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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-07-12

The first farmer in the county to
thresh and sell his wheat, was Capt,
John Armstrong, of Maupin's Sta
ton. He reports his crop as extra
fine, and the yield per acre very
satisfactory. The Captain is one OF
the best grain raisers in the Kama
wha Valley.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-07-12

Hats at big reduction at voIlert
Il Ri edel's.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-07-12

A bill has been favorablyi reported
to Congress compelling common
carriers engaged in inter State COM
merce to equip their cars with auto-
matte couplers and continuous
brakes and their locomotives with
driving wheel brakes. The brakes
are to be selected by majority OF
the railroaders, but in case they fail
to agree upon one, then the inter-
State commerce commission is an
thorized to make the selection and
compel its use. Failure to comply
with the provisions of this act are
made punishable by fine and inn
prisonment.
MARRIED.-on the 9th instant
Miss Ida, daughter of Rankin Hill
of Beech Hill, was married to j.. d.
Hill, of Santa Barbara, California
Only few ofthe near relatives Of
the family were present at the mar
rage. After sumptuous dinner
the bride and groom departed for
their home in California. Rev. S
F. McClung was the officiating cler-
gyman.
Married, in Kingtown, Sunday
July 10th, 1892, by Rev. S. f. Nc
Chung, Henry Bennett to Josephine
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-07-12

RIVER NEws.-A model barge
belonging to the Huntington and
ST. Louis Tow boat Co., is on Arm
strong Bros. Docks, undergoing
thorough repairs.
The Sam Miller passed Cairo
Sunday morning at 5 o clock, on her
way up from New Orleans. All
the crew we'll.
The B. T. Enos is here waiting
to go upon Cole & Hcatherington's
docks.
The River and Harbor appropri-
alton bill has passed Congress, and
in it is provision authorizing the
Secretary of War to put all the
locks and dams under contract al
once, and 81, 7OO,OO0 is appropriated
for the purpose.
An excursion party from this
place, made the round trip to Charl
eston on the Henry NJ Stanley, lasl
week.
Mr.. Editor:-You may talk about
Harrison, vociferate for Cleveland
go crazy over Weaver aud "pass by
on the other side with Bidwell
but justice iriu not be done until dog.
are taredi just look at it'll II
1891 the loss of sheep by dogs ii
Ohio was $685. The loss for THU
State we cannot tell, for both off
cials and press give us meager in
formation on Agricultural affairs
Next time you get the chance vot.
for dog-tax. x
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-07-12

The children were talking Of the
churches which they attend and
the respective religious beliefs of
their parents: "My papa is a Pres
byterian, said one; "Mine's Bap-
tist," said another; aMine'sa Dutch
Reform" chimed in the third; @And
i guess mine is Tariff Reform, =
came the proud assertion from the
fourth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28
IT STILL RACES HERE.

It is reported in the editorial columns of
the Philadelphia Record that the recent
appointments of Ingham and Colesberry
to tie United States positions in Philadel-
phia conferred ''peace and honor on both
the Republican factions. That journal,
though not the highest authority on Re
publican matters, asserts that the appoint
ments are satisfactory to all sides, and
that they indicate the restoration of a
n0dus ciUe7adi between the Administra-
ton and the Pennsylvania Senators.
This recalls a characteristic of lawyer
many wears ago who has recently had a
certain degree of prominence in politics.
After exhausting his stores of logic and
el7auence to get the court to rule one way
he would maintain his entente c0rd5dle
with the bench by insisting, whichever
way the court might actually rule, that
that ruling was what he had been contend
ing for all along There is suspicion OF
the same sort of determined satisfaction in
the intimationS which thus seem to come
from the Pennsylvania Senators that they
are now entirely restored to harmony with
the President Whether that claim is
weII-founded or not, it is necessary to OBJ
serve that the cruel war continues to rage
over the Western Pennsylvania offices.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.

HERBERT SPENCER has an intense dis
like to eating his meals with or before other
people.
Ex-KING MILAN, of Servia, is in great
request at Partisan weddings to act as wit
ness to the bride.
ONE of the most successful artists in
Paris to-day is Douglas Tllden. California IS
deaf mute sculptor.
THE Queen of Greece is the best Royal
needlewoman in Europe; she cuts out and
makes most of her own underclothing.
ISAAC S. DEMENT,, the president of the
Chicago Stenographers' Association, has a
record of $50 words minute, and is said to
be the fastest shorthand writer of the day.
THE real name of 'E. Werner" the Ger
man novelist, translations of whose stories
are so popular in this country, is Elizabeth
Burstenbinder; she is a spinster and lives in
Berlin.
GENERAL LONGSTREET, according to
the view of a Birmingham reporter. ZAP
pears to be in the best of health. His face is
rosy and ruddy, set off by his white side
whiskers. He is strikingly handsome
man."
The handwriting of Algernon Swinburne,
the poet, is a scrawling schoolboy's hand,
but his manuscript comes to the printer,
clear, legible and decided, with scarce an
erasure.
Mr.. PAUL DU CHAILLU, the pioneer
African traveller. was born in Louisiana;
his father was a trader in the French colony
or Gambia. on the West African coast
Young du Chaillu went there as child, and
picked up the language and studied the
birds and beasts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
MONDAY, MARCH 2s, 1892
ELEMENTS OF PROSPERITY.

Deacon s. V. White rises, like the
Phoenix. to display a very sanguine view
of the outlook in a letter published else
where. While his very confident view OF
the future may be qualified with the re-
mark that there are elements OF uncer-
taintv sufficient to discourage corners in
either stocks or cereals, there is no DOUBT
that he correctly summarizes the factors
which constitute the basis of our assured
prosperity.
1t is true that we produce the supplies
of the world: that the threat of a silver
basis cannot be realized at least for some
wears to come; that Great Britain and the
United States, notwithstanding the noise
produced by Jingoes and politicians on
both sides OF the ocean, are too sensible to
get into war over lot of seals which are
not worth the cost of a weeks hostilities,
and that with the balance of trade in our
favor we are bound TO receive from
Europe either the gold to pay that bal
ace. or what will be Just as valuable to
us as the gold
Mr.. White discusses somewhat cava-
lerly the question why, with our immense
bdldUC6 u loiclSu bldhO, SVtN 10 hiO"A'S
abroad rather than in this direction. He
does not even offer an adequate theory to
explain that phenomenon. But 1T Is true
that, if Europe does not send us gold, she
must send us our securities to pay the
balance. If we take our own securities, at
our own valuation in discharge of the
balance of trade, the wealth of the coun-
try is increased as much, if not more, than
by the receipt of the same amount of
gold.
So long as the United States continues
to produce what the world wants, as she
IS doing now, her prosperity rests on
secure basis There may be periods of
depression owing to speculation, unequal
distribution or temporary imitation, but
the total of prosperity is as certain as the
total of productiveness.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28
IN THE SILVER TUREEN.

FREE silver is not quite so free and easy as
it was.-Chfcogo Tribune.
Mr.. BLAND is slightly disfgured, but he is
still in the silver ring.-Ne,0 York Advertiser.
THE walx-over that was predicted for free
silver should advertise for pair of crutches.
Washington Star.
1T doesn't lessen the poignaucy Of the free
coinage people being in the tureen that the
tureen is a silver one.-Phtiddelphfo Times
Mr.. BLAEp's main difficulty seems to have
arisen from the fact that he struck his match
before the train was Philadelphia In
quirr.
MR.. BLAND, Of Missouri, seems to lack the
necessary blandishments. Free coinage
isn't exactly dead yet, but its eyes are sot.-
Boston Herald.
THE prospect is much more encouraging
to the friends of a sound currency than it
was before the battle Of Thursday night
Chicago Herald.
NIB. BLAND will resume the battle for free
silver this week. He is determined that his
heresy shall do all the damage it can to the
Democratic party.-Butalo Express.
Mr.. BLAND, though checked, is sanguine,
and he wants It to be distinctly understood
that the Democratic party is behind him
and his free coinage bili-Ne,0 York Press.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28
FIRST TO THE FRONT.
Pennsylvania Troops Reached the Capital
Ahead of All Others.

Pennsylvania Troops Reached the Capital
Ahead of All Others.
New York Sun.l
Here is further light on the question as to
the first State troops to reach Washington at
the outbreak OF the Civil War:
The sixth Massachusetts, Militia arrived in
washington on April 49, 1851. and a. was the first st
the Rebellion thanks to the energy and foresight Of
General Benjamin F. Butler. who commenced In
The five companies of Pennsylvania troops that
arrived on the 18th were unarined. and expected to
receive arms and equipments in Washington. The
six days before the New York Seventh reached
there. As to General Winfield Scott not feeling Sc
cure until the New York Seventh arrived, Major
T. 1891 that in April 1861 General Scott was in his
dotage.
This is signed by Neponset; it is interest
ing. The document to which we referred
last week is an extract from the minutes Of
Congress, authenticated by Mr. Mcpherson,
Clerk of the last House. 1t is as follows:
In THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE,
July % 1891.
Mr. Campbell submitted the following resolution.
which read and, under the operation of the
previous question, agreed to, viz:
Resolved. That the thanks of the House are due
and are hereby rendered to the $50 soldiers from
timore and reached Washington on the 18th day of
April last for the defense of the National Capital.
This shows what Congress thought of the
matter One word more. We didn't say
that Scott didn't feel safe until the Seventh
arrived, but that Winthrop's clever news
paper story and Colonel Clark's history Of
the regiment gave one the idea that Scott
felt insecure until that well-historied regi-
ment had come.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28
SURE SIGNS OF SPRING.

There are signs of Spring elsewhere
than in the skies and the soggy, green
spotted fields One Of the sure symptoms
cf departing winter is found in the hustle
anG push noticeable in ali sections of the
CITY given over to trade and toll The big
windows OF the mercantile marts are be-
ing dressed in lighter and prettier garb.
Brighter colorS now catch the eyes of
greater and gayer throngs. All this
means that the Spring Trade days are
here-a sure sign that gentle Spring is not
afar of.
And the Spring signs observable on all
the business thoroughfares this season are
more numerous than heretofore, which is
a very healthy sign. 1t shows that the
citv's mercantile men have confidence in
the present and are not at all nervous as
10 the future In the Improvements, en-.
largemeutS. elaborate and early displays
can he seen that reliance on the purchas-
ing masses which the people appreciate
sure sign Of a busy Spring season, with
an increased volume all along the line
Such Spring signs as these are encourag
ing. And the beauty of it is they never
foil
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28
GOOD ROADS IMPORTANT.

To Reap the Greatest Profit There Must
Be Proper Thoroughfarea
Philadelphia Iquirer.I
Apple growing has become an important
industry in Indiana county. Many orchards
of the best varieties of the fruit have been
set out during the past year, and the apples
grown in the county are unsurpassed in
flavor and keeping quality. The same thing
is true of the apples grown in such profuson
in Sullivan and other counties which are
not well adapted to grain growing, and
which are too far from the city markets to
make it easy to find a profitable substitute
for the cereals. In these counties the grow
ing Of apples for the late market would with
out doubt prove paying business.
To reap the greatest profits there must be
good roads. When the apples are first har-
vested prices are low, and the highest prices
are to be obtained in the early spring, before
the Southern vegetables have made their
appearance. But this Is just the season
when country roads are at their worst. The
experiences and losses of the Indiana county
farmers should stir them up to building per-
manent roads, as the farmers of Delaware,
Chester and Montgomery counties have been
doing since the failure of the road bill.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28
CASE oE FALSE ECONOMY.

According to the report of the Foreign
Affairs Committee to the House, the re-
forms in the line of consolidating foreign
missions have been confined to placing
our relations with Denmark, Sweden and
Norway under one mission, Colombia and
Ecuador under another, and Peru and
Bolivia under q third. This is well
enough as regards the Ministers Pleni-
potcntiarv. But with regard to the ap-
preparations for the consulates, on which
the summary of the report is silent, it is
difficult to see how the reduction in the
appropriation formerly reported can be
effected without damaging the efficiency
of the consular service, To do that at
this iuncture would be decided case of
false economy.
The improvement of the consular de-
partment to aid in the extension of our
foreign commerce should be the especial
aim Of all statesmen at present. For
every dollar wisely spent in that direction
a score will come back to this country.
Secretary Blaine's policy has been strongly
directed TO that end: and any Legislator
who would hamper that effort advertises
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28

The interesting information is specially
telegraphed from Washington to the
New York Commercial Adgsrtiser that
President Harrison is not candidate for
denomination. When the reader catches
his breath after this assertion, the blow is
made more gentle by the mitigation that
it is not asserted that the President would
absolutely refuse a nomination, if it were
offered with practical unanimity, and
with reasonable assurance of his cleo
ton.
This qualification permits the Repu Bill
can party to abstain from panic for fear
that it will be left without candidate
Large numbers of candidates in past times
have indicated their desire that che nom-
ination should be unanimous, and subse-
quently taken it as they could get it
Indeed, if We mistake not, it has once be-
fore been announced on behalf of the
President that he will not be candidate
unless the mass of Republicans indicate
that they consider it necessary for him to
sacrifice himself once more
Nevertheless, neither since the first nogo
episcopdrt nor at the time Of the second
one, has there been any observable cessa-
ton of the very positive intimations to the
Federal ofice-holders that they must not
forget to be unanimous
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28
KATE FIELD ON SCANDAL.
She Also Has a Few Words to Say About
Idle Women.

She Also Has a Few Words to Say About
Idle Women.
New York Commercial Advertiser.l
Miss Kate Field, the talented editress, Is In
town. "No did not come up here to meet
the Majestic" she said emphatically to re-
porter Yesterday. "Did all you New Workers
go to meet the Majestic? They say there
papers were represented. Isn't it pity that
n OF one paper in New York can afford to
leave out this scandal? The demand for
such news must indeed be great But do
not care to talk about such subjects. Poor
woman is blamed for everything.
"Women are the cause of all these recent
scandals, and l presume you expect me to
admit, as a woman and a journalist, that it is
the women who cause this immense demand
for scandalous literature. But. really, sup
pose that the women are as much to blame
as the men.
"You know the old saying, that the devil
runs an employment agency for the idle.
The women are as useless as the men. If not
more SO, and the higher in society we go the
is a bore. 1t is the old. old story of empty
heads, hollow hearts and marriages without
love. The most Of these women are not
worth the ink that is spilled on them. much
"They call Washington the most social
city in the United States The ladies there
do nothing but make and receive calls The
Senator's wife receives one day. the Repre-
sentative's another, the Presidents another,
and so on. They waste away their lives
passing bits of pasteboard. 1t tends speedily
toward softenfng OF the brain. 1t is me-
chanical, inane, idiotic. What wonder that
a woman sometimes breaks away from such
a routine.
'"You ask. rs there no cure It calls to
my mind the efforts of a friend to raise the
drunkard,' as she called reforming him. You
cannot reform the old drunkard. You can
cultivate the coming generation. Let US
hope that the future will give US woman
VINO prefers the freedom of a horseback ride
to this inane exchange of cards."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28
Some Silver Questions.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
You take quite an interest in financial
questions. notably the silver question, hence
1 presume to write few lines on this SUBJ
ject, and put the same in the form of Ques-
tions.
First-As one silver dollar-present stand
ard-will purchase the material for 1400
CENTS where Is the sense in the expression,
IA 70-cent dollar" Do you mean ~ of the
cents out of that 400?
Second-As the entire gold and silver,
coined and uncoined, of the world dumped
on the soil of the United States, would only
mako sl25 per capita of our population,
where and howswould the calamity" come
in following free coinage?
Third-As the entire gold and silver out
put of the United States. annually, is only
S97 735, 900 (of which s25 600 600 goes into the
arts, leaving 2,y7l 600, or 81 10 per capital
now could free coinage hurt our Industries!
FourtlI-What is the general acknowl-
edged effect of an increasing volume of
money on a nations industries?
Fifth-As we hear much about one of our
dollars being "dish onest, will you or some
of your readers please designate it. so we
can Hereafter refuse it?
sixth--Ae proper definitions of terms used
in considering economic questions are in
dispensible, will you or some of your readers
please define the word "dollar?''
J.H. STEVENSON.
PITTsBURe March 26.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28
Obituary Notes.

DR.. MORRISON MUNFoRD. formerly editor OF the
Kansas City Times, died in that city yesterday
evening.
GEORGE SHEPPARD PAGE, the millionaire
chemist of New York, who removed to Morris
Plains Insane Asylum last Monday, died there Sat-
urday.
WILLIAM ACHRE, one of the most widely known
business men in Greehville died yesterday after a
short illness. He a prominent candidate for
the Republican nomination for tile Assembly.
MRS. ELLEN BUSH. relict of the late William
Bush died in Wilmington. Del, Saturday night
aged 81 years. after lingering Illness She leaves
vast estate, including some Of the lues property
in the city.
MRS MARIA THERESA sTEEN, widow of Isaiah
Steen and mother of James I. Steen, the we'll
known architect died on Saturday at the residence
of her on Dithridge street. The funeral will
take place from her late residence at 23O this after
noon.
H. Z. SYMoNDs. vice president Of the First Ma
fionas Bank of Chicago and well known in financial
and lusiness circles In the West, died of Bfeht's
diseaSe at the st. james Hotel in Jacksonville. Fla
He lad been there about six weeks, but was not
considered dangerously i'll until ten days ago. He
was u years Of ages
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28
AFTER FAIR POINTS.
Commissioner Farquhat Says He VIII Keep
His Eyes Open In Europe

His Eyes Open In Europe.
HARRISBURG. March s.-tSpecfat. l-Execu-
tive Commissioner A. B. Farquhar and wife
sailed from New York yesterday for Europe
They will be gone for five or six weeks
Speaking OF the proposed trip, Mr.. Fdrquhar
said: "My purpose in going tn Europe is as
much to get ideas for the use and manage
great Fair rs it is for anything else. feel
quite sure the Commission is in good shape.
have laid ont work for the assistants and
clerks to get through while am away, and
know will get good reports FROM them. We
are sending out thousands of letters and
circulars to business inen thfonghout the
State calling their attention to the Exposi-
tipn and putting ourselves In the way to act
In conjunction with them in getting up the
exhibits and bringing out the resources of
this State.n
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-28

The Authorship Of . Famous Ballad.
To the Editor Of The Dispatch:
W. G. Kaufman, in the SUNDAY DISPATCH
OF the Goth inst, gives +. Nichols Crouch
the credit Of writing "that sweet old bal.
lad, Kathleen Mavourneen." But Mr.. Kauf-
mann is in error on that point, as well as in
ascribing the pathos OR inspiration Of 1t to
any incident in Crouch's life.
In an interview some two or three years
ago with the editor Of the Baltimore
Sum- in referring to the song, Mr..
Crouch is reported as making the
following statement: "The words had
been sent to me by Mys- Crawford
from London, and as was riding one day in
West England. on the banks Of the lamar,
thinking of the poem, the melody suddenly
came to me. was so infatuated with it that
sang It to q large audience in the assembly
rooms at Plymouth, Devonshire, immedi-
ately that had written it down, and within
a week its fame had spread"
Mr.. KS account would lead the reader to
suppose that Mr.. Crouch is author Of the bal
lad as well as the music by which It has be-
come famous, but in this he is in error as
well as to the time Crouch came to America.
He came to this conntry in 1s40. with Max
Maretzek, who in that year came to try his
but after playing in New York and Boston
he failed, and, the company being disband-
ed, Crouch went to Mafne where he spent
some seven years in lecturing on music and
directing concerts. He went to Philadelphia
in 1851, then to Washington City. where for
some three or four years-from 1858 to 1861
he was organist in st. Matthew's Church.
Thence he went to Richmond, Va, to lead a
church choir, and when the Rebellion broke
out went into the rebel army as member
OF the Richmond Grays. He served to the
close Of the war, when he went to Bucking-
ham Court House, Va, where for q time he
was engaged as a laborer and gardener on a
farm. He finally drifted, rs a wreck, to
Baltimore. where he still resides, compare
lively unhonored and unknown-almost
forgotten, as is the beautiful music with
which he gave immortality to Kathleen
Mavourneen," "Sins to Ne, Nora" would
Were With Thee 1--WE Parted in Silence"
NEW BR1GHToN, Pa, March 81.