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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-03-27
Protection For American La

a bill before the Pennsylvania
Legislature is the first crude attempt
after twenty-five years of deception
and pretense to, extend to American
woPkfngmeu the benefits of real pro-
lection. 1t proposes to lay tax of
fifteen cents day on all alien la
borers in the State.
Tnree-fourths of the iron-workers
in Pennsylvania mills :sre Of foreign
name and birth. The window glass
workers are Belgians almost to a
man, and are imported from Belgium
by the International Association.
Poles, Hungarians and Italians
throng in every protected industry.
They monopolizc the mining of coal
and manufacture of coke These
men do not come to America with
the purpose of becoming citiZens.-
They are brought into the labor
market by protected capitalists who
get = premium on every dollars
worth of their goods, under the pre-
tense that it is for the encourage
ment of native born labor. They
underbid American workingmen,
crowd them out of work and make
their toll unremunerative.
1t is kind protection indeed, that
exposes the American laborer to the
competition of men who have DO
part O.. parcel in American institu-
lions, no taxes TO pay and no homes
to support Yet This has been done
year after wear. The employer has
become a millionaire while the EN-
ploye has been forced lower and
lower in the scale of prosperity.
The rewards of high tariff go into
the employers pocket, and protec-
ton has never yet taught the way
for the employee to get his share out
of that secure resting place.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-03-27
4 New Lie In West virglnla.

West Virginia is coming out of
her rags and putting on neat, new
Sunday clothes as fast as the thing
can be done. An interview with a
prominent business man of the
Kanawha Valley, in another column,
shows that an area of unprecedented
prosperity is before that section of
the State. New railroads, new coal
and coke works, new saw mills,
new energy and enterprise gener-
ally, promise rich returns to the
philosophical citizens who take
part in the work.
There is probably no section of
the State that has been more boun-
tifully blessed by nature than the
Kanawha Valley. 1t has immense
coal beds, iron deposits and fine
timber regions that remain unde-
veIoped and almost untouched by
man. A change is promised. The
G. & o. railroad has inaugurated it
in its liberal policy towards all local
industry. Tie building of short
branch lines is encouraged, and it is
probable that at no distant date the
majorities of the tributaries of the
Kanawha river will be followed to
their sources by the feeders of this
great railroad system.
The Norfolk and Western, the
Ohio River and the Charleston and
Ohio River roads have completed
surveys for extensions that will
prove equally beneficial. Rights of
way have been secured and work
begun at various points. The pur-
chase of large tracts of land is an
assurance that these enterprises will
be pushed through; and when it is
done the the parallel valleys of the
Guyandotte, Twelve Pole and Big
Sandy will feel the tread of the Iron
Horse, and their hidden wealth will
roll forth into day at his coming.
These wild and almost inaccessible
portions of the State may be made
it's richest. With iron ore and coal
beds only few miles apart, and
with convenient means of cOmmu-
nication to unite them and bear
their product to market, there is
reason to believe that Logan, Boone,
Wyoming and Mcdowell counties
will take wonderful strides in the
next few years.
The new growth of the State is
by no means confined to the IA
nawha valley or the Southern
counties. 1t can be safely said that
there is more business enterprise
in West Virginia to-day than ever
before. There are more projects on
foot to- multiply industry and en-
pfoy capital. New railroads are
contemplated. Some of them arc
assured, and along their lines there
will be mines opened up, mills
built, and fiourishing communities
collected as if by magic There is
fresh life in West Virginia, and the
capitalists who wishes to invest his
money, or the immigrant who
desires to bring his family and raise
n home, can not seek a fairer land
or one that is fuller with rich
promise WHeeling Register.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-03-27
Ballot reform i'm West virginia.


West Virginia should have a bal
lot reform law. That fact was
made plain by the shameful cor
ruption at the last election, and the
call for the extra session of the
Legislature will doubtless include
recommendation that some measure
of reform be passed. The law
makers of the State could not bet
ter respond to the public demand
than by adopting the Australian
system Of voting. There is no
scheme OF practical reform as
worthy of immediate attention as
this law, which proposes to cut at
the roots of corruption. 1t makes
the voter the sole custodian OF his
secret in casting the ballot, and the
briber who may have purchased HIS
vote will will never know that it
has been delivered. Intimidation
would be impossible. Every man
entitled to vote would vote the
ticket he chose, and the man who
should attempt to corrupt him would
be none the wiser for his choice.
The law simply secures to all men
WHIST the Constitution intends they
shalt. haxe-a free ballot, shielded
from impveper influences. If West
Virginia had such a law, there
would be no contest for the office of
Governor today, and the man who
was duly elected on November 6
would be performing the duties of
his position with out cavil or ques
ton from any one. Our bitter ex-
perience with an uagnarded ballot
should at least be a lesson to our
Legislators.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-03-27
Com rIfssiOner,s Sale.

DY virtue of n decree of the Circuit Court
d of Mason county, West Virginia, entered
ON the 9th day of February 1889, In the chan
Gerry cause of JanSes II. Couch Bartlett
Clark ct al, shall, on the
18th day of April, 1889,
Mt the front door OF the Court House of said
county, proceed to offer for sale at public
auction, to the highest bidder the tract of
land conveyed by James II. Couch and wife
to Bartlett Clark by decd GInScd InnUG7rE list,
1885, which deed Is recorded in the County
Court Clerks Office Of Snfd Mason county, in
deed book No. 10, fOIios Es5, etc, said tract of
land containing SSlS acres and fully described
in the Bill and exhibits filed in said cause.
Said land will be sold to satisfy vendors
lien retained thereon, amounting to $iAS.4
with interest thereon from February Z, ISeD,
till paid and the costs of said suit
TERMs.-ODcethird cash in hand on day of
sale, and the residue in two equal INSTALL
ments upon n credit OF twelve and eighteen
months, taking bonds from the purchaser
with approved security for the deferred in
StallImentS of purchase money, bearing inter-
est from day OF sale and retaining the title as
further security until the same shall he fully
paid. JAS. Fl. COUCH, JR.,
Special Commissioners.
certify that the above named Commits
sioner' hiss given bond and security IN the
penalty prescribed by the decree in this
cuuSe conditioned MS required by law.
r. L. MITCHELL, Clerk.
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george n. Davis Of Detroit is an
Heir.

J. III. Dickerson teIegrapher,
and George T. Davis of Detroit,
Mich, each drew $4,000, on one
twentieth tickets of No. 1882 which
drew in the January, (18890 draw
ing of the Louisiana State Lottery
the prize of 100000. Mr.. Davis
received $4,000 by the Southern
Express Co. He is fifty-two years
of age, and is transfer foreman of the
Wabash road. This was his third
dollar investment in the lottery, and
he feels much elated. Three rela-
tives died during the past year leav7
ing him an aggregate of $4,000, SO
that now he is Detroit mich. }
Sunday Sun, Feb. 3.
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An exchange very pertinentTy
asks: "By the way, what were the
reasons, largely personal, which con-
strained Mr. Blaine to decline the
Republican nomination for the Pres
idency, but which do not prevent
him from accepting the premier
ship? The question can only be
answered in one way-that Blaine's
friends, and probably Blaine him
self, feared to go before the people on
the issue of Blaine, and that the
people were duped by the putting
forward of Harrison in Blaine's in
terest. Although the Maine states
man seems to have got into the ma
tional household through the cellar
door, yet that he is prepared to take
charge of affairs and relieve Harri-
son of running the country, there
seems to be no reasonable doubt. 1t
is to be a Blaine administration
pure and simple, and we hope his
admirers will be, prepared to accept
complete responsibility for the
course of events in the coming four
years.
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Courage and steadfastness.

The Albany, New York; Argus:
Tho Democratic party must hold
with courage and steadaastness to
the sound, popular platforms 10 chose
last summer and to the just, inteili-
gent policy which guided its coun-
ellis then. Temporary defeat is
na..llt in comparison to the danger
Of tie abandonment of principle.
Tie right must prevail in the end,
and lis strength and popularity will
be made the more apparent by
contrast with the only method left
Ggr the present administration-tbe
payment of election debts by further
grants to monopolies With pop
uisr majority of 100000, and de-
feat in the electoral college only
accomplished by political debauch-
cry and the degradation of citizen
snip. the Democratic party can look
with confidence to the next Con-
gr.ssionar Oh. Presidential: contest.
There is not staini on the past ad-
mfntstration-no vfflainY to be
covered up. no uneleanlfness' TO; be
excused. The public service has
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-03-27
c. G. Bowyer, Administrator OF the estate of
ID. w. POlsley, deceased,
AlIce Polsley. I'd, az.


PURSUANT to the authority vested in me
L by decree of the Circuit Court of Mason
county, West y irgfnia, entered IN the above
entitled cause at the February term, 1850, of
said Circuit Court, shall on the sth dny~ of
april, 1850. mt my office in the town of Point
Pleasant in said county, proceed to take state
and report an account showing: First, The
amount of rcilf estate of which ID. W. Polsley
died seized andpossessed, the number of liens
thereon; If any. the amounts thereof, and to
whom due and their priority.
Second. The amount of Indebtedness exist
ing against the said estntc, and to whom due,
and what portion thereof is a lien against the
real estate.
Third. The amount M personal property be-
longing to the said estate, and its value, and
whether the same Is sufficient 70 pay on the
Indebtedness of said estateS and any other
matter any party In interest may require or
in the opinion of the Special Commissioner,
may be pertinent. At which time and place
all persons interested in the estate of u. w
PoIsIey, deceased, may appear IL they SO de-
Given under my hand this I'D day of Feb
rnar-v 1850 JOHN e. BELLER.
SSpacial Comm issfoner.
Tomlinson & Wiley, Soils. feb 2E-4w-
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FISHING IN TIE BEHRING
The Eoreside,,t SViIITssSIe a pro-
elanh.liion That VIII Attract


The President VIII Issue a pro-
elalns1tiOn That VIII Attract
Notice.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-The
President will soon issue procla-
nation relating to the Behring Sea,
which cannot fail to attract inter-
national attention. This proclama=
ton will be the first. information
which most people viii have that In
the closing hours of the last Con
gress, an amendment was incorpor-
ated in the inter-territorial fishing
act, which in effect declares that the
Behring sea is a closed sea. BY
this Legislative enactment Congress
has attempted to settle grave point
over which the Nations have con-
tended. The amendment in It's
terms extends the provisions of the
Salmon-fishing act to seal fishing in
Behring sea. That is to say, the
act forbids the taking of seal by any
one not authorized by the act with
in the waters of Behring sea, and
does not exclude them merely from
fishing on certain islands. The
amendment is, of course, of the great
est Importance to the Alaska Fur
Seal Company, as it will preserve
the seal fisheries for them. 1t is al
so u great Importance to the Ameri-
can and Canadian fishermen who
may have been planning to engage
in seal fishing in the open waters of
the Behring Sea this season as so
many of the Canadian vessels did
last season. The act authorizes the
seizure of such vessels by United
States revenue cutters. The pro-
clamation of the President will call
attention to this fact.
The act may give rise to impor-
tantinternationaf complications. 1t
is an attempt by legislative enact
ment to settle an international
question which the great powers in
terested may consider still an open
one.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-03-27
ATTENTION DEMOCRATsl
Mass ConvenfiOnY

a Mass Convention of the Demo
Gratis of Mason County, will be held
at the Court House, Saturday, April
18th, 1889, for the purpose of nomi-
mating a candidate for the Office of
County Superintendent of Free
Schools. By order of the County
Executive Committee.
J.B. TIpPErr, Chm'n.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-03-27

Flags on the warfboats along the
Ohio, and upon the various steamers
of the stream, were lowered to half
mast on account of the death of
Captain Kyle, the famous steam
boatman whose death occurred last
week.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-03-27
Announcement.

1K7he Spring Term of Rio Grande College
4 will open April 8, 1880. AS in the pnst,
special attention will be paid, during this
term, to the common branches. There will
be classes in bookkeeping, Physiology,
Mathematical Geography and Map Drawing,
Theory and Practice of Teaching, and other
pricticaI studies suited to the wants of stu
dents. All possible efforts VIII be made to
the advancement Of those who attend.
Letters of inquiry will be fully and promptly
answered.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-03-27
FOE SALE.

THE Interstate Land Agency has for sale
L A farm OF 10 acres In. Bath county Va
There are s. acres cleared and. under fence,
balance finely timbered with white oak and
poplar. Living water on Il. FErR miles
from Warm Springs, which place affords
tine highest cash prieo for everything that
lssIl be produced Price, 81 go, or will exr
change hjr tt..vH Tgfcrerfy.- Address FRAsS6
8A.tGE:1. sIu:..l;cr, Point Pleasant, West
Va. fseptI2-1m.
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Farms and Timber Lands fos
Sale.

THE undersigned has number of fTnprov-
ed and uninlproYed tracts OF land for sale
at LIN PRICES per acre. Some Of this
land Is vel ttTnlbcref and all of Il lies in Ar
buckle and Union Districts, Mason county,
West Virginia. Also farm of 80 acres EitftL1
ated in Putnam county, within ~ miles Of
the Great RE1nesxisss- River. This farm iGsinEa
proved In pErty basance'if good timber Wtl
pc sold cheap Persons desiring to purchase
lnnds' and meaning business viii sSsIdrees e.
NJ u AE-PIS. Arbdcl-fe T.. o. MaScFl fslfifity y,
FtSsteF iFGluia. lseftsD 51.s-pd.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-03-27

The appointment of John c. New
is another sweet morsel for the Re-
publican printers OF New York, who
voted for Harrison, to roll under
their tongues.
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To the Creditors Of ID. w. PoIs.
Icy DRnR.nef.fl

7 n pursuance of a decree Of the Circuit
1 Court made ia a cause therein pending, to-
subject the real estate OF the said ID. W. Pol
sley, to the payment of his debts, you are re-
quested to present your claim against the
estate OF the said D W. Rolsi5y, for 1CftuLlica-
ton to John r. BeiIer, Special ComInissioner,
at his office in the town of Point Pleasant,
Mason county, West Virginia. on or before
the 18th day of April, 1885.
Witness R. +. Mitchell, Clerk OF said Court,
this I'D day OF February, 1899.
R Z. MITCHELL, Clerk.
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I'm FsUR MTTUB -
Profits are hardly considered.
For Sale,

THE following described real estate: Two
hundred and ten acres, about one mile
from KanaNha river and three miles from
the town OF Point Pleasant. All under fence,
lg acres in grass, 20 acres newly cleared land,
all upland and creek bottom; Three Mile
Creek running through the centre; the fences
are substantial, aEsff faHfes Two dwelling
good bearing orchard of $50 trees Price,
900; cash, balance one, two and three
years, with interest Situate In Lewis dis
trict, Mason county, West Virginia.
This property will only be offered for sixty
INTERSTATE LAND AGENCY, Z
Dec 28-2m Point Pleasant, West Va.
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Trustees Sale of Valuable Real
Efate.


TJY virtue of a decd of trust, executed to
d the undersigned trustee, by a. J. Dom
anew and wife, dated 18th day OF October, 1882,
to secure to Mrs. NJ. F.. Kinberiing the pay
ment of n certain note therein mentioned,
with interest thereon from date, bearing even
is OF record in the County CSoSsrt CIerss oftiee.
of the County of Mason, West Virginia in
trust deed book No. 8, foIios 364, &c, and de-
fault having been made in the payment of
said note, whieiV nnS amounts to 5000 with
about eighteen months interest and being re-
sale of tire land in said trust deed mentioned,
shall ON the
lst day of April, 1889,
at II o'clock a. N, OF that day, proceed TO sell
the Court House in the town OF Point Pleas
ant, the following described trncts- of land,
OF Vest virginia, and in the District OF CO.
lpgne, the first OF which is described as fol-
side Of the road, and running. south 81 poles
to Van Matre's line, and with his line east
ders of said road about n. 81 W. 10 poles n. So
W. 10 poles, 60i6-Ir. IS poles 10 the place of
t sseginnlng- estimated to- contain acres, he
the same more OF less: The second tract Is de-
scribed as follows: Lying on the dividing
ridge, between the Knnawha Ten Mile and
cast of cherry corner in d. F. Sayers Ifne, and
to Samuel Darst, and with his line l12 poles
to mulberry. his corner in the Run Bottom,
thence up she creek - poles to a sugar tree,
corner TO Daniel Van Mattress and with his
line ". LBS poles TO a chestnut oak in Shields
line, then with his line n. 100 poles 10 the
place of beginning, estimated to contain Ill
acres, be the same more e+ less, subject,
however, to a conveyance OF said above tract,
of % acres heretofore made by L. q. Cantor,
former owner of said tract of land, to MatiIda
McCarty and Elizabeth Shnmblin, which will
leave IS ncreS of said tract of LII acres of land
hereby conyeyeCis which with the acres
heretofore described, will make 81 acres OF
land conveyed by said gTnntors in said deed
The above tracts OF land with the reserVa-
tions aforesaid, were on the I'd DIZZY of Sep
temher, 1884, conveyed by the said a. j. Dono-
hew and wife, to Henrietta Nye. wife Of S. T..
Nye, which said deed of conveyance Is Of
record in the Mason County Court Clerks
Office, in deed book No. 80, page S. to yFllieii
reference may be had
TERMS OF SALE:-Spot cash.
JOHN Z. TIMMS,
march 6-fw. Trustee.
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CeptionaI opportunities were enjoyed
by GEO. M. SHOOK & co. in the
purchase of their Spring and Summer
Stock of Dry Goods. Etc. Being
among the earliest buyers in the East
ern Markets. many
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TRuSTEES, SALE.

10Y virtue of the provisions of n certain
ID decd OF trust, executed by Charles Hop
lite and Susan E. HopIftG, his wife, on the
18th day of June, 1879, and recorded in the Of
flee of the Clerk of the County Court OF Ma
Book No. 4, page esa, Conveying to me 't as
trustee, certain real estate, to secure the pay
ment of the sum of eighty dollars, evidenced
by n bond executed by Charles Hoplite to a.
a. Hanly, of even date with said trust, and
payable twelve months after the dnte thereof
with interest thereon from date, and default
being made in the payment of a balance of
the said principal of about S5SsD and being
thcrcnrto required by said a. y. Hanly, the
holder of said note. will on
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-03-27

Quisite Novelties were secured that
could not have besn obtained later.
This is particularly applicable TO their
Dress Goods Department, Of which
they have bought an
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KnTICE

The accounts of the following fiducia-
ries are before me for settlement: Mary
S. Sebrell, guardian of Blanche p Mar
shall (nee SebrelD, Mary s.. Sebpell,
guardian of F. Gordon SebreM
J. H COUCH, JR.. Com,r..
mar,ti.zsw
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-03-27

Traordinary quantity and variety, repre-
senting all the latest Paris and New
York productions, with Trimmings and
Buttons to Match them all. They
charge no
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Monday. MAY 6tl,. 1850.

sell ut the front door of the Court House of
said county, by public auction, to the highest
bidder, for cash, the following tract or parcel
of land situate in Arbuckle District, Mason
County, West Virginia, bounded and de-
Scribed as follows: Being tract of forty-fuur
acres more or less, conveyed to the said
Charles HOplite by Mahala Dunkin and John
Dunkin, by deed bearing date the 3Ist day of
October, 1877, and recorded in the Office of the
Clerk OF the County Court of Mason County,
West Virginia, in Deed Book No: 81, page 3l5,
to which reference Is made for more full de-
scrfptton- There IS reserved from this sale
of said deed of trust the LIST day of january,
1885, by A. 4. Hanly, which is recorded in
Deed of Release Book No. 2, pnge ., in the
office of the Clerk of the County Court OF said
County. w. r. GUM, Trustee.
mar. T-4w.
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POINT PLBAsANP AOApBMY.

Rpropose to tcach term of eight weeks to
\ commence the second Monday of May
next. a limited number of pupils can only
be accommodated. None ullder II years of
age ma nee s5t 94PPly' "-J- KENNY.