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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-01-20
Washington Items.

We gather the following items
from our exchanges;
On the 9th inst, Mr. Wilson intro
duccd bill to indemnify the State
of West Virginia for the destruction
of the road and bridges from Fair
mont to Gaulcy, by the transporta-
ton over the same, of arms, and army
supplies by the United States troops
during the late war, and at the same
time presented a joint resolution Of
the Legislature Of West Virginia,
asking an appropriation from Con-
gress for the repair of said road and
bridges.
Mr.. Hereford introduced a bill to
continue the Improvement of the
Great Kanawha River, also separate
bills for the relief of Andrew J. Bar
rctt, and for the relief of the estate of
James S. Caddall.
Mr.. Faulkner introduced separate
bills for the relief of Louis Frey, Rev,
John r. Hamilton, James Alexander,
and for the relief Of Randolph county,
West Virginia; also u bill to aid in
the improvement of the Monongahela
and Great Kanawha rivers by pro-
viding the means of payment to the
landholders along the line OF those
Improvements, who sustained dam
age by the erection of the govern
mcnt works; also two resolutions
the first providing for the payment
of the mechanics and laborcrs of
IIarper's Ferry their wages still due
and unpaid for March and April,
1861, the other directing the Secre-
tary of War to rc-purchase the prop
erty at Harper's Ferry, and to cstab-
fish a National Armory again Mt that
point. lie also presented the joint
resolutions of the State of West Vir-
ginia, on the subject of the Monon-
gahcla improvement,
The youngest daughter of Mr..
Faulkner was married at the Ma
tional Hotel n few days ago. The
wedding party was not large, cmbrac-
only the immediate relatives and
friends on both sides, 1t is said to
have been marked by much taste,
and free from all pomp and ostcnta-
ton.
January G, Mr. Faulkner, on leave,
introduced the following bill
A BILL to aid in the improvement
of the Monougahcla and Great Ka-
nawha Rivers in the State of West
Virginia,
Be Il enacted blythe Senate and House
Of Representatives. Of The Cnitel States
Of Aiacrica IN Congress assembled, That
whenever, in the prosecution and
maintenance Of the improvement Of
the Monongohcla and Great Kanawha
Rivers in the Statcof West Virginia,
it becomes necessary or proper in
the Judgment of the Secretary Of
War, to take possession Of any lands,
or the right Of way over any lands,
for locks and dams, canals and cut
offs, or to use any earthquakes or
other material lying adj lucent or near
to the line of said improvements and
nccdful to their prosecution or maln'
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We see from the Richmond Regis
ter that "Nathan Graves, Il colorcd
minister of the Gospel, and y veneer
able hog-thicf, was shot and killed
near Bryantsvillc, in Garrard county,
on Saturday last We haycn'tmuch
sympathy for u minister Of the Cos
pei who steals hogs. ltwcrc perhaps
better, or, at least, it were probably
Just as well, that he shouldn't steal
anything at all. Be this as it may,
when we see minister of the Gospel
so far forget what is due the exalted
character of his calling so us to steal
Il hog when he could just rs easily
steal horse, from that moment we
begin to lose respect for him.-Loais-
rifle Cou9er-JoWRal.
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ASTONINMINGI

Nd forty days, and NinerGh shall h. orr
hrouR. Future events prophccied by
rulcsin Bcnncr's PIrOphetic Book
Fortunes iorctold in the ups and downs OF
prices for the next twenty years; the future
Judged by the past, What years TO make
money on pig-iron, hogs, corn, provisions,
cotton, md when We will have the next
panic, what year hard times will end and
business revive again, Every farmer, man.
uiacturer, legitimate trader and spcculator
should have this book 10 know the future,
so MS to avoid loss and he successful. Sent
postpaid, for 81. Address SAMUEL BEN
NER, cambridge, Ross County, y.
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DnowNEp.-.On Thursday of last
week, a Mr.. McElcran, an employee
of the Boom Company, was drowned
in the Valley river, His body had
not been found on Monday last
MHEppi Hdiaded'cr.
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/ Congress appointed fifteen exon
fcderate soldiers to positions, while
Col. Fitshugh has only appointed ten.
1t is pity that facts can be gotten
at. Otherwise what glorious old
time the RAIDS would have in decciv-
ing the masses.
We publish below synopsis of
the speech of Senator H..G. Davis,
on the 18th inst, in support of his
resolution for an explanation Of the
discrepancies, which have appeared
in the statements in regard to the
public debt;
After the expiration of the morn
| ing hour Mr.. Davis called up the
resolution submitted by him ycster-
day and called for the appointment
Of committee to investigate the
books of the Treasury Department,
&C., and addressed the Senate there
an an
Mr. Davis said that in examining
tbc finance rrnorts of fine Secretary
of tbn Trcoenrr thot have hrcn made
Ear several previous years he had dis
covered many alterations Of figures,
/ involving large amounts, causing
thcm tO differ widely from each other
rs TO the transactions in the Trcasu-
ry Drnortmcnt in the same years
| liz ou6ted extensively from The an
nual reports of the Navy, War, Pen
sion and Indian Affairs Departments,
making comparison as to the receipts
and expenditures for several years,
and claimed that the figures in some
| Years sliSwdd an'incrtasc in the ex-
Ipcnscs and public debt, in the aggrc-
cate, of many millions of dollars, and
! a large decrease in the revenue col
/ lection. The amounts were incrcas-
ed or decreased rs occasion might re-
iauirc by addition to or subtraction
1 from loanS and treasury notes, and if
,l,o,. u.,r, orror, M frauds nm nnrnr-
tmrtt "v.v [ rirrn 70 nttnmnt to ady"r
t tInlSli was i !,,L F ~ L"aJ Io ,ISn
'iae,'i ", ' |' tho T pMIl;n ' Iaht stato
luo'G't i,o't s'I "",'. ,n "I'o ;,,"J
tig''V t"' o'ny or" ,,r n".S ,;.c "
T'ii'" ,lIo tho We" Fnrr e1 81 ,hn Sorr"tary
between ", INC i.susus VI wy 2e''C &c n.y.
@I inc lte''SuI! an" . HcS', .i G 81 ,ae
ES"IIuI!' "nu "iso w V,o wv ~ ns", Ls
~ pCcn Iin,,19c IT, ~ 'iI" ,I tho o
,ald " s"V'lu Sr rl"II IN ta '''T ro 'V
u,y Gno , ir's' "ic "t,'' ioc difarcnt
svstnms Of hook kccnina thcrc cu,
be no satisfactory ways in which to
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-01-20

&17A WEEK guaranteed to Male and
D | | Female Agents, in their locality
Costs NOTHING to tryit. Particulars Tree
2. O. NICKERY Il CO., Augusta, Me.
az th00 per day ut home. Samples
30 "SZU worth 81 free. srlSsoS *
Co., Portland, Maine,
HDSHCHOMANCY, OR SOUL CHARM
ING" How either sex may iaScin-
ate and gain the love and affections of any
person they choose, instantly This art all
can possess, free, by mail Tor - cents; to-
gethcr with Marriage Guide, Egyptian
Oracle, Dreams, Hints to Ladies, etc. ,OOO,
600 sold A quccrbook. Address I. VIII
LIAM Il CO., Pubs, Philadelphia.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-01-20

The U, S, Supreme Court has just
decided u claim that has been pend
ing since The revolution of 177G, 1t
was held by the heirs of Col, Fran
els Vigo, of Torc Hautc, Indiana,
and was for supplies furnished the
army of the revolution, The bill
amounted originally to $4,000, the in
tcrcst running it up to $4,000. The
money will now be paid, after lapse
of one hundred years
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-01-20
LEGAL
WEST VIRGINIA, IS:

WEST VIRGINIA, IS:
A Il Rules held in the Clerks Office OF the
n County Court OF Mason County, on
the first Monday in January, 1876
Samuel Greer and Nancy Greer his wife,
vs..
Isaac Jones.
In Assumpsit.
The object Of this suit is to recover OF the
defendant, Isaac Jones, the sum OF $4,000
with interest thereon from the 18th day OF
February, 1871, and costs OF suit, and to
attach the money and effects OF said dcfcn-
dant in the hands OF L. Numbering, Ad.
ministator OF William Jones, deceased, and
subject the same to the payment Of sud
debt. And it appearing by affidavit filed
with the papers OF this causc that the said
Isaac Jones, Recommendation OF the State
Of Vest Virginia, it is ordered that he do
appear here at Rules to be held in the
Clerks Office Of the County Court OF said
county, on the first Monday in the month
OF February, 1875, and do what Unnecessary
to protect his interest in this suit
Tcstc;-E. KlNlBERLlNG, Clerk.
lIogc Timms d Sehon Soils.
Jan. 3, 1876.
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thlg earIy periol determino On har.

TINS early peIlou uStcI'hAAV va I'"4
mony. Let US forget private bicker-
ings and strife and work together for
our party's good. Then we shall dis
enemies and make glo-
rious victory, on both State and ma
tional tickets, a certainty. With
this indidemont in view let us fixed
ly resolve to cast out from us all pro
motors of discussion, and that we
will have peace.
A tremendous amountof fuss regard
ing the removal of Union soldiers by
a Democratic House has been raised
by Radical demagogues for the pur-
pose of trying to make something out
Of it. But the truth knocks the spots
out of TIER calculations. 1t now
appears that Col. Fitzhugh, Door
keeper of the House, has made eigh-
ty-five appointments. Of these
twenty-five have been given to Union
soldiers, or, nearly one-third. The
Republican Door-keeper Of the last
Congress out of one hundred and fif-
ty-three appointments, gave but
twenty-four places to Union soldiers,
or less tA9Rl eno-sixth: 1t thus APP
pears that the Union soldier fares
about twice as well in the cruel hands
of Democrats as in the mcrciful kind
mes of Republicans, 1t further APP
pears that the door-kccper Of the last
Congress appointed fifteen Exon
fcderate soldiers to positions, while
Col. Fitshugh has only appointed ten.
1t is pity that facts can be gotten
at. Otherwise what a glorious old
time the RAIDS would have in decciv-
ing the masses.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-01-20
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

G10 n day at home, Agents wanted.
OH Outfit and terms free. TRUE Il
CO., Augusta, Maine,
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ONE MI1GIcHg ACRES

OF their magnificent grant, ON either side
and within twcntymlrs OF their road. ADJ
mirably suited for production OF Corn, Cot
ton, Grain, Grass, Fruits, and I'LL other
Northern crops. Winters are mild, per
hitting outdoor labor for eleven months.
Soil fertile beyond precedent No grass
hoppers, no drought Special inducements
Tor manufactures For circulars, address
W. d. SLACK, Land Commissioner; Little
Rock, Arkansas.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-01-20
Ba- FOR 1870. -Usa
B8- FOR 1870. "Gsa
AAPPLE T ONyS
A JOURNAL,
A Household Weekly Magazine,
POPUL .iR LITER. 1 TU'RE, anu
ALL MATTERS or TASTE
AND CUL TURE.

AprLErox's JouRNAL appears in new
type and with other mechanical improves
ments, making it the handsomcst weekly
literary journal in the country. ArrLEroN's
JouRNkL aims to be comprehensive, inclu-
ding in It's plans all branches OF literature,
and treating NIL subjects OF interest tointcl-
ligcnt readers; II designs to bc elevated in
taste and pure in tone; it gives in quantity
fully twenty-five per cent. more than the
largest of the Monthly Magazines, while in
quantity its literature is OF the highest class.
Price, S. per 1Amwm; Ten Cents
Uer NMmOer.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-01-20

The issuance OF bills of credit to
circulate as money is not Il function
of banking but Of Government, and
no bank or individual is permitted
to exercise it under any wise policy
except by the consent and delegation
OF the Government.
x i Is 4 *
At the risk of becoming prolix let
me recapitulate:
/, Greenbacks will be worth as
much as the bonds into which they
may be made convertible.
,, Making bonds and grcenbacks
interconvcrtible will give the bonds
additional value by making them de-
sirablo for large class of invest
ments which would not otherwise
seek them, and, by as much as is adj
ded to their value by this quality,
the interest will be reduced which
the Government is required to pay
in order to bring its bonds to par with
gold.
3. AS the English consol, perpct-
ual 5 per cent gold security, is worth
95, an American gold bond on long
time or perpetual at 3,55, with the
added value Of the interconvertihle
clause, would appreciate to par with
gold, as its credit would become es-
tablished, which would be as rapidly
as the country can return to the spe-
Gle standard in justice to existing
contracts.
4. The "intcrconvertible" chaac-
ter of the bonds would enable the
Government credit to circulate rs
money in Just such volume us the bu-
sincss of the country would demand,
without the intervention of the cum
bcrsome, unnecessary, and expensive
machinery of banks of issue, whose
notes have no value except that of
the Government credit.
5. There would be no occasion for
the exercise of power of doubtful
constitutionality and dangerous poll
cy in the creation of corporations by
the General Government.
6. When Government notes apprc-
ciatc to the specie standard, the legal
tender quality can be removed with
out opposition, and we shall again be
within constitutional limitations ON
the subject of finance.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-01-20
CHEAP LANDS
IN TIE GREAT SOUTHWEST

The Little Rock and Fort Smith Railway
Company il selling, at exceptionally
low prices and OIL Terms Go suit
purchasers. over
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-01

from this subject from $33, 100000 the
next year to $34, 600, 900, because of the
low rate, by reason of the more en-
larged amount of consumption. That
under It's benign operation the con-
sumption alone for the planters leaf
for plug tobacco went up to nearly To-
DOC, 900 pounds. while the reduction of
the revenue for the first quarter after
the increased rate of act of Sd March,
1875. when the increased rate wentinto
operation, was a loss of revenue of
nearly 81 100000.
Should Colonel Cabell's tobacco bill
pass at this session, the consumption
of planter leaf may be safely put at
lao, 100000 pounds. This, at is cent
tax, will bring into the treasury So, :
4O0. 900; snuff, 81 ,067 600; special tax,
81 ,S00, 600; cigars, ST, 205, 600. Total,
SO, 461 .OO0 This measure would,
therefore, largely increase the demand
for planter leaf, and at the same time
greatly stimulate the prices for leaf to-
bacco in the leading markets of the
States next year thus fostering the
planting and manufacturing interests
of the State, while this article would
be contributing more than its proper
ton of thirty-five and a-half million of
dollars to the Federal treasury.
Democrats at Washington there is
no better business for you to be en-
gagged in than thus relieving this OPP
pressed class OF the people, while Re
publicans are engaged at Cincinnati In
preparing an administration for the
government, which, if successful, will
plant the fangs of robbery and radical
ism four years more on the pockets OF
the people Richmond Wing.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-01
The Breeding of ShOrt.Horns.

There is something peculiarly fasci-
mating in the breeding and rearing Of
all thoroughbred animals, and now that
the short fever is at its height the
following item, from an English con-
temporary, comes in quite apropos; III
YOU once buy beautiful heifer, with
her glossy coat, her rounded form
sweet head, and all the qualities that
go to make up pretty picture, you are
a short-horn breeder forever. You
cannot escape from her tolls; she has
fascinated you, and you will never toll.
crate anything that does not show equal
quality at least. So you 90 on breeding
and buying, breeding and selling
sometimes with profit upon the outlay
sometimes with considerable loss, but
proftably-ou the whole, and you can
not give up the pursuit. But Why
should you? Public opinion has in
dorsed your choice, and has decided
that the short horn is the animal OF
the day-that she is the most general
" useful and profitable Of all breeds
that farmer has to pay his rents by.
So you are not only pleasing yourself
by carrying on your pet hobby, but you
are confering a boon on your fellow
farmers" @
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-01
REDUCTION OF THE TOBACCO TAX
TO SIXTEEN CENTS PER
POUND.

Let Democratic House proceed at
once to suspend the rules by two
thirds vote and pass this Democratic
measure, thus rectifying great wrong
done the tobacco States of Virginia,
North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri,
Tennessee, Connecticut, South Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois. By increasing
this tax in the last expiring hours of a
Radical Congress year ago, under the
auspices of Henry L.. Dawes, the most
artful of all the political dodgers, aud
one who has contributed more than
any other to that unequal fiscal and
financial policy Of this Government
which has oppressed the agricultural
| States in order to benefit the manu-
featuring oues of the East.
When this iniquitous bill got to the
| Senate, Senator j Johnston, of Virginia,
asked if the Senate were determined
to violate the understanding of the
compromise of a uniform tax of 20
cents on tobacco, engrafted in the act
Of June 6. 1872, that it should make
| the measure operate on this great in
dustry pr0spectiUciy, and not retro
| spectively, as Mr.. Dawes House bill
had done? And so just was the re-
| commentator that the Senate was
about to engraft his amendment on the
| bill, when Dawes is said to have passed
| from the House and approached lead
| ing senators and stated If they allowed
! the slightest amendment to take place
| In the House bill he would not be re-
sponsible for its fate if it went back
to the House. Thus was passed that
iniquitous measure by Radical Con-
gress, which Democratic one is asked
now to remedy in the name of the great
tobacco States and section of the
country.
1t may be said that Republican
Senate will checkmate the House on
the passage of this wise and equal
measure. There are thirty Democratic
Senators who can be counted on at all
events, and eleven Radical ones from
! the South who dare not face negro
constituency after voting against this
bill, making majority of the Senate.
| But at any rate it's passage by the
House will enable ZebulOn Vance, the
now indomitable leader of the Demo-
cracy of North Carolina, to fire the
mountains of that State, which will
/ not only assure his own election as
governor, but the electoral vote of the
State for Tilden and Hendricks in
November.
The effect will be felt in Virginia by
sending a Democrat to Congress in
place of Stowell and increasing the
Democratic majority in Cabell's, Tuck
| er's. Goodies and the Richmond dis
triets several thousand but it will be
especially felt in the Valley Of the
Ohio and in the southern portions of
the States of Ohio, Indiana and IlIi-
nois, where the tobacco crop is getting
to be considerable industry.
1t is moreover measure just in it.
self, and one which will not diminish
| the revenues Of the government,
This result will be shown by the fact
tbat,a reduction of the tobacco tax in
| 1872, from 81 cents to 20 cents uniform
tax, increased the revenue derived
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GREAT CEN TENNIA[ OFFER /.

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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-01

Il wouldn't be cook for the whole
world!' exclaimed fashionable young
lady to her betrothed lover. "OfcOurse
not, he replied. "Ifyou were to cook
for the whole world you would never
get through your work; but you'll be
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-01

The country man well feel concern
as to the character of the Secretary's
successor. Gen. Grant cannot fail TO
give us a hard-money man, but we do
not believe he will ever repeat the ex-
pertinent Of appointing such an eager
investigator of frauds upon the reve-
nue.-N y. Tribune.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-01
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-01

LIVER PILLS.
These Pills are not recommended
as a remedy for call the ills that
flesh is heir to-" but in affections of
the Liver, and in all Bilious Com
plants, Dyspepsia and Sick Head
ache, or diseases of that character,
they stand without a rival.
AGUE AND FEVER.
No better cathartic can be used
preparatory to, or after taking Qui-
nine.
As a simple purgative they are
unequaled.
BEWARE OF INVITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar
coated. $50 =
Each box has a red wax seal on
the lid, with the impression DR..
MCLANE's LIVER Pills.
Each wrapper bears thesignatures
of G. McLANE and FLEMING Bros.
Sold by all respectable druggists
and country storekeepers generally.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-01

In 1850 Memphis had five thousand
and two hundred and eighty two in
habitants and three million dollars of
taxable property, including slaves.
Now she has over twenty million dol
lars worth of property, slaves not in
cluded, and near fifty thousand inhab-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-01
In ChanceFy at ClarksVille.-.State
of Tennessee.

CLERK AND MASTERS OFFICE
June II, 1876.
Lucy b. Watts, Complainanu, VS.. Watts
Bros. ct al Defendants.
IT appearing that the Defendant j. ID.
Watts IS dead and that W. W. Watts, s. II.
Dickinson. and wife Sarah, and - Bro
naugh and wife Amanda, are his heirs at
law, and that they are nonresident of the
State Of Tennessee.
1t is therefore ordered that they enter
their appearance, herein, before or within
the nrsb three days of the next term of the
Chaneery Court, to be held at GAINESVILLE,
on the I'd Monday in Nov. next, 1876, and
snow cause why this suit should not be re-
Vlved against them, or the same viii pc
taken for confessed as to them and set for
nearing ex parte and that copy OF TINS
order be published for four consecutive
weeks in the ClarksyilIe Chronicle.
A Copy-Attest:
81 POLK G JOHNSON, c. 4 M.
By O. G. smith, Deputy.
r. w. Humphreys SoIsr for CoTnpb.
June II, lS76-4w-pf-S5 CO.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-01

The Palatka (Fla.) Herald says
watermelons are selling at twenty cents
each, and that strawberries are yet
plentiful.