Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-22
COLUMBUS.
VI epinu Over the Departure ofths
Poker Legislature.
SOME sLusHING HoHoRs.
The Brilliant Steubenyille EdtOr-A Com
pliment to the Press-from Gov.
Eoster-The Club Reception
Personal.

.y,er,ol Correspondence q he Sutly Register.
CoLuNnUs, April 2o.-It is gone. The
Poker Legislature has departed. The body
Cf corrupt schemerS and wonderful diSor
canizers has departed. That is why We
weep; why these briney, salty tears rush
in riyuletS down our youthful cheeks.
The GOOD farmers the bad lawyers, and
the Unsk He'd physicians have departed to
their various homes through the courtesy
of the different railroad msgnateS who
Kindly furnished the little passes; other.
wise hey would be hunting up the county
msps showing the locations OF the mud
rUSdS.
But the 18th General Assembly is dead.
Peace be to its ashes. Were il not ungen-
erous to speak badly OF the dead we might
say il was wrought by dis
sensions, promoter Of iniq.
uitous measures, that lis skirts
were bedraggled with canal nth and belt
railroad schemes, thar il stranded the Re
publican party on the reefs OF sumptuary
legislation, and put both feet into hot Wa
ter on the temperance question. But We
Won't say anything of the kind. While We
cannot pronounce bencdiCtinn over its
tomb, scatter immOrtelles over It's bier, nor
strew flowers around the new made mound,
we can at least be silent. We can let the
record 70 before the people on the second
Tuesday in October next. They can pro.
nounce the eulOgy in more eloquent and
feeling terms than any hired man. and the
people are generally right.
BIuShiPx HonOrE.
Flushing hunOrs C,me thick and fast
upon the part Of the State contiguous 10
West Virginia and the Seventeenth Con-
c:es>iona. district Judge of the new
n IL
from Barnesvile in the person OF Judge
Granger, who has been made Chief Justice.
Now, the blonde Senator from the Belmont
Harrison district has been appointed ~
tnruey General, To sucsesd Hon. George h.
Nash. Better spring GuDernaLOrial can.
didste.
The StenbenNiIIc Truth Teller.
VI, II. McFadden. the sarcastic truth
teller Of the S,eubenyile Gazette. came mp
to the Democratic Central Committee meet
ing 10 take look around among the boys.
McFadden, among those who do not know
him but have heard OF him, has the repu'
IatiOn OF being one Of the meanest men on
this green foot stool. Mack Improves on
acquaintance, however, and does not turn
ont to be the vicious, enviOuS CuSS he IS
reported to be, or rs one would be led -
suppose by his CrOSS-Cut saw editorials.
Swapping Turtles Joe's SueeeSsOr.
Governor Foster performed one OF the
most graceful acts OF his official life IN ap'
pointing Howard l.. Conrad rising yOuaS
Journalist OF this city. as state Librarian,
20 succeed old Joe Geiger, who has been
standing disgrace to that institution Tor the
last two years. The appointment was
made as a compliment % the newspaper
fraternity OF Ohio. who had pec'tjDnet tJr
his appointment, aud especially - tne
courteous press OF this ely nj which he
was an honorcd member. His C)nucna
tiCE in the senate was uusU:wnlS brth
Democrats and Republicans expressing
their SrAt'&"aJiUn a his appoint u~u'.
Tie rooms of the
Curtis Press CIub
vas the scene OF much br.l,liugy Thurs
day evening when many Of the retiring
members % the retiring General assembly
called 10 pay their journalistic friends 4
friendly visit. Col. Coats Kinney, author
OF Rain on the Roof recired his famous
poem 10 the intense delIgdJ Of those pres.
emit. Lieutenant Governor Richards rem.
dered John Burns at Gettysburg Thorpe.
OF Ashtabula. made an after dinner speech,
and Others told stories, sang popular ballads
and had a merry time. Hon. w. W. Arm.
syrOu, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, was
present and made witty speech.
Hon. David Wagner left for Bellajre
Friday evening. His people should greet
him with We'll done thou good and faith.
full servant
Mr. Kethcsr r. is said to be certain OF re-
nomination and reelection from Jefferson
{. HGiy.