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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

amount due Sheline for labor he had
done for Melton. In their attempt
to make a settlement of the matter
angry words were exchanged between
the parties until sheline became 50
enraged that he struck Melton, unon
which the latter picked up his shot.
gun, near by him, and discharged it.
the contents taking effect in Sheline's
right side. Doctors Shaw and Neale
Of this place, were called to dress the
wound,and after examining the same
pronounced it very dangerous
wound.
Melton surrendered himself to the
officers of the law, waived an exami.
nation before a Justice and gave bond
in the penalty of $1,000, for his ap.
pearanco at our coming Circuit Court.
MARRIED.-0n the Slst of July,
1878, by Rev. W. L. Hill, Pastor of
the Upper Presbyterian Church, as
sisted by Rev. S. X. Vaught of the
NJ. E. Church, South, at the residence
of the brides parents in this place,
Col. T, J, Oliphant, of Little Rock,
Arkansas, to Miss Eva Kimbcrling,
daughter of E. Kimberling, Esq,
Clerk of the Mason County Court.
May peace and prosperity always be
with them in their home in the
Sunny South.
LastThursday colorcd man broke
into John II. Shephord'shouse, across
Kanawha, and stole a lot of wearing
and made off. lie was fol-
lowed by Mr.. Shepherd and constable
Austin, who overhauled him near
Buffalo, and brought him back to
this place Monday and lodged him
in Jail.
MArRfMoNIAL BuLBs.-The follow.
ing Licenses have been issued since
our last report:
Alcx.C c. Grinds to Selma I. McDay;
John Mason to Ginnctta Lee; VIM.
Martin to Martha j. McColley; Thos.
J. Oliphint to Eva B. Kimberling;
Andrew L. Borgess. to Luvena Rifle;
VIM. Snyder to Mary Ann Flora.
The following persons were con-
frmcd at the Episcopal church last
Sunday: T. Stribling, W,R. RuIncr,
VIM. Dennis, and Misses Anna Den
MS and Minnie Allen.
The Grcenbrier Prcsbytery, will
mcerln LcwTspurg, Wednesday, sep
tcmber nth, 1878. On Thursday
convention will be held, on which
the Presbytcry urges all the Elders
ard Dcacons to attend, BY order Of
the Prcsbytery. NJ, L. LACY,
Stated Clerk.
Clerks ofScssions viii please inform
Rev. NJ. l.. Lacy, Lewisburg, W. Va,
Il week or two in advance, as to how
many will probably attend from
each church. W. L. Hull.
The recent steamboat disaster an
account Of which is published in this
paper, has cast gloom over this
county, because of the untimely death
Of some of her best citizens.
It IS about time for the boys to be
stirring themselves for the Fair
dance. We have nice paper and
cards upon which TO print the invi.
tations.
The Mason County Sabbath School
Association will hold its 9TH Conveu-
ton in the NJ. L. Church, Mason
City, on the 18th and 18th days of
SEPTEMBER.
Mr.. Kimbcrling annoUuceshimsclf
in this paper as an Independent can
didate for reelection 10 the office of
County Clerk.
Fon SALE CnEAr.-Fire.prooE safe,
Halls make. Reason for selling, too
small for my business.
A. c. VAN GLIDER.
Place OF AMusEMEHT.-John j.
Baum will have sidc.show on the
Fair Grounds, which will be filled
with mttlo.snakcs, wildcats, pan
theirs, catamounts and sacred cattle,
Z Al, ,,,t,,,nlu unI
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Whereupon the Court, majority OF the
Justices being present and actually concur
in, doth order that tax be, and is hereby
levied OF 80 cents on every $4,000 yalua-
ton OF the taxable property OF this county
both real and personal, including tax OF
Is cents on every $4,000 valuation there
in, as poor fund, and that said amount
OF poor fund shall be set apart by the
Sheriff for said purpose, and that tax OF
- cents on every $4,000 valuation OF the
taxable property, both real and personal,
be, and is hereby levied on the incorpora-
ted Towns of Hartford City, Mason City,
Point Pleasant and Leon, and that the
Sheriff OF III S comfy is ordered to collect
the same according to law, without delay.
ORDERED, That a tax be, and is here
by levied upon the real and personal prop
crty OF Mason county, by Districts, Tor
Road purposes, as follows:
In Lewis District Il tax OF cents on each
$4,000 valuation.
In Robinson District tax OF o cents on
each $4,000 valuation.
In Waggener District Tux OF II cents
sOil each $4,000 valuation.
In Cooper District tax of 10 cents on
each $4,000 valuation.
In Union District tax OF 20 cents on
each $4,000 valuation.
In Cologne District tax OF % cents on
each $4,000 valuation.
in ArnuvH,v 29,4..:.ict q tax o! cents on
each $4,000 valuation.
In Clendenin District tax OF - cents
on each $4,000 valuation.
In Hannah District tax Of 70 cents on
each $4,000 valuation.
And flat the Sheriff of this county is
hereby ordered to collect the same accord
ing to law, without delay.
y Copy-TESTE:
L. KIMBERLING, Clerk.
aug 7-3w.
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Excursion Tickets.
1 TICKET OFFICE,
D. S. Van MATRE, Agent,
Point Pleasant, w. Va.

On dpd after June 9th, 1878, Express
and Mail trsins will leave Huntington az
follows.
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Mr.. Kimbcrling annouuceshimsclf
in this paper as an Independent can
lidate for reelection 10 the Office of
Clerk.
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Fop SALE CnEAr.-Fire.prooE safe,
Halls make. Reason for selling, too
small for my business.
A. c. NAN GLIDER.
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II. KoEuLER, Middlcpor', Ohio,
sells the finest, purcst and best whis'
KEYS and wines Ale aud Porter at
Sl,lO per dozen, Orders promptly
filled, l3w'
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

The Mason County Sabbath School
Association will hold its 9TH Conveu-
ton in the NJ. L. Church, Mason
City, on the 18th and 18th days of
SEPTEMBER.
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NomcG.-All persons knowing
themselves indebted to me will call
AZ the Kline House and pay up at
once. Y. II. BUTLER
- a,
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State Of West Virginia,
Mason County, SS:

A 7 Rules held the Clerks Office Of the
n Circuit Court OF Mason county, West
Virginia, on the first Monday in the month
Oi August, 1873.
Henry J, Fisher, Plaintiff,
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It is about time for the boys to be
stirring themselves for the Fair
dance. We have nice paper and
cards upon which to print tho inyi,
tations.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

LastThursday a colorcd man broke
into John II, Shephord'shouse, across
Kanawha, and stole a lot of wearing
and made off. lie was fol-
lowed by Mr.. Shepherd and constable
Austin, who overhouled him near
Buffalo, and brought him back to
this place Monday and lodged him
in Jail.
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The Weekly Register
LOCAL Nh TIERS.

. STATED COMMUNICATIONS Of
Nv Slinturn Lodge No. 10, A. +, x A,
~ NJ, first and third Tuesday nights
III ''' II. r, HOWARD, W. NJ.
UgSRY J. FISHER, JR., sec'y
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PLEASANT VALLEY ITEMs.-Had II
fine rain here last Friday and satur-
day.
There has been quite a drought in
this ncighborhood, and corn will not
make more than halfa crop.
The farmers have been thrcshing
their wheat. Mr. Hudson has a good
machine and does his work well.
Sheriff Joe. Daigh passed through
here the other day collecting taxes.
We are informed that another new
road will be established in this Val
ley running through Mr.. Wilson
Priddy's land to the widow WalIace's
land.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

The recent steamboat disaster an
account Of which is published in this
paper, has cast a gloom over this
county, because of the untimely death
Of some of her best citizens.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

Blackborrics all gone.
Potatoes gone up Salt River
Mr.. William Oliver and wife are
visiting friends ard relatives here.
Mrs. Amanda Blake was visiting
her sister, Mrs. Hillcry Bird, last
week.
We have very large and flourish
ing Sunday School here. We Intend
to have a grand picnic next Fall.
J. T. Bird killed Il large rattle
snake last week. 1t measured 81
feet in length and had ten rattles.
A DEMOCRAT.
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MEST YIRGINIA:

A TIA County Court continued and held
"A for the County OF Mason at the Court
House thereof on Wednesday, July 18th,
1878, for the transaction OF Police and Fis-
cal business.
This day the Court, n majority OF the
Justices being present and actually concur
ring therein, proceeded to make up an es-
innate OF the amount necessary TO he levi
ed for the current fiscal year which is as
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

MArRfMoNIAL BuLBs.-The follow.
ing Licenses have been issued since
our last report:
Alex. c. Grinds to Selma Z, McDay;
John Mason to Ginnetta Lee; VIM.
Martin to Martha j. McColley; Thos.
J. Oliphint to Eva B. Kimberling;
Andrew L. Boggcss to Luvena Rifle;
Vim. Snyder to Mary Ann Flora.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

The following persons were con-
frmcd at the Episcopal church last
Sunday T. Stribling, W.R. RulIncr,
VIM. Dennis, and Misses Anna Den
MS and Minnie Alien.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10

IS per cent. is not exercised by all the
banks. There are other reasons than
this for .he surrender of the privilege
of issuing notes. The writer, above
quoted, adds that these banks were
made agents of the government to sell
bonds, given the right to sell exchange
and do all the discounts, the most ia
-Yored bank charter ever allowed, and
there is still another feature of their
profits which should lot be overlooked /;
namely, the premium on their bonds,
which today at the lowest figures
reported in the money markets
amounts to an additional sum of $21,
1S4, 254, which, deducted from the
actual investment of capital, is only
$40, 923, 9s5, on which their interest
annually received is Sill, S77, 500. 81,
or about $50 per cent. These annual
'.cuuties paid to the barons of the
purse, saying nothing of compound in
terest, in the fourteen years of bank
depredations, figures up to the sum o.
81, $50, 2s5, 951.34.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10

THERE was never nobler sentiment
more eloquently or earnestly uttered
than that of Sam Houston in his i'm
mortal speech at Nacogdoches July 8,
1859. We are forced to recur to it by
the folly of John Hancock's assailants
who, living on the sea beach, still
have too much of its sand by half in
their gizzards. Houston said:
Even though Texas cast me off, to
her fortunes will cling - upon her
soil will 1 end my days. Lite's
sand is running fast and is almost
out. Ere long it will cease to
flow and l must take my last look upon
earth. If can behold my country
still happy and the liberties of the peo-
pie secure-if can behold the end of
sectional strife and harmony restored,
I will lie content"
When we leek above all things, by
voting for Hancock, -. period to
sectional strife; when we would assert
so plainly, that fools may read, that
the South Is part and parcel of the
Union when we would send
a representative to Washington whose
whole life and history asserts this pre-
eminent fact, there are those who, diff
fering from Houston and from every
honest patriot, would perpetuate dis
cord and give supreme power in the
country's councils to men like Conk.
ling and Blaine and Butler.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10

JOHN WESLEY HARDIN, the son of a
good Methodist preacher, has not for
gotten how to enact the part that be-
comes the offspring of such parentage.
Unfortunately, Hardin, because of his
youth, deshing, fine appearance and
lofty courage, was a fsvorite subject
for the pen and pencil of newspaper
artists, and the pictures made, espe-
cislly in exaggerating the number and
ferocity of Hardiu's terrible deeds,
gave him a notoriety which he hardly
deserves. We have before US care
fully written autobiography of Hardin.
He recites with almost child-like SIM
plicity each leading fact in his adYen-
turous life. He was not a robber. He
was impelled by no base sordid lust for
gold. His crimes sprang rather from
his fearlessness and love of wild
adventure. Nobody can read the mar
rstive and discover, as one must, the
secret impulses that swayed the man
in all his wild career, and still believe
that Yves. Hardln's Utmost soul is not
thoroughly imbIed with lessons incul-
Gated at the Christian Preside of his
youth. Hardin fell upon evil times
and was the victim of q social system
which books and the press and pulpit
must change. We see the necessity writ
ten In Killough's and Calder's blood.
When Hardin was sentenced last week
at Comanche to hard labor for twenty
five years by the learned Judge Elem
ing the Judge was pleased to say, sc
well was he satisfied that Hardin's
character and habits of thinking rested
upon a substratum of solid worth, that
he, Fleming, might yet be induced
to laterpose and secure the interven-
ton of Executive clemency, that Har'
din's term of imprisonment may be
lessened. Hardin's father and brothers,
of them, one mere lad, were put to
death by frenzied mob some years
ago, and thus Hardin was made ar
exile, and became an enemy of the
law that gave HIM and his people NJ
security.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10
SOLD BEN NABERS',---THE LAST
OF HIM.

Among the first who died at Holly
Springs-we have the full list before
us-was B. s. Nabers, and queer old
coon was he.~ Amiable, kindly, gen.
erous, with no faults save such as
wrought his own misfortunes, he never
wronged others and only himself. He
Sas once or twice a congressman, de-
feating JAKE Thompson, Buchanan's
Secretary of the Interior, and was al
ways hard customer On the stump.
He had been a vivacious Methodist
preacher, and had sort of whine G
''holy twang," as wicked people callit,
that seemed always to twist itself about
the affections of his rustic hearers, and
when old Ben lifted up his awful voice
in the regular camp-meeting manner,
all Africa howled. He made but
one speech that we remember when in
Congress. In this he ridiculed a
party platform very successfully, by
telling the House that it was like a pair
of suspenders which he was told by
the son of Abraham, who was vending
them, that they would fit him (six and
half feet high and 'jocst as vel q
fellow no bigger than Sunset Cox.
They will stretch as long as your legs
and draw up like his ideas" Nabers
said he bought the ''gallusses" but had
never since owned q platform. He
was employed by Alcorn to canvass
the State for him, and without doubt
Ben Nabers made speeches better cal
culated to capture negro fancy than
any white man that ever lived or died.
He would sing political hymn, max
ing it part of his unique, original dis
course with marvellous effect. He was
the author of the famous negro ditty
beginning
ode grasshopper sot on de sweet later vine"
sung by senators and members of the
House at Governor Ames's table when
he gave the Mississippi Legislature a
private entertainment. Nabers was an
Alabamian and brother-in-law of the
late Governor Joshua Martin of that
State. Many Texans will remember
his broad jests and ridiculous grimaces,
his ready wit and homelY, practical
speeches and generous good nature.
Therefore this just tribute to his
virtues.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10
HOW THE INTEREST ON THE
PUBLIC DEBT Is PAID.

The interest on the public debt for
1877 was paid by the internal revenue
tax collected on spirits, which In 1877
was $57, AGO, 430, and ON tobacco
which was $41, 106, 447, making in all
$7s, 575, OF. The above figures are
exact, taken from the internal revenue
and treasury reports published at
Washington. And yet the country Is
filled with cross-road financiers, who,
armed with P0meroy's Democrat,
talk at club meetings about the life of
the nation being crushed out by public
debt interest, which is paid by whisky
drinkers and tobacco chewers every
year without their knowing it. A
vast volume of this interest will be
stopped by the next Congress, which
will be Democratic, and which will
pay off many of the bonds originally
payable in greenbacks, which, being
the promissory notes Of the govern
ment, will bear no interest. There is
no safety for free institutions when q
party is created at club meetings, where
but one side can be heard, and where
discussion comes afterwards. In the
older and better times parties resulted
from differences after principles had
fully discussed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10

changes. The land becomes the sea
and the sea the land. Valleys be-
come mountains and mountains
valleys. There is nothing fixed
but this ceaseless mutability.
The earth's revolutions upon its
axis, its seasons and storms and sun
shine and showers, the voices of count
less millions who live and ashes of
numberless myriads who have died,
teach Us that this interchange of local
tiles Of sea aud land, of which the
good preacher was telling US last Sun
day, is the least wonderful of those
marvellous processes of nature which
have produced and tell of Noah's
floods wherever geologists have
traced the operations of Gods eternal
laWa
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10

An organ OF Greenbackism says that
another organ of the same stuff has
''the ring of the true metal" When
ever a Greenbacker would illustrate
his own ideas of perfect excellence IN
morals or intelligence, it must recur to
gold and silver. Why did not our
worthy contemporary say that its CO.
laborer in Kearneyism has the true
ring of fiat money! If facts and times
are changed and we are to have that
noous ordo eacul0rum of which Roman
poets dreamed and of which Goethe
wrote, when money and babies will
grow on trees ard will be had for the
shaklng-if these things must be, as
Hamman and Pomeroy predict, let us
abandon the phrase of ages, however
approved by the wisdom and expe-
rience of centuries, and when. We
would define perfect excellence let us
say that our contemporary has the
''ring of true fat moonshine."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10

When it is said in the Scriptures
that Christ will chenge our vile body,
that 1t may be fashioned like unto his
glorious body, we are authorized to
conclude that the body we now have
will be the basis of that spiritual body /;
or that our spiritual body will be es-
sentIally an outgrowth of this natural
body. How much of the form and
features of this natural body will re-
appear in the spiritual body we cannot
say. Upon this point the Scriptures do
not enlighten US. Matter we know exists
in different degrees Of grossness. In
its most subtitle forms We cannot dis
Germ 1t with our present coarse senses.
We cannot handle the light. We can
not smell electricity. Yet air, heat,
electricity, and other most subtitle ele-
ments Of nature enter into the compo-
sition of these bodies, and lie nearest
the hfe-prirciple within them. Who
shall say then, that when the grosser
elements of our present bodies are
sifted out and let fall by the pro-
cess which We call death, these sub
tier Observation-Disclosures imperisha-
ble-may not by happy adjustment to
each other, perpetuste form discerni-
bic only by the eye of the spiritual
body, yet retaining all the old visible
feature of beauty, purity and intelli-
gencei Without trvnching upon that
domain of modern Spiritualism, We
may admit that some marvellous facts,
pointing in the direction of our sug-
gestion, are now well attested. and
when persons at . distance from each
other find Intervening streets and
dwellings no obstacles 10 q free inter
change Of thought in conversation, We
may well bold in reserve all skepuclsm
upon the possibilities Of spiritual
| body. -Rciigious Herald.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10

THE BRENNAN Banner, In reply to
what the STATESMAN said about the az
sertions of two Republican office-hold-
ers of Washington county, adherents
of Wash Jones, says:
J. II. Hutchinson, sheriff, and r. A.
Harvin, tax collector, are the gentle
men to whom the STATESMAN refers.
They both wear Kaleidoscope specta-
Giles, and everything appears in black
and green hues to them; hence they
see the blacks and the greens voting
for Jones. The German element in
this county will vote for Hancock, as
will also some colored men. D;satfect-
ed Democrats are daily returning to
their allegiance. Republican office
holders and office-seekers cannot be
implicitly relied upon for political in
formation, as their vision is warped sc
that they are only enabled to see one
side of the question.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10

JUDGE TERRELL's record in the State
Senate YVES in opposition to the grasp
ing demands of monopolists. He OPP
posed the further reservation of
vast land domain to Tom Scott,
and was in favor of opening this
reservation to actual settlers and for
building q State Capitol and for free
school purposes. Since he has been
opposed to extending such unlimited
credit and fsYors in building up
mOnopelies, may it not be un-
derstood that such men oppose
him. 1t is very strange, but those
monopolies now rally under
the Greenback standard, which requires
government TO undertake vast enter
prises to give employment to labor.
The great States of the West, in their
Greenback platforms, mention the Tex
IS Pacific road IS one Of the enterprises
which government nEst build They
must be consistent here IN Texas snd
ask Texas to help and perpetuate the
reservation OF land to that corporation,
which now holds from settlement ter
Titory enough to form State.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10

WHEN doctors clique fiercely ad.
vocates the maintenance of quarantine,
and town like Louisville doesn't az
sent and absolutely invites all sufferers
from the plague to make the city a
place of secure refuge, where hospitals
and skilled physicians and medicines
abound - when Louisville does this
hog and hsmlny Cincinnati at once
guarantees against Louisville. The
purpose is to destroy rival. There
is no epidemic fever in Louisville. 1t
exists only in the hospitals, and no
native case has occurred there. God
bless Louisvillel and curse upon that
vile selfishness which would lhcarcer-
ate sick city and render the escape
of one human being impossible.