The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-04-22

| INC aChelj anu u.p1li " sithVii i"l'NAA
rings from Mrs. Mary A. Buell..
To Mr. and Mrs, Minturn we cx-'
tend the hearty congratulations Of
the Morning Herald on the years that
further wish that-as the sun is sink
ing to rest in the hazy golden light
of autumn, it may be called upon to.
record the celebration of their GOLDEN
wedding with as much real pleasure
jas itrecords the happy
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zing agcaAiee, seiia ne deed things.
at our feet are rising in glorious
guisq to glad our hearts after their
long entombment; but we miss a
sunny face that chcered us at the
threshold but one brief year ago.
We miss the hasting feet and joyous
voice that greeted us after the weary
absence. and the whispered assurance
we should be loved us tendcrly after
he claspcdG hands with another to
walk forever down the valley to the
Great Portal. How blind and lost
was then that could not heed the
premonitions of.thc Spirit Bridge
| Just ahead, nor hear the distant rum,
bic of the Car of Death that was so
soon to halt at our door for another
pilgrim. How soon was the orange
chaplet to be laid aside for the crown
of rue, and the marriage robe for the
sackcloth and ashes of rift and riv-
en- heart! All June! No more will
you come to me frcightcd with the
hucs and aroma of flowers; no more
will Isteep my soul in your zephyrs,
and sweets, and bird duets that are
coming, for my murdered heart rcfu-
'scs their gratefuFministrations and
takes UP the moumful requiem for
the loved and lost, All, can l forget
how greedily your first noon-tide sun
of "a drank up the red flow of the
Kingly heart from the fair green
sward of hcathen Pulaski-name
burnt Qnd branded forever in memo-
ry's Gorel All Kentucky, how un-
blushingly you wear the well earned
scarlet crown of the Aceldama curse,
as your monster head refuses tho
profercd olive branch. How with
criminal sympathics and drivelling
tears you preserve the lives Of your
felons, hugging them toyour bloatcd
heart with matcrnity's holy instinct,
as justice cries aloud for vengeance
on your malcfactors. Did you ever
hear the prayer of mother for the
murderer of her frst-born? Can you
weigh, measure o. fathom its inten-
sity and immensity even by Dayid's
for his enemies? When morn dap
pies the hills with its crimson flush,
and your hearts are still, you may
hear it waited away by the earliest
zephyr that bears humanity's cry to
the Throne of God When noon-tido
hearts beat high, and drain the lit
tic brook of its last draught for
thirsting things, poor agonized Ra-
chel sees the fevered form PROSTATE
on the railway highway with the
red pool under the darling heart, and
as she drinks her myrrh she sends
up another prayer to cleave the fair
mosaic of the skies with its very
pungcncy. But oh, when the black
and hoWllng night wipes from sight
the last little star that lonely, forsa-
ken grave six hundred miles away,
we merely turn aside from that smo-
king altar, or tarry and learn the
full bitter, blasting blight Of moth
er's curse! Oh ye who know moth
cr's love will pity and forgive, when
| tell you l have just looked in on
the garments with the purple stains
that no skill of laundress could eilace,
and my heart is sick and my brain
on fire, and all the love and tender
ness of life dashed out! Mighty ST.
mai why were you conyulscd from
crown to base under the stupendous
burden of Jehovah's warning, when
human law now mocks and annuls
that awful message delivered through
fires and thunderboltsl Pulaski
it will be more tolorablc for Seldom
and Gomorroh in the day of Judg-