The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-09-13


in favor ofone whose re-
creancy to his own party constitutes
his only claim to theirfavor, is not
a weakness Of which the Democratic
masses are likely to be guilty, inthis
day and generation, with tho fact Of
a great popular triumph, ofthe fruits
ofwhich they were robbed by the
basest villainy, still fresh in their
memories.
The grand jury of Taylor county,
in the cases Of the strikers, refused TO
find indictments. 1t is claimed by
the Jury, that under the law these
men must be indicted for felony or
not Mt all, and this punishment was
thought TO be too severe for the gray
ity Of the otfense.-H heeling Register
The grand jury of Taylor county
has shown its good sense in refusing
to indict these Woodworking men,
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The Indian famine is growing in
magnitude. The figures by telegram
from Madras, are terrifying, In
South India, twenty-four millionsare
afflicted by the famine, and '"naer
the most favorable circumstances at
least one-sixth this number will die.
Mothers are Offering their children
for sale, and cases OF cannibalism are
reported. The roads strewn with the
dying, dead and dccomposing. In
all history there is hardly anything
like it.
The stock of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad took sudden and in
explicable rise on Wednesday. 1t
shot up in a single day from sl1O to
$3.50, an advance without precedent
in the history of railroad stocks'-
Register.
Why wouldn't it run upP Like
government bonds, this railroad pays
no taxes. 1t now owes this Stateov-
CIR 100000 which it refuses to pay.
Our authorities are afraid to enforce
its collection, and so long as they can
traverse the counties of this State
without paying taxes, so long will
the stock "rise." If this railroad
does not pay its taxes, it should be
sold out, as other people are who fail
or refuse to pay.
Reports from the growing tobacco
crop, both over in Ohio and West
Virginia, are unfavorablc. The No
bic county Press reports the crop in
that county as not over two-thirds,
and says that reports from West Yir-
ginia place the average at onc-half'
John Sherman says the Resump
ton Act "can be, ought to be, and
will be executed John has saved
over million dollars out of his sal
airy as Senator, and he don't care if
every industrial interest in the coun-
try should go to smash.
The following is an official state
ment of United States currency out
standing: Old demand notes, $685.
$3.50; legal tender notes, 1851, $780,
1914; one year notes of 1868, S55, Pas;
two year notes of 1868, S28,95O; com,
pound-interest notes, s29S,9SO; tract.
ional currency, all issues, s1S,172,-
114,30, Total, s377,6O1, $3.50.
The election in California on the
9TH inst, resulted in complete Dem
ocratic victory. The Legislature
will be thirty,eight Democratic on
joint ballot, and will insure a Dem.
ocratic U. S. Senator.
The GubcrnatOrial Candidate
for 1850.
We are aware that it is rather
premature to be discussing the CUB.
ernstorial contest TO take place in
the year 1880. That fact, however,
has not prevented the discussion Of
the subject by both the press and
those usually active in the politics
of the state. Indeed, recent events
have conduced to give the subject
thus early prominence, as some Of
thnsa Ennyn Or sunnoSnd tn hnvp