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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-30

HuanISc,BIhD No. 2.-This pro.
peller built here for the Brown Bros,
is perfect model Of beauty. She is
sSfeet long, 70 feet wide, and 81 foot
hold. The hull and cabin we're built
by Mr.. H. Fry, Point Pleasant. The
cabin in pointof finish win compare
with any Of the lake built propellers,
and shows clearly that we have both
the material and mechanics to COM
pete with any part Of the country in
ship or boat building.
Paintingby Fountain & Summers,
Gallipolis.H Boiler by Harry Barton,
Middleport. Engine by Enos, Hill
& Co., of Gallipolisa Upbolstering,
by $. ]. shindle, Point Pleasant
Tin work, spouting, &C., by w. B.
Cable, this place. Stoves, by Point
Pleasant Machine Shop,
The propeller has been inspected
by the properofiicers, and on recent
trial trip she worked satisfactorily to
her owners. tits claimed that she
will be much faster than the old
Bird. Just when she will be put in the
Gallipolis and Syracuse trade, we can
not cay. In building this boat the
Brown Bros. show an enterprising
spirit that merits the appreciation
and patronage of the people. we
wish them success with the Hum
ming.Bird No. 2.
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-30


H. n. Gallaher, Of the Charlestown
Free Pres, had his pockets picked at
the Winchester Fair last week, to the
tune Of twenty cents, He had a
nickle in his other pOcket.-IHdez.
The fellow ought to have enquired
who he was, before going through
him. Pick-pockets win be fooled
every time they spot an editor We
are only surprised that Bro. Gala.
her, had even that much money.
Prof. sharp's readings at the NJ. E.
Church, was a treat to all who heard
it. We never remember to have
spent a more delightful evening than
last Saturday night, while listening
TO his admirable readings. We are
sorry that our people did not give
him better houses than he had on
Saturday and Monday nights. There
was enough of appreciatiye talent
in this place to have given him a full
house. 1t was a rare entertainment.
We hope he may visit us again, when
we will insure him a good audience.
a
Commissions have been issued by
Gov. Matthews to Rankin Wiley, Jr.,
Captain of the Mason County Rifle
men; F. D. Hoy, First Lieutenant,
and Chas. c. Bowyor, Second Lieu
tenant. The Company will be mus
tered into service by Lieutenant C.P.
Snyder, of the Kanawha Rifemen.
There Is still some talk Of trying
to get telegraph line established be-
tween this place and Charleston. 1t
is to be built by private subscrip.
tions. The people of the Valley are
deeply interested, and if they will
do their share towards it, Point
Pleasant will do her part.
The merchants of this town do
not do enough advertising The
merchants of Gallipolis advertise
largely, and that is the way they get
the trade from this side Of the river.
Try advertising awhile, and our
word for it, you'll never quit it
PERsoNALs.-Mr. Ed. Hill If Gal
lipolis, and |. F. Poston, of Buffalo,
gave us a pleasant call Tuesday af-
ternoon. Mr.. Poston is strongly in
favor of the proposed telegraph line,
and willsubscribe literally towrdsit.
We wish:to remind our subscribers
on Kanawha, that at Maupin's will
be found a choice lot of new goods,
which are being sold as low as the
same goods aro.sold in this place, or
in Gallipolis. Give him your pat
ronage.
Mr.. Winkley is at home now and
all in want of wells would lowell to
consult him. He puts. then down
on such easy terms that everybody
can afford to have a well on his
premises.
There have been several cases of
very plain DRINKS on our streets
lately. Boys, drink as much as you
will, but don't get intoxicated. 1t
generally leads to trouble, and some.
times ends in a heavy fine and i'm
prisonment.
Can the following be true:
Men sc0rn to kiss among themselves,
And scarce would kiss brother;
But women want to kiss so bad
They hug and kiss each other
People who have roguish COWS
ought to put them up at night. Peo-
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There is still some talk Of trying
to get a telegraph line established be-
tween this place and Charleston. 1t
is to be built by private snbscrip.
tions. The people of the Valley are
deeply interested, and if they will
do their share towards it, Point
Pleasant will do her part.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-30

UPPER OHIO FLAT Boar IrEMs.-
Phil Elliot, Of Graham's Station
West Virginia, will freight for G. B
Prince, Of Portland, Ohio. Load will
cOnsis! mostly Of potatoes; some ap
pies. In all, 5000 barrels. Lewis
andWilliam Roush will run one boat
mostly potatoes. Captain John C
Hopkins and Adam Taylor, small
boat, 1000 barrels potatoes and ap
pies, half and half. Elias Pickard
one boat, coal, 1000 bushels. War
rem and D. S. Pickens, boat; potatoes
apples and cabbage; willcoast. Phil
lip E. Dickens and Spencer Harpold
will freight with Peter Bentz and
Frank Shirley; apples, potatoes and
cabbage-2,0O0 barrels. W. Z. Hay.
man is building a $500 barrel barge
for Captain Bill Roberts; potatoes
will tow with his own propeller, J
N. Roberts. Captain Thomas Alex
ander, one boat; general merchan
disc; will tow with his propeller
Waverly. Alexander and Roberts
will each take a boat Of coal. Rich
ard Spence, Point Pleasant, one large
boat-6fty tons of hay, balance pc
tatoes. The Williamsons, Of Warth''
Bottom, will probably ship theil
large crop of potatoes direct to New
Orleans, they were to have freighted
by barge to Crescent City, but barge
has been sold. John sayre, Letart
will run the model barge Walter
sayre; potatoes, apples, hay and tur
keys. Captain Albert Powell and
Dick Weldon will run a small boat
potatoes, apples, flour, meat and car
bon oil. Hiram Douglass, Ripley
Landing, will run one boat; potatoes
Potatoes are selling in crops at fifty
cents per bushel. Market very firm
Apples 81 per barrel, barrel included
The feet will start on the first good
water, yellow fever permitting. A
new feature this year in cooperoge is
the use of cut stuff for potato and ap
pie barrels. Poplar slaves and pine
headings are preferred by many, on
account of their lightness.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-30

Commissions have been issued by
Gov. Matthews to Rankin Wiley, Jr.,
Captain of the Mason County Rifle
men; F. D. Hoy, First Lieutenant,
and Chas. C. Bowyor, Second Lieu
tenant. The Company will be mus
tered into service by Lieutenant c.
Snyder, of the Kanawha RiAemen.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-09
A 500, 600 Wardrobe.

WE have been allowed to inspect the
most extensive and elegant wardrobe
ever made or owned on this side of the
Atlantic Ocean, and probably never be-
fore surpassed in the world, outside of
the homes of the nobility, in extent and
completeness. 1t is the property of a
San Francisco lady, young and beauti-
full, whose statuesque form they become
most regally. She has just left for an
Eastern city preparatory to making the
grand tour of Europe. There were in
the collection between thirty and forty
robes of all kinds and of every variety
of rare device. Only the finest, the
richest, the rarest, the most delicate
material had been used in their creation
silks, satins, velvets and snowy laces,
such as envelop the form like an meas
ing snowdrift. Some of them came
from Worth, the Paris man milliner, at
whose shop they were ordered six
months ago.
The entire wardrobe, with its attend
ant paraphernalia, cost 100000, not
including diamonds, with solid gold
dressing-cases and innumerable toilet
articles of luxurious conception and
fabulous cost.-San francisco Chroni-
cJp
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eighteen inches in diameter, every
splint separated from its neighbors by
little spaces, so that there may be no
sticking together after the dipping
In the operation of 90 setting,'' a ribbon
of coarse stuff about an inch and half
wide and an eighth of an inch thick is
rolled up, the splints being laid across
the ribbon between each two courses,
leaving about a quarter of an inch be-
tween adjoining splints. From the
setting machine the bundles 90 to
the dipping room.
After the ends of the splints have
been pounded down to make them even,
the bundles are dipped-both ends
into the molten sulphur and then into
the phosphorus solution, which is spread
over large iron plate. Next they are
hung in frame to dry. When dried
they are placed in machine which, as
it unrolls the ribbon, cuts the sticks in
two across the middle, thus making two
complete matches of each splint.
The match is made. The towering
pine which listened to the whisper OF
the south wind and swayed in the cold
northern blast has been so divided that
we can take it bit by bit and lightly
twirl it between two fingers. But what
it has lost in size it has gained in use.
The little flame it carries, and which
looks so harmless, flashing into brief
existence, has a latent power more ter
rible than the whirlwind which perhaps
sent the tall pine tree crashing to the
ground.
L But the story is not yet closed. From
vehe machine which completed the
matches they are taken to the "box-
ers''-mostly girls and women-whC
place them in little boxes. The speed
with which this is done is surprising
With one hand they pick up an empty
case and remove the cover, while witt
the other they seize just a sufficient mum
Der of matches, and, by apeculiar shut
fling motion, arrange them evenly, ther
its done!
The little packages of sleeping fir
are taken to another room, where OF
each one is placed stamp certifying
the payment to the Government of ont
cent revenue tax. Equipped with thes
passes the boxes are placed in large
ones, and these again in wooden cases
which are to be shipped to all parts o
the country, and over seas.
All this trouble over such little thing
as matches! Yet on these fire-tippet
bits of wood millions of people depen'
for warmth, cooked food and light
They have become necessity, and tn
day of flint, steel and finder seems al
most as far away in the past as are tn
bow and the fire-stick of the Indian.
How apt to our subject is that almos
worn-out Latin phrase, "naultum Il
paruo" much in little! Much labor
much skill and much usefulness, all il
a little piece of wood scarcely one-eight
of an inch through and about two inche
long!-iSt. Nicholas for March.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-09
Raising a Church Debt.

Not long ago Brother Kimball found
a small church in Central Iowa that was
staggering along under comfortable
debt, and it looked to him as though it
would Just be recreation for him to lift
a little country church out of the depths
after his experience and success with
the big churches in the great cities with
their overwhelming Indebtedness. So
he tackled the quiet little rustic Ebe-
nezer and shook it out of all the debt he
knew of in about ten hours, and the
building was clear of incumbrance.
Then, before the benediction was
pronounced, the senior deacon arose
and stated that there had never been
but one payment made on the organ,
and that the accrued interest on the de-
double the principal.
Well, they raised this amount and
Brother Kimball was on the point of
picking up his hat when the sexton
arose and remarked that the man was
around last week, and said if the fur
mace wasn't paid for, the notes having
run year over their time, he would
take it out before next Sunday.
Mr. Kimball laid down his hat, took
off his coat, and the furnace debt was
lifted.
He got one arm into his coat sleeve,
and nodded to the pastor to dismiss the
congregation, when the President of
the Woman's Aid Society said she
wished to remark that the society had
been unable to fulfill their pledge to
pay for the pew cushions, and the up
holsterer had, several times during the
past year, served notice on them, and
She believed suit would be commenced
next week.
Brother Kimball groaned, slid his
arm out of the coat sleeve, headed the
subscription in his usual generous man
ner, and soon cleared the cushions,
throwing his coat over his arm and
starting for the door on the run as soon
as this was accomplished.
But the chorister called out that he
would like their dear Brother Kimball
to remain and assist them in an effort
to pay for the hymn books and also for
having the organ tuned. The " dear
brother groaned, stopped and assisted.
Once more he started for the door.
But Deacon Ophiltree said he believed
while they We're trying to clear off the
church debt it would be well for them
to remember that the sexton had not
been paid anything since 1874, and
that the interest was running up on his
back pay all the time. So Mr.. Kim
ball halted once more, and struggled
along until the sexton was made happy.
Then he got to the door but some one
had locked it, and while he was hunt
ing for the key good sister arose and
stated that the baptismal robes had
never been paid for, and the woman
who made them. wanted her money.
Inquiry on this subject revealed the
startling fact that the robes had all been
loaned to neigbboring churches and
lost, long ago, but they had to be paid
for, all the same.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-09
How Matches Are Made.

A match is a small thing. We sell
dom pause to think, after it has per-
formed its mission and we have care
lessly thrown it away, that it has his
tory of it's own, and that, like some
more pretentious things, its journey
from the forest to the match-safe is full
of changes.
The match of to-day has story far
more interesting than that of the old
fashioned match. AS we have said,
much of the timber used in the manu-
facture comes from the immense tracts
of forest in the Hudson Bay Territory.
1t is floated down the water-courses to
the lakes, through which it is towed in
great log-rafts. These RATS are d.
vided; some parts are pulled through
the canals, and some by other means
are taken to market. When well
through the seasoning process, which
occupies from one to two years, the
pine is cut up into blocks twice as long
as a match, and about eight inches wide
by two inches thick. These blocks are
passed through a machine which cuts
them up into "splints," round OF
square, of just the thickness of match,
but twice its length. This machine is
capable, as we are told, of making
about 2,000,000 splints in day. This
number seems immense when compared
with the most that could be made in
the old way-by hand. The splints are
then taken to the " setting" machine
and this rolls them into bundles about
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-09

the Chair interposed Speaker Long.
=" 1t was the Chair l had specially in
mind,T retorted Mr.. Baker.
"A Sacramento woman accused her
husband of attempting to kill her, and
he was sent to prison for two years.
Then she begged to be sentenced for
the same term, because she could not
bear to be parted from him, and, the
Judge refusing, she went away and
tried to hang herself.
There is family in New York
sorely afflicted with boils. The young
man of the house has thirteen, and
every member of the family has from
six to dozen. The unhappy circle do
not sit long at the table, and stand
around in the evening, while the old
gentleman reads aloud comforting ex-
tracts from the book of Job.
In the good time certain to come
if we wait a little longer-when women
shall have all their rights, announce
ments like the following will be fire.
quent: Died, in the thirty-fifth year
of his age, Mr.. John Smith, husband OF
the Honorable Jane Smith, at her resi-
dence in Solebury, this morning at six
o'clock. Mr.. Smith was meek and
quiet husband, beloved for the graces
of cultivated and trained nature. He
excelled in the domestic virtues; as 3
cook he was surpassed by few; as 8
nurse he was equaled by none"
HUGGING THE SHORE.
"Do you think you'll hug the shore, Captain
to-daym
Asked a saucy young flirt with smile;
With a crimson flush was dyed her cheek,
And over her brow swept the roseate hue,
While her eyes revealed in the dancing blue
All the lips declined to speak.
The Captain glanced at the distant shore,
And then at the maid awhile
The shore was distant and she was near,
And the rose-tint deepened as he said :" Dear
I'll neglect the shore to day."
And around her waist crept the Captain
hand
1t was so much better than hugging dry land
And he said, glancing over the vessels bow:
THE ship is hugging Cape Hatteras now,
But IU hug the Cape of May!"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-09

The money was raised, and Mr. Kim
dow when he was pulled back and in
formed that there was an old tax title
on the lot when they bought it-that it
had never been cleared off
Mr. Kimball got this little flaw cleared
up with neatness and dispatch, and was
running briskly down the aisle when he
was collared by a trustee and informed
that the man who grained the pulpit
and calcimined the ceiling last winter
was there and wanted his money.
He was paid, and good Brother Kim
ball was half way out of the door be-
fore he learned that the chandelier must
be paid for that week or they would sit
in outer darkness Sunday night. So he
went back and frightened up the chan
delier
He ran out so quickly then that he
didn't hear the man who repaired the
front fence present his bill, but while
he was walking down to the depot with
the senior deacon that official suddenly
halted, while look of grave concern
overspread his face.
"Well, well, well,' he said, eff that
isn't too badn'
"What is it?'' nervously inquired
Brother Kimball.
why" responded the deacon, dole
fully, ave forgot all about the pastors
salary; he only gets 800 a year, and
we amt paid him nothing but two do
nation parties since a year and a half
ago.
And when Brother Kimball climbed
on the train he resolved that the next
time he tackled a strange church he
would demand a certified statement be-
fore he took off his coat.-BurIingtOn
| Uk-EYe
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-09

The Stewart palace Of New York city
has the following history: The lot was
purchased by Townsend, the Sarsapa-
rilla man, who made a fortune out of
that nostrum, and built what was then
QS54) the finest house in the city, Such
was its beauty that it was exhibited be-
fore the family took possession, at
twenty-five cents admission, for the
benefit of a charity. Townsend after
ward failed and Stewart bought the
property at Sheriff. sale. He pulled
down. the house and planned the pres
ent palace. This was done before the
war, when prices were low, and the in
flation so increased the cost of labor and
material that the contract became
heavy loss. Stewart held the contract
or to the letter, and the unfortunate
man suffered to an almost ruinous de-
gree. 1t is seldom that building con-
structed under such circumstances avails
much to its owner. Stewart was eleven
years preparing a palatial home for his
old age, but he died soon after taking
possession. The grandest palace in
America is now occupied by childless
oli NoiIldil anu Icl SCI WINS. ihc Sol-
geous parlors, the picture gallery, and
all the luxurious interior is now silent
waste. The lofty ceiling renders the
staircase labor, and the mistress, being
lame from fall, is unable to meet such
difficulty. A person in such condi-
ton must be contented with the limits
of bedroom, and hence the largest
part of the palace is useless Such is
the condition of an establishment which
cost round million. and on which the
taxes alone are $1,000 year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-09
A Sad Story.

In the U. S. Court to-day Henry Mar
shall, ex-cashier of the First National
Bank of Olney, who is indicted for en-
bezzling $4,000 of the funds of the
bank, put in plea of guilty, and was
sentenced to five years in the Peniten-
tiary. With his plea he filed sworn
statement, in which he gives an account
of his business life up to and including
his connection with the bank. He says
his difficulty began about 1871, when
he found that the cash was short S., 500.
He could not understand how this oc-
Cured, except on the theory that the
bank had been entered at the back-door
and the money taken while his back
was turned. He was greatly troubled
about this, but thought best to say moth
ing, and to try to make it up. For this
purpose he borrowed $1,000 from the
Etna Insurance Company and began
specializing, but his operations were I'M
fortunate. He tried to borrow from
friends, but could not succeed. He con-
tinued to struggle along, using the
funds of the bank, but his losses were
constant. He says he never used any
money for his own profit and the appar-
ent loss of the bank is the result of
faulty bookkeeping. After the defalca-
ton was discovered he turned over all
his property to the bank, and also a
large amount of property in which his
brother held a controlling interest, He
says, in conclusion, that he is fifty years
old, broken in health and spirits, and
that he has a wife and six children, who
are destitute and dependent on charity.
-Springfeld (W.) Register.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-09
StOnewall Jackson ut West Point.

OF Stonewall Jackson S first examina-
ton at West Point, Gen. John Palmer
writes: 1.-The poor fellow was in most
unhappy state of mind His whole soul
was bent upon passing. When he went
to the blackboard the perspiration was
streaming from his face, and during the
whole examination his anxiety was
painful to witness. While trying to
work out his examples in fractions the
cuffs of his coat, first the right and then
the left, were brought into requisition
to wipe off the perspirat4on which
streamed from his face. But he passed
creditably, and shall never forget how
pleased he looked as hewas told that he
could take his seat; and l think every
member of the examining board turned
away his head to hide the smile which
could not be suppressed. After that
his whole life was devoted to the one
thing of preparing for the January ex-
animation. Here he was again success
full, but the scene at the blackboard, al
though in mid-winter, was repetition
of the one in June He found himself
low down in his class but he had
learned how to study, and he had the
hearty sympathy and good will of all
the professors and instructors. At the
second June examination he passed so
well that he was well up in his class
and out of all danger. But he never
relaxed his hold. Through the whole
four years he was one of the hardest
Students"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-09
A Lady Wins.

For many years the Royal Agricult-
ural Society of England has been in the
habit of offering eight prizes for the
best-managed farm in the district in
which the annual exhibition is held.
This year the leading prize was taken
by Mrs. Ellen Birch, for farm of 242
acres of arabic land near Ainstee. The
farm, which is characteristic of the sur
rounding region, is nearly level and is
divided into fields of about thirty acres
each by neatly-kept hedges, and is a
light and easily-worked soil, naturally
dry. No stock of any consequence is
kept, as town manure is cheaply brought
on to the land by a canal from Liver
pool, for which market the products of
the land are intended. The rent paid
is 70, say about $25, per acre. The
course of cropping is as follows: First,
potatoes, after lea; second, wheat;
third, barley or oats, sown with grass
seed; fourth, hay; fifth, hay; after which
the lea is again broken up and planted
with potatoes. And it is on the pota-
toes that all the town and homemade
manure is applied, sometimes with the
addition of little nitrate of soda. The
grain crops, especially the oats, were
very heavy. Fifteen men and lads are
employed, at sixteen and seventeen
shillings a week and cottage rent.
Heavy crops of hay are grown, and
after this is over for the season sheep
are taken in to grass, for local statesmen,
at sixpence per week. The farm has
been in the continuous occupation of the
same family for thirty-tive years, being
conducted now by the widow of the ten
ant, assisted by her two sons.