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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-06-09
Anew ConlnnslrullIlls.

How far is it to the bottom of the
Ocean? A stones throw.
Why does duck cross the roadS
To get on the other side.
What is that which a cat has, but
no other animal? Kittens.
He who Mrs. to take kiss has Mr..
thing he should not Miss.
What is the least offensive brass
band2 A dollar store bracelet.
Why does a horse look over the
|hillsl Becausohe can tlook underit.
When are kisses sweetestYS When
siruptuously obtained,
Why IS q good husbandlike dough-
;Because r.~oman needs him.
What did Queen Elizabeth take
her pillsin2 In cider (inside herr.
What kind of robbery is not dan.
gerous? A safe'robbery, of course.
Can any one improve his condi-
tion by whining? 1fnot, whine not.
What way do chickens come into
the world? Through the hatch-way.
Why is an egg like colt2 Be.
cause il isn't ft for use till it is
broken.
When does man have tokeep his
word9 When no one will take it.
What is the first thing you do
when you fall in the water? You
get vet.
Why is professional thief very
comfortable2 Because he takes
things easy.
Why is heaven like a bald-headed
man. Because there is no parting
there2
What man in America wears the
biggest hat? The one with the big
gest head.
Why was Blackstone like an Irish
vegetable2 Because he was COM
mon tater.
Why wouldn't'you sleep in a sleep
ing car2 Because the train runs ov-
er sleepers.
Why does short negro resemble
a white man? Because he is not
tall black.
Why is dead doctor like dead
duck? Because they both have done
quackihg.
If I were to see you riding on
donkey, what fruit should be re-
minded Of? A pair.
Why is-a- loaf of bread like the
sun? Because it rises in the yeast
and sets in the vest.
Why are cowardly soldiers like
tallow candlesY Because when ex-
posed to the fire they run.
When is woman not a woman?
When she is a little sulky; or again,
when she is a little bare.
Why are pigs mad at least once7
Because they always lose their heads
at sometime or other.
Aside from high school girls and
mustard plasters, the blister is the
smartest thing on earth.
Why did Joseph's brethren throw
him into the pit? Because they
didn't want him in the family cir
Gle.
When chiropodist enters ball
room, should the band play; "see,
tbn oh,.a,,. :. :. L 80 .oJ, tt-f
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CIiAs. L. JIOGG,

ttorney Mt Law, office in Court House, Point
a Pleasant, West Virginia. Practices in the coun-
Court of Appeals ofWes Virginia and in the Federal
courts. nov. 1879
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ttorney at Law and Notary Public, Point
a Pleasant West Virginia. viii practice in the
Courts of Mason and Putnam counties, and attend
promptly 10 all business entrusted to him.
dec. J '7O.Iy.
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RANKIN WILEY, Jr.,

4 ttorney Mt Law, Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
a Practices in the County Of Mason; the United
Psmc Court Of Appeals Of West Virginia go Prompt
attention given 10 the collection of claims jan I4.iy
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md across the wide barren plains q

-
and across the wide barren plains ol
perseverance, and AZ.
Goodness meln cried the prince,
interrupsing, "it would take a month
to get there"
Many months, your highness."
swell, you must take me there;
well make a sort Of summer excurs,
ion of it.n
The old woman shook her head,
''You won'ts" asked the prince, an.
grily.
II can't sire. This is a path that
each one of us must indfor himself,
Have you been there yourself2'
demanded the prince.
'Ihaye.n
.And do you mean that you dare
to stand there, you wicked old wo
man, and refuse to show me2 Wha,
business have you to find out secret
ways in my kingdom that you keep
all to YOURSELF"
II can point out the way, prince;
but / cannot lead you there or 60
with you" said she.
"Take her away, and chop off her
head immediately" criedthe prince,
in great rage; "she's IN impostor
and a cheat, just like the man who
pretended he knew the way To the
waterfall when we were out hunt
ing last week, and led up into a bog,
where l lost one Of my boots and
caught cold. Chop off her head this
minute, Isay! She pretends to know
the way, and she dosen't a bit."
II have told you, sire"
"Rubbish!" cried the prince. "a
parcel of directions that / couldn't
make head or tail of. You want to
lead me into another bog, that | may
lose another boot. Cut of her head,
! Isayp
After the old woman's head was
of, the prince bethought him that it
would have been better, after all, if
he had been a little more coaxing
with her.
II might have got-more out of her."
he said; "and yet feel sure she was
only an impostor. If she'd really
found out the royal road, she'd have
been willing enough to take me
there, you may be sure.'
Now that her head was of, the
wise woman certainly could not tell
the prince any more about it; and if
she had really discovered such a
road as the prince fancied, the secret
died with her, for no one since has
so much as lighted upon q vestige of
it.
The prince, after a considerable
time, and after he had beheaded half
his ministers for stupidity, gave up
the search and died as he had lived
"a Ounce.
Alice went on with her music les
sons, and practised every day for
half an hour; and very long half
hour it seemed sometimes, especially
when Rover hung around waiting
for a romp with her in the garden
But she really made steady progress,
and her mother was quite proud of
her little pupil.
The scales were the worst things,
especially those "horrid minors" as
Alice called them, "that didn'tgo up
and down the same"
Mother" she said, one day, when
she was struggling very hard over G
sharp minor, and her fingers abso-
lutely refused to go upon the right
notes mother, l think I must be on
The royal road to learning, for I'm
sure this is the Ladder of Patience"
EYES," said her mother, "and if
you follow the track across the Plains
of Perseverance, shall be very much
if you don't find yourself
in the grand Castle of Success"
A comic story is told Of two well
known Southern clergymen, one Of
whom undertook to rebuke the other
for using the weed:
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W. Il. GUM,

horney at Law, Point Pleasant West Virginia
n Practices in the Courts Of Mason county, the
Court Of Appeals Of West Virginia and the United
States District Court for this State Prompt attention
gwen to the collection Of claims Office near the Court
House. jan. as, lsso-Iy.
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THE LADDEIs 0Fi z.rIENcE.

Il love music snother ] wish you
would teach me 10 spla the piano
like cousin Clara; said Istle Alice
May.
acousin Clarat w b IdY dear, she
plays splendidly said mamma
"Yes, l know SspSssl. hdIwanl
TO play splendidly, d
II viii beginsso led 6 certain
ly, if you wish bpf d bea very,
very long time belole can play
like Cousin Clara.
~ should like tDs Begin at once,
mamma please 2 said li1s
syery well, my dear be
Very 'pllssadf 10 'eft n
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, tenders his pro.
An ,e;,lana services to the people Of Mason county,
a. T Sa, promptly attended to whether day night.
'"Se nS IN Hess building next door to Arlington House.
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ttarneys ut Law, will practice in the counties OF
p Mason and Putnam. Address l.. d. Knight, nj
Point Pleasant, West Virginia Ef-hIr. Couch Is No
Hfy Public for Mason county. jan 8, IS79-Iy
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WNI. A. DENNIS,
KNIGHT & COUCH

A torney at Law, Point Pleasant, West Virginia
d will practice in the Courts Of Mason and adjoining
ouhtieS June I-Iy.
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1t is odd and something melan-
choly to see man trying to snake
up his mind" when he has 20 mater.
ial on hand to work with.
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A Kansas weekly publishes "four.
teen rules to be observed during u
tornado" Only one is necessarily
Be Somewhere else,
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PHvSLCLlNS.

r-' s--rr y s>-.,~ >H>-,~-- ssr-..,- -s--- 3 ~'
ANDREW X. nARnRR I'D. II. FRAyEL.
Di.S. BARBEE & FRAYEL,
oiIhWcst 9th and Main Streets, Point Pleasant,
=, Mest Virginia. Office hours from to a IN. and
" 'op M liune II 7D-ty.
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JOIN w. ENGLISH.

'torney Mt LAW will practice in the Courts Of Ma.
n son, Putnam and Jackson, and in the Court of Ap.
peaS of West Virginia. Address Point Pleasant, Mason
county, West Virginia. tjan 8, IS7Q-Iy
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ATT0RNEYs.
". n. rouLlSsos. DIV. rc
r0MLINsoN & roLsLEY.
March 81, 1SSO-1y.

w.H. TouLiSsoS. D. roLsLEY
T0MLINs0N & PoLsLEY,
a ttorneys and Counselors ut Law, Point Plea
Sant West Virginia, practice in the County Of Ma
son. the United States District Court for West Virginia
Rs Prompt attention given TO the collection OF claims
en,rustsd to them. Address, Point Pleasant, W. Va.
jan 8, IS79-Iy:
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It's said of the mosquitoes of South
America that they sit on the trees
and bark, and a great many Of them
weigh pound.
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The rain falls on the Just and the
unjust; but not on the man who has
just stolen an umbrella.
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DIR. S. q. SHAW.

<lItfSlclAN AND SURGEON, tenders Ills pro
- I 'onal srryecs to the public. Call, promptly at
LuIIi9 phec cor Main aud 81 streets. opposite
"'''a Pfe'bytetiln church. lapnl ), t87g-ty
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d. s. SNYDER.

MANUFACTURERand Dealer in Leath-
lM er, Hides, Bark, Tallow, Sheep Pelts,
Boots, Shoes, Shoe Findings, Morrocos,
French Kip and Cali. Sole Leather cut to
order. Bring your Tanners Supplies to
the Tannery where you will always get the
market price in cash. Remember the best
is the cheapest, and such being the fact,
leave your measure at the Shoe Shop for
your Boots and Shoes. Will insure fit,
good material and good work, for as little
money as anywhere in the United States.
Call, won't you? oct. 22-ly.
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son. II. II. Il
SIMPSON 81 HOWARD,

O'r. SIMPSON. II. II. HOWARD.
SIMPSON s. HOWARD,
uorncys Mt Law, Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Prcmg Court Of Appeals and circuit courts OF the 7h
judicial District Office in court house ljan 8, '79
JAMES W. HoGE. JAMES b. MENAGER.
H0GE IL MENAGER,
uorncys and Counsclnrs at Law, practice in
~ ~ the Circuit and County Courts Of Mason county,
We west Virginia. Address James W. Hbge, Winfield.
Ttltlam % county, West Virginia. James b. Mcaager,
igh' Pleasant Mason county, West Virginia.
janS r879.ly
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A comic story is told Of two well
known Southern clergymen, one Of
whom undertook to rebuke the other
for using the weed:
Brother g." he exclaimed, with.
out stopping to ask any other qucs-
tions," is it possible you chew tobac-
coz"
81 must confess 1 do" the other
quietly replied.
"Then / would quit, sir" the old
gentleman energetically continued.
ut is a very unclerical practice and
an uncleanly one. TobaccoI Why
even hog won't chew it'
"Father c., do you use tobacco2'
replied the amused listener.
"No, sir" he answered with indig-
nation.
"Thon, pray, which is the most
like the hog, you or II"
The old DOCTORS fat sides shook
with laughter as he said:
swell, I've been fairly caught this
time.p
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-03
The Texns Pncinc Knnd.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-The senate
committee on railroads gave a hearing
to-day to Ex-Governor Brown, Of
Tennessee, vice president of the Texas
Pacific railway company, in advocacy
of the pending bill to extend the time
for the completion Of its road. He
informed the committee that the rail
road will be completed to I'll Paso by
the first Of January, 1888, and when
that point is reached, the company
will have constructed S22 miles of its
main line and have in operation a
total Of 1,044 miles of railroad, for
which it will not have received an
acre Of land or a dollar of money from
the general government, although the
government has the same privilege to
regulate rates of transportation and
the same right of priority
of the use of all portions Of
this road for military and postal
purposes that the United States en-
joys in regard to the Union Pacific
and Central Pacific roads, which were
literally aided from the start. He
pointed out that the remainder of the
line, viz. IT'S miles from lei Paso to
San Diego, is the only portion to
which the land grant attaches. The
ten years fixed by congress for the
completion of the road to San Diego
viii expire in May, 1882, but the
company claim that inasmuch as it
suspended operations only by reason
of the panic in 1879, and the general
consequence of that panic, and as il
will have invested fifty millions of
private capital in the enterprise be-
fore it reaches the land grant at FL
Paso, the justice of congress may be
confidently invoked to authorize such
extension Of time as will enable the
company to complete its work with
proper economy, without attempting
to rush it through at an e~xtravagan5
cost.
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RAILROAD NOTES.
Steel Rails for wilson's and Nc
Ghee's Lines---Latest
improvements.
Knoxville Chronicle, April 81

Knoxville Chronicle, April 81
The wide-awake and energetic man
a cement Of the East Tennessee, Vir-
GINA and Georgia railroad has just
received the invoiceo of about forty. five
miles of new steel rails, direct from
the celebrated Krupp steel works in
Germany, the most extensive steel
works in the world. A portion Of the
rails r received, aud they are coming
in every few days. These rails are
being used to supply the place of the
old iron rails, and will be put down on
the line from Bristol to Chattanooga,
where there are not already steel rails,
just as rapidly as practicable. Wher.
ever they are put down the road bed
is first put in the very best condition
possible, by liberal use Of ballast,
new ties, etc. When the work is
completed, and the entire line is
strung with steel rails, and frst-class
road bed, it will be one Of the best
roads in the south.
Our attention has been called to a
special order issued by Mai. Jno. f.
O'Brien, the efficient chief engineer
aud superintendent OF this line of
road, ~countersigned by Prof. S. +.
Baird, United States commissioner of
fish and fisheries, giving free transpoi-
tation to all points on the road until
January LIST, 1881, for cans Of young
fish, or crates of eggs, and the messen-
gers with them, for the purpose of dis
tributing them in the various streams
through this part Of the country,
This is certainly commendable action
on the part Of the enterprising man
agement Of the road, and indicates
clearly the live interest which they
take in all matters that pertain to the
welfare and advantage of the sur.
rounding country and its inhabitants.
On Wednesday, two master car
builders of the A. NJ. a. O. railroad
and the master car builder Of the
Memphis and Charleston, we're in the
city, and in consultation with Mr.. Jo-
seph Ambruster, master of car repairs
for this road, a uniform plan for the
building and constructing Of all freight
cars to be used by these various lines
was agreed upon. They are all to be
built after the latest and most inn
proved styles. The lines above men
honed form a continuous line from
fthe coast at Norfolk, Va to the Mis-
sissippi river at Memphis.
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The Army Bill.
Special to the Courier journal

opeclal 10 inc COurler-JOurnal.I
WASHINGTON, April 1.-The army
appropriation bill will probably come
before the house next week. At the
extra session it was reported, and
finally passed, containing a provision
prohibiting the use of troops at the
polls as a police force to keep the
peace. As the president did not veto
this, although all the senate republi-
cans made very vigorous opposition to
it, it is intended to report it again
This time, however, it cannot come
from the appropriation committee, but
must be reported by the military com
mittee, which met this morning and
decided to bring in at the proper time
the law as it passed the house at the
extra session.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-03
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Cloudy.
Heavy shower last night.
The rain damaged considerable
freight on the levee.
No more high water this spring.
The river is declining as rapidly as
it rose.
The Cons Millar leaves Cincinnati
to-day for Memphis.
The Golden Crown leaves Cincin-
natl tomorrow for New Orleans.
The Henry G.. Yeager, bound from
New Orleans to St. Louis, is coming
up with a broken shaft.
The colored people who were de-
luded to emigrate to Kansas, are grad
ually returning TO their old homes.
The City of Alton passed down tC-
day after adding at Aopefeld and on
this side a lot ofoil cake and meal.
The Mollie Moore, en- route from
st. Louis to 0uachiti river, with a
load Of grain, passed down this morn
ing.
The snow in the mountains has all
melted and u off. Unless there is
Unprecedented rains there will be no
more high water.
The Ste. Genevieve, Captain West,
master, leaves for Vicksburg this
evening. She carries the mail and
does all way business.
The steam yacht Cinderella, it is
expected, will leave for her future
field of duty, above and below Green
vile, Miss, tomorrow.
John Crecelius and his coaster,
loaded at Leavenworth, Ind, arrived
here two days ago. and pushed on
down the river yesterday.
Capt. j. M. Bo6uger has contracted
with the secretary Of the treasury to
rise the gunboat Cairo, which was
sunk in Yazoo river in 1862.
The Belle Memphis left St. Louis
last night for Memphis, and is due
tomorrow evening, and leaves Mon
day evening with a return trip.
After laying at the island above the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-03

The Bitters invariably remedy yellowness
OF the complexion and whites of the eyes,
pains in the right side and under the right
shoulder-blade, furred tongue, high colored
urine, nausea, vertigo, dygpepsla, cOnstipa-
ton, heaviness of the head, mental despon-
dency, and every other manifestation or
the liver. The stomach, bowels and kidneys
also experience their regulating and tonic
influence.
ally 1871
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Saturday, April 10th, 1850,
Chancery Sale of Real Estate.


Chancery Court of Shelby county-No. S2A,
NJ. Il. Reush, ADMIR- Of John A. Roush
vs. Il. j. Wolff, ct al.-And No. 1923, M, Il.
Rnush VS.. S. Becktold. ct al.
D1 virtue of an interlOeutory decree for sale,
ID entered in the above consolidated causes
on the 18th day of March, IS 0, NJ. b. 26, p.
81, 1 will sell, at public auction. to the high.
est bidder, in front OF the clerk and masters
office, courthouse OF Shelby county, Memphis,
now known as the Taxing District Of Shelby
Saturday, April 10, 1850,
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in Shelby county, Tenn,
70 wit: A leasehold interest in the city Of
Memphis. situated on the southwest corner
Of DeSOto and Monroe streets, fronting on
Monroe streets feet, more or less, by 1857 feet
on the west side Of DeSoto street, with all the
improvements thereon, subject to conditions
Of lease filed herein.
Alse a certain tract of land in Memphis on
the north side Of Hotel street. being lot II of
block II, on the plan of said city as set out in
the deed Of Andrew Stein, recorded in book
1906, p ga in the Registers Office of Shelby
Ounty
Also a certain tract in said city on the east
side OF Causey street, fronting IS feet, more or
less, and having q depth Of about $50 feet,
being all Of lot No. 4, block AZ, except the
rear part Of said lot sold to one Copeland by
j. NJ. James, being the same land described
In an instrument recorded in Register office,
Shelby county, Tenn, book 70, page ga, ETC.,
subject, however, to the life estate of Mary l.,
koush, which has been set apart TO her in this
cause. beginning at the southwest corner
Of said lot No. 4; thence north with the east
line of Causey street 57E feet; thence east at
right angles with said street 100 feet; thence
south and parallel with said street Is feet 10
inches, the south line of said lot: thence west
wardly with the south line of said lot No. 4 to,
the beginning"
Terms of sale-0ne- fourth cash; balance on
a credit oftwelye ~ months, purchasers exc
cutting notes. Lien reserved for payment Of
purchase money, and when paid, title abso-
lutte.
This March 18th, 1880.
X, j. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
Finlay & Peters, Ii, Q. Mccall, WV. Good
win, Solicitors. 1786
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Under and by virtue of two certain trust
" deeds to me executed by joseph G..
Meacham, Of date 2nd day ofNevember, 1873,
in the Registers Office of Shelby
county, State Of Tennessee, in record book
No. IS, on page %, and one dated 9th day of
March, 1875, and recorded in same Office, on
the 9Th day Of March, 1875, in record book No.
l05, on page 1853; the debts therein secured be-
ing past due and unpaid, | will, at the request
of the benefoiaries therein, on
Saturday, the 10th day Of April, 1880,
legal hours, at the southwest corner OF
Main and Madison streets, in tho city Of
Memphis, Tenn, proceed to sell to the high
est bidder for cash the following described
real estate conveyed by the trust deed, dated
of November, 1873, situated in Shelby
county, State Of Tennessee, tO-wit; One lot or
parcel of land in Germantown, bounded on
the north by what is known rs the n. Board
man lands; ON the west by the Germantown
and Memphis plank road, or Bridge street; on
south by the Memphis and Charleston rail-
road; and on the east bywhat is known MS the
Stout lands, containing FIVE acres, more or
less, with all the tenements and appurte-
nances thereunto belonging, il heing the same
on which the said Meaeham now resides. Also
one tract Of land about ~ miles south ofGer-
mantOwn, known as a part Of the Payne lands,
and described as follows, to-wit: A part OF
fractional section number two %, township
number one ID OF range number six Q6l, west,
lying between the old Winchester line and
the line dividing the State Of Tennessee from
the State Of Mississippi, containing three
hundred acres, more or less Except one huns
dred acres of said tract heretofore sold by said
Moacham to j.. j. Tuggle); also one other
tract Of land adjoining the last above describ-
cd tract on the north, and bounded on tho
east by other lands Of said Meacham. known
as the Clarke place; on the north by the lands
OfJ0hn Hall and on the west by the lands Of
Moses Nicely aud N. L. Harrison, containing
Rinety-fye 1851 acres, more or loss; also one
other tract Of land situated in same county
aud State, conveyed BY the trust deed, dated
March 9Th, 1875, II being a part Of the north
division Of fractional section number two ~,
township number one Cd Of range six l6),
west, in the 18th Civil District, containing
two hundred and six acres, more or less, IL
being same lands conveyed TO said Meacham
by deed Of Geo. B. Clarke, dated Janunry
18th, 1857, and recorded in deed book No. 80,
on pages No. 436 and 4sT, Of the records OF
Shelby county, State o~fTenneFsee.
The title to theso. lands believed TO be good.
but | sell and convey only az trustee.
Right Of redemption waived in both deoda.
.IaSw LlDBETrER. Trustee.