davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-03-13
The III Weekly Register
OLOC4L M4TTERS.

80
Hartford City Jacob RousI,, Mason City
Henry Fry, Clifton John Behan, West
coIug9FG W y Maeh,ri Meenlf :,
'oDn NJ hG - 10 F ,r",, 'N oy0 Ts NOW "
I p,il'. ' Arhns,ic, Hanley, Applo
Grove. D. D. Pearson. Five Mile; A. @.
sayrc, Lclart;J. IL. Miller & Co, Beech
Hill james Locke and Samuel Mcclure,
Upland j. Todd Nereers Bottom T. u
We hope eaeh Oh ",ess senull'en WIN
= Sa'I ~ "r1 oo"J liz NJ snh.cri'
,s,. from l,ls Observation-Disclosures.
,s--z m 7---i5ry
WASrEDTA CooK'-A women Of mid
die age, (white or coioredD without
cooking; can have permanent en-
nloyment BY apblyine to Mrs. II.
Mpchir's. near ola Town Bridge.
march 9Th 1851. 13io
,,,,ni2 J7T7tr 35ril 3s4' !,
ihepc'Ple. ilYios "iohs "iea,ne1i
our oSe.,'parf'Y!lsSse ,u!i'oau'
seem 70 DC ueeP'y . II, an l's
oui'Hng mere WlI oo w is'le
tro"o'e !" oo'aihihg'neflgheoi WY
most az Of .he lanu n, WIN give
tAs! fFe PySA e'ly WI give Tue ,., .i IN
pef. necessity !UF s'eseunp oF'uses'
"mile o'l.e,s VIII 'HNe S'ocN SOME
tain amount. This is the kind of
feeling that we like to see manifest
ed, and now while the people are
talking over the matter, is, the time
for the committees to work,
=, TIT
Complaint mas oeen pau' 10 US
tnat ii'!ie ooys ana eiflS arc III 'he
haNit OF visiting inc graveyard ana
pIurking,and taxing away inc How
erS growing over the graves ana eV-
en- sometimes pulling up the shrub
Oefy , "y NE roo's' ana CARVING .nei ~
should see to it, that their children
commit no such depredatiuns when
thnv arn unnrmittnd IN visit the cnn,n.
try. TIL them it is wrong to do so,
and that IL grioves friends to have
graves tampercd with in this way.
- ,,,...-.
DEATH Of ~ AGED l'AoFTNep are
csllea upon I" Shr"n'g ~ s',C oga[n oi
Esq, of MERGERS Bottom, which oc-
cured on Monday last tho nth inst.
Mrs. Moore, had been suffering from
dupsy along while. She was a most
cstfmable lady, and none knew her
but tolove her. She leaves quite a
large number of relatives in this place
and throughout the county and State
tomouFnher loss. She was in her
14th yea?.
We have receivedithe first nu mber
of the National Labor Advocate, y
published at st. Albans, Kanawha
county by Fred. Carcl and John S.
Merrill. The number beforeus makes
Il very neat appearance and is brim
full of reading matter. Price s1,5o II
year in advance. Success to you,
-4- -
Nothing will teach yourchildren to
read SO quickly or improve their
minds so rapidly as to furnish them
with their home paper. In it they
find items of which they have some
personal knowledge, in which they
nmro ,,ions,omnaar.t,nJ than opy
ntbc, -oT.din,, ,nottor All Van can
rIorr h.[,rc ,hnm
WHY 10y t'N 81
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-03-13
D. S. Van MATRE, Agent,
Point PIcasant. w. Va.

On and after February 9th, 1878, Ex-
press and Mail trains will leave Hunting
ton as follows.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-03-13
Rev Haven Items.

y uissenees'a z s5
~ Kew Haven Items.
Mr.. Henry Capehart still contin-
ues very sick with bronch9,pneumo-
MIA, but is showing evident signs Of
Improvement.
Mr. John Smiths little girl aged
three yeaFs, died last neck with
pneumonia.
Mr. Ripley, livingaboyoI town, al,
so lost a little child.
Business in real estate seems to be
pretty active about Graham Station.
John and Jackson Brinkor have
purchased the farm belonging 10 Al
fred Enoch.
Jackson Roush traded the farm
purchased from Jas. Enoch about two
years ago to Adam Taylor,giying S.
500 to boot. Jackson sold His farm
out in the country to Mr.. Thomas
Gibbs.
A fire occurred at Grahani Station
burning up, tits said, a whole square;
the squares, however, are DOT very
I
large in that historic place, Several
hundred lives were lost by 1.-THE fire,
but they were SO low down in the
scale Of animal existence, that but
very little sympathy seems to have
been awakened, ,
The public schools of Graham dis
triet hare closed, the Board of Edu-
cation having only made provision
for four months school.
The schools of the distriSt for this
year have been a decided success
But little complaint, comparatively,
has been made against teachers OF
school officers.
The schools in our town, with
which we were better acquainted
than with the Others nthe district,
were well attended, and great regret
and sympathy was manifestation the
last day when scholars and teachers
gave each other the parting shake Of
the hand. Instead of the loud bois-
ferrous shoutings with which the
boys hail the advent Of the last dis
missal, the moist eyes and unspoken
words of feeling were manifest,
Capt. o. Phelps is going to teach a
select school this Summer, and any
of the young folks of the town or adj
jacent country, who wish to attend
school will have all the advantages
with him that they would have in
attending an academy or high school
away from home. aes--
The boys have all returned from
the South; but last Summers bug
fighting was very poorly repaid
They stand square-with nothing for
the fight,
The merry ring of silver is begin.
ming to be heard il. the land, The
Hartford City Company paid oil their
men in full last Saturday, and that
in silver, principally. wonder
whether anyone thought about get
ting 80 cents in place of 81? No
body thinks that but dcmagogical
politicians. L, I. r.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-03-13

ORANGE BrossoMs.-Thc following
persons have obtained permits from
the County Clerk, to marry, since our
last report. Alexander Pritt to Re.
bccca j. Hill; Harrison Clagg to Jane
Warner Geo. w, Fletcher to Lcfavor
Deal; David C. Ward to Sarah G,
LOWS.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-03-13

1t is true you cannot make n silk
purse out of a sow's car, but as yon
can get a buckskin purse at Van
elders Drug Store, to carry your
silver in, it don't make so much diff
ference, Purses sent by mail at Is,
p and GO cents.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-03-13

Large stock of Whitcwash Brushes,
from rs cents to 8 dollars, at
VAS GLpEUs.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-03-13
Point Pleasant. w. va.

CIR. HOWARD, Gen. P. & I. Ag't
p9-For Freight, Live Stock, &c, this
Line offers special inducements. Rates
always as low as by any other
Line to and from all Eastern cities For
rates, bills OF lading &c, apply to d. S.
VAN MATlE, Agent.
n. IL. HOfCHKISS, Gen. Tray. Ag't.
jan. 10, lS7S-ly.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-03-13

a correspondent sends us the fol.
lowing items from Big Sixteen;
Rev. r. w. Davis is holding a pro-
tracted meeting at Harmony Church;
thirty-onc have joined up to this
time.
C. L. Hogg, County superintcnd-
cnt, paid the schools visit one day
last week,
Mrs, Hillcry Bird and Harvey
Summers are visiting friends ut Red
House. Daniel Davis is visiting his
brother, John Mcclure has return
ed from Kansas.
Mr.. IL. Bird and other farmers are
preparing their land for corn.
There will be grand croQuct par
ty at Mr. j, 7, Birds residence on
the 10th of March.
Jordan Summers and Frank An
gel have gone out West
Wheat looks fine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-03-13
Chesapeake 3 Ohio
TICKET OFFICE,

For the sale OF Through Tickets to all
points on the Q. & o. K. X, and to WASH
ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York,
Boston and all OF the Southern Atlantic
Cities and Florida.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-03-13

The Brown Brothers hayo contract.
ct with Mr.. Henry Fry, this town for
thybulIing Of a now hull for the
llmnming Bird The hull is to be
50 feet long, II fee. wide aud ~ feet
held, and which is to be completed
and ready for the Gallipolis and Sy'
raouse trade by 1st o.. August next.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-03-13

Ladies seem, sometimes, puzzled
to know how to dress when invited
10 an entertainment. If the invita-
ton be printed or formal, full dress
is almost always expected; if verbal,
the demi.toilet is suitable.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-03-13

Nothing will teach yourchildren to
read SO quickly or improve their
minds so rapidly as to furnish them
with their home paper. In it they
find items of which they have some
personal knowledge, in which they
will take Il deeper interest and be
more anxioust ounderstand than any
other reading matter that ySu can
place before them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-03-13

Wciaye receivedthe first num ber
of the National Labor Advocate
published At St. Albans, Kanawha
county by Fred. Carcl and John S,
Merrill. The number beforeus makes
!. very neat appearance and is brim
full of reading matter, Price $3.50 II
year in advance, Success to you,
gentlemen. ibiI 9G3ag.i
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-04-04
HOW TO BE uANDsomE.

Most people would like to be hand
some. All cannot have good features
they are as God made them but al
most any one can look well, especially
with good health. 1t is hard to give
rules in very short space, but in brief
these will do:
Keep clean-wash freely. All the
skin wants is leaYe to act free, aud it
takes care of itself. It's thousands of
air-holes must not be closed.
Eat regularly, and sleep enough
not too much. The stomach can no
more work all the time, night and day
than horse. 1t must have regular
work and rest.
Good teeth are help to good looks.
Brush them with soft brush, espec-
tally at night. Go to bed with cleans
ed teeth. OF course to have white
teeth it is needful to let tobacco alone.
ALI women know that. Washes for
the teeth should be very simple. Acid
may whiten the teeth, but it takes of
the enamel aud Injuries them.
Sleep in cool room, in pure air.
No one can have q cleanly ekin who
breathes bad air. But more than all,
in order to TOOK wen, wake up mind
and soul. When the mind is awake,
the dull, sleepy look passes away
from the eyes.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-04-04
TRlFLES.

The world is made of tr:fies. The
grand movements of great events aud
the changes of empires are founded in
causes, very generally, which would
be pronounced trifles by the world.
Yes, .trifles light as air. have led to
some of the most important discov.
cries we have. The fall of an apple
gave Newton the clue to gravitation !;
the rising up of the lid of the tea ket-
tie gave us our railroads, steamboats,,
ocean steamers, and thousand other
things, not to speak of the press, that
combioed put the world centuries
ahead in the mysteries of the Universe
and the purposes of Nature. To the
observation of a flower dimly pictured
on stone, we owe the philosophical
researches in chemistry and light,
which ultimately gave us the daguer-
rotype and photograph.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-04-04

San Francisco is not worse than
New York, really, in her Sunday en-
tertainments. Nor is she any more
open and defiant. Nor with her thea.
ters, public horse trots. excursions,
open grogshops or q hundred forms
of amusements. The Sunday trains
of New York, the hundred excursions
in steamboats, to various points, her
thirteen miles Of amusements from the
Astor House to the Harlan river
with balls, dances, carousals, shooting
galleries, tuns of beer and gambling
tables by the mile-beats San Francis
CO all hollow. The difference is this.
The New York amusements are con-
trary to law. The San Francisco
am ussments are under the protection
of law. The moral sentiment Of the
city is very strong, and when united
holds the balance of power. The ef-
forts to make theater-going and Sun
day amusements lawful was political
one. Like the wOrkingmen's move
ment, it seemed to carry everything
before it. The Governor was won
over before the bill was pledged to
sign it. He was q Presbyterian elder
supposed TO be staunch in his princi
pies. Politics make strange bedfel-
lows. He Lost his poise, signed the
bill aud was retired. But for that acl
he would have been to-day Senator ol
the United States. Practically the
Sabbath ends with noon ON the L0rd'f
Day. The Sunday night sermons art
called lectures, and the discussion o.
anything is in order. Riding, prom
enading, parties, private and public
concerts, political debates, secular dis
cussion, entertainments given to prom
inent men are not out of order.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-04-04

into extensive use, Men will know
then that what they say in the nine-
teenth may be reproduced exactly in
tone and manner in the twentieth
century, and so on to the last syllable
of recorded time. With what pleas
ure, for example, would we not listen
to the words of Plato or Socrates; of
Julius Cesar or Cicero; of Gregory
the Great or Martin Luther; of Fred
erick of Prussia or Napoleon, b d
Photographs been contemporary with
them to take down their sayings. The
possibilities Of this wonderful little
instrument, as it will be perfected,
become bewildering to the imagi-
nation, for its practical uses are
simply inexhaustable. -ICincinnati
Commercial.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-04-04
LOSSES IN WAR.

Th0 Millennium has not come yet,
though. in spite of all appearances to
the contrary, we believe it is coming.
Men are buster than ever in devising
destructive implements of war, and
mutual slaughter is not merely trade,
but science. 1t used to be said that,
in proportion to the deadly character
of the weapons of war, the slaughter
Of men became actually less, aud the
duration of the conflict was corres-
pondingly shortened. In the days
that are passing over us this is but
partially true. No doubt with tele-
graphs and railways, it 10 scarcely pos
eible to protract wars as they used to
be when George III, was king. Still
when the combatants are pretty we'll
matched, the tussle may last q good
while, and the slaughter be enormous.
In the course of the campaign recent.
ly closed in Turkey, the lives of not
less than 100000 men have been lost,
while very large number have had
their lives shortened by the hardships
they have passed through and the
wounds they have received. This is
higher rate of casualties than prevail.
ed in the Franco-Prussian conflict,
though in the latter double the num-
Der of contestants were engaged. It
is much higher also than what was
usual in the Napoleonic wars. 1t used
to be said in the days of "Brown Bess, !"
that for every man killed his weight
in lead had been shot away. Modern
science has made that a mere tradition
of the olden time. In one assault on
Plevna, the Russian War Office ad-
mitted loss of 5000 killed, aud &c.
600 wounded, though perhaps there
were not more than thirty or forty
thousand engaged. In other words,
in that one unsuccessful assault the
losses of one of the combatants exceed
ed the total Of killed, wounded, and
missing on both sides at the world
famed battle of Austerlitz, and very
nearly equalled the whole French loss
at Gravelotte. Even in four days
fight at Leipsic, in which AL 600 men
were engaged, the percentage of loss
for all the four days was not so great
as in this assault at Plevna. The
slaughter is evidently very greatly in
creased by improvement In weapons.
1t is not so evident that the time OF
hostilities is being correspondingly
shortened. Yet, after all, we cannot
despair of the good time being here
by-and-by.
Its q comm yet for a. that
| When man to man the WArld over
Shall brothers be and a. that"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-04-04
wh. L.... IN. Eight cents.

Seventy or eighty papers have como
to hand this week, inquiring in spa
thetic voice who it il that loses the
eight cents when q lab0riug man takes
ninety-tw0 cent silver. piece for .
dollar. Now, this is the very thing
that has puzzled us. If q carpenter re-
ceives from the government q ninety
two cent silver piece for q dollar and
passes it upon his butcher for dollar,
and the butcher passes it upon the
shoemaker for q dollar, and the shoe
maker passes it upon his landlord for
dollar, and the landlord passes it for
. dollar upon the State for taxes, and
the State passes IL for q dollar upon q.
mason for work upon the new state
house, and the mason passes It for .
dollar to the merchant for . silk dress
for his wife, and the merchant passes
it for dollar to the custom.house of
icer for import duties, and the United
States treasurer passes it as dollar to
soldier. aud the anldier passea tAs- .
dollar to the same carpenter herein
before previously mentioned, we arc
unable to see who has lost the eight
cents. Happy thought-perhaps the
| loss fell on some man who did not get
it'll Seriously, the same man who lost
l
ry time he takes four silver quarters,
that haye only eighty-four cents worth
of silver in them. But, even then, the
five cent nickles puzzle rs. In dol
lir's worth of these there is only nine
teen cents' worth Of metal. Now will
some of the editors who lie awake at
| night to figure such things out please
to inform us who 1t 10 that loses the
eighty-one cents every time . dollar's
worth of nickles is passed? Who
loses four cents every time . five-cent
piece is paid for glass of lager or q
car ride? The little copper cents are
even q greater robbery. We have not
the heart to go into calculation - to
how many million dollars are wrung
from the horny-handed bondholder
every day in the passage of this de-
based cent, but it is Uncomfortable how
an opponent of the Bland Bill can pass
one of these fraudulent tokens-even
At distance, without blushins for the
perfidy of his race. -[New York
Graphic.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-04-04
HASTE AND HEALTH.

It is not at all wholesome to be in q
hurry. Locomotives are reported to
have moved a mile a minute for short
distances. But locomotives have often
come to grief for such great rapidity.
Multitudes in their haste to get rich
are ruined every year. The men who
go maturely, slowly, deliberately, are
the men who oftenest succeed in life !;
people who are habitually in hurry
generally have to do things over
twice. The tortoise beats the hare at
last. Slow men seldom knock their
brains out against post. Foot races
are injurious to health, as all forms OF
competitive exercises /; steady labor in
the field is the best gymnasium in the
world. Either labor or exercise car
ried to exhaustion or prostration or
even great tiredness, expressed by
tagged OUT always does more harm
than the previous exercise has done
good.
All running up stairs or to catch up
with a vehicle or ferry boat, is ex-
tremely Injurious to every age, sex,
and condition in life. It ought to be
the most pressing necessity which
should induce person over fifty to
run over twelve or fifteen yards.
Those live longest who are deliberate,
whose actions are measured, who
never embark in an enterprise with
out sleeping over it. and who perform
all the every day acts with kindness.
Quakers are proverbially calm, quiet
people and they are thrifty folk the
world over. This is common sense
advice, and if followed will always
prove beneficial to men, and women
ts0.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-04-04

IT is related by the London Times
that a woman who recently died at
Ashcott, at the age of lO4 years, had
for the last forty of them been in the
habit of drinking gin to excess, often
spending thousand dollars year for
1t. 1t is gravely suggested that but
for this habit she would not have thus
been cut of in her prime.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-04-04
rBR NJ g..


Only one who has nothing to hope
for from . woman is truly sincere in
her praise. = ALL
In everything that women write
there will be Thousands of faults against
grammar but also, to . certainty. al
ways q charm never to be found In tho
letters of men.
Men can better philosophers on tho
human heart, but women can resd 1t
better.
IT. is universal rule, which, ~ far
as I-know, has no exception, that great
men always resemble. their mothelfs
who impress their mental and physical
mark upon their sons.
A woman frequently resists the love
she feels, but cannot resist the love
she inspires.
Love in. q woman's life 10 history
in q man's an episode.
There exists among women secret
tie, like that among priests Of the same
faith. They hate each other, yet pro-
lOCb 0RCu OS00k . 4oS0k CSSOs
No woman, even the most intellect
ual, believes herself to be decidedly
homely.
Great and rare heart offerings arc
found exclusively among women, near
iy all the happiness and most blessed
moments of love are of their own cre-
atinQ. and 80 also IN frien6ship.7 es.
pecially when it follows loye.s.ise
Providence has so ordained that
only two women have . true interest
in the happiness of man-hisi own
mother and the mother of his children.
Besides these two legitimate kinds Of
love, there is nothing between thetwo
creatures except vain e1citement,
painful and idle delusiOn. sff5
Most of their faults woman owe 10
as, whilst we are indebted to them for
most of our better qualities.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-04-04


- have IN Unlawful ray.
ment Made. -
Scarcely any one affects now to se-
riously dispute the fact that Mr.. Hayes
was placed in the Office of President
by false and fraudulent electoral re-
turns. It is not Democrats alone who
impugn the title of Mr.. Hayes, but
leading Republican members Of both
Houses of Congress openly ridicule
the idea that he is in power by virtue
of lawful election. -,t,.
The only Important point remain
ing to be determined IL whether Mr..
Hayes was party to the fraudulent
conspiracy that counted him in.e In
reference to this, q new and startling
evidence has just como into our pos.
session, and we will now proceed to
| Law it before our readers.
1t is well known that the Hon. ID.
| w. Mahon, First Auditor of the Treas
ury, recently resigned his Office. We
are informed that his resignation was
not voluntary, but forced. Mr.. Sher-
man, Secretary, who acted IN compile
ance with the wish of Mr.. Hayes, re-
quired Mr.. Mahon to approve . bill
! for extra compensation in favor OF
Mr.. J. Madison Wells, This Mr..
Mahon refused to do, because he con-
sidered it unlawful and unjusts dt is
for this reason that Mr.. MahOn re-
signed as it is called. fes
Now why should Mr.. Hayes be 60
soIicitous unlawfully to divert the
| public money into tho pocket Of. Mr..
Wells if he had not before been Sc
cretly allied with Wells in the crimes
of the Returning Board
No honest and innocent President
would have done what Mr.. Hayes has
done in this matter.
All honor is due Mr.. 4ah0n for
sternly refusing to rob the Treasury
to pay the price OF robbery, perjury
and fraud.
The facts which we have stated
come to us from well informed
source. We entertain no doubt Ol
their accuracy. 1t is certainly due Ia
Mr.. Hayes that they should be refuted
or confirmed at once. VIII S0me
patriotic member of Congress, either
Republican or Democrat, move for an
investigation Pm. Y. Sun.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-04-04
AT REASONABLE fERMS.

I buy for cash and as I have
a large trade, CAN AND WILL
sell goods in my line at such
prices as will attract attention
and secure the patronage of
the CLOSE cash buyer.
Having a long lease of the
old Furniture Stand which 1
have occupied for nearly five
years I intend to remain per-
manently, and solicit a con-
tinuance of your patronage.
No. 8, Phenix Block,
Ravenna, Ohio.
February 20. 1873. 4s6