The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-08-18

company Tor them. BE careful what
you read, be careful with whom you
go, and keep. out Of bad company.
It's more injecting than yellow fe-
yer, and railways leaves Impressions
on your character.
The Scranton Times, an indopenl
dent paper, speaks It's mind plainly
as follows: %rhe Times is for Han.
cock because he is Hancock, and not
because he is n democrat. This pa
per has favored no candidate but
Hancock, and since he has been nom.
mated we propose to show alittlc in.
dependence BY speaking a word for
him in these columns, And right
here we want TO say that we believe
one party is as bad as the other-if
not, a great deal worse-and when
the democrats put up u good man
(see the New York Times and the Tri.
bans, both republican papers, Of Feb.
ruary 10, 1878, concerning the Ames-
Garfield credit fnobilfer a1air), We
gre for tie Democrat, although we
never Voted for one III our life; and
you win find all the Independent vo.
ters, and two-thirds Of Che greenback-
ers will be for the same man next
November Gen. WinfeldScott Han.
cock, a man whuhas q bigger, nobleri
Etruer heart than all the willy politi.
lleiaRssieEtlle hsHa. sSss:.
So great is tile mania Of our Ameri.
can 'shoddy. girls to marry stitled
Europeans, without regard to any
thing but their title that a beauti.
full young married woman lately de-
Serted her husband and child to fol.
low one of these worthless scoundrels
under promise Of marriage after d
divorce was obtained" IT Is hardly
necessary to state that the poor
woman experienced tie fate Tilt al.
ways follows such episodes, by being
abandoned by the man who seduced
her from the path Of virtue and hon.
or IL is but a poor consolation to
know that the wretcbed woman had
pride enough tokill herself when the
full extept Of her shame was realized;
but her fate should serve as a whole
some warning to Others to shun the
fatal path that leads inevitably to
shame, dishonor and death. Gascttc.
When Mrs. Garfield heard of the
nomination Of her husband she sigh
ed and said, 81 am inclined to be sor-
~, 1t will be an end Of our home
lifeo Whereupon the Macon Her
ad says: Nov for the sake Of Mrs.
Garfeld's peace of mind, we take
pleasure IN informing the good little
lady that she needn't, give herself
any trouble at all. Gen. Hancock
will have no use, for Gen. Garfield
about the White House."
Senator Wallace feels very conf.
dent Chat Pennsylvania is alright
The Democracy in that State were
never in better condition, and whcu
details Of the canvass aro fully COM
pleted they will haye fighting front
such as they baye never mustered be-
fore, differed By men who feel the
Importance of the contest aud are c,i.
pable Of conducting it.
Census returns from the South are
begtnisiug to tofiie in and show that
the population has increased instead
of diminished in the last decade
This will be great disappointment
to the Republican politicians, who
hoped that the representation Of the
South in Congress would be reduced
Contrast the positions Of Whitfield
s. Hancock, the soklier-statesmaf,
and James A. Garfield, the wishing
statesman, upon the vital question
of December, 1876. The one. was
pledging himself to uphold tie law
the other was plotting down III New
Orleans to subyert the law.
Gen. Weaver, the Greenback can
didate for President, has issued an
address to his followers in which he (
asks every man who proposes to vote
for him send him one dollar. Cheap
enough.
The big fight will be in Indiana,
The Republicans are piling in the
negroes and the money with reckless
liberality but it is useless. The In.
diana Democrats viii carry the State.