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Perfectly Awful.

Judge Southworth, in his recent
narrative ofsthe frauds committed BY,
himselfand other republicansin Lou
isiana, ut the time Of the last Presi-
dental election, is right in saying,
sit was perfectly awful"
1--WE issued warrants for every
body" says Judge Southworth. 81
mean for everybody who voted the
Democratic ticket About 1900
were thus served. They came to
trial by the thousand; the courtroom
was crowded all day; and, of course,
by leisurely proceedings, only a few
hundred cases were heard, and the re.
naming thousands were struck from
the voting lists, eve bulldozed them
out of 10000 votes in New Orleans"
declares this Republican manager,
sit was awful"
The country is sick ofhearing such
Observation-Disclosures made on one
side or the other, in politics. One
thing it wants is stop put to SINH
lar practices in the future. This can
only be fully accomplished by pub,
lie sentiment, which shall discoun,
tenance all such frauds, and pillory
the authors Of them.
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ono. ". 4IPfagg, 1ditor.
The Legislature.

The Legislature organized on last
Wednesday by electing the follow
ing officers House-GeG II. Moffet,
speaker;J. B. Peyton, Clerk; James
P. Neilus, DoorKeeper. senate-D.
D. johnson, President; Z. M. Gun.
ningham, Clerk; H. G. Entler AS
sistant Clerk; ]. D. Anderson, Ser
gcant-atArms Up to the time Of
going to press, owing To the derango-
ment Of the mails, We have but lit
tie Of the proceedings Of that body
We have been promised Q weekly
letter from Wheeling, giving the do
ingsof the Legislature, and we sup.
pose We will receive cur first one in
time for our next paper. If it fails,
we will then give such proceedings
as We can CLEAN from the imperfect
reports in the Wheeling dailies, or
at least that which is Of general in
terest to our people.
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The Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Company, was held at Rich
mond, Va, on the7th inst. President
Huntington in his report says that
while the business Of the road is
steadily increasing and your Presi-
dent and Board Of Directors are more
fully than ever before impressed with
the fact that connection with the
western system of railroads and east
ern extension to deep water must be
had before the success of the road can
be fully assured. The total earnings
Of the fiscal year amount to $685.
800; total operating expenses, 81 ,594,-
759, leaving the balance of earnings
over operating expenses s341, 621; in
crease over the gross earnings of the
fiscal year 1857 s23S,S27. The old
officers were reelected and a resolu-
tion adopted authorizing the direct
ors to obtain authority to increase
the capital stock of the company. 4
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SUTTON SALT WoRKs LD.-The
furnace and real estate Of the late
Sutton Salt Company was sold, last
Friday, by Judge Lasley as Master
Commissioner, ut public auction
The purchasers we're Mr.. John j.
Juhler, an extensive bromine manu-
facturer Of this city, and Major A. +.
McCown, assistant cashier of the
Pomeroy National Bank. The price
paid was $4,000 cash, The Sutton
is one Of the hest furnacesin this re.
gion. 1t will now receive all neces-
sary repairs and be started up. 1t
cost originally about $4,000. Pom.
Telegraph.
1t isa surprise to many tofind that
Virginia, impoverished as she was BY
war, Yields tothe United States Treas
ury revenue Of six million dollars
on the single staple oftobacco. And
it would be happy surprisefor Vir.
ginians were this heavy tax to be re-
moved, or, at least, so far reduced as
to make it comparatively easy for
them to supply themselves with food
and pay their State debt.
The Legislature Of South Carolina,
at its recent brief and busy session,
enacted a law that visits a heavy,
penalty on any person committing
an assault with firearms in the
streets. This attempt to diminish
Republican political capital will
probably be regarded as coming up
to the full proportions ofa Southern
outrage"
Greehbacks are now receivable for
custom duties-jnst what the De-
mocracy wantedto do with them long
ago.-Ea.
Senator Thurman has prepared
some more points for the outrage
committee, and there is a growing
belief that they have awakened the
wrong customer.
The first Democratic Governor
elected in Maine for sixteen years
has just been inaugnrated. He has
the respect of all parties.
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TRUSTEES, SALE OF yALU.
able Real Estate in Cooper
District.

pY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST
ID executed to the undersigned, Trustee,
by " b. Horton, Jr., on the 18th day Of
September, 1874, and duly of record in the
Mason County Court Clerks Office, in
Trust Deed Book No. 9, folios 202, &C., 10
secure to Thomas Gibbs and James r.
Rayburn, certain notes therein described,
and assigned by said Gibbs and Rayburn
to r. l., Wmkleblack, and default having
been made by said Horton in the payment
OF the lust note in said trust deed mention
ed and described, for one thousand and
fifty dollars, with interest thereon from the
list OF September, 1874, and having been
requested by said Winklcblack to make
sale Of the property in said Deed mention
ed, shall proceed to sellby way OF public
auction, at the front door OF the Court
House OF said Mason county, West Virgin
in, On Saturday, the 22d day Of
February, 1870, the tract Of land in.
said deed Of trust described, containing
405 acres, About so acres Of the above
tract Of land is cleared, and the whole oft
issubjeet to q high state OF cultivation.
Terms OF Sale, CASH on the Spot.
JOHN L. TININIs, Trustee.
inn 2-lw
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Morning and Evening Stars.

Mercury will be the morning star
until March 4th; from April 18th to
June 18th; from August 23d to October
9Th; and from December 10th TO the
end Of the year.
Venus will be morning star from
September 23d to the end ofthe year.
Mars until November 18th. Jupiter
from February Sth to August 31st.-
Saturn from March 26th to October
5th.
Mercury will be an evening star
from March 4th to April 18th; from
June 18th to August 2Sd; and from
October 9Th to December 10Th.
Venus Willie the morning star un:
til September ODD. Mars from No.
vember 18th to the end of the year.
Jupiter until February 9Th and from
June 18th. Saturn until March 26th,
and from July Sd to the end of the
wear,
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what May be Saved by. Turning
YOur Wives into BMrkeepers.

Barkeepers in this city pay on an
average, two dollars per gallon for
whisky. One gallon contains an az
erage Of 65 drinks, and at 10 cents a
drink the poor man pays $3.50 per
gallon for his whisky. In other
words, lie pays two dollars for the
whisky and $3.50 to a man for hand
ingit over The bar While it would
be better for all not to drink, some
men will have whiskey and my nd
vice to them is this: Make your wife
your barkeeper. Lend her two dol.
lars to buy a gallon Of whisky for a
beginning, and every time you want
drink go to her and pay 10 cents
for it. By the time you have drank
a gallon she will haves6.50, or enough
money to refund the 81 borrowed Of
you, to pay for another gallon of Ii
quor, and have a balance Of $3.50.
She will be able to conduct future
operations on her own capital, and
when you become an inebriate, UNI
able to support yourself, Stunned
and despised by respectable. people,
your wife will have enough money
to keep you until YOU get ready to
fill a drunkard's grave, But had you
paid allthis money to barkeeper,
he would not have given a cent to
bury you, or crust Of bread to keep
your children from starving.
Few people ever stop to calculate
the cost Of dram-drinking. At 10
cents per drink, one drink per day
will cost $3.50 per year, two drinks
per day will cost S75, three drinks
S10950, and four drinks sl46 per
year. A man came to me the other
day day to pay the interest on anote
of 800 | hold against him. Said he:
"l only receive 5000 year, and with
a family to support 1 am not able to
pay my debts" | asked him to take
a pencil and make slight calcula-
ton for me, and then asked him how
often he drank at bar. His aver
age was three drinks per day, which
by his own calculation, amounted to
Sl09.50f or enough to have paid both
principal and interest Of the note,
and have $3.50 left. He was aston
ished at the discovery, and is now
determined never to drink at bar
again.-C Z. Campbell.
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Our Free SCHOOLS.

We have before us the fourteenth
and fifteenth annual reports of W. X.
Pendleton, State Superintendent Of
free schools, to the Governor. These
reports are for the years ending Au-
gust 81, 1877, and August 81, 1878,
respectively, and they make a vol.
ume Of peculiar interest and signif-
cant information, The report Of The
condition of the schools last year is
especially interesting, showing, as it
does, a state of affairs upon which
the Superintendent and all concern.
ed have reason to congratulate them
selves. The reports are compiled
with care from those made by the
superintendent of the respective
counties and cities. OF these there
are in the State, according to the re-
port, fifty-six, and they have super
vision CT 5,747 teachers, 1892 of these
being males. The number Of chill.
dren of school age in the State in
1878 was Dol ,237, and Of these $780, 1884
were enrolled as pupils in the free
schools. The average number Of
months taughtby the different teach
ers was but four and a fraction.-
When it is remembered that of the
eighty-two graded schools in the
State, nearly all remain in session
eight or ten months in a year, and
many Of the ungraded schools in the
more populous sections as long, it
will be seen that the sessions in some
districts must be exceedingly short to
so reduce the average.
The total number of school houses
in the State last year was 1927, of
which 1905 are frame, SO brick, II
stone and 1892 log. Eighty new
houses were built in the year end
ing August 81, 1878, while in the
year Immediately preceding there
were 1876 erected.
The value of the school houses in
the State in 1877 was S1,446,446.99,
and in 1878 81, 421, 942.3S, q decrease
of S24, 5O4.61, though the number of
houses had increased in that time 81.
The value of the grounds decreased
in a like ratio, from $17S,S11.2S in
1877, to sl72,S01 60 in 1878. The de-
probation in the value of Libraries
was also great, while apparatus in.
creased in worth from upwards off
$1,000 to about $4,000. OF course
these deprcciations are only in the
estimated values, the absolute value
being considerably greater in 1878
than in 1877.
In the two years covered by the re-
port, much has been done toincrease
the efficiency and decrease the ex.
penses of the free schools of the State,
ana the report presents much infor-
nation that is valuable, as we'll en-.
couraging to the friends of our sys.
TEN Of education, ana as We have al |.
ready said, the Superintendent, both
State and County, and all Others con.
cerned in the conduct of the schools,
have reason to congratulate them.
selves upon the results attained
RrliMcr.
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The Cllfton school.

Editor Reqiaer To day, in Ccmpa-
ny with Dir. Knight, | visited Clifton
Graded School, The first room we
entered was that taught by Miss
Lille knight; found the room neat,
clean and orderly. First we had the
first reading-class examined by Prof.
Guthrie, and they acquitted them.
selves with credit. Next visited
Room No. 8, Miss Nannie Mason,-
teacher. Next Room No. 5, Miss
Darcus Gale, teacher. Next Room
No. 2, Miss Mary Short, teacher
From there to Room No. 1, Miss Lib
bic Taylor, teacher. The Professor
having dismissed his room to accom-.
pany us through the school, we did
not visit it, but was Informed by the
Professor that he had class recite in
latin before dismissing his room,
which was an intimation to me that
| had no business in his room, for |
graduated in a log cabin school house
where the higher branches were not
taught; but will say that | found
all of the teachers at their posts Ia
boring hard to instruct the youthful
mind "how to shoot" have visited
many schools, but never one under
better discipline than the Clifton
Graded School. 1t would amply re-
pay any gentleman or lady who feel
an interest in the welfare Of the ri.
sing generation to visit the schools
occasionally.
Isubmit d statement furnished me
by Prof. Guthrie, for the two first
months:
list month, total enrollment".. 255
Average attendance, ............ 226
Not absent or tardy.........."se.. 1856
Per cent. Of attendance,..,....... SO
| I'd month, enrolment. .............. I'll
Average acknowledgements. 236
Not absent or tardy................. l40
Per cent Of attendance. ............ 80
One change | want in the school,
law, and tits this. | want only one
Trustee, and he to be elected by the
voters Of the sub-district. The law
provides for three trustees now and
they seldom ever visit the schools.
Elect one and pay him ten dollars a
year and compel him to visit the
school once II month, and also take
the enumeration of the children
Messrs. Gum and Roush, what say
you on this subject?
Respectfully,
PETER DARNEL.
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What is a CapitaIist?

Every man who has good health;
every man with good sense; every
one who has had his dinner, and has
enough left for supper, is, to that ex-
tent, a capitalist. Every man with
a good character who has the credit
to borrow a dollar or to buy a meal,
is a capitalist; and nine out of ten
of the great capitalists in the United
States are simply successful work
ingmen. There is no conflict, and
can be no conflict, in the United
States between capitalandlab and
the men who endeavor to excite the
envy of the unfortunate and The
malice of the poor are the enemies of
law and order. Col. Ingersoll.
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somuch has been published about
this affair, that is untrue, we give
the following from the Jackson Her
aid, which is claimed to be correct
and reliable:
Saturday, December 81, about dark,
Miss Y. Hunley called at the resi-
dcnce Of John Wedge near Mt. Alto,
and when the latter came in a short
time after, she drew II pistoland shot
him, inhicting a severe but not a
dangerous wound.
The facts that led to the shooting
are, as we are informed, about us
follows:
Some time ago John Wedge be-
came very intimate with Miss Hun.
ley, and as she claims, there was a
marriage engagement between them.
But at any rate about six months ago
she became the mother Of child, Of
which Wedge was supposed to be the
father. Miss Hunley claimed that
he had seduced her under a promise
of marriage, and expected that the
promise would be fulfilled, and even
after the child was born it is said
that he agreed to marry her, but kept
putting it of. About two months
ago, however, Wedge married anoth-
other woman, and'this drove his vic.
tim to desperation. Last Saturday
she left her home and started for his
house, carrying her baby with her.
She left the child at Gil Turner's,
near Wedges, and went on to the
latter place. He was not at home,
but his wife was, and she received
the girl, who asked for Wedge, and
his wife told her that he was not at
home but would be in afterwbile.-
The girl waited for him, and in the
meantime, Mrs. Wedge showed her
over the house, how they were fixed
in their new home, &c. After while
Wedge entered thekitchen, whilethe
women were in the front room, and
his wife hearing him, came into the
room where he was and told him that
the girl was there, and that she was
afraid she intended mischief, and
told her husband to leave the house
without seeing her; but before much
could be said, the girl also ran into
the kitchen where Wedge and his
wife were standing together, and
drawing a revolver from under her
shawl fired on him, the ball sttik-
ing him in the left side just below
the heart.
He then made an attempt to seize
her, his wife helping him, but she
dropped her pistol and shawl and
got away.
She afterward gave herself up to
Squire Dunlay, who took charge Of
her. and after an examination Of
the case afterwards, held to bail in
the sum Of $1,000 to answer at the
circuit court. She at first refused
to give bail, and was brought to
town on Christmas to be placed in
Jail, but after consulting with coun.
sci she gave the required bail with
out difficulty and returned home.
Wedges wound is not considered
fatal, although severe. He is about
q or % years'old, while Miss Hunle
is about 10.
AS far as we could learn, the gen.
eral sympathy seems to be with the
girl, which is generally the fact in
such cases.
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Square up.

John Randolph once said that there
was more wisdom, both for nations
and for individuals, in the one sin
gle maxim, "Pay as you CO." than in
all thetext-books on political and do
..la;.......-c....
says next to actual cash payments
the wisest course for all is to pay up
promptly all small bills, and never
permit them to become large ones
Never permit Yesterdays liabilities
to become tax upon to-morow's re.
ceipts, if you can possibly meet them
to-day, 1t is particularly important
for the wages receiving classes TO pur.
sue this policy rigidly. The man
who will hold over paying his rent
until next month, when he can pay
it out of this months salary or wages,
is likely to saddle himself with en-
barrassments which may harass him
for six months. Another point in
this connection is the advantage
which the general community derive
from this policy Of prompt payments.
1t keeps money in circulation, and
practically enables a single note or a
single coin to do the work of five or
six. The money which we pay to
the tradesman or laborer, he in his
turn hastens to pay to the grocery or
provision dealer, and these to their
creditors. Not five per cent of the
money thus used in paying bills ever
rests idle in bank. II may return
there, indeed, for a few minutes or
hours, but only to be set in motion
again at the call of some check, and
to begin its useful rounds once more.
Thus, every one who pays his bills
promptly not only saves himself
from enlangling debt, but puts him.
self in better case to receive more
promptly that which is due him.
We should all think Of this, and i'm.
itate those public institutions which
insure themselves good credit and
keep their affairs from becoming in.
volved by paying what they owe on
the day when it is due. Now, as the
year is beginning, is the special time
10 square up" accounts, and the
more promptly the better for ALL
Eg.
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Notice of Sale of Personal Proper.
and Real Estate of the CLIFTON
Coal COmDdnU!

NUttC6V que VI I6T"OHUt wv"
and Real Estate of the CLIFTON
Coal Company!
TN pursuance OF the terms and provisions
Tx Of an assignment made to the under,
signed, by the Clifton Coal Company, dated
the Sd day OF August, 1878, and recorded
in the Clerks Office OF the Mason County
Court, in trust deed book No...S, pages 52S,
&C., we shall on the 3Oth day Of jan
AIRY, 1879, in front OF the Compnys
Store, in the townof Clifton, Mason county,
West Virginia, proceed to sell by way o.
public auction. for CASH, the personal
property mentioned in a schedule recor;,
ded with said assignment, consisting oil
coal wagons, mules, &C.; and wewill, at tRe
same time, il necessary, join with Samuel
Bradbury and j. w. Chestnut, Trustees,
in making sale OF the real estate described
in said deed OF assignment and in the trust
deed under which said Trustees have 40.
vertised said real aforementioned in tic
above notice, and will confer such title as
may DO vested in us as Assignees, to the
purchaser or purchasers Of said real estate
at said sale.
T. A. PLANTS,
dec. 25-tds. G. SEH0N,
Assignee
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The legal status of polygamy in
Utah is thought to be definitely de,
termined by a decision of the q. S.
Supreme Court, rendered on Monday
last. The decision of the Utah courts
being against the plaintiff, Reynolds,
charged with contracting a bigamous
marriage, he carried his case to the
Supreme Court on a writ of error
The opinion Of the court was deliv-
cred by Chief Justice Waite, and was
to the effect that the plea set up by
the plaintiff of religious conviction
was not a valid defense; that Con-
gress. in passing laws for the sup
preston Of polygamy in Utah, exer-
cised u power belonging to it and
vested in it under the constitution.
But for the plea set up that such
laws were an interference with relig-
ious belief, and therefore unconstitu-
tional, it would seem strange that
there should be any doubt of the
power Of Congress to legislate for the
Territories, over which, as national
the Government exercises
the right Of eminent domain.
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Flour COMPANY ASSIGNMENT
The Pomeroy Flour Company made
an assignment last Saturday, to Ma
jor A. f. McCown and its property,
consisting of the Mill, real estate
and personal effects, will be offered
for sale by the assignee, on Friday,
February 18th. The Indebtedness Of
the concern is estimated at $685. 900.
Of this amount $4,000 is to Mr., G..
w, Moredock, of Hartford City, who
is secured by a mortgage on the prop
erty. The unsecured creditors will
probably not realize anything upon
their claims from the assets. What
can be made out of the stockholders
to be seen. Mr.. Jacob
schreiner has been the manager of
the Company for u number of years
past. The capital stock was $4,000.
Pom. Telegraph
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Rising in Life.

Editor Register Please give the fol-
lowing placein your paper:
aThe new year opening upon US
presents a fitting time for each one
toask himself Why dol wish to rise
in lifes What is my highest aim in
business in society, in the homer
Am I striving solely for my own hap
piness, or Improvement or glory, or
rather for the power to help and to
bless othersa Am | willing in my
own struggles to rise, to crowd
down these that are feebler, or am ]
trying in every upward step to lift
them up with me2 On the faithful
answers 10 such Questions does all
the true success of.the coming year
depend. For that kind of success
which consists in heapingup money,
or popularity or knowledge, solely
for selfish qualification, is rotten at
the core, and will soon fail, even in
in its own unworthy aim; while that
which gains that it may distribute,
and obtains light that itmay illum-
inc, is the only sound and real pros
.perity, and is that which determines
the value of each man and each .wo-
man to thecommunity in which they
dwell.p ARGUS.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-01-15

On the 4th Of March next William
Pitt Kellogg, from Louisiana, will be
the last carvet-bagger leftin the SEN
ate of the United States to keep in
the remembrance of the country an
era of reconstruction which was more
dreadful than period Of actual war.