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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20

The Republicans are finding fault
with the Democrats in Congress be-
cause they are in for economy.
Such blame is the highest praise.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20

Commissioner Porter wants big
appropriation to continue the work
of the Census Bureau and at tho
same time keep himself in a job.
Better starve him out, rather.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20

Fire destroyed the Power block at
Cleveland Loss. $4,000.
The new Hotel Colonnade, at Buena
Vista, Va, was burned Loss, 500
Pittsburg Leader building burned
Loss, $45, 900
The factory of the Toledo Cot and
Wringer company burned Loss, 10000.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20

The Ohio River Railroad is ne.
gotiating for the purchase of the
Newport News and Mississippi
Railroad.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20

New York.
ruary, 81 035x.
CoRN-52c.
OATs-36c.
CATTLE-$2 0005 co.
SHREP-S4 $4,000
LAArBs-S5 50@7 90
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20
POWDER MILLS pEMoLIsHEp.
Seven Men Meet Instant Death-A Large
Number Injured.

Number Injured.
CATLETTsBURG, KY, Jan. ia ter
rible explosion at the powder mills at
Central City. w. Va, occurred Monday
morning at $50. Everything was blown
70 pieces. Seven men were killed and
sixteen wounded. The shock was plain
twenty-five miles. Several window
psnes were broken in this city and goods
Jared off the shelves in different stores.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20

Ellen Carpenter, ct ais.
In Chancery.


DY virtue OF the authority vested In the
sPunderSigned Special Commissioners. by.
Mason county, West Virginia. entered ON The s
18th day of September, 1871, in the chancery
A. shlnn is plainfIf and Ellen Carpenter
and others are defendants, the undersigned
Special Commissioners viii, on the
LIST Day of February, 1892,
at O'Clock p. M, at the front door of the
Court House, OF said Mason county, West
Virginia, sell at public auction to the highest
bidder, the following described real estate,
and In the order and manner here set FORTH
LIST. That certain tract or parcel OF land ly-
ing and being in Cooper district, Mason
lows, fo-wit: Beefnning at a stake corner me OF
John III. Grimm, thence n. - poles to pine.
thence n. 81 w. Is poles to a black oak'
thence =. 10 W.-25 poles TO n black oak tree
Roush line thence s. is7 H. IS poles ole Ia To te
corner to John NJ. Grimm, thence S. 81 w. TO
the place Oh beginning, containing 81 acres,
2nd. Also, the following tract or parcel OF
bounded and described as follows, to-sif:
Beginning at n stake In Morgan's line, and
thence s. 7Oo 81 poles and Is links TO a stake
and small ash, thence y. 42o Il H. poles TO a
thence South si q tSe pp psee 60 az s sse
ming, estimated TO contain 90 acres.
situate In Mason county, West Vireinia. and
Is bounded and described as follows, fo-vft:
with said iine 20 poles to the road tn thence
with the road westerly course q poles to n
stone, thence South 20 poles TO a stone, thence
West ~ poles to the place of beginning, cstf-
mated To contain acres, more or less.
The undersigned Special Commissioners
Will first sell the tract first above mentioned
and described, TO pay the sum OF $3lS.S7 and
interest, and the costs OF said chnncery suit.
and the costs and commissions attending
this SALE. Said sum of $3ls-S7 and costs being
chancery cause, against the said Ellen CarI-
enter, to be paid by her TO the parties mem
toned In said decree.
And il said first tract OF land Will not sell
for enough TO satisfy and pay of said sum of
$3lS.SI and costs and commissions as afore-
said, the said special commissioners Will then
sell all OF said other two tracts OF land above
described, or so much OF the same as will pay
OF and discharge the balance OF said sum of
SSlS.5 and costs, &C., as aforesaid remaining
unpaid after sale of said first tract ofland.
TERMS OF SALE.-Cash as to one-fhird of
the purchase money, the residue in two equal
Installments, payable in one and two years
from date respectively, of sale, with interest
rom date, taking from the purchaser notes
with good security for said deferred pay
menfs, and retaining the legal title 10 said
real estate as q further security.
RANKIN WILEY. JR
JOHN T.. BELLER
Special Commissioners.
I, Il. f.. MITCHELL, Clerk OF the Circuit
Court, OF Mason county, West Virginia, do
hereby certify that John +. Beller and
In the above entitled cause have given bond
as required by said decree OF sale conditioned
jan6w4 r. Z. MITCHELL. CLERK
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20

SESATE-A bill was introduced to COM
pei railroads to equip all cars with auto
matte couplers and continuous brakes.
A bill was passed to aid the Colorado
school of mines, and one making an ap-
propriation, not to exceed slo0. 900. for the
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20

More Insults.
WASHINGTON, Jan 10. - Secretary
Tracy Sunday night made public the fol-
lowing dispatch he had received from
Commander Evans. of the United States
steamer Yorktown, now at Valparaiso,
Chilli, in regard to the Balmacedist ref1-
gees put aboard that vessel by United
States Minister Egan and the Spanish
minister:
VALPARAISO. Jan 16, 1902
Secretary OF the Navy, Washington:
The American minister informs me that
the CHILEAN minister of foreign affairs has
changed his mind about refugees now on
the Yorktown, and that they may be
taken out OF any merchant vessel touch
ing at a Gillian port by local authority
Arrangements had been made for all Of
them to sail today, but this change Of
base on the part of the Gillian minister f
foreign affairs compels me to keep the-a,
which crowds me very much Shall
land them at Callao, Peru or Molendo
Peru No steamers from here go direct
TO neutral territory. This unexpected {
of the Gillian minister Of foreign affairs
is due, he states, in part to my salutin 2
the Spanish minister when he ca :
aboard to deliver two refugees. haze
requested the American minister to say
TO the minister oil foreign affairs that
am responsible to my own government
and not to that of Chill in such matters,
and that consider his criticism offensi !,
and Will not accept it. His action see :
unworthy of the representative of n seri-
Gus government EvANs
Chilli las No Grounds for 6,Tense.
There was no ground for offense to the
Gillian government in the action IF
Commander Evans saluting the Span
minister when the latter came on boz /
to deliver the two refugees who had
been under his care. The naval regula-
lions require commanders of vessels o
extend this courtesy to visiting digni-
taries who may come aboard their ves-
sci.
Adds Insult to Injury.
The latest move of the CHILEAN govern
ment, as voiced by its minister of for
eign affairs in the present case, is very
unsatisfactory to such of those officials
in Washington as are willing to express
themselves with respect to the matter.
1t is felt to be a case of adding insult co
injury, and additional aifront to an al
already aggravated one.
To BE Regretted-
Secretary Tracy evidently regretted
what had occurred, and seemed to think
1t an affront to the nation.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20
Must Apologize or Right.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. - hepfeSenU-
alive O'Neill, of Maryland, is reported
to have said:
'sYou may say that there will be war.
Don't put any ifs or ands to it. Make
the statement broad and unqualified
Indicates n Change of Feeling.
Mr.. O'Neill's statement is regarded as
evidence of change of feeling ON the
part of certain members of the house,
who do not feel that they can af-
ford to let it be known that President
Harrison is in favor of maintaining an
advanced position upon the question of
asserting and defending courageous
American position, and that the majori-
not inclined to back him up in it.
We Soon WIN. Though.
No dispatch has been sent to Minister
Egan conveying the sultimatum of the
United States or indicating any impa-
tience ON the part of this government
with the attitude of Chill.
The President Investigating.
President Harrison is going carefully
through all the correspondence relative
to the Gillian controversy.
schley's Final Report.
The final report of Captain Schley,
commanding the cruiser Baltimore, in
regard to the assault on the sailors OF
that vessel at Valparaiso ON the 10th of
October, was received at the navy de-
partment Wednesday. In it Captain
Schley makes a positive statement that
the only interview he ever had with
Judge of Crimes Foster, of Chill, on the
subject of the attack on the Baltimore's
sailors occurred shortly after that event,
and before its full gravity was known
and understood at Valparaiso.
Cause of the Attack.
AT that interview Captain Schley says
Judge Foster expressly stated to him
that the cause of the attack was the
hatred that the lower class of Chilians
had for Americans because of the belief
that the Americans had been on the side
of Balmaceda. This expression by Judge
Foster is regarded by naval officers rs
highly significant. in view of his subse-
quent statements in regard to the Balti-
more incident. The interview took place
before the receipt of the presidents note
calling ON the Gillian government for
reparation.
In Six Weeks.
A prominent officer of the army who
received letter from one of the naval
force at Valparaiso, said: elm six weeks
detachment of the army will be NOV
ing on Chill. / thoroughly believe
what say"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20
CONGRESS.


SENATE-Bills were passed making San
dusky port of entry; repeating Section
Gas, revised statutes, providing for bonds
for the registry of vessels; establishing an
additional life saving station on the coast
of Oregon; making an appropriation of
s425, 600 for the construction of two reye-
nue. cutters for Pacific coast service. Mr..
Doiph reported favorably from the COM
mittee ON coast defenses bills to provide
for Notifications and other sea coast de-
lenses, and to make an appropriation for
the purchase of sites for Notifications.
The latter bill is simply an appropriation
of s1o0,o00,oo0 TO be expended under the
direction of the secretary of war in the
procurement of necessary sites for fortif-
cations and other defenses.
HoUsE-The report of the superintend-
emit of public documents was laid before
the house. More than 600, 900 of the tenth
census reports have been distributed. 1t
is recommended that more adequate pro
vision be made for the sale of government
publications. A bill was introduced to
authorize the consolidation of certain GUS
toms collections districts, and to pay sal
aries to the collectors according to the
business they transact
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20

IL is said that Ex- President Cleve-
land will not accept the nomination
for president unless it is unani-
mously rendered him. IF that be
the case then Grover viii not head
the ticket. Nominations do not
come that way. 1t is true that he
is very strong with the people, and
if the people made the nominations
he would certainly get it. But the
people do not all attend conventions
and no man can get a unanimous
nomination for any Office in this
country. The nomination may be
made unanimous after the other
fellow is downed and often is.
There are still a number of fellows
who do not know they are dead
until they see their brains scattered.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20

Congressman Dockery, of Mis-
souri,, thus sums up the treasury
situation, the result of the billion
dollar Congress lavish expenditures.
He says: "The available surplus is
jnow but s2O.465, JAP; current ex-
apenditures surprising current reve-
nues; appropriations aggregating
s65,4ss, 1s6 are unpaid; the admins
tration has been constrained to ask
an extension of s25, 234, 500 of the
bonded indebtedness of the Gov
eminent, while actual default is
made of s4s, 224.s2s, required by
the provisions of the act establish.
ing the sinking fund"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20
Special COmmissIOne

january 9, 1877
/. II. Il. MITCHELL, Clerk OF the Circuit
Court, of Mason county, West Virginia. do
hereby certify that John Z. Beller and
Rankin Wiley, Jr., Special Commissioners
in the above entitled cause, have given bond
as required by said decree OF sale conditioned
janswi y r.. e. MITCHELL, CLERK.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20

A Ii persons are hereby warned not
n TO trespass, in any manner, upon
my lands in Union district, under PEN
atty OF the law W. II. BAKER,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20


HoUsE-A resolution to allow the Ohio
state confer nee of corrections and chart.
ties use of the hall of the house three
evenings next week was defeated in the
house. The members claimed it would
prolong the session Rowlen's evidence
IN the Rowlen-Weybreith contested case
from Stark was referred to the committee
on elections Some local bills were intro
dueed, one increasing the salary of the
dairy and food commissioner from 81 PIC
to S, 600 year.
SENATE house joint resolution pro
viding for he purchase of $50 sets of
Smith & Benediet's revised statutes at
$50 a set was defeated Can be bought
for So. A bill was introduced to regulate
the manufacture and sale of dynamite
outside of municipalities A resolution
was introdnc- providing for the appoint
ment of a committee to investigate the
claims to title and right of certain canal
lands in Cincinnati.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20
The Dogs of War Fretting I'm
der the Restraining Chains.
President Harrison is Ready to Let
Them Loose on Chill,
And VIII Be Disappointed If
They are MuzzIed.
THE TROUBLE WITH CHILL FAST
APPROACHING A CLIMAX.
WHETHER 1T SHALL BE WAR OR
PEACE WILL SOON BE KNOWN.

Under No Conditions VIII the Hot
Headed Little south American Repub-
lie BE Allowed to Go Beyond This
mands She Must Either Apologize
and Pay an Indemnity for the Assault
Upon Our sailors or Fight. and That
Soon. Too = All Politics Forgotten
when the Honor and Patriotism of
the Nation is at Stake.
NEW York, Jan. 1s.-The Herald's
Washington special says:
The dogs of war are Juggling at their
chains. President Harrison is ready to
let them slip, and will be very much dis
appointed if somebody puts a muzzle on
them TIE trouble with Chill is fast
approaching climax. Whether it shall
be war or pe2ce will be known in a very
few days. The attitude of the admins
tration has not changed particle. The
president is glowing more and more ir-
ritated over the delay of Chill in answer
ing his demand for an apology and an
indemnity for the assault upon the Bal
timore's sailors. For time it seemed
as if the matter would be settled
through Secretary Blaine and Minister
Montt, but that hope has gone by. The
president intends to attend to it himself.
Party Lines Forgotten.
Expecting as he does ultimately to ask
for declaration of war, the president is
consulting daily with leading Demo
cratic congressman as to the sentiment
in congress and the disposition regard
ing necessary appropriations. i am told
that he has convinced Mr.. Carlisle that
peace without an apology from Chill is
not compatible with the dignity of the
country, and all the leading Democrats
have said they viii stand by him, in
case he deems it necessary to teach Chill
lesson. 1t is generally believed that
the presidents message will appeal to
the American spirit in congress, and it
will stand behind him to man.
A Gillian squadron of three vessels
will start out ON cruise next Tuesday.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20

Samuel Shrack, the Hoosier giant. died
at Muncie, Ind, Monday He measured
seven feet three inches and weighed, in
health, but leo pounds.
Cardinal Manning, archbishop Of West
minister, in London, aged eighty-four.
Prince Albert Victor, duke of Clarence
and Avondale, eldest son of the Prince Of
Wales, and heir presumptiYe to the
throne OF England, in London, aged TWEEN
ty-seven.
Cardinal Simeoni, papal secretary, in
Rome, aged seventy-six.
Professor Alfred Huidekooper. at Mead
vile, Pa. aged eighty two wears. He
leaves an estate valued at e, 100000.
Rev. George w. Stacy, formerly a noted
abolitionist, at Milford, Mass. AGED
eighty-two years.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-20
Adds Insult to injury.

what had occurred, and seemed to think
it an affront to the nation.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-07-22
Where Columbus Got His idea.

Medieval Europe knew but very little
of eastern and northeastern Asia. Many
of the most learned cosmographers of
the time taught that Asia stretched east
ward indefinitely, and no one imagined
that it had an eastern coast washed by
the ocean 1t was seriously taught that
eastern Asia was land Of vast swamps,
inhabited by monster serpents and
dragons This was the opinion that still
prevailed up to within 200 years Of the
time of Columbus.
At this time two Venetian merchants
by the name of Polo went on vast
trading expedition to the uttermost
parts of Asia. They were gone many
years. Upon their return the son of one
of them, young man named Marco
Polo, wrote out a full account of their
travels, described the empire Of the
grand khan (the Chinese emperor) and
revealed the fact that Asia was bounded
on the east by q vast ocean. He de-
scribed this eastern coast minutely,
with all its vast cities and its wealth of
precious stones and spices.
1t was from reading this book that the
imagination Of Columbus was fired, and
he conceived the bold conception of
reaching this eastern coast Of Asia by
sailing toward the west around the
earth.
So when he discovered Cuba he had
not doubt that he had landed upon the
coast of Asia, and that he looked upon
the same scenes that Marco Polo had
gazed upon 200 years before.-Yankee
R1ada
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-07-22
PRICE ONE CENT


The knack which French photogra-
piers, and especially those Of Paris.
possess IN relieving tleir sitters of a
constrained and dis sessed look while
sitting for their portraits has long been
the envy and perplexity Of photogra-
pliers of other nations. An American
photographer, on recent visit to Paris.
took pains to study the means by which
this very desirable result was reached.
He reports that it all lies in very
simple device, which well illustrates
the nature of the Frenchman.
When lady, for instance. il sitting
to photographer for portrait, the
operator does not, in a perfunctory
manner, coldly request her to Look
pleasant now, ma'amr He says to her,
in the most natural and graceful man
ner in the world:
''It's quite unnecessary to ask madam
to look pleasant; she could not look
otherwiser'
The lady of course acknowledges the
compliment with her most gracious
and highbred smile. "Clickf" goes the
camera and the picture is obtained, re-
vealing the sitter at her highwater
mark, as it were.-Youth's Companion.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-07-22
Aged a, Nineteen Year.


An important bit of local history has
been discovered at Salem in connection
with a tombstone in the old Charter
street burying ground. In the utter
most corner of this ground is a stone
bearing this inscriptions:
"Mr. Nathan Mather died October We
18th, 1888. An aged person that had
seen but nineteen winters in this world.
The meaning of this peculiar inscrip-
ton has long been q matter for conjec-
ture among local historians. In his
American Notebooks, Nathaniel Haw-
thorne refers to it and says: "'An aged
man at nineteen years, saith the grave
stone. 1t affected me deeply when
cleared away the grass from the half
buried stone and read the name."
The mystery has been solved by the
discovery in the Essex institute of a
book entitled, "The Genealogy OF the
Mather Family" By this book it ap-
pears that Nathaniel Mather was born
July 6, 1859, and was brother of Cotton
Mather and son of Increase Mather.
At the age Of twelve years he had
thoroughly fitted for college, and he was
graduated from Harvard at the age of
sixteen, At twelve he had read the Old
Testament in. Hebrew and the new Tes-
lament in Greek, and was able to con-
verse familiarly in Latin. He was dis
tinguished not onlysefor his complete
mastery Of languages, but for his attain
ments in mathematics, philosophy, his
tory, theology and rabhinical learning
as well. At the time of his graduation
he delivered an Grafton in Hebrew upon
the state of learning among the Jews
Boston Journal.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-07-22
The Earth to BE Like tho Moon.

The water of the earth is all destined
to disappear from the surface of the
globe by being absorbed by subterranean
rocks, with which 1t will form chemical
combinations. The heavenly spheres
exhibit sufficiently striking examples Of
such an evolution. The planet Mars
shows what will become Of the earth
in some thousands of centuries. It's seas
are only shallow Mediterraneans of less
surface than the continents, and these
do not appear to be very high; and in
the appearance of the moon, all cracked
and dried up, we have a view of the
ton of the water by the solid nucleus
will be followed by that Of the atmos-
phere.-Popular Science Monthly.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-07-22
How a Prisoner Escaped.

II we will only rightly use little things
1t is surprising how much may some
times be done with them. A vixier, hav-
ing offended his royal master, was con-
demned TO lifelong imprisonment In q
high tower, and every night his wife
used to come and weep at its foot. "Go
home," said the husband, "and find o
black beetle, and then bring bit of
butter and three strings-one Of fine silk,
one of stout twine, another Of whipcord
and n strong rope"
When she came provided with every
thing he told her to put a touch Of but
ter on the beetles head, tic the silk
thread around him and place him on the
wall of the tower. Deceived by tho
smell of butter, which he supposed was
above him, the insect continued to as
cend till he reached the top, and thus
the vizier secured the silk thread. BY IL
he pulled up the twine, then the whip
cord, and then strong rope, by which
he finally escaped.-Detroit Free Press
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-07-22

the stove. 1t Missed ana sputtereo ana
few. And even as the mayor held up
the hideous ruin of his once glorious hat
and looked through it some of the vel
lowish mixture trickled ON his vest and
ran in sad, discouraged, bilious looking
streams down his trousers.
His honor spoke . few words briefly,
but emphatically-through his hat-and
broke for the stage, followed by several
Of the leading citizens of Spiketown.
Behind the curtain were several empty
barrels and boxes.
And the back window was up.
Somewhere in this wide, wide world
the wizard of the Orient is still wander
ing about, happily unaware doubtless
that standing reward of fifty dollars
aud no questions asked is offered by the
mayor of Spiketown. Ills, for informa-
ton that will lead to the arrest and CON-
viction for the crimes of grand larceny,
malicious injury and obtaining money
under false pretenses, of one Hoko Ef-
endi. master of Egyptian magic and SO
called eighth wonder of the world
Chicago Tribune.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-07-22
The Modern wav.

In India they drown great many Of
the girl babies. 1t is a time hmored
custom, but not universally approved
from therapeutic standpoint. In civ
ilized countries they put corsets on the
girl babies, which brings about the same
results, without the shock, which Is
sure concomitant of the Indian method
Moreover, babies last longer under the
modern system, and it is especially
priced by people who prefer to keep
their girl babies for few brief years.
Detroit Tribune.