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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-07-27

Neigno0r Larklns, VINO was long
In the arms, made dive at it.
"Iand o. libertyl' cried he "its
full o gold pieces eagles, by Georgel
Miss Nettie, l declare fort, you've
come into your fortunel"
1t was only FIVE thousand dollars;
but TO Nettie Crofton it represented
fortune indeed. Here, upon the
central stoneof the divorging Mrees,
old Uncle Malachi had kept guard
until it was too late to give any one
the clue to his secret.
The old well was filed up and
properly drained. Farmer Crofton
got rid of his ague, Nettie and her
lover were married, and although
Doctor Drew is not superstitious
man, he has ever since owned to a
Partially for the igpre.aS3.n Z &. &.
y = - Il,
ss1O .is : AsoA ana ~ lsIcli.
A Sun reporter visited Mr.. Peter
Cooper, and asked two interesting
questions. One was how he managed
to live SO long, and the other how he
got rich.
In answer to the first question Mr.,
Cooper said: II should put it in two
words: Live soberly and righteously.
We are required not to eat too much,
nor to work too much, nor 10 play
too much. We are living on earth
under beautiful and benefcent laws,
laws designed in infinite wisdom for
the elevation of mankind. l infer
that just in proportion as we live in
obedience to these laws we shall
have health and comfort. If we dis
obey these laws weshall pay the pen.
atty Of disobedience, for it must be
paid somewhere, at some time" q.
"How did you get rich2"
"In the first place, l learned three
trades. l learned TO be brewer, a
coach maker, and a machinist, all
before was twenty.one years old. l
worked three years at sl.50 a day,
and l saved enough out Of that to
start in life. Twas making machines
to shear cloth. then l bought the pat
ent right of the machine and made
them for sale. That was before the
war of 1872"
"What general rules have you
adopted in business?" was asked.
Zone was that I determined to
give the world an equivalent in some
form of useful labor for all that
consumed in it. / went on and en-
larged my business, all the while
keeping out Of debt. / cannot recol-
lect a time when ! could not pay
what I owed any day. l would not
spend money before I earned it,
Another rule I had was to keep clear
of the banks. l never asked them
for accommodation. l never asked
them to discount notes, because 1 did
not wish to incur any obligation
without certainty Of being able to
pay it. In that way managed to
keep clear of panics. My rule was:
Pay as you go. l can't remember
the time when any man could not
have had for the asking what lowed.
Another thing l wish to say: All the
money / ever made was in mechan-
ical business and not in speculation.
-New York Sun.
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A ttorney at Law and Notary Public, Pon,
q Pleasant, West Virginia. Will practice in the
Courts of Mason and Putnam counties, and attend
promptly to all business entrusted to him.
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RANKIN WILEY. DR..

ttorney at Law, Point Pleasant, Yves, Virginia
a Prastices in the County OF Mason; the United
preme Court Of Appeals Of West Virginia pE- Promp,
attention given to the collection OF claims jan iIy
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WHY an object of loathing and
disgust to yourself and society from
catarrh, when sanfords s Radical Cure,
externally and internally admins
tered, will cure every symptom of
the disease. Every package is a
complete treatment. Only 81.
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III habits gather by unseen de.
grees, as brooks make rivers, and riv-
ers run to the sea.
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DIR. s. G. SHAW.

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, tenders his pro
l fesional services to the public Calls promptly a,
tended to. Office, cor Main and cd streets, opposite
the old Presbyterian church. [aprl S, iS7o-Iy
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PHYSICIANS.

'NNN~~>>s- >s->>->~>'>>SS>>> S>>>>N>>>>>>~~>~>->-.
ANDREW r. hhRbkE. ED. H. FRAvEL.
DRS. BARBEE & FRAvEL,
Northwest cor. 9th and Main Streets Poin, Pleasant
N West Virginia. Office hours from to 10 a. M and
to Top m. tjune II '7o-Iy.
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Join ". ENGLISH.

ttorney Mt Law, will practice in the Courts OF Ma.
n SON. Putnam and Jackson, and in the Court Of Ap.
peas Of West Virginia. Address Point Pleasant, Mason
county, West Virginia. (ian 8, iS7o-Iy
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DIR. l.. +. CAMPBELL.

PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, tenders his profess.
ional services to the citizens Of Point PeaSan, and
vicinity. Can be found for the present at the Drug
Store Of E. J. MoSSman. Imch2,-Iy,
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Local notices IS cents per line, first insertion.
All advertisements for shorter time than thrcu
months. considered transient. PIT
Transen, advertisements must be paid for in ad
vance. TO insure insertion.
Yearly advertisements payable alfyearly in advance
Legal publications must be paid for in all cases, be-
fore the delivery Of the certificate OF publication.
Personal publications, and those recommending can.
didates for Office charged regular advertising rates
Marriage and Death notices. published free; but OBJ
ituaries and tributes of respect, charged half the
usual advertising rates
Announcements for Office. for county, S. 90; State
nd District Sro 90; on regular ticket. Sio 90.
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ATTORNEYS.
y. HoGE, JAS. d. MEsAGER, ciIAs. u
HOGE, MENAGER & HOGG,

A ttorneys at Law. Point Pleasant, West Virginia
q Oihce in the Court House. Practice IN the coun
the Supreme Cour, of Appeals and in the U. S. Dis
trict and Circuit Courts, for West Virginia.
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There is no reason why an elderly
woman shouldn't be well preserved.
Tho young oues have so much sugar
in their composition, you know.
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The Weekly Register,
Published Every Wednesday Morning. by
GEORGE w. TIPPETT,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Office upstairs, S,ortzs Block. Entrance on Main ST.
Terms OF Subscription.
One copy one year, in advance. SC
One copy five years, in advance....- 5 OO
ns-All papers discontinued as soon as time paid for
expires and no subscriptions taken unless paid for in
advance. -du
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14

T OST-A GOLD PENCIL-FINDER WILL BE
~ rewarded. ]. b. COLEGROVE, 1903 Q street
northwest. feIG-3t&
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
Our Water Front.

Washington is now very strongly re-
minded that it has a water front which
overleaps all former limits and proper
tions. We call Congress to contemplate
the situation. 1t is perilous and impress
sive. 1t appeals to the law-making power
of the Government for prompt and effec-
tive relief. The river front has been sud
denly removed to Pennsylvania avenue,
with a rising tendency on the part of the
invading flood 1t is within the province
of Congress to decide whether or not the
future is to be protected against repeti-
tions of disaster. This city of one
hundred and eighty thousand people
is at the will and mercy of the
Congress of the United States. 1t is ut
terly helpless Of itself. 1t has no voice
to utter-no power of its own volition to
assert-no hope, save in petition and the
condescension of Congress. 1t is helpless
and hopeless, save as Congress shall deign
to listen to and answer its prayers. 1t has
appealed to that body, but its cry has fallen
upon heavy ears, until the Ruler of the
Universe has interposed with a flood that
is full of eloquence in behalf of an early
measure which will protect its future by
an appropriation that will save its people
from the destructive powerof an invading
flood.
1t now remains for Congress to deter
mine whether the property, the health,
and the lives of one hundred and eighty
thousand people shall be protected and
preserved. The problem is a plain one,
and is easily solved. The remedy lies in
a liberal appropriation and wise and
skillful engineering. The river front can
and should be rendered secure from an
other such food as is now upon us. This
can be vouchsafed by proper appropria-
ton and expenditure of money. All that
is needed is a suitable sea-wall and
a Strengthened and deepened chan
mel along our city front to pro-
tect it from the wide destruction
of property that such food as the pres
ent involves. Then the sacrifice of prop
erty is nothing when compared with the
consequent loss Of health and life that
must inevitably follow the present condi-
ton of affairs. So long as Congress has
the power to remedy this serious diff
Guilty, and it is reposed nowhere else, that
body can scarcely escape the response
bility for the evil results that will follow
neglect. The present teaches a profitable
lesson, if Congress will but heed it. The
admonition to action in the way of re-
lief is eloquent and impressive, and it
cannot afford to adjourn without .provid-
ING against future calamity.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
HOUSE OF REPREsENTAr1yEs.

Mr.. KING, chairman of Committee on Inter
oceanic Canal, reported bill to incorporate an
Interoceanic Ship Railway Company.
Mr.. PAGE moved that it be recommitted with
instructions to strike out the subsidy.
On the motion of Mr.. COX, the whole subject
was laid on the table by vive voce vote.
On motion of Mr.. CHALMERS, Senate bill
amending charter of Freedman Savings and Trust
Company was passed.
Mr.. ATKINS, from Appropriations Committee
reported back bill for search. for the Jeanette,
which, by Mr.. THoMPsoN'S objection to'its present
consideration, went to the Committee of the
Whole
The House then (at 140) went into Committee of
the Whole, Mr. CARLISLE N the chair, on the river
and harbor appropriation bill, general debate be-
ing limited to thirty-five minutes.
Mr.. RANDALL offered an amendment that the
Secretary of War shall let all work by contract TO
the lowest bidder, if in his opinion the interests
OF the Government will not be injured thereby.
which was agreed TO, though Mr.. MURCH offered a
substitute that the work shall be done by the en-
ployment of labor under the direction of Govern
ment officers and not by contract.
The committee having concluded three of the
forty pages of the bill, the House (at 5:20) ad
iOurned.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
Thanks from an Old Official.

10 INC EItOF Q IHc LtepuOtcuI:
An "Old Public Functionary," as we
think we may venture to call ourself, after more
than thirty years spent III the service of the Gov
ernmcnt, begs TO thank you very much for the
kindly way in which you were pleased to refer in
yesterdays REPUBLICAN to the action of the House
in allowing to ore Of the clerks Of the Post Office
Depar tment an increase of salary as a reward for
half q century's service for the Government Such
words are very grateful and quite refreshing to the
heart OF a dried-up o. P. F. God bless you for
them! Few there are in public life who do not
appear altogether indifferent to the welfare of
civil-seTvice employeeS-SO few, indeed. that we
can recall but one in high station who has thought
this humble class worthy of consideration 6egond
present usefulness. We refer to Senator Anthony
who, on the 1st Of March last, introduced a bill
[S No. 1881 looking to the retirement of aged en-
ployees ofthe civil service. The bill provides
That any person who shall be continuously
employed in the civil service OF the United States
for fifty consecutive years or upward, and shall
have attained the age of seventy years shall, after
his retirement from such employment for any
cause other than his misconduct, be entitled 10
receive during his natural life three-qua of
the regular pay he was entitled by law TO receive
at the time of his retirement, &c On first seeing
that bill we could but eXclaim: "GOd bless SEN
ator Anthony! We shall sing paans TO his name
while he lives and, when he is gone, raise mon
umcnt 10 his memory"
Further than that the bill was referred to the
Judiciary Committee we know nothing as to its
fate. "Qgid est sUarius guam tcIe rem gcfeTe bono
puEieO!' wrote Old Plautus coo years ago Now
what more graceful act on its part could this great
Republic do than to make some provision such as
is contemplated by the bill in question for hum
bic class of useful public servants when the in
irmities of age shall have Overtaken and disabled
them? Such an act would have no frightful ex-
travagance in it, believe, since the persons to
he benefited hv IL NVnuId scarcely ats arv
one period more than half dozen. Would not
the passage of this Senate bill 1889 be another step
in the right direction, Mr.. Editor? Under it as
law, how happy would be half dozen old men,
then graciOusly entitled to lay down the official
pen and to receive the "well done of the GoverR-
ment they have long and faithfully served.
ORE.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
NOR RENT BY B.H. WARNER

OFFICE ROOMS in No. 323 and 319 Our-anda-half
street n. w; also in 45S Louisiana avenue IL. W.
Call for weekly Rent-List
NOR RENT-CALL AND SEE OUR LIST OF
IL property for rent JOHN SHERMAN & Co,
fe3-tf st. Cloud Building
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
2S5anfe0--G Situations.

w TANTED-SITU ALTON BY a MIDDLE ,s.r,-,
w white woman. aS Cook, either IN ti- C.-. ~
country; good reference given. Apply az NJ ~ l.
street MORT Invest. f-Ti#t
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
&RMsihIR ErRMIP.

We can govern India; we cannot gov
ern Ireland. Be it so. Then let Ireland be free.
: We cannot keep people chained to us, to
be perennially wretched, because it is convenient
to us to keep order among them. In an independ-
ent Ireland the ablest and strongest would come
10 the front and the baser clements would be
crushed. 8 & This, too, is called impossible;
yet if We viii neither rule Ireland nor allow the
Irish to rule themselves nature and fact may tell
us that, whether we will or no, an experiment
which has lasted for seven hundred years shall be
tried no longer.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
BABY POWER.
BY ROSA vERTNER JEFFREY.

Six little feet to cover.
six little hands TO fill,
Tumbling out i'll the clover,
Stumbling over the sill.
six little stockings ripping,
Six little shoes half worn,
Spite Of that promised whipping,
skirts, shirts, and aprons torni
Bugs and bumblc- bees catching,
Needless OF bites and Stings;
Walls and furniture scratching,
Twisting otfbuttonS and strings.
Into the sugar and -four,
Into the salt and meal,
Their royal baby power
Throughout the house we feel.
Three little heads, all sunny,
TO pillow and bless at night,
Riotous Alick and Dunnie,
Jennie so bonnie and bright.
Three souls immortal slum6er.
Crowned by that golden hair.
When Christ his flock shall number
viii all my lambs be there?
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14

NOR RENT-PARLORS AND 4 bedroom
II well furnished, with modern improvements, {
l2O6 Tenth street northwest telf5tS
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
CONGRESS ON SATURDAY.
The Postal Appropriation Bili Again d
cussed-The Rf YER and Hnrh0r RiIl

The resolutions of the Librarians was presented
by Mr.. VOORHEES,.
The joint resolution inviting foreign nations to
the exhibition of 1888 was passed.
The hour of meeting hereafter was fixed at
eleven o'clock.
Bill to extend protection to public officers, re-
ported by Mr. DAVIS, was passed.
Mr.. ANTHONY addressed the Senate on the re-
ports of the committees that Investigated elections
in Rhode Island.
The postal appropriation bill was taken up, and
the Chairman, Mr.. WHYTE, submitted the point OF
order made by Mr.. WALLACE against the Hamlin
amendment TO the subsidy clause to the Senate,
and it was voted out of order by 26 to IL.
Mr.. HERMAN spoke against the subsidy system,
and Messrs. WRYTE, EATON, BAILEY, BUTLER, and
MCDONALD favored a change in the navigation
laws, the latter agreeing with Mr.. HERMAN that
subsidies tended to drive off competition, and (at
515 o'clock the Senate adjourned till Monday.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
TIE
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
FOR 1851
Pre- sP TIA s.

THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN begins the
aetU year under neaC management and 1citi
sae1c material.
II HUiU be a StaIoUort Republican Journal
Rsgiu be the best newspaper IN the District
Of Columbia.
Il aviU furnish during The sessions Of Con-
sress satisfactory report Of tie proceedings,
and f0iU at all times giUe complete Information
efhe official doiags IN all Departments of the
Government
H'CiH gire al interesting i'.formGtiO" that
can be Legitimdtely obtaiaed concerning the
inteatiOns and policies Of TIE ruling poacer.
In District affairs It ociH kTo,O only the best
Interests Of the people upon ,rbose .fapOr 1t re-
hes, and aciU at all times cooperate rith pro-
sressipc citizens, rjthosa regard to their poLit
icGl predictions, acIo hare measures to pro-
pose and dduance for the Improvement Of The
National Capital.
n ociU furnish daily record Of all the IN
teresting social erents Of the city, making its
society department special feature.
Il aciH gire teIegaphic ae,rS from all parts
of The scOrld reached by The ocifes, and IN its
editorials and foreign, domestic, and city raeocs
EDiH keep pace Nth the times.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
His Rest Wishes.

An inquisitive out-of-town visitor, who
had doubts of the soundness of Mr.. Beecher's
orthodoxy, put an elaborate conundrum at him for
the purpose oftestingit He supposed the case of
a man who lived pure and blameleSs life, full of
charity and good will to his fellow men, but who
had no faith in God and no belief in future life.
When that man dies, he asked, does he go to
he'll, or where does he go?' Without moments
hesitation Mr.. Beecher replied: "H He would have
my best wishes wherever he went"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14

of insinuation or libel upon Washington.
We are getting rather tired of this sort of
thing. 1t is unfair and dishonorable, but
we are glad to say is confined mostly to
the small writers who, from lack of news,
which they have not the sense to obtain,
draw on their alleged wit for their facts.
The latest story is that about colored peo
pie and the Inauguration ball, which it is
only necessary to remark is cut out of
whole cloth. 1t is simply false.
The Spectre of the Ball Room.
We have waited day or two since
public announcement was made by the
Democratic organ that the colored peo-
pie are buying largely of the tickets to
the inaugural ball before alluding to
the matter for two reasons: We desired
certain information that could only be
obtained of those having the sale of tick
cts in charge, and to see whether or not
the announcement made would work
suspension of further preparations for
the approaching Inauguration. After
inquiry, and painful suspense we have
come to the deliberate conclusion that
" the niger in the wood-pile" is not
there in any alarming proportions, and
that the work Of preparation will go right
on just as if nothing in the way of scare
crows had happened. This attempt to
prejudice and disparage the inaugural re-
ception and ball only shows that "cus-
sedness," like the courage of an over
valiant man when danger is remote,
will ooze out just at the time when
it should be retained. Democrats
may be prevented from attending the re-
ception and ball for fear that an African
may come betwiXt the wind and their
nobility; but Republicans will not be re-
strained by any such consideration. The
affair will be free from all objectiona-
bic features-will be a gathering of eight
or ten thousand well-behaved American
people; and we venture the opinion
that the man who attempts to dispar-
age its character in advance repre-
sents only himself in the unseemly
effort. That man is under no
obligation to outrage his own sense of
propriety or to hazard the superior ex-
cellence of his reputation by mingling in
the questionable gathering that he seems
to anticipate will grace the inaugural re-
ception and ball. 1t is free country
Nobody is compelled to attend, and, what
is more, he who does not attend will be
the only loser by the absence.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
Feastins a Kentucky Murderer.

Colonel Tom Buford, of Kentucky,
who was declared insane because he killed the
judge who decided q lawsuit against him, is in
the insane asylum at Anchorage, KY. A dispatch
10 the Cincinnati Enquirer says:
Anchorage asylum is a fat place for Colonel
Tom Buford. He is living on the best in the land,
and has never yet been disgraced by putting on
the regulation uniform of the establishment 1t is
exactly Us was predicted, and Mr.. Buford is made
an exception to the rules of the place He is con-
stantly guest of the headquarters of the institu
ton, and of course ii would be cruel to put him
back with the common element of inmates
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14

THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN begins the
sseD gear under netC management and 1citb
saesr material
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
Sor Genf--Soltses.

NOR RENTAL 50 PER MONTH-TWO NEW
II six-room Houses 1l25 and ll29 Park Place north
east; have water in kitchens and wGter-clOSetS in
yards; l25 can be bought by paying so down and S3
monthly; one block north of Lincoln Park and near
East Capitol street Apply TO ]. W. STARR, l49
New York Avenue. feI2-6t
NOR RENT-A FIVE-ROOM HOUSE. WITH
large stable, 1915 Nineteenth street; rent, Sl6;
also SeVen-rOOm House, 1910 Twentieth street; rent.
81: KEY at 1909 Nineteenth street. s DAISE loft
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
Thin Souls.

People who wear thin-soled shoes from
now until April would do well to make their wills
and select their undertaken Died of thin-soled
shoes" would be an appropriate epitaph for a
multitude of silly people Thin soles tight fit,
and weak head are generally combined in the
same indiEidnal-Llter- Ocenn.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
4 Chicago Editors Ears.

If the West Point cadets mad am
puated joe Medill's ear instead of Whittaker's
they would have got great deal more car and no
body would have made any fuss about it.-Bur-
i39tOa HGIr5rle
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14
General t1arf;eI6,s wotaI

General Garfield, who has been de-
clared officially PTesident-clect of the United
States, has to keep hotel at Lawnfield, Mentor
township, Ohio, whether he knows how to run
or not. However, the guests make no complaint
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14

TIE New York San is now running the
ehromatic scale on General Garfeld's
prospective Cabinet, so far as anticipated
in lis probabilities. Every name yet
mentioned is touched by the Suns taint-
brush. We congratulate these gentlemen
on the attempt of the Sun to smirch
them, for its condemnation is a high
commentator in the eyes of all right
thinking people. The San has had re-
cent return of the Credit Mobilier fever,
which turns its irregular head. 1t is an
object Of commiseration.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-14

Fresh young man toa lady he hasjustes-
corted to the dining-roo at literary gathering
Are you partial to Lambs Tales?' Indignant
young lady, after exhibiting much uncalled- for
surprise: "No, nor mutton heads either.'-Y Yoa-
kers SdteSm1R