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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25

DY virtue of deed of trust executed
Dto the undersigned Trustee, by Ira
Walker, dated on the 23rd day of May,
1892, to secure to G. D. Bailey the pay
ment of certain note therein mention
ed, for the sum of $4,000, bearing date
May 23rd, 1892, and payable eight
months after date with interest from
date, which said Trust Deed is of record
In the Clerks Office of the County Court
of Mason County, West Virginia, in
Trust Deed Book No. Il, pages 26O and
26I, and default having been made in
the payment of said note and interest
thereon, and being requested by Mary
Wood, assignee of said G.. d. Bailey,
holder of said note, to make sale of the
personal property in said Trust Deed
mentioned and described, 1 shall pro-
eeed to sell by way of public auction,
for CASH, at the front door of the Court
House, of said county, on the 25th day
OF April, 1894, one bay horse named
''King," about years old
JOS H HOLLOWAY, Trustee.
rob 4-rx-
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Plain or Pretty.

The great burning question of the
hour is: Has the pretty girl become
terror in the land?
The London girl who eloped with
her fathers coachman the other day
was pretty.
The Paris belle who recently
poisoned her husband is spoken of
in the papers as very pretty.
The Berlin bride who became
stage struck and joined a travelling
theatrical company, looked decide
dly pretty.
The New York maiden, who
drowned herself because her young
man could only be brother to her
was exceedingly pretty.
The pretty girl, therefore, instead
of being thing of beauty and ajoy
forever, is often a delusion and a
snare.
It is the plain girl who is never
found breaking her fathers heart
or her husbands head.
1t is the plain girl who, although
she may have an aching heart, has
a level head.
1t is the plain girl, with a pug
nose, treckled faces and red hair, who
never causes the tongue of scandal
to wag.-PhtladelphiG Times.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25
WEST VIRGINIA.
An Errafic Correspondent Tells what
She Is


An Erratic Correspondent Tells What
She Is.
A clever representative of the
Boston Boot and Shoe Record made
a trip through West Virginia re.
Gently, and in the issue of his paper
for April II he sums up West Yir-
ginia as follows:
Three times as large as Massachu-
|setts.
AS large as Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island, Connecticut and New Jer-
sey combined.
As large as the kingdoms of Bel
gium and the Netherlands COM
bined.
Thelargest nail mills in the world.
Second in rank in increase of
railroad building in the last census
decade.
The next to the largest oil pro-
duoing State.
The fourth coal producing State.
The second coke producing State.
Possessing the greatest area of
hardwood of any State.
Iron, natural gas, building stone.
No grasshoppers-think of that
Kansasl
No mosquitoes-hearken unto
that, New Jersey
No malaria-listen to that. Mary
landl
No clyelones-talse notice of that.
Dakotal
No long winters-nota bene, Min
nesota!
Taxes 81 mills-pQnder on that.
New York;
Not dollar ofState debt-there's
a lesson for most of tho States in
the Union.
And less than one million popu-
lation.
oyou know the State meanP
Probably not.
1t is West Virginia.
1 confess that about all 1 knew
about West Virginia was that it was
a funny shaped yellow spot on the
map of the United States.
To be sure 1 had passed a day in
Wheeling, once on a time in the dim
secluded past.
But then Wheeling is in the span
handle" poked in between Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio, and SO don't count.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25
Whicheyer TOOK tIle Biscutt.

just after the termination of the
war between the North and South,
a lady with basket on her arm
walked through one of the wards of
a certain soldiers hospital. She
stopped beside the bed of one of the
sufferers, German, and asked:
"We-e you a Union man or Con-
federate2"
"Uuton," he replied.
Whereupon she passed to the next
cot, and repeated the question to its
occupant.
"Confederate," was answered; and
then she opened her basket and
handed the man some nice fresh
biscuit. The German watched the
proceedings, not in the best humor.
A few days after, another lady
going through, stopped at the Ger
mans cot and asked which side he
was on.
Confederate" was his prompt
reply.
"Poor man." said she, ahere is
tract for you," and passed on; and
the unfortunate's state of mind was
not improved.
Again, third visitor in passing,
stopped at the Germans side, and
asked the old question of which side
he was on.
"Dot teponds on vat you got. II
you got biskit, [ links l might be a
Confederate; but if you got tenn tam
tracs, / vas neider."
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Trustee's Sale.

DY virtue of deed of trust executed
ID to the undersigned Trustee, by Ira
Walker and Elmer Walker, dated on the
18th day of September, 1891, to secure
to c. d. Bailey the payment of a certain
note therein mentioned, for the sum of
S159.56, bearing date 18th day of Sep
tember, 1891, and payable eight months
after date with interest from date, which
said Trust Deed Is OF record in the Clerks
Office of the County Court of Mason
county, West Virginia, in Trust Deed
Book No IL, pages ass and 4S6, and de-
fault having been made in the payment
of said note and interest thereon, and
being requested by Mary Wood, assignee
of said G. ID. Bailey, holder of said note,
TO make sale of the personal property in
said Trnst Deed mentioned and des-
eribed, shall proceed to sell by way of
public auction, for CASH, at the front
door of the Court House, of said county,
on the 25th day OF April, 1894, one
brown mare named "Josie.'
]. ?. r. B. SMITH, Trustee.
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Keeps If Sacred.

zone ofthe curiosities to be found
in Southern Ohio, not far from
Chillicothe, is country store, said
R. C. Wortham at the Lindell. sA
country store is not usually an OBJ
ject of special interest, but this one
has remained as it now is for over
80 years without the change of a
single article. When the war broke
out the man who owned it had a
son. The father was intensely 10y
al, and persuaded the SON to enlist,
promising the son that if he should
enlist the store and its contents
should be his when he returned.
Another call for troops came and
the old man locked up the store and
shouldered musket. He remain
ed in the army until peace was de.
elared and then returned to his
home. His wife had died in the
meantime, aud no tidings had ever
been received from the son. The.
father worked a small farm that he
owned, but never entered the store.
saying that it should be there as it
was when the sVn came home, to
claim it. a quarter of a century
has gone, but no word from his
missing son, and the store stands
locked just as it was over 80 years
ago, the old man, now in his dotage,
refusing to allow any one to enter
it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25
Painfully Incorrect.

81 see a mistake in your paper
that 1 thought you might want to
straighten up" said the man in the
linen duster, who had toiled up
three flights of stairs TO see the
editor. "well2" said the editor.
"W'y, it's jist like this: You say
that when the balloon went up a
cheer arose from thousand throats,
and that two thousand eyes were
gazing at the intrepid aeronaut.
Now, that there amt right, cause
l know they was three one-eyed
men in the party; and that only
leaves only nineteen hundred and
ninety-seyen eyes to be again
into space. 1 lowed you would
like to know" and the linen-dust-
cred man trotted dow stairs.
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The man going West was talking
to the man going East from Kansas:
81 understand" he said, "you have
a very clear atmosphere in Kansas"
"Yes, yes" replied the Kansan, not
wishing to depress real estate value
and yet not entirely oblivious of his
early traing; "that is to say, mostly;
but it sometimes gets choked up
little with houses and barns and
fences and household effects, and
trees and a few cattle and pigs and
horses, and occasionally some of the
population. AS rule, though, that
is, mostly, it is a very clear atmos-
phere."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25
Guaranteed Cure.

We authorize our advertised druggist
to sell DIR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds, upon
this condition. If you are afflicted with
a cough or any lung, throat or chest
trouble, and will use this remedy as di-
rected, giving it fair trial, and exper-
ience no benefit, you may return the
bottle and have your money refunded.
We could not make this offer did we not
know that DIR. Kings New Discovery
could be relied on. 1t never disappoints.
Trial bottles free at HoofFs Drug Store.
Large size SOC. and $1-00.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25
The State Board of Examinert

The State Board of Examiners
will hold examinations for teachers
as follows: At Ronceverte, April
27 and %; Grafton and Wayne G.
H, May II and II; Wheeling, May
ID and 10; Fairmont, Huntington
and MOundsville, June l and 2;
Princeton, June land 5. Those ex-
pecting to be applicants at either of
these examinations should notify
the secretary, Ashby ]. Wilkinson,
Grafton, in advance.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25
A Thunderbolt.

A Judge riding in the cars recent
ly from single glance at the coun-
tenance of lady by his side imag-
ined he knew her and yentured to
remark that the day was pleasant.
She only answered.:
eyes"
"Why do you wear veil?"
"Lest attract attention"
"It is the province of gentlemen
to admire" replied the gallant man
of law.
"Not when they are married"
"But am not
"Indeedl"
"oh, mol I'm bachelor"
The lady quietly removed her
veil, disclosing to the astonished
magistrate the face of his mother
in-law. The judge has been raw
ing maniac ever since.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25
The Pittsburgh Baseball Club is

The Pittsburgh Baseball Club is
now after mascot which will out
mascot all other mascots. 1t is a
twelve-year-old boy who fell from
the seventh story of the railroad
building, Denver, Col, a few weeks
ago. He struck on a number of
telegraph wires, bounded into the
air, and finally landed on the back
of horse, the animal was killed by
the shock, but the boy was only
stunned, and soon recovered con-
sciousness.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25
POINT PLEASANT MASON COUNTY YVES VIRGINIA. WEDNESDAY,
Adam InteryieWed.

real conversations reporter
bad cen sent TO interview Adam.
hat. in your opinion" he said,
Ais be real cause of your mis-
for he2''
attribute it mainly" said Ad-
am 70 lack of the institutions
wh accompany an advanced
sta Of civilization"
Would you mind explaining
yol elf more fuIly27
ertainly not. 1.-THE fruit crop
had only been failure this year we
wou have had no trouble what
eve Washington Star.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25
SPECIMEN Cases,

S. II. Clifford, New Castle, Wis, was
troubled with Neuralgia and RhennIa-
tisin, his stomach was disordered, his
Liver was affected to an alarming de-
gree, appetite fell away, and he was ter
ribly reduced in flesh and strength.
Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured
him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, ILL.,,
had alunniDg sore on his leg of eight
years standing. Used three bottles Of
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and his leg is
sound and well. John Speaker, Cataw-
ba, o., had five large Fever sores on his
leg, doctors said he was incurable. One
bottle Electric Bittters aud one box
Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him en-
tirely. Sold by G. w. NJ Hoof Druggist.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25

"Remember, witness" sharply ex-
claimed the attorney for the defense,
"you are on oathl'' @There amt
no danger of my forgettin' it, . re-
piled the witness sullenly. "Pm
telling the truth now for nothin',
when could have made 81 by lyin'
fur your side of the case, and you
know it,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25

Elk. o. S. Senator ,Waitman T.
Wiley, of Morgantown, clerk of the
county court of Monongalia county,
is hale and hearty though in his S4th
year, and can be found at any hour
of the day at his desk writing ont
the proceedings of the court or re-
cording deeds.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25
Bucklen,s Arnica SaIye.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores. ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required.
It.is guaranteed to, give perfect salts
faction or money refunded. Price 25c.
per box. For sale by g. w. n. Hooff,
Druggist.
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Got His start From Astcr.

y =
how once prominent Philadel-
phian made his start in life, says the
Philadelphia Record
When a yonng man, with small
Inheritance, he went to New York
and opened a real estate brokerage
Office down town. Though he lived
closely. his means gave out before
the end of year, and, having failed
to secure a single customer worth
mentioning, he was at his wits end,
when one morning there entered his
office nervous business gentleman
who wanted to know if he wouldn't
loan him ninety thousand dollars on
a brewery he owned on the east side
of the city, worth two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, and entirely
without encumbrance. The young
man promptly replied: sYes, if
afterezamination of title everything
is found correct This customer
added that he must have the money
by the following Saturday, as he
was going to Europe, and he would
pay a commission of five per cent.
He was told to call again in the
afternoon for a definite answer.
Without having any preconceiyed
notion of where he would get the
money, the broker started out and
found himself going in the direction
of William B. Astor's Office, in
Prince street. When the clerk in
the outer office asked him what he
wanted to see Mr.. Astor for, he re-
piled "None of your business" in
such stentorian tones that Mr.. Astor
himself poked his head out of the
door of the rear office and invited
him in. The case was briefly stated.
Mr.. Astor said he knew the prop
erty well, and if the owners state
ments proved correct he would have
the money the following day.
In the afternoon, when the bor-
rover was told he could have the
money the next day, he inquired,
with some surprise, "Why, where
did you get SO much money!" "oh,
my friend Mr.. Astor viii make the
loan" was the reply. "Good gra-
ciousl / have been to- every real
estate Office in the city. and had lit
le hope of you; but l never thought
of him, though L ought to have
known that loaning. on first mort
gage was precisely in his line"
The day following the broker had
another interview with Mr.. Astor,
who was ready to advance the sum;
but he inquired first, "What COM
mission do you receive2" Give per
cent was the answer. "Well,"|
was the response, 81 will not let you
have the money unless you charge
him seven per cent" This com
pletely nonplussed the broker, un.
til Mr.. Astor finally explained: "He
has been here himself, trying to
cheat you out of your commission"
The young man went to his client
and told him he must have seven
per cent. The latter clustered fu-
riously, accused him of going back
on his word, oftrying to take unfair
advantage of the situation, etc. But
when he was told what Mr.. Astor
had said, his temper changed into
and he consented to pay
the extra percentage.
With the capital thus acquired,
the young man returned to this city,
and entered upon a prosperous ca
roar 90 a nnannfactnrar
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25

The post office department has a
printed circular TO send out to cor
respondents who write to ask how
much the government pays for can
celed stamps. This became neces-
sary on account of the large num-
Der of people who seem to think
that there is value in.such stamps.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25

The people of Brett have a novel
way of disposing of plain drunks.
One night last week a man got a
little hilarious and they placed him
in cave in the side of the noun
tain and shut him in until the next
morning. When let out the next
day he was perfectly sober.-Tucker
Democrat.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25
Al Few Modest Girls

A Philadelphia girl is so modest
that she will not go to bed while
the Christian Observer is in the
same room
A Boston seminary girl declines
to walk up steep hill for fear her
breath will come in short pants.
A Dunkirk women will not bathe
in the same room with potatoes
untilsh has plucked ont their eyes.
A Syracuse maiden refused to
wear a chateIaine watch attached
to her person because the watch
has hands.
An Albany girl locks herself in
her room every time she hears a
brass band approaching. She VOWS
she will never look at any drum
major who parades in his bear skin.
- Wheeling Register
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On the Both day of April, 1891,

Inc uuuGESl2neu SpeClAA COIululSslOnGE Will
On the 3Oth day of April, 1894,
At oGea sell for eash at PIHRe
Mason County, West Virginia, the following
real estate which has been attached in
stead in a certain tract or parcel of land
situate in Arbuckle District, Mason COun-
", West Virginia, and bounded and de-
scTIbed as follows. tO-viI: Being COM
posed OF three several tracts Of landt the nrst
being a 5Isl5 acre tract purchased by M
HalStead from John Lowe and conveyed by
deed dated the Sd day of February, 1884, and
OF record in the 9thee OF the ClsTk OF yi the
ginia, in Deed Book No 9. folio los, to which
reference is hereby made. The SECOND, a
by John l. Eastman by deed dated the 2Oth
day OF August, 1853, and of record in the Ofiee
County, West Virginia, in deed book 10. folio
SO, &c, TO which reference is hereby made.
ed to VIM. Halstead by Thornton Edwards
by deed dated the eth day Of August, 1871,
and of record In the Offiee Of the Clerk OF the
County Court, Of Mason County, West Vir-
ginia, in Deed Book No. 40. folio 7OS, &c TO
which reference is hereby made; said several
tracts OF land descended to the heirs OF VIM.
uHIstead, OF which John HalsteAd was one.
AMI conveyed by the other heirs to John
Halstead; excepting from the ls6 acre tract
a certain lot or parcel of land containing IS
acres, conveyed to VIM. Edwards by the said
John HaIStead, the deed to which is of record
IN the VaSoT C.Onnty G.s,1rt CLERKS ofIice i'm
Deed Book No IL, page l9O, and excepting
from the said SIs7z acre tract a eonyeyance
made 10 C. E Jones by the said John Hal
stead which deed IS OF record in the Mason
County Court Clerks office in Deed Book No.
%, page $50, all OF said several tracts of land
lie contiguous and adjacent to each other, and
are bounded generally as follows: on the land
formerly owned by b. J. Redmond, now by
the deviseS of Jas. w. Smith, deceased; on
the east by the lands OF w. A Byus; on the
south by lands Of w. H POfenbarger. and
on the west by the lands of John and Susan
Couch, and containing 81 acres, more or less.
The sale of the land above described is for
the purpose of paying Off and diSchargins n
Judgment obtained by tie said E $ Bright
against the said Clinton Halstead for the
sum OF $I4l-I6, with interest thereon from the
5th day OF May, 1893, and the cost OF said
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4 Household Treasure.

DIV. Fuller, of Canajoharie, n. Y,
says That he always keeps DIR. King's IS
New Discovery in the house and his
family has always found the very best
results follow its use; that he would not
be without It, If procurablc. G. A. Dyke
man Druggist, Catslill, n. Y, says that
DR.. HinR's New Discovery is undoubt-
edlg fe best Cough remedy; that he has
" n bis family for eight years, and
ut has never failed to do all that Is claim
ed for It. Wy not try a remedy so long
tried and tested. Trial bottles free at
Hooffss Drug Store. Regular size SOC.
and S1.0O.
Richard Smith, formerly known
to fame as lthe truly good man" of
the Cincinnati Gazette, who was al
ways afflicted with more or less
wicked partner" was born in Ire
land, and came to this country as a
carpenter. His first experience as
a newspaper man was as a CONNER
cial editor and afterward as pro-
prietor of the Cincinnati Price Cur
rent. He lives now in dignified re-
tirementin the aristocratic suburb
of Clifton.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25

when Baby was sick. We gave her castoria.
when shewas a Child. she cried for castoria-
when she became Miss, she chung to castoria.
When she had chnarsn. .sheeavot them cassOriA.
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Conditional.

Judge B. F. Dennison was once
arguing case before Judge Roger
S. Greene, and in the course of his
remarks kept constantly referring
to "Browne on Statute of Frauds, 7"
always making two syIlables of the
word Browne, and pronouneing it
as if it were Brown-ee. Judge
Greene fidgeted around in his chair,
stood the mispronunciation as long
as he could, and then blurted out.
"Judge, why do you say 'Brown-ee2'
You wouldn't call me Green -ee'
would your" Judge Dennison slow
Iy replied, in rather dry tone of
voice, "That depends on how your
Honor decides this easel"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25

The Montgomery Company has
disposed of a controlling interest in
its stock to the Kama wha Coal &
Coke Company. The Montgomery
Company owned the Acme tract,
consisting of $4,000 acres of valua-
BILE coal lands. The Cincinnati ele-
yator has also passed into the con-
troll of the Kanawha Company
Charleston Gazette.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-25
Ironton is MAKING a biz effort to

Ironton is making a big effort to
secure the annual reunion of the
army of West Virginia for that city
and will in all probability succeed,
as there is already much partiality
expressed for that point by the old
soldiers.
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Special Commissioners Sale of
Real Estate.

NDER the authority of an order OF the
Circuit Court OF Mason County, West
Virginia, made on the 5th day of May, 1888,
therein pending, wherein K. ) Bright is
plaintiff and Clinton HaIstead is defendant,