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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

The government of the United
States feels the hard times as well as
other people, and there is much alarm
at Washington because the receipts
are falling short Of the expenses
The estimates made by the heads o.
the several departments Of the
amounts to be derived from the var
ious sources of revenue during the
year are not being realized. In fact
they are falling so far short that the
first thing to be done next winter by
the new Congress will be to reduce
expenses and devise means to cover
up deficiencies in the revenue under
Radical rule. Uncle Sam will be
compelled to lessen the expenses o.
his household or increase his pub
lie debt. The latter will never bt
done by the Democrats.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15
To Young Men.

The Republican party, powerful
for a few ill-starred years in this
country, has outlived its day and
generation. Slavery, itscorner stone,
having disappeared, the temple falls
to decay and ruin.
There is one great party that can
live in this free land of ours; that is
the Democratic party. 1t and this
Republic had a common origin. They
have lived together; they will dwell
together as long as free government
is preserved. The life Of the one is
the life of the other. They were born
Of the same mother, rocked in the
same cradle, and when they def
die they must-will be wrapped in
t he same shroud and buried in the
same grave. Theirs is the same des-
tiny, the same imperishable heritage
of glory.
Young men, stepping across the
line of manhood to honorable citizen
ship, God bless youl for You are the
hope of the Republic. 1t will be
hereafter, whatever You choose tc
make it. Do YOU wish the highest
good to the land of your birth? then
ally yourselves to the Democratic
party of the Republic, whose foun'
ders and prophets were Jefferson
franklin, Madison and Jackson; the
party that has constituency in ev'
cry State in the Union; the party
that will protect and ennoble you
and your PROSPERITY while living, anc
shed undying lustre on your memory
after death.-E.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15
TERMS OF SALE:
Commissioners Sale!

T the unlcrsignened Special Commission
er. in pursuance of the terms of a decree
Of the Circuit Court OF Mason County, rend-
cred on the Ssh day Of April, 1875, in .
cause in Chancery therein pending, where
in D. ". Polslcy was plaintiff, and W. II.
II. Powell was defendant. shall
On fhc Goth day Of July, 1875.
proceed TO sell at the Court House OF sail
County at Public auction TO the highest
bidder tiiity-scven acres Of land bcloDIint;
TO the defendant, said land is in q good
state OF cultivation, and situated on West
Greek in said County.
TERMS OF SALE:
One half OF the purchase money cash in
hand, and the residue upon credit OF one
year, taking bond with good secnrity Tor
the deferred insallmcnts, and retaining the
title rs : further security.
". II. TolHINS0N.
July, 24-4w. Special Comm'r.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

The day following our centennial
festivities the following incident oc-
cured in a South End saloon: A
friend had invited one of the South
Carolina Soldiers into the saloon to
put another turf on the buried hatch
ct. While standing at the bar a
stranger came in. The Carolinian
suddenly dropped his glass and close
| " eyed the stranger. His gaze was
50 steady and peculiar that the FRIEND
began to be alarmed and to fear that
the Ratchet was about to be dug up
again. Directly the Carolinian ask
ed the stranger if he knew him.
There was no recognition, whereupon
the Carolinian asked him if he was
not in the late war. "Yes," was the
reply. "And you were once station.
ed at such a placer ayes" Sand
took part at such a skirmish?" eyes"
"Well, / thought So" replied the
Carolinian, and, raising his hat,
showed a large scar on his forehead,
saving, "there is your sabre mark,
my boy; come up and take a drink"
And 50 then and there they decorat-
ed the grave ofthe buried hatchet.-
Boston Herald.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

Elizabeth Holt, widow OF the said John
Holt, deceased, Malohn ". Holt, F. K.
Kerns and Mary N. Kerns, his wife, (ior-
merly Hoit,) William J. Holt Richard B.
Combs, and Eliza J. Combs, his wife, flor.
merly Holt Mary Ann Holt, widow Of
Hamilton c. Holt, deceased, and tie IN
known heirs OF said H. c. Holt, deceased,
Al. U. Holt, = Mann, and Ruth Ann
Mann, his wife, formerly Holt, heirs Mt
law and devisees OF said John Holt, dc'd,
j. L. Newman, NJ. Kimberling, Trustees,
Asel Holt, personal representative OF
John Holt, deceased, and all others the
unknown creditors OF said John Holt,
deceased, L. c. Sharon, and 7. Ray, De-
PENDANTS. In Chancery.
The object OF the above suit, is to set
tie up the estate OF John Holt, deceased
And it appearing by affidavit filed with the
papers OF this canse, that the defendants,
+. J. Kerns, and Mary NJ. Kerns, his wife,
William J. Holt, Richard B. Combs and
Eliza J. Combs his wife, Mary Ann Holt,
the unknown heirs Of II. c. Holt, deceased,
Mann. and Ruth Ann Mann, his vile,
ind L. C. Sharon, are non-residents Of this
State, it is ordered that they doappear here
on the next Rule day TO be holden on the
first Monday in August next, and do what
is necessary to protect their interests in
this suit. TESTE:
E. KIAIBERLING, Clerk,
by JONI E. TplMs, Deputy.
F. ". sisson, Sol. Iiuly 15-4w.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

Mr.. Secretary Belknap sports the
most snowy turnout in Washington.
Secor Robson drives another Of the
same sort, and has his coachman and
footman in liveries that would aston
ish the English; and now it turns out
tina both these high officials main
tain their family equipages after the
manner Of the late Attorncy-General
Williams. VIII Mr.. Secretary Bel
KNAPP, tell US where he gets authority
for keeping a family turnout at the
peoples expense, and making coach
men, and footmcn, and even house
servants of men who are down on the
roll of the War Department as mes
scngers and laborcrs? It was that
illuStrious statesman John Andrew
Jackson Creswell, We believe, who first
set the example Of making cooks,
walters, and coachmen Of men who
were down on the Post Office rolls as
messengers, and paid as such.-Ne'e
York Sun.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

a would not accepta nomination
if it were rendered, unless 1t should
come under such circumstances as to
make It an Imperative duty" says Pres
ident Grant in his amusing third
term utterance. q swear" said old
Parkinson, in paroxysm Of the de-
moralizing misery which follows a
debauch, 81 swear l ncver'll tech an
other drop of liquor-untess Tan sick
or ,cant some"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

The suggestion contained in some
OF our exchanges, that the Governor
appoint committee to act IN con-
junction with our Commissioners. We
think is a happy one, and we hope
his Excellency viii aid, by all means
at his command, an enterprise above
all others necessary at this time to
our material Advancement. We
want the many advantages Of our
State published to the world, and
from the Centennial an exposition Of
our great wealth viii be carried tc
every part of the earth, and invite
the enterprise of all lands to ours
To our brethren Of the press We APP.
peal to keep this matter constantly
before the people, till something is
done in order to our having q fair
representation at Philadelphia
State Gazette
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

The Cape May Ware says: 1.-THE
family physician Of Mr.. Uri Carruth,
the wounded editor of the late Vine
land Independent, favored US with a
call on Monday evening. From the
doctor we learned that Messrs. Lands
and Corruth have recently had an
amicable understanding in regard to
their difficulties, that the olive
branch ofpeace was mutually accept
ed and that for pecuniary losses, DC,
sustained by Carruth, growing out of
the sad affair, he would be fully re.
imbursed by Lands. The basis OF
settlement was that no prosecution
should be made on the part Of Car
ruth. The State, however, will pro-
baby bring the case to trial and COM
pei the attendance of Mr.. Carruth as
a witness, if he can be found, which
he NAV not, as We understand he has
taken his departure from Vineland
for the East.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15
Death of Hon. Frank P. Blair.

1t is with the greatest regret that
we see the announcement of the
death of Hon. Frank P. Blair, in St.
Louis, about twelve o'clock last
Thursday night. Any eulogium Of
ours would be superaOus, he was 50
well known toall this partof the coun-
try. Francis Preston Blair, Jr., son
and namesake Of the famous Journal
ist and politician, was born February
10, 1921, at Lexington, Ky. Hegrad-
uated at New Jersey College in 1871,
and was soon after admitted to the
bar of St. Louis, where he practiced
a few years with considerable success.
In 1915 his health being considerably
impaired by confinement, he joined
some trappers in a trip to the Rocky
Mountains. The hostilities between
this country and Mexico, found him
in New Mexico. He Immediately
entered the army, and served faith
fully till 1917. Abandoning his mill
tary career in that year, he returned
to st. Louis and to his neglected pro-
fession. In 1913 he joined the free
soil Democracy, supported Van Bur
en- and opposed slavery in the Terri
tories. He was editor ofthe Missouri
Democrat for while, and twice elect
ed to the Missouri Legislature, once
in 80 and again in "a. He was
elected a republican Congressman in
1856, and declared himself in favor
of the colonization of the United
States negroes in Central America
At the next congressional election
he was defeated; but was returned in
80 and '62. When the war broke
out he became a Colonel of volunteers,
afterwards Brigadier, and in No
vember, go, a Major General. He
resigned his seat:in Congress in '63.
He was division commander in the
vicksburg campaign, and in the last
year of the war commanded the 18th
corps in the Army of the Tennessee,
was with Sherman in his campaigns
from Chattanooga to Atlanta, in the
march to the sea-" and in North and
South Carolina. He was appointed
Collector OF Customs for St. Louis az
ter the war, and commissioner of the
Pacific Railroad. 1t was about this
time that the policy Of the admins
tration disguised, and caused him to
return to the Democratic party. Of
his candidacy for the Vice Presiden-
cy in 1865, his making speech from
the Mcclure House balcony, of this
city, and his election as Senator from
Missouri in 1870, every one here
knows familiarly.-Ssandard.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

@Twice-a-week," published at Ha-
gerstown, Nd, speaking of the steal
ings at Washington, says
"The meanest stealing that we can
just at this time think of was that
perpetrated by those having in
charge the funds Of the Freedman's
Bank at Washington. After inducing
the poor negroes to place in their
hands the little earnings Of their hard
days labor, the miserable rascalsgob-
bled it up for their own use. There
were no Democrats in this mess, but
the managers of the institution, its
friends, borrowers and every body
having any connection with it, were
all simon-pure Radicals, without the
shade of a shadow Of doubtful doubt.
They were all of that whining class
of philanthropist who would clasp
the poor black man to his bosom and
steal his bandana out of his coat tail
pocket at the same time. The negro
viii in time find out his real friend.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

The St. Louis Republican,, says
@One of the first things the new Con-
gress ought to do is to overhaul the
District of Columbia affairs and as,
certain, if possible, whether thatez-
pensive bit of national property is
owned by the people Of the United
States, or by the Washington Ring.
There is an exhaustless mine of ras,
cality in that quarter, which ought
to be laid bare, but which Grant and
his friends will do their best to keep
covered up.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

The most of the carpet-bag State
officials of Louisiana are under in
dictment for embezzlement, forgery
and robbery. That explains why
Grant sent the army there to prevent
the Democratic officials from taking
possession of the offices towhich they
were elected. He wanted to protect
his friends.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15
The New York Herald publishes in

The New York Herald publishes in
one column long account headed,
death on the Rail" In the next,
it gives 4 full description Of its Sun
day lightning train from New York
to Niagara Falls, distance Of 470
miles in II hours, including several
stoppages, one as longas twenty-three
minutes. This train went at some
portion of the trip at speed of more
than a mile 4 minute. If a broken
rail, or small piece Of wood, or any
obstruction like that should be across
the track, the Herald would have an
other very interesting piece of news
TO relate.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

The Rev. A. Latane, late ofWheel.
Ing, West Virginia, declines the Of
fee of bishop in the Reformed Epis-
copal Church, to which he was re-
Gently elected, believing, as he says,
that he can be more useful as a pres
byter than as a bishop.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

On the second Friday of next
month, the 18th, we will be called
upon to elect all the officers provided
for in the School law, Except the
State Superintendent who are to
serve for the term Of two years, begin
ming September LIST. The officers to
be elected are 4 County Superinten-
dent, Board of Education for each
district, composed of a President and
two Commissioners, and 4 Trustee for
each sub-district. A vote is also to
be taken upon the question Of grant
ing power to the Board of Education
to levy upon the taxable property of
the district such tax as will be neces-
sary, in connection with the State
fund appropriated, to run the several
schools in each district for four
months in each year. Should the
Board of Education in any district
determine to continue their schools
for a longer term, they may also sub
nit that question, under the provis-
ions of Sec. Al of the School law.
When we consider the important
trusts confded to these officers, it be-
hooves us to be choice in our select
ions; for the success Of the system de-
ponds almost entirely upon the judi
cious management of the officers.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

A medical journal states that there
are from 100000 to 100000 hairs in
the average woman's head. We al
ways knew the hairs Of our head
all numbered, but had no idea the
number could be so accurately stated.
It's a very interesting and valuable
piece Of information.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

Desperate indeedmustbe the straits
of the powers that be at Washington.
Not having anything else to make
political capital out Of, several clerks
have been set to work over-hauling
the Confederates war records for the
purpose of preparing q history OF the
ex-Confederate elected to Congress;
the matter thus collected to be used
as campaign document. The sig
nifcanee of this action IS all the
greater, and speaks more loudly OF
their distress, when it is remember
ed that years ago these very same re-
cords were gone over for the same
object, and everything in them that
could be tortured for the benefit OF the
dominant party was circulated broad
cast over the country.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

On the LIST inst, the prohibitory liq-
uor law came to an end in Massa-
chusetts, and the new license law
went into operation. The effect of
the old law was not considered whole
some, and the people will now have
chance to see how the new law
works.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15
NOTICE.


Tn the District Court OF the United States
/ for the District OF West Virginia, at
Charleston on the 18th day of May 1915.
In the matter Of the Burnapl In Bank
Salt Company, Bankrupt ruptcy.
At Charleston, in said District, May Goth,
1875.
The Trustee heretofore appointed in this
cause to make sale OF the premises in the
cause mentioned and described, having f.
led his report thereof. On motion, it is or
dered that all persons interested in the
matter OF the said sale do appear before the
Judge Of the said District Court, sitting as q
Court OF Bankruptcy at Pakersburg, West
Virginia, on the ID day OF August, 1875, at
the office Of the said Judge, to show cause
why the said report should not in all res
poets be confirmed, and that publication
for one or more weeks be made OF this ord
er in the Pomeroy Telegraph, Meiss Coun-
ty, Ohio, and in the Point Pleasant Register
Mason County, West Virginia, previous to
the day fixed IS aforesaid.
A Copy, Teste:
JASPER y. MOORE,
Clerk U. S. D. c. Dist West Va.
jnlv lS-ow@
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

The people of New York are deter
mined to resume specie payment
whether the general government
does or not. We notice that law
was passed, about two months ago,
in that State, providing that after
January LIST, 1879, all taxes are pay
able in coin, and all contracts made
payable in dollars" unless the kind
of dollar is specified, must be constru,
ed to mean coin. It's the first direct
step yet taken in this direction, and
it has been taken in spite Of the fact
that gold is higher now than when
Congress passed the resumption act,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

The Ohio Democratic platform does
not suit the bond holders and money
sharks of Wall street but it suits the
homes. laboring men, the mechanics
and farmers, and the interests OF the
latter are first to be considered.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

Charles johnson, a noted despera-
do of Southern Kansas, was shot and
instantly killedat Lescygres, Kan
sas, on the Sth inst, blythe City Mar
shall. At the time Of the shooting
johnson was engaged in fight and
resisted arrest.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

The peach crop Of Delaware and
Maryland promises to be the largest
ever known. 1t is estimated that
six million baskets will come to the
New York market from the Peninsu,
Ia. Lastyear it cost IS cents per
basket to get the peaches to market,
the grower only realizing y cents
per basket.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

1t is a singular truth that those
who urged contraction as the ready
road to individual prosperity ant
national wealth, don't propose t.
contract the Government bonds
whose volume is so enormous, in
stead of the currency, whose amount
is SO limited. The bonds are oper
to all the objections that are arrayed
against the greenbacks. They are
equally irredeemable. They arc
made out of dirty rags" they are
not something that chinks;;' anc
more than that, they pay no taxes
and the interest they bear is q con
slant drain upon the resources O.
the country. If there is to be con
traction, why not contract the rich
mans currency, that bears interest
and initiate little of the volume o.
the poor mans money that don't tax
every other kind Of property for it:
support? Why not?-Courier.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

The great majority of the Republi'
cans having determined, in the face
of Grants letter, that he shall not
run for a third term, the contest fol
the nomination next year is now
open for all Republican competitors.
The new corners already in training
for-the race are unusually numerous,
and their qualities are varied and
peculiar. In the Eastern States
there are Blaine, Wilson, and But.
Ter; in New York, Morgan and Conk.
ling; in the Western States, Morton,
Washburne, and Bristow.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

The C9rier-Journnl has informa-
ton that the first female lawyer ad-
mitted to the bar in Ohio has proved
a dismal legal failure. The baby is
doing well, however, and ifthe clients
can wait, their cases may possibly
come around all right.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

An Atlanta, Georgia, man offered
to be one of twenty men to give each
one share in the new Atlanta cotton
factory to the widow of Stonewall
Jackson, who lives in destitute cir
cumstances at Charlotte, North Caro-
lima, and there is no doubt that the
other nineteen will come to time.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

Harriet Beecher Stowe, makes the
scandalous assertion that Shakes
peare was troubled with the tooth
ache. Better decide first whether
Shakespeare was Shakespeare or some
other man, before looking into his
Old snags.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15
Cuu.p EArEN BY RArs.-ln Rom

CHILD EATEN BY RArs.-In Rom
ney, Hampshire county, W. Va a
negro woman named Florence Hardy
left her twin infants, few months
old, in bed asleep, and in her absence
the rats ate two fingers and laid an
arm bare to the bone as far as the ell
bow. A neighbor hearing the cries
of the child went to its rescue and
thus saved its life. The other child
was still asleep and uninjured.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

From every part Of the South the
intelligence comes that the negroes
are becoming disguised with the
greed and dishonesty of the carpet
baggers who have obtained posses
sion of the Republican organization
in the reconstructed States, and are
preparing to join the native whites
in opposition to the misrule Of these
adventures. It could hardly be 9TH
erwise. The colored voters in the
South, though generally ignorant,
are not SO blind but that they can
see that the disagreement which IS
running their white neighbors, upon
whom they mostly depend for aid,
and the means of livelihood, is as
much opposed to their own interests
as to those Of the whites. A career
Of robbery which has resulted in the
impoverishment Of several States
rich in natural resources, cannot be
continued without the population of
every class suffering from its effects.
The more intelligent Of the negroes
see this, and are deserting the politi-
cal impostors who have been using
them to advance their own selfish
schemes while making great profes.
sions of devotion to the welfare Of
the African race. The Norfolk, Va,
Day Book, Republican newspaper
which has the sagacity to see that
it's party cannot carry the ignominy
entailed upon it by the rascalities Of
the carpet-baggers and live, says that
it has been informed by leading col
ored men that the colored voters de-
sire to conciliate with their white
home people, and that they are deter
mined to do so. The same dispose
ton is manifcsting itself in Louisia-
ma, Mississippi, and other States
which it has been thought would be-
come completely Africanized.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-07-15

A dispatch from Buda, in Austria,
to the London Standard, says furi,
Gus storm passed over that city last
Monday. The lightning was inces-
SAINT, and hail fell in such quantities
that roofs OF houses and surrounding
hills were covered two feet thick
with ice. The water fall was extra.
ordinary. Torrents swept through
the streets of Buda, carrying mea,
vehicles, and everything movable
down into the river. Many houses
we're suddenly flooded ana destroyed
before their inmates could escape,
Five hundred inhabitants are miss
ing, and one hundred have been
drowned or killed by falling walls.
All railways are interrupted.