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~ z 70 ysterious tcne,5 whicn ne deep
sned into adoleful. strain as he pro
gressed;
"Joseph Bolton, Isee you" said the
old school-teacher to one pupil Of
thirteen whom he detected linking
the nose of a sleeping school mate.
Joseph Bolton, though admonished
by the teacher, was soon afterward
guilty Of blowing paper wadding
through aquill, point blank at the
head of the school monitor, and it
did not so happen at this time that
Providence favored those who sport
ed the heaviest artillery. On the
contrary, the teacher pouneed upon
the young cannonier, dragged him
from his seat, and Joseph was soon
separated from his brethren, and
placed in durance vile, and | must
say that was no great punishment
He was put up into close cockloft,
where there were sundry old paniph.
lets, letters and manuscripts; he was
completely sheltered from the eyes of
the master; and could amuse himself
in any way he thought proper.
He opened the scuttle without diff
liculty, and let in the pleasant beams
ofe.summer afternoon, while the APP
erture was-so low that when he stood
Upright his head and shoulders were
above the roof.
Joseph amused himself by rolling
little paper balls down the slated
roof, for a while, and then he paused
to examine the.various objects which
came within range Of his vision.
The school house stood on the brow.
49,
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County Directory.

Judge Cucgi, cou,,-Joseph Smith, Raveuswood.
CLERK Circuit Court-C. D. waggener.
President County Cuuri-.D. S. Van MaIre,
County Clerk-Jtp =. r. D. Smith
Prosecuting AtoFney-Geo p Simpson.
Sherif-David $. Stevenson. Dcputies--J. Jewett,
pAcr,i Samuel W. Someryile, Henry fry, Joseph N.
Dagh and ". u, Somer,tIlr
Surveyor Of Lsuis7-Thca,s ]. Roberts
BAKER, District No. A.
Superintendent of Free schools-chases E. llcss.
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Men are made to be etefnaIly sha-
ken about, bnt women are flowers
that lose their beautiful color and
freshness in tho noise and tumult Of
life.
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scpttlewas.extelisive: The tdptnasts
,of,vessels lying about the wharves
about Bristol Harbour--for there were
no steam ferries then-were distinct.
ly visible.
Sailors could be seen at work on
the rigging, on the yards, or engaged
in scraping down the top-masts and
top-gallants.
The masts of Il large brig, which
seemed very near, engaged his atten-
ton, but he had not looked at them
long before he was summoned to de-
scend from his lofty quarters, as the
teacher was about to dismiss the
school.
When he came down into the
school room, he was observed to be
very pale, and he trembled excess.
lively. can't well remember how
he lookcd-the pallor of his cheeks
and the wildness in lis eyes.
Some of the boys said he was scar,
cd, and one or two called him a COW.
ard.
When Joseph arrived near mans
estate, he took fancy to go tosea.-
He made y vosage to India in a ship
belonging to . firm much celebrated
in those days.
Our hero appears to have been fol.
lowed by his usual bad fortune-that
of giving offense to his superiors.-
They had not yet reached the Cape
of Good Hope when Joseph was con-
demncd to be hogged before all hands.
He had given mortal ofense to the
first mate of the ship, who insisted
that it would be impossible for him
to preserve discipline among the
crew if young Bolton was not pun
ishcd.
Bolton Was rather favorite Of the
captain, but he could not resist the
impetuous vengeance of the mate
and he gave orders accordingly that
the youth should be seized up in the
rigging.
The crew were assembled to wit
ness the punishment, the younger
portion looking on with curiosity
and the old sailors hanging back ant
scowling at the preparations.
Everything beirg prepared the
mate drew near, flourishing tn,
scourge in his hand, when the youth
begged leave to whisper something
in his private ear,
"It's no dse," returned the officer
"it's too late to beg now; you've go
to take it,"
He drew back, and was about t.
give the first blow, when Bolton sale
aloud:
"If you won't hear me privately,
shall speak before all these people,"
The mate paused and said:
"What if you do? What then?"
"You wore ared jacket once" criet
tho youth
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Notice!

=; HIS is to make known tha; have this 10Th day
l. OF February 1879, given tony son, Union l., Booth
who is aged I9 years, his time, with authority to
make contracts for himself and otherwise to do and to
he deems best. And further give notice that
VII! inno way become responsible for any debts he may
contract os any act Of his whatever.
feb s6-lw" LOUISA JOLLY.
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ATTORNEYS.


attorneys and Gounselors at Law, Pon, Plea.
a SAINT, West Virginia, Practice in the Circuit and
county Courts Of Mason, Putnam and jackson ccur.
Ts IN nc state Supreme Court Of Appeals and In the
Snted States District Court for the District Of West
'Ms1fa pb'olhce with Henry J. Fisher sr retired
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Eternal Isesslation.

In the northwest corner of San Ber.
nadine County, lying partly also in
Inyo County, and partly also in the
State of Nevada, is region PARALLEL
by few spots on the face Of the earth.
We say the world is instinct with life.
Here, if the phraseology may be par
doned, is,a place instinct with death.
A huge basin, whose rim is the an
cient hills: stricken with the barren.
ness of eternal desolation, whose bos-
ON the is blasted waste Of the desert
treeless, shrubless and waterless, save
a few bitter pools like the lSe ofpot-
ash water; surrounded 6I mountains
-LLnL c.,.n e. Il Z =, ...t..
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|'feettbefow The sea. II is.asverS sGe-
hennas'-a place of:death and bones.
Birds do not fly over it. Animals
do not enterit. Negotiations can not
exist in it. The broad sands absorb
the heat, the bare moutains reflect it,
the unclouded sun daily adds to it,
Ninety degrees in the shade (artif,
cial shade, there is no other) means
winter. One hundred and thirty,
and one hundred and forty degrees,
that is summer.
The hot air grows hotter, wavers,
trembles with heat, until nature,
goaded to madness, can endure no
more; then the burning blast rouses
itself-rouses in its might; rouses as
an angry beast, with hoarse, omi-
nous roar; sweeps mile after mile, on,
ever on, over the broad reachof the
desert, bearing on its black, whirling
bosom-black as midnight-dust,
sand, alkali, and death. Sometimes
a murky cloud gathers upon the
mountains above; then there is a
rush-a warning sigh on the winds
"a low rumbling in the air; the hills
quiver, the earth trembles, and u tor,
rent, half water, half mud, bounds
from the hills, leaps into the desert
plowing chasms like river-beds in
the loose sand. The clouds scatter,
the sun comes again, the eternal
thirst of the desert is not quenched
The raging river was only dream.
In the year lS49 party of emf
grants, entered the basin. Day after
day they toiled on, thirsting, dying
The pitiless mountains walled them
in; no escape. One by one they
dropped and died. a few, abandon
ing everything, scaled the mountain:
and escaped. The Others lie as they
fell, dried to mummies--no bird:
even to devour their flesh; no beasts
to prey upon them. Wagon-tire'
inrusted, barrels bright, untar
nished. Such is the place. Mil,
after mile silence reigns; silence
and death.
We want to exchange with some
papers that'don' tell their reader,
when u resident dies that "he was al
old and respected citizen, whose deatl
is regretted by the entire community
and his demise will leave a vacanc,
which can neverhe filed" Itmake
the people who are. left behind fee
that they are paltry set of villains
whose death will be announced b,
ringing of bells, booming Of guns
and general "whoop 'ef up, boys
old JoHes has kicked the bucketp'-
OIL CITY Derrick.
Men are made to be etefnaIly sha
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Alarge satin. bow with an ostrich
sipfalling on the back is What Is
tefned an opera. "bonpet,"
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my memory
The old tars did not accept this
explanation, and when Joseph met
them at supper theyHasked him
whether the mate had reported his
words correctly.
The youth colored, thrust out his
lower lip, and ended BY lifting his
tin cup'to his codntenaace.
No other reply could be got out of
him. From that time forward it
was observed that the first mate
treated young Bolton with much
kindness. He seemed 70 have for,
gotten entirely that the youth had
formerly offended him, and that they
owed each other a grudse,
Glow long this would have, con-
tinued it is impossible % say, had
not Bolton been lost oyeEboard in a
storm off the Cape.
There seemed to be something sing.
ular about the manner of Bolton's
death.
The mate had come to the fore
castle and summoned all hands at
midnight.
"The watch is called" said Bolton,
springing from his hammock, and
fastening on deck.
His watchma,es followed him leis-
urely.
The ship was plunging badly, be-
ing sharp on a wind, and as they
came UP the spray few all over
them.
], u; il |ls|s q; T.: ts 'ssIlaNli {
Bolton? | just told him
.'It's his helm" interrupted an old
sailor.
"The,watch isn't out" replied the
mate.
In the meantime the sail was flap.
ping, and two'men ran out to stow it.
When large portion Of the sail
had been taken off the ship, eight
bells struck, aud the larboard watch
prepared to go below.
Bolton isn't at the helm, "said the
mate to one of the sailors; "ysa will
have to take it,"
But" objected the other, "it is his
helm, and he ought to go there"
The mate gave a perceptible start,
seemed for a moment confused, and
said:
ayes, yes, of course-where can
that fellow be?"
The second mate came up and took
charge of the starboard watch, while
the mate went below.
On hearing that Bolton was miss
ing, The second mate ordered strict
search to be made for him.
"He's gone overheard, Of course"
said an old sailor.
"Why do you think SOP"
"Becausc he was the first man on
the deck when Mr.. b. called the
watch" f
"What! did Mr.. B. call The watch?"
demanded the second mate.
"Yes SIR
"And Bolton came up first? l
should think that Mr.. B. must have
seen him go overheard"
"or heard him yell" added the tar.
No more was said at that time; but
it was afterward saying among the
sailors that if Bolton had not beet s0
great a favorite ofthe first mate, they
should have believed that the latter
had thrown him overheard.
But what is the life ola friendless,
unknown sailor2
He was soon forgotten.
"Well," said one or two Of us who
We're comparatively SOBER "where's
the point of your yarn, Gaspard.-
There's nothing wonderful in poor
tar being forgotten by every one"
The Spaniard's face was dreudfully
flushed, and his eyes were flaming.
Suddenly he half screamed, more
as if forced to speak than as if the
revelation came from him of his own
accord.
"Nol no" calculated he, wildly
every one did notforgetl The mur.
dered youth was never, never to be
forgotten by one-onc man ON board
that craft-he who flung the unhap
py lad into the seal'
We leaped to our feet in apprehen'
sion of what was to follow.
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DIR. S. q. SHAW,
'..NDR.L. i. OAM.PBELL.
- rasni.. solo

once TWO HORSES House and Lot in IVES.
" CoigmMa Uaimpsoved Lands OIL Kauawha River,
Viii take fresh Mich Cows span Of Mules, or Hogs
IN exchange for horses. address HARRiEf MACH
lR, Point Pleasant VIVA [mcliig-48
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w. p. NEALE, NJ. d.

OFFICE Main street. between ad and sd; residence
" Main street, between 9th and 7h. Attends prompt
fessipnally engaged always be found his Office
jan 0, I67S-iy.
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There are four hundred and twen-
ty lady dentists in this country, and
only Ave female lawyers. a cynical
bachelor says this shows that ladies'
can work the mouth.to much better
advantage than the brain.
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JOIN w. ENGLIsn.

ttorney at Law, will practice in the Courts Of Ma.
n SON Putnam and Jackson, and in the Court OF An.
prali Of West Virginia Address Point Pleasant Mason
county, West Virginia. jan 8, iSza-IY
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StocAlIolslers Mecling.

THERE will be meeting of ths stockholders Of the
Mason County Agricultural and Mechanical Asso'
citation, at the Court House Point Pleasant Wes, yir
purpose of electing board Of Directors for the ens
ing year. ]. w. STEENBERGEN, Prcsi
b. S. VAS Marie, Secretary inch to-3w
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cHAs. W. THFLps,

A ttorney at Law and Notary Public. Pom,
a Pleasant, West Virginia Special attention given
70 collections and remittances promptly made.
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"My dearest Maria" wrote a re-
Gently married husband to his wife
She wrote back: Dearest, let me cor
rect either your grammar Or your
morals. You address me, NY dear
est Maria" Am / to suppose you
have other dear Marias?n
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way
Small Feet.

For the sake of having small feet
many and otherwise sensible woman
will martyrize herself by pinching
those unlucky members Of the body
into boots Of a size too small. AS a
natural and necessary result of such
pinching confinement, the foot be-
comes deformed and larger than it
would naturally grow, with large
joints and toes turned from line
parallel with the foot, to say nothing
of the troublesome corns SO annoy
ing and crippling to large class Of
young women. The worst results Of
this crippling custom of wearing
small and narrow boots is felt by
children when allowed TO outgrow
their boots. 1t is poor economy to
allow the young to wear boots when
the feet have become too large for
them, since deformity of the feet is
easily produced at this time When
the boot is too short and the heel too
high, the ingrowing Of the nails is a
perfectly natural result. Children
will have sufficient Ills to contend
with without this crippling from de-
formed feet, the most prominent
cause of which is small and badly
fitting boots and shoes.
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Circuit ceurt-First Monday in April and October.
County :. Third Monday in january March
Nay July, November and December
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KNIGHT A. COUCIy.

ttorneys ut Law, we'll practice in the counties Of
p p Mason 'Putnanh. Address L. b. Knight. at
Point Pleasant, West Virginia. psrMr. Couch IA No.
'A'y Public tor Mason county. Gjan g. rs79-Iy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-01-25
MnRILN LILLE NCROOLN.

Teachers who have adopted tho Gradgrlnd method
of education will not care to read the extract from
an address 10y President Chadbourne which The
TRIBUNE published on Thursday but those who
are still open TO argument will get y wholesome
idea or two from the quUtltion Education"
savs this wise scholar does not consist III master
ing languages, hut is found ia that moral training
which extends beyond the school-r0Om to the play
ground and street. and which teaches that a
meanrr thing can he done than 10 fail i'll a recta-
t,on.D If II he good to find college president in
tcresting himself in the common schools, 10 Is
doubly good TO have from his lips q prcsenta-
ton of the greatest need OF those schools For as
suredy there is TO larger want in them just now
than tho want of simple, practical. moral training
Education, in its trne sense-to amphfy President
Chadbournc's sentences not the examining Of
certain facts and rules into the hard little head of
voung Adam lit is the training that shall make
ms mind aud moral nature malleabe for the work
If life: that shall cultivate honesty as well as
mathematical capacity truthfulness as well as liu
r,,,tics that shall send the boy out to his labor
with a clean soul as we'll as a clever head
The lowering of moral tone that was one of tho
egacies of the Civil War is perceived and deplOrcd
constantly, and on all sides. Bnt that is all. 1t
does not seem to occur to DiOgenes and Cassandra
and their train OF walters that an excellent place
in which TO begin to remedy this evil is the public
scbool Would it not be easier TO make the young
Adam good than to take the ingraned wickedness
of years out OF the tough old Adamf Let a
spirit of manly sincerity aud honor aud OF simple
womaniy goodness be made to enter the boys and
Urls of the crowded schools-herein lies more hope
for the future than are justified in feeling now.
Better the stihest and sternest Purtanism of q
hundred and fifty years ago. than the 1abby sense
of honor, the adjustable sense Of truth, which our
critics. with too much reason, credit to modern
America. OF course, there would be no in ex-
Meeting in the radgrind sort Of teacher the moral
inspiration that could make HIM guide, with aprac-
teal little sermon here and there his group of boys
TO higher life. Bnt the teacher who goes to his
work with sense Of its immense importance, with
realization Of his obligation to something higher
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Jnoex 10 ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

ANrSi NE<TS-oh Pa0e--Gth column.
BASKEUPr NOrCES-oN I0GS-Jtn column
RoaRp AMP RouNs-ofh Fd0s-5th column.
lusINFss CHANCEs--SM Fude-ith column.
RVsINvsS NOIICFs-fh Pd0S-lst column.
(NAI AsD Woop-9M Pdue-Jth column.
COUNTR1 SoARD-gh PUCe-5th column.
DANCiNG ACADEMIEs-9N PGOe-2d column
IFtuI.Np NoTICES-Sm PGTe-4th column.
FxcuRsIo>s-gM POJs-Jth coiumt.
EEsorPAN ADVEETISIMENTs--SM I01e-Oth cOl''o'L
FISANCfII-sM PaOs- I'd. I'd and itl columns
FrsNiTrRE-9h Pdgo-5ih column.
HsLP " A~rED-oM PGGs-2d column.
ICg CREAM--SM dqr--itIi column.
INSTRUCTION. 9M P0QC--lSt ana "a columns
Law SCHOOLS PGOe-2d couinu.
Legal NorIcES-SB PdQe-ith column.
LOST ,Sp FoUND-9h PdGe-2d column
MaRBIf AND SLATE NJ ANTICS-9M Pd0f- coInmn
MARRIAGES AND DEATHs-5h Pd0e-Uth colunh -
MISCFILASgOUs-sn Iugc 1th column lOm f"oc
9th aud 9th columns.
MUSICAL lNsTRUNKNTs-9h PG0e-5th colutDn'
NEW PUBLICATIONS FdGe-Jth and DIN COLUMNS
M PGge-ist column. - ., ,,.,,..
R,AI ESTATE FoK SALC-CITY-9h PGqt-3d cOIu'nn;'
gy0OkIYN-9h P0gc-:id roinmn touNlkf-"m
Pcge-Bd column 70 EXCHANGE-9H fo0e--o
column go $3.50, -,..
RsIIcIoUs NoTIcEs-9h Pa0e--tth and 5tn columns
nPYSfAI NoTICks--5W IG0e-Oth column.
SIR ATOMS MANTkD-MAIES-oH PdGf-2d coiuihn
FFMALEs- Oh RAGGED COumn. 80 ,.A
STEAMBOATS, AAD KAiLRoADs-Sh PaGe-aih anu 0'"
columns.
krK,MERs OCFAN-Sm PG0e-5th column.
IEAcHRRs-9M raced column.
10 LET CITY PROPERTr-eM Fd0e-3d column NoIN-
TRl-yL4 InGe-jd COlGmn.
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TILE h1ERCEDER.

Board late last night" telcgraphed smith
Weed to Mr.. Henry Iiavemcycr, " de
"mandcd $4,000 for giving us two or
"thrce electors; Tie interceder will want
"something besides; think ten We beg
leave to invite the Potter Committee to give
this dispatch their particular attention.
If the transaction is to be investi-
gated thoroughly the Committee must
push their inquiries beyond the question Of
The commences Of the dispatches and
the accuracy of the translatOnS, and explore
the details of the negotiation merely out
lined in the remarkable correspondence.
And it is probable that this "lntercedcr"
will be a most important witness II the COM
mittre can discover who he Is.
For example, it will be in order to inquire
who were the Interccder's principals on the
Republican side. If we understand the
Democratic position on the cipher question,
it is this that the members of the Returning
Boards i'll several of the States offered to sell
their decision TO the highest bidder, and that
after some frmtless bargaining with persons
who falsely pretended to be representatives,
of Nh. Tiiden. these Returning Boards closed
with the other side. II the Interceder can
be made to tell which members of the
Board he dealt with, the accuracy of this
allegation can be swiftly tested The MEM
bers OF the Board can be vigorously examined !;
and it will be strange if the Committee do not
learn whether they really were concerned III
corrupt negotiation, and whether they broke of
the bargain with the friends of Mr. Iiden
because they were offered q higher price by the
friends of Mr.. Hayes.
Then the Interceder should he required to
say with whom he made his arrangements on
the Democratic side. Mr.. Smith Weed kept
himself so quiet in Columbia that we doubt
whether he discussed the fetch contract
himself with the agent of the Board,
and it is possible that somebody else was con-
cerned in the scandalous affair whose COM
plicity has not yet been revealed. That Mr..
Weed did talk over the scheme with the local
Democratic managers is pretty clear from his
correspondence; iii one OF the kilograms
he complains that they do not give
him enough aid being more concerned
for Hampton than for Tiiden. These
are doubtful points which the testimony of
the Intcrceder, if he is pressed a little, may
clear up and there are several ways of set
Ting the identity of the Interccder.
There is also matter connected with the
famous journey to Baltimore to which
we desire to direct Mr.. POtter's atten-
ton. On the 18th of November. telegraph
ing for a safe man to bring stuff" Smith
Weed says: "Think now | will meet him NTH
"party at Baltimore" After reaching Balti-
more and meeting Colonel PeltOn, he sent
word to General Gordon, "Mattcrs arranged
al II lac no.
supposed that by this agent" he meant
Colonel Pelton. But is it not more reason
able to conjecture that the agent was
a representative of the Board who had
come on from Columbia to receive the
money-perhaps the "party" referred to in
the telegram of the 17thG If this guess
prove TO be correct. that "partyn will be a
highly entertaining witness.
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Moses White would have been elected to
that position by the vote of very large
majority of his fellow-citizens."
Now, this may be the case with Mr.. Til
den. So far az we can gather from the tone
of public sentiment in the party and the ut
terances of the Democratic press, upon
vote for candidate to suffer sudden
political death, Mr.. Tilden would gather
in large majority" incremable slightly II
the sentence included the cOparceners ; but
this, we submit, is no justification for the
reprehensible Indifference exhibited by Demo-
Gratis over what seem to be the remains.
Whatever Mr.. Tiden may be now, he has
been of consequence in the party. His MEM
DRY should be treated respectfully, at least. on
that account