The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-12-01

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that under no pains, or penalties, Or
punishments, will weeyer surrender
the invaluable right>oflocal self.goy.
ernmentl prolonged cheers. ]
shall, with your permission, go into
the Senate Of thGsuniled States and
plant myself upon the Constitution,
with all its amendments and obliga-
tions. shall fix my eye upon my
rule of action us the Christian fixes
his eye upon the Holy Cross. To
thine own State and people be true,
and, as the day follows the night,
thou canst not then be false to any
other State or section"
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Death of Blue Jeans Williams.
Governor James d. Williams, Of
Indiana, died on Saturday, Novem.
Der 10th. He was the man known
to the country as "Blue Jeans" Will
liams. His real character and abili-
ty were little understood outside the
State where he lived and attained
honors. He was really one of the re-
malkable characters Of his time. He
served in many public positions. In
1874 he was nominated for Congress
in the Second district and elected by
a majority Of nearly eight thousand,
the largest ever given for candidate
in the district. The Democrats had
control Of the House in which he
served, and Speaker Kerr, who knew
his Indiana nsighbor us no one about
Washington knew him, put Mr.. Will
liams at the head Of the Committee
on Accounts. His services in this
capacity at once attracted the notice
Of the country, and be drew the sar.
castle attention Of some Of the news
papers by the diligence with which
he watched the great and small ex.
travagance and the thoroughness
with which he applied his homcly
remedies. His was not q character
to mako fun Of however, and in the
Important contest of 1876, when the
Democrats fully understood the i'm
portance Of carrying Indiana, Mr..
Williams was nominated for Cover
nor, The canvass was one of the
hottest known in the history Of the
State, and Williams was elected in
October by inajnriiy nearly as large
as that given u month later for Til.
den and Hendricks. He was serving
the term for which he was then elect
ed when he died. II was during that
campaign That he became known
abroad as "Blue Jeans" nickname
given him on account of the kind of
clothes ho sometimes wore. Without
the g*ratptss Of Lincoln, Governor
WilIiau,,' 'rhafactcr vas strikingly
like that Of Lincoln. lie was scrnp-
nIously honest and sincere in all
that he undertook, and unaffectedly
h"mely and simple in everything.
All in all, Indiana had no letter cit.
izcn.
The Washington Post says that
among the curiosities Of the census,
which has developed no end of Gu.
rious things, is u native of Arkan-
sas who was nevor 20 miles from his
birthplace, and never saw locomo-
tive, yet is still citizen of France,
having been born in Arkansas three
years before the ccssion Of that terri
tory.to the United States in 1903
Another curiosity is an Alabama
giant, only twelve years Of age, who
weighs $50 pounds and is six feet in
height, while both his parents are of
medium size. Fulton county, Geor-
gia, furnishes, in the person of Mrs.
Lavinia Cobb, lady who has seen
her five score years and ten, but if
we mistake not, Missouri has vet
eran whowas born in 1766, or four
years in advance Of the venerable
Lavinia. A census department
would prove valuable adjunct to
the "only great show"
Su1clDE,-on Friday last young
married man named B. McClung,
who resided on Reedy, in this county,
committed surcide by shooting him.
self through the heart. He had gone
out squirrel hunting and placed his
gun against the hillside, the uuazle
directly over his heart, and taking
the ramrod pushed the trigger when
the load went off with the above re-.
suit. He had proposed tohis father
a few days previous, to take his farm
and he would leave, and also propos.
ed to his wife that each should take
poison. It is said that a few DAYS
previous to this affair he started
squirrel hunting with u nsighbor
who he tried to hire to shoot him.
He had only been married q week
having welded a Miss pawkins'
daughter Of Bush Dawkips of the
right hand fork of ReeAy, Rarens.
wood News,