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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-09-29

An old sailor, unacquainted with
the appliances Of a lady's toilet,
picked up a hair-pin in New York
street car, and handing it to lady
opposite, said: Madam, you have
lost a fork"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-09-29

A young lady just home from
boarding school, on being told by the
servant that they had no goosebor,
ries, exclaimed: "Why, what has
happened to the goose?"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-09-29
A Letter in BLOOD.

A banksnote bearing a message
writtenwisb blood was paid into L
MERCHANTS Office at Liverpool, Eng
laid, some years ago, The cashisr,
while holding it up to the light to.
test its genuiness, noticed some faint
marks uponit, which proved to be
words scrawled in blood betweenthe
printed lines and upon the blank
margin Of the note. Extraordinary
pains were taken to decipher these
almost obliterated characters, and
the following sentence was made
out; "If this note should fallinto the
hands of John Dean, of Long Hill,
near Carlisle, be will learn hereby
his brother is lapguishjng a prison
or in Algiers."' Mr.. Dean was
promptly communicated with, andhe
applied to the British Government
for assistance to.obtain his brothers.
RELIEF frem captivity. The prisoner,
who hadtraced the above sentence
upon the note with a splinter of
wood. dipped in his own blood had
been d slave to the DeyS or Moham-
medan ruler of sAlgiers for eleven
years, when his strange missive first
attracted attention in a Liverpool
contingencies. His family and
friends had long believed him dead.
He was released and brought home
to England, where, however, he did
not long survive, his constitution
Having been irreparably injured by
exposure, priyations, and forced la
Dor in the Dey's galleys.
"Marse John, gimme four bits,
please, sir; you amt treated dis mig
ger sence de war;" said 81 to.the son
of his old owner.
"What do you want with it, SIP
queried the young man.
"Want to go to de circus, Marse
John. You know low a niger is.'
But, 81, fifty cents won'ttake you
in now. The Civil Rights Bill made
you as white man at the shows,
and you'll have to pay dollar, as |
do.n
as dat de truf, Marse. John2"
"Just as true as preaching"
81 scratched his head for a full
minute, and then looked up with
mournful eyes and said:
"Dar it is agin. I told dem mig,
gers dey was spisen de horn about
dem sibil rights and hyars de truf Of
it pint-blank. Iallus wur mighty
up-spoken niger, ez you knows,
Marse John, and twix' us, I say
d--n de sibil rights, 'speshily when
de circus is around"
Srgot his four bits, he's mad yet.
"My darling, said he, "what a de,
licious taste your lips have!" Then
she sprang up and yelled, sGoodness,
Johnl have you been eating my lip
salve?"
The post norton examination Of a
mans lille always reveals finer traits
of character than he was ever before
known to possess.
A dentist never uses profane Ian
guage nor gets arrested for assault
and battery. When he feels par.
ticularly ugly he just holds in till
he has a customer, and when he
once gets his forceps on that Gus
TONER'S molar his fendish wrath is
set on at full head.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-09-29
PA is

obtained for new inventions, or for i'm
provements in old ones. Caveats, Trade
Marks and all patent business promptly at
tended to.
Inventions that have been reject
ed may still, in most cases, be patented by
u.s.. Being opposite the U. S. Patent Office,
and engaged in Patent business erclusively,
we can secure patents in less time than
those who are remote from Washington
and who must depend upon the mails in
all transactions with the Patent Office.
When inventors send model or sketch
we make search in the Patent Office and
advise as to its patentability free of charge.
Correspondence confidential, prices low,
and no charge unless Patent is OBJ
tanned.
We refer to Hon. Postmaster General
d. NJ. Key, Rev. F. D. Power, to officials in
the y. S. Patent Office, and especially to
our clients i'll every State OF the Union and
in Canada. For special reference, terms,
advice, &C., Address
@. A. SNOW 4 CO..
Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D. 9.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-09-29
The constitutional Amendments

LVINI iiL5OLVTIpN pfUIlO5Ing IN uInelu-
& nent to the Constitution Of the State.
Reyolreti by tie Legislature Of Wet PhgfRid,
tlco7liirls Of all NE members elected 10 each
Home agreeing heretO: That the following
Beaad TIVE same is hereby proposed as an
amehdment 10 the Constitution OF this
State, to-wit; That article eight Of said
Constitution as it now is be stricken out,
and the following be inserted in lieu there
~.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-09-29

"There are seventeen sculptors and
painters from the United States now
residing in Rome," said Mrs. Bemis
from the newspaper. "H'mp grunt.
ed Mr.. Bemis, mo wonder I couldn't
get a painter to whitewash that
she'd"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-09-29

A New York stone.cuttor received
the following epitaph from a German
to be cut upon the tombstone of his
wife: "Mine wife Susan is dead; if
she had lived till mex Friday she'd
been dead shust two weeks. As a
tree falls so must it stan'."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-09-29

nESIRE to call the attention of ladies to
~ their very large stock OF Millinery and
Fancy Goods for the Winter of 1871
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-09-29

A dentist never uses profane Ian.
guage nor gets arrested for assault
and battery. When he feels par.
ticularly ugly he just holds in till
he has a customer, and when he
once gets his forceps on that Gus.
TONER'S molar his fendish wrath is
set on at full head.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-09-29

The post norton examinationof a
mans lille always reveals finer traits
of character than he was ever before
known to possess.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-09-29

!. The judicial power OF the State shall
be vested in a supreme court Of appeals, in
circuit courts, and the judges. thereof, in
such inferior tribunals as are herein au-
thorized, and in justices OF the peace.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29
DesOlatiOn OF the Holidays.

The desolation Of the holidays? Happy, thrice
happy are you to whom this is an unmeaning
sentence; but there are thousands all through the
land whose hearts give a voiceless echo to the
words of which they know the meaning all too well
The SORROWS which they have learned to bear
with COMMUNITY. as a part Of their daily life in
ordinary times, come surging back upon them
with tenfold force in these times Of general fes-
tiyi,y for others, sometimes threatening to we'll
nigh oyerwhelm them. And vet they seldom
sneak of this 1t is not time to speak of grief
when all around are full OF such abundant Joy.
Few around them know OF the fearful struggle
going ON in their hearts while thew epdeayor to
keen A calm exterior and not mar the pleasure Of
others-a struggle sometimes resulting even in a
complete physical prostration wholly inexplicable
to nhvsician and friepds O. Won little dream
how often during these DAYS. when they chance to
be alone, the barriers give way and such a storm
of tears and sobs sweeps over them as would
frighten YOU to witnessl-then hiding all sign Of
this. thew 20 forth again to try and meet the
happy ones around them with an answering
smile Perhaps You wonder that they are not al
ways ready with a MERRY Christmas" or
"Happy New Year" for every one whom they
may meet but you cannot know how, often the
words die on their lips when they would speak
them, and only by much selfcontrol can they
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29

VERMoNT's SENATOR'S" GATH" in a
letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer, says
dustin s. Morrill, of Vermont is one of the
most respectable senators we have had in
Washington. He belongs to the utilitarian
type of Yankee radical, but not aggressive
in political things, and always designing
something for the benefit of large classes of
the people, such as farmers, students and
authors. He has had charge virtually Of the
Capitol building for years past, and under
his influence the library and statuary have
come out strong. He and his colleague
(Edmunds) have always been in state Of
concord, genial to see, both ardent men, but
both indifferent to official spoils, so they can
carry out final purposes, moral and mental
No state in the Union possibly, since oui
government was founded, has had two better
senators. Jealous, without being loud in
dividual, but kind; they are both nationa
men, and only Edmunds' great services in
the senate forbid the general indignation
that he was not made president Of tn,
United States"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29
The New AppOrtiOnment.

The new census, it is now definitely
known, will show little if any less than fifty
millions of inhabitants. Members Of the
house of representatives are apportioned
among the states in the ratio of their popu-
lation. The present house contains 293
members, and the ratio of representation
as fixed by the last census is one to l3l 1926.
The number of members by the new appor-
tionment will probably be increased to
300, as there is no special reason for re-
tanning the present number and certainly
none for a smaller one. The increase of
seven members would make no appreciable
difference in the character of the house.
II 800 should be the number determined
upon, the number of inhabitants to each
representative would be l66,666, and the
only difficulty in making the apportionment
would arise from the excess in each state
after assigning TO each number equal TO
the quotient obtained by dividing its popu-
lation by l86,666 There would be remain
ders, no doubt, in each case, and as a general
rule small remainders would be disregarded,
while those nearly approaching the divisor
in size would entitle the state to an add
tional member. Several small states, Della
ware, Nevada and Oregon have fewer in
habitants than the representative quota, but
are entitled to one member each and OF
course the remaining states must have
somewhat more in the aggregate than 297
times the quota. 1t must happen that the
remainders would be 80 distributed that by
rejecting the small ones and giving add
tional members for those exceeding one
half the quota, the exact number Of 800
would be made up, but it might harper
also that the number OF larger remainder
would make the whole number more thar
800. In adjusting the quota of states il
which the remainder a little exceeds o.
falls short little of half the divisor, tn,
difficulty Of framing an equitable bill lies
and this difficulty is chiefly in the smalle
states, for to increase or diminish by ON
the representation of a state which ha
only two or three representatives affects tn
basis of representation much more SER
ously than a like change would in a grea
state like New York which has SO repre-
sentatiyes.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29

PENSION ARREARAGEs.-The pension ar
rearages bill by the present congress is
proving to be an expensive measure. At
the time it was under discussion it was
maintained by its advocates that the meas
ure would require only about 100000 for
first payments. The time for making APP
plications under the provisions of this act
expired July LIST, yet the amount required
to satisfy the first payments on these appli-
cations is stated by Mr.. Hubbell to be
S243000,000, to which must be added Si5,.
100000 for annual payment hereafter. If
this immense sum went into the pockets Of
those who actually fought and suffered in
the war of the rebellion, no regrets would
be felt. There is growing feeling that the
government unwisely committed itself to a
piece of sentimental legislation more for the
benefit of an army of blood-sucking claim
agents than for the relief of an army of dis
abled soldiers.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29

A REMINIsCENoE.-A correspondent of
the New York Evangelist relates the follow
ing interesting incident: 9" 1t was under the
trees Of the Williams College campus in 1866
that fell into conversation with a young
stranger Of soldierly appearance, who was
very eloquent in his expressed estimation Of
President Mark Hopkins, whom he declared
to be the grandest man he had ever fallen in
with, and that he himself owed more to him
than to any man living. He declared fur
Their that he could detect student of the
doctors by hearing him speak, though a
stranger-that is, if the man amounted to
anything-and that he had so detected two
or three strangers at different and distant
places. After 80 much conversation, asked
my strangers name. He said it was Gar
field. met the general again in 1875 at
the same place, and heard his address to the
alumni; and took notice of his remarkable
head, of which mention is so often made,
as he sat surrounded by such men as Hop
kins, Calhoun, Cullen Bryant, three of the
Fields, and great company of such persons
as one Goes not see together very often"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29

A MASSACHUSETTS journal brings out the
following incident as suggested by the re-
cent John Brown talk in the United States
senate: GAS the hour for hanging John
Brown struck, l. N. Luce of Martha's
Vineyard said in the Massachusetts, senate !;
move that the senate do now adjourn.
think that this action on our part is fitting,
because at this hour the first man to be
hung for treason in this country is to be
executed because, in the language of Gov
ernor Wise of Virginia, that man is the
most unselfish, the most truthful, and the
bravest man ever known to the governor
who signed his death warrant, and because
this government which knowingly submits
to an act so inhuman must itself be on the
eve Of some great crisis. The remarks of the
rural member called out derisive laughter"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29

The OKLAHOMA CoLoNIsTs.-Th New
York Times says: "The picturesque figure
of Dr. Robert NJ. Wilson, the representative
and ambassador of the Oklahoma colonists,
as they call themselves, has appeared in
Washington. The ambassador is described
as wearing his trousers tucked into his
boots, and, among other things, garnshed
with flannel shirt with diamond studs.
The gems, doubtless, bespeak the high char
acter of the envoy, while the flannel shirt is
a concession to the traditions of the free,
unbounded west. The doctor asks but lit
tie here below. He only wants the presi-
dent to cancel his proclamation warning in
truders from the Indian territory, and to
grant the colonists a military escort across
the fifty-seven miles OF reservation which
lie betwixt them and their promised land.
This modest request is not likely to be
granted, and the colonists vow that they
will appeal to congress; and if congress will
not come to their relief, they will make a
final and victorious raid into the territory
next March"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29
The Old Year.


Before another issue of the WATcHMAN
appears the recording angel will have written
" Finis" to the one thousand eight hundred
and eightieth year book of the worlds history
since the dawn of the Christian era. While
the year just closing has not been signalized
by any of those startling events that flash
out with meteoric splendor along the course
of time, nevertheless it has been a highly
satisfactory year, especially to Americans.
The political clouds that lowered over the
land year ago have been gloriously dis
PEELED. A great political contest, ominous
with civil strife and freighted with human
liberty, has been decisively settled. The
dread elements of internecine dscord that
lurked in an indecisive issue of the conflict
have been extinguished beyond the power
of political incendiaries to fan them into
life. In the closing days of the dying year
the ship of state, richly cargoed with the
hopes and fears of humanity, sails out from
the perilous shadow of unpropitious events
into the full light of future more radiant
with promise than any era which has yet
dawned upon the land which God "made
and hath preserved a nation
In spite of the feverish political excitement
which has laid its parched hand on every sec
ton of this Union, our business and indus
trial interests have amply fulfilled the prom
Use OF increase with which the year opened.
Crops, mines and factories have yielded
enough to supply our own teeming millions
and furnish liberal contributions to the
markets of the world Wages have been
remunerative, and the relatively few failures
among business men attest the genuinenes:
of the prosperity under which we are living
Our material prosperity has not been cloudeo
by the visitation of pestilence, or by any
widely extended disaster. Side by side
with the great stream of human happiness
or rufling its surface with its eddes ant
counter-currents, have coursed Tributaries
Of grief, suffering and disaster but whel
the good and the evil which 1880 has lef
on the sands Of time are summed up, s,
great balance of benefits, moral materia
and political, will appear that the good OLE
year will find few rivals among the illustri
GUS dead of the past century, nor need fea
that the future will largely increase tn
number. That the new year may be a
kind to our country and TO the world a
large, we devoutly pray, while 1881 pre-
pares to assume the scepter dropped fror
the faltering hands OF 1880.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29
Diphtheria.

The New York Times publishes an article,
written by DR.. Kerr of Pittsburg, concern
ing the true nature Of diphtheria. The pith
Of the paper is condensed in Times edito-
rial, from which the following is taken
"Whatever may be the nature of the dis
ease-a floating germ in the air, or even the
formation of false membrane in the throat
in its early stage the disorder is purely To-
cal. The membrane, which is ordinarily
spoken of as fungus, can be removed by
local application. Dr. Kerr suggests rather
powerful lotion of hydrochloric acid and ely
cerine. But the moment the membrane forms
the patient is threatened with another and
far more dangerous malady. While the
process in the tonsils is going on a virulent
poison is distilled in the neighborhood. This
secretion, an Insignificant amount Of which
is suffered to impregnate the system, passes
from the throat into the stomach, producing
acute gastritis, aud thence into the circula-
ton. The system becomes much depressed;
the action Of the heart and brain is lowered
ordinarily, TO the verge, and sometimes to
the worst condition of paralysis, and the pa
tent dies, not, as is supposed, from asphyxia,
caused by the stoppage of the air passage
but from the presence of virulent poison
in the blood which impedes the bodily func-
tions and quenches the activity of the vital
organs. The patient is in this critical plight,
that his system cannot with proper treat
ment receive reinforcement in the way Of
new tissues for the stomach, being greatly
inhamed, is unable to assmilate food for the
replenishment of the waste that has taken
place or restore energy to throw off the poi
son. But the morbid conditions once thor
oughly understood, treatment to correspond
should not be hard TO find, and DIR. Kerr
meets the symptoms with appropriate rene
dies. He detaches the false membrane by
using the wash above named puts into the
stomach simple chemical preparation, cal
cined magnesia, to combine with and neu-
tralize the diphtheretic poison, and gently
remove it through the natural channels.
This prevents its passing into the circula-
ton. Meantime he supports the patient
upon nutritious and non-irritant food, until
the crisis of the disorder is reached when
wine, or, if necessary, whiskey and brandy,
are copiously administered to aid in elimi-
mating the impurities and throwing off the
clutch that threatens to choke the life out of
heart and brain, and with care and attention
the tone returns, the poison is eliminated,
the functions are naturally discharged, the
membrane ceases to form, and the poisonous
secretion is no longer provided
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29

MAKE OUT THE TAX BILLs.--Owing to
some changes made by the late legislature in
the matter of allowance for ATTACHMENTS and
for collecting, the state treasurer may not be
able TO issue his warrants for the collection
of the state tax for nearly two weeks. In
order TO give taxpayers as much time as
possible to avail themselves of the allow
ance of three per cent, II payment is made
before February LIST, the suggestion is made
TO selectmen OF towns not TO await the
reception of the treasurer's warrants but to
proceed at once TO make out the tax bills.
A tax Of twenty per cent is laid for the year
1881 on the list OF 1880. The tax bills can
therefore be made up at once, and be ready
for collection the moment the treasurer's
warrants are received, or before il any con
siderable delay in the issue of the warrants
is likely TO ensue.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29

New WEATHER PRoPHET-Hackensack,
New Jersey, develops a rival to the vera
cious Vennor, in the person of Henry j. DE
Voc, whose predictions, unlike those Of Ven
nor, are said thus far to have proved relia-
BILE. A careful theory of the clouds is the
basis on which his prophecies are predicted
Doubtless there are many people who will
watch for the fulfllment of the predictions
of these weather seers, who never observe
or utterly discredt the reports OF the gov
conflict of quackery against science-a con
flict in which the former is apt to have the
larger following.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29

Boston Herald; TO what extent bossism
and servility in the Republican party in
New York are being carried, may be judged
from this expression from one of the Conk-
ling papers 1t is due to Mr.. Conkling and
to the harmony and success of the Republi-
can party, that his wishes should be re-
garded in the selection Of an associate in
the senate'"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29

The Louisville Courier-Jounai fears that
Republican senator may step in from Ten
nessee, and says; ave have dispatched
three giant intellects to beard the problem
in its den, and they concur in the opinion
that the danger Of a contamination SO de-
voutly 10 be damned is imminent"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29

New York Tribune: "The Democratic
party does not represent the majority in this
country, either in popular votes, in electoral
votes, in brains, or in influence. II succeeds
in polling nearly as many votes as the Re
publican party only by fraudulent suppress
sion Of about one million votes at the south,
and by fraudulent counting of the votes that
are cast"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29

The Inauguration ceremonies are likely
to be the most elaborate of any that have
preceded them. The military display will
be very large, and the effort to procure a
representation of the volunteer and militia
organizations of every state, and each one
of the large cities, is likely to be wholly sue
cessful. Accommodations and quarters have
already been arranged for over fifteen thou
sand men belonging to military and political
organizations.