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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-03-12
Five Hundred and Seven
tY.SiX acres OF land

10 said County Of Mason, State Of West Viz.
ginia, together with the appurtcnanclS TO the
same belonging, and the Coal and other Nine
raj rights in said lands. and all the privileges
aud appurtenanres to said land belonging,
with the brcak.waters, piers, landings, rail.
roads, platforms, entries, coal and other min.
erals, AND ALSO includes all The coal and
other mineral rights, franchises and privileges
Of the said Company, in Ohe7 lands in the
said County of Mason, containing some
Four Hundred and Eighty-Si,r
1tcreS wiM the JaluGble Salt
Furnaces,
and the other improvements erected on said
lands. together with all the franchises, rights,
privileges. advantages, hereditaments and ap.
purtanances Of the said Company, in anywise
appertaining 10 the said lands, and coal and
mineral rights, in said County OF Mason, afOrc-
said,
For more full and compile description of
the property TO be sold, with its boundaries
and locations reference may he had to The said
Deed Of Trust Of Record as aforesaid.
THE SALE will be made subject TO the
prior lien, and 10 The provisions of prior
Deed Of Trust executed upon the same prop
erty by the West Columbia Coal and Salt Com.
pany, to Russell Slargis and James Il, Young,
as Trustees, TO secure BoHds Of that Company
to The amount Of One Hundred Thousand Dol.
lars, and interest, bcaling date July LIST, 1865,
and of record in the County Clerks Office
aforesaid, in Deed Book No. 10, pages 272 and
follnwinp
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-03-12
WEST VIRGINIA.;

AT RULES held in the Clerks Office Of the
n Circuit Court Of Mason county, on Mon.
day, March %, 1874.
Philip Yaugerin his own riChtand as Admin.
i,tralOr Of the. estate Of william Yauger, de.
ceased, Plaintiff
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-03-12

Pay for your paper, and enjoy its week.
y visits,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
Mrs. Prim on Scandal.

No, my dear-goodness be thanked
no person can say that 1 ever scandalize
any one, not even my worst enemy, no
matter what he or she may dol I've
had chances enough to talk, If I had
mind to, as every one in this town
knows full we'll. OF course, living
here right in the High street of the
town, can't help seeing a great many
queer things; and when our windows
are open and the blinds shut in the
summer time, L can hear them too ?
But l never repeat them, L scorn to
make mischief. 1 never lisp a word,
except when 1 get hold of some safe
person, like you my dear, that L know I
can trust. And if body is never to
open her mouth among her own intimate
friends, why, the world isn't worth liv-
ing in, is it? But that isn't scandal,
you know. hate and abhor that just
as much as you do, and I don't think
any one can say was ever guilty of it
in all my life.
But then, as I said before, it isn't for
want of the chance. Why, only last
evening as ever was, who do you think
saw walking up by here, in the bright
moonlight, as brazen as you please, but
Miss Lennox and Colonel Parke Fact,
as sure as you sit in that chair And
they walking close together, and talking
so confidential.
1 suppose you know all about that
disgraceful affair with the school girls
No! My dear, you must really live in
the ark Why, they have been writing
a lot of anonymous letters to people
here in the town, and the postmaster
suspected what was up at last, and he
just kept quiet lookout, and caught
some of them putting the letters in.
don't know what Miss Clakett will do
Expel them, I hope great girls like
those have no business to act so.
There's Mrs. Price going by. L pre-
sumo she has been down to cheaper {
fowl, or get half-penny or two take1
off joint of meat. She's the shingles
thing, my dear it would really make
your heart ache to hear of the way sh'
manages and contrives And there i
her husband, one of the richest men il
the town, and folks do say that he can
get decent meal of victuals in his owl
house. Wouldn't you
What going? Can't you stay an.
longer? Well, do come again yer.
soon, won't you? Good-by.
really thought she was going to stay al
night. I heard nice story about her
by the way, last week-how shameful,
she treats all her servants Suppos
she thinks 1 don't know it. 1 nigh
make mischief enough in her family, i
L chose. But abhor scandal.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
The Theory of Digestion.

Digestion is a vital process, to which
chemical and mechanical forces con-
tribute. While the motion of the walls
of the stomach is necessary to mingle
its contents, and while the chemical
solvency of the gastric juice is indis-
pensible, both of these combined can
not produce the true chyme. This
chyme, into which every kind of food
is transformed, can be produced no.
where outside of the stomach. In this
respect chyme is like other products of
the body. We may learn all the con-
stituents of the saliva, or the bile, but
we can produce neither of them outside
of the body. That mysterious force
which we call vital is the force which
determines all. Chemistry and me-
chanics play their part, but the all-de-
termining, guiding and controlling
power is the vital force.-Dio Lewis.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
AduIteratiOn in Teas.

Some interesting testimony has been
taken by the committee of the English
House of Commons to inquire into and
suggest means to prevent the adultera-
tion of food. Mr.. Reeves, who has been
connected with the tea trade for half q
century, said that gypsum and Prussian
blue were used to color green tea. He
had never heard of any injury resulting
from the coloring matter used. 1t was
in his opinion as necessary to mix tea
to render it palatable to the consumers
in England as it was to fortify wine
with brandy. There was no such thing
as natural green tea. He believed
that adulteration of tea in England
was carried on only to very small ex-
tent, for he thought the tea would not
stand it. He did not know of any in
stances where iron filings were used fol-
mixing, but large quantity of iron
sand was made use of. His experience
was that of black tea coming from China
was perfectly free from adulteration.
Another witness said that tea did not
grow in China as it was seen in Eng
land. The black was partly fermented
before it was roasted, and the green tea
was not SO highly roasted. The Ameri
cans now gave preference to japanese
teas, which were uncolored.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
The New Panacea.

Modern science having demonstrated
that alcohol is "neither food nor
physic," but, on the contrary, species
OF poison, the introduction of a potent
tonic which is entirely free from it is
certainly a subject for congratulation.
DIR. WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs is a
medicine which may be fairly charac-
terized as an unobjectionable specific
for many distressing and dangerous
diseases. Temperance organizations,
heretofore in favor of permitting the
sale of alcohol for medical purposes,
are of opinion that VINEGAR BITTERs
possesses all the efficacy as an invigor-
ant that has ever been even claimed for
spirituous stimulants, and on this ac-
count, as well as because of the singu-
lar success which has attended its use
in dyspepsia, liver complaint, disorders
of the bowels, nervous diseases, general
debility, and all maladies growing out
of intemperance, they warmly recon-
mend it as a restorative and alternative
of surprising excellence.-COm.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
Inclination VS.. Duty.

A correspondent of the Lewiston Ga
eette relates an Androscoggin legend,
which has probably been mellowed by
time, though the narrator says he
could give the names, if he chose, as he
knew the parties well in his boyhood.
1t appears that on clear, cold, quiet
morning, some fifty years ago. family
were seated around the table taking
their breakfast when a rap was heard
at the door, and, as the custom then
was, the outsider was hidden to "come
in" when a man past middle life en-
tered, and after the usual salutatlon,
seated himself in chair. He was a
neighbor, living some half mile dis
tant. He was asked to sit up and eat
some breakfast, but he answered, 81
don't suppose 1 ought to stop, for our
house is on fire, and they sent me to
tell you."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
They Died Together.

A remarkable instance of cremation
occurred in Oxfordshire in the summer
of 171S. John Hewet was well set
man of abodt five and twenty. Sarah
Drew, fair and comely, was about the
same age. They were constant lovers,
and at the last fair he bought her a
straw hat, and the "posie" on her sill
yer ring was of his own choosing. They
were setting under the shade of a beech
tree, talking of their approaching mar
riage one afternoon in July, between
two and three, when the clouds grew
suddenly black, and such a storm of
thunder and lightning ensued that the
labOr8rs took shelter under the trees
and hedges. Sarah was frightened, and
fell down in a swoon, on a heap of bar
ley. John sat down by her side, having
raked together two OF three heaps, the
better to secure her from the storm.
Soon came terrible burst, as though
heaven had split asunder. Every one
was solicitous for his neighbor, and
each called on the others. The place
where the lovers lay was found to be on
fire, and approaching they perceived
through the smoke the faithful pair
John with one arm about Sarah's neck,
the other held over, as if to screen hel
from the lightning. They were struck
dead, and were nearly consumed to
ashes before their bodies could be re.
claimed. They were inferred in Stan.
ton churchyard, and the poet Gay fur.
nished the following epitaph:
When Eastern lovers feed the funeral fire,
On the same pile the faithful pair expire
| HpaVpn
| found.
| And blasted both, that it might neither
wound.
| Hearts so sincere, the Almighty saw wei
pleased
Senthis own lightning, and the victims seized
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Changing the Tune.

Snooks had occasion to call on the
Rev. Dominic Thomas Campbell while
he was at Glasgow. els the dominic
in ?" he inquired of portly dame who
opened the door. "He's at hame, but
he's no in," replied the lady. "He's
in the yard, sooporintendin' Sauners.
the carpenter. Ye can see him the moo
if your business is vera precise. 4"
Snooks assented and walked through
the door pointed out to him in the
yard, where he beheld a carpenter
briskly planning away to the air of
Maggie Lauder" and the worthy
dominic standing by. Unwilling to in
tsude on their conversation, Snooks
stepped, unseen, behind water cask,
and heard, "Sauners p No answer
from the carpenter. "Sauners, say
Can ye no hear me?" "Yes, minister,
1 hear ye. What's your wull ?" Scan
ye no whistle some mair solemn and
godly tune while ye're at work ?" ga
weel, minister, if it be your wulI, I'll
cen do it." Upon which he changed
the air to the "Dead March in Saul, >
greatly to the hindrance of what was
now painful planning. The dominic
looked on for some minutes in silence
and then said, "Sauners, 1 hae anithel
word to say till ye. Did the guide wife
hire ye by the days darg or by the
job ?" "The days darg, was our agree
ing, master" "Then, on the whole
Sauners, 1 think ye may just as wee
gae back to whistling bonne Maggie
Lauder.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
Liver and Blood Diseases.
BY h. v, PIERCE, NJ. D.

A healthy liver secretes each day about two
and half pounds of bile, which contains q
great amount of waste material. taken from the
blood. When the liver becomes torpid or con-
Sested, it fails to eliminate this vast amount of
noxious substance which. therefore, remains
to poison the blood, and be conveyed to every
part of the system. What must be the con-
ditiOn of the blood when it is receiving and
retaining each day two and half pounds of
poison! Nature tries to work off this poison
through other channels and organs-the kid
neys, lungs, skin, etc, but these organs become
overtaxed in performing this labor in addition
to their natural functions, and cannot long
Withstand the pressure, but become variously
diseased.
The brain, which is the great electrical center
of all vitality, is unduly stimulated by the un-
healthy blood, which passes to it from the
heart and it fails to perform its Office health
fully. Hence the symptoms of bile poisoning,
which are dullness, headache incapacity to
keep the mind on any subject, impairment of
memory, dizzy, sleepy, or nervous feelings,
gloomy forebodings, and irritabllity OF temper.
The blood itself being diseased, as it forms the
sweat upon the surface of the skin, it is
so irritating and poisonous that it produces
discolored brown spots, pimples, blotches, and
other eruptions, sores, boils, carbuncles and
scrufulous tumors. The stomach, bowels and
other organs cannot escape becoming affected,
sooner or later, and we have as the result,
oloVl'ohOoo, PhSo, N'ioPSy, uyDPSP.ui N4NA
Other symptoms are common, as bitter or bad
taste in the mouth, internal heat, palpitation,
teasing cough unsteady appetite, choking SEN
sation in the throat, bloatirg of stomach, pain
in sides or about shoulders or back, coldness OF
! extremities, ETC., etc. Only few of the above
symptoms are likely to be present in any case
at one time. The liver being the great depura
ting or blood cleansing organ of the system
| set this great g housekeeper of our health a
work, and the foul corruptions, which gende
in the blood, and rot out, as it were, the
machinery of life, are gradually expelled iron
the system. For this purpose my Colder
Medical Discovery with very small doses dali
of my Pleasant Purgative Pellets are pre-
eminently the articles needed. They cur
every kind of humor from the worst scrofula t
the common pimple, blotch or eruption. Grea
eating ulcers kindly heal under their might
curative influence Virulent blood poison
that lurk in,the system are by them robbed @
their terrors, and by their persevering an
somewhat protracted use the most tainte
systems may be completely renovated an
built up anew. Enlarged glands tumors an
swellings dwindle away and disappear undt
the influence Of these great resolyents. icon
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
Saved Her Lamb.

A young girl named Kate Curry, liv-
ing near Galesburg, ILL.,, was recently
noticed by an engineer on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad en-.
deavoring to extricate a pet lamb that
bad got its foot fast in cattle guard.
In her anxiety to save her pet she did
not heed the whistle of the engine. Just
before the engine reached them the
lamb was extricated and bounded away,
but she was struck by the pilot of the
engine and thrown some fifteen feet
from the track. She was found with g
deep cash in her head and in an in
sensible condition. Medical assistance
being called, she soon recovered, and
is now doing well.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
His Bonds.

The Oswego Times says: A promi-
nent moneyed man" in this city had
invested quite largely in the bonds of a
neighboring town, cut off the April cou-
pons of his bonds of certain denomina-
tion and placed them with bank. The
bank, of course, sent them to New York
for payment. In few days the bank
officers were surprised by the return OF
the coupons, with word that they
"would be paid when DUE" On ex,
amining them it was found that they
were payable in 1887. The same mis-
take, of course, occurs in all the bonds
of that denomination of that issue. The
printer made mistake by the use o.
wrong figures, and that is how certain
rich man must "hold on " for while
before he gets his April interest.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11

BR1BERY.-In moving for the SEN
tence of man who had been convicted
of taking a bribe for his vote at Louis
vile, KY, Baird, the prosecuting attor-
ney, said that no punishment could be
to great,no infamy too damning. The
convict deserved to be hanged by the
neck to the nearest tree like Judas
Tcoariot
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11

DIR. j. Walkers California Vim
egar Bitters are purely. Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the M.
tive herbs found on the lower ranges o.
tho Sierra Nevada mountains Of Califor
MIA, ahs medicinal properties of which
are extracted theI efrom without the use
of Alcohol, TIE question is almost
daily asked, "Wha@ is the cause OF the
unparalleled success Of PINEGAa BIT
TEFs" Our answer is, Gnlt they remove
the cause Of disease, ard the patient re
covers his heaISs, They are the great
blood purifier and g hfe-giving principle,
a perfect Repovator and TnVigoratol
Of Cae system. Never beTc-e in the
history Of the wcEld has a = 1dicine beeE
compounded possessing The Lemarkable
qualities OF VINEGAR BITTERs il healing the
siax Of eynty disease man is hoir to. They
arr g. gert'e PurgatiV9 as well as Tonic
relieving Congestion Or Inflammation ol
the live, and FigcaEai Organs, in Biliouc
Diseases.
I'hU properties oi Dh. WALhEKs
YJNsGAB RrrrENS are Apencnt Olaphoretic
Carmjuatnr. Nutritious Laxative. Nureuc
Sedatiyc, Conutor-lrritant; Sudorllcs Alters
tive. and Anti-RiiinUs
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11

It is often remarked by strangers
visiting our State that we show larger propor-
ton of good horses than any other State in the
Union This, we tell them, is owing to two
principal reasons in the first place. we breed
place, our people use Sheridans Cdual,y Con-
dttion POWDERS, which in our judgment are of
incalculable advantage.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11

Mother" said Ike Partington,
|" did you know that the iron horse
has but one ear |" Zone ear Merci-
full gracious, child, what doyou mean ?"
"Why, the engineer, of course"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
W1sTAR's BALsAM OF WILD CHERRY.-- Com.

Johnson's Anodyne Liniment will
give more relief in cases Of Chronic Rheu-
matism, no matter how severe, than any other
article known to medical mel. tied internally
and externally Com.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11

Mr.. West of La, from the Committee on
Transportation, reported the two Senate bills
for the improvement Of the mouth of the Mis-
sppi with written report. Placed on the
calendar
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11

There are fifteen bridges across the
Mississippi River at different points.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
xL1IId UNITED STATES CONGRESS-.
IN THE SENATE.

The resolution of the House providing for an
of this session of Congress on the
22d of June was received, and on motion Of
Mr. Edmunds was agreed to. la.'
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
I'VE
And Our
NEIGHBORS"
is the latest and raciest work by y
Harriet Beecher Stowe,

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Mrs. STOWE is now in the prime OF thac
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
IN THE HOUSE.

BILLS INTRODUCED.
For the creation of court for the adjudica-
tion and disposition of the Geneva award.
Ordered to be printed and recommitted.
To secure anti-monopoly ocean cable COM
munication between Europe, America, and Asia
by VIM. Cornell Jewett and his associates
For the establishment of an ocean mail steam
ship service-American built iron vessels-be-
tween the United States and England.
SUFFERERS By FLOODS.
Mr.. Hayes, of Ala. moved to suspend the
rules and pass the bill authorizing the Presi-
dent to furnish army rations and clothing to
the starving and destitute people on the Tom
bigbee, Warrior, and Alabama rivers. Mr.
Willard, of Vt, suggested that the sufferers by
the late inundation in Massachusetts be in.
cluded, but Mr.. Hayes declined to include
them. The bill was passed, 141 to 6S
THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE.
After much discussion the resolution allowing
| the Agricultural Report to go through the
mails free of postage was adopted-110 to G9
While this was being discussed members up
holding it were accused of favoring the frank
ing privilege under its cover.
BILLS PASSED.
The Pension Appropriation bill appropriatine
| S29, $50 900 was passed. 1t contains provision
| that the pension agents fee of 80 cents fol
| preparing vouchers and administering oath,
| shall be reduced to 20 cents.
| NEW STATE.
The bill for the admission of New Mexico a!
a State coming up a special order, Mr. Nc
| Kee, of Miss, Chairman of the Committee OF
Territories, addressed the House in support O
the measure Messrs. Potter and Hoar op
posed, and Kosson, Maynard and Haskin
favored the bill. 1t passed-yeas, 100 nays
| "a.
| ALLOWANCES.
Mr.. Lawrence, of Ohio, from the Committe,
on War Claims, reported bill making appro
priations for the payment of claims reported
I" allowed" " by the Commissioners Of Claim
under the act of March g. 1871. He state,
that the bill allowed over l 900 different claims
aggregating s676,274. The bill passed.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Mr. Gunckel, of Ohio, reported bill allow
ing bounty of eight and one-third dollars pc
month to soldiers during the late war, am
also providing for grants of land to them.
Mr. Coburn, of Indiana, reported bill t.
provide for the gradual reduction of the arm
of the United States, reducing the Number o
cavalry regiments to nine, artillery to four, an
infantry to twenty.
THE TARIFF BILL.
The House in Committee of the Whole O
tho bill to amend the existing customs an
internal revenue laws, after discussion fixe
the tariff on still wines fifty cents per year,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
Morning GlOries,

Few people seem to remember bow
beautiful dingy back yard may be-
come, at the expense of some labor and
very small amount of money. Dull,
unsightly walls may be covered by the
bright green lea yes and star-like BIOS
SONS of the convolvolus, while narrow
strip of earth may be made to yield
flo yers enough to perfume the whole
house. Put in the morning glories
everywhere. They are the best and
cheapesy trimming to be had, and they
never fail with half a chance.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
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