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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13
Richmond.

Editor Register: have been asked
a great many questions about the
Virginia State Fair, which small
party of us from this place visited
last week. The Fair was creditable
in many of its departments, even to
so old and fine an agricultural State
as Virginia. The display of Agricul-
tural implements was very large and
very attractive, being furnished BY
the city and by the Eastern States
for the purpose Of advertising, All
kinds of horsepower were in opera
ton, and large number of steam
farm engines running the attach
ments of saving, threshing, brick
making, &c. The Floral Hall and
picture gallery were both well filed
and very interesting.
Among the animals, the best and
largest display was in hogs, repre-
senting principally, the three breeds
of Berkshire, Yorkshire and Chester
White. Some of the finest of these
were imported and many exhibited
from the States of New York and
Pennsylvania. The Berkshire seem
ed to be decidedly the favorite, and
certainly some Of them seemed to be
the very types of perfection. The
sheep comprised pens of Shropshire,
Merino, Cotswold and Southdown, Of
which the Shropshire made the best
show. The showing of cattle of all
kinds was large, but the greater
number was Alderny, Jersey, Devon,
and other kinds of dairy stock, But
l want to say for the information and
encouragement Of the people of Ma,
son county, that if the short,horn
cattle, Cotswold sheep and horses that
were exhibited at our last County
Fair, had been shown at the Rich
mond Fair, they certainly would
have excelled all others, both in
keeping and in actual merit. This
was the expressed opinion of many
gentlemen present, and surely it
speaks well for us when it is remem-
bered that Virginia embraces some
of the finest grazing fields in all our
land.
Toa stranger the city of Richmond,
was of moro interest than the Fair,
Its proud history Of the past may be
read in the library of the old state
house, where hang the portraits Of
all her chief magistrates, from Gov.
ernor Spottswood down. The mag.
niiicont monuments and beautiful
grounds are the admiration Of visi.
tors, If the Old Commonwealth
spent too much money, it was from
a love of the arts and sciences and
her efforts at internal improvement,
n better plea than modern bankrupts
can offer, But there is every cvi.
donce of returning thrift and pros.
pority to the city Of Richmond, All
it needs is u direct northwest rail.
road connection, aud all former bust.
ness, together with ton.fold increase
will como with 1t. Where else can
she got wheat enough to supply
mills that turn out fifteen hundred
barrels of flour per day, and whore
else can she send the imports of the
world that come into her harbor7
! II is the country, tho farmers,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

Senator George IL, Pendleton docs
not think that the Ohio idea has
been robukod, or that there is any,
thing in the results of the election
that alters or changes the phase Of
political affairs, or that they indicate
or foreshadow the result in tho next
presidential campaign. Wherever
the Democracy has been rebukod IL
was on local account.
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Adolphus Page and Jennie B. Page, HE
wife, and Henry Gwinn and A. E. Gwinn,
his wifc. IN ChGucqy.
The object OF the above entitled suit is
to rescind and set aside deed made and
executed by the said Henry Gwinn and
A. L. Gwinn, his wife, to the defendant,
Jennie b. Page, dated tho 9th day Of Au.
gust, 1878, and OF record in the County
Court Clerks office, OF Mason County,
West yirginia, in Deed Book No. 81, pages
29o, &C., conveying to her certain traCt Of
land therein described, containing about
ten acres, and also to subject said real o.
tate to the payment Of two promisory notes,
one for the sum OF 500 dated the sd DAY
of April, 1870, and one for thesum Of S92.S5
dated the 9Th day of October, 1870, each
made and executed by the defendant,
Adolphus Page, to the plaintiff.
And appearing from IN affidavit filed
that Adolphus Page and Jennie B. Page,
his wife, two of the above named defend.
ants, are non-residents OF the State Of
West Virginia, on motion OF the plaintiff
by Counsel, it is ordered that the said de-
PENDANTS do appear here at Rules to DO
held In the said Office, on the first Monday
in December next, and do what isneccssa.
ry to protect their interests.
A Copy-Teste:
L. NUMBERING, Clerk,
by John Z. Trims, Deputy.
w. r. Gum, sol. tnov CIV
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

Western Democratic politicians
who have arrived in Washington
city in the last day or two, say that
Messrs. sayler and Goss, of the Gin
cinnati districts, are stillod pressed
very hard by their friends to contest
the seats of their successful Repub.
lican competitors, Senator Beck is
said to be one of the most urgent in
this matter, and to have declared
that all defeated Democrats in dis.
tricts whore United States suporvis.
ors had been appointed should give
notice of contest, and that tho clerk
of the House should not place the
names of Republicans electedin such
districts on the rolls.-Er.
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whose prospects are most gloomy and
whose necessities are most pressing.
For in Old Virginia land has actu-
ally ceased to be a security for the
loan of money, because when sold at
public sale there is no limit to the
very nolhingness of its price. Al
though Virginia has forcibly for the
time being, adjusted one-third of her
debt and although the people are SO
poor and the lands so low, / do not
believe she will repudiate her debt.
The very cheapness of her lands, l
believe, will be the means Of regone-
rating and saving the State. Every
man who has more land than he can
make pay some return, (and there are
thousands of such instances will let
the surplus go for whatever it will
bring. People from all the States
will be, and they are now, attracted
by the unusually low price of lands.
They are coming and investing; the
old citizens are relieved of unprohta-
BILE acres, and the newcomers are
manuring, retaining and making
good interest paying, tax.paying
property out of that which was be-
fore valueless to the owner and to
the State.
AT Norfolk we met gentleman
who said that six years ago he had
come from Pennsylvania and bought
land at sl5 per acre. 1t was so worn
out that it would not grow grass or
hay, The present season he cut
three crops Of hay from the same
ground, raised forty bushels of wheat
peracre, and has the land wellstocked.
The whole farm he says, now pays
him a clear profit, equal to six per
cent. on valuation of $75 per acre.
When the worn out, surplus and at
present valueless lands of Virginia,
have changed hands, become rejupi-
mated, stocked up and have an inter
est,paying and tax-paying value as
in the above instance, then Old Vir-
ginia can pay her debt, because she
will have something to pay it with.
From Richmond we went to Nor
folk by the James River. 1t is a
great, broad, deepriver, ranging from
q mile in width at Richmond to sew,
en- miles at the mouth. The land is
level and low but seems fertile. AT
this time of the year they are ship.
ping large quantities of peanuts,
one of the principal crops.
We passed through Buffers Dutch
Gap, made during the war and since
deepened by the government so that
vessels of fifteen feet draught can
pass through. A cut of only one
hundred yards saves distance Of
seven miles around the point.
AT jamestown, (Which is no3town
at ALL we saw the old entrance tow
er of the church where the Indian
Princess, Pocahontas, was married
about 1911. Along the shore we
passed several fine old estates, such
as Berkeley, Westover and Weyan.
oke, upon which the mansions were
built over two hunred and fifty years
ago out of imported brick,
In all the distance down the great
James river, from Richmond to Nor.
folk, one hundred and sixty miles,
there is not a single town on either
shore. On this trip we had a fine
view of the Rip.raps, Fortress Mon.
roe, and also passed by Crauey Is,
land, where Maj, Andrew Waggoner
was the Hero in the war of 1872.
Z. sEH0N.
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AT Martinsburg on the I'd inst, a
fatal recontre occurred between John
A. File and ]. Nofisinger, two neigh.
bors, who resided a few miles from
this place, on Saturday evening
Both had been in Mariinsburg and
were on their return home. File, it
is supposed, had been drinking, and
an old grudge existed between them.
They we're both armed with revoly.
ers. File shot Nofsinger through
the head, the ball entering behind
the ear. Noffsinger fell from his bug
gy, but was able to get up, and was
found seated on the side Of the road.
The shooting occurred about six
o'clock and Noffsinger died at nine,
p. m. An inquest was held to-day.
No one saw the fracas but a colored
hoy, who attached all the blame to
File. The latter gave himself up,
and is now in Jail.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

The elections arc now over, and it
will be good for Democrats to exam
inc and consider the result. You
were told by Democratic speakers
and Democratic editors all over the
country, that the object of the Ma
tionals was to divide the great Dem
ocratic party, and thereby enable the
Republicans to regain their control
Of the Lower House Of Congress
You were told that it was q Repub'
lican trick, manufactured in the
East, for no other purpose than that
of creating dissensions and disturb
ances in the Democratic party, with
the hope to thereby defeat suffi-
cient number of Democratic candi-
dates for Congress in the West, to
enable the Republicans to control
the Lower House, and to leave the
Democrats, though in possession OF
the Senate, in d helpless condition
in regard to any measures of relief.
This grand fraud came SO near sue
cess, that it should serve you as q
warning in the future. Their defeat
is purely q Democratic victory,
which would have been much more
general, had Democrats voted the
true ticket and not been imposed
upon by that fraudulent trick.
AS it is the Democrats havea ma
jority in both branches of Congress,
but the victory is not what it should
have been. Listen no longer to the
clamor of those whose only interest
and object is to grind you harder,
and who see in the near future the
terminus of their official careers
Come square up to the work at
your next brush with the enemy of
American prosperity, and you will
be enabled, under Democratic rule to
live, under the present you cannot,
You suffered yourselves to be impos-
ed upon once more, and Republicans
are giggling in their sleeves at your
dizziness, but the delusion you have
fallen into may do you good.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

A letter from Denver gives a de-
tailed account of the awful raid Of
the Cheyenne Indians in Sappa Val.
ley, Sept. Goth and Both, During
that time they massacred IA men
and left 20 families in utter destitu.
tion by burning ranches and crops
and stealing horses and cattle. The
outrages committed on young girls
and women are too horrible to re-
count, After devastating Sappa Val
ley they went TO Beaver River and
Republican Valley, where they kill
ed l6 men and committed more aw.
full outrages on women and girls
The settlers state that Capt, Mank
with his troops comprising the pur.
suing party, encamped on the night
of Oct, lst only three miles from the
camp of the Indians, and he allowed
the fcnds to escape, Military au-
thorities it is said have denied the
outrages by Indians, but the CORES.
pendent has seen several eye witness
es and some Of the victims.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

Gen. Marcus j.. Wright, and Mr..
A. P. Taskor, of tho archivo office,
Washington, have been hardat work
in the Office Of tho Southern Histori,
cal Society, at Richmond, since Tues.
day, preparing for the exchange of
papers agreed on by the War Depart.
ment and the Society.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

Ten years ago there were but thir-
teen Democrats in the U. S. Senate.
Now we will have a majority Of
eight after March 4th.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

LOOK OUT FOR RoouEs,-on Mon.
day night last two fattening hogs,
which Mr.. Andrew Millhollen, who
lives at the home place Of the late
Mr.. John Mccartney, near Rocky
Point, were taken from the pen, driv.
on out in the road and there killed
and carried of. 1t was done so quiet
ly that nothing was known of Ii till
next morning, The blood having
ceased to flow where the hogs were
killed, the guilty parties could not
be tracked beyond that point, and
no trace Of them has yet been dis.
covered,-BOrdcr Wdtckmdn, 2nd.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

Thurman or Hendricks will prob
ably be the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency in 1880. The COM
ing man will come from the west
and.he will not be Counted out"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

]. Brisben Walker of the Washing.
ton Republic is going to put a stop-to
the prosecution of Republican crimi.
nails in the South, Since an indict,
ment has been found against Cham
berlain, the carpet-bagger, Brisben
gets up on his ear and says ga stop
must be put to such prosecutions"
and goes SO far as to say that the trial
of that sweet-scented flower, shall be
conducted according to the Northern
1. e. the Republican idea of justice.
Well, now, ]. Brisben, keep your
shirt on; the revelation of Chamber
lain's rascality will not be the first
exposition of the kind in your par
ty, and because South Carolinians,
under Democratic State Government
are enjoying peace and comparative
prosperity, without Republican. as.
sistance, and seem inclined to dc
justice in Mr.. Carpet Baggor's case
as well as all others, you should moi
go down there with Northern scum
tointimidate ormake them afraid. Nc
Brisbcn ''let justice be done though
the Heavens fall" and if you grow
restless under the investigations O
the doings of Republican rascals
wash your hands, and your feet too
and come over to responsibility, tho
Democratic party, where Radical rot
tenness will cease to trouble you, ant
though weary, you can rest. We i'm
agine we see the South Carolina au
thorities coming up to Washington
to implore the editor of the Republic
to come down from his elevation o
anger and let them live.
"Don't Brisben, please don't, sent
an army from the North to devou
US, as soon as wegetdone with Cham
berlaiu we'll quit II.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

Alexander Smith, the republican
Congressman elect in the 18th dis
trict, New York, died at 10 o'clock
election night on hearing the news
of his election.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

Milton Atkins dropped dead in a
skilfnear Winfield, Viva, last week.
The West Virginia picked him up
and brought himto Buffalo. Bulletin,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13
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Sabbath morning Of last week. NJ,
f, NJ. Holloway's youngest child, n.
tie Earl, set his clothes on FIRE whils
sitting in front Of the CRATE and Wps
very seriously burned. II is now
considered out Of danger,-Gal. BvI.
letin,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

Notwithstanding their disposition
to boast over their successes the Re-
publicans find themselves in mi
nority in both Houses of Congress, a
condition they have not been in
since 1861. The republican party
has become not only in actual num-
bers, as showing in 1876, but in
power, the minority party of the
country.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

The Hon. Milton sayler is carefully
preparing his papers for the contest
with Butterworth for the first Ohio
District. He has not the slightest
doubt but that Congress will givehim
the seat on the evidence of Radical
fraud and intimidation which. he has
collected. @
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

The receipts at the Virginia State
fair, including privileges, aggregated
nearly $4,000, thus leaving several
thousand dollars in the treasury
of the society after paying all ex,
penses.
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TRUST SALE OF REAL ES.
TATE ON THE KANAWHA
TEN MILE CREEK!

DY virtue of Trust deed executed to.
ID me by Adam Grandstatf and Maggie
A. Grandstaf his wife, on the 9TH day Of
November, 1877, to secure to Josiah Shines
the payment OF one note of S24l,OO, as
therein described and default in the pay.
ment Of said note having been made when
due, and l, as trustee, having beenreguest::
ed to sell the real estate by the holder Of
said note, shall on the 18th dGy OF
November, 1878, at the front door Of
the Court House OF Mason county, sell the
real estate mentioned in said trust deed, or
enough thereof to pay off said note and
costs Of sale, one tract containing AZ acres,
the other 81 acres.
TERMS OF SALE, CASH.
W. H. ToMLINsoN, Trustee
Oct. Div.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

The body of the late Alex. T
Stewart, of New York city, the dry
goods millionaire, was stolen from
the family yapltat St Marks Church
yard early Thursday morning last
He died in 1876, The casket was
broken open and the body removed
The remains were undoubtedly taken
in the hope of securing reward for
its return. N. ~. ~ No. ~
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Mason County, s.:
A T RULESheld in the Clerks Office Of
n the County Court Of Mason County,
ON the first Monday in November, 1878
Rankin NJ. Hill,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

The Kcyser (W. Va Tribune mole.
the death, near Keyser, of Mr.. joseph
Dixon, supposed to have been Tia
years old. His descendants number
over three hundred.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

The Legislature Of Georgia assem-
bled on Wednesday, Nov. 8. 1t will
choose United States Senator
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WHEELING, w. Va, November 10.
Henry D. Meek, who has for some
years been Secretary of the Bellaire
Gas Company, was arrested Friday
night about eleven o'clock and taken
before Mayor Cresswell, charged with
having set fire to the Office of the
Company, for the purpose of destroy
ing the books. A slight fire had &C.
cured at the office on Wednesday
night, and upon examination the Di-
rectors of the Company found that
there had been leaves cut from the
ledger and cash.book before the fire
occurred. Meek gave bond in the
sum of $500 for his appearance at the
Mayors office Saturday, at 2. p. NJ
After leaving the Mayors Office he
went home, Kissed his wife and child
rem, telling them that they would
never see him again, and has not
been seen since. His parting re-
marks to his family led to rumor
that he has committed suicide. The
amonnt of his defalcation, if any ex-
lists, can not be determined, but the
general opinion prevails, that the
amounts taken were small, and that
he at some future time intended to
return them. Meek is about twenty
eight, and has heretofore borne the
reputation of an honest, truthful,
worthy man.
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That Roy.

Dramaiis personue.-A young Amer
lean in roundabout and leggins,
perched upon the fence devouring Q
huge piece Of mince pie, and q maid
en- Of five summers, in pantalettes,
looking very wishfully ut the gor-
mand on the fence. Young america
Isl say, sis, does your mar make
mince pies? If she does I'll bet they
amt 80 good as my mars" Little
hiss (timidly)-"l like minoe pie
awful we'll" Young AmerieG-"Well,
now, that's funnyl Just look here
drawing q quarter ola pie out Of his
jacket pocket anditsboss, tool Amt
my mar good?" Carefully slowing it
away in his pocket. That boy sis
father to the man. who must have
bis cigars and any other masculine
luxury his contemplate selfshnes
Graves, while his poor sickly wife
must do the work of two women
C'girls waste more than they earn"
he says, and for the want of a little
money to purchase n few bottles Of
DR.. Pierce's Fayotite Prescription,
the sovereign remedy for female di-
seases and weaknesses, she is LITERAL
ly dying by inches-and all because
of that masculine selfishness that
would not divide the childish luxury
with his playmate, and now tacitly
refuses his wife the luxury of health.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-13

Bishop Pierce will preside at tina
Virginia Conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, which
meets in Petersburg on the 18th Of
November.
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Adolphus Page and Jennie B. Page, HE
wife, and Henry Gwinn and A. E. Gwinn,