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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-23

The thorough organization Of our
party for the fight in 1880, should
begin now.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-23

Konna's majority in this District,
according to our figuring, will be
$500.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-23

Geo. Mofet, former editor of the
Wheeling Register, was elected to the
House of Delegates from Pocahontas
county.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-23

The Kanawha Gazette says the De-
mOcracy has lived through the Wing,
the Know-Nothing, the Greeley and
the Granger parties, and it won't be
long before it attends the funeral of
the Republican, National. Greenback-
Labor and Henry S. Walker party.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-23

Mcdowell county, out Of S96 votes,
gave Kenna, 900.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-23

Tho true inwardnoss of the Glas.
gov bank failure as being developed
is calculated to produce cOmmotion
in the popular notion of conservative
wisdom in Scotch bank management
The system could have been hardly
short of criminal that would loan
S25,O0,000 to four firms, the ropu.
tOtion Of two of which has long been
bad And further there Is u deficit
of s15,000,000 which has boon ac.
umlating for years, yet notwithstan.
ding this, they have boon steadily de-
claring dividends and increased ones
at that.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-23

When is that swallowing" Of the
Democratic party to come Off
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-23

IMMENSE TREE.-Mr. James Raj:
sten has given us the Dimensions Of
a walnut tree which he recently sold,
from his farm on Turkey creek, 10
this county, The body Of the tree
suitable for lumber, was 81 feet 10
length, It contained only one knot,
and was perfectly sound throughout
Diameter at the butt, a feet; at top,
3 feet 2 inches. 1t was sawed into
one 10Foot and eight 6,foot logs and
then into plank, and made $500 fee,
of red lumber, and 5000 feet OF req
and white together Greenbrtcr Ind"'
Den Dent
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-23

FINE CArrLE.-Maj, Henry Robin
son, whose 6no grass farm adjoinS
Union, sold and delivered from the
scales, to Mr.. Robert Anderson, o,
Greonb.ier, on Monday last, n head
Of cattle, which averaged i47S l6s .oc
Thirty head ofthe best averaged l6Vo
lbs. We consider these as No cat
le.-GnenJricr independents
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-23
Po,nneii.

Excavations at Pompeii prove the
city to have been one Of the most
fashionable and beautiful of Roman
summer resorts, and but for the erap.
tion it might have remained SO to
this day. AS with Pompeii, so with
thousands of people who have beau
ty of form and feature. They might
always be admired but for the erup.
lion, that makes the face unsightly,
and betrays the presence Of serofula,
yirulent blood poisons, or general de-
bility. There is but remedy that
positively cures these affections, and
that remedy is DR., Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t is the best
known tonic, Alternative, and resoly-
emit. 1t speedily cures pimples,
blotches, liver spots, and all diseases
arising from impoverished orimpure
blood. 1t also cures dyspepsia, and
regulates the liver and bowels. Sold
BY druggists.
Inc secretary OF the treasury, at
the beginning Of this month, claim.
ed to have on hand in gold coin and
bullion s136,036,302.20; in standard
silver dollars, s11,511,342; in silver
coin and bullion, s14,4SB,570.17.-
There are various other assets, but
the gold and silver legal, tender coin
are the proper basis for attempting
resumption in January next, seventy
days hence. Counting the gold bull
ion on hand, which, in the report
before US, is not separated from the
coin, the Secretary has, or claims to
have, sl47, 100000, with which to at
tempt and maintain the redemption
of S347, 100000 of greenbacks. We
know not what demands there may
be upon these s150000,000 of coin,
but admitting even that there are
none, what preparation is that for
redeeming $4,000, 000of greenbacksP
Specially, what preparation is it
when the s340, 100000 of greenbacks
are, if the law is oboyed, to be per-
petually kept outstanding, ready To-
make repeated raids upon the com.
paratively small amount of coin in
the TreasuryP-hquir
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-23

The comptroller of the currency
has compiled a statement showing
the number and capital Of national
banks that declared no dividends for
the periodsofsix months each ending
respectively March / and September,
1878. From this statement II ap-
pears that 1928 national banks, with
o capital of s4S,S9S,900, paid no diyi'
dend during the first period, and 25I,
with s57,7S6950, during the second;
The ratio of earnings to capital ana
surplus of the national banks for tho
year 1877 was 80 per cent, in 1911,
So per cent, and for 1878 less than
six per cent.
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sss i, Brick Building Adjoining Hasenic Hall. Wall Street.
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soon as drafted.
The rebellion lasted ten years, and
: victory perched on the banner of Ju-
piter The overthrown Titans asked
f to have their political disabilities re.
moved, but Zeus pulled down the corr
ner Of his left eyelid and wished to
know if they observed anything of a
verdant hue. Then he cast them into
lTartarus and locked the brazen gate.
Jupiter's grandmother, Gaa, becom-
ing Disguised with, instead of proud
of the success of her powerful grand
son, sent her homely offspring, the gi-
ant Typh@us, a monster with hun
dred fire-breathing dragons heads, to
overthrow the dominion of Zeus.
(The number of family jars" that
house turned out almost makes ones
head swim TO contemplated And no
mother-in-law in it, either! They
ought to have been ashamed of them
selves!
Notwithstanding his many heads
the distinguished Typ. couldn't get
ahead of Jupiter. Not any. Mr.. Ty-
pheus was defeated and thrown into
Tartarus, whence, we are told, he still
breathes out fire and flame toward
heaven But this is extremely doubt
fnl. Ii has an Eli Perkins air about it.
Jupiter controlled the clouds, the
and thunder, and sent down
rain-especialIy when a circus visited
the town, or Sunday school picnic in
a grove He also dispensed hail,
snow and dew-but he doesn't dew SO
now. lie presided over all the secret
societies of 0lympia-tho Red Men,
Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows,
Knights Templar, ec.-and wore as
many as dozen dozen rings around
each finger, so he might not forget the
signs, grips and passwords Of the va
rious orders. He never parted his
hair in the middle, and when he shook
his ambrosial locks the whole of
Olympus would tremble. Barnum,
hearing OF his exploits, telegraphed
that he would give him $4,000 year
to travel with the greatest show on
earth. Jupe .spurned the vile dross
and then Barnum, nothing daunted,
patched up mermaid and a woody
horse, and CLEANED many shekels.
The great Snowman said he was
bound to have something in the myth
line, anyhow. lie thought myths
would draw, and he was not myth
taken.
Zeus had almost as many wives
mortal and immortal-as the late
Brigham Young. his favorite spouse
was his own sister, Hera, over whose
beauty Hera-ved loudly and often.
This marriage, we fancy, created much
gossip and scandal. His earliest wife
was Metis, whom he married before he
Met'is second bride. Fearing lest
Metis should beget son, who would
deprive him of the empire it had cost
him so much to attain, he devoured
ate her He said that
method of getting rid of an unloved
wife was much cheaper than a Chica-
20 divorce.
Zeus' second goddess-wife was
Miss Themis, one of the Titans. Her
Titan friends thought she made Them
stake of her life when she welded
Le.
Statues of Jupiter were very nu-
and it is related that Phidias,
after completing colossal gold and
worry statue Of Jupiter seated on
ofty throne, prayed of the god sign
hat he was well pleased with his
work. Zcus thereupon caused fash
# lightning to descend through
he temple and thus acknowledge his
,wl image.
1t is thought several more years
will elapse before the spirit Of the
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CONDENSED MYTHOLOGY.
The Jupiter Family.

Jupiter was the boss of the Celes
tial deities. The Greeks christenec
Zeus, but the Romans called him Ju
Ipiter for short, and some of the irrev
erent newspaper paragraphists 9
Olympia referred to him as "OlC
Jupe."
The family history of Jupiter's i'm
mediate ancestors is as interesting as
a dime novel-and less incredible
Cronus Rhea were the father and
mother of Jupiter, and his grandfath
er bore the name of Uranus. Jupiter
wrote book called "That Grandfath
er Of Nine" from which we learn that
Uranus, hearing that his last born
sons, Cyclopes and Centimanes,
might one day seize his power, buried
them directly after birth, beneath
the earth. This, naturally enough,
grieved Mrs. Uranus. But she didn't
call in policeman and have her hus-
band arrested for infanticide. Not at
all She knew we'll enough that a
jury Of twelve idiots who never read
the newspapers would acquit him on
the ground of temporary insanity.
She therefore prompted her sons to
conspire against their father, and Gro.
nns, the Youngest and bravest, seized
the old man, mutilated aud bound him
with chains. His sous then organ.
lied an electoral commission and
counted in their youngest brother,
Cronns, whom the olympus Sun ever
after called the de facto and Fraudu-
lent Sovereign. Bnt CronuS' reign as
a ruler was not much or shower.
The chained and mutilatcd Uranus
that his unlilial son would
suffer like fate at the hands Of his
'wn son-and the prophecy was fnl-
illcd. In this respect it widely dif
cred from the prophecies of Professor
lice, the St. Lonis weather prophet.
- anxious was Cronus to avert
such n catastrophe that he swallowed
lis succeeding FIVE children immedi.
ltcly after their birth.
This was rough on he children, and
made 'eni feel down in the mouth.
Their mother was justly shocked at
iuch heartless aud cannibaistic con-
iuct, and set her woman's wits to |
work to save her next son, Jupiter.
Now mark the sublime ingenuity of
he woman.
Jupiter was born and when Cronus
his wife's chamber and saw
Igely demanded of her to GLAND over
hat there youngster till swallow
limw she gave him stone wrapped |
n swaddling clothes, which he gulped
lown without detecting the fraud.
then she drew the counterpane over
Ter head to smother laugh, while
)ronus suffered from severe attack
f Indigestion for two weeks after
Yards.
Jupiter was then secreted in grot-
Q, where he was reared by nymphs,
ursed by she-goat, and furnished
oney by bees. Years passed on, as
ears still have habit of doing, and
jupiter became powerful god. Hey
ttacked and overthrow his father.
'ronus, as prophecied by Uranus, and
lso compelled Cronus to bring forth
he children he had swallowed. (In-
idents like this almost force the con.
fusion that mythology is not founded
n fact, but we shouldn't be so skep.
cal.
Thus Zeus and Jupiter became thei
lief of the celestial deities. |,
The Titans found much fault with
upiterS Southern policy, and finallvl
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The book contains nearly 200 pages, Il,
by inches, and is designed TO be pocket
companion for every wide.awake man in
the mining camps and financial centres OF
the West
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-30
HOW SPIDERS FLY.

Many observations have been made
on this singular phenomenon, but hither-
to with but little success. However. a
well-known naturalist, Rev. H. McCook,
has for some time past turned his atten-
ton to the subject, and has succeeded in
detecting many new details in the per-
formance. Very recently he watched
some groups of young wolf-spiders (Ly-
cosidg), which crowded the tops of rail-
ings in a meadow. Their faces were
turned in the direction from which the
wind was blowing, the body of each was
elevated to an angle of As deg, the
claws brought together, and the legs
stifened. From the spinners to the
apex of the abdomen single thread
was exuded, and rapidly drawn out a
length of several feet by the breeze.
Gradually, the foremost pair of legs
sank to the wood, and the entire atti-
tude became that Of intense resistance.
Then suddenly and simultaneously, the
eight claws were unloosed. and the spi-
der mounted with sharp bound into
the air, and went careering across the
field. AS far as could be judged, the
insect seemed to take voluntary leap
at the moment of losing its hold. One
of them, by good fortune, was followed
through its fight. The position of the
body was soon reversed, the head being
turned in the same direction as the wind.
The legs were spread out, and were unit
ed at the claws by delicate flaments Of
silk. After flying distance of about
80 feet. the spider gradually settled
down on the meadow. The difficulty Of
these observations will be readily un.
derstood, for they require exact suitabil.
ity of position as to light. the limitation
of the fight to moderate height. and q
comparatively slow speed. Galigaani's
Messenger.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-30

BEWARE OF CODA cold is often
the precursor of serious illness and
death. Whatever weak place We have,
whatever constitutional disease we are
subject to, cold will surely discover. We
take cold because our vitality is to low
to ward off the effects of the reduced tenn
perature around US. AS a matter of the
first Importance, then to resist cold and
the various arrangements of the system
consequent. it is necessary by proper
nutrition to maintain our natural animal
heat; second, to retain this heat by a
sufficient quantity of clothing; third, to
regulate with care the temperature of
the air we breath. Contrary to the
opinion current among lovers of cold
weather, a fire in bedroom in the win
ter is cheaper and better than doctors
bill; for, owing to our inactive condition
during sleep, the circulation of vitaliz-
ing blood is both slow and imperfect.
and hence the danger of taking cold by
breathing cold air is greatly increased.
Never neglect cold; it is a dangerous
liberty to take with the healthiest con-
stitution.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-30

AN AFFECTING SENTENCE.-Judge
-, of the - Judicial District of
Arkansas, had brought before him a
convicted felon to be sentenced. The
to "improve" the occasion
was not to be lost, and so, after the
usual demand for reason why sentence
should not be pronounced, his honor
slowly and with genuine feeling address
ed the prisoner: "My poor fellow, you
are about to go to the penitentiary. You
are required to give up for long term
every thing which the great world val
ues; your .fanaily-and instead to take
for your associates only felons like your
self; your home-and to take instead
what can never have the semblance of a
home; your aOiU-and SO be subject to
order of men who have no sympathy
with you. Even your ordinary clothing
you will exchange for (here his honor
hesltated, and raising his left arm point
ed to it with the index-fnger of the
right nd)-you will exchange for
striped clothes, the stripes running not
lengthwise. like. these, but so-roa''d
and round, like coon's tail. ."-Harpers S
Magazine.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-30

KINDLING FIRES WITH KEROSENE
Somebody ought to publish household
tract, and advise people to kindle their
fires with gunpowder, instead of kerosene.
1t would be vastly safer indeed, for the
gunpowder only explodes, and then is
done with it, and if it blows out the
windows and doors, or takes off leg or
an arm, or puts out an eye, that is all
there is of it, and people know what to
expect. But the kerosene not only ex-
plodes, but takes fire, and its burning
vapor is pretty sure death to the woman
who tries this sort of kindling. It is
very easy thing to tilt what is left in the
lamp or the oil can right over the Goals to
make blaze when the fire is slow, but
the hospital ambulance and the coroner's
inquest are pretty sure to follow. The
most sickening of all horrors, being
burned alive, is the natural outcome of
this hurrying up of slow fires by the
aniek kindlino of kerosene but every
woman who tries it ought to know that
she would be a good deal safer in the
front of battle than behind the kerosene
can in such an experiment-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-30
THE EFFECTS OF HARD TINES.

The New York Times says: "Thc
hard times have had one good effect
which should have been produced long
ago-the removal Of great many people
from the towns and cities, always over
ruled, to the broad unoccupied lands Of
the Far West. The sales of land by
the Government and by the railway in
that region have been much larger dur
ing the last year than for many years
previous. In Dakota alone the Govern
ment sold, last year, over 100000 acres
seven times as much as the previous
year. In Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Wyoming and Colorado, the sales have
been remarkably heavy both by Govern
ment and the railways. It's estimated
that 100000 to 100000 more acres
have been disposed or Unere IN the pre-
ceding twelvemonth, and the demand
for land continues active. When the
hosts of unemployed laborers who cling
to the city, despite their enforced idle
ness, shall have gone to tilling the soil,
one of the serious troubles of the day
will have been materially and perma-
nently adjusted. Necessitity teaches
what argument and illustration never
can. Political economists and newspa-
per scribes might advise the poor and
unemployed to go West until they had
grown gray, and all to no purpose. Four
or five years of non-occupation and need
have set the tide of humanity flowing
in that most wholesome and desirable
direction"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-30

Why is dishonest bankrupt like an
honest poor man? Because they fail to
get rich.
The fact that the only rhyme for
"Butler" is "sutler" sort of puts a
damper on the campaign poets.
A young lady, on being asked where
her native place was, replied, II have
none; l am the daughter of Methodist
minister"
1t takes about 100000 to start a
first-class lead pencil factory, yet we
never think of it when we borrow
mans pencil.
In these days the fly is less agile, but
more persistent. We do not consider
the change an improvement-from the
bald-headed point of view.
We have just been thinking how lam
guage came into the world. 1t was dur
ing Adam and Ewes first quarrel, when
one word brought on another.
A down-east editor wrote about 'n;;si;
priWs judge" but the printer got it "aOise
pious judge" The judge felt compli-
mented but the editor was furious.
"Do not marry widower, "said the old
lady. ga ready-made family is like a
plate of cold potatoes. "Oh, I'll soon
warm them over" replied the damsel,
and she did.
1t is still an open question, whether
the United States has more religions than
patent medicines The religions are
| probably more numerous, but the medi-
cines keep up the finest cemeteries.
A clergyman, one hot Sunday. observ.
ing deacon asleep in church, called out
"Brother Austin will please open the
window little. Physicians say it is
unhealthy to sleep in hot ROOM"
"What is the national air of this
country ?" asked a foreigner in Washing
ton. That's the national lair" replied
a native, pointing to the Capitol, "bu
the animals are all out in the jungl,
just now chasing the voters.
The following note was actually re
ceived few days ago by a lady in tn
Mohawk Valley, N. Y, from a neighbor
The Jacob" incidentally referred t
was the husband of the writer: "Mrs
B: Will you pleas to lend me
black bonnet and black hat and 2 blacl
walls and shawl or sack and pair Q
E gloves and oblige me. Hannah v
e ?. S.-Jacob is dead"
= The editor of the Marshall Qowa
Statesman says that, after considerable
Of the question all winter. he comes
l the conclusion every spring that the eli
Gus is immoral but then the bill post'
comes along with the big pictures. an
his mind changes as follows: "As v
gaze at the lions, tigers and monkey
and think that nature made all of theI
' we are not SO sure. And when we lot
> at the beautiful young lady, with not
y, ing on but blue ribbon round her waii
"a with one leg pointing to six o'clock al
a. as the other to high noon, and think tn
he nature made her, too. just as she wa
ed except the ribbon. we begin to lean
to the circus. But when the brass bal
80 begins to play and the elephants
at round, we rush to the front seat to
r art in ahead of the ministers, who alwa
srs wear stove-pipe hats and won't sit do'
III III in front"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-30

NEWSPAPERS AS TEXT BooKs.-News-
papers are being extensively used in
many of the public schools of the West
in place of books for reading lessons.
The wisdom of this course is apparent.
Much more is to be learned from one
good newspaper than from half dozen
ordinary school readers, and well-edit-
ed paper is quite as trustworthy in the
matter of good English; it is full of
contemporaneous history, Of intelligent
discussion, and affords picture of the
world, study of which is nearly as ben-
efclal as experience of it. A great deal
about everything can be found in an en-
terprising journal, and the student who
carefully reads one day by day will find
himself better capable of understanding
the exactions of the world into which he
is about to be thrown and of fighting his
battles than if he followed too exclusively
the pages of ancient history. Newspa-
per is the educator of our day, but for
all that there must be care about news
papers; they are not all alike, and a
great many of them would not be desir-
able in school-room. Philadelphia
Times.