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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31
CLARKSBURG.
An Address-Ths Grand Jury-Msmorial
Notes.


Notes.
!Speeiai n the SuaJqy Register.
Cr.sRSSBURG, May 30.-Rev. Holmes,
| few evenings since, in the interest OF ALE
gheny College, delivered an interesting ad
dress ss Gof Chapel. His effort was char
acterized with happy witicism and was Of I
highly entertaining nature.
The gand jury adjourned on Tuesday
having returned lHge numbeT of indict
ments, mostly for misdemeanors.
On Monday evening the rink opened un
der the ma 1agement oS Stautier Il Co. A
number of complimentary ticket1 were is
sued and the crowd in attendance was 80
great as to no, have scarcely standing room.
Visitors were present from Weston, Grafton,
Fairmont. Petersburg and Baltimore. The
enterprise premises to be success and
C!arksburg cao now be c,mplimentcd on
having at least Que place Of amusement for
public resort.
The members of the Grand Army Of the
Republic representing Custer Post, No: g.,
met at Gof Chapel, on the Sunday past,
and held their regular anrnal memorial
service. In the afternoon the same order
olfciated at the funeral of Patrick kearney,
who committed suicide upon the day be-
fore.
Hon. John j. Davis left on Wednesday
for Louisville, Ky, in response to tele-
gram announcing the serious illness Of his
brother, Rein Davis Esq.
Mrs. Joseph Osborn, Of this city, has oeen
dangerously i'll with neuralgia; 80 much so
that her life was dispared Of.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forkes B. Davis, OF Ohio,
are expected TO visit relatives in this city,
during the summer.
Col. Lee Raymond WAS in Wheeling,
few days during the week.
The Sunday schools of this place, were
represented at the Stale Convention at
Parkersburg.
The trial OF Ashcrnft for the murder Of
Doyles, near Romine's Mills, in Harrison
county commenced on Tuesday at noon.
The State was represented by its Prescott
ing Attorney Mr.. c. W. Lynch and Messrs.
Basel and Thompson; and the defense by
Messrs Wilson and Clifford. That Ash
craft killed Boyles by shooting him in the
back there is no question, AS substantiated
by two competent witnesses. The theory OF
the defense was that Of justifable homicide,
on the ground that it was committed in de-
tense of home and the domestic relations
However, the prisoner, when Intercepted
said that he took the gun down to strike
Boyles, and that it WAS accidentally dis
charged. PROFESSIONALLY there will be
convection. There can scarcely be ques-
ton as to the degree Of murder. Il is i'm
possible 10 tell what West Virginia jury
will do. They so often fail to visit CAPT
tai punishment upon the offender, when
the safety Of our homes, our property and
our lives demand it,
II is intimated that Richards Of the
Telegram ia playing practical as well as
5usircss like joke in the recent case Of
Milisr ~. him, by purchasing the witness
certificates Of attendance al large dis
count, roS that the plaintiff is to pay the
CO.'S His object no Goubt being that the
discount will be sufficient to pay his ex.
pcrse in The prosecution Of the defense.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31
WEST ALEXANDER.
Teacher- Examination - News and Fer
sonnl Items.

sonnI Items.
SpS5idI 10 fks Sunday R>oiaor
Wgsr ALEXANDER, Pa, May 80 An e,.-
animation OF teachers was held here this
week. There was good ate adauce.
County Superintendent Spnaler presided. I.
The West Virginia Natural Gas Company
commenced this week erecting derrick on
the farm Of Alexander McCleery in West
Finly township, two and half miles south
ofthis place.
D. n. Holmes shipped two car leads OF
walnut lumber TO Allegheny City, Pa, thi,
week.
As predicted the Dude Nine from this
place got left by the Claysville Smart Alecs
Oh Saturday last by score Of - to 7. A
return game will be played hero 10 day.
weather permitting.
d. A. Scott, Of independence, Pa. =
merchant formerly OF this place. paid our
place short visit this week. lie WAS on
his way 10 the Nail City" to rcpleoish his
stock
Three car loads Of poles for the new tele-
phone line arrived here this week. Colonel
kimberly has the contract for delivery along
tie line
Our friend Vincent Carson reports the
finding by his children, while on their way
10 school a snake skin over seven feet long,
which had been shed during twenty four
hours on fence, on the farm Of j. X hell.
To day, the James Noble q. A. X Post
will decorate the graves of comrades Of the
late war. Burgess Barry Issued q procla'
nation requesting all business 70 be sus.
pended between the hours Of 10 q. m. aud
p. IN. Eminent speakers will be in At
tendance. Several parties were engaged in
decorating their places Of business this
morning. The young lsdios are out With
their Sunday clothes on gathering up flow
ers.
business was not brisk this week in town.
farmers being busy shearina sheep. We had
several nice showers Of rain which did N uch
good.
The Nail City was we'll represented hsru
this week. Our young friend, DR.. Robert
J. Reed, paid relatives and friends short
visit yesterday.
Squire Mayes had several couples 70 call
on bin for his services this week. One
couple got sheep skin this morning.
Justice Powers had q case which w;A sent
to Court this week.
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CORRESPONDENTS.
Hundreds of Ubiquitous News Gath
srers at the Capital.
The Life, Work and Method Of Washing
ton Correspondent---Their Social
The News Clearing House"
---Three Eminent Men.

Special Correspondence Of tss Sunday Register.
WASHINGTON, May 30.-The Washington
correspondents are attracting quite their
usual share of attention Just now. One or
two of them have been banished from the
White House for the crime of having pub
ished statement that Miss Cleveland had
quarreled with her brother about the use OF
wine at the White House and was not going
to return, the New York Graphic has pub
ished page full of the faces of the lead
ing correspondents, and the Washington
Critic is doing" them in comical cuts.
They are peculiar feature of Washington
life. They are ubiquitous, and are an inter-
estipg study. There are scores of them,
perhaps hundreds. Nobody knows just how
many of them, for it is difficult to tell in
some cases Just where the correspondent
ends and the Government employee begins.
For il is well known fact that lots Of them
hold Government positions at the same time
that they are engaged in serving the press
thousand miles away. A few Of them sue
coed in carrying this double load gracefully
and well, but these are exceptions to the
general rule. In most cases the correspon-
dent who takes position in the departments
soon becomes a department machine and
loses his grip as correspondent. Yet there
are so many who do hold positions under the
Government and at the same time do more
or less newspaper work that it is hard to
count them. There is, too, another reason
Why it is difficult to count them. The rea-
son is about the same that made II difficult
for the Irishmsn to count his pig-becsuse
it fiisked about so. They frisk about a good
deal, this month they are here, next month
they are away. There are Of course good
msny papers who do not want Washington
correspondent during the season interven-
ing between the sessions of congress. Many
OF these send some OF their men here to do
this work and withdraw them at the end of
season. This is bad policy, except for the
man who is sent, but the paper perhaps
don't know it. The fact is that few men
are worth much as news gatherers in Wash.
irgton during their first year here. One
CT the oldest and most successful correspou-
dents in Washington, whose portrait is, by
the way given in this correspondence, said
TO your correspondent long ago that ne did
not consider that he was of any particular
value 10 the papers he represented during
the first three years Of lis experience hare
s. it is q mistake, in most cases that the
paper out Of Washington sends its b4st man
reye for merely session Of Congress Bat
they 90 it, and the result is that there nre
NUMEROUS new faces among the cocr.~p>a-
4. hts. and numerous changes and rhat the
ccrrespoudents like the pig afIremaption
fax about 80 that it is hard to count them
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31
GROWTH oFTHE CoMMUNEsTICsPIRIT

GROWTH OFTHE COMMUNISrICS SPIRIT.
While our people may look with interest
upon riots in France and dynamite explo-
sions in England and nihiisGic outbreaks
in Russia, they are are often puzzled and
panied to see the growth Of the same spirit
in the United States They can expect and
excuse a socialistic and revolutionary spiEit
under a tyranny, but how is il, they ask, that
such spi-it can grow on the soil Of free
America? Though all adherents TO social
istic views are not outsPokeu regolutionists
as ScHwAr, MoST and O'DOyOyAS Rosa,
vet there are hosts Of silent adherents in the
large cities of America who hold deep down
in their hearts hatred for government aud
and for everything that is not Of them
selves. The majority of these anarchists
have been the subjects Of oppres-
sion in their iatherlsnd. This OPP
preston may have been 50 ingraiued into
their character that they come to make the
sweeping classification that all existing gov
vrnments and conditions of society are
wrong, because those Of their tstherland are
wrong. They cannot appreciate the ad-
vantsges our republic offers them, and they
are ike frozen serweDts, which, when warm
ed attack their benefactor. They cry out
LET US do away with government! Let US
make war on wealth and let US have all
things equal" Such men whether in Paris
or New York or Chicago or anywhere else
are dangerously insane. Most lunatics are
insane in but few things out many
Of these anarchists are insane in
everything. True there are many
imperfections in our government; true, Ia
Dor and capital are not yet properly ad-
iusted, but these impertections can De
righted and these inequalities can be ad-
iusted only by the law and BY the joint
action of discreet, honest and CooLheaded
men on each side of these questions. Nor
can these things be done all at once. The
minds and conditions Of men cannot be
changed in day. 1t sometimes takes
generations tor the triumph of single
principle. But there has been all along a
gradual evolution Of the principles Of equal
ity and justice among men. There are
thousands of laborers in our country who
feel that they have not justice; many cap
italists are selfish and do not trouble them.
selves about it so long as they make money
others recognize the fact, but often are
t,lJ ss-m9ch puzzled in seeking to
s6Ts I6s yg60lem as Workmen. Various
experiments have been tried, cooperative
associations have been formed, but none
have yet fully succeeded. These problems
must be solved by liberal honest men hold
ing these various interests and views. All
theser of course, condemn the rashness and
insanity Of the Anarchists, and regard them
as the greatest enemies of equality and
right,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31

rot permit imposition upon the convict from
! any source.
Business in our town is looking up, but i,
still sufficiently quiet.
A. o. Baker, Clerk of Circuit Court is
building q new brick house in the Third
ward, which promises to add to the appear.
ance Of things, and Robert Mcconnell, on
the west side Of Market or Main street, just
opposite Mr.. Baker, has repaired in fine
style what in former days was known As
"Anderson's Corner" and familiar to the
oldest inhsbitant of the FLATS"
The planning mill Of Messrs. Riggs 4
Knight is doing fine business, running all
the time and is turning oct large amour,
Of work, highly satisfactory 10 all persons
who patronize the mill
The season for picnics and strawberre,
has arrived, and many Of on: people are ir.
clinsd, as in former times. TO take them in
The strawberry crop will be abuniant srJ
cheap; Gen. b. W. Price hos very f ~
crop Of strawberries, which is IS pleasing 70
his eye as anything in any OF his form r
campaigns, and promises TO be more remu
neraiive 10 him than even his Burton trip.
The Gene.al is slowly recovering from .
tall from his hay NOW by which he injured
his shoulder, and whether il is ftcm the iinp
crop Of strawberries or Bopey's l:limen' III,
writer does not know, but feels we'll assured
that Richard will be himself again in
short time
Mrs A. b. Picket still supplissnll with
the choicest groceries from her store in the
Third ward who may patronize her. She
says that times are growing better, but that
collections are somewhat slower tlsn form
erly. but that sales are just as Numerous.
snd when sheep shearing is over tie collec
tons will be brisker.
Butter is growing more plentiful ard the
quality is excellent.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31

1t was not the intention in this letter Of
entering upon personalities, and this will
DOT be departed from except to give the
faces Of three out of the many widely known
and honored men who have made the name
Of Washington correspondent an honor to
these who wear it. They are f. B. Wight,
correspondent of the Chicago Tribune and
Boston Journal; Charles Nordhof, the cor.
respondent of the New York Herald; and
D. R. Mckee, the head of the Associated
Press, who may be properly termed success.
tul men in the field discussed in this article,
but more so than many others whose faces
and names Of all used would extend the
limits of this article beyond even the eudur-
ance of that most patient and highly re.
ve5ed newspaper potentates, the managing
editor,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31

and bhggies and have their own pevs in
church. Ii is thing quite out of the usual
order in the minds of most people to see q
newspaper correspondent passing the plate
at clutch or filling the uositiou Of usher at
one of the most highly fashionable churches:
But such things haappsu in Washington.
II is no uncommon thing to see the names
of the wives and daughters Of prominent
correspondents figuring largely in the an
mails Of society, or to see them in per.
son taking part in the doingS of that
mysterious kaleidoscope compound, the So
cial world. There is, too more or less Of
social relationship between the families Of
the correspondents, though, where there are
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31
MOUNDSviLlE.
All the News of the Mound City Ia Brief
Paragraphs.

N,ccial 10 he Ss,oIay Regstr.
NorYpsvnLE, May 38-Mr. John Goudy,
an old citizen is slowly recovering from
stroke Of paralysis
The election for school commissioner for
the Independent school district Of Mounds.
vile, resulted in the election Of +. W.
Brown, he having received 10 votes and
J. A. Ewing, Esq, So.
The Mouudsyille Herald says the Circuit
Court will convene on the first Monday OF
Text week would Ike TO know how many
Mondays he thinks there are in next week.
TIE Circuit Court will convene on Mon
day, The first Of June.
Our farmers will wish that the court had
convened at some other time as they are very
| busy at present.
Vegetation is advancing with gigantic
strides, and will soon make mp for the tardy
spring.
The fruit prospect is very fine. OF apples,
pears and cherries there will be an aound-
aIce, but the peach crop promises to be
short, ike the wheat crop, which will not be
over one-third Of last year.
Corn. oats and potatoes are very promis.
ing, but late.
Sheep shearing has commenced, and our
farmers want big prices TO make up for the
long, tough winter
Decoration Day is being honored here BY
or citizens, and though it brings sad recos
lections OF the past the hearts Of our peeps
are paying an honest tribute OF respect Il
the memory Of the fallen soldiers who ne
pose in our cemeteries. Peace TO the Abe
Of our fallen dead, whether they wore th.
blue or the gray, and may the balefdl wing
Of civil strife never again be spread owe
the heads OF American citizens.
Prof J. n. Kendall is in town cAA,assini
for book, but not for State supesie.snden
of Schools.
Mr.. Wilkinson, assistant supsrin.enden
Of the peniten,isry has not arrived ye. On
the duties Of the Office are being psrforme
by A. J. Martin, who. from his long exper
ence as Sd officer Of the institution, il Q
very competent to discharge the duties tbs
the State can receive no dstriment wha
ever.
Mr.. Peck, the new Superintendent af.s
little experience, will make a hrst-cla'
officer. he has the natural elements viii
in, mainly frmnesA, and the kindess fee!in
for humanity so blended that proper disci
line must be the result for the convict, an
the convict can ameliorste his condition
doing what is right, and not by trying
. deceive the officer. for tina. eye of Me-. Pee
will detect the deception, il do NO, nj
take Il. aud his Grmuess Snd hamaaity vi
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31
a MoRD FOR HOME TRADE.

We frequently hear complaints from our
merchants that not few Of our citizens are
in the bsbi' Of either going or sending
abroad when they want something extra
nice or very expensive. Occasions too, are
not wanting when purchases are made
abroad because Of the alleged cheapness OF
the articles Entire sets of furniture, cham
Der sets, carpets, china ware, suits of clothes,
dress patterns, jswelry and scores Of
other articles are purchased away from
home on the superstition or pretense they
can be bought cheaper and better. There
is DO good reason for this practice from any
of the causes enumerated. Our merchants
are enterprising and have excellent taste;
their stores are well stocked and they buy
as cheap, II MT cheaper from first hands
IS any merchants OF any other city in
the land. Their expenses are light, be-
cause Of reasonable rents, cheap gas and
water and help. The merchants themselves
are as q rule economic Gvers. Excepting
the indulgence Of pew in church
or going out to the park in motor
or testing the quality Of glass of book
in the spring time, just out Of curiosity, or,
perhape, if unusually tired, taking ride in
a street car either to or from home, one
could not accuse them Of extravaganza or
dissipation, and even the above will not be
considered by reasonable people as
excessive indulgenees. For these rea-
sons and many more, if we want
ed to assign them, the merchants
of Wheeling have unacceptional facilities
for filing orders aud accommodating
customers. II thry have not what IS
wanted they con order it and are respon-
sible for rendering satisfaction.
We hope our citizens will bear in mind
it is their bounlen duty 20 pail together.
With few exceptions their interests are
bound up II each other in either direct or
indirect way, and 70 ignore these relations
and duties is reckless disregard Of the
city and community prosperity.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31
BRILLIANT ITEMS.
Bits of News From Brilliant About People
and Events.
Social 70 ire SurSay Rsgis..r.


BRILLIANT, O., May 30.-The Cusick
brothers got the contract for the new school
house to be built in Spsuldiug's addition.
The bids for the Mayors Office aud prison
will be opened Saturday.
Joseph johnson is able to be out again
after a long sick spell.
Richard Young's smoke house was robbed
of q couple Of hams and some butter Monday
night
Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Mccormick are spend
ing Sunday with their parents a: Hammonds
vile.
The forge of the nail mill closed Thurs
day. The nail factory closes with the week
Mrs John Dsrgue left Thursday FOR an
extended visit among Indiana friends.
George l.. Conn, of Steubenville, was in
town Saturday.
The Christian Church revival is still 90
ing on with great interest Over twenty
dimensions have taken place 90 far
A number are talking of attending tbs
i. o. o. F. celebration at Wheeling mex
Saturday.
An exciting race took place at the riul
Wednesday night between Charley SRiner
Of Wellsburg, and W. F. Lewis. of Martins
Ferry. The former came In ahead
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31
He Had Every Facility.

"Oh, say, ma" exclaimed bright little
girl at the Hoffman House while at dinner,
hasn't that man over there got awful big
earsT'
Hush, child; the gentleman might hear
you" cautioned the mother.
well, ma" retorted the precoeious
youngster, IF be couldn't hear me with
those ears he ought to haul EN- down"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31
Pleasures OF Travel in the Land Region
cNSna1o TribKps

Secretary of War Endlcost is visiting the
Northwest, and is surrounded BY regiment
Of gentlemen who are so kind to him. They
want an Office or two. il be has any to spare,
but If that is out of the question, they would
Ike to sell him town lot.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31
IT was very ereditable parade.

A MAN in New York wants to know if he
ought TO change his name from Heller" to
"SheOller," because Of the change in the
New Version2
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NeYAsiNeyer.

louisville C0,tTisr-JOErn1!.
Now Dr.. Talmage airs the wrongs
OF women. soOrning lis or mayhes.
o dOetoFl why not pray the Loru
To send US lever female baoteSE
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Clipped From Anna DickiusOa'ss Scrap Bool


II bride at any time during the honey
moon turns her husband to see what another
woman has on, or if she walk abreast Of a
feminine companion while crossing street.
her mstrimony will prove unlucky.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31

ID. X. Mckee, Manager OF Associated Press
There are, however, over hundred of
them who can be legitimately counted.
Think of it, you who are accustomed to see
a corps of perhaps dozen or so OF all sorts
OF men in city. A hundred or two hun
drei busy news gathererS, hunting high and
low for news, looking up the records OF
statesmen who are always considered fair
target and combining the results of their
labors. Do you wonder that some very
queer stuff comes out Of Washington and is
called news? For here is a great inter-
change Of matter and when you read this
or that item you never know whose actual
production il is. This is especially true
about the afternoon dispatches.
"The News Clearing House"
is the the name given the Western Union
Telegraph office Just opposite the Treasury.
1t is the general resort Of newspaper cores
poudents about noon Of each day. They
gather there and swap news. lis a curl
Gus fact that for afternoon paper work there
is much greater exchange oil news than at
night This probably grew out of the habit
that afternoon paper correspondents natu
rally fall into of giving away their matter
after they have sent it TO their own papers.
A piece of news sent to one city for after
noon publication is often just as good the
same night in some other city. So there
was system Of interchange Of news es-
tablished in this way. Then as there is not
much news before one or two o'clock those
anxious to make d good showing of their
work were ready to trade with the other al
ternoon paper men, and the general system
of interchange Of afternoon news arose, and
the news clearing house was thus esta5-
lished. An old Washington correspondent
said to your correspondent on this subject
not long since that it was utterly impossible
10 keep a piece Of news exclusively IN
the morning here. This is not, strictly
true, bat it is fact that there 10 great
deal more trading in news in the morning
than there is in the evening. Old cores
noHdents say, TOO, that there is not nearly
so much rivalry among news puryeyors now
as there was ten years ago.
The World of the Newspaper Cores
pendent
is q comylete one in itself. Ii has its duties
aud its pleasures. its studies and its relaxs-
tons; is social joys and grietS, very much
the same as any other class. There IS an
idea that your average correspondent is a
Bohemian, with neither home nor family,
nor ambition except TO earn his weekly
salary and spend it Of course there are
some men in the newspaper world who have
his sort of record as there is il any other
professionalism it is protessiou,-bdt they
are the exception, not the rule. Most Of
them have their families, some of them live
in their own houses, keep their own horses