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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-01-04

The Wheeling Register: The new
year will find the American eagle in
full feather and soaring high. Pros
pefity is the rule in nearly all legit-
innate business pursuits from one
ocean to the other, and our foreign
trade is greater than ever before
known in the history of the New
World. Let the bird Of freedom
scream.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-01-04

Fifteen years ago there was but
one rail route to the Pacific Coast
In very short time there will be
five iron channels of travel spanning
the Continent. These five great rail-
ways will represent an investment of
half billion of money.
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Death to rats, mice, roaches and
ants; Parsons Exterminator. Barns,
granaries and households cleared in
Il single night. Best and cheapest
vermin killer in the world. Sold
everywhere.
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FARM FOR SALE.

I OFFER for sale my farm of 20 acres,
/ situate in MERGERS Bottom, Mason coun.
ty. 1t has on it a good frame house five
rooms, barn aud other improvements. Tie
land is all bottom, lying on the Ohio river.
For further information address
MRS. MARIAN J. MEADOWS,
jan.4-2m.l Point Pleasant, West Va.
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Less than one,third the population
of Nevada are women. Rhode Island.
has the largest per centage of female
population Of all the States-52 per
cent. 1t is said that they all know
how to keep house and talk politics.
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WASHINGTON LETTER..
New Neutrality-suspicious. The Tin
sci: Of War and OF Diplomacy
The GagligIIt M Noon.

u bnaer tne Ohsiigbt nj NOOii.
/: tfTpm our Regular correspondent.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. lst, 1882.
gh4e has bseh.morc gayety than
usual during the summer-like holi.
days, which we hSye enjoyed since
Congress adje1rned. The chief so
ctaleyent has bee1Fthe New Years
receptions. which in Washington, as
in all capitals, are picturesque in the
pomp and tinsel Of diplomacy and
was-s rot '.gfim yfsaged war" nor
harsher haSoc than that made on'the
susceptibilities Of girls by the ell.
eganhy' uniformed and perfectly
padded shapes manufactured ut West
Point and the Naval Academy; New
Years calls in Washington are the
overture to the great social opera
which is played every season, with
ever. varying, comic, tragics or .ro-
mantio episodes. On New Years,
mateuline Washington, from the
highest official TO the Depsrtment
clerks, and through all the ranges 81
,sgi4 tsa, and Of chrome soGisty, can
alpst his .tsspscls tgtisafsafnf
Washington, who, whether matfon
or maid, budding beauty or blase
spinster, is to be found, usually in a
gas lighted parlor, arrayed in her
most aesthetic, least peripathetic
dress. The ciolopening to-day was
not essentially different from those of
former years. The diplomatic corps,
in full court dress, dazzlingly bediz-
zened with gold. lace, and buttons,
called, first on the President, then on
members of the Cabinet and the Su.
preme Court, and finally upon others
OF less distinguished official rank
The members of the Cabinet, justices
of the Supreme Court, Army and Ma
val officers, and so on down through
all the various ranks and grades Of
official life, spent the day in calling
from house to house, shaking hands,
making bows, wishing everybody a
happy New Year; eating cake, oys-
tiers, and chicken salad, drinking
wine aud brandy, getting sick or
drunk al infnitam pl,ribe8 anum.
Senators and members of Congress
who have been absent during the
holidays will now return and bring
their wives with them. The wives,
if they have not fair daughters of
their own, will invite the fair daugh.
ter Of some influential constituent,
and in this way, the beauty of many
congressional districts will be repre-
sented. But the beauty, wealth,
taste and vulgarity of the country
will find representation here without
the chaperonage ofthe wives of con-
gressmen. The many and spacious
hotels are already filling up with
those who have money, or can get
credit. Washington, during the sea.
son, is to agreat extent the rendez-
vous Of those who spend the summer
in Europe, at Saratoga, Long Branch
and score of other sensible or noun
tain resorts.
But Washington life is not all
roseate. We are on the eve of inves-
legations that will tear regulations
to tatters; of legislation that may
charge the frontier lines of parties;
and of diplomacy that will vitality
affect the future of this hemisphere,
and relatively affect the world. Call
you these dull times? Time isnever
dull except to those who are ignor.
ant OF what is going on. c. AS.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-01-04

The Republicans propose to throw
out twenty Southern Democratic
Congressman. All right 1t will
show the Southern people that the
time has not yet come for them to
Mahonize.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-01-04

President Garrett, of the B. & 0.
R. r. lacks one year, we believe, of
having served in that capacity a
quarter of century. lie is: very
likely to make the full quarter and
some years to spare.
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1roAr NOTICES.
Commissioners Sale OF Valuable
Real Estate.
NIanrv i Ffel,nr
=. 3. Bakeri n Ind others.

rs.
L. L, Baker and others.
In Chancery
Pending in the Cirruit Court OF Mason
County, West Virginia.
DN virtue Of decree entered, in the
I'D above cause, on the 18th div OF My,
1881, the undersigned special commission
ers viii offer for sale BY way OF public ayc-
tion, at the front door Of the Court House
Of said county, on The 9Th day or Feb.
rnary, ISSe. TO Iiay off q debt due and
owing 10 Isabella Ridinger from Samuel
Ridinger, OF four thousand and thirty-eight
dollars and sixty.one Gents 4 ,0;iS.Bi with
legal interest thereon from MAY 10th, 1881.
until paid, the following tract 81 land; $50
acres situate in said county and State, on
the Poplar Fork OF the Kanawha River
Thirteen Mile Creek, belonging to said
Samuel Ridinger, said land being partially
cleared and improved, with 4 good resi-
denee thereon and other suitable buildings
for farmers use thereon; upon the follow
TERMS:
E CASH rs to one-third Of the purchase
money and the residue ON credit DISK
and twelve months, the purchaser giving
bond with good security for the deferred
payments, and the said Commissioners re-
tanning the legal title Of said land as fur
fher security.
The above sale will be made under u
first lien upon said land.
On as. j.. Fi0f;li,,s .
X JAS. D. NiENAGER,
jan. 4-iw. Special Commissioners.
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Private Dalzell maintains that the
arrears-of pensions bill is an uncom-
monty good one las it certainly is
for the claim agents., and he dares
any Republican Congressman to vote
for its repeal or to come before the
soldiers of Ohio and discuss the mat.
ter with him. 1t is safe to predict
that none of them will accept the
challenge.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-01-04

Talents are sometimes very IN.
evenly distributed in family. R,
g. Blaine, brother Of the ex- Secretary,
is to be appointed newspaper clerk
by the clerk Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives. The duties consist, it
may be presumed, in looking at the
wrappers and drawing the pay.
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COMMISSIONERS SALE OF
REAL ESEATE

PURSUANT to the terms and conditions
/ OF u dccrctal order OF the Circuit
Court of Mason County, West Virginia,
entered on the 18th day OF May, 1881, in
the Chancery cause OF Robert Luton, Ex.
ecutOr Of Samuel Greer, deceased, VIZ. Nan.
cy Greer, ct. al, the undersigned will offer
for sale, at public auction, TO the highest
bidder, at the front door OF the Court
House OF Mason County, West Virginia,
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NOTICE.

MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK OF ". Va, !
PolNT PLEASANT, w. Va,
Dec. u, 1851.
THE Annual Meeting of the Stockhold
l ers for the election of Directors, &c.
will be held at their Banking House ir
Point Pleasant, on Tuesday, the 10th o
January next.
Dec. l4-4w.
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Major Mcconnell, engineer in
charge Of the survey and location Of
the permanent line of the W, P. &
C. R. r. is enthusiastic over the
prospectbf the road. He says the
country is one of the finest he ever
surveyed'and very productive. The
people ale generous and hospitable
to a fault The. grade of the road as
far as h; has progressed-to New
Martinsille,-is no grade at all,
there beng only fall of 10 feet in
% miles. Major Mcconnell says that
the praires Of West,ofier less obstruc
ton to nilroad construction than
the located line of this road. He is
also of opinion that the people along
the line are becoming more interest
ed in the matter, and opposition to
the rightlof way is rapidly disap.
pearing.- Parkcrsburg Sentinel.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-01-04

The people who are interested in
the railroad right.of way question
should bear in mind one thing that
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=
Is Important 10 laud ow.ners.in the
I. Iteration Of thissraafter lfsthe
:fiehI q way is eiveIiio lhec ompany
,theA HE land s0contrihnitsica
be gid and used for uiiirnad pins
pose The papers wliithsthe izrnIrF
exeeates distinctly state this. II II
:ls ntt used for this purpose then ii
feyefts % is original owner aud his
Title j. neither jecpafdized nnr nb'
scarid But If il iscondemned then
u peeomes the property nj: suf the
com nay whether 9iiey ever build
the pad Of MOI and;cainot reeertt 10
the nwner except by puGhase.
Wouldil not be 6etter;for land own.
ers dong the line Of the W., P. and
Z. Rad 10 contribute the right az
way and thus secure on amicable
term the benefits. and material aid
tttaf the road will confer rather thar
Oppose and obstruct an enterprise
that Isl Of such vast moment 70 every
CITIZEN Of this section2 Their farms
viii be enhanced invalue, theywill
haze the markets brought TO their
doors and,will enjoy all the comforts,
pleasures and benefits that always
FOLLOW in the wake Of railroads.
We are;otiered q railroad 200 miles
| inlelgth, and are only asked to con,
tribute the right of way-a contribu.
t-tion that will enhance what we have
left and bring back the small gift
eissn, increased d thousand fold.
Esss6l q. roppcrtunity won't come
fagain in igeneration. Can We afford
to say no? We believe that every
farmer and every citizen when he
comes toconsider the question in its
various phases will arrive at one and
the sam, conclusion. State Journal.
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5h Day of September, 1851,


all the real estate of the said Samuel
Greer, deceased, situate in Cooper District,
in said county and State, containing about
800 acres, for the description and bound.
aries OF which reference is hereby given to
the records OF said county.
TERMS OF SALE:-0ne-tlirl OF the pur.
chase money cash in hand on the day OF
sale, the residue on credit OF one and two
years, the purchaser to execute bonds
with good security for the deferred install.
ments, said bonds to bear interest from the
day OF sale until paid and the legal title to
be. retained as further security, until the
purchase money be all paid.
The above land is well improved, under
a high state OF cultivation and with fine
timber, and will be sold subject to the dow
err right OF Nancy Greer, widow relict OF
said Samuel Greer, deceased.
HENRY J. FISHER, JR.,
aug. S-4. Special Commissioner.
The above sale is adjourned until Wed.
ncsday, September 18th. 1881.
HENRY J. FISHER, JR.,
Special Commissioner.
The above sale is adjourned until Mon.
day the 18th Of October, 1881.
HENRY J. FISHER, JR.,
sep. 2l-3w. Special Commissioner.
The above sale is postponed until Mon.
day the 9th day Of February,
1889. HENRY J. FISHER, JR.,
oct. 26-td. Special Commissioner.
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SHERIFF,S RETURN.

~ T'77'N = ~. . =. 'IE1lI 2 = n
jan. INV. Special COMMISSIONS
Barbour County index., 1882-06-15
q Happy Home.

A pretty story told about German,
disclOses the secret of a happy home,
wherein joy aboundeth; though there
are many To feed and clOthe:
A teacher once lived in Strasburg,
who had hard work to support his
family. Eis chief joy in life, however,
was in his nine children, though it was
no light task TO feed them all.
His brain would have reeled and his
heart sunk had he not trusted in his
Heavenly Father when he thought of
the number of jackets, shoes, stockings
and dresses they would need in the
course of year, and of the quantity
of bread and potatoes they would eat.
His house, too, was very close quar-
ters for the many beds and cribs, to
say nothing OF the room required for
the noise and fun which the merry
nine made.
But father and mother managed
very well, and the house was pattern
OF neatness ard order.
One day there came guest to the
house. AS they sat at dinner the
stranger, looking at the hungry chill
dren about the table, said, compassion
ately:
Poor man, what cross you have to
bearp'
81? a cross to bearP' asked the
father, wonderingly; "what do you
mean?"
mine children, and seven boys at
thatp replied the stranger, adding
bitterly, Il have but two, and each
of them is nail in my coffin"
"MIne are not" said the teacher, with
decision.
"How does that happenp" asked the
guest.
because L have taught them the no
BILE art Of obedience. Isn't that Sc
childrenP"
Yes" cried the children.
"And you obey me willingly?"
The two little girls laughed rOguish
ly, but the seven youngsters shouted:
Yes, dear father, truly"
Then the father turned to the guest
and said:
"Sir, if death were to come in at that
door, waiting to take one of my nine
children. l would say"-and here he
pulled off his velvet cap and hurled it
at the door-"Rascal, who cheated
you into thinking that had one toe
many?'
The stranger sighed; he saw that il
was only disobedient children that
made father unhappy.
One OF the nine children of the poor
school master afterward became wide.
ly known; he was the sanity pastor
Oberlin.
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Sainte- Anne wants dividends, not glo-
ry. OF course he is not blind to the
uses and misuses to which his bridge
might be put in time of war, but he
exhausIs his ingenuity in showing you
how the whole labor of his lifetime
might be blown to pieces by touch.
This may account for the air of min
gled wonder and amusement with
which he hears of English alarms on
the subject, and it is hard TO convince
him that his greatest difficulty on our
side will not be with the engineers.
but with the strategists. But as he is
bound, like every inventor, to prove
that his invention is the best under all
possible circumstances, he is quite
ready to show that the bridge might
be much more easily rendered useless
than the tunnel. Not only would a
little dynamite destroy an arch or two
in twinkling, without ruin to the en-
tire structure, but under no ciIcum-
stances could the invader have a pleas
ant time of it il he had To travel along
such a viaduct under the fire of an
English feet.
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lesse's Way.

Chicago Times, June 2. -
A squad of white and colofed en-
ployes of the Joliet Iron and Steel
company, who took the place of strik-
ers along the Chicago docks, left the
city about o'clock last evening on an
Alton accommodation train. When
Brighton Park was reached, a party of
armed strangers, numbering nearly
dfty, made a raid on the coaches,
placed the engineer in peril of his life,
and knocked the conductor down with
stone. Those of the Joliet laborers
who could be identified were dragged
out and mercilessly beaten. In the
confusion Judge Pillsbury, of Pontiac,
ILL.,, was shot through the groin. He
was brought to the city, and at the
latest advlces his left leg was para
lyZed. The train was detained half an
hour, and when il was allowed to
proceed the strangers emptied their
revolvers into the air and disappeared
IN small squads down Archer road.
One Of the raiders was shot, but was
taken away by his comrades.
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The Language of Berne.
Cor. London Telegraph.

Tor. London Telegraph.
can not close this letter without q
few words touching the language
spoken by the people of Berne. L learn
Ell German some twenty years ago, in
Hanover, and have since made myself
understood in almost every part of Ger
many. L mastered the peculiar dia-
lect spoken by the working classes of
Vienna with no great difficulty, and l
can discuss my fare with cabby of
the Kaiser stadt to my own. if not to
his, satisfaction. But. just heavens!
who was the pathological Teprobate
that invented the dialect spoken at
Bernep Mark Twain is of opinion
that any gifted person ought to learn
English in thirty hours, French in
thirty days, and German in thirty
years. A lifetime would not be too
much. for linguist of average ability,
to acquire proficiency in Bernese. I'm
agine all the inharmonious, cultural
words of the Dutch, intensified two.
fold, combined with the coarsest Plat
Deutsch, or low German, and here and
there sprinkling of Antwerp Flemish
and you will have a faint idea of the
sweet sounds that greeted my ears in
the streets of the Swiss capital. The
dialect of Berne is evidently predes
tined for the hbretto of Wagner's
operas
Barbour County index., 1882-06-15

have had a considerable experience
with the best-managed inebriate asy
ums In the land, and a majority of
hose whom l have induced to enter
the most ChIistianly- conducted insti-
tutlons have afterward relapsed int
their old habits. The most pitiabl-
failure l ever made was in the case oi
an accomplished young man, who han
once been student in 4the Episcopal
Theological Seminary at Alexandria.
That poor fellow became intoxi.ate'
within twenty-four hours after he was
discharged from DIR. B Awnings Chris
tidn Hcme for IneOriates. / have
worked long and hard to reform
drunkards, and IN vast majority OF
cases have utterly failed. L have re-
ceived into church-membership coh
siderable number of persons who ap-
peared to be entirely converted from
drinking habits; but out of the whole
number there are only two who have
not, once or oftener, relapsed into their
former sin. Reforming drunkards is a
most difficult undertaking; but to pre-
vent people from becoming drunkards,
| Dy INDUCING them 10 never drink at all,
is as simple and sure as accepting
Christ Is to save from infdelity.
The great hope of the Temperance
Reform to day is with the young. The
main thing to be done is to induce
them to abstain from all intOxicdnts
The right field for successful effort is
in the Sabbath-school and in the home
1t is the province of the parent, the
pulpit, the teacher, and the pres tc
instill total abstinence principles. Ev
cry public school ought to introduce
lesson books on the nature and evil OF
alcohol. Every church ought to have
a temperance wheel in it's machinery
PrOhibitOry laws are excellent wher
well enforced; but when mans con
science becomes law of prohibition
unto himself he is safe. This is the
only panacea.
Barbour County index., 1882-06-15
Guiteau---A Discomfitted Clergyman

Guiteau---A Discomftted Clergyman.
Chicago Times.
The Critic has tonight the following
gossip about G Iiteau: Only two preach.
ers have made application to "work
on" Guiteau since the confirmation of
his sentence by the court in banc. One
of these divines was the colOred Bap.
tist from Virginia who so successfully
prayed with the assassin several weeks
ago. The other was a long-haired Cos
pei expounder from far west, who
walked gravely into Guiteau's cell
accompanied by guard, and in Sc.
we're tone, began: "Mr. Gditeau, are
you prepared for futurity. and are
you"
Don't discuss that matter, SIR" re
joined Guiteau, sharply and quickly
81 know more about that question OF
futurity than you can probably tSl
me-"
"Ob, you do?"
"Yes, sir; therefore abandon it while
you are in here"
And the preacher abandoned th'
subject and evacuated the cell ferth
with.
Day before yesterday young lad,
of this city, who is confirmed invalid
requested permission to visit Guiteau
Her request was granted by Warder
Crocker. and supported by two ladies
she entered the doomed mans cell. TIL,
scene was striking one. There, fac
ing each other, stood two human be
ings, both of them on the brink o
eternity, one the victim of disease. th'
other condemned assassin. Th,
young lady opened the conversati n
and, after converSing awhile on "un
seen things above" she turned t.
Guiteau. as the party turned to 60, ant
said: "Mr. Gaiteau, God grant that w
may meet in heaven-0ur days ar
short upon this earth"
Guiteau. visibly affected, tremu
lously said: 81 will, miss; 1 am goin,
to heaven; there. is no doubt in NJ.
mind about that, and I'll meet yo'
there?"
Barbour County index., 1882-06-15
German and Latin Type.
Pail Mall Gazette.

Mil OdLCtIr.
An interesting article on German
versus Latin type. in recent number
of the Deutsche RtL,ldSchGu. sketches
the history OF the struggle in German
which must end at last in the triumph
of common sense over patriotic senti-
ment. The Gothic type was the crea-
tiOn Of the earliest German printers,
who wished to make their books as
much like contemporary manuscripts
as possible. The Latin ntype-"antiqua," +"
in printers parlance-was, broadly
speaking, the creature Of Italian hui
manism, which elung to it as repre-
senting at once close approximation
to the character of classical antiquity
and rebellion against the monks. from
whose manuscript character the Gothic
type was developed. Already in 1899
Liebnitz urged upon his German ceun-
trymen the abandonment of the Gothic
type for the more cosmopolitan ''an-
tiqua," and in the following century it
seemed as if literary Germany were
about to take his advice. Toward the
end of the eighteenth century the new
or Latin type became d burning ques
ton. Goethe was at one time on the
side of change; Kant, on the other
hane, protested energetically against h
abandonment of the national character.
At the present day victory is once more
inclining to Rome against the barbal-
ians. Forty per cent Of all books print
ed in Germany in 1880 were printed
in antigua" and the proportion is
steadily increasing. The Latin type
must finally win in Germany, as it has
won elsewhere, Prof. Kelle is persuad-
ed; but its friends will do we'll to let
it win naturally and gradually, with
out forcing it on the country by any
attempts at legislation.