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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-07-07
A vet month.
Corn Is looking we'll
The rivers are rising.

BlacEserries arc plenty.
House painters are busy.
Wheat is badly damaged.
Organize Hancock Clubs.
The Docks are kept busy.
a good deal Of sickness in town.
Too much drunkenness in this
town.
This is a good time to pay Tor your
paper.
Mr. Y. Pullinbid in the Broad Run
bridge,
The Little Boone j, nearly COM
pleted.
The Wilson Brothers have plenty
of work.
Send in clubs for the campaign
Register.
Rev. S. X. yaught is slowly i'm
proving.
This has been u good season for
river men.
Mason City is the largest town ia
the county.
Look out for dry weather after this
rainy spell.
Large number Of bogus coins in
circulation.
The hay crop will be more than an
average one.
Rev. Manchester, P. E., was in
town Monday.
To change and to be better are two
different things.
Our town is becoming notorious
for street fights.
Proud hearts and lofty mountains
are always barren.
Don Cameron is sick. 1t is bad
case of the "sulks.n
Where were all our civil officers
last Sunday evening"
The recent rains have made some
of the roads very bad.
J. II. Miller & Co, are doing good
business ut Beech Hill.
Hancock Autographs can be had at
Van elders drug store.
Rev. I. H. Lacy has accepted a call
to Manchester, Virginia.
They had big picnic last Sun
day, back Of New Haven.
We note the death of little child
of Adolph Hess, July 9Th.
we have had very little trouble
with dust the past month.
Several fine tracts of land adver-
tised for sale in this paper.
Republican ratification meeting on
Sixth street, Sunday evening.
Point Pleasant is said to be the
incest town on the Ohio river.
Meadows look well and the pros
pect for heavy hay crop is good.
The population of Hartford City is
567, and that of New Haven, $50.
Col. Frank Sisson is said to be the
finest bridge builder in the State.
Wheat only averages about six
bushels to the acre in this county.
Preparations are being made to
erect Hancock pole in this place.
There is time for everything, and
now it is time to pay for your paper.
Mr.. Charles c. Bowyer and wife,
have returned from their Pittsburgh
trip.
This county will have $4,000 in
habitants,-a gain Of about forty per
cent.
DR.. Hoy was awarded the contract
for attending the poor, in four Dis
tricts.
The hard ferry has been in the
place Of the steam ferry for the past
week.
The scarcity Of hands induced a
few farmers to cut their wheat on
Sunday.
Simon Stortz's new house is being
put up. Mr.. James Neighbors is the
contractor.
The rain continues to fall every
day, and farmers are afraid of losing
their wheat.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-07-07

Some of our farmers are making
arrangements to thresh their wheat
from the shock, as it will not bear
handling second time.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-07-07

Our columns arc somewhat crowded
this week with advertising, and con-
FeQnently IL good deal of matter pre-.
pared for this paper. had to be left
over Our correspondents will I'm.
dcr&and now why their articles do
notappear.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-07-07

Our young friend, Sam, Spencer,
made his maiden speech ut solbe's
Orchard, in Cooper district, last Sat
"rday, at Fourth of July celebra-
ton, The speech is spoken of in
highest terms of praise.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-07-07

A large party Of Pittsburgh CAPT
taIists and manufacturers, will visit
the Shenandoah Valley ore fields,
and the coal and ore fields of the
Third District, in short time. R.
A. Wilson & Co, are at the head of
The enterprise,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-07-07

On account of the serious illness Of
Rev. S. K. vaught, the pastor, there
will be no service at Loves and
0linger's next Sunday.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-07-07

Regular service at the NJ. E. Church,
South, next Sunday morning and
evening by the pastor, Rev.. o. A.
Vaught.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-07-07
SPECIAL NogrcHs.

Go to tire Point Pleasant Ma
chine Company il you want Boiler,
Engine, Mill Castings, Bank Cars, Chilled
Car Wheels, Gas and Water Pipes, Brass
Goods, Gum or Leather BeliiAg, Cum and
Hemp Packing, Heating Stoves, Back
Walls, End Innings and Crates for Cooking
Stoves, and everything usually found in d
foundry or Machilss Shop. [scpt. 2l-u.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-07-07
The yoltaic Belt Co., MARSHALL,
Mich,

Will send their celebrated Electro
Voltaic Belts to the afflicted upon 80
days trial. Speedy cures guaranteed.
They mean what they say. Write
to them without delay.
nov 19-1y
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-07-07

Doctors recommend people to go to
sleep lying OH the right side. This
is all the better if you are little
deaf in the left ear and do not get
home until late.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-07-07

The annual conference of the NJ.
E. Church, South, will convene in
Buffalo, September LIST. Bishop Nc
Tyeire, of Nashville, Tennessee, will
preside.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-07-07

James B. Manager, Esq, las been
selected as Republican Presidential
elcctor for tho Third District We
congratulate him upon his good for
tune in being appointed TO such a
high and honorable position. Tho
honor Of the thing is all he will have,
because the votes of this District will
be cast for the Hancock electors.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-07-07

Ice CREAM SALooN.-Nlrs. Fritz
Hess has fitted up a nice ice.cream
saloon, in the house adjoining Capt,
llein's, where she would be glad to
zee her friends. This saloon is kept
in style. Ifyou wanta nice dish of
cream, call.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-07-07

CURIOUS CoIN.-Mr. Jabcz Beard
has left at our Office an old French
five centimc," which be rlowed up
on his land few days ago The
coin must be very ancient from its
looks, and is so much worn that the
date has been elaborated. 1t is
quite a curiosity.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-05-14

NIGHT came on and with II orr WORK
We had scsrcaIv ' aya;uad cd a. o o,,r ~ oost ~
when we fonnd that sharn che ~ a. W. VIC loos baS
heen .he hr;cands had haap beforeh Il, hanJ a,'S
with nd. i sunnrassed sbr;eb as from
some one WHOSE mouth 1vas hold ID was ~
dist;nctlv heard and than % ln'9d o, n,"ia. y, -
diction IN Ttal;an. an for for T wes ~ clos. oIoso
under the wall at Tho laft s;da of tho
houge. - - - ''e
soon oava tho u,ord ord 81 ,,;ob
pace passed up to the front of the house
and demanded, once, twice and thrice.
admission in the name of the king. and
receiving no answer we made an en-
trance as we could by forceof arms.
What sight met our eyes! On the
ground still in death lay an old man,
! fearfully mutilated, his ears. his fingers
and his nose being cut off. The wife, as
| supposed her to be, was bound hands
and feet in her chair, her gray hair
dabbled in blood from a wound in her
forehead. She had seen her husband
murdered before her eyes. Two youth
OF fourteen and sixteen years OF age lay
huddled together in the corner Of the
room. Poor boys, they were fearfully
cut and bruised, and the younger, l
found, was quite dead.
A woman, whom lsupposed to be the
servant, was bound TO the post OF bed
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-05-14
RaIky Horses.

Among the suggestions said to be pub
iished by some anti-crueity to animals
society are these: IF the horse when he
balks can have his attention diverted
there is usually no trouble in starting
him. This may be done in various
ways, of which the following are few
that have been employed: Take the
horse out Of the shafts and turn him
around quite rapidly. This will make
him entirely dizzy and lead him to for
get that he does not wish to draw the
load. a stout twine twisted around the
foreleg has been used as a remedy with
good results. A string tied around the
ear has the same effect. We have seen
horses of the balkiest sort started in a
moment by putting lump of earth into
their mouths. Even piece of sugar or
a handful of fresh grass will so divert
the attention of baker that he will
often start off without trouble. Some
mild treatment like these that set the
animal to thinking of something foreign
to his work is vastly better than any
amount of whipping, and is much easier
OF application. AnaericGn Ag7scsstasyist.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-05-14
THE BRIGANDs OF Ascot (

/ was sitting with brother officer
enjoying the delicious repOse that one
feels after fatiguing days work, when
/ was agreeably ordered to Ascoli, to
look after the brigands, who had there
been committing all sorts of atrocities.
We arrived at Aseoli in high spirits,
and proposed to make our first search
on the morrow. At Ancona we were
warned of strategem which the bri-
gands were practicing. Ten or dozen
of them would disguise themselves as
persons mending the roads, wearing the
usual blouse and short knee breeches
of the professed road-mender, but un-
derneath their blouses they were armed
with pistols and knives.
was glad to know this, because to
be fOrewarned is to be forearmed. I
only wished that we had arrived fey,
days sooner, for we might have saved
q young wife from being slain on her
wedding day. As the facts are short,
this may be the first anecdote of our SER
vice.
Two young people. peasants, were to
be married on certain day, and it was
known that after the ceremony, leave
taking, ETC., the husband would convey
his new wife to her future home, situ-
ated in village some distance up the
mountain. The brigands-this very
troop who had assumed the disguise
became aware of the fact, as also of the
time when the unsuspectlng victims
might be expected.
They came, and one of the road
members coming up to the side of the
vehicle. said:
"A trife, beautiful lady, for the love
of the Virgin"
The young wife in the generous i'm.
pulse OF her new JOY, took out her purse
never doubling the road-menders-fol
as q general thing they are honest and
was in the act of giving the pretended
beggar her simple donation, when theil
chaise was surrounded by these dis,
guised brigands.
Her husband was stunned by blow
on the head, and she, the wife, was
lifted out of the chaise and held while
general search was made of both theil
| persons. The husband was thought
dead, and was left ON the road. Wher
he regained his senses the sight which
met his gaze was too dreadful TO de
scribe.
On the ground, not many PAGES from
him, lay his wife; her pretty brida
finery all dabbled in blood. her dress al.
most torn into shreds, the earrings tori
from her ears, the finger whereon was
her wedding ring and the usual heavy
keeper cut of.
The horse and chaise had disappeared
probably transporting the brigands
away from the scene Of one of the mosi
cruel murders which the annals ol
hriOanda0a oan fl1rnich
The husband was discovered by d
priest and a herdsman, and conveyed to
the nearest village; but, although he
seemed to be in state of almost hope
less idiocy,. still, when the priest took
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-05-14
NUMBER %.
Tha namn MiII I,ome.

AMO Dawn tAAA O0UACe
The night may be dreary and somber and sad,
And swiftly may speed the wild rack in the
sky;
The OCEAN may roar on the waye-heaten shore,
But the dawn OF the bright golden morning
is night
The tempest may gather, the thunder ma
roll,
And the frightened birds hide from the
lightning's sheen;
But far in the East, from It's slumber released,
The dawn of the bright golden morning is
seeni
The bitterest sorrow may gather around,
And Danish the smileto give place to u fear;
But time will relieve all who trcmble and
grieve,
For the dawn OF the sweet smiling morning
is near!
Then do not despair, oh ye weary and sad!
For joy will dispense cen the shade OF
sigh;
Bright days will come back, and the night and
the lack
Will fee when the dawn of the morning
-Ed.pard Orsword
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-05-14

. In eastern lands they talk in flowers,
And they tell in garland their loves and cares;
Each flower that blooms in their garden bowers
On Its leaves mystic language BEARS"
-Puvivas.
The pretty red rose is an emblem Of love;
The SNOWFALL, thoughts of heaven above;
The honeysuckle implies dream OF thee,
And rosemary, always, remember me.
Arbor vita denotes unchanging friendship;
Ny only hope, the American cowslip;
Declare your love, says the tulip tree,
And juniper replies, live for thee.
Gloxinia tells Of love at first sight;
Sweet pea says, meet me by moonlight;
Dead leaves indicate heavy heart;
Variegated pink, forever we part.
Let Us part friends, says the trumpet flower.
Primrose answers, your friend for an hour.
Plum bloom says, keep your word,
And rose geranium, thou art preferred.
Apple bloom asks, wilt thou be mine
Peach bloom replies, my heart is thine.
The dandelion is gay coQuette,
And modesty dwells with the white violet.
Sweet William says, let our friendship end.
Snowdrop sighs softly, Pm not summer
friend
Balloon vine proposes to kiss and make up,
But ingratitude dwells in the bright buttercup.
/ surmount difficulties, is the mistletoe's song;
Woodbine's chorus, have loved thee long.
The lilac thrills with loves first emotion,
And heliotrope implies only devotion.
Petunia says, your presence soothes me;
Ice plant replies, your looks freeze me.
White rose whispers, my heart is free,
And white clover ever thinks OF me.
Sensitive rose, like pretty coqueste,
Says, to young too leave my mother yet.
Mine through sunshine, storm and SHOWS,
Is written all over the perpetual rose.
Blue iris brings message for you,
Forget-me-not denotes love tender and true.
Blue violet is faithfulness; harebell, grief;
And passion flower happy in religious belief.
Our souls are one, says the beautiful phlox;
Constancy abides with pretty dwarf box.
Oflove in a cottage Portulaca doth tell,
And gratitude is found in Canterbury bell.
Bonds is expressed by blue morning glory;
Nobility of character by magnolia grandidora.
The amaranrh denotes untading love,
And insincerity blights the pretty foxglove.
True friendship 4 found n Virginis stock.
Ambition sits high in the bright holIyhock.
Compassion attends the bleeding heart;
And scarlet pea asks, must you departf
We find fascination always in fern.
Sympathy in balm, and life in lueerne.
Then gather q wreath from the garden bowehs
And tell the wish OF thy heart in flowers.
-l= - .ssssssssssy'st 'stsssseoer
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-05-14
Language of Flowers.

e In eastern lands they talk in flowers,
And they tell in garland their loves and cares;
Each flower that blooms in their garden bowers
On its leaves mystic language BEARS"
= pes,cigtl
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-05-14
words of wisdom.

He knows enough who knows how TO
be silent.
Passive, the soul weakens; active, 1t
raises itself; to use is to live.
The honest man is superior judge.
even in things which seem to have the
least relation to virtue.
We should give as we receive, cheer
fully, quickly and without hesitation !;
for there is no grace in benefit that
sticks to the fingers.
Men. not having been able to cure
death. misery and ignorance, nave i'm
agincd to make themselves happy by
not thinking of ftnese things.
The passions OF mankind arc partly
protective, partly beneticent, like the
chaf and grain Of the corn; but none
without their use, none without noble
ness which seem in balanced unity with
the rest of the spirit which they are
charged to defend.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-05-14

The Yosemite valley. first made
known to the public in 1855. had 1902
visitors in the following ten years.
Thenceforward the number annually in
creased slightly until 1874. reaching
f2,7ll in that year. In 1875 it began to
retrograde little, and was 2, ,423; in
1876 It was further reduced to l,917, in
1877 to 1892, in 1878 to l, 1873 in 1879,
owing to the Sunday scnool convention
being held there, it rallied a little, sand
was 1885. The San Francisco Gnu says
that very careful inquiry shows that
the average expenditure Of each tourist
is $500.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
The Punning Lovers.

While taking stroll we came upon
young couple Of lovers. We listened
and the following conversation took
place between the lovers:
Come, pet, and sit on my lap" said
he, tbs an kneasy seat. .
Thigh seats like calf seat, she re-
piled.
g Halt seat?' he said; 6 upon my
conscience, it is over two feet. .
Keep on ankle me, if you wish, " said
she.
# man kills you heel do wrong, .
he replied.
Upon my soul, you are right, !" said
she.
. 6 We ought toe nail such puns, my
darling" said he, and the conversation
ceased and there was sweet little
cracking noise as if the pair were en-
gagged in mailing the puns. - Whitehall
Times.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
Not Up on Goats.

The goat is an every day sight, and
the man who does not study him and
learn his ways and habits has only him
self to blame. Saturday forenoon
g William 2 was quietly feeding on CO.
lumbia street when a load Of household
goods went past. The owner kept pace
with the wagon, carrying under his arm
a fine mirror about five feet long. As
he came opposite the goat he met a
friend, and Of course he had to stop and
tell why he was changing locations and
how much he expected to be benefited.
The glass was heavy, and he naturally
dropped one end to the walk to rest his
arm. 81
Had this man been close observer he
would have seen the goat and wished he
had brickbat. Had he made goat ma
ture study he would have known bet
ter than to lower the glass. But he was
man who despised the trifes Of life, and
he was telling how many tons Of coal
the new house would save him this VIA
ter, when the goat, who had been getting
mad for two long minutes at sight Of q
rival In the mirror, went through the.
glass like a thunderbolt, and jumped
into the street with the frame clinging
to his shaggy sides. All that ripping,
and raving, and cussing all the open
ing Of front doors all the inquiries by
an excited crowd, could have been saved
had the citizen but beckoned to the small
est boy on the steeet and asked him to
give away q few points on goats. En-
] change.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
Not Too Thin, bnt Too Short.


A tramp just arrived in the Island City
attracted attention by the fact that all
his raiment was in tatters except his
pants, which were foot too short,
but perfectly new. They did not fit
anywhere.
I believe you stole those pants from
some store. They don't look Ike they
belong to you, said a policeman, look
ing ct the garments.
. You darned fool, il I had stolen
them I would have picked out a pair to
fit me. Amt that the way you do when
you-buy your pants p
= believe I'll arrest you, anyhow,
and he was marching him of, when the
tramp laughed, and said
Galveston is the funniest town I've
struck yet. 2
g What do you mean by that %
Well, everywhere else the police ar
rest you if they see fit, but here they
arrest you if they don't see fit, : and he
glanced down at his abbreviated unmen.
tionables, which struck him just below
tbs knee, and laughed some more.
Galveston NeaUS.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
AN ODE no AN OLD sTovEP1PE.

Internal stuff, your nature well I know,
30 when took you down six months ago
Each piece numbered so that might tell
Exactly how you'd go together well.
And now the time for chilly days draws nigh,
TO put you up again madly try.
But all in vain. The joints that then did at
Now do not come within an inch of it.
get you two-thirds put in place and then
Crash you go tunibling to the floor again. S.
Once more try. You're rather full Of SCOT,
And am getting daubed from head to foot
I jam my thumb, but still peYsevere.
One piece goes down again and rakes my ear.
I grab to catch the piece, another goes,
And falling scrapes the hide all off my nose
And then another piece falls with slam, !.
And then the rest gees down and say Dam =
And then my blood gets boiling, and say,
BY all that's blue, III TX you, anyway !"
Once more go to work. By patience great
get all but single section straight,
And that am about to place, when OIL
The chair stand on tip4 Down fiat go;
While OH and around me with q horrid crash,
The Whole comes down again i'll one grand smash
And then my wife remarks: :" never saw
A man SO clumsyl" say, sHold your jaw ~
And for tinnlan send, while retire
To wash myself and swear, to vent my ira
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
A New Story Of Lincoln.

Gen. Steel, being the oldest member
N continuous service Of the Indiana
Legislature, was appointed Chairman OF
the committee delegated by the Legis-
lature to meet President Lincoln at the
State line and escort him to Indianapo-
lis. At Lafayette there was on immense
gathering Of people to greet the Presi-
dent, and an earnest. call by them for q
speech, q wish which he seemed very re-
sluctant to comply with. Finding, how
ever, that he must say something to
quiet the multitude, he related the fol-
lowing :: He said his situation reminded
him of man out In Illinois, who was q
candidate for nomination for an office
The convention at which the nomina-
ton was to be made was held at a town
some miles distant from where the
candidate resided. On the morning Of
the day on which the nomination was to
be made, the candidate hired q team to
take him to the scene Of his hopes.
The horse proved very SLOW. The man
pounded and swore, and swore and
pounded, but with his best efforts he
did not get through till after the con
vention had adjourned and his hopes
we're UAbSCeO. ne returned nome III q
frame Of mind which you can imagine.
The horse had been hired of the fore
man Of the livery stable, and was re-
turned to him.
Our candidate did not waste much of
his powder on the foreman, but, on his
way home, meeting the owner, he de,
nounced him in the strongest terms for
letting him have such a horse. The
owner said there must be some mistake
about it !; that his horses were all good
travellers, and finally persuaded him to
return to the stable to find out the
trouble. When they got to the stable,
the owner asked the man in charge what
horse he had given the man. 81 gave
him the hearse horse. . s Hearse horse
hearse horse!" exclaimed the man.
why, if a man should start to fune-
raj with such q horse as that, he would
not reach the grave till two weeks after
the resurrection" and, said Mr.. Lin
coin, if I make a speech in every town
pass through, shall not reach Wash.
ington till two weeks after the Inaugural.
ton. Chicago Inter Ocean