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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-09-01

There are some interesting items on
England's civil pension list. Sir Richard
owen has had 81 600 a year since 1912,
and Lord Tennyson the same since 1S45.
The widow Of Kitto, the biblical encyclO-
pedist, gets $3.50, and the widow Of Haydn
lof the Dictionary of Dates, ') $500.
The daughter Of Douglas Jerrold
gets $50 Mr.. Gerald Massey, be-
cause he is 50 lyric poet sprung from the
people. - gets S5OOa year; the same sum Is
awarded 10 Mr. William AlliDgham, Mrs.
Oiphsnt, Mr.. Robert Buchanan, the widow
of George Cattermole and the Rev. DR..
George Macdonald. Faraday's niece gets
$3.50; Mr. Upper, 5000; the widow Of
Charles Kingsley, $1,000; two ladies d.
rectly descended from DsfOe, S575 each
the widow Of Richard A. Proctor, $780,
the sister Of Keats, $500; Mr.. Philip james
Bailey, $500, and the daughter Of Nelson's
adopted daughter, $500.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-09-01
An Unpleasant counting Experience.

A young man named Dixon has just
had an unpleasant cOurdng experience III
Iunishowen. county Donegal, Ireland.
His lady love is not only very pretty, but
she ia an heiress, her uncle having left
her q fortune. Moreover, she is partial
70 Dixon. The young man was calling
on the girl one day when be heard the
footsteps of a couple of rivals. and in
sportive hunor he concealed himself 10
the butter box While he was enjoying
she conversation the girls father came
along with a pail of hot water 70 scald the
box. The howl Of anguish that arCss
scared the old gentleman half to death,
and poor Dixon wss found 20 be SO badly
scalded that he had TO be removed TO o
hospital.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-09-01
They Urderstood Each other.

Miss Davis: "Howdy, Bier Silas'
WHARF you got dat likely-loOkin' muel:
Pears mighty lax er muel dat was miesin'
at de Corners lag week" Brother Silas:
"Slowly, Sis Davis, slowly. Dare's too
many her feathers back OBJ dat mouse ior
folkeses what don't keep no chickens TO
ask pinted questions lax dat"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-09-01
A DRowsY DAY.
George Cooper, in he Independent.

George Cooper, in the Independent.
The butterflies fit here and there
About the tawny, dus' deep road
Like fakes of gold, in quivering glare.
Heat shrivelled vines, and leaves that snoWe
Life in each leaf ali breezy June,
Droop languidly along the way;
And a lone bee, with mut.led crooni
Seems moody 70 say.
1T is q drowsy, drowsy day"
No silver ripple sirs the brook
Whose CLASSY low slips nOiselessiy;
There seems no life where eyes may looA.
The clouds are ships becalned az sea
The song lies hushed In painting throat
OF Bird grassh0ppers tire OF play
The cricket seldom shTills its note
And only then 10 say.
1t is a drowsy, drOwsy day
So no0utide lapses unto eve,
The farm house paneS flash ruoy-cleari
And bats their secret places leave,
And kRly-dids sgain We hear.
The ire-dies gem the gathering shade
The swallows cheep in circing play
And weary flowers. in field and glade,
seem whispering 70 say:
IT was droWsy, drowsy day.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-09-01
He Gets There at Last.
MuHsey's Uefk.

Old Swineford weight 300 pounds
See here, my yourg man, why don't you
get up and give one Of those young ladies
q sest?
District Telegraph boy Outraged Holy
smoke Why don't you get up an give
both Of 'sm seats?
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-09-01
Tho Only Child Born in the whItehouso


Mrs. Wilcox q clerk in the Treasury De-
partment at Washington, has an interest
ing history. Her father, Andrew jackson
Donaldson, was an adopted son of Presi'
dent jackson, and she IS said to have been
the only child who first saw the light OF
dsy in the White House. Mrs. Wilcox
is lady of refined tastes and splendid In
formation. She has seen many European
capitals, and has command OF Spanish
and other languages that serves her to good
purpose in her present sphere. Mrs. Will
cox's husband, who died in 1865, was a
member from Mississippi of the Thirty-sec,
ond Congress, and was afterwards elected
to the Thirty-Fourth Congress from Texas.
He was also member of the Confederate
Congress.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-09-01
THE MEXICAN MULE.
A Pleasant Animal on Which to Travel
Over Mountain Trail.

A Pleasant Animal on Which to Trave
Over Mountain Trail.
Lieut.. Schl01kG in Boston Transcript.
The Mexican mule is a sort of cross be
tween mountain goat and flying SPUR
rel, with the distinct difference that it:
surplus electricity flows off from the mega
tive pole instead of the positive, as with
the goat. 1t ia in its meanderipgs on the
mountain trails that it shines respondent,
but with lustre wholly its own, that car
no r1ore be compared with any other than
can the flash of the diamond be compared
with the fire of the opal. l would like to
place it alongside Of the American mule for
comparison in the deadly double col
umn" of the newspaper, but the Mexican
mule would kick out the intervening rule
and "pi" the type before enough was up
to form an opinion. On the mountain trail
this distinct species Of mule was never
known to fall, al hough be has an exasper-
ating and blood -curdling way of stumbling
along over it that would raise the hair on
ED of bald headed man. Many time
I have watched the mule was compelled
to ride with view of discovering his meth
DDS of trying to scare me to death, as pay
ment for past injuries. 0ftentimes tire
trail would lead past dizzy heights or cliffs,
where one could look sheer down far
enough to bs dead before he reached the
bottom should he fall, and every few fee,
along the trail of foot TO foot and halt
in width would have tumbled in foot or
so and again taken up the original incl
nation of the mountain, or about that OF
the leaning tower of Pisa. Here the mule
would always be sure to stick one foot and
stumble little bit, bnt always regained
its equilibrium at the next step, having
clearly done it Intentionally, and for 0
other purpose than pure cussedness. Oae
can imagine the cool Alpine zsphyr that
is waited up the dorsal vertebIT with cuff
Gent force to blow the hair straight up on
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-09-01
Johnny Visits His HOmI

MltnSey WttEIy.
Brown-Where is your diamond ring,
my dear?
Mrs. Brown-It is being reset.
Little Johnny who has been out with
his mother Does the man always give
money, ma, when you take any thing to be
repaired.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-09-01
THE STORY OF TWO RIVAL BELLIES.

Every season must have its special IA
vorite, and no girl who has ever been
belle at the "Old White" ever cares to be
ANYTHING else there except that or ma
tron. Occasionally her reign will last
over one season, hut this is only when she
is exceptionally beautiful and witty be-
sides. Matte Oald was supreme for tour
seasons, and so was Miss Triplett. OF
course, they were rival bellies, and the sto-
res told about them are many. The frsb
endea1ed herself to people, not only g.
cause Of her beauty but because Of her wit,
which was "a sparkling as a diamond and
which, like the diamond, cut nothing but
the glass which deserved il. Miss Triplett
was as beautiful snd as expressionless as
any OF the ladies that Vatican painted.
BEAUTY's TOAST TO BEAUTY.
TIE best story ever told about them is
like good wine-a bit OLD, but that does
not prevent it's being repeated. a man
who admired them both gave q fue break
fast in their honor, at which were any
number of their admirers and o great many
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-09-01
rHE TYPIcAL soUTKERN eIRL:

She has not the book knowledge Of the
New England girl, for she thinks Brown
ing doesn't compare with Adelaide Proc
tor; she has been told that Swinburne
wasn't proper for o young lady to read ;
she doesn't care for George EnOt because
mamma said there was something very queer
in her behavior, but she adores Thsckeray,
and thinks if she ever had son, and the
thinking makes her blush, she would like
him to resemble Henry EsmOnd. She Is
very willing to concede that the Northern
girls know great deal, bat when they
tell her of women who have to earn their
own living, gentlewomen, she wonders
with wide.eyed establishment where the
men of their family are. She doesn't
realize that in this world there are men
who only look after themselves, and she
can't understand why ties of blood do not
from the honorable standpoint make all
men anxious to protect in every way the
women of their own blood. She is
NOT GIVEN TO ROSE COLORED STORIES.
She seldom hears them, either as maid
OF wife, and she has the courage to very
quickly suppress anything she thinks she
ought not to hear. l grant you she is a
coquette; but il is clean, sweet coquetry,
as different from broad Irritation as is
sweet milk from creme de meRtie. At no
other place is the custom of belleship go
decided.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-12-14
Real Estate Transfers.

List Of transfers fled in the Office
of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
week ending Dec. 7, 1889:
Jonas Mo-ser and wife to Annie
Boyer, q acres and % perches of
land.
Edward Hoye, Trustee. to Marga.
ret and John l.. Galloway. Military
Lot No. 372, containing so acres
500,
E. f. SoIIars. Sheriff, to P. T.
Cartwright, Lot No. 925 in Mt. Lake
PARK S7S5.
G. NJ. Steele to Annie f. Friend.
part of Lot ALI containing 81 acres;
$500.
JOS. r. Anderson and wife to Sol.
ONION Seihprt, % acres Of tract called
"R"pubIic" Sl75.
WIN. r. Getty and wife to Solo
mon Seib"rt, al acres and ITO perches
of TRACT called "Repuhlic" S297.
Mt. Lake PARK Association to A.
w. Bennett. Lots Nos. 30l7, 30l9 and
1921 on the Plat of Mt. Lake Park
500,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-12-14
Centennial Monument.

WAsHINGToN. D. c., Dec. 1O.-An
adjourned meeting of the Governors
Of the original thirteen States was
held here to-day to take some action
looking 10 the erection in Philadel.
phia of suitable memorial structure
commemorative of the achievements
Of this Nation duri G one hundred
years of independence and constitu.
tional government. A bill was adop.
ted for presentation to Congress-. II
provides for the appropriation by
Congress of sum of money, to he
hereafter inserted, for the purpose of
erecting in Fairmont Park. Philadel.
aphia, a suitable memorial structure
which shall be monumental, orna.
mental and commemorative of ali
the great scenes and events of the
Nations history during the last one
hundred years.
The second section of the bill pro.
vides that the President of the Uni.
ted States shall appoint a commits.
sion, consisting Of one citizen from
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-12-14
Stock in the b. 80. Railroad

The proposition which, it is said,
will come before thu city council for
the sale of the $500 shares of the
Baltimore and Ohit stock is attract
ing a good deal of atention in finan.
cial quarters. The project. so far as
the buying side ofthe matter is con.
cerned, is one of proportions so large
as to be worthy gilmore than passing
notice, even in these days of gigantic
financial operations. The scope, it is
understood, comprehends the pur
chase of the 1880 shares of Balti.
more and Ohio stock owned by The
ely, the $4,000. shares owned by W,
Johns Hopkins University es&e,
and the million or more Of Washing
ton Branch stock and other seGfi.
ties owned by the State of Marylatl.
One of the capitalists in interest says:
"What the Baltimore and Ohio
needs most of all is to haye everyin.
terest eliminated except that which
pertains solely TO business. New
York parties want 10 come into the
company, and it is highly important
both to the city of Baltimore and to
The company that they should be-
come interested in this great corpor.
alton and aid its development with
their abundant means. There will
be nothing kept from the public when
the time arrives for laying open the
details of the proposition. Every.
thing will be stated openly. 1t is
safe to predict that the city, State
and Johns Hopkins stock will pass
into other hands this winter, as.
speaking in all candor, 1t certainly
should" To carry into effect what
is outlined above, would in round
figures require syndicate with a
capital of say S6.OOO,0OO. The Belt
Line Railroad project, which is in
other hands than those which would
handle the purchase of the Baltimore
and Ohio stock, also represents about
S6,000,000. The probable offering
price for the common stock Is not up
to the 100 mark. Both of there prop.
ositions will come in for their full
share of public discussion. Their
suggestion has almost started FL,
timore boom already. - Baltimort
Sun. .
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-12-14

The Confluence and Oakland rail-
road was put in operation Monday,
and will he managed for the account
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
in connection with its Pittshurg
division. The point of connection of
this road with the PittShurg division
is at Confluence ami Oakland June
tion, IS miles from Cumberland and
81 miles from Plttsburg, from which
point it extends to Manor Lands
Station, Garrett county. The stations
and distances are as follows: G. and
O. Junction, Pa, -; CharleSt0wn,
Pas Tub Run, Pa, 70; SOmer-
field, Pa, s 6; Reason Run, Pa, ll.2;
Buffalo Run, Md, 1879; Selhysport.
Nd, ISL; FriendSvilIe, Nd. ia;
Manor Lands, Md. 1917. The new
road runs southwest 10y south from
the junction. and is to be continued
up to Oakland, Garrett county. 1t
passes through a rich coal and lum-
Der district.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-12-14
Dsath of a Noted Author.

WHEELING. w. VA. Dec. g.
Rev. DR.. f. S. Dehass died at his res.
idence at Avondale, opposite this
city, at II o'clock this evening. DE-.
ceased has countrywide reputation
as traveller. lecturer and author,
his, Buried Cities Recovered" hay
ing run to nearly 100. 900 copies. He
was born in Washington county, Pa,
In 1920. and was educated at Wash.
ington Jefferson College, in his ma.
tive county. He entered the min
istrv of the Washington County
Church and for many years was one
of its most earnest workers. He built
the Metropolitan church at Washing
ton, D. g., and was consul at Jerusa.
EN- during the Grant administra-
tiOn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-12-14
To Solve the Negro Question.

WASHINGTON, d. G., Dec. TO-
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, a mem
her of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, was asked to-day by an
Associated Press reporter the pur-
port of the resolution offered by him
yesterday. 1t "instructs the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations to in
uuire and report as to the best meth
cd of increasing trade and commerce
between the people of the new State
of Congo and the people of the United
States, and as to what impedimentS.
if any, exist in our diplomatic rela-
lions with the Free State of Congo
and other powers standing in the way
of such trade. commerce, and inter.
course"
The Senator said "When the
convention OF twenty-one peers met
In Berlin to fix the status of the Con.
90 State. the United States did not
accost the conclusions of the cOnyen-
tion, and, therefore. has no political
rights in that country. do not
know that this has ever been brought
to the attention of Mr.. Blaine. but
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-12-14

ing an investigation of this subject,
and assured them that full Justice
would he done to the wool interests
of the United States.
Secretary Noble has given permis-
sion to 35 Sioux Indian chiefs to visit
Washington. They want to talk TO
the President about the sale of their
lands. which they have recently
agreed to. They are expected here
next week.
Speaker Reed has announced the
Committees on Rules, which may
virtually ne said to control all legis.
lati0n, consists of Speaker Reed.
Representatives Mckinley and Can.
non, and ex-Speakers Carlisle and
Randall.
Secretary WINDOWS annual report
to Congress would have made his
reputation as one of the ablest finan.
cierS in the country, if he had not
been so rated before. 1t is a docu.
ment that the ahlest of his predeces.
sors would have been justified in
feeling proud of. Its c:0wning fea.
lures is the original and ingenious
system it proposes as a solution of
the never ending controversy be-
tween the friends of gold and silver
as basis for currency. Everybody
is talking about it, and doubtless
those Congressman who pride them
selves on their financial knowledge
are burning the midnight oil study
ing it. Whether it will he adopted
is question that cannot be answered
off handed. No public man who
values his reputation would commit
himself for or against such an inn
pOrtant measure without long and
careful study. The President in his
message. merely calls the attention
of Congress to il, ana then adds that
he may at later day send in spe.
cial message on the subject.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-12-14
Is This a Dream ?
This is the way it impresses the
Richmond Dispatch:

This is the way it impresses the
Richmond Dispatch:
Governor Lees proclamation rec
ommending that on Wednesday next
at noon, the hour designated for the
funeral of Mr.. Davis, memorial ser.
vices in honor of his memory he held
throughout this Commonwealth, is
meet and proper, Weow 1t to his
tory, we owe it to our dead, we owe
1t to principle. we owe it to senti-
ment, we owe it to manhood, we owe
1t to coming generations that this
recognition should be accorded to him
whom the South conided the Starry
Cross and charged:
"Take thy banner! and beneath
The battle clouds encircling wreath,
Guard 1t til our homes are free
Guard It: God will prosper theew
That banner went down in dark
hess and bathed in tears never to
rise again hut II Is none the less the
martial cloak and shrOud of a nation
represented In the person of Jefferson
Davis, and certainly Virginia of all
the Southern States would be most
btCtcduJ " Buo uIu IDG SWlUH over
the grand old mans bier censor of
memorialism, the incense from
which shall ever linger in the CORR.
doris of time.
The principle was States Rights
isn't that settled forever and a day?
What will coming generations care
about it? Your Confederacy never
was nation, and you know it. Are
not your homes free? And are there
not more free homes in the South
than there were before your banner
went down in darkness?
You did guard it-guarded it with
all the desperate vaIor of determined
Americans, and God did not prosper
you 10 your destructive endeavor.
How much longer do YOU propose to
guard itS
The lingering incense in the CORR.
doris of time is all right as a sophie.
mortal flight, but you can't get the
Southern people to listen to much Of
that sort of thing in this day.
Wheeling InteXigencer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-12-14
JEFF DAVIS True Character.

Mr.. Jefferson Davis has been for
tWeny-fOur years the most conspic.
uous monument of Republics gen.
crosby. Educated at public expense
at West Point, he headed a rebellion
against the nation. and yet was mag.
unanimously permitted to retain the
life he had forfeited. 1t cannot be
said of him. as of many others, that
he merely obeyed his State. On
leaving the Senate he avowed that
his own will was in full accord with
the action of his state, and historians
must say of him, as that most philos.
optical historian of the cival war.
COmte de Paris, said in his first vol
ume, "he was the soul of the rebel
lion" and "had been the soul of So
cession." Indisputably he had con.
spired and labored to bring about " .
cessiOn, and when the rebellion had
gone down, when he had been CAP.
tured in ignominiOus flight, and after
brief detention was released withoar
punishment, it was felt throughout
the world that no other nation would
have been equally magnanimos,
But his nature was not capable of
appreciatiDg such generosity, and ID
persisted even to the end. in.-SAA,,
senting himself as the suffesg
martyr ola lost but righteous cuse.
By such utterances he has cons'ntly
damaged the cause of his piitical
friends. just as his conduct heed the
Union to triumph over II rebel
lion, His ccndct dur
ing the last twenty years rs shown
no higher qualities. OtheSouthern
men have learned to insll loyalty
and hearty love Of county into the
hearts of the people. NJ. Davis let
no opportunity pass toan the dying
fl 4meS of sectional hatrd and dislOy-
atty. Surely it is permitted to hope
that he represented lnIy what Was
worst IN the SOutherDcharacter, anu
that, as he departs fom the stage.
the narrow. dictatori, and vindIca-
tive spirit, which hep sharply req
resented may also fae away.-NeW
York Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-12-14

am anxious that it should be, and
that the United States should secure
its just political power in Congo.
"My reason for desiring this is that
it may encourage negroes of this coun-
try who have wealth and enterprise,
but have not standing and never will
have here, to engage in trade in that
country. Ultimately l have in view
a general emigration of negroes from
the United States to Congo. They
came from that country and should
return. Here their civilization is
wasted there. it might he develop.
ed to the building up of govern
ment and a country that shall be a
credit to them"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-12-14

The Secretary of the Navy says a
great deal in the few words follow
ing: 1.-THE cost of building a navy
casts no perceptible burden upon a
country of our vast resources. 1t is
the premium paid by the United
States for the insurance of its acquir.
ed wealth and its growing industries.
Compared with the interests that are
secured the rate is low. 1t is a cheap
price to pay for safety. We collect
in duties in six months at q single
port a greater sum than we could
spend in building new navy in six
years. For the last two years the
Government has paid its creditors
for the privilege of discounting its
debt before 1t was due twice the sum
we have spent in reconstruction.
And the fact must be remembered
that of the amount which we spend
for the construction of ship only
small fraction. perhaps one tenth,
goes for absolutely raw material,
while the remaining nine-tenths rep.
respnts, in one form or another, the
earnings of American labor. If the
country is to have a navy at all, it
should have one that is sufficient for
the complete and ample protection
of its coast In time of war;"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-12-14

On Thanksgiving Day Rev. Chas.
R. Weld, D. D., of Baltimore preach
ed a discourse on "The Shadows of
THANKSGIVING" In the course of his
sermon he declared that "three heavy
shadows, ominous ond threatening"
rest upon this republic.
The first shadow The said is the
nncOunted ballot. No one can doubt
for a moment that the perpetu.
;ty of free institutions rests upon the
intelligence and morality of the indi
vidual voter. When there is a sus-
piciOn Of a doubt as to whether or not
that b lllOt is counted you shake the
whole institution to its Foundation.
The uncounted ballot is the crime of
crimes, it is the most serious and
threatening peril of the republic.