Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-03
ECHOES OF THE WEEK.

ECHOES OF THE WkEha
Senator Vance tells this story: When
Judge Tourgee was on the bench in North
Carolina an old chum of his was brought
before him on some trifing charge. OAR
Ing the trial the prisoner said something
that highly displeased his Honor. I'D
you mesn," sternly said the Judge, ito
bring this court into contemptT Tho
prisoner smiled and said: Judge, you
have known me for many years, and We
have been friends, haven't we"' THAT is
is fact" said the Judge. "You wouli do
me favor within reason, even now, would
you not?" Very likely" responded his
Honor, all graciousness and good humor,
"but what is it?" "Well," retorted the
scamp, do not press me too hard on the
point Of contempt this morning."
Inotice that Lawrence Barrett has been
shocked to Sea a paragraph about his
coming tour CLOSING with q disrespecsful
allusion TO an august lady" and as it has
been asserted that he is the author OF the
story be pronouuces it monstrous inven.
ton of sheer malice. He repudiates the
lie itself and all knowledge of it, but fails
to disclose the identity OF the august lady.
Mr.. Barretts love akipg is strictly his.
roDic. He may warm 10 Juliets or Marys,
ut lie lets august ladies severely alone.
IS
John Kelly, I see, has been heard from
ON the Presidential question. He is OF the
opinion that the Democratic candidate
should come from New York, but as there
appears to be no New York Democrat who
would have any assurance Of Mr.. Kelly's
support it must be that the Tammany boss
really looks upon himself as the only man
for the emergency.
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The fame which preceded Monsignor
Capsl to this country proves to be justly
founded. Seldom has a Churchman from
Europe Of any creed produced a more
charming impression than this gifted eccle-
siastic. Those who had formed an idea OF
his personality from the story OF his re-
fined social manners and courtly bearing
have learned from the power shown in his
lectures that his fame has rested on broad
and deep intellectual foundations. 1t is,
therefore, with regret that | notice the re-
ports that the severity OF our winter CHI
mate has so told upon his health that he is
obliged to postpone his lecture tour OF the
West. The subjects, however, that Mon
signor Cspel discusses are not such tribes
of the hour that they will stale by little
delay. The cities where he has not been
heard may rest assured that when the sun
climbs further north the pleasure they an
ticipste will be fully realized.
ass
/ ind the following paragraph floating
about In the literary papers: IN. lola, the
novelist, is still com paratively young, hay.
ing but just passed his tortieth year. He
is the son of an italian engineer, and Curl
ously enough, failed to pass his graduating
examination at college. He then turned to
Journalism, in which he spent two years,
living in a precarious and wretched fash
ion, literally from hand to mouth. Fame
and fortune have since come TO him, how.
ever; but, though one of the weslthiest
writers of the day, he still leads busy AID
rPretentious life"
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A New York World reporter submitted
these triaing questions to Jay Gould:
How much are you worth? How is your
money invested Whist is your incomer
How much does it cost you to liver
Strange to relate, Mr.. Gould sent word that
he was mot in
Fred Douglass Was once a Maryland
slave. He fled from the darkness OF
bondage into the sunlight OF freedom, and
in the anti.siavery struggle of the thirty
years which closed with the Emancipation
Proclamation Of Abraham Lincoln won
more than national reputation. He was
the friend of Daniel 0'Connell. An Eng.
lish anti slavery Duchess more than Q
generation ago took Sis arm on one of the
most fashionable streets Of London, send
ing thrill OF horror through the ranks OF
the British sristocrscy. Until few years
ago. il remember Alright, the old Mary
land statutes were in forcs against him as
q runaway slave. In his honored old age
he has found white wife, and the statutes
Of Mary land, in force in the capital Of the
country az a part Of its common law, again
rise up condemning her, not him, to pay
fine Of five thou and pounds of tobacco
And yet this is the nineteenth century
Mrs. Douglass should pay the tobacco fine
aud let our civilized lawmakers smoke it.
Governor Irwin, of the thriving young
Territory Of Ida 70, o, I see, sent to the
conscience fund Of the Treasury Depart
ment his salary for three months, on the
or und that he had not earned and could
no. keep it What surplus We should
rave in the Treasury II the consciences OF
ell our pubic men were equally tender
The national debt would have been paid
long ago and Uncle Sam would be able to
buy out half the monarchies in the Old
World.
notice that the Senate has at last agreed
upon bill regulating the Presidential sue
cessitn, 80 that the Republic isin no imme.
diate danger. In the event of the inability
of the President and Vice President, the
Secretary OF State shall take thsir place at
the helm. After him core, in the order
named, the Secretary Of the Treasury, the
Secretary of War, the Attorney General,
the Postmaster General, the Secretary OF
the Navy, and the Secretary of the Int
ror. No further provision is made in the
bill. This is mistake. When it goes to
the House of Representatives we trust 1t
will be amended SO as to give the Speaker
and every one OF its three hundred and
twenty-five members chance for the Office
in the alphabetical order of their names.
1t Is the only chance the great majority Of
them will have.
find the funny man Of one Of the
Nav York papers INDUCING in the follow.
ing: "While one SHERMAN is training for the
Republican nomination on the strength OF
being an Ohio man, and smother Sherman
is being groomed against his will for the
Democratic candidacy on his war record
and his kissing proclivities, Mr.. Arthur is
quietly en- iistiug powerful army who will