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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07
Circuit Clerk.

CLIFTON, June ., 1919
To hc Tolers Of Ma~n County: Believing
in the old JelTersonian principle OF rota,
ton in office, and believing further that
the only tests for official position should be
honesty and capacity, hereby announce
myself an Independent candidate for the
office OF Circuit Clerk Of Mason County
| am induced to do so at the earnest solicit
tation OF many voters, irrespective OF po'
litical prejudice or partizan bias. II my
telow-citizens should elevate me to the po'
sition for which announce myself, | shGl
endeavor to discharge the duties Of the Of
flee faithfully, and with due reference t
the best interests of the people.
Respectfully
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

Mrs. A. ]. Williams, wife of tel
egraph operator at Elliston, near Gin
cinnati, came to a horrible death
Wednesday night. A 'tmp, which
had been left lighted, exploded and
the noise awaking Mrs. Williams and
her husband both of them arose. Mr..
W. seized the lamp and attempted to
throw it out the window, but in do,
ing so trippcd and accidentally threw
the burning contents on his wife,
She was horribly burned, and death
ensued in three hours,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

The Monitor man must be getting
desperate. He attacks our old friend
l.oomis in his last issue, and cndcav.
ors to read him out of the Republican
party, because he has expressed him.
self in favor of Col, Smith, the Dem.
ocrotic nominee for County Clerk,
We can say to the editor, that the "old
man. is able to take care of himself,
and if he doe. not mind his "p's' aud
az he viii be roughly handled by
"old LoOnis."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

Gibbons expressed some fears that
Mr.. Loomis would get after him with
q shotgun; but the old gentleman
says a shotgun wouldbc unnecessary
as he could effect his purpose with a
squirt-gun, if properly charged, if he
meant Gibbons any harm.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07
StnhdhY Your CoIors.

The Charlestown Free Pres: After
long years of defeat all the indica.
tions point with certainty to the
triumphant election of a Democratic
President in 1880. There is no par
abel in history for the vitality ex-
hibited by this truly wonderful or
ganization. The secret of it rests in
the fact that it represents both prog
ress and popular rights; that it has
through all the changes of the great
est civil conflict the world ever saw
been the consistent advocate and de-
fender of written law and copstitu-
tional liberty. By these cardinal
maxims of faith maintained through
war and peace, it has conquered the
passions and sectionalism Of the
country and forced the Radical party
to the denomination Of Grant-the
purest representative of political
Capitalization and money despotism
of any man now claiming American
citizenship.
Since the inception Of the financial
policy of the Radical party, the Dem
ocrats have registered their hostility
to every legislative act looking to the
elevation of the capitalist and the
degradation of labor. Every plum
der of the capitalist has met with
their condemnation in and out OF
Congress. The act of 1869, robbing
the people of near Six Hundred Mil
| lions of Dollars, was one bantling Of
Radicalism; the denomination Of
silver another; as well as all subse-
quent laws looking to contraction,
among which may be prominently
noted the infamous resumption act.
The Democracy is on the record in
hostility to every measure tending
to destroy the power of the masses
and build upa money despotism, and
is equal to every emergency to Sc
cure popular rights Independent
movements here or elsewhere, though
they may not be so intended, are
really in the interest of the re.clect-
ion of Grant to a third term, and the
consequent destruction offree govern
ment.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

Government clerks at Washington
and elsewhere that refuse to contrib.
ute to the Republican Congressional
campaign fund are being discharged.
The next thing we hear will DO the
displacement of our Postmaster, for
he is one of those kind who won't be
imposed upon.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07
Solid for smith!

Friend TippciE
Will you please assure the ostutc
Gibbons through the columns of the
Register, that it shall be my earnest
cndcavor to count ccc0 more for Smith
than the number indicated, in his
article in the last weeks lioaitori
which, was it intended for? witt
cism, lampoon, or silly platitudo has
not yet been discovered
Sincerely yours,
Q. q. LooNls.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

What a mockery of civil service
reform, power, honesty and decency is
this wholesale rewarding with public
Offices the crowd of porjured corrup-
tionists who were engaged in stealing
the Presidency for Hayesl
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

We hope a full delegation from
Mason County will be in attendance
at the Democratic Congressional eons
'wention, which meets in Charleston;
tomorrow
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

Democrats might as well prepare
now, as at any time, to have dinncd
into their cars, all sorts of lies about
Democratic extravaganza, by Radical
organs and Radical stumpers. These
falsehoods are a part of their stock
in trade, at every election.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07
Fair Ground Slunds for Rent.

DARTIiS desiring to rent stands, side
show sites, or other privileges, not in
violation OF the Rules Ofthe Association, ut
the Fair of the Mason County Agricultu.
raj and Mechanical Society, to be held in
September next, will call upon or address,
u. S. VAN MATRE, Secretary, Point Plea
SAINT, West Virginia, for terms, &c.
aug, 7-3w:
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

The Monitor oil last week IN an ar
ticle headed Democratic Retrench-
ment," falls very far short Of proving
that the finances Of the State have
not been as well managed under
Democratic administration as they
we're under Radical rule. As we
have not the time ut present to ex.
anime the Auditors Report to see
whether the Monitors est mate Of
Democratic expenditures is correct,
we can demonstrate from his own fig.
uring that less money has been ex-
pended within the last five years
than was expended for the same
length of time when the Republicans
were in power.
In the estimate Of Radical expen,
ditures the Monitor is correct as far
as it goes, but we propose to go far
ther knowing that the facts will sus-
tain US. Our estimate runs thus:
Legislative expenses for ten yec,rs
s261,363.59; registration iniGuity
$61, 900, and a debt October LIT, 1871
of s77,759.5S, s56,40064 belonging tc
the school fund, besides other indebt.
ednoss of s21, 262.94, all of which
was bcqueathed ms a legacy to the
Democratic party upon coming into
power; also must be added sun
annually raid out of the "civil con.
tingent fund" for fees to attorneys ir
enforcing the Registration law, vari
orsly estimated in the five years from
$4,000 to $4,000, making in the ag
gregatc for ten years $4,000.
Now assuming the $4,000 for five
years, in the way Of Democratic eX-
penditures to be correct, we discover
at once u savingo of not less than S10,,
600 under Democratic rule, for the
first five years too, cmbrdcing as they
do the extraordinary expenses of a
Constitutional Convention, impeach'
mont trial, pay of Centennial Com
missioners, rent of Capitol, &c.
With such a record to start with
we may confidently expect much
greater retrenchment in the next
five years, with our Legislature in
session once in two years,
In 1874 the special tax of 5 cents
on each $4,000 valuation of proper,
ty for Hospital purposes, was dis,
pensed with, making quite reduc,
tion in the way of taxes. This tax
produced an annual revenue of $780,,
900, making in four years the sum Of
s240000. And do you have the au.
dacity, Mr.. Monitor, to say that there
has been no retrenchment?
AS evidence of the great misman.
agement7of your party we call atten-
ton to the fact that the expenses OF
the Constitutional Convention were
very nearly paddy the large balances
collected from delinquent ShorifIs,
which had accumulated in their
hands under Republican rule. The
Republican Legislature was in the
habit of releasing their political
friends when they wasted the PEG
Plies money. Thousands of dollar:
were thus released. Under our pres,
cnt constitution no such power can
be exercised by the Legislature.
But, apart from finances, the rec.
ord of your party, Mr.. Monitor, was
such when in power in this State as
to make it in the eyes of all liberal
minded citizens a by-word and a re-
proach. a party which attempted
to perpotuatc its power through the
agency of registration laws, political
test oaths, political juries, &C., should
have been put down, and that speed
lily, and thank God it was.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

From 1866 to 1871 inclusive, the
Radicals spcnt 100000 Of the school
money, the supply of funds for gon.
craI State purposes having been OF.
haustcd at the cndof each fiscal year,
and yet these are the parties that
would teach us economy in the cx.
pcnditurc Of public money
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07
County Clerk.
in Eolers Of Mason CountM

To he Voters Of Mason County,
| respectfully announce to the voters OF
Mason County that shall be candidate
for reelection to the Office OF Clerk Of the
County Court, Mt the coming October cleo
ton, subject to your decision at the polls.
l.. KIAIBERLING.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

West Virginia is officially return.
ed as having marketed, in 1876, SiG,.
997 pounds Of bees honey, Milk sold
gallons, l44,S94, Who will nov dar
say that this is not aIand ofmilk aud
honeY2
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07
To Me Voters Of Mason County,

GENTLEMEN: herewith announce my
self as an Independent candidate for the
Office OF Clerk OF the County Court oil
Mason County. II elected, ! promise a
ready and faithful performance OF the du'
ties Of the office, to the best OF my ability.
Yours Truly,
CHAS. V. STEWART.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

The Republican party has degon-
Grated into a mere organized system
of scoundrelism.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

We recently heard an enthusiasts
Republican say that with proper eff.
forts five or six Southern States could
be secured for the Republican ncmi.
nee for President in 1880 That
means if the United States army
we're sent down there n little before
election day,-Er.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07
8lst day of August, 1878,

at the Front Door Of the Court House Of
Mason County, proceed TO sell by way Of
public auction for CASH. TO the highest
bidder, certain lot or parcel OF ground ~
the Town Of Point Pleasant, Said lot. u
fully described in said deed Of trust when
Is recorded in the County Court Clerk !
Office OF Mason County, in Trust Decd
Book No. ., folio jOl, &c, to which refer
cncc may he had,
i. W. SISSoN, Trustee
july 9l-lw.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07
july 2l-Fw.
To The Teachers Of Mason County

T purpose opening School for Teacher.
| Review and Normal Instruction tar 20
days, commencing August 18th and ending
September 81. The last eight days WILDE
employed in connection with hGTcNch@s'
County INSTITUTE, and those Atcuding'mIg
thus Sc accredited with Institute work aE
required by the school law, oil 1877. The
method OF instruction will be by Lectures
and Text Books, with duily written and
oral examinations. The charge will be s.
for the course. Please let me know by
Postal card II you will attend.
W. h, HILL,
Box 10, Point Pleasant, W, Va.
I'LL. OF L..
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

A case of yellow fever terminated
fatally in Fredericksburg, Va, ON
Wednesday, 1t was that Of a child
recently brought from New Orleans,
and who was suffering with the dis.
ease when it left that city.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

The yellow fever is becoming
alarmingly prevalent in New Orleans
AS a measure Of precaution, the cit.
les on the Lower Mississippi have
quarantine regulations,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

Over half u million OF sheep roam
over the hills of West Virginia, and
some of them are the finest in tie
world. Yet there is still room for
five millions more,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

Hon. D. II. Willard, Chairman of
the Republican Committee, was in
the city from Friday until Tuesday
a guest of the Hale House. He re-
ports Mason County safe for the Re.
publlcans this fall. A few more live
energetic Republicans like Willard
would effectually squelch Democratic
succession in this District,-Lcadcr.
What? Mason comfy safe for the
Republicans this fall? Oh no Romeo!
Mr.. Willard must have been think,
ing 81 ofpelhing else when he made
the above report. There will not be,
to exceed six hundred Republican
votes cast in this county this fall; the
Workingmen have got away with
the shattered remains of Wizards
party, but the Democratic party still
maintains the lead 'of 'em all"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07
state Senator.

Judge Robert S. Brown, OF Jackson, is an
Independent candidate for State Senator
for this fifth District.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07
TRUST SALE.

DY virtue Of the authority vested in me
ID BY the terms OF q deed Of trust exccu'
ted by james NJ. Jordan and wife, on tn"
ID day Of February, 1876, to secure to Jnio'
q. Stortz the payment of a note for the
sum Of $4,000 dated February I'd, 1870,
and due twelve months after date with in
terest, | shall on the
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07
Tpncl,crs, Institute.

THEIsE will be Teachers Institute hel,6
L in the Court House in Point Pleasant,
Mason County, W, Va, commentaries IN
o'clock A. NJ, August 26th, 1878, which viii
continue eight days, and close With pub
lie examination OF those desiring Teachers
certificates for the School Year next cnSu-
CHAS. H. HoGG,
july 4.Fw. County Supt,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

But the Democrats say We must
keep the County Court, because II
was made By the Democratic party,
-lioaiior
Another one Of the Monitors rCck.
less falsehoods, The Democratic par.
ty is not in favor of retaining the
County Court, ifany more economi.
cal plan of county government can
bcodoptcd. The Radicals make their
fight against the County Court, with
the hope of quilting voters and hoist.
ing themselves into power, The
Democrats propose to make a change
in our county government, and will
do 50 at tl,o next meeting ofthc next
Legislature,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

While the Monitor is upon figures
we would be glad if he would explain
how it was that in 1870 the total ex-
ponditure for school purposes was
only s47O,129.53 while in 1875 under
Democratic administration with the
local levy y cents on the $4,000
valuation less, the total amount ex-
pended Tor school purposes was $780,
502 70, showing an increase Of SS=0,'
1929. The greatest amount paid to
teachers in any year prior to 1872
was in 1869 at which time the whole
amount paid to teachers was only
S277 1310l, while in 1875 under
Democratic administration the
amount paid them was $751;.
353.S3, an increase in 1875 of 1884,.
22GS0, nearly twice as much as was
paid in any one year prior to
1871, showing not only u greater
interest in our school system
but more rigid economy in the man.
agomont of the school money. Those
who manipulated this fund during
Radical administrations, will under
stand very readily how so much less
was expended by them for school
purposes, when the taxes were just
as high as under Democratic rule,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

Terms SI.6Od Year IN AdVaHcs
So When not PAID In 1drdnce
or So for 5veGTs,in AdUdnce.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-07

tomorrow
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-14

THE New York Pubtic's table Of bank
clearings for the week ending December
It'll shows gain as compared with the
same week in 1877 Of 81 per cent in the
cities outside OF New York. AtPittsburgh
there is still a falling ofF-this time SO per
cent-but the decline is not as large as the
decline in prices, thus showing that a
larger business Is doing than in 1877. AT
St. Louis there is large gain DAD and a
still larger one at Chicago-2l.1.
The Public has obtained list OF several
hundred articles OF commerce to show the
purchasing power Of gold dollar now as
compared with 1850, 1854, 1873 and 1878.
AS compared with 1860 this purchasing
power is as 100 to SLIT. As compared
with 1873, sSl 81 will now purchase as
much as 1924 would in that year. The
shrinkage in the average gold value Of
commodities exclusive OF stocks or bonds,
and Of all real estate) from January LIST,
1873, to November lst, 1873, appears to
have been about 34.l per cent.
Speaking Of these changes in the average
prices Of commodities, the Publie goes on
to make the following remarks:
at will appear that change amounting
TO complete revolution has recently
taken place in the relations OF commerce
and industry to metallic money. The boy
who touches the weighing lever in an
elevator saves the labor OF many men and
the use OF many bushel baskets. So COM
merce measures values in modern times,
knowing what gold is worth, but seeing or
using 1t little more than grain dealers use
bushel baskets for measurement. The
enormous increase Of national, State,
municipal and corporate bonds has form
ed an international currency which
has taken the place Of gold and sill
yer In transactions between this country
and Europe, to the extent Of over two
hundred millions during the last year
alone. The increase in the number OF
banks has such effect that this country
with $40 per capita Of currency in use,
would be better supplied than France
with $50 per capita, and 1t is demonstrate
ed fact that $2S in Massachusetts, does as
much work as Sl3lin the Southern States,
and $40 in Massachusetts does as much
work as Sl3l in the Western States.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-14

As the Democratic Cambell in South
Carolina bears emphatic testimony to the
frauds in that State, SO Gen. Reuben
Davis, a lifelong Democrat and confeder-
ate, contests the result in the First Missis-
sippi district. Davis says: 81 cannot be-
lievo that any iair-minded man In this
Congressional district doubts the fact that
greater number Of votes was cast for me
than my opponent in the late election.
Yet I was counted out. Fer the last two
or three weeks OF the canvass was de-
MED the right Of free speech-was often,
while speaking, SO disturbed. by my oppO-
nents as to compel me to dissist-and, up
on other occasions, threatened with VIC
lence If should attempt to address the
people. - -'iI't 'i-
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-14

or General unless she Is willing to make
an exhibition OF hersclf-or, by all that is
ludicrous, bring adoctor's certificate.
The Montreal Herald talks in as plain
terms. The Toronto Globe Is IS positive
but nors courteous, saying, at Is suf-
ficenfiorIus toeiye expression to the OBJ
jections which we hear from many
quarters, and leaving it to the good sense
OF the Princess either to continue the
regulation or to amend It, as may seem to
her, best" The Marquis, too, is unfort-
innate in being forced into comparison
with hiss immediate predecessor, the
wonderfully popular Lord Duferin. He
was like the Dominion, essentially demo-
cratic" and nothing prescribed about
dresses or garages or drivers. Lorne is
already spoken Of as "snobbish, Stacking
heart" "aristocratic," "aping prerogatiVes
that are not-his at home" &c.
Such talk was not heard Of Duferin, and
whether Il represents the prevailing senti-
ment or not, is evidence Of divided ale
glance. II the courses which give rise to it
are to be persisted in itwere doubtless bet
ter for the home government, ii it has any
care for the good will OF oil the Canadas,
to effect change Of governor general at
Us early day as is compatible with thedig.
nifty OF the crown. Lord Lorne has al
ready been reminded that his being snub-
he'd at home is no reason why essentially
Democratic" Canadians should be snubbed
by him. Unless hetemper shown across
the border is very misleading he will hear
a great deal more OF such free speech be
fore the people get educated up to the i'm.
perial court standard.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-14
1NRUSTEE's SALE. :
hphL. UiF Hs1n 'iTHN itatgfHgitg
In tho Circuit Court Of Ohio County, West Virginia
George zilles

samuel J. Boyd Of al. -l.--,..,
Under and by virtue Of q deed OF trust made BY
George Zlles and Barbara Zes, bis wife, 10 the un-
desicned Trustee, dated tho Sd day Of December,
1915, ana recorded 10 the Clerks Once Of the County
Court Se Virginia. bSs q SeSd
a%s decree ep.fs sy III cd and
~ The above mentioned cause on the 10th day Of Au.
d MONDAY, The; 18Th day Of November, Al. 1873,
Commencing al 10 4. M, on the premises sod
In the city Of wheeling, West Virginia, ut the resi
denee q Ge9tge zles q Pu6le auction 70 the high
cat and bet bidder the following real estate
debt secured BY said deed Of trust being the sum Of
81? $50 60, wish interest thereon fron December Sd,
1875 10 the day Of sale and tho expenses Of sale In
eud ,ns [ast Is e s a
Ing Island Ia the county Of Ohio and State OF Wei
Virginia, and the southern portion Of tract Of land
purchased By y v. Whelah Of Josiah updeg1atf,
trustee OF u. N! 3. Zane and Others, and the same
Tract Of land conveyed 70 aid George 2iles by said r.
" Whelan BY deed hearing date March 3Ist $685. and
recorded ~ deed book no. 81 page 81 IN said Clerks
Office, and u bounded a. followE' Beginning on The
ES sde Of the cas- branch Of the Ohio riyer aud nj
owned y Henry lSsfr and nav eYasd i ~ jam 4
dlehriH thence WIFI me north hIe o. said Gllchrst
north west q poles 70 tho east bank Of the
stbEanch q sald river thence up said west branch
and north 3a s gast Is and ss-lCo poles % sake;
land south st east GO l6O0 poles 10 the west bank Of
rho cast branch Of aid river and down Sad river and
6Ihdns thereon south east IS 3a.l0O poles and
south l20 east II 5Sloo pccs soth o. % east Y 2i00
t. Sale viii Se t lots Laid down SrS 10 II
the plat hled ArgpAtb ~ lSS,i among the papers Of
aid cause beginning with lSt No. j then I'll the lots
Of North Front street extended, beginning with Iot
No. 2, and taking them ~ order. except No, s, on
Shsa aS TS SasS . q MI SsS sands and;
md tskipT theff IN their order. and then II tb.ro