q most lavish scale. No less
than six carriages took out the principals,
seconds and surgeons, and it must have graft
fed the professional pride OF the under
taker, as he surveyed the imposing
procession, to find that it contained
aeyery requisite for a funeral except "a hearse.
We are surprised that he did not take that
along also. The preparations were so largo
that the duel itself is naturally dwarfed some
what by comparison. The undertaken was IN
rather a flabby condition and was even willing
to have the affair compromised without hight;
but the brewer was fierce for blood and would
have no settlement without it. The agitation
of the undertaken was not unnatural under the
circumstances. 1t was the first time he had
been brought into close contemplation OF
funeral at which he was likely to be himself
the corpse and he was not used to the feelings
which such situation prompted. AS for the
brewer he was doubtless well fortified with his
own beer and did not fully realize his perilous
predicament
The duel started off with great fury, and
after a few murderous passes the undertaken
was cut on the cheek The seconds then in
terfered, and both parties considering them
selves satisfied, the swords were sheathed, and
the procession was formed for the return trip.
A halt was made as soon as beer saloon was
reached, and copious libations removed all
traces of bitterness. The undertaken did not
secure funeral but he escaped his own and
seemed content with the result An enormous
amount of beer was consumed both before and
after the meeting, so that the brewer appears to
have come of much the best in every way. Now
that it is all over, there is rlmOr that 1t was
all Joke on the undertaken, who was the only
person concerned who took it all seriously.
We decline to accept this version, because it
would throw discIedit upon ChicagO's bigness
to admit that the city's first and greatest duel
resulted in nothing more serious than liberal
flow of beer. 1t ought not to require five car
riages to carry the seconds and surgeons to an
affair of that kind. No; we think it was fully
as genuine as most of the other Chicago big
things
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-18
Aem'llork Daily Gribaa1e.
FOUNDED BY HORACE G r eElsY
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY IS.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRvIGN-Six of the Dublin conspiracy prisoners
were sentenced yesterday to penal servitude for
different terms; the special jury panel was dis
charged, several cases being postponed. - 1t is
reported that King Cetewayos forces IN South
Africa have been routed. - The reports that
peace has been made in South America are con-
firmed - Details of brutal attack on num-
Der of Chinese in British Columbia are received.
1t Is said that Turkish Parliament is 10 be
convoked. - The Brazilian Ministry has re-
signed.
DoMEsTlC.-The reunion in Washington OF the
Army of the Potomac closed last night with ban
ouet. - j. Proctor Knott was nominated for
Governor of Kentucky yesterday by the Democrats.
- The Rev DIR. L. +. Hatfield, of NewYork,
was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian General
Assembly in session at Saratoga. 60 Twomurdcr-
ers escaped from jan i'll Columbia S. c.. after cut
ting the throat of fellow prisoner. - Inc Alpha
Delta Phi convention at Cleveland Ohio, adjourned
until next wear. - Boston and Montreal
press train was thrown from the track at East
Granville, VT. - The Miners Interstate Con-
vention was held in Pittsburg, Pom. - Levi ID.
Jarrard, postmaster of New-Brunswick, N j. Is
missing.
CnY AND SrBURBAN.-TEe annual meeting of the
National Board of Fire Underwriters was held yes
terday -= Mayor Low issued proclamation TO
openlnc = committee of the New-York Yacht
Club made a report on measurements and time al
lowances. -== Large prices were received at the
sale of Jersey cattle. - Mrs Zimmerman, the
wife of an artist, killed her baby and attempted
to kill herself 80 Wallace and DAILY won
games in the billiard Tournament from Sexton and
V,anaux GO Sullivan has issued a challenge TO
Mitchell to fight four rounds with the gloves. --
The Mletropohtans defeated the Alieghenys at the
Polo Grounds yesterday. - The Alumni OF
Columbia College discussed the needs of the lnsti-
tuition. -- Gold value of the lcsa-tcndcr silver
dollar 4I2lo grains). S2.10 cents. - stocks
were rather more active and declining; they closed
weak.
The Manufacturers local observations in
dictate clear and fair weather. with higher tempera-
lures followed by increasing ciOudimess and pos
sibly rain Temperature yesterday: highest, GS',
lowest A.; average, $3.50.