The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-11

the Kanawha Valley in 1888; a
walking cane of laurel cut by him
in the Yew Pine Mountains of upper
Gauley, in the same year, and an.
original survey of ten acres of land
near Point Pleasant, made by him
lin 1871, for which the Historical
Society of Kentucky has offered
/ $500; autograph letters of Washing
ton, Jefferson, Monroe, Clay and.
Thomas Randolph, an autograph
calling card of John Randolph, and
papers to which are attached the
original autographs of Daniel Web
ster, Willard Fillmore and Ed
ward Everett; the parchment deed
from Cullibert Bullitt, first own
er, to George Clendenin, for the
land on which Charleston is now
built; the first two drafts of town
sites; the vote of Kanawha county
on the ordinance of secession in
1860; wooden powder bottle car
ried by Fleming Cobb in the battle
of Point Pleasant in 1774; a powder
gourd used by Capt John Wilson
in the war of 1912; the snuff box of
Hartman Blennerhassett, presented
by the owner to j. G. Laidley in
1906. and by his son, Maj a. T..
Laidley, donated to the Historical
Society; a specimen of needle. work
done before the revolution, in the
Valley of Virginia, and coming to
the Society from the Hogg family,
of Mason county; piece of canvas
embroidery done by the Laidley
family in Scotland, in 1850; hand
some-case of relics presented by DIR.
J. P. Hale and Prof. j. F. Cork; for
eign notes and coins; newspaper
containing the death of Washing
ton, and of all dates thereafter, in
Guiding bound files of the Richmond
Enquirer, book that once belong
ed to Lord Dunmore, the last royal
governor of Virginia, and many
other items OF interest too numerous
to mention.
Across the west end of the hall
sixteen hundred feet of shelving
held the Society's library, compris-
ing four thousand volumes of his
tory of the Indian Wars, the early
settlements, biography of early set
tiers, sketches of travel, history of
the government of Virginia from
the earliest colonial times, and of
the formation of the State of West
Virginia, with a large number of
public documents pertaining there
to, and large number of books
covering various subjects, written
by West Virginia authors.
The removal of the Library from
its hampered quarters, the Speak
er's room in the hall of the House
of Delegates, on the second floor,
and furnishing the Museum which
between sessions of The Legislature,
occupied the hall of delegates, with
a permanent abiding place, means
much for its future growth and use
fulness, and speaks eloquently of
the pride of our young Governor in
the history of his State and the
deep interest he feels in all things
pertaining to the development of
its natural resources.
In the establishment of the State
Museum, Gov. MacCorkle and Col.
Carr, who has been both director
and workman, overseeing and assist
ing in placing every item of the
display from the largest sect
ion of tree to the smallest speci-
men of mineral, especially in
view, not only encouragement of
State pride, but the fostering of
infant industries in West yir-
glnla as well, and they particu-
larly desire that manufacturers
send to the Capital specimen pro-
ducts of their factories, in this way,
availing themselves of our excep-
tional opportunity to advertise
therein special lines. as it is expec-
ted that capitalists who come from
abroad to invest, hereafter will visit
the Capital on a tour of inspection
where all that the State has to offer
in the way of inducement in any
line should be displayed here.
Thomas E. Benedict, of New
York, has been nominated as Public
Printer by the President, and his
early confirmation by the Senate is
confidently looked for. After his
confirmation, those Republican
printers who have been feeding at
the public crib for SO long may be
expected to fold up their little tents
and, Arab like, "steal silently
away"