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A Wise Deaco,,.

deacon Wilder, want you to tell
me how you kept yourself andlfamily
SO well the past season, when all the
rest OF us have been sick so much,
and have had the doctors running to
us so long"
"Bro. Taylor, the answer is very
easy | used Hop Bittcrs in time
and kept my family well and saved
large doctor bills. Three dollars
worth of it kept us I'LL well and able
to work all the time, and | will war
rant IL has cost you aud most of the
neighboss one to two hundred dollars
apiece TO keep sick the same time. =
] guess You'll take my medicine here,
after. See another column. tt.
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Factory Facts.

Close confinement, careful atlen-
ton to all factory work, gives the
operatives pallid faces, poorappetite,
languid, miserable feelings, poor blood
inactive liver, kidneys and urinary
troubles, aud all the physicians and
medicine in the world cannot help
them unless they get out doors or use
Hop Bitters, made of the purest and
best Of remedies, and especially for
such cases, having abundance Of
health, sunshine and rosy cheeks in
them. None need suffer if they will
use them freely. They cost but a
tritile. See another column. If.
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ne CONTRAayrNRs,

WEsTeN, W. VA, April l2ih, 1879.
SEAlED proposals will be received at the
~ office OF the Secretary OF the Board Of
Directors OF the Hospital fur the Insane, al
Weston, w. Va, upto MAY 2Yst. 1879,
ut 10 o'clock &. NJ, ut which time thc.Boar
will proceed to open publicly said bids
prepe.tais will lla rsraivad for the STONE.
the BRICK, the CARPENTER, the pGAiSI,
ERlNli. the ROOFING, and the PAINT I,
ING and GLAZING work necessary for
the construction OF the third and slast Size
ton North Of the Centre Building OF The
West Virginia Hospital for the lnsane.(.
The building is about 223 by 30 feet, with
three rctreating wings about III by % feety
each, all Two stories high, 10 and ~ fcrt
stories, also feet basement All OF the
walls are composed oil Brick and Stone
Separate Bids will be rercived Tor the Dill
ierent branches OF work complete. Aggre-
gate bids will also be received for the en-
tire work, the contractor in each case fur
nishing everything necessary to complete
his contract \ bond With good and sui
iicicnt security will be required TO accom-
pany each Proposal, thepcpGlty OF which
shall he for ut least one half OF The aggrc-
gate amount Of the contract bid for, also IL
reservation oil 10 per cent. on each estimate
until the contract is completed The Board
OF Directors reserves the the right to reject
any and ali bids.
Plans and specifications can he seen Ut
the Hospital on and after the first day oi
Mas, 1879.
Blank forms for bidders can be had on
application.
A. A. LEWIS.
W. Il. LIVELY,
ER RAI.STUN,
April 23-4w. Executive Committee.
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A Search Warrant

allows an officer to go through your house
from cellar 10 garnet, and EKNDSEYS,
Blood Searclter-,is.. .ysery.lntsd, To- ga
through your system from top to toe and
drive out all blood diseases. Its cures are
wonderful and certified to by doctors.
preachers and people. scrofula, Mercurial
Diseases, Erysipelas. Tctter, Ulcers in the
Lungs or on the Skin, Boils, Pimples, &c,
we warrant 1t to cure. II is u purely Veg
etable Compound and Powerful Tonic
For sale by all Druggists. See that our
name is on the bottom OF the,wrapper.
+, Il. SELLERS y CO., Proprietors, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
For Sale at VAN GiLDEE's Drug Store.
july 10 l--yr.
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Leltcr from, Arl.nnsns.


LITTLE Rock, Ark, April 10, 1879.
Editor Register: Your paper is a
weekly visitor, and is read with ex-
ceeding interest by my wife, as also
myself. remember your little city,
whit hospitable people and health
full and picturesque location, with
emotions of pleasure, and whilst my
stay among you was brief, it was
nevertheless full of incidents, and
impressions, not soon to be forgot
ten. Yes, since leaving your beauti.
fal stase, my daily association is
!susAsas toremind me forcibly that
tssese is mo place like (home,) yir-
gissia; ! am however, exceedingly
proud Of my Virginia reminder, and
at all times acquiesce gracefully
when ss0 Gays, @There is no place
like hSins In fact as you know,
one soon IL rms to give up his own
opinion, wi be can't do better. i
must besnes itted tosay, that yours,
is INDEED lggely country, abound
ing asst does, with mineral resources
inexhaustable, with due outlet by
water and rail 10 the seas. With
its fertile valleys teeming in luxuri-
ant grain aud grasses, and upon
which you grow, so many beautiful
and profitable Berkshires, Airshires,
Durhams and above all the blooded
lightning stopper and runner, all, Of
which commands the love and ADM
ration Of the world. Above all /
am reminded of Virginia's fair and
lovely women. | know whereof |
speak, it 1 have u specimen of them
for a wife, TRAINED as they are for all
the dutiesof life, for the parlor and
for the kitchen, if need be. A word
for my own country and | will not
trespas further on your space. AT
this moment the air is fragrant from
profusion, Of flowers in the "wild
wood" save the thousand pits and
yards, the choice and beautiful flow.
ers Of which is wasting their fra
GRANGE on the desert air. We are
truly entitled to the name of Getty
of the roses" All nature is clothed
in It's richest garmeture, and when
the beautiful and plentiful mocking.
birds wafbles their moving lays, tru-
ly we feel sublime. Vegetables
abundant in market of ourown grow
ing; corn being plowed a second time.
We too, have abundant mineral and
fertile valleys, fine Berkshires, Air
.shires, Durhams and high steppers,
THE latter boast as good blood and
about as ieet as Virginia's best. l
viii not ask space to particularize
our bwfi abundant resources, pretty
women and gallant young men, and
themultip!icity Of the rising
generation; to dose would make a book
bigger than a primer" When our
time is up, we will check on our
big brother for enough to pay for
the Register another year.
T O.
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A Gard from the Mason County
Democratic Executive COM
mittop
POINT PLEASANT, w. Va,
April 21st, 1879.

April 2lst, 1879. !
Henry $. Nalksr, Esq,
SIR: In an editorial controversy in
which you have involved yourself
with Mr.. G. W. Tippett sof @the
Weekly Register, You, whether design;
edly, l know not, in the issue 6f
April 10Th, 1879, Of the EisIIFekts
Courier, have assailed the integrity
of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Mason County in such a
manner, and to such an extent, that
the Committee feel constrained to
take notice of the statement in your
paper issued on the 10Th inst, and
thus avail themselves Of the means
of giving publicity to such notice.
The broad and unqualified statement
in your paper, in substance, is, that
said Committee, previous to last
falls election, printed and circulated
tickets in Mason county, having
thereon the names Of all the Demo.
cratic candidates voted for in said
county, excepting the name of the
Hon. John L. Kenna, his name be.
ing omitted, and that of yourself
being substituted in lieu thereof.
The Committee most unhesitating.
ly states that its members, one and
all, either as Committee, or as indi.
viduals, had no hand in printing or
circulating any such tickets as arc
herein mentioned, and hereby sol.
emily avow that such an attack up.
on their integrity is unwarranted,
and they positively condemn the
spirit which actuated it.
So far from abusing their trust in
the manner in which the Courier has
charged the Committee, they aver
that they used every honorable means
at their command to secure the elect.
ion of every nominee of their party.
The Democratic Executive
Committee of Mason County,
by c. L. H0GG, Chm,n,
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A yirtuous Politician.

In politics, men are often govern.
ed and controlled by different, and
often opposite motives. The man,
however, who virtuously feels that
the success of his party means the
welfare of his community, and acts
upon this idea and principle, regard.
less of what others may say or think,
or the adverse consequences to him
self which may follow or ensue by
his actions in the premises, may
justly be regarded as a true patriot
Greeabrier Independent.
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The condition of the English Ia.
boring classes daily appears to grow
worse instead of better, Not only
are the old strikes still in operation,
but new ones have been lately inau.
gurated. 1t is impossible to tell how
many men are now out of employ
ment from strikes and lock-outs, but
probably three quarters Of a million
would not be an extravagant esti-
mate. Besides these, there is an
enormous number of artisans who
are idle simply because the indus.
tries with which they have been CON
nected have failed in business.
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The statement made by Mr.. Walk
er in the Courier, that the Democratic
ticket printed at this Office by order
OF the Democratic County Executive
Committee, had his name upon it in
place Of Hon. John L. Kenna, is a
faleshood, No tickets were printed
at this Office except the regular Dem.
ocratic ticket. We had applications
to print tickets with his name upon
them, bothRepublican and Democrat.
ic, but declined being party to such
fraud, for proof of this We refer Mr..
Walker to his friend DR.. Barbcc, Of
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A Few Facts.

lHc w aSnlHSton FO% mas rendered
a good service BY obtaining valuable
statistics showing how the Republi-
cans have carried elections hereto
fore, and furnishing the key to their
tenacity in holding on to the system
of corruption. 1t has been almost
impossible to fish out reports from
the Departments, and this fact alone
is sufficient to condemn both the sys-
TEN and the officers who have admin
istered it. Even these statistics do
not tell the whole story, because as
in the case of Arkansas the Marshal
claimed pay for 7S5 deputies employ
cd Nov. Z, 1876, and in Florida for 745
from the latter part Of October that
year to Nov. Is, against which the
sums expended do not appear. The
table, however, does show that in
1876 the total number of Supervi-
sors employed was 1868, at u compen.
sation of $59,971,67, and the number
of deputy marshals was 11,610, who
were paids112,6l6. The Commits
sioners in New York city were paid
S530460. The total amounts to $685.
72l.27. In Massachusetts &C super
visors were employed, and III depu-
ty marshals, atSl0 perday, who were
10 more needed at the polls to pre-,
serve th6.peace than in ourchurches.
In the Southern District of New
York the total amount paid for su.
pervisors aud marshals was S91, 2SS.-
SO.
At the Congressional election in
1878 in Massachusetts, 2S2 Supervis.
ors were employed at an expense Of
S84G0. The number of marshals is
not given, but the total here paid,
for this Republican machinery was
s1l, S95. In New York city, the
Der of supervisors was 1925, at cost
Of $4,000; the number of marshals
1850, VIII who were paid $4,000; to-
tai, $4,000. Besides these sums,
Commissioners were paid, s2267.95.
The gross amount in all the districts
given was s222,71424. Such facts
have an important bearing on the
contest now going on at Washington,
and should open the eyes of the peo-
pie to its true nature. If there were
no important principles involved
they are sufficient to fully justify the
the demand for u repeal of the odious
Supervisor law. The country is tax
ed severely to run the Republican
machine, and besides all this, an en-
ormous corruption fund is levied by
Gorham and his associates upon the
ofticeholders, which Congress has no
power to reach, but which, in CON
nection with the legal machinery
which the Democrats are trying to
get rid of, renders a free and honest
election almost impossible. Who
can wonder that the Democrats are
so persistent? What a flood of light,
too, do such facts shed upon all the
hypocritical cries of revolution and
rebellion.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

To tie Voters of Mason County BY the
request OF number Of teachers, i hereby
myself as candidate for the
office of County Superintendent Of Free
Schools, at the pending August election
II | am elected, shall discharge the du-
ties OF the Office to the best OF my ability,
and will not be candidate for reelection,
REED YEAGER.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-04-23

Mr., Walker says he got a majority
of the votes of Mason county at the
last election; so he did, but it was a
Republican majority. The Republi-
cans, as a party, voted for him, to,
gethet with all the Democrats that
the Republicans Induce. through
sympathy or Misrepresentation to do
sortnd this made hismajority in the
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-04-23

The Fayetteville Enterprise furn.
ishes solemn information to the effect
that the $500 Republican campaign
fund sent out from Washington to
the Third District, was given to Lew
isburg doctors and druggists, to be
used in "pizening" .Greenback can
didates.
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Consistency.

1t is rumored and believed, that
the hard money editor of the Monitor,
a Republican paper in this place, was
made chairman Of the Greenback
meeting, Saturday night. Nowwhat
does all this mean? Is it not an at
tempt to combine the Greenbackers
and Republicans together at the com.
ing election? We warn Democrats
against this willy trick ofthe enemy.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
The Trutln is Nriehtv

and will prevail. Thousands who have
used and been cured are living witnesses
to the truth Of our statement, that Sell
LERS LIVER PILES triR cue the
worst cases OF Liver Complaint, Bilious
ness, Headache arising thereirom, Costive.
ness, Constipation, Dizziness, and all dis
orders resulting from diseased liver
For sale by all Druggists. Price % cents.
r. L, SELLERS & Co, Proprietors, Pitts,
burgh, Pa.
For Sale at VAN GiLprR's Drug Store,
July l0-ly.
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70 he I'otcrs Of Mason County 1 hereby
submit my name for your suffrages at the
election in August next, for the office OF
County Superintendent of Free Schools Of
Mason County. II elected l promise to dis
charge the duties of this Office impartially,
faithfully and conscientiously.
r, o. KINCADE.
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a dispatch from Parkersburg, says
that on the goth inst, the vigilauts
made another descent upon u man
named Johnson, near Limestone
Mountain, night before last. They
took him to the woods and gave him
terrible whipping with hickory
wythes, and ordered him to leave the
State. They then called upon sew.
eral other parties, preferring the
same request, under the penalty of a
like inhiction. The parties were all
suspected Of being concerned in ir-
regular transactions.
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1t was Grant who massed the arm

1t was Grant who massed the army
around Washington to intimidate
the peoples representatives and COM
pei them to submit to the Inhalation
Of a fraudulent President. His bum
mers want to use the bayonet ut the
polls in 1880 to elect him to third
term. The people want neither
Grant nor bayonet elections.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-04-23

Calls begin to come for contribu-
tons to relieve the distress of negroes,
who have been pursuaded by North
ern fanatics to leave their homes in
the South, in pursuit of promised for
tunes in the West. How would it
do to draw on the "Freedmen's Bank"
for the needed means?
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Notice..

THE Annual meeting Of the Hartford City Goa! and
Salt Company, viii be held NJ the company's Office
" Hartford City. Mason County, West Virginia, on
Thursday the 18th day Of May 1870 at 10 o'clock a. m
for the purpose Of choosing Board Of Directors and
ransleting all other business that may lawfully come
Hartford City, W. Va, April aIst 1879. Iss-3w
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Ii persons are hereby forbidden without my con.
them, or hunting nutting 6erryng, or in any other
manner treSpaSSng upon them and they are also war
ned to keep their stock Chickens turkeys geese ducks
and dogs off of my premises.
THoS. FOWLER.
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THAT 0kalonn Iael.nss.

The radical organs are waving the
bloody shirt with frantic joy on ac-
count of the crazy gibberish of the
okalona Miss. Southern States
We clip the following from the Pen
sacola (Fla.) Advance, which shows
what the real and true sentiment Of
the southern people is:
"T'he Radicals in Congress and out
oft are endeavoring to nuke politi-
cal capital out of the utte1tiSres d
the okalona Miss Southern! astes.
The editor Of that paper is ana 2
man and was in the federal army did!
ring the war. The following eflasien
is from his pen, and with others Of the
same tenor from his paper, is being
circulated by the Radical press as a
specimen of Southern sentiments.
The Yankees are being driven to
the last ditch. One more campaign
and the world will hail the Confed.
eracy as the conquerer. 1t may be.
come the imperative duty of Presi,
dent Davis to accept the United States
Senatotship, whether he wants it or
not. These Yankees must be taught
lesson. Down with the reconstruct.
ion laws! Let the last one of them
be repealed Stand back! there, We
Federal Brigadiersl stand back, we
say. The old Confederate boys pro.
pose 10 run this republic from now
on. Lincoln and his, yclept the I'm.
ion army, were traitors; and their
treason-must be made odious.
Ofcourse no man who is at all ac.
quainted with Southern character OF
sentiment will doubt for moment
that this man has been hired to sup.
ply Radicalism with bloody shirt
material. The people of the South
have time and again, demonstrated
their acquiesccnce in the result of the
war, and we venture to say that
from Mr.. Davis down, there is not a
decent man in the South who will
endorse any of the utterances of this
okalona jackass. Yet obscure and
questionable as is their source, they
are eagerly seized upon by our Rad.
zeal brethren, and the bloody shir,
is again waving frantically from the
political flag pole. Maine Standard.
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The military receptions accorded
to Grant in his journeying around
the world, will Undoubtedly strength
en- his belief in the efficacy of mill
tary government, and if reelected to
the Presidency he will apply it more
vigorously than ever before.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-04-23

There is but one object in view
with Greenbackers, and that is to
disorganize and disrupt the Demo
cratic party in Mason County. The
Democrats who have gone into the
G'rcnbark League are generally disap-
pointed sore-heads, who are now u.s.
ing their influence to disrupt the
Democratic party, simply because
the party would not give them an
office. These fellows are taking their
cue from Henry S. Walker.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-04-23

Information has been received at
the State Department that the Por-
tuguese government has prohibited
the importation of swine. flesh from
the United States. This course has
been taken in conformity with re-
port of the Portuguese Board of
Health concerning the prevalence of
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General Beauregard has expressed
his views on the Presidential ques-
ton. He declares either Thurman
or Bayard would be most acceptable
to the South, although General Hans
cock is the mos! popular in Lou
isiana Among the Republican lead
ers he considers Conkling the least
objectionable TO the South.
The engineers Of the Grant eova-
ton" are talking about fifty thous-
and as the number of place.hunters
who will cross the continentin juno
to welcome Grant on his arrival in
San Francisco.
Logan says the troops should be
held in readiness to keep peace at
the polls; Blaine says the question is
so small a one that it is not worth
talking about; Garfield said he would
vote for a repeal measure if brought
in separately; yet all of them cry out
that the President must veto the
army bill to sayethe country. They
mean their party.
Thurman isn't losing any sleep.
over the Democratic defeat in Col,
umbus this spring. He knows
where TO find Columbus when he
wants her help. 'tt@
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-04-23

Mr. Henry S. Walker of the Com-
Ter, says he has very decided i'm,
preston that Mr.. Geo. W. Tippett,
editor of the Register voted for him at
the late congressional election. We
can only say that we have a very
decided opinion that we did no such
thing. We never could make up our
mind to.support and vote for him in
Democratic Convention, and we are
sure we would never vote for him as
u boiler.
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Mr.. Walker will please remember,
that fraud, deceit and misrepresen-
tation will succeed for time, but in
the end shame and confusion will
come to the man who uses these
means to build himself up at the ex-
pense of his neighbors. If he keeps
on at the rate he has been going, he
will fall to the ground crushed and
ruined.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-04-23

Congressman Kenna has secured
the Monday session again, for which
the Greenback members of Congress
have been pining. This may make
the unskilful laugh, but it will cause
the iudicious editor Of the Charles.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-04-23

The Democratic Congress propose
to appropriate s26,000,00O for the
army; Mr., Hayes proposes to veto the
bill, The Republicans propose to
raise the cry that Democrats are try
ing to destroy the Government by
starving it to death" The one pro.
poses good solid food; the second
wants the luxuries, and the third
cries, "poor thingl They want to
starye your
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-04-23

The Kansas Congressman are re,
coiving letters requesting that some
action be taken by Congress to pre-,
vent the emigrating negroes from
being dumped" in that State
They want them divided between
the States" Let the hcgira go on
The worthless and idle and ignorant
generally will go; the better class
will remain at home, Letthe north,
crn people find out how it is them.
selves
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The negroes rushing into Kansas
feel sure Of getting @fifty acres of land
and q mule" for their votes this time.

Had the Democrats nominated
Henry $. Walker for Congress, do
you think he would now be publish
ing a paper in opposition to the
time.honored Democratic principles?