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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-01-23
Heather and Size FINDINGS.
REPAIRING.

Boots, Shoes, Saddles and Harness,
neatly and promptly repaired. Red sole
Leather cut to order. B8~ Remember,
we mean just what We say. We will
sell you goods and doyour work for less
money than ever done before in this
city. D9~ Don't forget the place, Sny-
der's Old Stand, olIe door above the
Register" 0RicE, 5tain Street, Point
Pleasant, where we will be pleased to
show you goods even II you are not pre-.
pared to buy ut present. GIVE US A
j. s. 0'Bo4RK % co.
nov.l4.ly.
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The Winfield IremastDIe says
that /. F. Poston, Esqs was heavy
loser from the rayages Of Ice on
Elk river. His loss consists Of
eight barges and several thousand
slaves, aggregating about 5000.
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II any man or woman asks you
to loan them your REGISTER, kind.
ly tell him or her that the price Of
subscription for whole year Of
ffty-two weeks, is only one dollar
and fifty cents, (less than three
couts a week. Don't lend your
paper toauyone who is able to take
and pay for it.
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Died, in Union District, January
18th, 1884, Mrs. Emma Ellis, in the
9th year OF her age, after a pain.
full illness of a few days. She was
the daughter of William and Eliza
Miller. She was a most excellent
woman, beloved and respected by
all her neighbors; and in her death
Union District loses one of its
brightest ornaments.
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The Ohio Is full Of heavy float
Ing 10.
The merry sieigting parties still
continue.
Our lawyers Ire ali back from
charleston.
Ask your neighbor 70 subscribe
for this paper.
The boys still breaking their
good resolutions.
Attend to the poor whom you
have among you.
Town election comes offin March.
Prepare your tickets,
Every day develops a new candi-
date for county Office. 2
The town council ought to pass
a fire linit ordinance.
Daylight is increasing at the
rate Of a minute a day.
Another cold wave struck this
place Sunday morning.
There is a good deal Of sickness
in the county just now.
This would be a good town for a
reyiyallto be commenced in.
The latest counterfeit is in gold
dollars, of the coinage Of 1854.
Hon. D. w. POlsley arrived from
Chicago, Tuesday morning.
Remember the vote on the Rail
road subscription, February I'd.
During last year ITO miles of rail.
road was built in West Virginia.
Laidley's building is going up,
notwithstanding the cold weather.
Miss Edith Miller, Of Spring
Hill, is visiting her friends in
town.
Our girls don't seem to be taking
the advantage leap year affords
them.
Every Democrat in the county
ought 10 be subscriber to this
paper.
Apples are a scarce article in this
market and are worth about 50 a
bushel.
This severe weather has destroy.
ed a great many potatoes in this
comfy.
The churches IN the upper end
of the State are holding soup bub.
BILE sUciubles.
We have four butchers, but still
the price Of meat is kept up to the
highest notch.
Dealers in coal have put the
price up, II is now ten cents d
bushel delivered,
Mr.. Geo. W. setzser leaves for the
Valley of Virginia this week, to
spend tho winter.
The new council soon to be elect
ed should be composed Of active,
enterprising men.
Corporations have no souls"
Granted. But they have q pocket
book and memory.
Some Of the insurance companies
are treating some Of the losers by
the late fire very meanly.
The now school house in the low.
er end Of town caught on lire from
a defective flue last week.
Business men complain that
trade is duller than they ever knew
it at this season of the year.
Take a piece Of heavy wooden
cloth aud tack it to the heel Of your
shoe and you won't slip on the ice.
Look out for Commissioner
Timms' list Of fidnciaries next
week. 1t will be interesting read,
ing,
Mrs. Ella Wilson, of Marseilles,
ILL.,, is visiting her mother, Mrs. NJ.
7, sisson and other relatives in
this place.
The many friends of Mr.. orestes
Wilson will be glad to learn he is
slowly recovering from his recent
severe illness.
This long continued cold spell,
makes ita severe trial to tile men
who have to labor by the day, at
outdoor work.
How d laboring man or mechanic
can oppose the subscription to the
Ohio River Railroad, is u matter
that we cant understand,
There are twelve engineers in
Gallipolis by the name of Ward,
~ A. a. ~
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grunge Notes.

Eiiicr Regisssn II has been q
long time since we saw anything
10 your valuable paper concerning
The Grange. We have therefore
concluded 70 give your many read
ers q few Grange items
Last Saturday the 10Th instant,
being set for the installation ofour
officers for 1888, about seventy Of
the members met at the hall aud
enjoyed themselves as patrons gen.
orally do ~ their meetings. Plen.
W Of good music, vocal and instru-
mental; plenty Of good things for
the temporal innerman, and o
literary feast in the way Of many
excellent short speeches, good sug
gestions aud many other laudable
intellectual enjoyments. One
pleasant feature was that Of wit
Messing eleven candidates receiy,
ing their valuable instructions
from the proper officers in the les.
sons Of the third and fourth de-
grees Of our order. The candidates
were mostly young people, and the
meeting was altogether a success,
and we believe that the agricultu.
raj class should all belong to the
Grange, and we will not take back
what we have said, nor change our
belief.
Saturday, January 26th, Pomona
Grange Of Mason and Putnam coun-
ties will meet with Triumph
Grange, in the School House near
Mr.. Morgan Greenlee's. The meet
ing will be public and all are in
vited to attend. J.P.P.
The Edwards heirs Association
recently formed at Clifton for the
purpose of establishing their claim
10 the Trinity Church property of
New York City convened at
Knights Hall, on the 18th inst,
and effected a permanent organi-
cation by elccting G. Shrewsbury,
President; Smith Edwards, Vice
President; James E. Clendenin,
Secretary, and Burwell S. Smith,
Treasurer.
Aboard Of Directors was appoin.
ted as follows: Virgil A. Lewis, S.
L. Smith, Jas. E. Clendinen, Col.
umbus Shrewsbury, Lewis Edwards,
Taylor W. Clendinon, Riley w.
Lewis, Arthur Edwards and David
Edwards.
Records in Virginia, Connecticut
and elsewhere, which have recent
ly come into possession ofthis fam
lily in this county seem to prove
beyond a doubt that they are the
long lost heirs to this valuable
property and should they succeed
in coming into possession Of it, the
portion which would come to MI
sou county alone would probably
double the total valuation Of all
real and personal property
it. The next meeting will6 II
at Clifton, February 18th, at which
time all claimants aro expected to
be present.
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A Valuable Dwelling House III
Point PIQnAnri for Sale.

ASteSohS AVE hstics
T OFFER for sale at q bargain, my lhtg
i residence, on the East side Of viant
Street, just above Slh street, in the town
OF Point Pleasant, The lot is "a feet
front by 1872 feet deep, and Contains Is
little more thin one.sixth 81 m acre.
The house Is twO.story frame, and con.
tlins four rooms aud two halls, with an
L containing four rooms, ali in good re-.
pair; there is a goodcellar, l2xl3 feet
under the kitchen, and also good sta
bic and buggy.honse, with other necpst
sary out-buildings Terms to suit paT
Cliacrs.
sep9O,h. W, II. ToNtL1NsoN.
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pa- The Mil has capacity for $4,000
4. per day. A large assortment Of Oak,
Popular, Ash, Hickory, Pine, 4 Wal.
nut Logs, constantly on hand. The Ma
rine Dock Company Is in close proximi.
Wto the Mill, and both are operated in
connection with each other,
sept u, ly.
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ron SALE.
FOR SALE.

MELLOW Poplar Shingles, in large or
j small lots. Address @. W. MAUI.
IN, AtbuCkle, Mason County W. va,
aug2-2m.
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CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM.
A New York Official Dismissed for Presid-
Rut

A New York Official Dismissed for Presid-
ing at n Butler Meeting.
ALBANY, Oct. David Healey, chief clerk of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was to-day re-
moved from Office by Commissioner Peck The
Ieason assigned by Mr.. Peck for his action was
that his subordinate had violated the oath of of
fce and been guilty of malfeasance in Office, the
latter charge consisting in his telegraphing some
forty six messages, amounting to about so, and
charging the same to the department Mr..
Healey Indignantly denies the charge and will de-
mand an investigation. Mr.. Healeys friends
claim that he recently presided at Butler meet
ing against the advice of Commissioner Peck.
Following is the letter of Dismissal
''You are hereby notified that on and after this
date your services will not be required in this
department Under ordinary circumstances
should feel willing and indeed justified, in al
lowing you to resign, but, conscious as am, not
only of your base and unwarranta-
bic treachery to me, personally,
but of your utter lack OF manhood, decency and
honor in the performance of your sworn duty,
am impelled by sense of my official oath to
remove you for gross and dishonest practices,
and to denounce you as unworthy the confidence
of any man. CHARLES F. PECK,
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
Peck, it seems had told Healey he had no de-
sire or wish to influence his (Healeys) political
action in any way. He thought he ought to see
the propriety of not presiding at Butler meet
ing which, however, Healey did. Since then
Commissioner Peck has obtained copies of dis
patches sent by Healey and charged to the de-
partment. Between April 30 and August 6,
forty six dipatche were dicovered, many of them
signed Healey, or Damon" his nom de plume,
and all on private business or in connection with
political labor movements. They had been paid
for by the department. The custom has been
to pay the telegraph bills monthly those that
were private being checked off and being paid
for by the parties sending them This the custom
in allthe State departments Many Of the forty six
dispatches were in cipher Peck states that the bills
were presented to Healey and he certified that
they were on department business Healey
denies the charge, and declares his removal was
for political reasons. Peck states that neither
Governor Cleveland nor any other State officer,
knew of, or advised the removal which he made
on his own personal and official responsibility.
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A FEDERATION OF LABOR.
Lack of High Tariff Plank Causes the Iron
and Steel Workers to Withdraw.

CHICAGO, Oct IA federation of trades
from the various labor organizations of the
United States and Canada. began their session
here at noon to-day. P. H. McLogan, of Chica-
go, called the meeting to order and an address of
welcome was delivered by City Attorney Grin
nell on behalf of the city, in the absence of the
mayor. The object of the annual assembly is
to discuss questions at issue between capital and
labor, and to disseminate such views among the
organized working people of the country as will
secure recognition for them. The delegates
number fifty and claim to represent nearly
million wage workers. Politics will form no
part of their deliberations, although it is prob
able there will be some discussion and perhaps
some declaration concerning the tariff. The
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel
workers was formally represented in the feder-
alton, but withdrew owing to the refusal of the
latter to retain in its declaration of principles
high tariff plank.
After an address by the chairman, recess was
taken in order to give opportunity for the com
mittee on credentials to make up its report. On
reconvening the report was made Representa-
tives of the National Cigar makers Union OBJ
jected to the admission of representatives of the
Progressive Cigar makers, and the matter was re-
ferred back to the committee. The following
officers were elected
President, W. J. Hammond, of New Orleans;
vice president Richard Powers of Chicago sec
retary, w. d. Connolly, of Cincinnati; assistant
secretary. Emil Levy, Of Evansville, Ind;
auditors, J. W. Smith, of Springfield, Ills, and
j. B. Waterhouse, of Cincinnati
A motion to consider system by which one
trade can aid another financially when in trouble
referred to a committee. Adjourned till to-
morrow.
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ainst new reforms. It was al

against new reforms. 1t was al
legged by the Tories of the Amer
lean revolution against the patriots of that
day; it was repeated against jefferson and after
wards against Jackson; it is alleged by the con
servatives against those who in England, are
now endeavoring to enlarge the popular suffrage.
All history shows that reform in government
must not be from those who sit serenely on the
social mountain tops enjoying the benefits of the
existing order of things. Even the Divine Au
thor of our religion found his followers not
among the compacent Pharisees, but among the
Iowly minded fishermen The Republican party
is largely made up of those who
live by their wits, and who aspire to advantages
over the rest of mankind, similar to those which
their daily lives are devoted to securing in pri
vate business. The Democratic party consists
largely of those who live by the work of their
hanIs, and whose political action is governed by
their sentiments or imaginations, 1t results
that the Democratic party, more readily than
the Republican party, can be nodded TO the sup
port of reform measures, which involve
a sacrifice of selfish interests. The in
dispensable necessity of our times is change of
administration in the great executive Offices of the
country. This, in my judgment, can only be ac
complished by the election of the Democratic
candidates for President and Vicepresident,
SAMUEL j. TILDEN.
ITO r. Fl. Henry, Chairman, B. B. Smalley, and
others of the special committee of the Democratic
national convention
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TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Miss Minnie Palmer Sues the Police Gazette
for Damages to Her Reputation.

New YORK, Oct Minnie Palmer, the act
ress is suing Richard NJ Fox, of the Police Ga
zette, for libel, claiming $25, 600 damages. She
charges that several libelous articles were pub
lished in the Police Gazette in which her rela-
tions with her manager, John R. Rogers, were
misrepresented, and that the articles reflected
seriously upon her character and reputation in
every respect possible. The case came up to-
day before Judge Truax, in the Superior Court.
Fox put in an answer in which he acknowledged
the publication of the alleged libel, but claims
it was published for the purpose of advertising
her. Charles Spencer counsel for Fox, claimed
that Mr.. Rogers promised his client that if he
would publish the portrait of Miss Palmer and
give her favorable notice in his paper that the
case would not be pressed The counsel for
Miss Palmer denied the statement Spencer de-
sired to put in an affidavit to that effect
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THE MLEAN-BEALE MARRIAGE.
A Private Wedding, with Only Immediate
Relatives Present.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-Mr. John r. Mclean,
editor and proprietor of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
and Miss Emily T. Beale, daughter of General
Edward f. Beale, were married this morning,
at the residence of the brides father in Lafay-
ette place. The ceremony took place at 9ociock,
Rev Dr. Leonard officiating. No cards were is
sued and no guests were present the ceremony
being witnessed by none but members of the i'm
mediate families of the bride and groom. The
bride wore travelling dress, and Immediately
after the ceremony Mr.. and Mrs Mclean left
for Philadelphia, whence they will go to the
grooms home in Cincinnati, which will be their
residence henceforth. Tho mother of General
Beale and the aunt of Mrs. Beale, two venerable
ladies' one eighty seven and the other eighty-on
years old, witnessed the ceremonies The other
members of the marriage party were General
and Mrs Beale parents of the bride, Mr.. Wash
ington Mclean and wife, parents of the groom,
General and Mrs. Hazen, Captain and Mrs. A.
II. Bugher, of Cincinnati, the two last mentioned
ladies being sisters of the groom; Mr. Beale,
brother of the bride, and a brother of Mrs.
Beale. Two old colored servants who have
been with General Beale's family for more than
forty years also witnessed the marriage of their
young mistress. The marriage was a surprise to
the friends of both parties, as it was not known
an engagement existed. Their marriage was
the result of an attachment formed at Deer Park,
where both Mr.. Mclean and General Beale So
journed during the summer. The bride and her
family are well known in Washington society.
General Beale and General Grant most in
innate friends and during the latter's admins
tration Gen. Beale was Minister to Austria and
was lately spoken of for Secretary of the
Navy. For time the family lived in Califor
mia, where.the General owns large tract of land.
Miss Beale has been one of the most popular
bellies in society circles here.
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POLITICAL NOTES.
The ProhibitiOnists Appoint a Day ofFasting
and Confession.

CHICAGO Oct. THE following will be issued
tomorrow from the Prohibition headquarters:
CHICAGO, Oct. 7.
'"To the People of the United States: In view
of the misery and crime resulting from alcohol
ism, and of the guilt fastened upon the people
by their municipal State and
notwithstanding and even licensing the
traffic in intoxicating drinks, the executive com
mittee of the Prohibition party call upon the
Oct. 80 as day of fasting, humiliation and
confession, and in view of the fact that many,
all over the land are aroused and realize the
enormity of the liquor crime, and are willing to
be at cost and pains to put it away, we cal
upon all Christian believers to unite in prayer
to Almighty God that His aid may be given to
measures which will result in the speedy put
ting away of this guilt, and the suppression of
the traffic in alcoholic drinks.
John B. FRENCH, Chairman
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For Cleveland and "Reform., :,

ALBANY, N Y, Oct. IA young man en-
ployed in one of the State offices here under a
Democratic official says he and his fellow-clerks
have been assessed 5 per cent of their salaries
The demand was peremptory, and in order to
meet it some of them were compelled to borrow
money. 1t is understood that all the Democratic
clerks at the Capitol have been assessed and
that the urgency with which the tax was levied
was explained by the fact that the money was
needed for in Ohio. In the city of Albany
the most outrageous assessments are levied on
every Democratic city official, and at the Capitol
it is the rule, and not the exception, to demand
contributions for Cleveland and reform.
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Picked Up at Sea,

New YORK, Oct. THE brig F. L Merryman,
Captain Hoffschild, arrived to- day from Bath
urst, west coast of Africa. Captain Hoffschild,
lately of the bark Frederick Scala, from Stettin,
with salt for Charleston, reports that on Sept.
during which he lost all spars and sprung a leak
He kept the pumps going until the 2lst, and was
then fallen in with by the brig F. I. Merryman.
He boarded the brig. found Captain Mabeth, the
mates and some of the men had died. The yes
sci was in charge of the steward and two men,
had been eleven days without navigator, and
was short of provisions. Captain Hoffschild
abandoned his vessel and took charge of the
brig, bringing his crew of eleven men with him.
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PITTsBURG, Oct. THE lockout at Oliver
Bros. & Phillipss mills began this morning, and
5000 more men added to the already large
number out of employment in this city. The
duction and tho firm gave no orders to light the
fires, so that instead of strike it is lockout.
This afternoon there will be a conference of
amalgamated officials and the firm, when the
former will endeavor to have the heaters and
roller helpers, who are now included in the re-
duction. classed among the skilled or scale labor
If successful, the mills can resume at once with
out the unskilled labor
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Mob Violence in Texas.

WACO, Tex. Oct Last night, at Sipe
Springs, q mob attacked the residence of farm
er named Hays His son-in-law, Mr.. Dunlap,
and young son of Hays's went out to meet the
mob when young Hays was instantly killed and
the former fatally wounded. 1t seems that
another son of Hays's had been concerned in a
horse stealing transaction. committee notified
the elder Hays to leave the country, and he re-
fused to comply A posse of citizens started in
pursuit of the assassins, several of whom were
recognized by Mrs. Hays. Serious trouble is
anticipated
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MILWAUKEE, Oct. THE Republicans of the
Fourth congressional district have nominated
Isaac VanShack, of Milwaukee.
BATAVIA, n. Y. Oct. THE Democrats of
the Thirty y-tirst district have to-day nominated
Robert T. Stevens for Congress.
HARTFORD, Conn, Oct. The Democrats OF
of the First congressional district renominated
William D. Eaton by acelamation
ROCHESTER, N. Y, Oct Charles s Baker
State senator, was nominated for Congress for
the Thirtieth district this morning, by tho Re
pubhcans.
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Competitive Examination in Type-writing

WASHINGTON, Oct. Forty feminine manip-
uators of type-writing machines have been re-
Gently examined by the Civil-service Commission,
and they have just received notice of the grade
to which their proficiency entities them. 1t was
the first examination of the kind and was alto
gether curious exhibition. The exercises were
read sentence by sentence by the examiner and
at each pause the fingers of forty women and
girls would fly with almost lightning speed over
forty machines. Some who were accustomed
to write shorthand from dctation would catch
the words while writing and finish the sentence
nearly as soon as the examiner This act of tho
Civilservice Commission is suggestive of the
rapidity with which the typewriter is suppressed
Ing all other forms of copying Chiefs of di-
visions in the various departments are allowed
clerks who have been usually stenographers.
Now these are being supplanted on every hand
by the type writer and by the combined stenog
rapher and typewriter.
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A Republican Elector Resigns.

NEw YORK, Oct. John D. Warren, chair
man of the Republican State committee, yester-
day received the following letter:
Sir-I wish to tender my resignation as Republican
eector for this State | sorry to say that cannot
conscentiousy support the present nominee for Pres
ident, James g. Blaine remain yours, respectfully
w. L. FORREST
Mr. Forrest is prominent doctor of this city
He refuses to say anything beyond what is in
the letter
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The Connecticut Election.

HARTFORD, Conn, Oct 7.--Returns from all
but eighteen towns give a total vote of AZ, 593 on
the biennial sessions amendment, with major
ity for the amendment of 10, 107 Returns from
l44 towns show the Republicans control boards
of REGISTRATION in So