The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-10
at'herlin0 Geglster.
N.wspaper Ios Years Old.
espondence of the Register.

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come Slxty-Gve years later the iLitis
number OF the Virginia Gazette, publish
ed ut Williamsburg, Va, was issued by
VIM. Parks, lat los per annum.) HUI
man enterprise, ingenuity, aims and pur-
poses were pretty much the same in the
early colonial times as to day, II we may
| Judge by the general tenor OF the news
papers of that day and this-with the
purity of morals on the side OF the for
mer. We lately saw copy of the Nlr-
ginia Gazette, dated September 2, 1913,
edited by Clementins Bind, widow OF
William Rind, (the instigator OF this
engine of heresy and sedltlOn," rs Blake
ly called it, o, ladies, you who long for
the ballot box privilege and other rights,
take heed that one OF the weaker sex I'M
dertook and succeeded in the manage
ment of newspaper in Virginia, lO5
years ago. The acknowledgements OF
the TACT that "order was Heavens first
law" and should be of newspapers-are
better than usually found in the average
county organs of this day. Public, spir-
tied, concise, and duly cOnsiderate
of Her Magesty's English. There
are some iOrci6le comments on a duel
lately fought between Rodney Earl
gent, and Captain Carless OF the Guards.
The "code" ls brought under pungent
structures, and plea for the smelIors-
ton OF mans inhumsnity to man very
stoutly urged. The House of Commons
has lately resolved that "the duty OF $50
on every negro imported into the islands
Of Jamaica and Domingo do cease, and
only Is cd on each head so imported"
We learn that the son OF Marquis has
contracted mls-allisnce by clipping with
pretty bar made from the Golden
Horn. A noble lady has taken her life
in her own hands and disposed of 1t as
she listed, choosing the iilustrlOus poison,
helmlock. Four vessels have arrived
from the shores of the colder Carolina
with some colonists for Northwestern
Virginia. There are "advices" from
the seat OF the Russian-Turk-
ish war. The former have taken
possession of Gambia by the loss Of
only four or six men-Ot-wsr and SIX
thousand mon; the Crimesn Tariars have
revOlted from the Russians; the austere-
divan Of ConstantinOple comes to q reso-
luton to agree to no terms from Russia
without the mediation of France; our
antiGua.ed folio tells us that an cX-Clti-
zen of New York has been elected to the
office of sheriff of London; josiah
Springer, a soldier of the French and
Indian war, has given up the ghost IN
Norfolk county at the age of 10 years.
little cir! is bitten by mad dog, the
virus extracted by means of maidstone
in the possession of the Earl OF Derry,
who was here in the interests OF royal
emigrant society; party comes to the
tore with mathematical puzzle, and
chess player offers challenge
10 any gentleman of the country
Jockeys announce their qualifications,
and whips" apply for positionsi "ku-
reks' Tavern has the best aCCOmmOda-
| ton under the sun for man and BEAST
| "hkely" negroes are offered for sale; q
reward is offered for diamond star lost
by Miss Rachel Durstan; land is offered
| TO spectators. In this line we find an
| advertisement that may be OF local inter-
est TO the border citizens OF Putnam and
Mason counties, in this State, and the
adjoining counties in ONO, and cause
them to smile, perhaps, and reflect, ut
might have been" The advertiser is u
party whose name is directly associated
} with the paternity of our country. The
| announcement is made in the following
| manner:
"MoUNT VERNON Aug. 5, 1913.
~ 10, ,,af
ents for upwards of 10000 acres OF land
on the Great kanawhs and Ohio rivers,
proposes to lease the Same on favorable
terms to colonies"
The conditions are explicit, and pre-
vide tor the planting OF vineyards, etc.
This enterprising party, George Wash
inglon, EXHIBITS his leaning toward
neat trade, with a knowledge
of all the tricks sppertaining thereto
The Hesperisn bubble is adrcitiy sent
! before the world in all its lrrducent
glory. Mr.. Washington observes with
emphasis: That if the scheme for es-
tabhshing a new government on the
Ohio and KsDawha, IN the manner pro-
posed, should ever be accomplished, these
must, IN the very nature OF things, be the
most valuable lands in It, not only on
account of the excellence OF the soil and
other advantages, but from their con-
tiguity TO the seat of govern
meat, lcOuld he have been
prophet and meant the permanent seat
It is more than probable, will be fixed
nes- the mouth of the ksnawha river"
These were the lands loCsted by the
ill-fsled Col. Crawford whose murder by
the Indians, las told by the "Brltlsh
spy") as he returned from having shown
these boundaries TO Washington, Is one
of the saddest OF It's KIND.
Five thousand acres of this land
are now owned by Colonel Robert
Patton. of Kanswha county, be
ginning with the Washington lines at
the edge of kanswha county and run
mig through portion of Mason. One
hundred and five years after this hlgh-
sounding advertisement we lind 1t, on
the border, settled by some OF the best
cultured people in the world, but At the
heads of the creeks, and before the
waters became clear by civilization, by q
1qalty of genus homo upon whom II
would be we'll to eXpend some OF the
foreign mission money for the same o0.
iect. Congress cannot take oversight OF
tru'ss, but before it begins wrestIe with
the Mormon problem 1t would be wise TO
let scrutiny begin nearer home. Wash
lngton's colonization scheme exploded,
and his revenue from these mountains
and valleys scarcely purchased, perhaps,
q nsir of gold embroidered knee-breeches
and pair of shoe. buckles.
MANY PATTON HUDSON.
KanalOha County, ". ia.
Ioud call For the Nhipping-POst.
The State which has the whipping
most and stocks is the one in which Grim