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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-18

During athundor storm Monday evening,
"a young man, son Of Rev. Cree, living
about Eve miles from here. on tho Wash
tihgton pike. was instanly killed BY a stroke
oflightening. IL appears that he and his
little brother had gono out into an oats
field to SET up some shocks Of oats that fell
down, and were about returning to the
house. when they were both Knocked sense
less. THE younger ono soon camo to,
1and noticing his brother did NOT move,
thought he was only stunned aud told the
ineighbors SO; but when they got te him be
was quite dead. No mark was visible OK
cept small red spot on the right shoulder,
but his clothes were partially torn off him,
lie was about niaeteen and generally est
eemel in the neighbUrhood whore, he
lived. RellsJuy Herald.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-18

An exchange wants to know IL when
young women blush and weep" they can
be said to raise d hue and cry.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-18

A dandy on shore Is disgastipgfo many
people, but swell Of the sea sickcns
everybody.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-18

The present aotdal force Of tbe army is
stated BY Gen. Sherman to be something
over thirty-four thousand men.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-18

Milkmen arc happy fellows. They en-.
Joy themselves at tho Watering places all
tic year round.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-18

ItisreIsted thatia merchant in atown
not thousand miles from an Ohio city,
recently hired new clerk. and of course
initiated him into the mysteries of the
'.trade mark" The same afternoon the
.ncwly indicted knight Of the yard stick
was showing some goods to a lady CUSTOM
scr, when she demurred at the price Of the
article. The feeling Of the merchant may
be imagined when tho young man called al
the top Of his voice: @What shall | sell
this for2 It's marked four dollars and a
half, aud cost fifty cents. The clerk is
not employed there now.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-18

Tho Harrison County Republican Con
vcntion will be held on the 10th inst.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-18
RefIlnnY CoIIegc.

1HE thiricth Session Of this Institution viii
L commence on MONDAY. Germ SErTEMnERl
1870, and terminate on the 18th OF June, 1871
1t is dramatically situated in the midst Of the
beautiful and healthy hill country of tho
"Panhandle" Of Wcst Virginia, easily accessi.
has property in endowment, Buildings, APP
paratIs, Library, &C., Of over $3.50 900 and is
thus eulbled 10 sustain faculty and furnish
facilities for thorough education Of the very
first order.
AMPLE ACCOMMODATIONS
arc provided Tor both public and private boar.
ding and unfinished rooms will be let to
students who wish 70 boaId themselves.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-18

A young lady in ;the rural districts likes
Mr. Ctromo's picture about as well as any,
beSg's.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-18

Tnition $50 per session. Boavdipg 50 to SIS
per week. Unfumished roDms So per session
to each student, preparing for the Ministry :
FREQ tuition to sons Of Ministers Of the Gospel
Of all demon nations.
For further particulars apply for catalogue to
Prof. O. L. Loos, Secretary, or 10
W X. PENDLEToN, President,
june 2l-3m bethany, West Va.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-18
ArPARATus ANp MusEuM.

Tho Institution has complete set of Philo
sophiral Apparatus, and students who wish it
Ilso thoroughly fitted up Laboratory, for
practical instruction and work in Chemical
Analysis, and an ample Museum for tie study
Of Natural history.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-18
AYer,s Cathartic Pills..

Perhaps no one nieii.
cine IL so universally 70.
N,lin.d by everybody al
a calliartic, iiorwls ever
any before 10 universal.
IL adopted into Use, IN
every cOiIntryanh among
all classes, as this mild
but efficient purgative
Pill. The obvious rei-
souls, t!IatiliSaI more ne
liable anil far moro effe0-
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

FIRE IN CoLcHEsTER.-Abou seven
o'clock last Monday night, the dwelling
house of Orrin Shipman of Colchester,
the celebrated nurseryman of Northern
Vermont, took fire, and was wholly con-
sumed. A large number of grape vines,
fruit scions, &c., together with some 5000
worth of apples and cider, were in the
cellar, and burned. The fire was first
discovered in the garnet, when it made
only little Roadway, but sufficient assist.
ance not being at hand, the fire soon got
beyond human control, and the house and
the contents we have mentioned were
destroyed. Most of the furniture and
wearing apparel of the family was saved.
The loss amounts to $500, on which
there is not dollar of insurance.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

ners were next to uniform. Tbev :
a trife ressrYed-self-possessed
perhaps be better tern-dipp !.
certainly-but very gentle and
oiliatory. BE was not st all
Vous. He never stumbled in bic sp-
His powers of persuasion, aud espec
his command of repartee end compl!rs
were marvellous, and his tact was L.,
failing. He knew perfectly well hgy
handle each particular care and pr.
versatile with all, and he did az I'm
successful talking as writing IN hi- In
With women and with men, when Z.
himself about il, he was irresistible,
be used arguments, founded in ressr
with hardly less effect than fatta.
founded in human vanity. He We,
wit, logician, not hurnorist. His D.
ical skill was not go much the spont.,
GUS outgushing of feeling, for he was
reverse TO a sentimentalist, as bic ear
harmony, his ready use of lsngus,
and his taste for belles-lsttres q.
recreation and accomplishment.
used to say himself OF his poems, Il
like his paragraphs, they were neat q
pithy, sometimes fanciful, but be thou
they lacked the character and the or
nality of his paragraphs, which were
deed the abstracts and brief chronicles
current opinions and current events,
mistakable and unerring, pointed, u
and dangerous. These, and his persq
intercourse, were the foundations Of
fame and power for forty years. ThroU
them he made himself master OF lsl
section of political feeling, the terror
his enemies and the enemies of his par
-L0uisDille C0urier-JouTn0E
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

distilled in copper and preserved in tn
cans.
have published tract on the "Bse'
and Abuses of Consumption" illustrated
with steel engrapings, showing algebraical
formation Of the diametTieal index and
couglomerdted connections Of the abom
Unable thorax also explaining the M
pzats ultra of the sic tld,aSst gloria nsn7adi
in its conYolutions foreninst the m0c0zlt
dSag9an. Price 10 cents.
Consumption, az q whole, cannot be
properly handled in this one iceolated
treatise. But ] trust that have herein
proved that consumption, as a whole, may
be SO treated as to either speedily remove
the disease from the patient, or the pa
tent from the disease.
A. HEAD, N. d. & d. y.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

Town REPORTS. exchange says
These should be printed annually, and
distributed to all citizens. Every voter
and taxpayer has right to know what
has been done by the town officers, and
what use has been made of the public
money, during the previous year. Only
so, can he vote intelligently at the annual
meeting. And these documents should be
put in the hands of voters some two or
three weeks before the election of town
officers. The expense is nothing, when
compared with the benefit Every tax
payer would be glad to give three to FIVE
cents additional for full statement of
the years transactions. In this way. too,
whatever plans are to be recommended
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

AMERICAN SNoBBERY.-Don Piatt,
speaking of the Princes reception at
Washington, says: We inherited from
our ancestor Bull some snobbery, and we
have cultivated the article until it over
tops the original. The dearest snob on
Gods foot-stool is an American snob. The
way in which he bumps his free and indie
pendent skull upon the floor in the pres
enee of g rich man is only excelled by the
humping he gives his sconce in the pres
ence of royalty. "Oh! for an hour" of
Old Tom Jefferson-the man who rode his
horse, unattended, to his inauguration,
and when the French minister came to
the executive mansion to complain of some
breach of etiquette, entered TO him with
one boot on and the other in his hand.
He would pat his prince patronizingly on
the head, and ask after the health of his
respected mother. But we have no Jeffer-
son and no democracy.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

EX-REBEL GENERALS IN THE SER
VICE OF EGYPT-A Washington CORES
pendent writes as follows to a Western
paper:
The rebel Generals Sibley and Loriug,
perhaps Beauregard, are to become gem
erals in the army of the Viceroy of
Egypt, with salaries of $4,000 year
apiece. Sibley was the inventor of the
celebrated tent which bears his name, and
all of them were graduates of the Mill
tmry Academy aud off ers of REGARD in
peace. loyal warfare and rebellion 1t
seems strange to us TO read that these men
are about to enter the service OF an inf
del, and lead his legions under the shad-
ows of the Pyramids--forty centuries
looking down upon them, as upon Bona
parte to 90 from the service of the new
est flag in the world to become country
men of the Bedouin, and successors to
Pontius PLATE, Pompey and Alexander
Yankees with camels, Lieutenants under
Zach. Taylor, maneuvoring about Cleopa-
tra's Needle, and pursuing the armies of
the Prophet across the Red Sea. Rebels
though they We're, l do not doubt that
these men will bear up the American
name, and opening up wider experiences
for their countrymen, will also prove how
equal are a new people to cope with an
tiquity upon its most historic fields"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

A GRIEyoUs DIsAPPoINTMENT.-L
Monday morning as some workmen were
engaged in removing an old stone wall
at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, N. J., one
of the number struck on leather bag
filled with coin to the amount of $4,000,
in pieces Of different denominations. The
men thereupon threw down their shovels,
and the man who first discovered it cried
out excitedly that he would "never again
see a poor day" How great must have
been his disappointment when it was
found, on examination, that the metal
was not gold, but brass, with the year
1861 stamped thereon. The bag also con-
tanned dies for the manufacture of coin,
and the supposition is that the counter
feiter, having made his deposit, was afraid
to return, or that he was prevented from
doing SO by premature arrest.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03
George ID. Prentice.
HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND PECU-
LIARITIES.

An old lady who had known Mr. Prem
tice as a school-boy, once described him as
round-faced, rosy-cheeked lad, with
bright hazel gray eyes and chestnut ring
lets; equally fond OF the girls and of his
books, and equally successful in his inter-
course with both not robust, but rotnnd I;
active as a gymnast and pedestrian, but
preferring the companionship of young
ladies to young gentlemen. He was an
intense student from a wonderfully early
period and continued to apply himself
with unwearied assiduity to classical and
literary pursuits until he became actively
engaged as a politician, journalist and
man of the world. Later in life his read
ing was confined to the newspapers,
which he actually deyoured, going care
fully through the bulk of the exchanges
every day but he never permitted his
unabridged dictionary to be taken ont of
his room. It was his friend and standby.
He consulted it for the slightest point in
photography, syntax and etymology.
With him the unvarying rule was "when
in doubt take the dictionary" As he
ripened into manhood the boyishness did
not disappear. He continued to show the
ford freshness of New England, bright
eyed and beardless, and, though not re-
garded among men as handsome, being
somewhat too full and round, his person
was as attractive to women as his man
ners were always to both women and
men. As he grew older, however, the
traces of wear and tear displaced the
blooms and dimples he allowed his hair
and beard to grow at will neither turned
gray, though they ceased to be glossy,
and, as they grew abundantly and he was
rather careless, they gave his appearance
an age and decriptitude which did not
correspond with his mental or physical
condition; for, at a time when visitors
went away to describe him as a wreck
and to speak only in terms of pity and re-
greet, he was rising at six o'clock, working
steadily for fifteen hours, and doing NOR,
than half of the active young blooa J.
the press in this or any eour' "A q
never tired of newspaper W .erv. ri
in the beginning a labor .ork. IT wa
and In the end 1t p, of love to him
to him. acame second ratnr
He wrofr
always neat round hand. usin,
the a pencil. Strange as it may seem
father and founder of the modern
method of paragraphing and the mos
brilliant writer of separate paragraphs, b,
did not know how to divide an articl,
which exceeded a single paragraph int.
two or three or more paragraphs. No
did he understand the art Of puttine
titles at the head of his articles. Long Of
short, the cut of hand with finger ont
pointed suficed for him, and he wal
strongly welded to this as an indicator
but he adapted himself cheerfnlly to pre-
vailing styles whether he liked them, o,
was ready with them or not. His man.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

REFUSED AT meeting of the White
street Congregational Society in Burling-
ton, held on Monday evening last, the
Society refused to rescind the resolution
passed last spring, to refusing to grant
the use of their church for the commence
ment exercises of the University.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

POLITICAL EQUALITY IN THE KANSAS
LEGIsLATURE.-A colored boy was elect
ed page OF the Kansas House of Repre-
senatives last week. In making the nomi-
nation, Gen. Byron Sherry said: at is
eminently proper and BETTING that the
Radical Republican Legislature of the
new State of Kansas, as assembled in
this new and magnificent capitol build
ing, should be the first to accept the new
order of things, by placing upon the head
of this little colored boy, the crown of
political equality"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03


OBTTUARY.-Dr. G. M. Rublee, for
many years prominent and successful
physician of Montpelier, died on Wednes-
day morning, aged forty-eight years. A
worthy citizen, and skillful physician
and surgeon, his death is a great loss to
the place.
THE SwANToN RACEs.-There was no
trotting at Swanton on Tuesday, on &C.
count of the heavy fall of snow, though
many horsemen were present. On We'd
nesday, the races opened with trot for q
purse of $50 to green horses, won by a
horse of Champlain, n. Y. The second,
for purse of $25, was well contested !;
and won by Maggie Simmons of Bakers
field, owned by William Chadwick, in
three straight heats, showing good speed.
In the afternoon five horses entered for
the purse of $40, to all horses which had
not been in less than $50. Maggie Sim
mons threw shoe on the first heat, and
was taken off. Two heats were trotted,
and the race was not decided at night
fall, the purse standing between the
Green Mountain Boy of Highgate, and
North Horse of Rouses Point, each hay
ing won two heats. The trotting was
good. The race was adjourned illThurs-
dav
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

School Institutes, and Rev. III. Spencer
on The Relation of Christian doctrine and
Life.
Among other items of business, arrange
ments were made for q Donation Visit Tor
the benefit Of the presiding Elder, Rev.
T. P. Ray, to come off at his residence, IN
st. Adams, Feb. o.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

PRENTICE DEAD.-The death of George
d. Prentice, for nearly forty years the
editor of the Louisville Journal, took
place on Saturday. He was 81 years old,
having been born at Preston, CT, in De-
cember, 1902. He graduated at Brown in
1888, two years after DR.. Howe, and, after
studying law, went to live at Hartford,
where, in connection with John G. Whit
tier, he edited literary paper for two
years. In 1880 he went to Louisville, and
the next year became editor of the
Journal, which began and continued as
the champion of Henry Clay and his
measures. Prentice wrote a life of Clay
which had great sale for those days, and
he made his newspaper known all over
the country by its wit and malice, as well
as its ability. He was often called on to
defend with knife or pistol what he had
printed in the Journal, and he did so
without losing his reputation for courage
or gaining notoriety as a fighter. He was
poet as well as politician, and has
written some creditable verses, though
none so good as those of Forceythe Will
son, which appeared in his Journal during
the war. When secession became rampant
Prentice took the side of the nation, but
he was strongly impregnated with the
Kentucky ugliness that gave Lincoln SO
much trouble. OF late years his health
has failed and his pen has been less bril-
liant than formerly. Indeed, since the
death of Clay he has hardly had any in
fuence in politics, and he will be remem-
bered chiefly for his good sayings, which
were legion, and which first began to give
American journalists the taste for brief
and sparkling satire which they have
since cultivated so carefully.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

BOUTWELL, AT THE UNION LEAGUE
DINNER had come on. The
clears" in Wall street and the Union
League fellows got up dinner at the
Union League, "self-admiration dinner"
where they sat around with narrow fore
heads, and bald-headed way back to their
shirt collars. They had one of these
Standardization dinners" in which they
painted Mr.. Boutwell, as one of the finest
fnanciers on the face Of the earth, and he
told them what he was doing to Fisk. A
big thing out of the sea. Boutwell, kept
pretty close mouth, evidently not know
ing where he did stand: he thought bet
ter than to show on the face what his po-
sition might be; he thought he had bet
ter keep still, and do not think they got
at that dinner any information at all out
of Mr.. Boutwell,. don't believe they
got enough to pay for the dinner.
Fisk b.'s, Iestjnao'ap at WashS1aQton.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

THE CoLoRED UNITED STATES SEN
AToR.-We have been expecting to see
some of the Democratic presses going into
Mysteries over the of colored elections
United States Senator from Mississippi.
There appears to be, however, nothing of
the kind. What has become of the
"white mans government" theory, the
bred Scott decision, and the great shin
bone demonstration of the iucapacity Of
the negro to share in the selfgoverning
experiment of the Republic? Perhaps
that is what the Hon. Mr.. Reele goes
into the United States Senate to find out.
Imagine the effect of such an apparition
in the days before the departure of the
secession Senators of 1861 Ii tho walls
of the Senate Chamber had been thicker
than those of the pyramid of Cheops, they
couldn't have held the body from explo-
sion. Either the honorable negro would
have gone out instanter, or else 1t would
have been the honorable traitors. Even
three years ago, suppose the Hon. Mr..
Salisbury, going into the Senate late in
the day, as is his wont, had deserted a
colored member sitting there at his ease.
When the Senator from Delaware had
fairly got the thing through his head,
what an ebulition of Democratic amaze
ment and sarcasm there would have been !
Garrett Davis, too, would have filled d
whole volume of the Congressional Globe
with his TRADES. Now, however, there is
likely to be no sensation at all attending
the advent of the colored Senator elect
from Mississippi, If his color is not for
gotten entirely, it will be of no account.
He will maintain himself, will prove Use
full or not, by his qualities as II man, pre-
cisely like his colleagues. AS the first of
his race, however, appearingin such high
and honorable sphere of action, he occu-
pies position calculated to develop all
his energies and worth.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

appointed, under the law, for the sale OF
liquors for legitimate uses, are being
looked after, and are now and then dis
turbed in the peaceable pursuit of their
lawful u calling.
The statements made in the closing
sentence of the article quoted, | dissent
from iaa toto, for it is not true that in
temperance is ga vice which has its root
in the meanness, and not in the over
towering temptation for the noblest, as
well as the meanest, are overpowered and
made drunkards by temptation. II it is
not so, what is the propriety of the
Scripture warnings, uttered alike in the
ears of all-"Look not upon the wine
when it is red p "Touch not, taste not.
handle mott" The testimony of all who
have had anything to do in checking the
progress of intemperance is the same on
this point believe it will be most in
suspicious day for the country when the
friends of temperance shall no longer de-
pend upon legal restraints, but rather
upon strue manliness of character" as the
only safeguard against intemperance.
Would that we might SO depend, but
alas poor human nature lacks the "man-
liness."
Depending upon such safeguard, the
Chicago Journal sees San suspicious day"
coming; and, possibly, "the auroral blush
of the Millennium" Methinks it will
discover, when it is too late, that the
blush" is but the ardent and
distempered flush which will redden, with
an unnatural hue, the faces of some of the
noblest, as well as the meanest of the race,
provided it shall be called to pass through
the Journals coveted Age of Free
Whiskey. CRIB.
Castleton, Jan. 81, 1870.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

RUNAwAY,-A horse owned by John
Engram took fright on Center street yes
terday, and ran through Merchants Row
to West street, at furious rate. On
West street he was brought to stand
still by Mr.. Cady, of the firm of Wat
kins & Cady, who, an eyewitness informs
us, crushed boldly out, and, at the risk of
his own life, checked the speed of the in
furiated animal, and prevented further
prospective injury"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET-In
consequence of the storm, the transactions
were light. Fall diaries brought from 30
to SO cents, and winter made from % to
80 cents. Four hundred and eight tubs
were shipped. OF cheese, the amount
shipped was fifty-two boxes.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

ENDORSEMENT OF Mr.. DAWES The
following resolutions have been intro
duced into the Massachusetts Legislature !:
Resolced, That the Legislature of Mas
sachusetts, approaching the urgent neces.
sity for rigid economy in the expenditures
of all the departments of the National
Government, tender vote of thanks to
Hon. Henry L. Dawes, Representative in
the Congress of the United States, for his
vigorous and manly efforts in favor of re-
trenchment and reform.
Res0lUed, That our Senators and Repre-
sentatives are requested to use all posi-
BILE efforts to reduce the expenses Of the
Federal Government in all its depart.
ments, that the oppressive taxation now
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

RAILRoADs.-There is new feature
presented in the projected Addison Coun.
ty Railroad scheme. 1t is proposed tc
make Middlebury its eastern terminus
and the citizens of that village have
raised, by contribution, fund sufficient
to make survey of the contemplated
rOute