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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-01-29
The Legislature.

The Wheeling dailies were so IT.
regular last week, that We are unable
to make aereport Of the proceedings
Of fhe:sLsgishture. The members
of bdth'Houses seem to be working
hard, but Sc many bills, amendments
and resolutions are being. offered, it
IS doubtful, whether much legisla.
ton will be effected. The Joint Ju-
ciary Committee of both Houses, re-
ported on Monday, bill, submitting
to vote of the people of the State
an amendment to the Constitution
in relation to a change in the Judi
ciary system of the State, and under
the provisions of.the bin the County
Court is to be abolished. The Judi
cial Circuits will be Increased; to
twelve In number, and three terms
a year; Che jurisdiction Of justices
increased to 300, Three men are to
be elected in each county, to be styled
Boards of Commissioners" who are
to managethe local and police af-
fairs of the counties. We will pub
lish the bill as soon as we receive.it.
1t is not the county court that the
people are so much opposed to, but the
manner in which it is conducted
renders it obnoxious. The people
are not to blame for wanting to get
rid of system, that is so expensive
to them as the county court as at
present managed. I If those com,
posing the County Court pursued a
course of economy and put in their
eight or ten hours day on the bench,
and did not prolong the terms for days
and even weeks, purposely for the
per diem they receive, there would
be but little complaint. Sometimes
court is held half a day, sometimes
not over an hour or two, and is al
ways adjourned on Saturday at
noon, that Justices may go home, no
matter if a case is then before jury
and could be disposed of in an hour,
they must adjourn and draw pay for a
full day, the jury paid for two add.
tional days, and the costs of witnesses,
&c, heaped upon litigants and tax
payers.
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The Governor and the c. d o.
Railroad.

The Governor in his message to
the Legislature urges the taxation of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
This road by the terms of its charter
is exempt from taxation until the
earnings are ten per cent. on its cost.
This charter was granted and the
road built under it before the pres
ent Constitution went into effect
These rights are known as charter
rights, and those in authority have
heretofore been very careful how
they interfered with them; but since
the last election, and in fact during
the election, almost every candidate
of a certain class, became a Constitu-
tional Lawyer, and talked and spoke
of vested rights as flippantly as a
learned Judge upon the Bench. The
pernicious effect of their blatant talk
and foolish agitation is bad, and the
tree is bearing very, very early fruit.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
has been, and is now, in a crippled
condition. The vast resources of
this part of the State that are now
dependent upon its completion, for
further development, are at present
suffering, and will never be develop
ed, at least during this generation, if
such counsels are needed as we hear
in this message and from the stump
during the last election. The Leg
islature will do wisely to think
twice before they join in any crusade
against chartered rights; and we
sincerely hope they will make an
honest effort to reduce taxes, aud
keep all expenditures within bounds.
With everything at bottom prices,
manufactures almost unsaleable, and
people suffering, in some cases for
the necessaries of life, the Legisla-
ture and call others in authority"
should seek some means of relieving
suffering State, and not run of
after false Gods and political capital.
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Drunkenness.

On Saturday evening, the 18th Of
January, in Baltimore, DR.. John Nor
us, delivered before the Topographic
cal Temperance Legion, of that city,
lecture, his subject being Drunk
enness, which he handled according
to the report of the Baltimore Sun,
as follows:
"Dr. Morris thinks that drunken
ness is an inherited or acquired dis
ease, and should be treated as SUCH
Fifty years ago, he said, insanity
was looked upon as much as drunk
enness is at the present day. Force
alone was thought necessary to anne
liorate the condition of the insane,
and all forms of torture were resort
ed to to attain that end. Now hu-
name treatment is the line of policy
relied upon for the successful restor.
alton Of the demented. He said it
was conclusively shown that insani-
Ly, when taken in hand at the prop
err period, was durable. Drunken
ness may be successfully treated in
the same way. He differed with Mr..
Moody, who thinks that the drunk
ard can be reclaimed only through
the grace of God. DR.. Morris said
God employs humane agencies to ear
ry out His divine purposes. and that
unless a man is possessed of u sound
head and well body there was not
much rnSpeet-os-gEace doing. its
work. First get the drinking man
away from his cups-put him in full
possession Of his viii, by the restor-
alton of his health and his nervous
System-he thought, was the surest
way to redeem him, and after that he
thought that the grace Of God would
hold him firm to better life. DR..
Morris referred particularly TO the
Jews as a people who were less adj.
dicted TO inebriety thaa any other
race of people, and cited Scripture to
prove that this was the case. He
also referred to 4 case of recent &C.
currence in Baltimore, and said there
was no douSt many people were com
mitted as drunk to cells in the sta
tion-houses and thence to Jail, who
were not under the influence Of liq-
uor, but suffering from nervous and
mental or other diseases. DR.. Morris
was listened to with close attention,
and at the close of the lecture was
given a hearty vote of thanks
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School Teachers.

Editor Register: A correspondent
who calls himself Arbuckle came out
in your last issue and contributed
almost a column on the subject Of
teachers wages. I presume that AR,
buckle has devoted nearly twelve
months in getting his piece of artil-
lery (about % calibre) in position,
and now he hurls deadly missile
into the camps of the teacher.
I do not endorse the assertion of
Little Sixteen. Inever have endors-
ed it, nor never will. His head may
be level on some subjects, but it GER
tainly assumes a zone sided. posi-
ton on the above question.
Your correspondent may be sound
free school man for aught | know,
but judging from his writing he has
experienced some of poor Trays diff
feulties, "been in bad company" He
goes through a routine of figures,
and attempts to prove that teachers
still get SIS per month too much. He
passes over B. Janton's remark in
regard to mechanics wages, &c, and
comes to the wages of farm laborers.
Please let me "6gger" a little. Ten
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WHY. Verify.

Why be an animated tallow-shop
Allan'S Anti-Fat is safe and sure
remedy for obesity, orcorpulence, and
will reduce the most Ill proportional
form to graceful outline within a
few weeks. 1t contains no ingredi.
ents that can possibly prove deleter-
ious to the system. \ well known
chemist, after examining its consti.
tuentS and the method of its prepare
ton, gives it his unqualified endorse
mend as a remedy that "can not but
act favorably upon the system and is
well calculated TO attain the object
for which it is intended"
BALTIMORE, Nh, July 18th, 1873.
Proprietor's ALLAX's ANTEFAr, Buff
falo, \. Y;
DEAR SIRs:-I have taken two
bottles of Adams Anti-Fat and it has
reduced me eight pounds.
Yours, MRS. l. r. COLES.
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Major A. F. McCown, yesterday,
resigned his position as Assistant
Cashier of the Pomcroy National
Bank; and will hereafter devote him
self to the management of the SUIT
ton salt works, which he and Mr.. J..
j. Juhler recently purchased. The
Major has been connected with the
Pomeroy National Bank for the past
seven years, and has gained many
friends by his gentlemanly bearing
and accommodating spirit. We wish
him success in the salt business
He was formerly connected with the
Union salt works at New Haven, and
for 4 year managed the Jackson works
at Hartford City, consequently is not
without practical experience in that
line.-Pom. telegraph.
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TRUSTEES, SALE OF VALU-
able Real Estate in Cooper
District,

DY VIRTUE OF a DEED OF TRUST
ID executed to the undersigned, Trustee,
by V. b. Horton, Jr., on the 10th day OF
September, 1874, and duly OF record in the
Mason County Court Clerks Office. in
Trust Deed Book No. ., folios 292, &c, TO
secure to Thomas Gibbs and James Z.
Rayburn, certain notes therein described,
and assigned by said Gibbs and Rayburn
to Il. L. Winklcblack, and default having
been made by said Horton in the payment
OF the last note in said trust deed mention
ed and described, Tor one thousand and
fifty dollars, with interest thereon from the
LIST OF September, 1874, and having been
requested by said Winkleblack to make
sale OF the property in said Deed mention
ed, shall proceed to sell by way of public
auction, at the front door OF the Court
House Of said Mason county. West Virgin.
ia, On Saturday. the 22d day OF
February, 1870, the tract of land in
said deed OF trust described, containing
4O5 acres. About so acres OF the above
tract Of land is cleared, and the whole OF it
is subject 10 high state OF cultivation.
Terms Of Sale. CASH on the Spot.
T. JOHN Z. TINIMS, Trustee.
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that "the Mormon question narrows
itself down To q square fight for pos
session of what both Mormon aud
Gentle believe to be the richest ter.
ritory in the United States, and no
nonsense or religious sentimentalism
enters into the subject" 1t is also
charged that designing gentiles have
put on foot an organized movement
TO compel the Mormon population to
leave the territory at present occu-
pied by It, that the ploiiers may en-
ter in. 4 plan has also been adopted
by Christian ladies all over the land
to use their influence and toexercise
their right to memorable and petit
ton Congress towards rid din g
the land of that blot upon its
fair fame, Mormondom. a general
and spontaneous uprising Of the vir-
tuous women Of our country against
the wickedness of polygamy would
be pleasing and highly commenda-
bic spectacle. But in contemplating
its possibilities, the rude thought in
trudes itself that perhaps designing
Gentiles are specializing on the vir-
tue Of our fair countrywomen, and
invoking their unsuspecting aid not
so much to destroy a great moral
wrong, as to drive out the Mormons
from one Of the most desirable por-
tons of our land, that the immacu-
late Gentle who has gone West may
profit thereby.
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COngress.

Congress has now six weeks in
which to dispose of the entire bust
ness before it. There is some ques-
ton whether that will be time
enough, and whether an extra session
wiz not, after all, be necessary. I'm
doubtedly the House could transact
all the legitimate routine business,
and have some time to devote to the
various important matters that do
not come under that head; but there
is going to be trouble with the Re-
publican Senate which may cause
serious delay. OF the six appropria-
ton bills passed by the House before
the recess, three have been acted up
on in the Senate, and numerous ex-
travagant amendments attached to
them increasing their aggregate
amounts more than fifty per cent
And these are only the minor bills
over which there is seldom much dis
agreement. The remaining seven
include the two most important-tbe
legislative, executive and judiciary,
and the sundry civil bill. In these
are embraced some items WHICH the
House will decide to cut out, and
which in all conscience and decency
should be cut out. Mr.. Deven's lit
tie bill for the payment Of his super
visors and deputy marshals, and John
Sherman's estimate for his secret SER
vice bureau, are two specimen items
Not one dollar of public money should
be voted for either of these, and if the
House stands firm the Senate will be
forced to concur or take the response
bility of an extra session.
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GRnMs LANDING ITEMs.-The snow
is about gone, and horses will have a
little rest.
Again we see the steamers Boone
and Telephone plying up and down
the Kanawha river, on their regular
trips; but the bottom has fallen out
under the river bank, mud there is
no end.
Mr.. Jos. F, Neil has purchased one
third of the portable saw mill of
Sayre & Scantlin. Joe means bus.
mess.
Mrs. VIM. H. Smith, on Arbuckle
Creek, had a severe spell of fits last
Thursday, but under the treatment
of DR.. Garnet, she is recovering.
Miss Ida Jones is visiting in
MERGERS Bottom, at Mr.. Geo. Moores'
Hope she will enjoy her trip.
There will be a spelling school at
the Set Still school house, the second
Thursday in February. Hopeall the
schools in the neighborhood will be
there, as Mr., Stewart is going to
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Good Account.

ITO sum it up, six long years Of
bed ridden sickness and suffering.
costing 5000 per year, total Sl,200-
all of which was stopped by three
bottles of Hop Bitters, taken by my
wife, who has done her own house
work for year since, without the
loss Of a day, and l want everybody
to know it for their benefit"
John Weeks, Butler, y. Y.
Jan. 29-Iv.
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Just as soon as the Supreme Court
of the United States had pronounced
the National laws relating to polyga-
my, passed with especial reference to
the mormons in Utah, memorials be-
gan to be poured in upon the Presi.
dent and the two Houses of Congress,
asking that measures be adopted to
make these laws effective. 4 recent
correspondent, who seems to under
stand the situation in Utah, remarks
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Pinchback, who is editing paper
in Louisiana, says that the first eff,
ort at the disfranchisement of the col
ored voters will come from the North,
and that the negroes will be compell-
to vote the Democratic ticket in or,
der to preserve their rights.
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Mr.. D. D. Johnson, President of the
State Senate and brother of Judge
Okey johnson, of the Supreme Court
of Appeals of West Virginia, has
rendered himself quite ridiculous, Go
-usesa mild expression, by Offering
"a resolution. directing the Commit
tee on the Judiciary to inquire into
the advisability of giving the SUI
preme Court of Appeals power to pun,
ish forcontenipt." We opine that the
average mind will conclude that the
5preSent law upon the subject is suf,
fcient to meet any exigency that
may arise for the proper vindication
of the dignity Of that tribunal
Greelbrier Independent.
Bro. Harlow, why didn't you draw
it ssmild" and call him Jack-ass?-
This same man is an aspirant fol
Gdbernatorial honors. We suppose
that the press;of the State will see
to it, that no man who attempts tc
muzzle the press, will ever be per
mitted to disgrace the high position
of Governor of West Virginia.
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ed $40 per month. Now he receives
from s25 to sS5, reduction of 12i
and S73 per cent. 4 FIRST class
teacher received $40 per month in
this district (Arbuckle) last year,
now he receives sS5, a reduction Of
u! per cent.
Mr.. Arbuckle says that FARMERS
paid $40 per month last year and
now they pay SIS" reduction of
only 10 per cent. According to this
(and it is undeniable,) teachers sal
aries have been reduced more than
the farm laborers. He forgets that
the farmer nearly always allows his
tenant one or two acres of land for
garden, &c, free Of charge, and
worth almost as much as his month
ly wages. He forgets that this ten
ant is furnished with u house and
sometimes with fuel. He forgets
that this tenant is often allowed pas
turage for a COW. He voluntarily
forgets many other things and yet, be-
cause teacher is allowed fouror FIVE
holidays, which every American cit
izen should hold sacred, he raises a
yell that would chill the blood in
the veins of an Ethiopian chimpan-
zee. The law requires the County
Superintendent to hold Institutes,
and it also requires the teacher to at
tend. l am in favor of Institutes
and am willing to loot the bill" and
would rather do SO than have them
abolished. The teacher realizes no
financial advantage by attending a
County Institute, as his expenses Of
ten exceed his wages.
freely admit that the teacher is
in the school room only six or seven
hours a day But then his days
work is far from being accomplished.
The faithful teacher labors at least
twelve hours day.
Mr.. Arbuckle must remember that
the teachers mind is always at work
studying, devising and endeavoring
to adopt methods by which he can
secure the the success and welfare of
his pupils and patrons. No wonder
he does not take the trouble to make
the calculation he suggests. The
surface of his Uranium would turn
gray before he could calculate the du-
ties of a school teacher.
Arbuckle, why do you compare the
teachers wages to those of the farm
labOrer? Why not take the farmer
himself? suppose you think there
would be too much honor in that
The young man or woman who labors
for years trying to secure an educa-
ton, deserves a higher position than
you award to theln. Ihaxenndorht
but teachers wages will be reduced
in like ratio with others, but they
will never come on an equal footing
with the class to which you attempt
to drag them, for Reason and Jus
tice have been jurymen since before
Noah was a sailor"
"Five dollars too much"
This song has been sung ever since
the adoption of our present free school
system, and as "Old hundred" and
"Windham7 gives the christian an
accelerated impetus toward the de-
sired haven, 50 the song of s-k-u-l.e
t'e-e-c.h-e-r sung to the key of nine
ty-nine sharps. and on the harp of a
thousand immortalizes itself in the
hearts of the aristocracy of West
Virginia. JUSTICE.
Jan. %, 1879.
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The Public Debt.

On the first day of last April, Mr.
Sherman reported the coin debt to be
s1,721,OOO,0OO.
On the first day of January he re.
ports the coin debt at S1.S09,OOO,0OO
:: This shows an increase of the coin
debt at SSS,OOOQ00 since April. The
interest on this increase is So, $4,000
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Notice of Sale of Personal Proper.
aud Real Estate of the Clifton
Coal COmDdnU!

IN pursuance OF the terms and provisions
l OF an assignment made to the under
signed, by the Clifton Coal Company, datel
the Sd day of August, 1878, and recordeC
in the Clerks Office OF the Mason Count!
Court, in trust deed book No.:.3, pages 59S
&c, we shall on the 30Ih day OF Jan
airy, 1879, in front of the Company
Store, in the town of Clifton, Mason county
West Virginia, proceed to sell by way o
public auction, for CASH, the persona
property mentioned in a schedule reeo'
ded with said assignment. consisting Of
coal wagons, mules, &c; and We will, at Tie
same time, ii necessary, Join with Samuel
Bradbury and ]. W. Chestnut, Trustees
in making sale of the real estate described
in said deed of assignment and in the trus'
deed under which said Trustees have 50
vertised said real estate mentioned IN th9
above notice, and will confer such title 3
may be vested in US as Assignees, to II
purchaser or purchasers OF said real esiA1
ia. PLANTS,
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Notice.
jan. 29-1.

1.-THE public are hereby notified that from this date
L our business viii be conducted strictly for cash.
and no goods will be permitted leave our wharEboai
Until freight and charges arc paid Notices will DC
sent TO parties upon arrival OF freight, with the
Of charges thereon.
jan. s9-Sw. GABERT & HOYT.
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The Governor of Pennsylvania has
decided to deliver up to the authori-
ties of West Virginia, Elihu Gregg,
the Preston county Court House burn
err: Gregg is now under sentence of
death, having been twice tried and
convicted in Preston County Circuit
Court. 1t has been ten years since
Gregg escaped from jail, where he
was awaiting sentence.
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EngIand 10 Loager Snpre.ne.

The sore distress among so many
classes of people throughout England
is, we are told, the result of the hard
times in the United States. So re,
ciprocally dependent on one another
are the civilized peoples Of the world
that financial and commercial dis
turbances in one affect more or less
all. The hard times in the United
States act on the business of England
in two ways. In the first place, the
United States being forced to econo-
mize, they cease to be consumers to
u great extent of foreign goods, which
compelS the industries of England to
produce less. Mills and manufacto-
ries either stop altogether, or work
less hours to the day, or less days to
the week. The workingmen are the
immediate sufferers. They must buy
less food, and seek humber quarters.
That affects the farming interest and
the landlords Landed proprietors
and landlords in the cities find their
incomes diminishing, and they econ.
omize by doing with fewer servants,
fewer horses. The butcher, the ba.
ker, the grocer in turn are affected.
and all dependent on them in the
way of business; and so the distress
becomes general, affecting more or
less all classes of society.
In the second place, the hard times
in the United States having reduced
wages as low as, or lower than, the
'pauper wages" of Europe, our mill
owners and manufacturers are ena-
bled to undersell the English in their
own markets. That adds to the gen.
eral distress of the workingmen.-
The United States now put iron and
cotton manufactures in London and
Liverpool at less rates than English
manufactures Of like kind and quail
ity can be sold.
How long can that be maintained?
Only so long as the workingmen of
the United States can be content or
compelled to labor at their present
low wages. So soon as the times
improve, and wages and the products
of labor have an upward tendency,
We shall begin to consume more, and
wages will rise above the European
pauper plan. That will start into
activity again the industries of Eng
land, and bring relief to the impov-
erished masses; but not to the stand
ard of living enjoyed by them before
the present distress overlook them.
England will not in long time, if
ever, recover from this shock to her
industries and loss of her prestige in
the markets of the world. The spell
Ct her supremacy is broken.-Cia.
cinnati Enquirer.
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Indiana Legislature has elected
voorhees,, Democrat, U. S. Senator
Dan Cameron, Republican, was elect
ed in Pennsylvania. Missouri elects
Gen. Jas. Shields and Col. Geo. G.
Vest, Democrats. Shields was a
General in tn Federal army, and Vest,
Colonel in the Confederate. Illinois
elects John A. Logan, Rep; Connect
lieut., orville H. Platt, Rep; North
Carolina, Governor z. B. Vance, Dem
ocrat; and Florida, W, Call, Dem.
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show how the scholars have advanced
since he has taken charge Of it.
Mr.. Geo. budding. second clerk on
the Telephone, still has the pleasant
smile on his face, but be says two
hundred pounds is too much for him.
Geo. is a clever fellow and knows
how to fling the quill, so does Bro.
John.
Look out boys there is going to be
wedding in our community; get
your band ready.
A class of vocal music have start.
ed at the Morgan school house, by
Prof. John Chenille, of Ohio.
REPORTER.