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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02

The Board of Regents of the State
University, a. Morgantown, have
engaged an architect from Balti-
more to design the new building for
the Scientific Department of the
University. While we do not re-
fleet upon the decision of the Board,
yet we would rather have seen the
work kept in the State; and as long
as there are as reliable architects in
the State as Mr.. o. S. Philpott, of
Wheeling, we fail to see the neces-
sity of going outside the State bor-
ders. Mr.. Philpott's work in Wheel
ing. Parkersburg and PIT. Pleasant
fully testifes to his ability to erect
and design any building tLat he
may be called upon to take charge of.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02

On last Saturday near Helvetia a
Mrs. Barnhaurer, while in fit OF
insanity killed two of her children,
aged three and six years, and then
attempted to take her own life. She
cut the younger child's throat with
a butcher-knife and attempted to
kill the older one in like manner,
but it resisted and she Drained it
with an AK. She then cut a very
dangerous wound in her own throat
but she was still living at last ac-
counts
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02
orInterest 10 oII Men.

Judge Avery of the Supreme
court of Maryland has rendered a
decision which may effect those who
purchase oil lands on the option plan.
It's the custom among oil leasers and
purchasers of coal, timber and min
eral lands to buy the privilege of
holding them for a specified time
under an option. This Judge
Avery has decided is illegal, in
that the options cannot be enforced
for want of mutually of obligation.
The persons having the options have
simply acted as agents to sell the
lands at profit to themselves, not
binding themselves to take it, but
binding the other party to the con-
tract not to sell even if n greater
price is offered. He, therefore,
declared such contracts null and
void and of no force. While this
will not have any weight as mat
ter of law outside of tho State of
Maryland. il has an argumentative
force before the courts of all States.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02
Everything cheap and plenty foi
CASH at Bryan & Yoang's.

Something must be done by the
town authorities, to get rid of the
filthy hog pens that line the street
from the Jail to the bridge. The
stencil from them is intolerable, and
a disgrace to the town. We have
called attention to this matter, be-
fore. Where are our health officers?
Geo. Huston, an engineer, and
brother of Willie Huston, of this
place, was killed in a railroad col
lision at Springfield, Mo-, last Satur-
day.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02

Fair gone, but Bryan & Young,
the popular grocers, are still in
town.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02

Go to VIM. Steinbach for your
barbering.
Evening journal., 1891-02-04
Counterfeit Currency.

more counterfeit money is in actual
circulation than people in general be-
heve," remarked a teller in one of Chi
cago's leading banks recently. "Of
course only the better class Of counter
feits remain in circulation, and even
then do not pass undetected long. The
detection of a counterfeit bill, however,
does not retire it from circulation by
any means. A grocer, for instance, who
finds FIVE dollar counterfeit bill in his
money drawer at night, is liable to argue
that he cannot well afford to lose the
amount, and also that counterfeit
which was good enough to deceive him
is good enough to deceive some one else.
1.-The next day some customer gets il
in change, and ten to one It is passed
through dozen hands before the dis
covery is again made that it is bogus.
But its mission does not end here. Per
haps the last holder Of the bill can tell
who paid it to him. If so the counter
felt starts to retrace its course, but it
rarely goes very far before it stops, and
the whole scheme is worked over again.
We frequently have counterfeit money
offered for deposit. A merchant NAV
bring in several hundred dollars, and
among the bills is a single counterfeit.
Of course it is thrown out as soon as it is
discovered. But where does il 20? Into
the hands of the man that brought it in.
Does he destroy it? Perhaps, if he is
a scrup1lously honest man. Chicago
Mail
Evening journal., 1891-02-04

dared not look up. He wondered how
far the girl had read. The second note
said:
''The private dining room and supper
ordered by you for Tuesday evening
We're prepared and in readiness for you as
directed, but no one appeared. Are we
to understand that there has been mis-
take, or is your letter, which we have re-
tained, to be considered in the nature Of
hoax, or has some one forged your
name! Awaiting your reply, etc,
"DELMoMCo's.'
Mr.. Bulles sank still farther into his
chair. He opened the last letter with a
trembling hand. The girl still lowered
above him like an avenging spirit.
The letter was from a friend and con
tained a clipping from a newspaper
Dear Hen" the note ran. Have
You seen this Associated Press clipping
and what III Heavens name does it mean?
Some one has evidently been playing u
practical joke on you, and one that must
strike you as a most unpleasant one.
The clipping read as follows:
IS HENRY DULLES u1SANEg
THE WELL KNOWN NEW YORK BROKER GIVES H1s
FRIENDS GREAT CONCERN.
WASHINGTON, d. O., Tile secretary Of state
IS IN receipt Of O most remarkable communication
from Henry Bulles, the New York broker IN
which that gentleman refuses to act as minister
20 ST. Petersburg with much haughtiness. He Il
quite unknown TO either the president or Mr.
Blaine, and it is supposed here that his mind Is
unsettled or that he is the victim Of a practical
joke.
Mr.. Bulles laid the clipping down and
gazed desperately at the typewriter girl.
Did you post those letters?" he asked.
Yes" said the duchess severely. 81
found them on your desk after you had
left, and supposed you had forgotten
them, so posted them myself. Wasn't
that righty'
81 guess" said Mr.. Bulles, "that !
won't need you any longer. You know
too much"
"That," said the typewriter girl calm
ly, "strikes me as the very reason why |
should remain. Don't you think SO? You
can say you have been made the victim
of a practical joke, but if lost my posi-
ton | might say you had not. Don't you
think you had better raise my salary
little and let me stayT'
Mr.. Bulles gazed gloomily at the news
paper clipping on the desk before him.
Yes" he said grilnly, 'you had better
stay. New York Evening Sun
Evening journal., 1891-02-04
Peculiarities of tho GUN stream

ms river is very warm because il
comes from the Gulf of Mexico and the
Caribbean sea, where the sun has been
heating it for a long time. OF course
after it has left its southern home, and
Is making its journey across the Allan.
tic, it is gradually becoming cooler. but,
nevertheless, it maintains to the shores
Of Europe, even well up toward the
Arctic regions, a much higher TEN.
perature than that of the surrounding
air or water.
1t has its own finny inhabitants and
other animal life; curious little fish and
crabs that make nests in the floating sea.
weed; beautiful little Jelly fish called
thimble fish, floating or swimming near
its surface in such countless numbers
that at times the waters are brown with
them; and the graceful flying fish, which
dart out of the water in schools; and
countless myriads of minute animal life
floating about, so that when the sun is
shining high in the heavens, the water
seems to be filed with notes. These
little things, dying, sink to the bottom,
and their diminutive skeletons or shells
go to form an ooze, which, if exposed to
the air and to pressure, resembles chalk.
This ocean river is quite unlike the
rivers of the land in point of size. The
Mississippi, at point below its lowest
tributary, is about 1000 feet wide and
100 feet deep. At places it is wider than
this, but there it is shallower. The Gulf
stream, at its narrowest point in the
Strait of Florida, is more than 1000 feet
deep and over 40 miles wide-Lieut,
j. E. Pillsbury.
Evening journal., 1891-02-04

THR bitter, sensational, excoriating
tongue Of Sam. Jones has brought him
personal punishment, which was probably
deserved, at Palestine, Texas. The erratic
preacher, in one Of his addresses, dealt
plainlys harshly, with some things that
had been reported about certain relations
Of the mayor-relation that the mayor
held dear as the apple OF his eye. AS a
result the mayor attempted to thrash
the evangelist with a cane. or course
the mayor was wrong in avenging his
own sights. but how about the preacher
who gave the Sights Is It part Of a
preachers duty7 Is he so free from
prejudice and so filed with virtue and
knowledge that he can make such sweep.
ing and intensely bitter denuncistions
as Sam. Jones has been accustomed 10
make Of men and thingsg There are
many evils. no doubt, great evils, but the
man who addresses himself to their cor
rection and cure must be wiser and more
dignifed man, he must have more weight
and be less Of a vulgar religious sensa-.
tionalist, than Sam. Jones. Above all
things religious man must be refined
and just Sam. Jones seems to be neither
Mayor Word should not have caned Rev
Sam. Jones, but since it has been done Il
is to be hoped that it will have q correc-
tive and moderating effect on the hysteri
cal preacher.
Evening journal., 1891-02-04

can they construct a stable civilization.
The reviewer must have had in his mind
the Civil Rights bill, the reconstruction
era of troops aud carpet baggers in the
the South when the debt OF Louisiana
alone was increased over $9J, 600, 600,
the Fo-ce bill, the Blair bill and other
follics of the cranks and intense and
impracticahle partisans Of the Republi
can party. Hayes withdrew the troops
and the carpet -baggers fed, the Supreme
Court nulIi6ed tho Civil Rights bill and
the sensible Republicans united with tie
Democrats to defeat the Blair aud the
Force bills. The Mckinley bill
was driven through on small
and fraudently manufactured majority
and caused the overwhelming defeat of the
party at the polls Thus as Dr. Bracket
shows the Republicans have not advanced
the interests Of the negro becluse
they do not understand either
him or the situation he is IN
end because they make him a political
spoil II he did not have the privilege
Of voting without having either knowl
edge or virtue TO use IL he would not be
considered by the Republican managers
any more than they consider the Indian.
Evening journal., 1891-02-04
WANAMAKFR.s.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday Feb. (, 1891.
The sOeathtY to-day rs lskeIy
TO be clear.

These Dress Robes. fresh
from Paris, are genuine novel.
ties. The very foundation
Cashmere is out of the rut.
New graces of weave, of color,
OF hnish in them. Ideal Cash.
mere. But you won't think of
that. The Cashmere is only the
canvas for the picture. The
bewitching loveliness of some
OF these Robes comes from the
added embroidery. Nothing
new in that, you say2 Wait a
moment; this em5ro1aery IS of
dalntae1 Six Stalch on hImy
Ne| Bits, and strips, and odd
shapes Of the Cashmere are
worked into figures of beauty
on this airy ground work.
The embroidery IS mostly for
sleeves and parts of waist; oc-
casionally for a panel; but no
matter where it has a place it
lends an air Of elegance to the
costume.
Robes Of another style in
stead of the Net have thicklv
scattered bits of jeweled EN-.
broidery, as if a shower of
silken daisies, crystal hearted.
had fallen on the stuff.
Still another style-one of
the simplest-has the pretty
ing part almost covered with
exquisitely petalled flower
shapes, hardly larger than a
pansy.
There are eight styles of
these rich Robes, each in from
six to nine colorings. The
plain Cashmere is in light or
lightish shades, and the en-
broidery almost wholly in self
colored silk.
AS works of art, as new de
partures, as exclusive styles,
they will attract every woman
in taste.
Southwest Of centre.
oHN WANAMAKER.
Evening journal., 1891-02-04
ola English Customs.

Railway ticket offices still retain the
old name Of booking Office" which was
appropriate enough in the coaching
days, when the names of intending pas
sengers were literally booked
Another curious survival is the prac-
tice of eating game and venison "high. I"
We never eat poultry or beef and NUT
ton high" but game and venison used
to be sent long distances and be a con-
siderable time on the road, so that they
could not be received In a fresh state.
Hence it became customary and even
fashionable to eat them "high," and the
practice has endured TO the present day.
Then there is the old fashioned greet
ing, "God be with ye.' Perhaps not AL
know that the meaningless words good
by" are a compression of the above pious
wish.-London Tit-Bits.
Evening journal., 1891-02-04
RAILROAna.
PHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON An
a BALTIMORE RAILROAD
!, - oanuary 10 IoNI.

January l6, 1891
Fhiiadeiphia texpress). s., E5, 4 sS 81 sS. H S
80, %, 9 AZ. 10W, 10 A.. II 8S ii 81 M t1els.
u %, 81. 304, 5 10. II, s Sc. ii. s 30, I os
Accommodation 8 30, 8 IS, 7ob. & lo, mBam.
IL 5s, 2 IS, i5 35 20 40. z 10 aud 10 30 y NJ,
n For r chester lexpressl, ! 50, - 800, 81.
~ 3 co, ga, II Il a m, l2 30. II, 90, 7 as,
Accommodation. 64O, e55, 7o5, s 10, ioA6.
\, ~ @ 5 q m, L IS, 20, IS, 80. % 20, 740 and
81 New York, IS, s5s, 4sOe@.855, stG lOW,
N199'l a ol q M ~ -, u 30, y, 3g4, 3 -,
p m.
=. For Poston. without change. 10 20 a m ana
For West Chester. via I,anokin. 40 and
~ m. 81 and As pm
For Newark Centre and informed late
Baltimore and Intermediates stations. ga
IS and O0 N and u 70 night
baltimore and Bay Line, s % J. ~.
10 u, and II % m, IL O6, Il rs, A24. 528 AB'05
40. 20 p m and ~ 49 night
Trains for Delaware Division leave for.
New Castle, 5 Is, II 03, lib IN, As, 35Ol5O
6.l3 200, 3 10 y NJ, and l2 o. night
Georgetown, 3 IS 8 Ia, 8 30 d. IL.
Harrington, Delmsr, and way stations, s Is
m, 30 p M.
Express for Dover, Harrington and Delnar
II 0S a m 50,and 70 0l night
Franklin City, 10 h.
fort, and Norfolk, II 05 II and Y o. niRht.
Leave Philadelphia, Broad street, for WIZ
mington, (expressl 507 %, u, 81, 10 90 10 p
II u, a m, AZ 80, 2O2, 3 o., 346, 40l, ,4Al sos.
5U; oW, . %, 40, II 10, IL 80, M, and III
Accommodation, 8 25, 9iO. lOSs. u5s A m.
|, ~ e. 10, o. 46. q, ss, 10 o. 10 % and
SUNDAY TRAINS.
For Philadelphia (express), I S. 2b5 4M
5 81, II 81. m, 304, II, 8 60, 62l, 7O8, Isl
and 10 pm.
Accommodstion, 200. sOs, SEQ, m. 12is.
8, 10, 2O and 10 80 m.
For Chester {express), l 55, 8 50, II 81 a M,
Accommodation, GO, 8 O5, Q % q m, l2 10. l2s.
~ 90 30 and 10 30 D m.
For New York (express), 1 IS, 2s5, ESQ, : 90
6.00. II 81 m, l2.lO. o. 4 10, b IL E6, 6 Il,
o., - ~, and 10 80 . m.
For Boston. without change, 56pm.
hor West Chester, via LamOk1n, 05 a m.
For New Castle, l2 u night.
For Cape Charles, Old Point Comfort and
Norfolk. IL OF night.
- For Middletown, Clayton, Dover, Wyou ing,
FELTON,, Harrington, Bridgeville, sea ford
Laurel and Delmar, ~ o. night.
Baltimore and Washington, 4 as, s o., 10 l. a
m, u %, 70 p, 70 03. 40, 20 m and 1S d light
Baltimore, only % p IN and u 10 night
Leave Philadelphia, Broad street, for VIII
mington (eNpressl, 80, 7 20, II is IN. Al. 05
ooI, 40, 8 20 II l6, II 30 : m. and Il 03 night
Accommodation, 35, 9 10, 10 2S, a m, y S.
2 o. 10, 9 38, 10 03and II IS D m.
For further information passengers are re-
terred TO tho ticket office at the station.
Trains marked thus ~ are limited eEI ress,
upon which extra fare is charged.
CHAS. E, PUGH, u R WOOD
General Manager Gen. Pess Agent.
Evening journal., 1891-02-04

prevail, the area Of freezing temperature
extending to Southern Virginia. and the
mercury falling toa minimum of zero In
the northern and western parts Of New
York aud Pennsylvania to night.
New York Herald Forecasts -Yester
days lake storm centre has curved to
the St. Lawrence Gulf, followed by the
remnants Of Sundays "cold wave. -
which, though small, is severe Temper
ature fell in the United States yesterday
The chief minimGm reported was q de-
grees below zero, Fahrenheit. at st.
Vincent, MINI the chief maximum, ~,
at Jacksonville, Fla.
Evening journal., 1891-02-04

EYRAUD, the murderer who ssstran gled
his alleged rival in the affections Of the
courtesan, Gabrielle Bompard, at her in
stigation aud with her assistance, was
beheRded in Paris yesterday. The c,ime,
the flight, the pursuit, the capture, and
the trial have all been accompanied with
sensational interest which is distinc
lively Frenchy, The case has occupied
the attention OF all Christendom for a
year, and the usual number Of cranks and
geniuses have endeavored to prove
that the man who finally went
upon the scaffold angrily re-
fusing to pray. to listen TO the prayer
of priest, or allow any religious eere-
mony to be performed, and who cursed
the Minister Of the Interior as a mur-
derer with his last breath was an inno-
cent man. OF course he had right to
refuse TO acknowledge the existence of
God and to refuse the kindly offices Of
good people, but the man who behaved
in such a manner under the guillotne, in
the awful apprehension Of an unknown
eternity, certainly has the requisite con-
tempt for all human emotions to qualify
him to do murder. The world has not
lost by being rid Of the human hyena,
Eyraud. The world Is always better of
when the man who has contempt for
human life leaves.
Evening journal., 1891-02-04

WE shall not have much faith in the
new Republican majority of the Levy
Court If they enter upon a strictly par
tisan course. The Levy Court OF Sussex
county became a stencil In the nostrils Of
al fair and honest people They went
into Office under the tutilage of par
tisan lawyer who cared mora for fees than
for the welfare Of the people and started
mean little newspaper war and filed
the county with campaign lies. They
discovered the embezzlement Of poor.
drunken Wheatley, drove him to suicide
and even after all loss to the county was
nobly aud scupulously met by Ebe w.
Tunnel. they tried to make campaign
capital out Of the Incident against the
whole Democratic party of Delaware
This community will not have much
respect for Attorney Bradford and the
Levy Court Of New Castle county, If they
follow the despicable examples Of Attor
ney Bacon and the Levy Court Of Sussex
county. II there are any frauds or
abuses they should be corrected, Of
course, but let us not have any repetition
Of the partisan behavior Of Sussex
county.
Evening journal., 1891-02-04
A Novel suit Tor Dnmagas

Joseph L. Bradley, a young man.
brought suit sgsinst Pierson & Mitchell,
morocco manufacturers, in the Common
Pleas Court, No. /, Philadelphia, yester-
day, for damages The case is OF q
peculiar nature Bradley and two others,
who were in the employ Of the defend
ants in this case, demanded more wages
on the grounds that the skins they had
TO shave were larger than the average.
This was refused, whereupon they left
and sought employment elsewhere, but q
circular was sent out by Plerson q Mitchell
with the result that they were refused
work. They then came to this city, but
the circular had preceded them and the
morocco manufacturers here refused them
employ also Bradley claims that he has
been injured by the action Of Pierson &
Mitchell, aud claims damages in conse
quence.
Evening journal., 1891-02-04
rAe EMPTY HOUSE.

Tn ,l fell heavily last night
si across the street ia vain,
NJ Ipqe, to see your nickering light
in The lonely room again.
a 'st shook the house last night,
torrents beat against your room;
A no star peeped from the height;
- house was silent as the tomb
] The hours away last night,
ori ,at more wretched than the doyl
\ doubling but with morning light
see your face across the way.
gac curtain was not drawn aside,
No ;ace leant smiling on the sill;
Tie rain still fen, the bleak winds sighed
Your house was desolate and still.
New York Tribune
Evening journal., 1891-02-04

The review Of DR.. ]. h. Brackets
book on ''The Negro in Maryland" in the
Political Science Quarterly says it
is clear that the negro has been
"the spoil Of the politician rather
than voter able to demand and
command his rights. Our
author seems SO conscientious with his
facts that no honest reader can fail to
draw for himself the conclusion that, so
far as Maryland is concerned at least. the
heroic remedies of food OF politi-
ca power and a deluge of eduea.
ticn are worthy only Of political
quscks. Such measures are not, neither
Evening journal., 1891-02-04

JAY GOULD has made peace with Post
master General Wanamaker by an agree
ment on the Postal Telegraph question
Gould, for his own reasons, so far un-
known and probably undiscoverable. has
lost the feeling against the Postal Tele
graph bill which led him to emulate the
efforts Of the lottery men to iniure
Wanamaker financially, and would now
view with indifference, II not with favor.
the passage of the bill Now it is likely
that Wanamaker viii not be squeezed on
Reading securities any more If he was
ever squeezed at all There is no question
that Wanamaker lost money In the Hood,
Bonbright & Co. enterprise because the
Southern merchants refused 70 buy from
the house. but whether the rumors VI
other and even greater losses were tue
the public can only surmize. There is no
means of knowing except through
bankers and brokers. and the public is
not always on confidential terms with
bankers and brokers till crisis happens.
Evening journal., 1891-02-04

Pennsylvania furnishes more crlmi-
nal news than any other six states In the
Union With the usual quota Of smaller
crimes to-day there are accounts Of a
man. Hoffman, at Lebanon. selling his
wife for 500, and Of two state sc ators
engaging ip est fight in railway car.
This feht occurred because Of dispute
during the investigation Of the cause Of
mining disaster at which many
lives Of 60 cents day miners were
lost. With ali Its advantages Of pro
tectionism. the people Of Pennsylvania
are in worse average condition than the
people Of any other state except Ohio
Even the lowest negroes or tie mountain
corn crackers Of the South do not live ia
so much poverty and aqualor as the
miners and iron workers of Pennsyl-
vania.
Evening journal., 1891-02-04

HAVEN'T you any umbrellag" ''No;
loaned one TO Jones last week. 81 am
surprised that he should have kept it ="
"He didn't keep it; he returned it to the
man borrowed it from. Washington
Post.
MIEIsTER (consolingly). Weep not.
my poor woman Think how much better
of your husband Isl" Widow Vixen. -
"Do you mean that for a slurg-Life
SENATOR'S VANCE and Vest ave both
been renominRted. This will prevent
two V's from becoming Xs.-Lowell
Citizen,
Evening journal., 1891-02-04

FRAEE.IE BENJAMIN COTTON, late
Of Pennsylvania, will fare badly in trial
during the absence Of Guardian Angel
Pierce as witness. There is no telling
what Pierce would have sworn to, but il
win be conceded that he would have done
some comprehensive swearing, and that
Franklin Benjamin Cotton would have
profted by It. There is no foolish
modesty about the emigrants from
Pennsylvanis, who 60 into other states
as political emissaries Of negro -phobism.
Evening journal., 1891-02-04

went into court and set it aside as the
attorney for the son. There is so much
uncertainty Ia fulfilling the wishes of the
6evisee that all newspaper men dispose
OF their own fortunes
Evening journal., 1891-02-04

APTER legal fight Of twelve years
duration over the half million-dollar
estate Of George P. Gordon Of New York
among the lawyers. the administrator
has just reported that he has So, 600 left.
Even the great lawyer Samuel J Tnden
could not write a win which conveyed
his properly to the objects intended. A
curious case occurred in the Neweomb
millionaire estate IN Kentucky, where the
~ lorney who drew tie viii for the father