The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-02-10

bill.
1t is sad commentary on the
honesty of those placed in posi-
lions Of trust, that last year the
stealing by them footed up the
large sum of 5000, 921, although.
it is little consolation to know
that the defalcations were less than
in 1895, when they amounted to
SIC, 42S, 4O5. OF the $40 embez-
zlers convicted during 1896 one
stole more than a million dollars;
one more than 100000; twenty,
more than S1o0, 600 and Ia appro=
priated to their own uses more than
$780, 600 each.
There is a world of suggestion
in the contrast of these two items
of news. The Parkersburg de-
faulting cashier who robbed the
bank of $4,000 is discharged,
while a. boy nine years old has
been sent to the penitentiary IN
Kentucky for a year for stealing
fifty cents.
The assertion is made that the
soil of West Virginia is peculiarly
suited to the successful cultivation
of beet for sugar, and the recon-
mendation that some of our farm
ers should make an experiment in
that direction comes from good au-
liberties upon the subject.
Jail deliveries without the as
sistance of the authorities are be-
coming quite common all over the
country. 1t strikesonethat.m
could be advantageously expended
in housing convicts more securely
than in securing the country chas-
ing escapes.
A New York court has decided
that tobacco is a necessity and not
merely luxury. Old army men
will remember in this connection
that the first three necessities at
the time of the war. in their order.
were hard tack, coffee and tobacco.
The wave Of prosperity is high
in Toledo, Ohio, (not so very far
from Canton, by the way), where
the street railway employees have
received the pleasing intimation
that their wages are to be reduced
ten per cent.
A st. Louis dispatch reports a
newspaper office as robbed. We
cannot imagine what temptations
such an office could afford thief,
unless, indeed, he were immoder-
ately fond of "pi.'
The salary of the President of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany is the same as that of the
President of the United States
$4,000 year.
Is not the declaration demand
ing life. liberty and the pursuit of
happiness very like mockery.
when this opportunity to support
life is taken from the individual?
Judging from Senator Wolcott' s
experience abroad, the United
States will have to play clone
hand" in respect of bi-metallism.
And why not? 1t would not be
the first time when America has
been first and the rest nowhere.
An exchange says that it would
take an expert book-keeper tokeep
count of Democratic converts to.
Republicanism in West Virginia.
Why, certainly; how can man
keep count when there is nothing
to count?
1t appears that the thefts and
defalcations last year among per
sons trusted for honesty by the
various surety, trust and insurance
companies reached the enormous
total of s9,465, 921, and this year
has started in in that direction
pretty badly also.
1t is now said that Gen. Goff's
rejection of the Attorney General
ship in Major McKinley's cabinet
opens the way for the appointment
of West virginian to the posi-
ton of Commissioner of Internal
Revenue. 1t is further rumored
that Colin. b. Scott, of Wheel
ing, will get the appointment.
A hurricane is said to hold the
best time on record for mile,