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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-08-24

The Malone business does not
seem to have split up the solid South
very much so far, but it is playing
havoc with the Republican party.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-08-24

Between the doings of the drought
and Spectators wheat and corn are
going up booming.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-08-24

The war in railroad circles still
continues. In New York last Mon
day the Pan Handle railroad sold
tickets to Chicago for 95 cents, and
the Cleveland roads followed with
rates Of 81.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-08-24

The canvass in Ohio is beginning
to warm up. Bookwalter stock is
looking up, and the Democrats conf
IDENTIFY expect to win in October.
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Where Shall I Send nv Bow?

Parents Save Time and Money!! Send to
Glenwood. Patrons say "Best and cheapest for boys
in Maryland" six months at Glenwood equivalent TO
two years in other school, Natures method Eye Eye
extraordinary. Address Professor L. G. MATHEWS,
A. NJ, Glenwocd, Howard Co.. Md
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-08-24

State of West Virginia, Mason County, IS.
A \ RULES held in the Clerks Office Of
IA the Circuit Court OF Mason Conntyon
the first Monday in the month Of August,
1881.
George W. Rece, Plaintiff,
vs..
John P. Jordan in his own right and as
Administrator OF William n. Jordan, de.
ceased, and James L. Jordan in his own
right and rs Executor OF William n. Jor.
dan, deceased, Dclilah Manning and Jos
Manning, her husband, NJ. D. Jordan. Jer.
emiah b, Jordan, Elizabeth J. Mossm,,u
and Samuel Mossman, her husband, Mary
o, Stevens and Hooper b. Stevens, her
husband, William n. Jordan, Virginia I.
Rece, Margaret Taylor, Clarisee o. Joncs
and Robert Jones, her husband, Mary !
Richards and - Richards, her husband,
and the unknown heirs at law and the uu,
known devisees of William n. Jordan, de.
ceased, both OF the State of Kansas, De.
PENDANTS.
In Chaneery.
The object Of this suit is to enjoin tho
aforesaid Administrator and others irom
further prosecuting certain suit IN Chan
Gerry now pending in said Court in which
said Administrator is plaintiff, and George
w. Rece, is defendant, and to obtain de
cree against the defendants for $500, and to
subject 10 sale for the payment thereof
tract OF land containing one hundred acres,
more or less, a part OF which is situate in
the District Of Hannah, county of Mason,
State oil West Virginia, and the residue
thereof in the county OF Putnam, State
aforesaid, being part OF 246 acres convey
ed to said William n. Jordan and in lis
lifetime by Nathan Smith and George "
Stribling, commissioners, &C., by deed bear.
ing date on the 18th day Of April, 1877,
and OF record in the Clerks Office OF the
County Court OF Mason county, West
Virginia, in Deed Book No. ~, folios S9S, &c
This day came the compliments couu-
sci and on his motion, and it appearing by
affidayits filed: That the Defendants, James
l.. Jordan, Delilah Manning and Joseph
Manning, her husband, \. D. Jordtr,
William n. Jordan, Clarisee o. Jones and
Robert Jones, her husband, Nancy A.
Richards and John Richards, her husband,
the unknown defendants and deyisees OF
William n. Jordan, deceased, are non resi-
dents OF this State. ltisordered that they
do appear here at Rules 10 be held in the
Clerks Office OF the Circuit Court OF said
county Of Mason, on the last Monday in
the month OF August, 1881, and do what is
necessary to protect their interest in this
CHAS. Z. WAGGENER, Clerk.
w. r. Gum, Sol. [aug. S-iw.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-08-24

Seventeen railroad companies have
been incorporated in this Stale the
present year.-Ritehie Gazette.
That's business. When these roads
are all built and the locomotives let
loose on them it will make the hair
stand right up on the heads Of the
Sang diggers and haw eaters" of the
Mountain State, you bet
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-08-24

The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and
Constttatioaalist, remarking upon the
great enterprises that northern CAPT.
tai has set foot in the South, saws:
See what the Huntington Company
propose to do for Newport's News
The other day, it was a geographical
expression, and principally known
as the place where the Confederate
ram encountered the Federal moni.
tor. Very soon it will be the Allan
tic seaport for a railway line that
has a terminus westward thousands
of miles away, at San Francisco
No less than $500 men are now en-.
gagged in starting the city of New
ports News. This is being done by
northern money, which is about to
recreate the industry, power, wealth
and glory of a section that was not
long ago doomed, in Republican
sheets, to Incidence and decay. Blu,
all that is changed by the modern
Midases and Aladdins, whose opu.
lence has reached out southwark and
will transform the whole land"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-08-24

Judge Thurman will return from
Europe in time to assist in the Ohio
campaign.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-08-24

1t is said that the Richmond and
Allegheny Railroad, which is coming
down the Kanawha, on the upper
side, will have from 1000 to $500
men at work in from 80 to 40 days,
and confident that they will be the
first to bridge the river at Point
Pleasant. Stakes are now set on
both sides of the Kanawha to the
Hawk s Nest, and from Petersburg
to Point Pleasant. Contracts for
work on the upper side of Kanawha
will be given next month Gatlipo-
lis Bulletin.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
COMMISSIONERS SALE OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.

pY virtue OF decree rendered by the
u Circuit Court OF Mason County, West
Virginia, in the Chancery cause Of j. G.
Forrest vs. Washington Stephens and 9th
ers, on the 18th day of May, 1881, the un-
dersigned will offer for sale by way OF pub
lie auction TO the highest bidder at the
front door OF the Court House, Of Mason
cnnntv Most Nirni,in ON TIN
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-08-24

State of West Virginia, Mason County, IS;
A 7 RULES held in the Clerks Office OF
n the Circuit Court for the County OF
Mason, on Monday, thelst day Of August,
in the year 1881.
Eliza Ann Plants, Plaintiff,
asa s.-E VS..
Andrew J. Plants, Defendant.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-08-24

The object OF the above suit is to obtain
a divorce from the bonds OF matrimony
from the said Andrew J. Plants. And nj
tidavit having been filed in this cause al
leging that said Andrew ]. Plants is non
resident OF the State OF West Virginia, the
said defendant is required to appear at
Rules TO be held in said office on the last
Monday in August, 1881, that being under
the law, September Rule day, and do what
may be necessary to protect his interest,"
in the above suit.
TESTE:
CHAS. B. WAGGENER, Clerk.
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18Th Of August, 1851,

1850 W ssF'ss AGohs
the following real estate one tract OF land
known as the Joseph Harrison survey,
situate on the Mud Lick fork OF Thirteen
Mile creek, in said county, and containing
one hundred and fifty acres, being the
same land conveyed to said Washington
Stephens by James and Eliza L. Gray, by
deed bearing date March Goth, 1868, and
duly OF recard in the Clerks Office OF the
County Court OF said county, to which ref
erence is hereby had for a full description
OF said land; and one other tract OF land
situate in Mason county, and State afore-
said, containing eighty acres, being the
same land conveyed to said Stephens by
John w. English, w. II. Tomlinson, spe-
cial commissioners and @. w. Manpin, by
deed bearing date October 3rd, 1877, and
recorded in the Clerks Office Of the County
Court OF said county, in Deed Book No.
30, page 33S, &c, to which reference is
hereby made for q full description of said
SO acre tract.
There is a large portion of said land
cleared and under fence and has on it val.
liable Improvements, consisting OF two
good brick dwelling houses and barn and
other buildings suitable for q farmers use.
y ta TERMS OF SALE: -t
Cash as to one-third OF the purchase
money and the residue on credit OF six
and twelve months, the purchaser execu-
ting his notes with good security for the
deferred installments, bearing interest from
date and the legal title being retained as a
further security. :
The above sale will he nude subject TO
a lien OF $3.50 with Interest thereon from
October 18th, 1878 till paid, the same be.
ing now held by II. j. Fisher.
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NOTICE.

The Defendant in the above entitled
cause, will please take notice that on the
18th day OF August, 1881, between the
hours OF S O'Clock a. m. of that day and @
o'clock p. m. OF that day, at the law office
oil Hoge, Menager & Hogg, in Point Pleas
ant, l willproceed TO take the dispositions Of
Eliza Ann Plants and others, to be read as
evidence in behalf of the Plaintiff in said
suit, &c. And, il from any cause the said
dispositions be not completed on said dal,
The same will be adjourned from day to
day, and from time to time until they are
completed,
ELIZA ANN PLANTS,
By Couscl.
Hoge, Menager & Hogg, Soils.
[aug 3-iw.l
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-08-24

State of West Virginia, Mason County, IS.
A 4 RULES held in the Clerks Office Of
IA the Circuit Court OF Mason Conntyon
the first Monday in the month Of August,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-08-24

Mr. Vennor, the Canadian weather
prophet, announces that no further
prediction in the weather will be
published by him until the issue of
his almanac, 1872, during October
next, and that all communications
to newspapers have been stopped
1t is about time.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-09
A Nfrike.

On Wednesday morning the laborers employed
by Mr.. T. J. Rawls In the erection OF Messrs. B.
c. Lewis & Sons new banking house, refused to
20 to work unless they were promised 81 per
day. The workmen at Damon's brickyard also
demand ed 81 per day. and refused to work nm
less their demand was conceded
CONVERSATIONS with Mr.. Damon, Mr.. Rawls
and others. elicit the following information: The
persons now demanding an increase Of wages
are all colored day laborers, and not skilled me
chanicsl They haYe heretofore been receiving
from 50 TO 90 cents per day for their labor. The
large number of hands reported TO have leh the
county, and the fact that railroad contractors
have been offering 81 to $50 per day for hands
to 60 into West Florida and Louisiana to work
on the new railroads now being constructed,
have encouraged those who remain to demand
higher wages. Nightly meetings have been
held for some time past, 1t which the subject
has been discussed, and the result Il as stated
above.
Mr.. Damon compromised with he hands, &C.
knowlSdeing that there was . possibility that
they ought TO be better paid than heretofore, and
they wisely accepted his offer Of % cents day
and wSnt 10 work.
Nj. RaWIs hands, (sxcspt brick-layen and
osher skilled mechanics) wee oGsred he same
tsrms rs cents per dag. which they accepted-
As there are o6ly about half > dozen hands
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80 Busted"

An eastern voter from black county dropped
in TO pay his 'spects to the FLoRIDIAN the
other day He said he wanted to interview the
editor about the decision of the Supreme Court
that the conviction of thief, unless pardoned
and restored to civil rights, deprived him of the
right to vote.
Yes" said the editor, that Is the law. The
Supreme Court says so and that ends it,"
Well, den, if dat is law, de niggers am got
to quit stealth if dey wants to vote Is Mr..
Randall on dat court"
"Oh, yes and so is Judge Manufacturing.
Both OF these gentlemen are Republicans"
An so, den, Publican court says dis?"
Yes"
"Well, 1 is glad of it. De niggers has been
stealin' and keepin' us from maxim bread an
meat; an when lection times comes de tiefs
always make de greatest fuss, and US homes mig
gers can't say notin'. Guess we'll talk now. Is
you sure dat de tief Is not to vote 7"
Certainly. The court says so and that set
ties it,"
Well. bless de Lord, de tievin', loafn' mig
gers has got bellyfull. Mr.. Conover and Col.
Bisbee. dey made great fuss when de Demo
Gratis said dat was de law, and dey told de tiefs
dat II dey was not lowed to vote de President
would send sojers an wipe de Democrats out.
Golly, thinks dey dun busted now"
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-09
Cool and pleasant weather prevails.

Cool and pleasant weather prevails.
The frequent heavy showers recently have
been very welcome and timely.
See new advertisement of the West Florida
Seminary We shall give it especial attention
next week.
-Ashmead Bros, Jacksonville. Fla, have just
published an Index to the Decisions OF the Su-
preme Court of Florida. Price So. I'm.
Call at the FLoRIDIAN Office and see some
specimens of the fruit of the LeConte pear, just
received from Mr.. L. L. Varnedoe, of Thomas
vile
You cannot expect your children TO thrive
when they are being destroyed by worms. Give
them few doses of Shrner's Indian Vermifuge
and they will be restored TO health For sale by
NJ Lively. - I6
We will publish next week the letter from Mr..
W. H. Pillow on the shipment of straw berries,
which was crowded out of last weeks issue, al
accidentally slipped in.
But few faces can stand the test of the suns
royal light and no cosmetic can beautify them
if BiIiOusness has rendered them dark and sallow,
but Portaline or Tabler's Vegetable Liver Pow
der cures this, and all disorders of torpid liver
Small bottles 25 cents, regular size so cents
Whites Cream White Vermifuge, the best Worm
Killer w. A. Rawls, Sole agent. 16
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-09
ont of His Reckoning.

A correspondent of the Jasper Times writing
over the signature of" julius" from Tallahassee
gets rather mixed in his topography. He puts
Lakes Jackson, Iamonia and Miccosukie all in
bunch and locates them "a couple of miles
North of Tallahassee" and says: so slight is
the distance between these lakes that one of
these lakes that one of these days, when Talla-
hahassee becomes the entrepOt on the Gulf of
Mexico for the commerce of Central America
the West Indies and the north coast of South
America, short canals will connect the waters of
these beautiful lakes, and palace steamers will
bring within two miles of our city the produce
and passengers of tens of thousands of acres and
hundreds of country homes surrounding these
waters"
Like the Fernandna N1rTor,s "McCawber"
Julius |" shows a disposition to 90 off half
cooked as to the reliability of his information.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-09
y.uuOr.. Forecast for August.

Auc /, warm and oppressive 2, pleasant; 8
f.;rlv warn; and 5, cool to cold, with fall-like
evenings and nights; 8, lair and pleasant; 2, heat
heavy showers, cooler evenings and nights; II,
70 and 49, heat again in the United States. cloudy
and sullry weather, with storms, in Canada; IA
cooler; Is cooler to cold, cloudy and pleasant;
is storms through portions of Virginia II and
Is hail storms and frost probably in some sec
lions; 10 and 90, heat and storms; 81, sultry
anc showery; %, sultry and windy; %, and "a
heat and wind; 25 and %, heavy storms on the
AXES. the ST. Lawrence and around New York !;
q, 2S and 90, cooler weather, with rains and
frOss in northern sections; 80 and 81, fair and
pleasant, with cool evenings and nights, with
Indications of returning heat
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-09

DR. John s. Bond and family left for Jack
sonville on Wednesday last
Mr.. Herman Damon of Jacksonville is visit
ing his friends in Tallahassee
Mr.. 81. F. Sharon now of Bainbridge visited
the FLoRIDIAN Office yesterday.
Mr.. Chas L. Fildes, of the Gainesville Sun
and Bee, visited Tallahassee last week
Col. G. H. Allen, of the J. P. & NJ. R. r.
left last week for q brief business trip North.
Mr.. Y. A. Levy will leave for New York
and other eastern cities next week to purchase
goods.
Hon. J. D. Westcott, Jr., left for ST. Angus
tine last Friday. He will go later to the Beach
Hotel at Fernandina.
Mr.. c. H. Foster, Clerk of the Supreme
Court, left with his family last Thursday for his
annual Summer visit to New England.
We are glad to see Mr.. Ed. Whitehead out
again, after his recent severe illness in jackson
vile. He says that 1t was the Middle Florida
air that cured him.
Mr.. Hammett, Treasurer of the ]. P & NJ
r. r. under the former management OF Col. Allen,
has arrived and will probably resume his old
position under the new administration
Governor Bloxham returned home on
Thursday last, quite unwell from severe cold
and threatened pneumonia, from which, however
he has recovered, and is now at his Office.
DR. John s. Bond, one of the leading ply
sicians of Tallahassee. and gentleman of abil-
ity and fine social qualities has arrived here
with the intention of making Jacksonville his
residence. The Doctor stands high in his pro-
fession and is well qualified in all respects as
practitioner of the healing art Union, dug. s.
We congratulate Jacksonville on the acquisi
ton as citizen of DR.. Bond. He is physician
of long experience, and is, in the judgment OF
his friends, without superior in his knowledge
and manner of treatment of the diseases of this
climate. In the sick room he is peculiarly de-
voted, and many persons in the course of his
practice owe their lives to his watchful care by
their bedsides during the crisis of their sickness
He leaves behind him hosts of friends in town
and country who regret the circumstances in
ducing him to seek wider field
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-09

wanted On the Lewis building Il b probable
that Mr.. Rawls can got al be wants At he psics
stated. s.
The action Of the strikers, although not I'M
expected, seems to be little premature. n the
builders here were constantly crowded with
work a. In come other places, there would be
good reason for them 10 pay higher rats for
common labor e. well Is skilled labor, since the
constant employment of all their available forces
would enable them to do 30 but, a. the season
of constant building and consequent prosperity
may scarcely be said to have begun, az yet, it
would have been better and more judicious for
the laborers to defer their movement until the
increase Of business justified an increase of
wages.
As 1t stands they have broken the effect OF
what they intended as beneficial movement by
being too hasty, and when the time really ar
rives which might apparently justify such q
movement, they may find themselves in false
position and unable to take advantage of the
situation.
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Union, August 7th.l
IN RREMORIANA.

TIssrs-FelI asleep in Jacksonville FIa on the 2lst
OF June 1881 In and certain hope OF glorious
awakening TO everlasting fe. ADA, the beloved wife Of
Mr. 8. l. Tfbbitts
The life Of this excellent Christian lady was for many
years past OF the most intense SUFFERING bat in all
she leaned without murmurng complaint the
porting Of her loving Savior and showed that to be
sucent for all trials and innrmities To her soowing
husband and Eddie who survive her. she has LEFT the
richest Of all Interchangeable example Of pure disinter
ested holy life. To them and all who knew and loved
her her departure 10 Of pain and gref to herself
1t ID but the entering upon the rest which was 20 long de-
MED her in this world II those who suffer most and bear
their suengs with accomplishing fortitude the
Master did upon the cross and before his
their Savior in the world beyond the grave, then
Ii loved very Him now. for having followed
Him in her ge she has His assurance that she win be
gloied together with Him. May she rest in peace and
and with apostles and martyrs awaken to glorious
direction on the great day Of God. Amen.
FROM HKB FORMRR PAsFoR
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-09

We have received the Premium List of the
Seventh Annual State Fair to be held at Jack
sonville, under the auspices of the State Park
Association of that city, beginning on Tuesday.
February 21st 1882, and continuing four DAYS
The List does not contain the usual preliminary
joint authorization of the Florida Fruit-G Growers
Association, and the Florida Agricultural and
Mechanical Association, through their Secretary
Col D. II. Elliott but il is safe TO presume that
the usual course has been pursued. although no
advertisement of the fact or for bids and propo-
sitiOns from other towns has been made by the
Secretary.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-09

Are you disturbed at night and broken of your
rest by sick child suffering and crying with the
excruciating pain of cutting teethf II so, go at
once and get bottle of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup. It will relieve the poor little sufferer
Immediately depend upon it; there is no mistake
about it. There is not q mother on earth who has
ever used it, who will not tell you at once that it
will regulate the bowels. and give rest to the
mother, and relief and health to the child, opera
ting like magic 1t is perfectly safe to use in all
cases, and pleasant to the taste, and is the pre-
scription OF one of the oldest and best female
physicians and nurses In the United States. Sold
everywhere. twenty-five cents bottle.
Nov 80. 100O-1y
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Will You Believe 1t.

WoMAN's BEST FRIEND.-To relieve the ach-
ing heart of woman, and bring joy where sorrow
reigned supreme, is mission before which the
smiles of kings dwinde into utter insgniicance.
This is the peculiar province of Bradfelds Fee
male Regulator, which, from it's numbcrlcss
cures, is appropriately styled "Woman's Best
Friend" The distressing complaint known as
whites" and various irregularities the womb,
to which woman is subject, disappear like magic
before single bottle of this wonderful compound.
Physicians prescribe it,
Prepared by DR.. ]. Bradfeld, Atlanta, Ca,
and sold at $1.5O per bottle by all Druggist
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-09

"A Cough, Cold or Sore Throat should be
stopped. Neglect frequently results in an Incur
able Lung Disease or Consumption. Browns
Bronchial Troches are certain to give relief in
Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Catarrh, COnsump-
tive and Throat Diseases. For thirty years the
Troches have been recommended by physicians
and always give perfect satisfaction. They are
not new or untried, but having been tested by
wide and constant use for nearly an entire
generation, they have attained well merited rank
among the few staple remedies Of the age
Public speakers and singers use them to clear and
strengthen the voice. Sold at 2J cents a box
everywhere. Nov. 80 1880-1y
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-09

The Farmers' Club met according to custom,
Friday, the 9th instant, with q good attendance.
We will give brief report of the proceedings
next week. Arrangements were made for the
appointment by the President. of one or more
delegates to represent Leon county at the Immi-
grafton Convention to be held at Jacksonville on
the oath inst.
We learn from the Secretary of the Bureau.
and from our State exchanges that MANY conn
ties have taken similar action. and il ia likely
that a very large number of delegates. from all
parts of the State will attend the Convention.