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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27
Tne National ScOurge.

It is estimated that the annual
damages caused by the ravages of
insects and worms exceed $15O,0OO,-
900 in the United States alone
Truly an enormous loss! Yet it
sinks into insigniticance when COM
pared with the ravages of that
more terrible scourge, Consumption,
which annually sweeps hundreds of
thousands of human souls into eter'
nifty. The causes of consumption
are various, depending in every in
stance for the development of the
disease upon the scrofulous diathesis,
or temperament, Of the victim
Thus the Same cause which will pro-
duce in one person an attack of acute
disease or slight nervous prostra-
ton, will engender consumption in
person of scrofulous habit. That
consumption can be cured by proper
treatment will be readily perceived
when the exact nature of the dis
case is understood, viz the accumu-
lation and deposition Of scrofulous
matter Oubercles) in the lungs
Obviously, the principal remedies re-
quired are (Da powerful Alternative,
or blood-puritier, to arrest the accu.
mutations and also cleanse the blood
of scrofulous matter, and ~ q mild
cuthartic to expel the diseased mat
ter from the system. This course of
treatment, in conjunction with astrict
hygienic regime, has proved the most
successful method of curing this dis
ease. DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery and Pleasant Purgative
Pellets are the best Alternative and
cathartic remedies before the public,
and have been alone used in thou
sands of cases of consumption with
the most marked efficacy. DR..
Pierce's Invalids' Hotel, at Buffalo,
New York, affords special and un.
equaled advantages to consumptives,
not only possessing the best medical
and hygienic means of treatment,
but having the essential advantage
of being situated in a climate where
the inhabitants are notably free from
this disease.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

John sherman says Grant will be
the next President Of the Unltee
States. He also fayors the idea na o6 o.
having a standing army of l0OOVo
men. Who says we are not rapidly
drifting toward monarchialismH
More people attend the theatres on
Sunday, in Cincinnati, than go to
the Protestant churches. 1.-THE thea
tres were free and the churches
charged admission, we fear 1t would
be even worse. What's this world a
comm to?
German citizens are being arrest
ed, fined, and imprisoned in Germany
for speaking disrespectfully OF the
Emperor, the Government or its pub
lie officials. This is one of the de-
lights of living under q strong gov
eminent"
Hon. George H. Pendloton will not
be found a SLOUGH in the race for the
Presidential nomination in 1850
Gentleman George has taken up the
gauntlet again, and he knows how to
run it,
Frauds in sugars and frauds in
baking-powders, frauds in -four and
frauds in milk. No wonder there
has arisen q strong demand for the
restoration of the good old pious Sun
day. We have been travelling too
far out Of line.
EGG Nelson, of Macon, Georgia, a
student at Washington and Lee
University, killed a colored man
named Montgomery there last Tues
day night, during a fracas that was
caused by the latter, who Jostleo
against one Of Nelson's fellow-stu'
dents on the street.
Miss Martha Brown was gored tc
death by q bull near Goochland School
House, Va, Tuesday.
Wade Hampton's condition is such
that his injured leg may have to be
amputated.
The California Constitutional Con
vention is discussing the abolition o
grand juries.
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Dare TIleY Do nd?

Inc washington IOSt Is electrified
over u rumor Of what it considers an
attempt on the part of the Radical
leaders to capture the House of Rep.
resentatives, on the plan by which
the Presidency was stolen. Zach
Chandler is credited with having
said that "the Democrats gave up the
Presidency rather than fight for it,
and for my part, l don't believe they
would fight for the House of Repre-
sentatives if dead set were made
against them" And so, the rumor
goes, Chandler, Cameron and Conk.
ling have concocted plot to seize
organization of the Forty-sixth House
of Representatives. The modus OPP
erandi is to be about as follows: 1t is
to be assumed that twelve or fifteen
districts in the South were carried
by the Democrats through "intimi-
dalton" and violence" Wholesale
prosecutions against Democrats in
these districts are to be instituted in
the Federal courts under the opera
ton of the Bayonet Act, technically
termed the Federal election law;
avalanches of negro afiidavits are to
be gathered and poured all over the
North through the columns of the
Radical press to fire the Northern
heart and produce a popular feeling
in that section sufficiently bitter to
tolerateand sustain the revolutionary
measure contemplated. Then, the
first Monday in December, 1879, the
Republican members-elect, support
ed, if necessary, by the military
forces Of the general government, are
to take possession of the Hall of Rep
resontatives, seat enough defeated
Southern Republicans to make up a
legal quorum, and then proceed TO
organize the Housed
This seems almost too wild for
even the reckless set of political des.
peradoes mentioned above, unscrupu.
lous and partisan conspirators as they
are. The attempt of such treason
able conspiracy, though entirely
compatible with the past conduct Of
these cut.throats, could not but re-
ceive the condemnation of the better
part even of their own party, and
failure would inevitably bring the
most fearful retribution law could in.
tlict. And besides, it will be impos-
siblc to alter the other branch of the
National Legislature, unless as the
Post suggests, they occupy the Senate
wing with regiment of infantry,
and march the Democratic Senators
off in q body to the easements Of
Fortress Monroe!
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Harpers's Bazaar.
1870.
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This paper has acquired q wide popular
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

The Supreme Court of Pennsylva.
MIA has just decided that an inn.
keeper Is bound to pay for goods sto.
len in his house from guests, unless
stolen by n servant or companion Of
the guest, The Court declared that
ii was the inn.keeper's duty to pro.
vide honest servants, and to exercise
an exact vigilance over all persons
coming into his house as guests or
otherwise.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

The fraud practiccd on the people
Of this State In the matter Of school
books, is receiving some attention
from the newspapers of the State
The New Martinsville Messenger pro.
nounces the monopolists who control
the publication and sale of all the
books used in our schools, as moth.
ing but swindlers," and thinks the
only practical way in which the mo-
nopoly would be broken up, is to Ill
low each county to adopt whichever
system of text books they choose, and
thus tho price of the books would be
controlled. 1t is n matter which
should claim tho attention -four leg.
islators, and we hope that the com.
ing Legislature viii take some pract-
zeal, sensible action in the natter
Er,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

The U. s. Government has, through
a New York banking house, COM
pleted the purchase Of sterling OK.
change TO the amount Of about e..
100000 to meet the $5,500,OOO requir.
ed by the Halifax award to be paid
to the British Government at Lon.
don on the 23rd instant, and the
agents of the United State Treasury
Department will make the transfer
at London on that date.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

The sentence passed upon Edwin
C. Hayden, convicted ut Montpelier,
Vermont, of the murder of his wife,
is indeed n fearful one. He is to en-
dure a servitude of nearly two years
ut hard labor in the penitentiary,
then three months in solitary con.
finement, after which he is to be
hung on the first Friday after the
FIRST Tuesday of January, 1881.
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Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Executive DEPARTMENT.
WHEELING, Nov. IA, 1878

hEEbINui NV II, 1000
I, Henry NJ. Mathews, Governor of
the State of West Virginia, do here
by appoint Thursday, the 2Sth day
of November, instant, a day Of
Thanksgiving and Prayer.
| request the people Of the State to
assemble on that day in their places
of worship to praise, pray to, adore
and give thanks to Almighty God,
and otherwise to observe the day as
to them may seem appropriate.
In testimony whereof | have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of tho State to be affixed at
49,, Wheeling, this 14th day of
LIS, November, in the yearof our
l--) Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.eight,
HENRY NJ, MATHEWS.
BY the Governor,
S, BRADY, Secretary Of State.
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

1t is expected that Congress, when
it meets in December, will immedi-
ately repeal the resumption act
The people of the country demand
that it be repealed.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27
Harper's Weekly.
1870.
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Its pictorial attractions are superb, aud
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

The remains of four prominent cit.
liens of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, were OK.
humed last week, but the ghouls
were discovered, and had to decamp
without the bodies.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

The public printing of the State of
Virginia, for the fiscal year 1S77-7S
cost S2l, 754.12, decrease of IS, 05S. %
compared with tho previous year
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

In the late election in New York
the Democratic party did not poll its
full strength by 10000 votes.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

In accordance with an opinion Of
the Acknowledgement Of Pennsylva.
mia, Governor Hartranft has decided
to issue u warrant for the execution,
on the 10th of December next, of the
notorious Mollio Mcguire, John he.
hoe, who was convicted ofthe murder
of F. s. W, Langdon, in schuylkill
county, in 1862. Warrants were also
issued for the execution, on tho same
day, of Martin Bergen, Of Schuylkill
county; Charles Sharpe and James o,
Donncll, ofCarbon county, and Alex.
ander Sayrc, of Philadelphia.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

The Democratic majority in Con-
gress is about Is over the Republi'
cans and 6 over all. We would not
have a larger majority if we could.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

Both Houses of Congress will be
Democratic after the 4th of March
next, and the people may confidently
look for relief.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

THE D1FFERENcE.-The Republi-
cans are making hue and cry over
frauds alleged to have been perpetra-
ted by Democratic officials in Florida,
South Carolina and Louisiana; while
they are, from Hayes down, enjoying
Office obtained through gigantic and
notorious electioneering frauds COM
mitted by Republican officials in
those very States.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

Kentucky. 1t appears from the
official returns that the entire con-
gressional delegation from the State
is Democratic,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

John Williams, an Indiana rascal,
dcvotcs himself almost eclusively to
the difficult task Of swindling wild
ows His usual plan is to 90 into u
town as IL Clergyman, start revival
meetings, make the acquaintance of
pious widow with money, promise
to marry hor borrow $500 to $1,000,
and runs away. llo has been caught
at last,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

England has opened up a war at
last with the Ameor of Afghanistan,
and has taken possession of one of
his forts. In all probability Russia
will soon step forward as the cham
pion Of Affghanistan, and in that
event the new war will prove quite
interesting. Otherwise it will not
amount to much.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

Jim Blaine, of Maine, has the
Camcrons ut his back, while some of
General Grants old supporters are
favoring the candidacy for Conkling
for the Presidency. In order to keep
the Republican party in fighting con.
diIion Grant will come in as u COM
promise.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

The Volumes of the Weekly begin with
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When no time is mentioned, it will b, W.
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

The now zinc mines in Wytho
county Vap are to be developed by
Northern capitalists, who have
bought them,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27
GEO. W. r1PPnTT. Editor.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 81, 1878.

If Kearney will run for Governor
of California the Washington Post
says Butler can get even with him.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

Two horrible deaths occurred at
Milwaukee, Monday, One man fell
inloa vat Of boiling gluoand another
was buried alive by falling earth,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

The Republican cry of Democratic
election frauds and intimidation in
the South, is based, not upon fact,
but upon the false assumption that
every negro voter of the South is a
Republican and should and would
vote the Republican ticket, if not
bull-dozed; whereas, large portion
of the colored voters Of the South
have become disgusted with carpet.
bag rule, and consult their own in.
terest and that of their States by go,
ing for the Democracy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27

The Legislature of South Carolina
meets today, and will make a Uni
ted States Senator to succeed John ],
Patterson. Wade Hampton is a can
didate, and, in spite of his broken
leg, will distance all competitors.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-27
TRUSTEES' SALE OF A yALU-
able Tract of Land in Cooper
District, and Engine, Boilers
and FiXlures.

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST
ID executed to the undersigned, Trustee.
by V. b. Horton, Jr., on the 10Th day OF
September, 1874, and duly OF record in the
Mason County Court Clerks Office, in
Trust Deed Book No. 2, folios 292, &C., to
secure to Thomas Gibbs and James K.
Rayburn, certain notes therein described,
and assigned by said Gibbs and Rayburn
to r. L. Winkleblack, and default having
been made by said Horton in the payment
Of the last note in said trust deed mention.
ed and described, for one thousand and
fifty dollars, with interest thereon from the
LIST of September, 1874 and having been
requested by said Winkleblack to make
sale OF the property in said Deed mention
cd, shall proceed to sell by way OF public
auction, at the front door OF the Court
House of said Mason county, West Virgin
10, On Saturday, December 2Sth,
1878. the tract of land in said Deed des-
cribed, containing 405 acres; and also Il
first class Steam Engine, Boilers and fix
lures, situate upon said tract OF land
About so acres of the above tract of land
is cleared, and the whole OF it is suscepti'
bic OF high state Of cultivation.
Terms OF sale, CASH.
JOHN L. TINIA1S, Trustee.
nov. DIV.
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The doubt in Republican minds is
whether Hayes has saved the party
or the party has saved him, Meth
er; all that happened was the result
of Democrats going offafte wood, and
the Republicans slipping in to the
fire.
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In 1880 the Democrats will carry
New York, New Jersey, Ohioand In.
diana, together with all the South
ern States, which will be more than
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dent. The Republicans won't be al
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A LII the type now In this office is entire.
II, ly new We have all the late styles
Card and poster type, and iattCr ourscli
thHt we can do as good work NJ any office
In the State, Give us u trial,
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the Numbers for June and Deccmbc, +i y
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The Wheeling Register learns so it
says, that the Governor Of Pennsyl,
vania refuses to surrender to the
Governor of West Virginia, Gregg,
who was convicted of burning the
court house at Kingwood, on the
ground that he does not "recognize
sideshows," and that if Governor Hol-
liday, of Virginia, the only legal au-
thority in the matter, makesa requis.
ition, he will consider it. What is
the matter now, with the "loial" Gov.
ernor of Pennsylvania
-
The little village of Luray, Page
county, Virginia, is in a fever of ex.
element over the discovery of n
wonderful cave" in that vicinity.
They regard it as q great bonanza to
their hitherto obscure locality, An
explorer sent out by the New York
Herald has induced the unsophisti.
Gated inhabitants to believe that the
discovery SURPRISES in value that Of
the Black Hills or the mines of Cali
fornia. Property is advancing and
all tho inhabitants are in oager ex-
pectation of the multitude of tourists
from all the world, that are to scat
ter their gold among them and make
them all rich and happy,