The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-11-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

sylvania will reach $1,000.
At Sherman, Texas, the new post
office, every printing Office, sixty-fve
places of business and thirty houses
were burned on the 2nd. Loss, $780,
600.
Thomas A. Bradford, of Barbour
county, is nominated by some of his
friends, for Attorney-General of West
Virginia, on the next Democratic
State ticket.
The Legislature might DO good
work by repeating and amending
some of the laws on ourStatute books.
The school law and road law needs
their particular attention.
Ex-Confederate soldiers propose to
erect a monument over the grave of
the mother of Stoncwall jackson,
which is in a neglected graveyard
near Hawks Nest, Fayctte county,
West Virginia.
The Legislature will bear in mind
when looking around for Il place to
locate the Capital, that Point Pleas
ant is candidate for that honor. and
wouldn't mind taking the Universe
ty, Asylum and Penitentiary, in ad-
dition.
Early on the morning OF the 9TH
inst, the steamer Tigrsss No. ., near
Osborne, on the Allegheny river, cx-
ploded a boiler sending top sheet
through the cabin. Three men were
badly scalded.
The Richmond papers publish a
card from General Jubal a. Early,
President of the Lee Monument As
ISOLATION, suggesting the merging Of
that with other organizations having
in view the erection of an equestrian
| statue to General Robert E, Lee, on
Capitol Square, Richmond.
Now that the Cuban patriots after
a seven years struggle, are almost
free and independent, a sudden inter
est in their behalf is manifested
by the Administration, where
where they have heretofore been re-
pulsed and shown no sympathy
whatever. Grant secs new fields Of
plumber, or else he wants to provoke
q foreign war, to secure to him q
third term in the Presidential chair.
General J. A.. ]. Lightburn is about
to leave West Virginia and to locate
at Lancaster, Pa. He will enter &C.
lively there upon his duties as a Bap-
tist ministcr.-Echaagc.
This is the man who made the cow
ardly retreat from the Kanawha Val
LEY in 1862, when Loring got after
him. When he goes West Virgin
ians will heartily rejoice. As a re-
treater he is a success, but as Min
lister, he must, from the nature Of
things, be a failure.
President Grant, in hislittle speech
to the exuberant negroes Of Washing
ton City last Saturday night, declared
his belief that the recent Republican
victories settled the question that
the country was to be controlled for
-four more years by the Republican
party. Now, we would like to have
this little man lay his hand on his
ineart and tell US solemniy whether
these great triumphs mean flour more
years Of Grant?
On Tuesday, the ID inst, cleo
tions were held in eleven States. OF
this number the Democrats have car
ried FIVE, and made large gains in the
other six States. The Democratic
States are: New York, Wisconsin,
Maryland, Virginia, and Mississippi.
In Mississippi the Democrats have
elected five out of the six Congress,
men; elected the Legislature, which
will gives gain OF one Democratic
United States Senator. Not so much
of a Republican victory after all
The Democracy will be upand at 'em
in &c.
Later election rctuns pan out
better and better for the Democrats,
and we fail to seehow that tidal wave
has been arrested yet to any extent,
The Democrats have carried outright
1--WE State of the eleven which hex!