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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-04-07
The Production of Bromine in
the United States.

The only important source of bro.
mine in the United States is the liz.
uid which remains after the extrac.
ton of salt, and which is known in
the salt-making industry as the
another waters" The Moniteuy.
Scientifque gives short description
of the process employed in separat-
ing this important element from the
saline liquors. The latter, when
first pumped up from the pit, mark
50 Baume. They are evaporated in
long iron boilers to 15o Baume, al
lowed to settle, then further evapor-
ated to the the crystallization point
in wooden tubes heated by steam.
The first capitalization forms the
salt of commerce. The tubes, five in
number, are placed side by side, and
every day the liquor is decanted from
one to another-from No. | to No. Q,
then to No. 8, and so on to No. 5
The crystallized salt is removed from
each tube after draining off the liz.
uid. When the brine reaches tube
No. B it has become mother liquor.
and consists principally of chlorides
OF calcium, magnesium, sodium, and
a little chloride of aluminium, with
varying proportions of bromides of
sodium and calcium. Tube No. / is
filled every day with fresh brine, so
that the process becomes continuous.
The mother liquor marking 30 to $50
Baume, is evaporated to 450, thus
separating a new quantity Of salt
The liquor is then decanted into
stone stills; materials for the produc.
tion of chlorine are added, and heat
is applied in the form of steam, in.
jerted directly into the still, until
all the bromine has been eliminated
and vaporized, 1t then passes into a
condenser, and thence into a receiv.
err.
The production of bromine was
first begun in the neighborhood of
Parksburg, Pennsylvania, by Hege.
man, Danish chemist, formerly in
the employ of the Pennsylvania Salt
Manufacturing Company. His oper.
atoms we're at first rather of an ex.
perimental character, and there be.
ing but little demand for the product
at the time, he realized from So SO to
81 per pound for what he made. The
use of bromides becoming more gen.
eral, however, other chemists began
the manufacture of bromine, their
process differing from Hegeman's on.
.iy in certain notifications of detail.
Herman Lerner is now regarded as
the largest producer of bromine in
the United States. This manofac.
turer was originally poor shoemak
er of Natrona, Penn, but by a rare
display of energy and ability, not,
withstanding his limited education.
he has reached his present position
The salt regions Of Ohio and the
Kanawha furnish salt whose mother
waters are twice richer in bromine
than those o. any other salines as
yet discovered. 1t is a remarkable
fact that the mother waters of the
saltworks at Syracuse and those of
the West contain no bromine, or at
least but mere traces of it. The an.
nnal production Of bromine varies
considerably owing to uncertainties
in the Salt trade, upon which de.
ponds the bromine trade.
The 20 yoncity Gov 49, ,..,l,.1: r
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EIl-1zzzEE1lzzz lzlz11ll1EEesans1l,
his peculiar tactics or strategy, bit,
when the results summed up at the
close Of the war, as far as members
and senator's are Individually con-
cerned, that the Victories have been
dearly bought, and that defects are
trifling.
The Ways and Means Committee
are in very awkward situation,
which it has Brought upon itself by
nsurping The functions Of the House
in attempting the final disposition
of bills. The resolution TO place pa
per and articles used in its manu-
facture upon the free list is almost
universally pronounced a deldsion
and snare. 1t is said that the pro-
tectionists do not intend to permit
any such measure to get before the
House; that they could not longer
defy public opinion by openly OPP
posing the placing of these articles
on the free list, and, therefore, they
Engaged ina scheme to defeat it by
duplicity; that their purpose is to
load the resolution down with iron
rails, salt, sugar and numerous other
articles 50 as to kill it in committee.
Even iitIiiS rhdfge be true it is
doubtful if the scheme can be sue
cessfully carried out. 1t cannot if
the anti.protectionists stick together.
The object of the latter is to get the
question before the house, when,
they believe, it can be passed. There
fore, they will vote to report the
measure, no matter how it may be
patched or loaded in committee,
leaving the dutyof separating the
good from the bad to the House. Hav-
ing once voted to place certain arti-
Giles on the free list, the protection
lists on the committee cannot, for the
sake Of consistency, vote against it
in the committee or in the House
Unfortunately, for the committee,
even if it means well in measure,
the public will not give it credit for
its sincerity.
The Diplomatic appropriation bill
will probably be passed in the Sen
ate without amendment and go TO
the Presidentin much the same shape
as last year. Meanwhile we seem to
survive without representation at
the most important courts Of Europe.
The Minister to Russia is in Wash
ington. The Minister to England is
in Spain. Minister Noyes has re-
Gently returned to his post in Paris,
after tour of three or four months
in Asia and Africa. Next, Minister
Maynard, shortly after getting back
to Constantinople from a long leave
of absence home, left again on an ex-
tended tour, and is at present junk
citing in Egypt; and now it is an
nounced that Minister Kasson is
coming home from Vienna to look
after the next elections in Iowa.
This is the sort of thing that makes
a good many people think our whole
diplomatic system might as well be
dispensed with, and its so.called du-
ties turned over to our consuls. AS
a rule these officers are useful, and
earn their salary, which is more than
can be said of most of our foreign
ministers, or, perhaps, Of any of
them.
c. AS.
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General News.

SNN AASS ShOlSS VI VIC pSOplS.
General News.
The Western Nail Association,
which met in Pittsburgh, last week,
decided that all the mills should stop
for two weeks, and if the interests
seemed to demand the stop would be
for longer term.
The value Of the ice crop in Maine
this season is estimated at 81, 100000
Great excitement prevails in Ala.
bama over the discovery of oil. Some
workingmen were digging a well for
water, when, to their great astonish-
ment, they struck oil. The well now
flows about 80 barrels per day.
Quite an accident occurred on the
G. 20. r. near Guyandotte, last
week. No lives were lost, but about
twenty thousand dollars worth Of
property was destroyed. About one
hundred feet of the railroad bridge
was knocked down, precipitating
eight freight cars down the embark.
ment. The cars with their contents
were all burned.
On the 4th inst, a boarder at the
house Of Mr.. Rossler, at Sewell Sta.
ton, while cleaning a revolver, &C.
cidently discharged it, the ball pass.
ing through Mrs. Rosters hand and
entering her baby's head, which she
held in her lap, instantly killing it
He did not know the revolver was
loaded.
The State Board of Public works
on last Wednesday, awarded the con
tract for building the new State Cap
ital, at Charleston, to A. H. shep
pard, the same contractor who erect
ed the building now occupied by the
legislature at Wheeling. 1t is
thought that the building when com.
pleted will cost about half a million
dollars. The present letting calls
for $4,000. The contractor is tc
begin work next Monday, and &C.
cording to his contract it must be
completed May 1, 1884.
A fire at Bradford, Pa, last Friday,
destroyed the business portion of the
city. Loss over 100000.
Another puzzle, which is likely to
have a big run, called the pin puz.
zle is now advertised. Verify, I've
American people are the biggest fools
in the world.
me sttii.e "uiuuS thorailroad uiu,I
at Piedmont, in this State, which
has continued to interrupt business
for several days, is at an end at last.
The workmen accept a compromise
of 10 per cent. advance on former
wages.
The route mail agents are all sub
ject now to what the Postal Depart
ment calls ease examination. -
By this means the Department will
secure greater efficiency and quicker
transit, because everything will be
sent the right way to the right place.
Last Friday was truly hangman's
day in this civilized country of ours.
Only nine men were hanged in diff
ferent parts of the United States from
Mississippi to Vermont, but the most
shocking legal murder occurred at
Washington, D. c., right under the
shadow of the Capitol, where James
M. W. Stone was being hanged for
numbering his wife. When the
drop fell the head was jerked off the
body, and both fell to the ground
several feet apart.
The White Sulphur Springs were
sold on the S1st of last month, to
VIM. Stewart, of Virginia, for 340,-
900 dollars.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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LEGAL NOTICES..
HESITATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,
MASON County, To.wrr:
A T Rules held in the Office OF the Clerl
Il OF the County Court Of said county
on the first Monday in April, 1850: "
Anna A. Parsons,
Va.
Henry G. Parsons,

-, IN Cnancery.
The object of this suit is to obtain a di
vorce a rinculo matrimoni. And it appear
ing by affidavit filed in the papers Of sal,
cause that the defendant, Henry G. Par
sons, is not a resident Of the State Of Yves
Virginia, on motion, it is ordered that h,
no appear, here at Rules to be held in sait
office on the first Monday in the month o
May, next, and do what is necessary /,
protect his interest in this suit.
Teste: j. P. r. B. SMITH, Clerk.
BY JOSEPH H. HoLLowAY, Deputy.
Simpson & Howard, Soils.
apr. 7-4t
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-04-07

A Presidential boom is being or
gained in behalf of Hon. VIM. S.
Groesbeck, of Cincinnati, mainly,
however, by some anti third term
Republicans from New York, led by
ex Governor Fenton. This will not
likely pan out very well.
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Annual Meeting Of stockholders.

NOTICE is hereby given that the annual
~ meeting OF the stockholders OF this
Mason County Agricultural and Mpchan-
zeal Association, will be held ut the court
house, in Point Pleasant, West Va, on
Monday, the 9th day OF April, 1880, at one
O'Clock, p. m, for the election OF five Di-
rectors to serve the ensuing year, and for
the transaction of such other business as
the stockholders may see proper.
JAMES CAPEH ART, Pres't,
H. r. HowArp, .sec'y. mcll l.-9t
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-04-07
Torms of Sale.
commissioners Sale Of "a galua.
BILE Farm OF I04 Acres.

DY virtue OF decretal order Of the
~ County Court OF Mason County, West
Virginia, entered on the 9th day OF Eebru-
airy, 1850, in a chanccry cause therein
pending, wherein Isaac Long is plaintiff,
and James X. Bush, J. w. Smith II. al. are
defendants, shall proceed to sell, by way
Of public auction, at the front door Of tho
Court House of Mason county, West Vir-
ginia, on Saturday, the 10Th day Of
April. 1850, all of the real estate in the
bill and proceedings of said suit men
toned. Said real estate consists Of one
hundred and four acres OF fine farming
lands, situated in Clendenin district, this
county, about e:gh m les from the Court
House, and isa desirable piece OF property.
TERMS OF SALE Cash US to SS!l0.79, and
the costs of the suit and sale, and upon
credit OF six and twelve months, in equal
instruments as to the residue, the pur-
chaser giving bonds with security for the
deferred payments, and the title to the
real estate to be retained as further Sc
curity. II. r. HOWARD,
inch l0-4s Special Commissioner
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Not Very Willing. Dut Anxious.

1t has not been but q few weeks
since the Republican journals heaped
derision upon the Grcenbackers and
Workingmen of this county, and
secuted the idea of coalition of any
kind. Now they are not only will
ing but anxious, and are down upon
their knees imploring the Working
men and Greenbackers to help them.
But while the Republicans are anx-
ious, the Grcenbackers don't seem so
much inclined as they we've. II is
easy enough for the leaders and office
seekers of both parties to form COM
bination, but IS water and oil won't
mix, it will be pretty hardt to mix
the masses Of the Republicans and
Groenbackers in this county and get
them to vote the same ticket.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-04-07
Announcements.
STATE SEN ATNR.

We are authorized to announce D. w.
PolsLEY, as candidate for the office of
State Senator, from this District, at the Ell.
suing election, subject to the decision Of
the Democratic Senatorial Convention.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-04-07

Upon this basis The annual salar.
les and perquisites of these five gen.
tlemen amount to s27,500, from
which funda joint contribution could
be made that would make Rome
howl, as it were. We do not charge
that this is being done because we
cannot, in the very nature of the
case, prove it; but the large amount
of attention that Washington tele-
graph and letter correspondents are
devoting TO these gentlemen raises a
suspicion that they are playing their
advantage for all it is worth.-Hun-
tiagton Advertiser.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-04-07
Notice.

THERE will be meeting Of the Stock
i holders of the Hope Manufacturing
and Coal Company held at the Office OF the
Company, on Wednesday, April DIST, 1880,
for the purpose OF electing Seven Directors
to serve the ensuing year, and the transac-
ton OF such other business as may legally
come before the meeting.
D. DAVIS, sec'y.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-04-07

The State Democratic Executive
Committee has formally requested
the several congressional districts to
call conventions this year to reaomi-
nate candidates for Congress. The
daily and weekly special kilograms
aud letters from Washington to our
newspapers TEEN with all sorts Of
fattering notices Of the doing of our
present representatives, until sus.
picion has been aroused thatamounts
almost to conviction. that the same
are procured to be written and sent
out by the parties most interested,
who seem to have formed a mutual
admiration society and an alliance
offensive and defensive and contrib
ute the necessary funds to pay this
sort of expenses, with view to per-
petuate themselves in Office. The
salary ofa Congressman is so ample
that enough money can be applied
by him, when going it alone, to tell
etfectually upon the campaign for a
denomination, but when about five
of them join forces and funds, the eff
fective work they can do is simply
appalling to the unsalaried citizen
whom the people may desire to send
up fresh from among them. Take
our present delegation for instance,
and sum up the amount they have
been helped to as the result Of their
preferment. Here is the showing:
Hon. Frank Hereford, elected to ~
the House in 1870 term COM
menced March 4, 1871. Again
in 1872 and again in 1874
$1,000. 49,. $4,000
Extra salary for first term salary
grab ...... ............. (. ......... 1000
Extra salary for second term (sal-
airy grab Observation-Disclosures. 5,00O
Mileage and perquisites, say....... 5000
Senator from 1877 to date, 3years,
at S5,OOO.. .,........ .............. $1,000
Mileage and perquisities........... 1900
Total ..........,..................... s58,5oo
non. u. VI. Davis, Senator from
March 4, 1871, to date, 9years,
at $4,000. ........ $4,000
Extra salary four years.............. 5000
Mileage and perquisites.......... $500
Total Observation-Disclosures. S5S,500
Hon. Ben. Wilson, NJ. G. from
1875 to date, years, at 5000. $4,000
Mileage and perquisites .......... $500
Total ....... ...... $3.50. .......... 1880
Hon. B. +, Martin, same........... 27,5O0
Hon. John L. Kenna, years sal
airy ndperquisites from March
4, 1s77............,., 1880
Grand total, ........, ........... slS8,5OO
Upon this basis the annual salar-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-04-07
The Lions Share.

The following will give a little
food for reflection:
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-04-07

The election in San Francisco re.
suited in defeat for'the workingmen.
The citizens ticket winning by a
large majority.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-04-07

'S7 awsek, sig a day at home easily
w., q made Costly outfit free. Addrass
TRUE 4 Co., Augusta, Maine. [9tec io.iS
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-04-07

The Democratic Executive Com.
mittee of the First Congressional Dis
trict of West Virginia, met in Park
ersburg on Wednesday, and selected
Wheeling as the place for holding
the Democratic Nominating Conven-
tion. They appointed Wednesday,
August IL, for making the nomina-
ton.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-11
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
WHAT GLEN PICNIC.
"A Large but Orderly Party.

Large but Orderly Party.
The opening picnic at What Glen yester-
day was largely attended, though the
grounds were not sufficiently over-crowded
to cause discomfort, nor were there so
many leading politicians present as might
have been expected, considering the near
approach of the primary election. The
day was warm and the demand for beer
was spirited, though there was very little
drunkenness andnodlsorder ON the grounds
during the day. In the evening we learn
there was set-to justoutside the grounds
in which one Of the belligerents was rather
roughly handled.
The day was passed in dancing, prom
enading, swinging and like amusements.
The Independent band was present and
discoursed some fine music. The dancing
music was played by Taylors excellent
orchestra.
There was only one accident. A young
lady named Killinger was struck on the
head by a swing and knocked down, re-
manning unconscious for some time. A
physician was sent for, but before his az
AA'"i OIO SouhSs AsAuy COASClouS-
ness and did not appear to be seriously
hurt.
An interesting feature of the picnic was
the rifle and revolver shooting of the Gus
ter scout, who rejoices in the name of
" Wild Harry" He was dressed in the
regulation frontier hunters uniform and
handled his rifle with wonderful dexterity,
breaking glass balls with single bullet as
rapidly as they were thrown into the air.
He shot at nickel cents at a distance of
about 40 yards and struck every one of
them whether he shot right or left handed,
with his rifle right side up or up side
down, or over his shoulder with his back
to the target. Taking revolver from
some one in the crowd he shot at cigar
held in the hand of his brother, and with
unerring aim knocked the ashes from the
end of the cigar.
The party broke up about 0 o'clock in
the evening, all apparently satisfied with
their holiday in the woods.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-11
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

More than million bushels of grain
arrived in New York yesterday by canal
alone.
Willie Shears, aged 9years, was drowned
in the Savannah river at Augusta yester-
day while bathing.
Rufus Ormistead, foreman of Ed Hart's
phis, was shot dead by an unknown color
ed man. The assassin escaped.
Eighteen persons were killed or wound
ed on Saturday, the Sth instant, by an ex-
plosion of dynamite magazine at Foido,
belong ng to the St. Gothard railway
contractors.
Elijah Blake, the oldest citizen of
Springfield, Mass, died suddenly Saturday
night at his home in that city, He was
born at Torrington. Litchfield county,
Conn.,, on June &c, 1884.
Baseball yesterday: At Baltimore
Albany, II; Baltimore, 1G. Princeton
University, 4; Brooklyn, 1. Chicago
Chicago, Is Cincinnati, 1. Utica-Union
College, 10; Hamilton College, ).
Levi C. Bird, who now has control of the
Republican machine in Delaware, told a
| Wilmington paper yesterday that he
would Support the Republican nominee,
even Gen. Grant,
Frederick Walker, cciored, fell from d
ladder distance of 25 feet, while at work
on new building at Tenth and Washing
ton streets, Wilmington, yesterday. His
injuries were considered of fatal charac-
ter.
| Near Manasquan, N. j., while Charles
Williams was striking we'll at depth of
thirty-five feet, he was killed by the cav
ing in of the well from the surface. He
was thirty years Of age and leaves a wife
and four small children.
A resolution approving "the conduct of
Mrs. President Hayes in upholding tenn
perance principles in the presidential
house." was adopted by standing vote in
the NJ. E. general conference, now in ses-
sion in Cincinnati.
The Republican convention of Cook coun-
ty, ILL.,, met and split, the Grant delegates
withdrawing and organizing a seperate
convention. Both conventions elected
separate delegations to the state conven-
ton, one opposed to Grant. the other in
his favor.
AS Miles B. Grippen, one of the deputy
sherlffs in charge of the Billings jury, was
returning to his home at Schuylerville,
N. Y, his horse was struck by lightning
and killed the wagon shafts were broken
and the wagon badly damaged. Grippen
was picked up insensible and taken home.
He was resuscitated after a time, but he
is not on duty yet.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-11
A Rash SWearer.

There are people rash enough to think
that General Philip Sheridan is not as
incapable of telling lie as George Wash
ington was He testified the other day
before the Warren court of inquiry, that
he had marched company of infantry
sixty miles in a day. The general idea
is that in so saying the general failed to
tell the truth; and proof of the fact is
not deemed necessary. We observe,
however, that the court of inquiry still
deems it worth while to take the gen.
erals testimony; it probably does it
more with the expectation of amusement
than instruction; since it is obvious that
such witness would need to be corrob-
GRATED in all his statements before they
could he accepted with anything like sat
isfaction. Perhaps, however, Sheridan's
delusionS are only i'll connection with
this matter of speed in marching. Per-
haps he conceives that he has a reputa-
tion to maintain Sinch he took that
ride up the valley which Mr.. Buchanan
Reid has thought worthy of record in
song and painting. 1t was not much
of ride, and the credit of the speed,
whatever it was, was manifestly due
quite as much to the horse as the rider.
A turnpike ride does, however, seem to
inspire the muse, however prosaic 1t may
appear to the ordinary observer; for John
Gilpin's ride was told in verse before
Sheridan undertook to borrow his glory.
The fame he got from his correct imita-
tion seems to have been too much for his
head and to have disturbed its just con-
ception of proper days march for a SOL
dier. No doubt sixty miles day can
be covered by good walker, but that is
quite different from crediting with the
task a company of infantry armed and
accOutred.