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o. 8. District Attorney for West
Virginia.

The appointment of Gen. Golf to be
Secretary of the Navy, leaves a va
cancy in the Office of District Attor-
ney for the District Court for the
State of West Virginia. This being
tho case the friends of Hon. james
B. Menager, Of this place. will press
his claims for appointment to this
position. l. will be remembered
that Mr.. Menager was a Garfield
Elector in this State, and that he ran
several hundred ahead Of his ticket,
and the vote Mr.. Garfield received in
this State was based upon the vote
given Mr.. Menager. He was also
elected Prosecuting Attorney for
Mason county, being the only
Republican elected in the county.
He is an exceedingly popular young
man, and isliked by everybody. He is
most excellent gentleman, a lawyer
Of fine ability, and good practice. A
Republicans will most certainly get
the position Of District Attorney,
and Of course we have an interest in
good, square, honest man, being
appointed, and local pride as we'll,
and hence we give our influence and
energy in behalf of Mr.. Menager.
We know that he will fill the posi-.
tion as well as any man in the State.
He is stalwart enough for the extre.
NEST Republican, and yet a man
who would ever be courteous, honest
and manly in office.
The selection Of Gen. Golf for O
Cabinet position shows a disposition
upon the part of the Republican par.
ty to strengthen itself, by selecting
men for public position whose worth
capacity and good citizenship will
be recognized by the people. We
have no hesitation in saying that
while the appointment of Mr., Mena
ger would rebound to the credit o.
the Republican party; it would alsc
be for the welfare of the State.
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Is Judgc Green u Iudgo.

Governor Mathews has issued his
proclamation declaring Judge Green
elected to the Supreme Court Of APP
peals for the term of twelve years.
The Governor does not undertake to
specify just what court this is to
which Judge Green has been elected,
the court known to the old costitu.
ton or that established by the con.
stitutional Amendment. Judge
Green will, perhaps, exercise his
judicial functions in deciding this
question and making a choice. He
was elected under the old Constitu.
ton TO the Court known to that Con-
stitution, but at the same time that
Constitution and its Court were vot.
ed out of existence, as the Governor
has heretofore proclaimed, and new
Constitution with different Court,
differently constituted in important
particulars, were voted in. No pro.
vision was made for the election of a
Judge to the latter Court. Perhaps
it was thought the Judges of the old
Court would be kind enough to run
the new for the next twelve years or
SO, rs a matter Of accumulation. As
a matter of fact they would prefer to
run the old Court, us the salary is
more liberal, and we suggest to Judge
Green that for this reason he should
maintain that he is n Judge under
the dispensation.- Wheeling Register
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Notice.

THERE viii be a meeting o. the Board
l OF 0yeseers OF the Poor OF Mason
County, at the law office OF John Z. Trims
Point Pleasant, on the FIRST Monday in Eel,
ruary, THAT being the eth day at 10 O'Clock
a. NJ, for the purpose OF allowing claims
and transRcting such other business Ns
may legally come before II. An claims
must be filed with the Clerk Of the Board
i've days before It's meeting, 10 insure their
allowance.
G. B. RAYBuRS, Pres,.
JonS E. TiNAs, Clerk. fjan6-iw.
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MeetIng ID StoelkhoIllers.

NOTICE is hereby given that the annu.
IN al meeting OF the Stockholders OF the
Mason County Agricultural and Mechani.
cal Association, will be held ut the Court
House, in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
on the 18th day OF January, 1881, at Il O..
clock A. NJ, for the election OF Directors
to serve the ensuing year, and the transac.
ton Of such other business as NAV come
before the Stockholders.
dec 22-iw.
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The Democratic party in Congress
is a fair sample of that organization
the country over, They are now OBJ
structing the business Of the session
in useless contention over joint
resolution relative to the count Of the
Electoral vote. They will fail Of
their purpose and receive and deserve
the condemnation Of fair minded
citizens.-Ashtand Republican.
The above is u fair specimen Of the
silly nonsense Republican papers
supply their readers with. Every
man Of ordinary intelligence knows
that the passage of the bill regula.
ting the electoral count would have
been accomplished long since, but for
the opposition of the Republican
minority. The Democracy have the
majority in Congress and are united
in faver Of the bill, and are only pre-
vented from passing it by the inter.
position of parliamentary tactics
adopted by the Republican minority
r :, .il Il ~
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William Mckay VS.. Thomas Il. Hopkins.
In Debt.

In Debt.
The object OF the above suit Is to obtain
u judgment against said defendant for one
hundred and ten tSll0) dollars with inter-
eat thereon at per cent. from October
nth, 1877, until paid, in an action of debt,
the above suit being bounded on note ex-
ecuted by the-said defendant, payable to
said plaintiff or bearer six months after
the date thereof for one hundred and ten
(Sll0l dollars, and the further object Of the
said suit is to subject 10 sale sufficient ofthe
personal property belonging to the defend
ant. now under process OF attachment in
this suit to pay off said judgment. And IL
appearing by an affidavit filed in this cause
that said ThomasT. Hopkins is non-resi-
dent OF the State OF West Virginia, it is
ordered that he do appear here at Rules
to be held in the Clerks office OF the Cir
cult Court OF said county on the first Mon
day in February next, and do what is ne
cessary to protect his interest in this suit
TESTE:
CHAS. B. WAGGENER, Clerk.
Chas. L. Rogg, pa. fjan5-4@
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MYSTERIOUS D1sAPpEARANcE.-On
the 18th ult., John W. Govier, pro
prietor of steam stave machine,
near 0ney, in this county, on the G.
& o. Railway, left home saying he
was going to Milton and thence to
Huntington on business, to return
next morning on the early train,
He came to Huntington and was seen
about town in the evening appar.
emily attending TO business affairs, as
late as about nine o'clock, after
which time nothing has been known
of him. The mill hands continued
20 run the stave machine up to the
day before Christmas when they quit
work. Attachments have been lev.
led by creditors upon his mill and
goods upon the theory that he has
fled the country, but there is reason
to fear that he has been foully dealt
with, or, possibly, took a notion to 60
to Pittsburgh, from whence he came,
and has been Suddenly taken i'll 80 a.
not 10 be able TO commu nlCate with
his home. Mr.. Govier had the mis-
fortune to lose his wife and infant
child last summer and, moro recent
ly, his wife's mother died, and it may
be, that grief has crazed him and he
has wandered off. It seems hardly
possible that he ran away, because
on the 9th ult, he received 1920
from Lyons & Co., and proceeded to
apply about every dollar Of it towards
the payment of his current bills, 1t
would seem that he would have kept
this money if ne intended to run
away. Mr.. Goyier enjoyed an ex-
cellent reputation as a gentleman
and a business man and enjoyed ex.
cellent credit. He has three child.
rem ranging from three to fifteen
years of Huntington Advertiser,
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State of West Virginia, County of Mason, $751;
A 7 Rules held III the Clerks office Of the
II. Circuit Court of Mason County, West
Virginia, Monday the Sd day OF January,
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John Rutfner attempted to cross
New River on ice near Gauley Stat.
ion, When he had preceded some
distance he broke through, and had
it not been for the timely arrival of
Mr. Mcllarity he would have been
drowned, Mr.. Rnfnor when rescued
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1t now seems that Taylor Strauder,
the negro murderer of Wheeling, is
likely to get of at last, for want Of
some body to prosecute him. He is
to be tried in the Federal court be-
cause the State court at his former
trials neglected to provide him with
the luxury of a negro jury. But
Gen. Golf, the U. S. Attorney, says
that it is no part of his duties to
prosecute that class of cases aud
Robert white, tho State Attorney Gen.
era, says that his duties do not re:
quire him to appear or to act as a
public prosecutor in Federal court.
So Strauder is still getting the bene.
fit of the doubt. Verify it is a fact
that nine guilty men escape while
one innocent man is punished.
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EaTRAY NOTTCE.

State OF West Virginia, Mason County, SIS:
TO The Cltrb Of the County Cc,trt Of Mason
County:
~ Z, G. b Rayburn, John Foglesong
w and A, II. Rayburn, three free hold
ers OF said county, do hereby certify that
by virtue OF a warrant to us directed by
John NJ Eckard, q Justice OF the said coun-
~, we have viewed and appraised COW
beast taken up by Granville Rayburn on
his land as an estray, and assess the value
OF said animal at twenty-five dollars. The
said animal is steer four and half feet
high, body mostly red white face with red
round the right eye, feet white, white along
the belly, is two years old and uuderthree.
Given under our hands this I'D day OF
November, 1880.
G. B. RAYBURN,
JOHN FOGLESONG,
A. II. RAYBURN,
Appraisers.
West Virginia, Mason County Court
Clerks Office, November 23d, 1850. The
foregoing appraisement was this day ad-
mitted to record in said office.
A Copy-Teste:
j. 2. r. B. SMITH. Clerk,
BY Jos. H. HoLLowAY, Deputy.
ian5-3w.
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Standard Nail a Iron Comnon,

standard Nail 4 Iron Company
NOTICE Is hereby given that there will
IN bea meeting oil the stockholders Of Inc
Standard Nail and Iron Company. at their
office in Clifton. West Va, ON the second
Wednesday in January, 1881, iOrthc elect.
ion OF Directors, ndthetransaction 81 any
other business that may come before Il.
j, B. GREEN, President.
L. w. RICHARDS, Sec'y jun 5.2w.
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The next United States Senate
will contain quite a number Of mil
lionaires among its members. Sena-
tor Brown of Georgia is reported to
be worth So 100000: Fair Of Nevada,
100000; Sawyer of Wisconsin, 81
100000; Oliver of Pennsylvania, ST.,
100000; "Secorr" Robson, $1,000, 600,
Levi Morton, if elected, 100000
Bagley of Michigan, 81 100000; Cam
eron Of Pennsylvania, Davis of Hi,
nois, Jones of Nevada, Hill and Tel.
Ter, Colorado; Blaine and Hale Of
Maine, and Mcpherson Of New Jersey,
all over q million each,
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THR STATE on WEST VIRGINIA,

MASON COUNTY, To-wlr. '
A 7 Rules heldin the Clerks Office OF the
II Circuit Court oil Mason County, West
Virginia, Monday, the Sd day Of January,
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United States Senator.

Since the formation Of the Govern
ment there has been a wide differ.
ence in the customs, manners and
whole life Of the Southern people, as
compared with the Eastern, Northern
and Western population. The South
living in ease, luxury and refinement,
the people wealthy by inheritance,
and the soil rich by nature; but little
exertion was demanded and but little
put forth; not so the less fatorcdqua
tiers which in many places were cold,
rugged and barren, calling for vigor-
Gus, sturdy action by the people to
gain a livelihood. No less striking
was the distinction in political
sense; the South selected as represen-
tatives its most polished men and
gifted orators; the North and East on
the other hand generally placed in
public position men who were best
calculated to develop the advantages
Of soil and the interests ofcommerce
and manufacture.
Virginia, South Carolina and Ken.
lucky sent orators to Congress who
made themselves famous as constitu-
tional expoundeEs, while New York,
Massachusettsand Pennsylvania sen:
solid, pactical business men whu
made their section of country rich,
populous and independent.
A writer has said that some of the
finest speeches and conceptions of our
time have been spit away by the
wasted substance of tobacco chewers.
So the South has spurted away fine
opportunities for railroads, mining
and manufacturing development by
wasted oratory, while the North, not
SO noted for fine speakers, is renowned
for material development of eve.y
kind.
Let lis then seek to send a little
working ability to the National Cap
itol; if the two be combined, oratory
and business qualities, we'll and good,
but of the two let us take business
before pleasure.
There are good opportunities now
Discerning development, population
and power in the South, and espec-
tally in West Virginia. Let us then,
so far as VIC arc concerned, send a
man to the Senate who will not
think so much Of immortalizing his
speeches as he does of his people and
his soil, and their improvement and
development.
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The Pension Bureau estimates that
it will take s6S,000,00O to pay the
pensions for the next year, and the
claims are not all in yet. 1t also APP
pears from the report that it is pc.
culiar fact that instead Of decreasing
the number of pensioners is constant.
ly increasing, until now they number
more than there were soldiers in war.
Doubles there are many deserving
Of pensions who have not had any;
but when the pension roll is larger,
fifteen years after the war, than the
army roll, it occurs to Federal office
holder that there is something wrong
somewhere. The astonishing tenac.
ity Of women in keeping their youth
is clearly demonstrated by the pens,
ion rolls, upon which there are
women notye Is years old who claim
to be war widows. The Bureau of
Pensions can not understand that
either. The number of minor chill
dren of dead soldiers does not seem to
be affected by the lapse of time, either.
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Henry Ward Beccher says he was
once offered 100000 for his minister
ial services for twelve months
Some one wants to know whether it
was Satan Or Bod Ingersoll who made
the tempting offer, and whether Mr..
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Harry Cain, Esq, ofGilmor county,
is looked upon as the most deserving
of the candidates for Sergeant-at arms
Of the house Of Delegates this winter,
aud'the great probabilities are that
he will be elected. Either Hon. Z.
Willis Wilson, of the Third District
or Col. Alex Monroe, of. the Second
District, will probably be chosen
Speaker, and j. B. Peyton will
certainly be elected Clerk, conse-
quently the Office of Sergeant.at-arms
will naturally fall to our district
and Mr.. Cain is the choice of our
people by'a large lnajority.-Es.
3. K. THoMPsoNS GREdT HEALING
OINTMENT.
This certifes, that from my child
hood | have suffered extremely AZ
times with Chilblains on my heels,
causing running sores, so that pieces
as large as a ten cent scrip would Of
ten peel of. After using all kinds of
remedies, so called, I made an appli.
cation Of Great Healing Ointment,
which clfectually cured mo, and in
my case consider it worth twenty
times its cost. So greatly did l suffer
l have often taken off my boots and
Travelled barefoot in the snow.
T. f. MCKEE,
shamburg, Pa, March 8, 1876.
Prepared by E. X. Thompson, Ii
tusville, Pa. Price Is cents.
Sold by Point Pleasant Drug Store,
and A. G. Van Glider.
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BAES REPORT.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION

OF The Merchants National Bank OF West
Virginia ut Point Pleasant, in the State Of
West Virginia, at the close Of business,
December 81, 1880.
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according 10 bid ARMY and Navy

According to tho Army and Navy
Journal West Virginia furnished
32,0S8 soldiers to the Union army
during the war, or reduced to q three
years standard. 26,714, which, count
ing the population at 376,6S8 Gas
given in the United State census)
was one soldier to every thirteen and
a half persons. The State Of Ohio
furnished one soldier to about every
nine and half persons, or 240,5l4
three years troops out of popula-
tion of 2,33G,511. Pennsylvania fur
nished one soldier to about every
nineteen and a half persons in the
State, or 265,5l7 three years troops
out of a population Of 2,906,215.
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The New York Sun puts hypo-
thetical case thus: If the Republi.
cans organize the next Senate, as
they boast they will be able to do,
Mr.. Conkling will be made chairman
of tho Committee on Foreign Rela.
lions. Mr.. Blaine will probably
then be Secretary of State. When
Senator Sumner was dcposed us chair
man Of the committee in question to
make room for Mr.. Simon Cameron
Mr.. Conkling recorded his vote in
favor of the change, holding, and
perhaps properly, that the chairman
OF that committee ought to be- on
speaking terms with the Secretary of
State. The conundrum which the
Sun now asks is, "Nill the rule laid
down by Mr., Conkling in the Sum.
ner case be applied to himself when
the nehate conVenes, ana VIII he be
thereby excluded from the chairman.
ship of this committed"
They say we have paid about six
hundred thousand dollars for a ma,
tiOnal Green House Mt Washington
and its only utility has been to fur.
nish rose.gays for Congressman,
Lets elevate the Agricultural Depart.
ment and put this money into corn
and wheat, it will pay better.
The message of Governor Foster
announces that the funded debt oil
Ohio aggregates s6,57G,So5, of which
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oneadvocated by leading Republicans
few years back, among them Sena-
tor Morton, of Indiana. The bill
provides that the vote Of no State
shall be counted unless both Houses
of Congress agree to il. The only
purpose OF the bill is to prevent fraud,
and to insure fair dealing. II was
so understood when the same rule
was adopted blythe Reppblicansa few
years back. If the reason was good
then, it is good now Boyd Co., (Ky)
Eipress.
That Senator Conkling has "his
man" to succeed Mr.. Herman in the
United States Senate there can DO no
doubt, but exactly who that party is
remains a mystery. Some of the
New York papers assert that he de.
sires the election of Ex-Representa.
tive I. c. Plat; others say his choice
is Representative Crowley, and
others that Levi p. Morton is his
man. A Republican caucus last
night selected Gen. Sharpe for speak.
er of the House. AS Gen. Sharpe
was Conkling's candidate it is pretty
certain that "his man." whoever he
may be, will be elected senator.
Tippett, of the PIT. Pleasant Regis
ter, has received instructions from
the legal fraternity as TO the proper
time for holding courts in Mason
county, but Tippett don't seem to
take instructions worth u cent. He
says in his paper that the times
selected by the lawyers will not suit
the convenience Of the people at all,
and that he thinks tho peoples con
venienoe should be consulted as
much as that Of the lawyers, and that
he proposes to act in the Legislature
accordingly; Tippett's cranium is APP
parently Of horizontal construction.
Jackson Herald.
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The message of Governor Foster
announces that the funded debt of
Ohio aggregates s6,57G,So5, of which
, 1881-08-31
and from tl!!s we rluckcl n spray, ana pro-

and frnm tllls We rluckctl spray, ami pre-
served 1t With great care.
l)nr curiosity lEtt ,,a Into tllG stables, wherc
we snw ti,u poets cGulM nnI nliuptt,t, Antt
pNttr'l tho handsome saddle horse l3etn
'll,0ii her ltnck Ntyt:. Tic Kind old hustler
rIlMttptl with III cordially, and answered. MI
n,lr numerous questions with cheerful Rool.
Will.
ll,tt at lenRtl. VIC turned awny--obligcd Ia
go-wttllont sight Of the. .3n,et himself, whn
& spending the summer with Ills daughter at
Sahnht.
MI. Auburn, "i,Hc,frsl city of tho plain," !"
WIS next ~ Nrt1cr, wherG wn ytsitnd tho
grayGs Of Fanny ,ferl. Charlnttn ENs!lnlt,,,
Edward Everett, ,Agasstz, Hltti where WI lost
nur way, toN. n,.tl walked Il milo Or ,M0rn l,e.
for0 We fo.t1lA the rear rarrtnRr IT Il waiting
funeral trnitt, Whose driver tlfrccic,t o,tr ht:-
WfltlGrctf STRIPS nrtxl,t.
NNiltAskel HcaeIi wns 0ttr next point. .As
thu gucAt of Il kind friend wt formed \
party Of three aud ,nNtla Il ilny nf ut down ut
the iracll, wlUrD tic wealth a1stl fnslllun nf
the city diSnerts ITSELF From l5,QO0 tn ~, 900
people nro SulnlnerlnE theFu I'M the hotels
Antl cottages, hi,tl thousands 90 and como
daily. 1t was II lnycly summer srGne as we
lacked uir last upon It, tho children tltg.
cling In tlie slfit the talllers pfashlNg lil the
surf, the bnnn playing on tllD stunt, tho
y0ttnE people lllfting nti tho ycrantns, s.t,l
The summer sunlight over It all.
We wGro unfortunate In visiting 1snston
When Ml It's distinguished people were MI.
sent. Even Sunday nt Trintty Church, while
II gnvc rs fine discourse, did INT permit tts
+" listen a2 Y Philip f'rooks: IFS M pastor, wl"
, 1881-08-31

wns rnclnv '',t,r,. I'll 1'fn ii,,n Rn thn nrHnt
ru,ii,] s. mil III" ,,rjcn was ~rowir % ihSraiI
rrtuc|y joWrr ind lowcr. filth, hid al Iit iitn
iTodi'ser Iecl! Wisc, he woniti lnyV cn,I'.
iiel,t. Wtiiei, whit, npt nnjy ilnvn r1,sfor"i ri
vnit,s, Il, n npint whcre tl,cy i,olo,,ae,l. it,t
wo,,i i,nsa ,,,.t MI ti,. iunyintlI, exi.a,,st,,
OF tic netr6iUv,n tjellt,sit ft,r Years. Wjti''
ihe s ,ast iitret, vrars cr,t,is oji wottlt hnv; tx
maintained nj, nvrrl,tfn ,,rlcn of Is n lnirrnt
i,,sica,I ~ nbotii 10 cr1i,s: tna ,,rod,,csrs
wvtli l,aye inn,i,. I, f,roiit nf st,W trr l,arrcl
if, tI,e rrti t,it,re t1lnI, yrnr's s,,l,ty Of ii
wlticj, nl,st In extracted buiorg tllff t,rrsrnt
e,iUrlI,o,ls stncks nGoyu rro,;tld colIiI l,e
cu1nictl. 1|,It. Lila. nr,uy IF nrOlltlcors wRy
inrrt.. ttnOrmlni1ntl Mil lecnft,t, t,nssrssf.tl
, 1881-08-31

1T I" hsd oysrc nrsC e.,
low s,,,' G tl,s 1 SOL foowe, BY I,n"yonns'ss
ss;. 'ss!;s /" W., S sia,s t;sss b "psies u Il
. sec st,,i h,vn n,iyantaxcd by rrncttcc viii,
Vol ~ Vent" aalh tho Marquis lVoj IL, Vent
Mnf tho most celebrated ewurtisnian Or t'nrs.l
We WI resume" ,.,...,.
eyf t.,,a saea .,' 9tnsr s.i, n'Ss1 , A..
IN hfnscir ifa'e WI "''S'' '''"' s"a '"0 H"""'
tsinr lie "pon,ro dr. terrc" m n tctnt. bo
threw ,,l,nself win II h: foreo Intn . pa!t.,
there but thaf tho Marquis arolictl tho thrust
DyM." ."fats:Mr."