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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

There was born to a certain
young married couple in Taylor
county some two years since, a
bright boy baby. The father was a
Democrat and said the child should
be called Grover Cleveland. The
mother was Republican and VOW
ed that it should be named Nathan
Golf. Matters were finally settled
and the child was given the name
of Grover Golf.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

If township and county ELECTIONS
in New York, Ohio and Indiana
mean anything-and Samuel J.
Tilden used to say they meant
everything-we are going to wal
lop that miserable, untruthful,
pecksniffical, humbug Republican
party out of its everlasting snake
hide, this fall Wet-ct Democrat. g
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

The capture of the manufacturing
State of Rhode Island by the party
of tariff reform indicates that the
high taxation system is fast losing
it's grip.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

Congress is now engaged in the
special business of IegisIating and
concocting schemes to perpetuate
that party in power. Unfortunate
~ they forget that they should do
some legislation for the people
The people will take a hand in re-
firing many of these disreputable
partisans, next fall.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
A New Kind of Insurance

has been in operation by the manufac.
ture,s OF DIR. Pierce's medicines. His
&c. lden Medical Discovery" and ia.
vorite Prescription" are sold by drug.
gists under the manufacturers positigt
guarantee. Either benefit or a complete
cure is thus attained. or money paid for
these medicines is returned. The GER
titicate OF guarantee given in connection
with sale of these medicines is equiva-
lent to a policy of insurance. The
Golden Medical Discovery" cures all
humors and blood taints. from what
ever cause arising, skin and scalp di-
seases, scrotnious sores AM swellings.
The "Favorite Prescription" cures ali
those arrangements and weaknesses
peculiar to women.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

Pittsburgh Republicans have star
ted boom for Speaker Reed. If
the Speakers ability was half equal
to his impudence he could fill the
bill. His impudence and unscrupu-
lousness are the biggest part of him.
Clothed with the power of Presi-
dent, Reed would be very danger
GUS man.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

Noah Weekly confined in bod
bridge county Jail made good his
escape last Wednesday evening
when the jailor a six year old boy
was carrying some coal into his
cell. Local papers congratulate
the tax payers, that Weekly has
escaped. gH
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

There is difference between par
ty leaders and party drivers. The
time for drivers is past. Let us have
plenty of leaders aud no drivers in
the county this fall.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

The Republican party can break
its pledges to the people without
creating surprise or unusual con-
demnation, for no man in his senses
expects anything else from it. But
the Democratic party must remain
true to its pledges and its princi-
pies Dominion
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
.1.,aarsNaTInE,

SSTQCKHOLDERS of the Kanawha &
~ Michigan hallway Company are hereby
notified that a .meeting of such Stockhold-
ers VIII be held at the Company's Office in
Corning Ohio, on the third day OF July, 1880
10 transact the following business, viz:
To consider and vote ON n proposition for
the purchase of the railroad and other prop
erty and franchises OF the Charleston q
Gnuley Railroad Company.
To consider and vote upon proposed
lease of the railroad of this Company TO the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company.
Z BY Order of the Board of Directors.
o+Stef' PHILIP q. BARTLETr, Secretary.
NELSON ROBINSON,
- ssWILLIAM b! PosT, 5is-'t
CoURTLAND y. l.. BUTLER, JR
ttt' 4sil- GILBERT &. HOOVER, =
April 20 5-w.tF 87'I fncorporators.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
NOTICE no cREDIroRs.

ceased: - .I..Tf T 80 - -.
In pursuance to n decree OF the Circuit
cause therein pending, to subject the real es-
tate OF the said Michael Hopkins 10 the pay
nnent OF his debts, you are required to present
your claims against the estate of the said
Michael NJ Hopkins for adjudication TO James
the said County, on or before the 18th day OF
May, 1890. fiNtf ,tiail ~ Nd iF.F - =
Witness: Robert L. Mitchell, Clerk of the
said Court, this 31st day of March, 1891. +
II. L. MITCHELL, Clerk.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

One of the new Republican sena-
tors from Montana actually had the
independence to vote with the Dem
ocrats on party measure the other
day, and it made his colleagues flu
rions, but they failed to whip him
into line.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

If our States We're to j enact a tar
if' law as they foolishly might, a
universal snort would be heard in
the land. Buff orr State revenues
were collected by a Statew tariff,
would it be better or worse than
the present method? Sugar aud
salt would be about fifty cents a
pound and other things in proport-
ion, yet there would be plenty of
demagogues around who would
swear that such. q tariff was not a
tax Wetzel Democrat,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

REISS largely engaged in the manufacture
ID OF Funeral Goods, and purchasing ali
supplies outside of the coffin trust i can
save purchasers twenty per cent. / carry a
fuH line OF zinc and steel cases and make a
speciality OF solid walnut caskefs White
cloth baskets. for children sold at the same
price as Vanished collins. All goods delfv-
cred at Mason City. Depot ON one hours
NOTICE, AMI freight paid 70 AN points ON line
Undertaken sent where requested. Three
hearses and four men in constant readiness
From four to five hundred collins and ca K ats
ranging from $500 To $1,000; from fiye To six
hundred burial robes, burial slippers, Berlin
ana SILK burial gloves. hose and flowers are
always in stock. A wreath OF native blowers
will be given with each metal caskef. =
Also
/ carry large stock or sash. doors, Hath,
shingles, glass, paints oils. ana varnfshes, to-
OF which will be sold on ASTI-fRrsr prices.
may 76-m. 81 2 = : p . -
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

The people of Palatine have a Pc
tition to have the county seat of
Marion county changed from Fair
mont to Palatinc. They offer two
acres of land and $4,000 in cash to
help in building a new court house.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

The Republicans in Congress are
lighting very shy of the tariff quest
ion, and word has been sent around
that the Southern outrage question
must be worked for all it is worth.
The Northern heart is to be fired to
white heat by election time.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

News has reached herethatJames
Clayborne, formerly of. this comfy
committed! suicide on the 18th of
this month in New Mexico. The
particulars have not been learned.
In the winter Of 1887, at Charleston,
he attempted to take his own life,
and would have succeeded had it
not been for the vigorous. efforts of
his friends Chenille !Signat. :,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

One of the largest mineral and
timber land deals ever cousumna-
ted in West Virginia has just been
completed by which Jed Hotchkiss,
of Staunton, Va, transfers to low,
Aspinwall & Co. for s45O, 900 about
100000 acres of land in, Lincoln
and Wyoming counties.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

The Republicans in Congress are
promising to pass tariff bill, a
silver bill and election bill by the
first of August and then go home
and we hope stay there, but that is
about all they will do.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

Kansas has been furnishing mon
umental Republican majorities, and
all she has to show is more farm
mortgages to the acre than any
other State in the Union. "What-
soever man soweth, that shall he
also reap
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

President Harrison gives evidence
that he intends to keep a close watch
on the treasury.-Inteltigencer.
Yes, and so does the Quay gang.
Not only the administration but al
SO the Republican majority in Con-
gress have their eyes on the treasu-
ry, and both hands init.-Reqister.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

Hon. L. B. Dellicker told a Wash
ington reporter a few hard truths
about West Virginia politics the
other day, whereupon the Republi-
can organs wax angry and do the
cuss act with ANA zing cleverness.-
1t is the truth that hurts always
PdrkerS6urg Sentinel.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

The Logan county Banner re-
ports the Democracy of that county
in good shape, and promises a ma
joritysof ], 800 this fall for the strait
Democratic Observation-Disclosures Id
certiser.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

AT the sale at Belle Meade the
celebrated stallion, Luke Black
burn, was sold to- General jackson
for $4,000. He also bought Iro-
quois for $4,000. "a !, ~. al ,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

They have some dandy Demo
cratic rascals in New York, but it
takes four-hundred thousand dol
lar thief to run the Republican par
ty of the United States,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
NOTICE.

To Stockholders of The Kanarha d;
Michigan Raii,cay Company:
NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting of
~ the Stockholders OF the Kanawhn &
Michlgan Railway Company will be held at
the onice of the Company in Corning, Ohio,
at twelve O'Clock noon, on the third day OF
June, A-;D 1850, to transact the following
business, viz:
To adopt bylaws and regulations.
To choose Directors for the ensuing year.
10 authorizes a mortgage or deed OF trust to
secure a proposed issue OF the Conpany's
TO vote upon a proposed lease of the Buck
- To vote upon a proposed contract with the
Toledo IL Ohio Central Railway Conn nv for
the joint use of n portion OF this COmpany's
radiroad' extending South from Corning.
BY order OF thI Board of Directors.
PHILIP q. BARTLETT, Secretary.
NELSON ROBINSoN,
WILLIAM ID. POST, z - gu.
,i, CoURrLASD II. L. BUTLER, JR.
GILBERT C. HOOVER, ~ l's't
April 30-5w. > -7-i'tE7 =
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
For Sale.

pORTABLE MILI-3O Horse Power--Dou-
= BILE Saw Rigs foot Oarriage-s Head
or address JOHN b. SCHUYLER, Point Pleas
SAINT, West Virginia. [ppnl 2liw-pd.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

Don't hawk, hawk, and blow, blow,
disgusting everybody. but use DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
PROCLAMATION.
Pacing Record 2:28J
DissOlmtiom Noffce.

POIST PLEAsAST. w. Va.
April fifth ISis
'HIS day By mutual agreement the firTn or
i l4tidiey < -, IsOark has dissolved 81 N
11ildley continuing the business and will nav
alithe Indebtedness Of the firm nd collect Nh
accounts and notes due the irfn Of IaisiIev 4
" HlotFk- u. N. LAIDIEY,
J. \ OFROARK.
desire 70 thank the citizens OF Point Pleas
art, ana u ason county, for their liberal pat
r0ilsige In the past and hope they Will com
tilue 70 PatroFize MI. Laidley who VIII al
ways y. glad to see your pleasant faces Ia his
spislfe- x Dtls1Hess- RespeGfiy Your .
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
BAY CHIEF.

ANY one wishing the services of the
N fine young Stallion BAY CHIEF,
formerly owned by Capt. WIN. McDan-
iel, can have it by calling at Hooff-s Liv-
cry Stable. He will also be found every
Friday at Joseph Windows in the
Flats. Terms: $1,000 to insure.
: april30-tf. -
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
Plants for Sale.

T have for sale large quantity or all kinds
apr SO-im SAMUEL. W. FABIAN.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
when the Farmer Will be

C. Wood Davis, in May Fofam.
Our Domestic consumption will alb
sorb the entire product of cereals.
potatoes and bay, within Ave years
from January 1890, and therefore
agricultural exports win consist al
most wholly of tobacco. cotton. and
animal products, the volume of
which, will shrink as constantly If
not in the same degree, as sbomel
consumption increases. To most
people it would probably seem quite
absurd even to suggest that much.
within ten years it willsbe found
necessary to import large quantities
ofwheat to feed the eversincreasing
population; but such VIII be the
logical consequence of tile necessity
of employing wheat fields in the
growth of otheristaple crops, and of
the raw material from which farms
are developed. lfs ,I1Fgsi i-asihg
DoeS not the evidence show TINT
before this decade is half spent, all
the products of the farm will be
required at good prices, that lands
will appreciate greatly in'value, and
that the American farmer will enter
upon an era of prospcyaSszSae uiizs
limited continuance of ml,icE~2s as
sured by the exhaustion of the
arabic areas? .ifai iasi
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
WANTED.

MAID-wapted at once, at
~ the Stortz House. Cull on or address
dRs. II. w. STERLING, Point Pleasant,
Vest Virginia. tapr30-8w.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
Wanted.

OAK and Poplar Logs, also dry. yellow
~ Poplar and Pine LuInber, TO be stcliysr-
Point Pleasant, VIVA. . II ~ -
SCHUYLER & HANEs, Proprietors
mch5-lm-pd. -. i, ,--.f - 10
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
Plants for Sale.

7 HAVE Tomato and Cabbage Plants OF
the BEST aud EARLIEST Varieties for
sale mt Bryan & Young's, in Point Pleasant,
and at my home in Henderson.
mnyI-lm-pd. ]. L. HUTCHINSON.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-03-17

The only medicines sold by druggists under
apOsitiVe guarantee from their manutact,
urers that they will do just what is claimed
for them-that is, benefit or cure in all cases
of diseases for which they are recommended,
or the money paid for them will be promptly
refunded-are DIR. Piercc's wOrId-famcd spe-
cities, manufactured by Worlds DiSpensary
Medical Association, of Buffalo, n. Y.
Dr. PierCc's Golden Medical Discovery cures
all diseases arising from torpid or derangec
liver, or from impure blood, as Dyspepsia, o.
Indigestion, Pimples, Botches, EruptiOns,
Salt-rheum, letter, Erysipelas, and Scrofu-
IOus Sores and Swclngs Consumption, or
Lung-sCrofula, is also cured by this won
derful remedy, if taken in time.
Dr. Piercr's Fuvurito Prescription is the
word-famcd remedy for all those chronic
weaknesses and distressing arrangements so
common to American women. 1t is a most
potent, invigorating, restorative tonic, or
strength giver, importing tone and vigOr to
the whole system, AS a soothing nervine it
is unequaled. See guarantee printed on the
bottle wrapper and faithfully carried out
for many years.
Copyright, 1888, by WORLDS DIS. MED. ASSN.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-03-17
CHAPTER xvIL-A PLEASANT SURPRISE.

CHAPTER XVIL-A PLEASANT SURPRISE.
The next day | had delicious surprise
We were sitting in the orchard before
the chidren'S dinner; they had taken their
MONDAY sleep early, and | had brought
them out again.
We were all huddled together on a little
grass hillock. for | was telling Rolf and
10, ce story; Reggie was talking 10 the
flowers he had gathered. He had quite
little language of his own to supplement
his scanty stock of words. | heard CUR
gle-da' ver7 often, SO | knew he was
happy, my bOnny boy, whom loved bet
ter every day. All at once | looked up,
and there was my beloved mistress stand
ing by the little white gate watching us,
and she looked SO pale and lovely, with he
sun shining upon her brown hair, that a
curious fear crossed me that she was too
good and beautiful to live. Why do we
always say that as though things Of beau
" were rare upon EARTH
Run, darlinss, there is mother" | eX-
claimed and Joyce gave quite a shout of
10y as she raced down the orchard, 1t
was pretty to see Reggie following her as
last as his fat legs could carry him. lie
fell down, but picked himself up, still
holding his flowers, and then thrust them
in his mothers face As she stopped to kiss
him. / detained Rolf by me until Mrs.
Morton had greeted her little ones, but
she soon came up TO us, holding out her
nuui To me with such a kind look.
"IIow are you, MerIe2 But l need net
ask; you are almost as rosy as the chill
dren. How fat and well they look, Reg
r,a is IpYpIirr than ever and rs for Joycp''
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-03-17

never knew 1 was such a coward until
now. | do mind Adelade's sneers so
drpadfully. Oh! she can say such bitter
things: and then, should hate to disap-
point father
This was very ambiguous, and waited
to hear more She began again presently
Merle. should you not think | was
very unfit person to be poor mans wlfe'
How astonished you look! But one must
talk of such things sometimes, and l
never sneak on these subjects TO AIDE
laide. Suppose am not bit in earnest,
and am only talking for the sake of argu-
ment, still, you might give me your Opln-
ion.
Il hardly know, Miss Gay" | replied;
for this was quite problem to me, and
how are we short-Sghted mortals to judge
of any human beings possibilities; You
seem to me to tit your present life exactly
YOU wear your existence as lightly as
Glove; your surroundings suit you as much
as YOU suit them
You are quite right, Merle; no one
could be happier.
Il should think in any change of lot
YOU must suffer loss" continued, trying
to puzzle it oIt-"unlrSs, hrsitaung,
'vou hccamc mistress OF a house like
Marshlauds. a house where there would
be plenty and comfort, horses To ride and
dumb animals to pet and Il master who
would let You do as yuu like. did not
dare to maize my mraur- more plain,
but, of course. ~.l' @ur~-c,i at once that |
was Hiludlu- piur B4 Farm and Mr..
Ulwtry, for she r.,Io.,d Very mucI.
ooh, but hmuN OF mo- sal place where
D !. T..
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-03-17

lieve in their own work. You are laugn-
ing at me, Mrs. Morton, but your own hus-
band is just as bad
IF you knew how glad | am to see him
with the Children she returned, with
sort of misty smile. II do not think |
grown-up peoples play half so sensible. | |
know Miss FentOn agrees with me, do you |
not, Merle?"
1t was nice Of her to draw me into the |
conversation.
| saw Mr.. Hawtry looking at me inquir |
ingly, and | said, quietly; II think the |
best people are those who never OutgrOw
their childhood. We are apt to laugh at
children" | went on, for my mistress was
near me. and was talking to her more
than to Mr.. IIawtry, ''and yet their per-
feet faith teaches us many lessons; they
have 70 contend with 50 great Il difficulty"
What special difficulty do you mean,
Miss Fenton2'
The difficulty Of expression. Their
language does not allow of full expires
sion: their wonder bubbles over, but
they find no word to convey their wonder
mrnt.'
Miss Fcnton is philosopher OBJ
served my mistress, softly. I'VE often talk
about these things, Roger (she called
him Roger quite as a matter of COurscG
'"'''N'''- ":''''' - j., WY P'o''''''-' -
Miss Fcnlon seems to think to some
purpose" iutcrpD,cd Mr.. Iawtry. |
Thought he seemed little amused sit
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