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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-10-22
A Valuable Dwelling House in
Point Pleasant for Anle.

II OFFER for sale at q bargain, my late
i residence, on the East side Of Wand
Street, Just above 9Th street, In the town
Of Poiht Pleasant. The lot is 81 feet
front by 1872 feet deep, and contais d
little more than oIe.sixth OF an acre.
The house Is q two.story frame, and con.
tains four rooms and two halls, wit han
u containing four rooms, all In good re.
pair; there Is q goodcellat, l2xlS feet
under the kitchen, aud also a good sta.
bic and buggy.house, with other neces.
sary outbuildlngs. Terms 70 suit pur-
Chaefs.
sep90.H W. II, T0AtI4INS0N.
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Printing Of all kinds executed at this
Office at city prices.
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Buy your Baking Powder at
Laidley's and get a chance in a sl5
Chair. 1w
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The following will be our county
officers after January list, 1885:
Col. Smith, D., County Clerk; R
3. Mitchell, r., Circuit Clerk; H
g. Nease, R., Sheriff; John A. Glib.
bons, r. Prosecuting Attorneys b
r. Guthrie, R., Surveyor G. P
Gardner, R., and Henry g. Brown
R., Assessors.
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NOTICE.

A IL persons are hereby warned
a against trusting or harboring my
wife, Christina Grimes, as l will pay tiu
debts Of her contracting, she having LEFT
my bed and board without cause OF
provocation. ALEX. GRIMES.
4w. pd.
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cHAs. MACK 8 SON.
GallipolIs, Ohio.

Silks and satins at Chas. Mack & Son
cheaper than ever before, and always
ready for your inspection as to quality.
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oil cloths cheap at FillmOre's, Galllpo.
lIsi Ohio. uunO25-Sm.
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Nice Trunks cheap at FillmOre's, Gal.
lipOlis, Ohio.
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Mrs. ]. H. Miller, Of Beech Hill,
walked away with the blue ribbon
on a crochet quilt worked by her
ard presented to her sister Mrs.
Hunter Ben jenkins, Of 81. Louis,
who entered it at the Louisville
Exposition Fair.
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Books for Children at FillmOro's, CALI.
polls, Ohio.
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CEND your orders for printing to this
~ office. Done promptly. Low prices.
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Picture Frames at Fillmore 8, GaIlipO.
lis, Ohio.
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West Virginia did herself proud
in tho recent struggle at the ballot
box.
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READY,
and Ready Now.

This EXPRESSES our condition exactly,
knowing the wants Of our community
we have purchased d larger stock Of
Fall and winter Goods, embracing ev.
erything ever shown you III this place,
Bargains in
Dry Goods, Notions, Boots,
Shoes, Hats, Caps, Queens.
ware, and Glassware.
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Warmers Corsets, best in the world, al
Fillmore's, Gsllipolis, Ohio.
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town..
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CoffffiiQs and Caskets,
Robes & Trimmings

which will furnish at reasonable rates Eleven experience the bushes,
with Mr. b. f. Bg Of Pomeroy o. encourages solicit call from YOU
you unfortunate need the services Of Undertaken
Especial attention given to repairing Furniture.
WIN. III. WEHE.
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LENGTH OF TRIALS.

One of the prolific causes of the miscarriage
of justice in the acquittal of persons accused
of crime, is the intolelable length to which
courts allow attorneys to carry the examine
ton of witnesses and the argument. In other
countries in the mosteimportant cases of capt.
tai crime the business is begun and ended
within the course of two and three days OF
a week at the furthest But in the United
States, attorneys have come to think that they
won't be accounted lawyers if they fail to make
an argument from six to eighteen hours and
sometimes days in length. This multiplied
ton of words can have but confusing effect
upon the minds of the jury, already worn to
WEAKNESS by the unconscionable length to
which the technical examination of witnesses
has been carried. There never was an ordi-
Diary case that could not be forcibly stated and
argued within the space of two hours. There
never was ten-hour speech made the
essential elements of which could not
be properly and strongly stated in sixty min
indefensble, trials are prolonged at great ex-
pense and to the harm of proper administra-
ton of justice.
This extra expense is the cause of greater
evil in its direct effect upon the minds of
certain Jurors. There is, in many communities,
a strong prejudice against heavy court ex-
penses in the trial of criminal cases. The
jury is generally composed of men who share
this feeling, or who are well aware Of its ex-
istence among their fellow-citizens. The ten
dency therefore is, in cases where the jury is
divided in sentiment, for those who are of the
belief that the accused is guilty to give way
to their fellows, and return verdict of &C.
ouittal rather than to face their neighbors
after having compelled new trial This feel
ing is wrongly directed. Extra trials and
heavy expenses should be avoided, but rather
than wrong should go unpublished the com
munity would better pay the expense of a
score of trials. Men who have committed
crime should be taught that justice will follow
as far as they can go, and will finally overtake
them, at whatever expenditure of time and
money. Communities that are afraid of court
expenses should bring their influence to bear
on the courts, and compel greater expedition
in the conduct of trials The judge who
sweeps away technicalities in the interest q
justice and common sense should be
made to feel that he has the ap-
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BREAKFAST TABLE-TALK.
society.

IT agrees with Mr.. Arthur to be President of the
United States. He has gained twenty-six pounds in
weight since he assumed that Office.
THE fashion of wearing stuffed birds on ladies' hats
is progressing rapidly that by next fall fall Thanks
giving turkeys will probably be in demand
WITH great ceremony the last stone was laid in the
harbor of Trieste on Dec 10. The work has taken
fifteen years and has cost over $7,000,000
IT is said that Tennyson is shrewd fnancier, who
jumps quickly at paying Investment and holds out
to the last for his pound of flesh. He is worth ST.
600, 900 to 81, 100000.
LITTLE girl in Connecticut taken by her
mother to a dentist who removed tooth. That
night at prayers she said, Forgive debts rs
we forgive our dentists"
r. j. BURDETTE is forty, Bret Harte is forty-fve,
Mark Twain is fortyeight W. D. Howells is fortysix
Thomas Bailey Aldrich is forty-fve Joaquin Miller is
fortytwo James Russell Lowell is sixty-four, john G.
Sake is sixtyeght
COLONEL JOHN HAY insists with positiveness and
emphasis admitting dispute that he did not write
1.-THE Bread Winners" He says, further, that he had
no hand in it directly indirectly, and he does not
know who the author is
PRINCE BISMARCK no longer counts among the
heavy weights. DIR. Schwenninger, but recently madc
professor at the special request of the Chancellor,
has by his regime, reduced the atter's weight from
the average of 237 pounds, which he maintained for
nearly twelve years, to 1915 pounds Tho Princes
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the 'plain dinner Of eight courses" partaken Of
Surely the verdict must be unanimous that
decorative art, as applied to literature has
reached a point sublimely ridiculous. Such
useless particularly in description evokes the
question: ''To what class Of readers do Mr..
Fawcett and others Of his kind dedicate their
books" A matter-of-fact public, which is
familiar in different degrees with all the ele-
CANT appointments which these writer's deem
essential to the furnishing of a society novel,
bowl without drinking the water and sucking
the lemon, naturally resents the introduction
of such everyday minutie into what is con-
sidered first-class fiction. If Mr.. Fawcett's
story is intended for heathenish, uninstructed
barbarians, let it be circulated exclusively in
that circle. Of the decorative, this branch,
at least as applied to literature, a patient pub
lie has had what may be termed an elegant
suffciency. The perfect work of the novel
"rller Is 10 portray, as Ills Sehlus vi Vf'lelU
gives him utterance the workings of the
springs which move the human heart to en-
terrain and teach his readers; but when his
art is debased to the cataloguing of chairs and
tables, b1ic-a brac and pictures, curtains and
lambrequins, indignant readers are driven
back to old-time novels in which the life is
more than meat and the body than raiment,
and the preparation of the stage is not made
of more importance than the play
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tariff, until in time the industries
developed and established under its provisions
shall be able to compete with all the world.
We are approaching nearer that point every
year. Prices are gradually declining through
competition among our own men and mills,
until there is but narrow margin between us
and those who compete with us in foreign
markets. The goods we manufacture in every
branch of trade are as good as the best, and
find ready sale everywhere. The encourage
ment afforded by wisely devised tariff laws has
developed the best skill and has enabled Amer
lean manufacturers to employ the latest i'm
proved appliances. There are serious strikes
and lock outs in America, but there have been
ten to one in England where free trade pre-
walls. The industries of that country are tot
tering at time when ours are generally busy
and prosperous. Mr.. McDonalds speech will
not make bad Republican reading, and will
hardly be used as Democratic campaign doc
ument. The trouble with him is that he is
too honest to be successful Democratic poll
tician at this juncture Of affairs.
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The Militant Hosts.

The vicssitudes of the pioneer preachers of
this land are a matter of history, and have en-
listed the admiration of all the Christian world
But the ministers of to-day, some of them, have
to encounter much tribulation and to suffer
much unmerited contumely The African Meth
odist Episcopal Church of New Haven, has for
a long time been dissatisfied with its pastor, and
had petitioned the bishop to remove him.
Growing weary of the long delay in the an
swer to their prayer, the congregation made
a selection of their own, and secured the services
of certain Rev. johnson. He preached for two
Sundays, much to the spiritual ediication and
delight of the members, so that he was confirmed
by unanimous consent, and departed to bring his
family and lares and penates to his new field of
labor. Meanwhile the Bishop got down to the
case, and appointed a Rev. Stansberry to the
charge While Mr.. johnson was alb
sent Mr.. Stansberry appeared the
field and announced his intention of
preaching on the next Sunday He was warned
not to undertake it, but persisted in the attempt
Hoping to pour oil on the troubled waters the
preacher chose for his text verse from one of
the Psalms: "Peace be within thy walls and
prosperity within thy palaces" Then the con
gregation rose up with accord and smote
him hip and thigh and seven strong men did
hustle him and with revilings did incontinently
cast him out of the temple. A number of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-05
GIRnuLAR THE PAPERS.

All sensible men will concur in the resolu-
ton offered by John B. Stoll and adopted by
the State Democratic Editorial Association.
The newspapers of the country have rightly
come to be regarded as the disseminatofs of
political intelligence. While they do not ar
bitrarily make public opinion, they do very
much toward shaping politics by educating
public sentiment. Never in the history of the
State were the papers of Indiana, of every de-
scHption, so able and influential as at the
present time. 'Key-note" speeches arepitched
in accord with the general drift of public SEN
tinent as indicated by the papers of the coun
try. The campaign of this year is already
taking shape in the columns Of the daily and
weekly press. The lines are forming for the
contest, and when the conventions meet there
will be little to do but to formulate
the sentiment already entertained by
the respective parties constituents
The public should come to the liberal sup
port of the press. 1t is the political text
DOCK OF the tunes, ana NOBODY wishing 10
keep informed in the history and genius Of
his party can afford to do without the papers
published in the interest of the party. The
Republican or Democrat who does not take
and read the papers that are generally in ac-
cord with his political belief, cannot be well
posted in current events, and must suffer
from the neglect of such a plain duty. The
tendency among party papers is toward greater
freedom of expression and fairer treatment Of
all questions at issue. The inevitable result
is to make them BETTER because they are sin
cerer The man who reads the papers cannot
continue in ignorance, and must become a
much better and safer citizen.
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Family Religion.

Mr.. Uriah Wales of Coalition, Pa, has been a
very pous and sanctimonjous, if not sanctiied
man, for thirty years. He was class leader
and exhorter; was powerful in prayer, and the
right-hand man Of the pastor in his efforts to
snatch souls from the burning With all his
success in this direction, however, Mr. Wales
was unfortunate in his attempts to bring Mrs.
Wales into the fold. The lady was not church
member, and at times showed sinful DISPOSE
ton to laugh at her husbands religious enthusi-
asm. This sort of conduct shocked the good
man; he had made solemn appeals to his wife to
turn from the error of her ways before it was
everlastingly too late. He had prayed at her,
but she would not heed. This evidence of de-
pravity convinced him that he must do some
thing more. He thereupon told Mrs. Wales that
he would not speak to her again until she was
converted and became Christian, fit to associ-
ate with himself This happened ten years
ago, and in all that time communication between
the couple has been conducted through their SON
The wife had not seen her way clear toward be-
coming Christian until last week at revival
meeting, when she professed conversion. Mr.
Wales promptly arose from his seat in the amen
corner and devoutly thanked God that. after ten
years of widowerhood, he once more had wife,
Then AIRS. Wales rose to her feet and created a
sensationt6y saying that she did not believe a
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man who was truly religious could deliberately
ignore his wife for ten years, and asked the CON
gregation for special prayers for his conversion
Then turning toward him, she said: "Uriah,
get on your knees, ask forgiveness for your sins,
and be awakened to the error of your ways L
will lead you to the Lord myself She walked
toward him, but Uriah who evidently had some
glimmering already of the enormity of his Of
tense, seized his hat and hastily left the church
Since then NO trace of him San be found, but it
is thought by his neighbors that he will come out
of retirement shortly, the possessor of more
humble spirit than he has had for years, and
also of pair of pantaloons much worn at the
knees.
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Genesis of Valuable Discoveries.

Some of the greatest discoveries have been the
result of fortuitous accidents. The measured
swing of cathedral chandelier suggested the
idea of the pendulum, whereby time is now di-
vded. The fall of an apple set Newton to think
ing out the theory of gravitation. And now a
young physician in New York city by the queer
est of chances has discovered remedy for fits or
falling sickness. A Polish jew fell on the streets
in such attack the other day, and while with
ing and frothing at the mouth was carried to a
policestaton The officer there naturally event
through the mans clothes and discovered bot
tie labeled ''poison." The case was evident
enough. The fellow was victim of poison,
taken with suicidal intent. A message was at
once sent for doctor and a stomach-pump.
They came simultaneously, and the doctor at
once put the machine into operation. In few
minutes the patient revived enough to show
that he was awfully mad at the summary way in
which his dinner had been taken away from
him. When shown the bottle of poison" he
was madden still, declaring that it was nothing
but harmless liniment used on a sprained
shoulder the result of fall similar to the one
he had on this occasion. The blunder of the doc
tor was very embarrassing one; but if it shall
result in showing that stomach pump is spe-
ciic for fits, suffering public will be willing to
condone
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MoB-BREBDING COURTS.

A very fine example of the sort of stuff
which breeds mobs and gives occasion for mob
law is to be found in decision rendered by
the Supreme Court of the State this week in a
case appealed from Morgan county. A man
named Brantly Strader was charged with a
criminal assault upon girl less than twelve
years old. The trial was upon information,
and not by Indictment The charging part of
the affidavit was as follows =
'That on the 18th day of May 1888, at the
county of Morgan, State of Indiana, one
Brantly Strader did then and there in and
upon one Addie Young, female child under
the age of twelve years, unlawfully felon
iously and forcibly make a violent assault upon
her. the said Addie Young, then and there I'M
lawfully and feloniously did ravish and car
nally know"
The court cite case in SD Indiana, and say
that in criminal prosecutions by information
the affidavit must be as certain and explicit as
an Indictment and add:
'1n this case the charging part of the aft
davit has no conjunctive connection with,
hence is not qualified by that which precedes
it. 1t does not charge that appellant ravished
Addie Young or any other specifically named
person. The affidavit was insufficient"
Therefore the case is reversed and sent
back for another trial, putting the people of
Morgan county to the expense of another hear
ing with the very probable result of an ac-
quittal It is not possible to comment upon
such decision as this with any GOODNESS.
The Shelby Republican speaks of it thus:
FIn this case there is no question raised in
the Supreme Court that Brantly Strader did
not commit one of the highest crimes known
to law, and one of the most revolving that can
be committed by a hell-deserving wretch.
We say the Supreme Court did not
for moment question that the act was COM
mitted, or that Strader was the guilty party,
but the prosecutor, in drawing the affidavit,
not being complete scholar, did not connect
two parts of a sentence in the indict-
ment with conjunction the case
was reversed, and the human brute
doubtless will go free. No wonder
Judge Lynch is called upon to administer law
when courts appointed to see that the innocent
are protected and the guilty arepunished, them
selves commit such crimes against law, and it
would not be much wondered If patient people
would rise in their might and overturn such
courts
every person charged with a crime should
have fair trial, in which the facts of the
case should be brought out, not hampered by
any purely technical questions, and then su-
preme courts should not stoop to the base
ends of cheating justice of her dues or turning
rogues and rascals loose upon society because
of the omission of word OF the failure to
cross t or dot an l."
We do not envy the narrow, shriveled mind
and heart of judge who could coolly review
the record in such case as this, and reach so
pitiful and contemplate a conclusion. Was
there not one man among the five members of
the Supreme Court who could break the bonds
of red tape and say few ringing righteous
words for law, justice, and common senseG
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proval of all honest men and good citizens.
The processes of our courts are becoming
needlessly complex. While in no degree aid
ing in the search for truth, but rather in con-
cealing it under a mass of irrelevant rubbish,
the costs are piled up in manner alarming to
the people who pay taxes There are enough
legitimate expenses without putting on more
and order, and make them burden to the
public.
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The Ill-Fitting Sequel.

A nice little story appeared in the New Jer-
sey papers the other day about man who re-
turned from California and found his long lost
daughter at work in mental capacity. The
man had amassed a ;foftune, of course, as all
men do who go to California and announced his
intention of providing handsomely for his
daughter. He at once purchased residence for
her, and had a deed made out. 1t was a hand
some residence, the girl and all her friends were
delighted and the story went far and wide 1t
was touching. tale, and would have satisfied
every one had it ended right there; but it did
not. There is a sequel which is not half so
pretty, but sad to say, far more true
to nature. The father, who had
been so long separated from his beloved daughter,
bought as has been said, a house. 1t was in
ferred of course that he paid for it, but the mar
mentioning the fact that he laid down the pur-
chase'money in gold. He did, in fact, nothing
of the kind He was just about to pay it over
when he happened to discover that he was $50
short of the required amount In order to save
the trouble of writing the check he borrowed the
sum from his daughter-it was exactly the sum
she had saved up-and went down street He
has not yet returned, and the girl, being out of
funds, has gone back to work instead of moving
into her new house as she fondly expected
This story, which was perfect as it stood first,
is fresh instance of the folly of publishing Sc
quels sequel can seldom be made to fit on,
and destroys the harmony and eternal fitness of
tbin0G
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RETURNS are coming in rapidly from the sup
posed author of ''The Bread Winners" now that
that story has turned out to be fiat and flabby
piece of fiction. Colonel John Hay of Cleveland,
denies in the most positive manner that he is the
writer, and says further that he knows nothing
whatever about the authorship
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CHARLES READE, the novelist, writes despond-
emily to an American correspondent that he is
i'll and does not know that he win ever elaborate
any more stories.
He should remember that ''It is never too late
to mend"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-05

STATISTICS show that during 1883 there were
in New York city $50 more deaths than births.
In the city of London last year there were So
900 more births than deaths. The showing for
New York is more than so per cent better than
for 1882
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depOsed minister's friends came to his aid but
could do nothing. Verify it is grave thing to
attempt to preach to the unbeever.