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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-04-27
GEO. W. TlPPETT, Editor.
POINT PHEASANT. WEST VIZ,
Thursday, ::: 81: April u, 1871.
Tho Force Blu, arming the President


Tho Force Bill, arming the President
with the military powor Of the Govern.
ment, for tho suppression Of the terrible"
Ku-Klux, has finally passed Congress, aud
has been signed by the President. This
law which gives so much power to the
President is q very dangerous thing; and
we predict that many of those who voted
for its passage will yctrcpcnt and regret
that vote. We do not think that the ext.
gencies Of the times demanded the passage
of any such bill. II lawlcssncss rcigned
supreme inthc Southern States, as our
Honorable (?J Senator Borcnan would
have us believe, there was power enough
in the laws heretofore enacted, to suppress
it, without this additional measure. We
believe that il our Congress would do less
,forcc Legislation for the South, and pass
moro pacific measures, these people would
DO found as ready and willing to obey tho
slawas any people Of the Union. Perso-
cution only makes matters worse. We
doubtifthepcoplc ofthe South are any more
'lavlcss, or need any more 'reconstruc,ipg'
than do The people Of New York or en6syl-
vauia. And il they do, it is not ucccssa.
ny to place 10 the band Of one man such
dangerous powers, to accomplish that end.
It is a bad precedent to establish in a Re-
publican government aud out Of which
great evils may grow, and which may cost
blood and treasure to correct. And again,
if the emergency is so great thatit dcman-
dcd The passage Of this bill to. protect the
life, liberty property and happiness Of the
PeoPlo ef.ths South" why is II that the
President is going TO take trtp out West
for several weeks, aud will not put the law
into operation until be returns? Had ii not
be bottcr put in operation at once? Why
five are going 10 suspend the law until
the President returns from his pleasure
trip. how many men may be murdered by
the Ku-Klux, while he is taking this re-
creation. That the law is not Immediately
put IN force, is the very best evidence that
there was no necessity for it.
We know that this view of tho matter
will not meet with the approval of some
members of the Republican party, yet We
think that when they lay aside their pref
udices. aud make due allowance for the
exaggerated stories that are published
about ''outrages in the South" they will
see that it is time for the Republican press
TO speakOut against such extreme Legislation
by Congress.
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JAY COOKE s CO.,

PHILADELPHIA, NEw YoRK, WASHINGTON.
Financial Agents Northern Pacific Railroad 90.
By BANKS and BANKERS generally hrOugk-
out The country.
have accepted tho agency for The sale Of
the Bonds. Any one desiring 10 invest 10
thcis, or exchange other Bonds for thcm, will
O. O. MILLER, President Merchants Nation
al Bank OF West Va, Point Pleasant.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-04-27

James Brown of Noblocosety Ohio, a
llsinsmau Of John Brown. and one of tue
soldiers of 1872. refuses to take q pen
sion because the country is in debt. O1ay
he live until he can no longer refusc.it on
that ground.
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Remember, that to- day you vote upon
,ths proposed amendment to the State Com
-stitution. Let every friend of the Amend
-.ment be at tile polls to-day.
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a gen1s! Read This!

WE WILL PAY AGENTS a SALARY LIAR
w Of $50 pr week and expenses, or allow ". :
large commission, 10 sellour new Hna ~en Gn
fnl inventions. Address N. WASNEN 9 W.
Marshall. Mich
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Fragrant Sapoliene

Cleans Kid Gloves and all kinds Of Cloths and
Clothing; removes Paint, Grease, Tar, DC,
Instantly, without the least injury TO the finest
fabric. Sold by Druggists and Fancy Goods
Dealers FRAGRANT SAPoLINE CO. 81
Barclay Stu New York, 46 La Sale ST..
ChicIgo.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-04-27

Z The eIeetion which comes Of to-day Is
1sbeginnihg 70 excite some interest audit
4 Unexpected that pretty full vote will DO
(. pOlled.
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Schaylar Collar is nov regarded both
here aud 10 England. as the best parlia-
.susutpfs9 inthp MarId-
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CLjT This QUIZ

And send Twenty five Gents for Ticket and
draw Watch. Sewing Machine, Piano OF some
lar. Address, PACKARD & Co Cincinnati
Ohio.
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Send Your: Sons

To Practical School, that will ira in them for
active, useful life, and a successful future. The
Institution that best accomplislies this. and is
largely patronized by the South, is Eastman
College, Poughkecpsie, N. Y. Address for
particulars. Il G. EASTMAN, Ii. D., Pres.
ident.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30
Mrs. Maria GLENN.

Among the deaths published in the
Baltimore Sun of the 18th ult., was
that of ?NIrs. Maria GLENN, the aunt,
mother-in- law, and never failing friend
of Edgar A. Poe Mrs. GLENN was
born in Baltimore on the 18th of March,
1870. Her family was one of the old
est and most distinguished in Mary
land. Her father, David Poe, was
QuartermasterG General of the old Mary
land line during the revolution, and
the intimate friend of Washington, La
fayette, and the leading men of the
time. In 1886, while editing the
Southern Literary Messenger, Edgar
A. Poe married his cousin, Virginia
GLENN, lovely and beautiful girl,
whose memory he embalmed in "The
Raven" She was the "Lost Lenore :"
of that extraordinary poem. From the
time of Poes marriage with her daugh-
ter, Mrs GLENN adopted him as her
son, and never had a son more devot-
ed mother To have won and kept the
love of such woman through all the
vicissitudes of such career as Edgar
Poe's shows more forcibly than words
can tell that the innate goodnesa of the
poet was not lost even in the midst of
wasted genius, unparalleled misfor-
tunes, and utter misery. When he was
i'll, and his wife dying, it was a touch
ing sight to see this "tireless minister
to genius" poorly clad, going from
Office to Office in New York with a
poem, story, or a critiuue of Poe's to
sell. To her Poe wrote the sonnet,
"To My Mother" in which he testifes
to her care and devotion by saying
that she had been "more than moth
er" to him. After the poets death on
the 7th of October, 1S49, Mrs. GLENN
resided with different friends in New
York and Virginia, until five or six
years since, and she was received into
the Church Home in Baltimore, a char
liable institution, under the manage
ment of the Episcopal Church, and
there she died on the 10th inst, in the
eighty-tirst year of her age. Poe died
in the same building which was then
the Maryland Hospital. At her own
request she was buried by the side of
her "darling Eddie" in Westminster
Churchyard, corner of Fayette and
Green streets, Baltimore Besides the
four pail bearers, there were about a
dozen ladies and two gentlemen pre-
sent, admirers of Poe and friends of
Mrs. GLENN. Among the ladies was
Miss Rosalie Poe, the sister of the
poet.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30

rains,-that system being exclusively
ours.
Even the roots and potatoes are left
out of doors in pits, and the barns are
used for nothing but cattle and thresh-
ing grain.
Mr.. P.'s yield Of wheat this year was
Sc bushels to the acre, and of hay q
tons and such hay! In some of the
clover cut last June there still remains
the smell Of the clover blossoms, and it
is worth 81 los. per ton.
Mr.. P. has gone extensively into irri-
cation. Some parts of his property lie
at the foot of low range of hills,
through which run streams, in which
he has arranged hood-gates, 50 that
after heavy rain he can cover with
water at one time fifty or sixty acres
the water taking the place of manure on
the Nile principle.
His draining has been on the same
scale. In one tifty-acre field he has put
down twenty-five miles of tile pipes.
This is high farming, you will say, with
vengeance. Yet it all pays, and l
know not why it should not pay equally
well with us. At all events let US try
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30

| have lately visited a neighbor whose
farm contains only twenty-eight acres.
He has owned it and managed it for
many years His stock this year con-
sisted of several horses and oxen and
twenty-eight COWS, in addition to a con-
siderable number of fowls. He grows
no fancy stock OF any kind sells milk,
cream, roots, poultry and eggs. He
buys some grain for his poultry and
some meal for his COWS, though he has
a good field of corn every year. All of
the pasture required for his large stock,
and all the hay and other long fodder
consumed on the place, together with a
good supply Of apples, are the product
of his tweuty-eight acres of land. The
great secret Of his success is to be
sought in plenty of manure and thor
ough work, managed, of course, in the
most skillful manner. His cash sales
for 1870 will fall but little, if any, short
of $4,000.
| have another neighbor who begun
with a fine farm of over one hundred
acres, and capital enough to have made
a first rate farmer of an energetic man.
He has probably never sold enough
from his place to pay his yearly bills,
and his land has run down to low water
mark. These two men, living in the
same township, and with equal facili-
ties, illustrate perfectly the truth have
endeavored TO set forth above. The
one went to work IN an over-cautious,
penny-wise way, scrimling here and
scrimping there, trying to cheat nature
out OF her Just dues; and he has come
to grief. The other went into farming
as q business that was worthy of
his best efforts, and whenever he
saw an opportunity to invest a
dollar in his farm to good advantage,
he made the investment as soon as he
could get the dollar. He acted on the
belief that no bank in the world will
pay such good interest as well farmed
land; and, so lar as the plain and sim
pie farming he mas followed afforded
him the opportunity, he has omitted
nothing-nothing that could add to his
facilities. The result is that he is
more than forehand, and that, if he had
his life to live over again, ewould
turn his attention to farming as the
best opening that offers itself toa young
man of energy and ability. ogden
Farm Papers IN american Agrjcul
tlJriSt.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30
High Farming in Engl land.

A valued correspondent (says the n.
\. Post) sends rs the following extract
from letter from young gentleman
of this State, now travelling in England
to familiarize himself with English
methods of farming:
Mr.. p. ownes 1000 acres, of which
he farms 350-the rest being rented.
He has not always made his farm pay
well, but by his own high farming he
has improved the system in the neigh
borhood, and thereby very much In
creased the value of land and his own
rents.
He keeps on his home farm of $50
acres from 80 to 100 mich cows, be-
sides a flock of sheep. He never pur-
chases more than one-sixth of the food
tor his cattle, and that sixth is nearly
all artificial
His farm buildings are Of brick, and
perfectly drained and ventilated. The
Lay and straw are stacked and thatch-
td,-bv the way. neither is ever slowed
away il barns, even il this land OF
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30
Truly French.

The following incident is claimed by
the writer Ga London Times correspon-
dent) to be characteristic of French
character: ga good many years ago |
heard an estimable member of the Gar
rick Club, whom / hope may be mem
Der of it still, though if alive he can be
no chicken, tell story from his own
personal experience illustrative of the
inveterate propensity of the French to
brag and boast, even of things which
should be cause of grief, if not Of
shame. He was present in the Champs
Elysees at grand review of the Pruss-
ian and English who occupied Paris in
1915. From feeling of deiicacy he was
afraid to say word upon an event
which he fancied must be source OF
deep humiliation to France. But q
Erenchman came up to him and said,
jauntily, "Tenez, Monsieur Quel beau
spectacle! CONNIE c'est magnifique
I'll ny a qu' a Paris qu'on volt des
chooses pareilles = (Iook here, Sir
What magnificent spectacle It's only
in Paris that you such see sights. } The
French character has not changed dur
ing the fifty five years that hare elapsed
since Waterloo.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30
A New Invention.

A new fire escape was tested on Sat
urday, at the Continental Hotel, Phila-
delphia, when a man lowered himself
from the sixth story window on the
Ninth street front to the pavement,
regulating the speed of his own de-
scent, and stopping two or three times
in front of windows on the different
stories. The apparatus used is known
as the Kenyon Fire Escape, and con-
sists of small, closely twisted rope of
fine italian hemp, which passes through
the spiral groovesin cylindrical metal
machine about ten inches long, and an
inch and a half or two inches in diane
ter. The grooves IN the machine cause
the rope to pass around the cylinder
two or three time, thus causing friction
sufficient to enable the person descend
ing to regulate the speed of his down
ward passage, or to come to dead
stop whenever desired Attached to
the metal cylinder are two leather belts
one of which is to be buckled around
the waist, and the other around the
thighs, SO as to hold the person in a
sitting position, and leaving the arms
entirely free. After one person has de-
scended the rope may be drawn mp, the
ends reversed, and another person may
come down, and SO on as long as prac-
ticable. =
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30
The Canadian Canal Improvement Pro.
iOcf

Information has been received from
Ottawa that the commission appointed
some time since to inquire into the
whole canal system OF the Dominion,
and suggest the best plan for improv-
ing it, have agreed on a report which
has just been submitted to the Govern.
ment. The report recommends the
following Improvements: The con-
structlon OF a canal at SaultS Marie !;
the construction Of canal at the Wei
land improvement of the lower Ottawa
canals; the improvement of the lower
Champly canals; deepening the river
st. Lawrence between Quebec and
Montreal; the construction of the Bay
Verte canal improvement of the St
Lawrence canals; the Improvement of
the upper st. Lawrence river. The
total cost Of these improvements is es.
timated at nearly $4,000, 900. The
Commissioners urge on the Govern
ment the necessity of the immediate
construction of the enlargement of the
Welland canal, and following it up by
the improvement of the St. Lawrence
canal, the construction Of the Bay verte
and the other works recommended be.
ing taken up according rs the public
finances warrant it.
The report also refers to the great
advantages which the American people
in the West derive from the use of the
canals, especially the Welland, and ask
whether Canada should not demand
from the United States the repeal of
the navigation laws, under which n
Canadian vessel cannot go from Chi
cago to Oswego, as some return for the
still greater benefits the Americans
must receive from the improvements in
contemplation. The report contains a
number of statistics to show that the
Erie canal is inadequate othe require
ments of the West, and that the st.
Lawrence route affords the short
est and cheapest communication
to Europe and the ports of the upper
lakes. Even now it is shown that n
bushel of wheat can be carried from
Chicago to Montreal ten cents cheaper
than from Chicago to New York Via
Buffalo and the Erie canal. Freights
from Montreal to Liverpool are MS low
as from New York to Liverpool, and
under these circumstances it is con-
tended that if the st. Lawrence route
is improved in the way contemplated,
the bulk of the Western grains and
other products will eventually find it's
way by this route in preference to the
Erie canal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Practical Suggestions.
/ nam, tha Na.u Ennland Earmar


trom the New England Farmer.
IT is poor economy to reset thin
wheel tires.
EVERY farmer should have brand
to mark his cattle and tools. 1t will
save its cost, often.
A wAGoN-sHED, centrally located and
easy of access, is great convenience.
1t is an investment that will pay.
A BARN, located square up to the
highway, like city block, is worth
half-price No land is too valuable for
buildings.
EVERY prudent farmer will avail him.
self of the comparative leisure of win
ter, to put every vehicle and implement
in complete repair.
DoN'T live another year without a
toolroom. 1t Will save hours of vexa.
tious search for forks and shovels that
should be ready without a moments
delay.
Ii new tools and implanted are soaked
with raw hnseed oil, they will work
easier and last longer. Why don't
manufacturers do it by the wholesale?
IT seems reasonable that laborng
horse should have a room to lie in at
night, where he can turn over and shift
about.
Ii your colts are hard to get into the
barn, after their daily exercise, let them
find a few oats in their manager after
coming in, and that trouble is over.
BETTER pay carpenter for making
fights of stairs in the barn, where
needed, than doctor for mending
bones broken by using ladders. Rule:
Things in daily use should be exactly
adapted to the need.
Two dollars day for farm hand
makes it important that he should have
good tools to work with. They cost
considerable. Insist that he use them
for the purpose for which they are
made.
AN Ohioan, who has three-fourths of
an acre of ounce orchard-from which
last year he sold 800 bushels OF first
class frnit-spades the ground in spring
and scatters apeck of coal ashes around
each tree, also quart of salt, and an
other quart when the ounces are half
grown.
CARROTS are recommended as feed
for farm-horses, as they save corn and
give fine gloss to the skin, besides
promoting a healthful condition of the
system. From fourteen to twenty-one
pounds is a liberal allowance, anything
over that being apt to affect the kid
neys and induce excessive atalling.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30
Senior CasanOya's Adventures in Havana.

Senior Casanova's experiences in Ha-
vana for few days previous to his de-
parture for New York were extremely
exciting and interesting. An official
permit to land from the steamer Mere
don was given him when he reached
Havana on the oath ult., but on land
ing he was Immediately seized and
returned to the steamer by the author
tiles. He then wished to come back to
New York by the Columbia, and was
forced to go III a small boat in the night.
In the morning Spanish officer came
on board to arrest him, claiming him as
a rebel, but the captain of the steamer
would not permit his arrest while I'M
der the protection of the American
flag. A short time previous to the hour
for the steamer to sail, small Spanish
boat from shore arrived at her side, in
which was his daughter, who came to
bid him farewell. Not suspecting the
plot of the guard to kidnap him, Cas-
anova stepped into the boat. Imme-
diately afterward an order was given to
shove off, and rush was made to seize
him, but without success, as helumped
back upon the Columbia, and thus es-
capped. Friends of Casanova visited
the United States Consul previous to
his sailing for New York, demonstrating
against the outrages practised upon an
! American citizen, who had not only
| been imprisoned, but robbed of over q
| thousand dollars in American funds,
and the Consul has brought the case
| before the authorities at Washington
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30
A Mammoth Millinery House.

Messrs Keith Brothers. importers, manu-
facturers and jobbars of millinery, straw
goods, hats, caps, and furs, occupy the en-
tire spacious building located at IS and 70
Wabash avenue. This store embraces six
floors, so by l65 feet, all admirably lighted.
The annual sales of this house now amount
to over two million dollars; being larger
than that of any other house in their line in
this country, their trade extending East
as far as Pennsylvania, and throughout the
entire West and South. Having q large
capital, and buying only of manufacturers,
and at'cdys for cash, they are enabled to
meet the lowest New York importers prices
in every department of their business
They import direct their entire lines OF
Ribbons, Silks, Velvets, Fine Flowers, and
Patterns, from the leading manufacturers.
often advancing as high as three hundred
thousand dollars on these stocks. They have
also recently imported a large line of the
most desirable styles of ladies' hats and
bonnets, consisting of fine Leghorn, Milan,
Chip, Hair and Cactus, and all styles of Swiss
Braids, from the leading English manufac-
turers.
Mr.. O. Il. Keith, the senior member of the
firm, spends part Of each year visiting the
most celebrated manufactures of Europe
selecting these goods He has recently re-
turned with large and elegant assortment
Of spring goods, which is fully equal, in
every respect, to any stock in this country.
The high reputation this house enjoys for
integrity and fair dealing, and their we'll
won position in the front ranks of Chicago
merchants, are pledges Of the superior ad-
vantages they are able to offer to the trade of
the West which an examination of their ex-
tensive stock and their prices will confirm
Purchasers who consult their best interests
should not fail to visit this house when they
come to Chicago.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30

AN official statement shows that in
1870, 1861 diamonds were shipped
from the Cape of Good Hope, valued
at.$625, 0C0 and that the total value of
stones shipped since the discovery of
diamond digglngs does not exceed
81, 000,0 900. Mr.. Harry Emanuel, the
London ieweller, says that the Ameri-
can demand is far in excess of the sup
ply, that the Cape diamonds are very
poor, and that the value will not de-
cline perceptibly He may be right or
not, but this odd thing is the imagin-
airy value placed upon the discovery of
the stones. Here is whole colony
gone wild about mines which promise
oyield in time about the same sum that
any new cultivation, such as tobacco,
would produce.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30

A LOUISVILLE lass got very tired OF
her lover calling on her so constantly.
Desiring to get rid OF him, she con-
cocted plan by which the much-de-
sired result could be obtained. Every
time he came she asked him to help
move the piano up stairs, and after that
was done, changed her mind, and had
him help move it down. She kept on
until she removed all the furniture in
the house seven times, and he didn't
see the point but the other night in
despair, when he called, she threw a
pail of water on him from the window.
He says he can't place any confidence
in women, and he has presented bill
for removing furniture.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30

A ROMANTIC incident, showing the
power OF an earnest love to overcome
the most formidable difficulties, is re-
ported in the Colorado papers. A Chi
cago youth fell in love with Colorado
maid, whose fathe, was so opposed TO
proceedings that he drove the young
man from his house with wrath and a
revolver. Upon this the earnest youth
had the stern parent arrested for
threatning his life; and when the old
gentleman was safely locked up, by the
iudicious use of ten-dollar bill, he in
duced the same Justice of Peace who
had imprisoned the father to marry
him to the daughter This done the
old man was brought up for trial, when
he concluded to swap forgiveness with
his enterprising law, who there
upon magnanimously withdrew his
COMPLAINT.