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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05
To lIle Public.

During my absence at Wheeling,
the Register will be in charge of my
son Charles A. Tippett He has
been we'll trained in the business, is
acquainted with all the details of the
Office, and is a most excellent printer.
We hope the Democracy of the coun.
ty will extend 10 the Register a liber.
al patronage during my absence, and
that its patrons will pay up prompt
ly. This is absolutely necessary tc
meet bills which will become due
before | return. My son is authori
zed to make contracts, collect money
and do the same as would, were | al
home. Any contract he may make
or receipt he may give, will be ap
proved by me. The paper will bt
kept up 10 its standard during my
absence. Respectfully,
GEO. w. TIPPETT, Editor.
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Kansas Is the Ireland Of Amerlca

Kansas is the Ireland Of America
in regard to the uncertainty Of its
agricultural products. The potato
bug, army worm and protracted
drouth, in turn, leave a large num-
Der Of the inhabitants in state Of
starvation. A heavy responsibility
rests upon a number Of republican
colporteurs who induced thousands Of
negroes TO leave their homes in the
South, where they had steady work,
good wages and plenty to eat and go
to Kansas, where they are starving
and freezing. The fanatics who in
duced them there viii not subscribe
a dollar totake them back where they
are most anxious to go, as wellas the
white inhabitants upon whom they
have been burden. The recent ac-
counts coming from that region are
really alarming as to the destitution
of the people, which ought not to
be permitted in this land Of plenty
and to spare. Emigration should be
directed to more favored localities,
not subject to climate influences
which seems to prevail in Kansas,
where land is equally as cheap and
all other conditions Of life quite as
desirable. -Er.
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The Situation In Ireland.

A Dublin dispatch dated yesterday
says that public interest in the trials
of the Irish agitators has considera.
bly, abated, but this does not seem to
be borne out by fuller advices. The
very circumstances surrounding
these trials necessarily give them
deep interest, but it is possible that
the principal reason why the people
are not more demonstrative is found
in the abiding conviction that the
traversers will not be convicted.
The speech of Acknowledgement Law
on Wednesday last was a forcible
presentation Of the case Of the gov
ernment, He did not fail to take ad-
vantage of the indiscreet public ut
terances Of some of the less promi-
nent agitators, neither did he omit to
quote the assertion of MIR. Parnell
that "either the landlords or the peo.
pie must CO." He went SO far as to
say that the Land League is based on
sedition and treason; but on this
point many will be found to take is.
sue with him. Agitation in proper
direction and within reasonable lin
its is, sooner or later, followed by re.
form, and it is a pity the cause Of
Ireland, which is a most deserving
one, should have been championed by
men whose Incorporate utterauces
have led TO the commission Of crimi.
nal acts. Thirty thousand English
troops now garrison Ireland and are
taking every precautions TO suppress
any uprising that may occur. 1t is
hardly probable that there will be
any organized opposition, for the very
good reason, which the cooler heads
appreciate, that it would be worse
than useless. Having no arms or or
ganization the Irish people could
only hope to carry on a guerrilla
warfare, which would result in blood.
shed without any compensating re,
suits. 1t is possible that the govern
ment's plan for the amelioration of
the condition of the lrishpooplc may
be such Us 10 silence further agila.
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Legal Advertisements.
COMMISSIONERS SALE
OF House and Three Lots in,l,e
Town of West COlUnIliO

Tn pursuance OF theterms OF decree Of
the Circuit Court of Mason COUNTY
West Virginia, rendered on the 10th day
OF October, 1880, in sui'-thercin pendiIc
in which W. p. Shank, who sues, &c, ioT
r. l.. Winkleblack as plaintiff and 4 e
Mason, ct. ais. are defendants, tho under.
signed, Special Commissioners, appointed
for that purpose, will on the 7th day OF Feb.
ruary, 1881, at the front doer OF the Court.
House of Mason County, proceed to sell ut
public auction to the highest bidder, lois
Nos. 100, 40, Ill and the land lying be,
tween said lots and the Ohio river and the
land lying between lot No. III and the
Ohio river, situate in the town of West
Columbia, belonging to the defendant Jo.
seph Brumley.
Terms or SALE:-Cash us to one.third of
the purchase money and the residue upon
q credit OF six and twelve months, taking
from the purchaser bond with good secu.
rity bearing interest from day Of sale and
retaining the title as further security.
JAS. b. ENAGER,
w. H. ToMLINSON,
jan 5.4w Special Commissioners.
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Sometime since complaints were
made by emigranls of inhuman treat
ment during their passage to this
port on board an ocean steamer. The
poor passengers scattered, and the
outrage died out of official memory.
The officers of the French steamer
Vile de Maresille are now openly de-
nonnced by Storage passengers, who,
for nineteen days, were treated more
like animals than human beings
One hundred and eighty of them
have made statement of so shock
ing violation of contract as de-
mands the amplest investigation
Poor and insufficient food was bad
enough, but when the public is told
that women and men were compelled
to occupy the same compartments,
and visit the same closet, and that
no regard was paid to sex at anytime,
surely indecency can go no further,
Added to such outragSs were the
wretched sanitary condition of the
steerages, and Che drunkenness fthe
cook, baker and steward. Storage
passengers have rights which should
be respected by the officers of ocean
steamers, and they should be held to
a rigid accountability for contempt
of them. If the steerage is to be con.
verted into h temporary hell, in
which impoverished emigrants are to
be tortured, the sooner it is recon.
structed the better for humanity
Nc,O York Mercury,
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ZION, though II IS scarcely to be hoped
that it viii fully meet the demands
of the Parnell party, but the necessi.
ty for a compromise Of some sort
grows every day more and more APP
parent both for England and Ireland.
Parliament meetsi in few days, when
the precise nature of the govern.
ment's proposition will be made
known.-Gasette.
A Move In the Right Direction.
The friends of sheep industry in
West Virginia were disappointed at
the result of the popular vote in sew
eral Of the counties on the adoption
of the dog law" The proposal to
put the law in force in several coun.
ties was overwhelmingly voted down.
Even in Tyler county, where sheep
industry is becoming general among
farmers, it was largely voted down.
This was discouraglng-so discourag
that the West Virginia Association
of Sheep Breeders and Wool Growers
have determined to petition the Leg.
islature for the enactment of law
thatwilf meet the case. The Mar.
shall county association have unani
mously adopted the following peti
ton:
TO the Honorable Senate and House O
Representatives. Of West Virginia, IN
Legislature assembled.
We, the undersigned members o.
the West Virginia Sheep Breeder;
and Wool Growers Association, and
citizens Of the State of West Virginia
engaged in sheep husbandry, and
farmers and others who wish to en-.
gage in the business of sheep raising
in the State, are especially interested
in wise legislation in regard to an eff
fectual dog law that will give more
encouragement to sheep raising in
this State. Knowing as we do, that
sheep will add to the taxable wealth
and influence ofour people and State
while dogs will have the opposite eff
feet, we therefore demand that the
Legislature in session this winter
will give the matter due considera
ton, and that our representatives
will make an earnest effort to pass q
bill to levy a tax on each dog in the
State of West Virginia of at leas,
S1,00, and to make OF it u separate
fund of the amount collected there
from, to be paid for damage done
sheep by dogs, and the surplus eact
year to be appropriated to public
school purposes, We deem it but
equity that wool growers should be
recompensed for taxable property ir
sheep, destroyed by worthless dogs
And we pray that you will in justice
legislate to this end by making lane
holders responsible for damages done
by tenants dogs.-EntelEgencer.
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Immigration as MalterofBusi-
nnGa.


Thousands upon thousands Of peo-
pie have passed through our own fer
tile State looking for homes in the
West, where there are fewer adyant,
ages Of soil and climate. Such set
tiers as have come to West Virginia
have generally found their way I'M
solicited and unguided, Our State
has never pursued a proper policy in
regard to peopeling its vacant lands.
The subject should be looked at in a
business light. How much is an i'm
migrant worth to West Virginia, and
70 its towns and cities2 How many
hundreds and thousands of dollars?
For many years we have seen the
great tide of immigration passing be-
yond US to build up and make pros
porous other States and other cities
in localities not so well adapted for
the welfare of settlers. We should
let the world know the advantages
West Virginia offers. Descriptive
hand-books, pamphlets, folders, should
be distributed literally in the old
countries and the eastern provinces.
This is a work in which the State
can proftably employ an active and
intelligent immigrant agent with en-
larged ideas. We should have a law
that would devote certain sum ev-
cry year for the inducement of i'm
migration to West Virginia. In
creased immigration would bo good
thing for every community in West
Virginia, and it is much to be wish
ed that the coming Legislature will
do something to forward the work.
Register.
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Poor, cadaverous old Turkey is
again in trouble-in fact she is sell.
dom out of it. The Albanian League
is defiant and threatens to join
Greece in her struggle against the
Porte, The latter now asks for new
European conference to settle the
Greek boundary question.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05

Sixty thousand negroes, Governor
St. John says, have left the South
since the exodus began. Of these
10000 have settled in Kansas
About $4,000 has been spent in that
State in assisting the poor immi-
grants upon arrival.
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The Cincinnati Enquircr's cores.
pendent "has it from source entitl-
ed to credence that Senator Blaine
will be Secretary of State in Gen.
G arfeld's Cabinet
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Politics Of the Future.

Politics of the Future.
The Baltimore Gazette: We are glad
to see that the party prophets have
about subsidized, and double-leaded
articles on the political future have
altogether ceased. 1t has been plain.
ly apparent ever since the result Of
the Presidential election was an.
nounced that there was TO be no new
party. There are no issues 10 demand
it, and the fac. that out of nearly
ten million votes Gen. Hancock re.
ceived a plurality over Garfield Of
three or four thousand demonstrates
the immense strength of the Demo.
crazy and the utter absurdity of talk
ing about the formation of q new
party. The reorganization of the 10.
cal Democracy of New York, where
the local political schism cost US the
defeat of Hancock, is all the party
reorganization we want, and if
through its influence such leaders as
Kelly are turned down forever we
need have no apprehensions about
the future of the Democratic party.
The battle four years hence is to be
that of the people, as represented by
tho Dvmucucy, against a strong
government, asrepresented by Grant,
a partisan Supreme Court, election
laws OF the most rigid character and
monopolies of every conceivable ma.
ture. The Democratic party believe
that the real duty Of the Federal
government is to confer the greatest
good upon the greatest number and
not permit a class of monopolists to
grow rich and fatten either by pil.
laying the public treasury or BY
meansof class legislation. But while
this is true we will require in the
next campaign positive action-not
negative. All the living questions
must be grapplcd with and decla-
ration of principles giving every man
a fair field and fair play must be pro.
claimed and adhered to. All local
dissensions must be healed, as the
honest Democracy of New York has
determined to do, and entire harmo.
ny, with united action, must prevail
IN the ranks. Nothing can possibly
antagonize the Republican party, in
so far as its aim and policy affects
the great masses of the people, as the
party that gave Gen. Hancock more
votes at the late election than his op-
ponent received. What we want is
new men and united action. The
party chat pledges itself to the true
interests of the majority of the peo-
pie, and fully maintains those prin-
ciples, must always live, and cannot
IN the end fail to triumph over an
organization that gives to US a CEN
tralized form of government corrupt
in all its departments. Let US hear
no more rubbish about new party.
Following the example Of Grant,
Mr. Hayes proposes to install his
scrvitors in the White House in fat
offices before he retires. The poet
Rogers, his private secretary, it is
said, is to be made recorder of deeds
Of the District of Columbia, an office
which is reputed 10 be worth from
$4,000 to $4,000 per annum. The
present incumbent is a prominent
Hebrew, who aided Mr.. Hayes on
the stump when he was defeated for
the Presidency, and it would now
seem that he proposes to cast him of.
But be 1t remembered that Rogers is
and Ohio man.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05

Elk Speaker NIoHett is out in a card
declining to becon. u candidate for
speaker Of the next iIouPe, of which
he is Il member. The opinion seems
to be that his declination j. little
premature inaSmuch as nobody ap-
pears to have been urging his elect
ion to the position very yehementiy.
-Er
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05

The Wheeling papers-especialy
the dailies-when they talk of rail
road projects seem to almost forget
there are fifty three counties in this
State beside that of Ohio. Every
new railroad project mooted by them
must either commence or end in
Wheeling, or both. They talk about
the development of the State yet
never utter a word about the most
practicable route yet proposed and
which must perforce develop many
of the great counties of the State
We refer to the line from Uniontown,
Pa, through Monongalia, Marion,
Harrison, Lewis and down to Charles.
ton. If they are in earnest and wish
tic interior of the State developed,
they shorld at once give this feasible
plan a boast.- Clark$burg Ncgs,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05

The convict labor question is liv-
ing question again this winter in
most of the States. The agitation
has again been renewed in New York,
and many columns Of solid facts and
figures on both sides are flying back
and forth. When we say both sides
we refer to the pros and cons on the
contract system. The New York
World insists that the competition Of
convict labor with free labor has
been greatly quickened in that State
by the contract system. 1t insists
that when contractors and not State
officers become the real managers OF
the prisons the latter will inevitably
be ill-managed and become a burden
aid q peril to the community. The
question as well as the penitentiar,
les will probably be thoroughly in
restigated in the Empire State this
wiGter. The same question is not
without. interest in this city and
State Register.
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Notice..

THERE will be meeting OF the Board
l. OF Education OF Lewis District, on Sat.
urday, January Sth, 1881, at 10 o'clock A.
M. Important business to be transacted
All members ofthe Board are requested to
be present. j. B. MlGNAGER, Pres't.
JOHN L. TfMMs, Secretary. [jan6-lw.
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Notice..

THERE will be meeting OF the Board
i OF 0verseers Of the Poor Of Mason
County, at the law Office OF JohnE L. Timms,
Point Pleasant, on the FIRST Monday in Feb
ruaIry, THAT being the 7th day. at 10 o'clock
A, NJ, for the purpose OF allowing claims
and transacting such other business as
may legally come before it. All claims
mnst be filed with the Clerk OF the Board
five days before its meeting, to insure their
allowance.
G. B. RAYBURN, pres't.
JOHN L, TMMs, Clerk. Tian5.Iw
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05

They say that Governor Foster is to
be Postmaster General as the reward
for Withdrawing from Senatorial
contest in Ohio.
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Standard Nail 81 IRON COMPANY

NOTICE is hereby given that there will
~ be meeting Of the stockholders OF the
Standard Nail and Iron Company, at their
office in Clifton, West Va, on the second
Wednesday in January, 1881, for the elect
ion of Directors, and the transaction OF any
other business thut may come before it.
J. b. GREEN, President.
J.. w. RIcHAHDs, Sec'y. jan 5-2w.
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Surplus capital seeking invest
ment will doubtless 5000 Sud en-
ployment in the gigantic schemes
now in process denomination. IT
will require some sixty million doll.
ars to build the Panama canal, about
forty millions for the Northern Paci.
fic railway enterprise, twenty mil
lions for the contemplated Mexican
railways, besides immense sums for
railway extensions throughout the
United States, as well as in England
and France. Vast sums will also
necessarily be expended in the wake
of these great enterprises, employing
thousands of persons from the over
populated sections of Europe and
America.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05

Hancock received twice as many
votes in the North as in tho South,
but the average Republican will
continue to pirate about the Demo
cratic party being controlled by the
South.
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ESTRAY NOTICE.

State of West Virginia, Mason County, $751;.
10 he Clerk Of he County Court Of Mason
County,
N} L, G. B. Rayburn, John Foglesong
w and A. II. Rayburn, three free hold
ers OF said county, do hereby certify that
by virtue OF n warrant to us directed BY
John NJ. Eckard, a Justice Of the said eoun-
ty, 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 a 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 underthree.
Given under our hands this 22d day of
November, 1880.
G. B. RAYBURN,
JOHN FOGLESONG,
A. II. RAYBURN,
~ Appraisers.
Clerks Office, November 23d, 1850. The
foregoing appraisement was this day adj
mitted to record in said office.
A Copy-Teste:
]. P. r. B. SMITH. Clerk,
By JOS II. HoLLowAY, Deputy.
jan5-3w.
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THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,


A 4 Rules held in the Clerks Office OF tho
IA. Circuit Court Of sIasor,- Geantp, lNsst
Virginia, Monday, the Sd day OF January,
1881.
William Mckay VS.. Thomas I. Hopkins,
In Debt.
The object OF the above suit is to Obtain
n judgment against said defendant for ono
hundred and ten (S1l0) dollars with inter-
est thereon at per cent. from October
llth, 1877, until paid, in an action OF debt,
the shove suit being founded on Il mote OK.
eGuted by theisaid defendant, payable to
said plaintiff or bearer six months after
Che date thereoffor one hurdr u and ($ll0l
dollars, and the further Oh ect OF the said
suit is to subject TO sale sufficient OF tho
personal property belonging to the defend
ant. now under process OF attachment in
this suit opay off said Judgment. And it
appearing by an affidavit filed in this cause
that said ThomasT. Hopkins is IL non-resi-
dent OF the State Of. West Virginia, it is
ordered that he do appear here at Rules
to be held in the Clerks Office OF the Cir
cult Court Of said county on the first Mon
day in February next and do what is ne
cessary to protect his interest in this suit.
TESTE:
CHAs. b. WAGGENER, Clerk.
Chas L. Ragg, p.q. [jan5-4%,
State Of West Virginia, County Of Mason, as:
| A I Rules held in the Clerks office OF tho
II Circuit Court OF Mason County, West
Virginia, Monday the3d day OF January,
| 1881.
William Fl. Jaques VS.. Julia Choen.
In Assumpsit.
The object OF the above suit is to obtain
judgment against said defendant for the
sum ofone hundred and ($ll2.5O) twelve
dollars and fifty cents in action OF assump-
sit Tor damages accrucing TO the said plain
tiff from the refusal OF defendant to delv-
or up certain articles OF household fur1ii
ture bought from said plaintiff and paid
for in full by plaintiff and which articles
are fully described in affidavit fled in this
cause by said plaintiff, and also to subject
to sale certain articles OF personal proper
ty attached in this cause, Tor the payment
OF said judgment, said attached property
consisting Of quilts blankets, &c, belong
| ing to defendant. And it appearing BY an
affidavit filed in the cause that said Julia
Choen is nonresident OF this State, it is
ordered that she do appear here at Rules
to 0 held in thu Clerks office of the Cir
cult Court OF said county, on the iYst Mon
day in February next, and do what may no
necessary to protect her interest in this
suit. TESlE;
ClEAs. b WAGfGiENER, Clerk.
Chas. Es Aogg aIdtSimpson & Howard.
sp.q. [jan. 5-iw.
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Even the proud fact of being an
Ohioan sometimes has its drawbacks.
Where great men are SO plenty, they
will now and then get in one ano-
theirs way. Then the weaker goes
to the wall, and becomes embittered
in thought if not in speech.
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Senator III. G. Davis.

The talk that was currentat Wash.
ington las. winter about Senator
Henry G. Davis intention to resign
his position in the United States
Senate is again aaoat in the news
papers. A Washington special in
the Cincinnati Enquirer of Saturday
makes The following reference to it:
"The i.ierds of Senator Davis, Of
West Virginia, FAY that he has been
meditating for some time past resign
ing his seat in the Senate, where he
has become familiar character. He
has become the president g. a rail.
road leading up to the north branth
of the Potomac river and then co..
tinuing southwestward to a point
near White Sulphur Springs on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. On
this course Senator Davis has 10000
acres of magnificent woodland i'm
mediately available for timber when
the railroad shall be opened and it is
all underlaid with superb beds of
coal. AT this time Of life the devel-
opment of this region and the COM
pletion of the railroad will give him
plenty to do. His first cousin, Ar.
thur German, has, meantime, been
elected to the Senate from Maryland.
Senator Davis is the son of u gentle
once quite rich, who failed when the
Senator was boy, and he had to go
to work at whatever came along. lie
has been altogether the most ener.
gelic public man between the West
and the East, and has played an i'm
portant part in the construction Of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad"