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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-04

Tho subjoined,extact from the viii Of
Charles Dickens will be read with interest;
II desire that my name be inscribed in
plain English letters on my tomb. | con-
iure my friends on no account to make mo
the subject Of any monument, memorial or
testimonial whatever / rest my claim to
the remembrance Of my country on my
published works and to the remembrance
Of my friends in their experience Of me
in addition thereto. / commit my soul to
the mercy Of God, through our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ; and I cxhort my dear
children humbly to try TO guide them
selves by the::teachipgs Of the New Testa-
ment, in its broad spirit and to put no
faith in any mans narrow construction Of
its letter here or there"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-04

AccDRNT.-on Saturday morning, as
tho Annis laurie was loading on Tobacco
at tho mouth Of Elk. n hogshead Of tobacco
rolled over the body Of Mr.. Jack BoRser
and seriously injured him. Hc lives so
miles beyond indianapolis. aud is deck
hand on the Laurie. He will probably
recover. -Ka. Journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-04

There are many persons who think sun
day is q sponge to wipe out tho slns OF tho
week
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-04
INDIANA POLITICS.

At Indianapolis last Wednesday even
ing, preliminary meeting, calledto make
arrangements for Republican mass meet:
ing on the 9th inst, became SO largely
and enthusiastic that it was resolved. into
formal organization and committee ap-
pointed to prepare resolutions. The COM
mittcc reported the following, which were
unanimously adopted:
RcsOlced, That We regard the course Of
the emperor Of France ID the prevailing war
with Prussia and the North German Con
federation as being for.the sole purpose Of
moro firmly establishing himself upon the
throne Of France; and that it is tyrannical,
oppressive and unjust, because there was
nothing in the course Of Prussia to justify
his action; aud that lie was actuated solely
by the same selfish and ambitious motives
which promptcd. him toiuvade Mexiee;-that
his unjust aud oppressive course deserys,;
and should receive tllc.ecnsure ofall civil
iro hhiioha' ana ~ 'ir ipl '''.' q '.'0
impe1ding struggle arc strongly win the
German people, as, in our hour Of trial,
'ne,1 m.,,oas..o Mn Ss ,.,t, -
this country being opposed to equal rights
at home, it was to be expected that its lead:
ing organ wGaa sIppol as sngy ". ussss ;at.sfsp
ported tno freusn aesPos III n's aase.is ,s, hi,
ence' % prevenI opain ,ron a.n .na""slu an5 1
own doncsuc mars ~ Isr oma way, a1
tnas We t5ase W. .russ .ns .So. sony,ssS
augaratca oy NapU.g1n M.suUaS ".I Jon.o.sas,,
result IN Tue triumph Vi 'ile feei ~, lenOO.S S
OF France by tue overthrow Oh tue pFessuS
dynasty.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-04
SlCIAN N 8.
Dn. W 3. GUTHRIE,

II AvING permanently located in Hartford
l. City. West Va, offers his prolesslonaII
services to tho public. with the assurance O
rendering satisfaction. Office one door eooVs
Mccoy Cos. store. where he may be ioun9
at all hours, when not Professionally cngagea
may 6-tf,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-04

The Engineers were at tho "Ravcnswood
House" from Saturday to Monday last
They have surveyed up Crooked Fork Of
Sandy. to Cottagoville. They, as in duty
bound, are carefully examiug every creek
and rivulet. They will be here this week
again. The route up Sandy past Three
Forks, of Rcedy, aud thence by the new
survey eastward, they pronounce. the
best vet discovered. Just here we iaketh
opportunity ossaying to the Mason County
i5ia7a'. which. lnsE Toel' aaFirca rs to
keep cool, that possibly it does not know
as much about railroad mnttors as ittliinks
it does. When the Air Line is completed
to this place, our Point Pleasant friends
eau construct branch which will connect
them with US. Perhaps that would be ad-
visable. We have q rising town which
will doubtless spread itself amazingly, aud
our neighbors will be benefited by linking
their destinies with ours. Come on. We
love sou -Rareasrood Ners.
How funny Brown talks.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-04

A old man and his daughter, very
pretty girl of eighteen, from the rural dis
tricts Of Ohio, visited Cincinnati news
paper Office one day last week in search Of
q printer named Ellison, and at last ac-
counts had not been successfulin their mis-
sion. It was tho old, old story Of love,
trust, descrtion. Some young man who
had been ranging through the country saw
the girl, admired her, won her heart, gain,
cd the old mans confidence aud promised
to marry the girl il she would come to
Cincinnati and meet him about the first Of
July. Accordingly, the old man, his wifc
and six children performed their part Of the
agreement by going to Cincinnati in q
lump, and now they do not know what to
make Of it, or what to do about it. They
we're all TO live with tho welded pair. the
young n.an5having represented that be Ind
q printing establishment and had means
enough to support them. Pity the sorrows
OFFS pooor girl.
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The Sunday Masc,ay IS very. indignant
that s.newspapers should, as Col Forney
ssrs rrnffa11l7 palle nnalls nsn rreat
withoat oolalning cithor ggatitude % re-
ward II says that publishers especial-
ly ofpolitical papers, should consider the
welfare Of themselves aud families before
interesting themselves and deyoting their
talents to the elevation ofofico seekers. -
II the latter want fame make them pay for
it. Politics is their business, and they
should pay for advertising the same, as q
quack medicine vendor or a tradeslnan of
any sort. If political party managers or
individual politicians believe that printers
ink will advance their personal or party
interes is, they should bp required to pay
what tho article. is really worth to tllem.
The printer has to pay for bis work, his
paper, and to pay his hands, and rent, fuel
andtis gas bills, and has to proyidefor him
self and family, aud he ought to be paid
for everything he does for the benefit Of
others. Let the politicians remember
these self evident facts. For our part We
do not intend to forget them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-04

We understand that tho Ku Klux in
Loudou Township have made numerous
threats against several good quiet citizens
in that scctioo, FOR no other reason than
they arc Republicans, Let them wade iu,
our'boys arc ablo 10 defend themselves. =
Ka. Journal,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-04

In the sand stono qaarries Of Mr.,
Warthorst, some time since a discovery
was made Of considerable curiosity. ~
Down at the bottom ofthe formation q dis
tance perhaps Of seventy or eighty feet
from tho surface Of tho ledge tho workmen
overturned piecc Of stone, where
there was on the upturned side. the full
and plain imprint Of turtles form,
with feet extended as though crawling
along, he had been overturned and buried
alive. In timo. his prison walls became
as stone, and aftOr ages, resurrcctcd BY
man 10 search Of wealth. The cavity
shows his turtleship TO have been about
twenty inches long. BY some nine in width, !,
with she'll Of deep indications. - lNassil-
lon Amcrican.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-01-20
Spanish Tyranny.

Hon. Matt. II. Carpenter, in his re-
cent speech in the Senate, on the Gu
ban question, gave interesting partieu-
lars respecting Spanish rule over the
Cubans. 1t appears that since 1922,
the Island has been partially govern
ed by martial law. Governor GeneF-
al is i'm reality the Government itself,
and receives a salary of $500 in gold
and fees and perquisites amounting to
SO, 900 more. The Superintendent of
Finance, the deputy eXtOrtioner of
the Captain General, receives a salary
of $4,000, besides fees, and thirteen
principle judges, for deciding what
they are commanded to, receive sal
aries as follows; The Chief Justice,
S10,0 900. and the other Judges com
pensation varying from $4 900 to &c.
600. The entire expense of civil and
military administration prior to the
rebellion was about S3j, coo, 900 in gold
per annum, of which about So, 600, ,0OC
was annually paid to Spain as a royal
ty. In addition to this regular and
annual eXtOrtiOn, Cuba is subject from
time to time to such occasional and
eccentric eXactiOns as may suit the
mother country to demand. The en-
tire cost of the expedition to Mexico
under General Prim, in connection
with the British and French forces
was levied upon Cuba, amounting to
about $4,000, 600, and the entire Ccst
of subjugating San Domingo by Spain
amounting to about $4,000, 900, Cuba
was compelled to pay.
Notwithstanding the heavy pay
ments of taxes, for more than forty
years, with rare exceptions, not a
Cuban has held an office under the
government. The people have no
voice in electing their rulers, except
ing a partial voice, always capable of
being defeated by the Government, in
in the election of municipal officers in
towns and cities. For the protection
of his dearest rights Ofliberty, life and
property, the Cuban has no safeguard
except in the long suffering and fore
bearing charity of a Spaniard.-St.J 10.
Union. .
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-01-20
The End Ofwomen OrFashlon,

Another moving spectacle was wit
messed yesterday morning in the
Court of General Sessions, Maria
Smith, middle-aged was arraigned on
a charge of larceny from the person.
The prisoner was neatly attired, and
although suffering under paralysis,
still retained marked traces of former
beauty. From the testimony of the
complainant, also a woman, it seems
that while riding in a Third avenue
car on the 25th of October last, the
prisoner was detected in the act of
taking her wallet, containing forty
cents.
Mr.. Charles S. Spencer efoquently
addressed the jury, but the address of
the District Attorney and the Judges
charge did the business, and the priso-
was found guilty.
The poor woman, when told her
sentence, which was three years in
State Prison, wept bitterly. With a
a slow step and, broken heart, she
was conducted from the Prisoners
Dock.
But before leaving the poor woman
TO her fate, and while she vet fingers.
on the threshold of her living tomb,
we will take view of her past career.
Dalia Leese, (that is her name), was
born in Birmingham England, and is
about thirty-five yeats Of age. She
came to this city with her parents
while very young. Being an only
child no money or pains were spared
in her education. She lost both her
parents just when she was budding
into wOmanhOOd, Thrown upon her
own resources for awhile she accepted
the hospitality of some friends, and in
the course of a year or two married
George Lesse, who afterwards became
notorious thief, and finally abandon
ed her altogether.
Being an energetic woman in the
prime of life, and possessing rare
charms, she experienced no difficulty
in obtaining sufficient funds to estab-
lish a hotel, in which business she
was highly successful, amassing a
large fortune, estimated OF over $780,
600. But her star at length began to
wane. Surrounded by number of
admirers, all eager to supplant each
other in her good graces, she forgot
herself and became the paramour of
man who is conspicuous in the politics
of this city.
Deeper and deeper into the she sank
into the abyss of dissipation, and at
last all her bard-earned money had
been squandered, and her beauty fad
ed, and she found herselfa fOrsaken
woman. The rest is briefly told.
Want exposure and much Suffering
invited the malady with which she is
afflicted, and to buy bread she made
an attempt to steal forty cents, was de-
tected, received aseveTe sentence, and
now goes to the State prison to expi-
ate her offence.
The friends of her better days assert
that she was exceedingly liberal to
charitable objects, sometimes givinga
thousand dollars to n church or ell
cemOsynary institution.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-01-20

Of description he wrought the multi
tude up to the opening scenes Of the
resurrection, Of the grand assize, at the
call of the trumpet peals Of the ma
tiOns. "Then,p said he, Suppose NV
friends, that we should hear at this
moment, the sound of Gabriel's tram-
pet" Sure enough, at that moment
the trumpet Of Gabriel sounded. The
women shrieked, and many tainted;
the men sprang upand looked aghast
some ran; others fell and called for
mercy; and all felt for time that
the judgment was sent and the books
were opened. Dow stood and FntcE--
ed the driving storm till the fright
abated, and some one discovered the
colored angel who had caused the
alarm, quietly peFchedson a nmbFof
the spruce, and wanted 70 get him
down and whip him. and5 then ~
sumed his theme, saying: 81 forbid
all persons touching that boy up there.
If a cOlOred boy. with a tin horn can
frighten You almost out OfyOur wits,
what will you do when you shall hear
the trumpet Of the aTch-angpl?1EH How
will ye be able to stand i'm the wrath
Of God ?' He made a very efiectiV8
application. - 49, .t.r. n
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-01-20
Our Living Authors.

AppletOn's Journal gives the follow
ing as the ages Of living American
authors, announcing that the list has
been compiled with great care: -;
Gulian G. VerpIanek, 81; Richard
III. Dana, IS; George TicknOr and
Charles Sprague, IS; John Neal, 76 ;
John p. Kennedy, IS Sarah J.. Hale,
"a; VIM. Cullen Bryant, 70; Stephen
III. Tying, Francis Lieber and George
Bancroft, 20; VIM. III. Seward and
Catharine r. Beeeher, 60 Lydia M.
Child and Leonard w. Bacon, IS
VIM. HI. Furniss and Ralph Waldo
Emerson, 67; Horace Bushnell and
George ID. PTentiss, IS; VIM. Gill
more Simmns and NJ. F. Maury, 64:
Theodore s. Fay, John @. Whittier,
Louis AgassiZ and Fl. w. LOngfeIlOw, p
81; James Freeman Clark, Isaac Nc
Lellan and Oliver Wendell Holmes,
so; Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley
and Alfred B. Street, so; Harriet
Beecher Stowe and Samuel OsgOOd,
58; &. r.. CTanch and John s. Dwight.
81; j, Il. Headley, w. ii. O. HOsmer,
II. I. TuckeTman, Henry w. Bellows,
Henry Ward BeecheF and Il. III. Chan
in, 56 Richard II. Dana, Jr., and
John Lathrop Motely, 50; john c..
SAKE and Epes Sargent, 81; II. A.
Duyckinck and Parke Goodwin, So;
James Il. Fields, John BigelOw and
Arthur Cleveland Coke, 81; William
p. Chanting, Henry Giles, Mrs. T.,
ID. n, SOuthwOrth, Mrs. f.. f.. Ellit,
+. S. COzzens, +. p Whipple and
James Russell Lowe, 81; Julia Ward
Howe, Thomas w. Parsons c.. A.
Bristed and Herman Melville, so; 7.
b. Read, Samuel Elliot, J. G.. HOl-.
land, Edward Everett Hale, As; Alice
Cary, VIM. r. AlgeT, James Parton
and Donald G.. Mitchell, A.; Francis.
Parkman and George w. Curtis, As ;
Richard H. Stoddard, George II. BO-
ker, Bayard Taylor and Charles G..
Deland, 45; Mary A. DenisOn and
Charles i. Brace, 43 Paul III. Hayne,
Mary L. Booth and VIM CrOsweIl
DOane, So; VIM. SwintOn, So Ellen
Louise Chandler and James Grant
Wilson, 30; Thomas u. Aldrieh and
f. $. Rand, Jr., SO.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-01-20
AnO Old story.

1t is said that, at one time, when
Lorenzo Dow preached under a large
spruce pine in South Carolina, he an
nOunced another appointment for
preaching in the same place, on that
day twelve months. The years passed,
and as Lorenzo was entering the
neighbOrhOOd, the evening preceding
his appointment, he overlook q color
ed boy who was blowing a long tin
horn, and could send out q blast with
rise, and swell and cadence which
walked the echoes of the distant hills.
Calling aside the blower, Dow said
to him;
"What is your name, sir %
"My name? Gabriel, sir ~ replied
the brother in ebony.
well, Gabriel, have you been to
Church Hill ?1 "a.
''Yes, nlassa, Use been dar many a
time"
"Do you remember a big spruce
pine on the hill?"
so yes, nassa, / knows dat pine. y
"Did you know that Lorenzo Dow
had an appointment to preach under
that tree tomorrow ?"
dat" .gl . ,lu5I
"Well, Gabriel, l am Lorenzo Dow,
and if you'll take your horn and 20
tomorrow morning and climb into
that tree and hide among the branch
es before the people begin to gather,
and wait there till I call you by your
name, and then blow such blast with
your horn as I heard you blow a min
ute ago, III give you a dollar. VIII
you do il, 'Gabriel?''
Yes, nassa, I takes dat dollar"
Gabriel, like Zaccheus, was hid
away in the tFee-tOp in fine time. Ar
immense. conc0urse, of all sizes and
cOlors, assembled at the appointed
hour, and Dow preached on the judg
ment Of the last day. By his power
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-01-20

to an artist to have in his works two
kinds of property instead of one; the
power to sell them and the power to
sell the privilege OF multiplying cop
les of them. Neither art, literature
nor science will have fair play in this
world until one success, strictly first
rate, will confer upon the producer of
the work a competent estate; or, in
other words, until every one who re-
qnires property in a proportion of art,
literature or science will pay a just
compensation to the producer. Before
many years have passed, we shall see
artists mounted on horseback riding
in my Central Park, who would have
gone on foot put for the production of
their works by chTomo-lithography.
Copyright will pay for the oats. T"
After a humorous description of an
establishment in New York, in which
'Original oil paintings" were manu-
factured by the dozen, Mr.. Parton
closes his paper with these excellent
remarks on the true position of art as
an educational agency
''It is possible to OveFvalue the edu-
eating influence even of excellent
pictures. In strengthening or in
forming the intellect, they areSo of no
more use than mothers kisses or the
smiling lOveliness of a floweF-garden
and truly, man may spend his life
among pictures and fill books with
eloquent discourse about them, and
yet remain poor, shOrtsighted react
ionist, filled with insOlent contempt
of his species which he does his best
to mislead, But we can say of good
pictures that they are a source of il.O-
cent and refined pleasure; and that is
enough to justify their existence. /
think therefore, that this new art,
which enables me and others to buy
for five dollars all that we can enjoy
of thousand-dOllar picture, is one
that deserves the encouragement it is
receiving; and / cannot but regard ii
as kind of national blessing that
the business of supplying US with
these productions has fallen to the LOT
of honest, painstaking and tasteful q
person as Louis Prang. y Christian
Register.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-01-20
Secret Vaults beneath Con-
SfamtimOpIe.

A correspondent of the French
Journal O6fctel, writes as follows:
"About forty years ago when a
large house in COnstantinOple had
sunk beneath the level of the soil, an
immense series of fsubterranean vaults
were discovered. supported by magni-
ficient marble pillars, which, judging
from their rich decorations, were the
work of Greek artists. Underneath
the vaults is lake of unknown ex-
tent and considerable depth. This
mysterious construction, of which his
tory makes no mention, is supposed
to extend under a considerable por-
ton of the City. The principle en-
trance, being the only one accessible
to visitors, is situated in the court
yard of private palace, the prOprie-
tor of which has boat in which
he amuses himself sailing about with
in hundred yards of the entrance.
Last month an Englishman accom-
Tanied by a sailor, desired to explore
the lake thoroughly. Having obtain
ed the necessary permission, he set
forth on his adventurous journey, but
never returned, he and the sailor hav-
ing been asphyxiated beyond the
reach of help. Another Englishman
volunteered to go alone in search of
them in another boat with six torches
attached to it; for long time the re-
Election of the torches upon the water
was visible to the OutlOokers at the
entrance, until it was lost in the gloom
of darkness. After an absence of two
hours, he returned from his unsuc-
cessful search completely exhausted,
and nearly ehOked with the foul air
he had inhaled, having in his whole
course seen the ranges of vaults and
pillars uniformly continued. The
Turkish authorities have ordered the
boat to belifted, and prohibited parties
from sailing on the lake, but still per-
NIT the curious to inspect this singular
constructions at the entrance, which
reminds the beholder of the architec-
tural wonders of ancient Egypt.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-01-20

Two MEALS A DAY.-If any man
or woman of fOrty-five or over, not
engaged in hard manual labor, espe-
cially the studious. sedentary and in
door Iivers would take but two meals
day for one month, the second not
being later than three in the after
noon, and absolutely nothing after
wards, except it might be in some
cases an orange or lemon, or cup of
warm drink, such as tea, brOma,
sugarwater, or ice cream, there would
be such a change for the better in the
way of sou d sleep, a feeling, on
waking, of having rested, an appe-
tite for breakfast a buoyaney of dis
position during the day, with geni-
ality of temper and manner, that few, !,
except the animal and the gluttOn
would be willing to go back to the
flesh pots of Egypt. "Ben. Wade. -
as he is frequently called, one of the
political lions Of the west, has taken
bat two meals a day for twenty wears,
and if all sedentary persons, those
who are in doors a greater part of
their time, would, after, the age of
forty-five, observe the same ihfieXable
rule, there can be no doubt other
things being equal. that long years Of
happy exemption from the ordinary
ills of life would be the result. The
reason is that the stomach would have
time to rest for recuperatiOn, and
would thus be able to perform its part
more thoroughly, making purer blood, /,
giving better sleep and securing good
apf elite for breakfast. Let any man
try it for ten days, taking the second
meal seven hours after the first, and
the practice If he can
Hal, s Journal Of Health. 8Houus
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-01-20
Changing Clothing.

Many persons lose life every year
by an injudiciOus change of clothing,
and the principles involved need re-
petition almost every year.
If clothing is to be diminished, il
should be done in the morning, when
first dressing. Additional clothting
may be safely put on at any time.
In the Northern States the under
garments should not be changed for
those less heavy, sooner than the
middle of May: for even in June, a
fire is very comfortable sometimes in
New York parlors.
Wooden flannel ought to be worn
next to the person, by all, during the
whole year, but thinner material
may be worn after the first of June.
A blazing fire should be kept in
every family room until ten in the
morning, and rekindled again an hour
before sundOwn up to the first week
in June, aud from the first day of
October.
Particular and tidy housekeepers
by art ranging their tireplaces for the
summer too early, Oftentimes put the
whole family to q serious discomfort,
and endAnger health, by exposing
them to sit in chiliiness for several
hours every morning, waiting for the
weather to moderate, rather than to
have the fireplace or CRATE all BACKED
up; that is rather than be put to the
trouble of another fixing up for the
summer. they expose the children to
Group, and the old folks to iHfama-
sion of the lungs. The old and young
delight in warmth; it is to them the
greatest luxury. Half the diseases of
humanity would be swept from exist
ance if the human body were kept
comfortably warm all the time. The
discomfort of cold feet, or of chilly
room many have experienced to their
sorrow they make the mind peevish
and fretful, while they expose the
body TO colds and the infiamations
which often destroy it in less than a
week. Halls Journal Of Health.