The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-11-17

people aIe, that instead Of their be-
ing only enc family, there are over
thirty in the Kanawha Valley, fifty
persons above Cannelton to our
knowledge, several families in Ka-
nawha county, alsu in Cabell county.
some 500 persons in Randolph coun-
w. d large number n0hioand Wood
counties, besides being scattered op-
er the entire State. Every family
that fhaxe head from thai has pnf.
chased and located in this State, fame
% teofk aud by Their own industry to
secure the comforts Of life has sue
ceeded, and is pleased, contented and
happy
Mr.. David Braun, tile party who IS
alluded to in that false article as be-
ing the persen lsnchsd, has written
a Stirring reply direct to the Bsraer
Post, in which he speaksin the high
lest manner Of the kind, neighboriy
manner that he has been treated BY
Southern people. He stated that his
wife does tcork and she takes pleasure
in working. He states that the eli.
mate is healthy, the soil rers product
iyc, though hilly, and is just the
country for Swiss mountain people.
He Indignantly denies all the
charges Of lynching, de-, and as we
arewriting these lines, he is await
ling the arrival Of a number Of his
lfriSni md neiahbors from SMitzer-
land, Who VIII locate in his neigh
borhood on Loup Creek, by reason of
the pleasing accounts be has given
of West Virginia. Mr.. Braun is a
dead man according to the version Of
the Ansiger des IEestes We will give
brief history Of his career here
He left Switzerland with a family Of
nine, on December I'd, 1879, with the
undersigned, and on December 22d
arrived at Cotton Hill, Fayette coun.
ty. He rented a farm and then had
barely enough means to provide for
the supplies of his family. On No,
vember l, 1880, he was the possessor
of fine horse, a COW, several sheep
and hogs, all manner Of poultry, had
a good crop of oats, corn, vegetables
ofall kinds, and 10000 tobacco plants,
and he has now two large barns full
of as fine cured yellow leaf tobacco as
has been raised in that section; and
if last years prices hold good his to-,
bacco crop is worth from $1,000 to
500. Though he WAS lynched as
the Anzigtr will have it, he is to-day
the l'roGdeSt, happisst littie tiue Spiss IN
america. We doubt if the An9iger,
in all the West can show one a Swiss
or any other ae,O settler without any
means who has had better result
from hiss OWE labor than Mr.. Braun.
(which we wish 10 remark,
For our language is plain,
Arise, Mr.. Anziger,
and lie for US again."
Mr.. Kirchhoffhas Travelled all over
Switzerland, and in every prominent
place has succeeded in contradicting
the Misrepresentation He has
worked nobly and hard and has a
large number Of families secured for
West Virginia.
Mr., Paul Schink, young gentle
man Of true worth, well educated,
who is not ashamed of honest toll,
desires to,make the occupation of a
farrnerlhis sphere Of life, whose faith
er now is a member Of the National
Executive Council of Switzerland,
aid been four different times the
President Of that body. He has not
only written homo, but to prominent
German papers here, denying the
allegations made against our State,
and showing up its great advantages
He, with us, is satisfied that no sect.
ion of America is so well adapted to
our Swiss mountain people, taking
everything into consideration, as the
State Of West Virginia.
II this is acceptable, in our next
we will treat on other interesting
points made by the Ansiger and re
Election cast by it on our good people
Of Charleston and our State officials.
EN-. D. LUDWIG.