The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-05-11

Whlcp IN tue lOrIh OI @tOllte, uTOt cVHtlnu'
ally falling from the sky, are often motai.
lic.iron. Bat what tantalising thought
it is, that just under our feet arc countless
tons Of the precious metals. only waiting
for John WhOpper to let US know tho
route by which he passed through to Chi
ua.
A sshool-Boy's FIRST Love Letter.
II never, wrote q letter before, and don't
know just how to begin it; bat I laow lots
Of boys who do write letters to girls. aud
ram most as big as they are. Tommy
Jones said ho had got letter from some
body; I teascd him to let me see IL 50 TAX
ing it out ofhis pocket it fell into mud
puddle. .IneFer 50 tickled in my life; but
be cried ike oyOrgttang. ! like you real
well, for you are q Demercrat, and Old
School Baptist, and have been TO the city.
u saw you at church last Sabbath, You
have new bonnet like new bonpe,s
apd some time, you know, shall get you
anew bonnet almost ever day. i shall
lcarn TO BaiIs houses, and you can wash
theidishes and make. pancakes I like pau
cakes; dou't your I don't like molasses q
bit itiG real nasty stuff Ihopesoa don't
like L eIihers jor ! shall NOT hagea BIT ia
,e,t-its1s,. -, lslals w VI
quarrel about molasses; and Souldpt
alriEd 4 GIL whsn' 'thc's woman whsn 1
.GSt some mVnncy Eat going lo bny you
scpo eolopge; ] shall turn sonaa out forncf
so when | come to SEQ yen I,car'Rerlupei
my handkerchief. Ican't.8riLe any more
now Fhe school t.nahs IS Aopkipg this
way. sYou soc she don tkuow what true
love is, If yoa haysit2 any paper I'll
giEe'yon . loafe out Of my new reader
* ssa WILLIE BROWN
There are thousands who know nothing
ofthc blessed Influences Of comfortable
homes, merely for the want Of thrift, or
from dissipated habits, Youth spent IN
frivolous amusements and demoraliziug as.
sociatious, leaving them at middle age,
when the physical aud intellectual man
should bell its greatest vigor, enervated,-
aud without one laudabls ambition.
Friends long since lost, confidence gone,
aud nothingto look TO in old ago but q
mere etoleration 10 community wherO they
should bc ornaments. No home to ay to
when wearied with the struggles iucidentto
life; no vito TO cheer them in their despon-
Disney; no children to amuse them, and no.
yirtuous household to give zest to joys of
life. ALI is blank, and there is no hope or
succor except that which is given out by
the hands Of private or public charities,
When tho family Of an industrious and So
Der citizen gather around the cheerful Gre
of a wiutry day, Che homeless man is sesk-
ing shelter iulthd cells ofthe station house,
or begging for nights rest in theout bull
ding Of one who started in life atithe same
time With no greater advantages but hon.
esty and indusry built up that home while
dissipation destroyed the other.
Robert Bonner, Of New York, has pur-
chased at Lexington, Kentucky. at high
price. the great colt MembrinO BERTHE,
that trottcd last fall at Cincinnati. mile
in.2:4l, seventeen seconds faster than vas
ever made by any other two year old. in
the United States. Bonner intends to be
'ifast."
A GREAT VAmEY.-The Valley of the
Rod River ofthe North. is said IN eantain