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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29
HAs LIVED
In CabelI County so Years, and Never
saw Huntington.

saw Huntington.
John Bias is a citizen So years OF
age, and lives on Merritt's creek
ten miles from Huntington. He
moved there years and years ago
and has raised family of children,
some of whom have occupied posi-
tions of trust, his son Thomas Bias
having been for twelve years county
commissioner of Cabell. To a gen.
tleman yesterday Mr.. Bias divulged
the information that he had never
been in Huntington, and pictured
it out as a great city-something
akin to Cincinnati.
BE has never been in any town
of prominence, though he is an in
telligent and well posted man. He
still has faith in Democracy. BE
has lived in Caboll for so years
Herald.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

Charleston Mail says that
Jews of West Virginia Demo
sminds one of a crazy quilt.
Ference between Democrats
republicans, on all issues, is
very Democrat has an opinion
own and has independence
.gh to express it. On the Re-
lean side the leaders determine
ssues and the others all fall in
Ind support it whether it meets
their individual approval or
Wayne News.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29
40 Decide In 1sae.

The question for the people of
this country to discuss and decide
in 1896, is whether the whole coun-
try wants free and unlimited coin
age of silver, gold coinage or the
two metals on parity. Those who
speculate under government protec-
ton will Lave all sorts of plausible
fallacies CONVENIENT by which to
lead the unwary voter to help him
build up a fortune at the expense of
the people of the country Let the
voters study the questions at issue
carefully and thoroughly, without
giving credence to the selfish and
misleading theories and statements
of millionaire agobblers" of the
earnings of the Poor-Elkins News.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

Three hundred fair maldens of
pbury, Connecticut, have signed
Iemn pledge to turn up their
ntiful noses at any young man
INDUCES in Cocktails, Brandy
Soda, Mumm's Extra Dry or
Iother article used for irrigating
rposes, which contains anything
an intoxicating nature. The
-ang men of that locality have
rned the tables on the signers of
5eath-dealing document by an
Restraining that so far as they
b concerned there will be about
lree hundred old maids in Dan
lry in a few years.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

1t may only be a coincidence, of
course, but it is singular that the
decisions of the Supreme Court are
usually in favor of the wealthy
classes and the monopoIies.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

An old woman living some dis
lance from Manchester, Ky, was
summoned as witness to tell what
she knew about a fight at her home
several nights before, in which three
or four people were killed. She
mounted the stand with evident re
luctance and many misgivings, and
was questioned by the court as to
what she knew about the matter.
"Well judge, the fust l knowed
about it was when Bill Sanders cali
ed Tom Smith liar en- Tom knock
ed him down with stick of wood.
One of Bills friends then hit Tom
with knife, slicin a big piece out of
him. Sam Jones, who was a friend
of Toms then shot the other fellow,
en- two more shot him, and three or
four others got cut right smart by
somebody. That naturally caused
some excitement, judge, and then
they commenced fghtin'."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

THE object of the above entitled suit Is to
| obtain divorce for said Clarissa ].
Rugh from the bonds of natrinony existing
between her and the said Jacob Rugh, on
account of the wilful desertion of the said
Jacob Rugh from the said CIarissa J. Rugh.
for more than three years prior to the bring
ing of this suit. And it appearing by affi-
dayit filed vita the papers in this cause that
the said Jacob Rugh IS nonresident of the
state of West Virginia, IL is ordered that he
do appear at rules to be held in the Clerks
office of the Circuit Court OF Mason County,
West Virginia, on the first Monday In June,
1895 and do what is necessary to protect his
interest in this suit.
4 copy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29
SHOT
Policeman Ed. Martin, Of GaIIipoiis.
Sunday Evening.

Policeman Ed. Martin, Of GaIlipoiis,
Sunday Evening.
News reached hero last night that
Matt. Stribling, of MERGERS Bottom,
this county, had shot aud badly
wounded Policeman Ed. Martin,
whom he was trying to arrest for
disorderly conduct. After the shoot
ing, Stribling tried to escape to this
side of theriver, and as he attempted
to get into a skiff he was knocked
down by rock in the hands.of
negro, and captured. News from
there this morning is to the effect
that the sball entered Martins
breast, and striking a rib followed
around and penetrated his right
shoulder blade, from where it was
extracted. He is not considered as
fatally hurt.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29
Notice to creditnrr

To the creditors OF Peter E. Roush, deceased.
J pIrsI5a.n,ce Of 2 decree Of the Circuit
cause therein pending 70 subject the real u "a
tate OF the said Peter T. Housh n, ~ 81 -
ment % his debts, you are required 10 ,1,,l -
your claims against the estate or the sei5 81
Ter T. ko1sl, LoT ~ udicatlon to John e.
said county, on or before the Z2nd S ~ ~ ,f the
l5a5. Va N
witness: r 7, A .-t Clerk OF the said
april y CIV. Il 2. MITCHELL. flsr,-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29
The Demand win Hardly be Made.

lie Demduu " III maFdlI De Males
1t is believed in Washington that
the treasury being hard pressed
may make demand on the States
for the money, about 28,OOO,O 900 in
all, distributed among them in 1887,
when the treasury had more funds
than it knew what to do with. The
money was apportioned among the
States as loan, to be repaid when
ever required by the secretary of
the treasury. No demand for pay
ment has ever been made, but the
obligation exists, as valid today as
ever it was.
West Virginia was not in exist.
ence in 1887, and of course got none
of the money. But Virginia got
her share and the old state of that
day included the territory of the
new state today. 1t is easy to see
how a demand on Virginia to pay
back her share of the money lent in
1873 might bring up in an entirely
new and very interesting light the
debt question between the two
states. Such an appearance in the
arena of the United States as an in
terested party would be something
not counted on.-Wheeling Intelli-
gencer.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

Facts count. The New York
Times has attempted to keep some
track of the advances that have been
made in wages in various parts of
the country. Its list is getting to
be long one, covering about 200
firms employing about 12S.OOO per-
sons While men may disagree, as
Rause of the business revival,
Can no longer be dispute as to
fact.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

There is going to be a big fight
within the Democratic party in this
State on the silver question. This
it is no use to disguise, because it is
plain on its face. The silver men.
however, are in the majority at
about nine to one. The sooner, then,
the party gets together in Conven-
ton or Conference, at Charleston,
the better it will be for the party.
To defer the settlement of this
question is only to make the fight
the more bitter. IfDemocrats come
together this summer and settle
definitely the position of the party
as to free coinage of silver, it will
go long way toward harmonizing
the party in the State, and put it
in good shape for the battle of 1896.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

The individual who looks to the
government to make his prosperity
will always be down in the mouth;
likewise in pocket. No form of
government will make man pros
porous without industry.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

c. E. Bryan, formerly roadmaster
of the o. R. R, has been appointed
to the position of superintendent of
maintenance of way of that line.
This is new Office, only recently
created. Sentinel.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29
SUDDEN DEATH
Of Major Alexander 7. Laidley of
Charleston, Sunday Morning.
4 stroke q ApopIexy tho l.anse- sketeh

ChdlleotUu, punud9 M0iHtiS,
4 Stroke of ApOplexy the Cause Sketch
Of His Long Career.
Charleston people learned with
sorrow yesterday of the death OF
Maj. a. 7. Laidley, which occurred
at his residence on Capitol Street,
twenty minutes after 8 o'clock in
tho morning. There was nothing,
when he retired, unusual in his
condition; indeed, he seemed in bet
ter health and spirits Saturday
than for some time, and though very
weak, had sat up and talked awhile
after supper, retiring little after
9 o'clock He was discovered about
1 o'clock, by his wife, in an uncon,
scious condition. Dr. Henry was
Immediately summoned and pro
nounced it stroke of apoplexy.
Nothing could be done. Major
Laidley was dying at the hour
stated above, passed away as peace
fully as child, never having con
seriousness, and suffering no pain.
Alexander L. Laidley was born
at Morgantown, then in Virginia,
April II, 1907, and celebrated his
88th birthday last Easter day AT
the age Of Is, he went to Cabell
county, and in 1924 entered the
Clerk Office of that county, and re
naming six years. Ia 1880 and 81
he occupied position as book
keeper and clerk in a store at Nal
den, but in October, 1881, he moved
to Wheeling, and became deputy
clerk in the County and Circuit
courts, after which he was appoint
ed Circuit Clerk of Ohio county, re-
tanning that position for fourteen
years. In 1885 he married Doreas
Blaine, by whom be had one child,
R. @ Laidley, now deceased. He
was married the second time, July
10, 1916, to Rowena Mcfarland,
who survives him. In 1854 he
moved to Charleston, where he re
NAMED until his death. After his
removal here, he was for many
years commissioner in Chancery.
The deceased was member of the
Episcopal church from his early
youth and died strong in the faith,
a devout Christian and as gallant a
soldier as ever battled under the
banner of the cross. He was a
knight Templar, standing high
with his order, and it is said that he
was the oldest living Mason in the
United States, reference being had
to the number of years he had be-
longed to the order. His lodge will
have charge of the funeral which
will occur from the Episcopal church
at $50 Tuesday morning, DR.. R.
Douglass Roller officiating The re.
mains will be inferred in Spring
Hill cemetery.
Major Laidley was one of the real
gentleman in all that the term i'm.
plies-honorable, courteous, gentle
and refined, If he bad an enemy
in the world he did not know it, but
he did possess, in a very large de-
gree, the respect and esteem of his
fellow men, especially in this sec
ton, where there is universal regret
expressed that his long and useful
life is ended, and sympathy for the
wife who has been his companion
for so many years in sunshine and
shadow.-Kanawha Gazette.
Ringo, the negro who was arrest
ed here and taken to Huntington
L.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

Politics had no part in the decis
ion OF the supreme court on the in
come tax. The Judges who voted
to sustain the law were Justices
Jackson and White, southern Dem
ocrats, and Justices Harlan and
Brown, western Republicans. To
upset the law, Chief Justice Fuller
and Justice Field, Democrats, and
Justices Gray, Brewer and Shires,
Republicans, voted it unconstitu
tionaI. All the votes for the law
came from the south and west. The
eastern judges voted against the
law. So far as the fundamental
principle underlying political par
ties is involved, Republicans should
have voted to sustain the law and
Democrats against it. The right to
levy and collect income tax is an
important assertion of federal au-
thority. The denial of that right
is in the direction of weakness the
central power. But the millionaire
influence and power of the corpora
ton capital of the country is more
apparent in the decision than old
fashioned political principles of any
kind.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29
FiduciarY SeftIeman4

THE account OF J.. c. SoneryiIIe IT,.
tee, for the creditors of Ia !. us
Scheivley, Jr., is before me i'm s Ss,tyD
ment. All the creditors OF Jaeob so .5ssas-
lev. Jr., are requested to present 49, H.
accounts 10 said trustee for seftle, 1.iS.i
on or before the 9TH day OF juno 100
JOHN E. BELLER
County, West Virginia. 9H
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

woolgrowers of Roane county
organized an association for
81 protection, and all members
have not already sold their
ASdge themselves to bunch
ol together and see if better
annot be obtained. If such
3nization could be enlarged
- be effective it would be a
hing for the woolgrOwers.-
sournal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

The New York World has asked
millionaires Rockefeller, Pullman,
Sage, Mackay, Carnegie, Levi P.
Morton and Russell A. AIger wheth
er wealth brings happiness and they
all emphatically answer no. Mr..
Rockefeller says that men possessed
of large fortunes always yearn for
more. That no man can be so rich
that there will not be others wealth
Ter and that knowledge will make
him feel poor no matter how rich
he is. Mr.. Mackay said he was
never happier than when he was
swinging a pick and shovel.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

The Carnegie steel plant employs
$4,000 men, much larger number
than Stonewall Jackson had under
his command at any time during
the war of 1860. In some of his
most notable achievements his army
contained less than half that num-
Der.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

The new State constitution Of
Utah has been drawn up and signed.
Il provides for woman suffrage,
prohibits polygamy, does away with
grandt5ury system, provides for
cit jufies of eight and allows six
a-eonvict. It also provides for
Lhorough school system.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29
To the Public,

For good lunch stop at Jewett's
lunch room; fresh oysters served in any
style. BopelN7' ssh, chicken, soup, cot
fAe-- oehes the market can
nd gained oysters
800 forget
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

The Parkersburg Sentinel says;
"In digging to ascertain whether a
foundation could be made under the
new city hall a fine spring of water
was struck. 1t stands in the corner
and is clear and transparent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29
The Pneinp Hnrse.

The pacing horse-that is, the
animal that lifts and moves forward
the legs on the same side simulta-
neously-is coming into style again.
There is no reason why this form
of locomotion on the part of the
horse should ever have been un-
popular. The animal seems to take
to it naturally, perhaps rather more
so than to trotting. 1t is likewise
quite as speedy a gait and for the
horseback rider far easier than the
trot.
a few years ago trotting horses
-eutnumbered the PAGERS in training
for the track by more than Is to l,
but within the past three years fast
PAGERS have sprung up everywhere.
And the end has probably not yet
been reached, for the present season
sees a larger proportion of pacing
racers than ever before. AS a gen
eral rule, a horse will learn to go
fast at pacing gait in much less
time than is required to develop the
same degree of trotting speed, and
he does it without any artificial rig
ging, such as boots and toe waits.
1t is said by those who know,
likewise, that the PAGER wears better
than the trotter, because he goes
with greater ease to himself and
carries far less weight in his shoes.
1t may he explained that the words
rack and pace are not synonymous.
The rack is a gait between a trot
and a gallop, in which the fore feet
move as in slow gallop, while the
hind feet move as in trot. There
is abundant evidence that the pace
of today is the same as the amble of
the European horses a century or
two ago. The motion of the hind
foot is the same in the trot, the pace
and the rack. In the trot the dag
onal hind and fore feet move nearly
simultaneously. By all means let
US cultivate the PAGER.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

Court of Appeals of kentucky has
just handed down a decision that
the owner OF dog is liable under
the statutes for compensatory dam
ages to any person who is bitten by
the dog, and the jury give punitive
damages, if the owner had knowl-
edge of the fact, prior to the injury,
that the dog was vicious toward
persons.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

Ringo, the negro who was arrest
ed here and taken to Huntington,
and kept that city agog, during the
past week, has finally said that he
is innocent of the murder of the
Finley children. His wife has told
the police a great deal in regard to
Ringo's depredations, and many a
burglary is now credited to him
that was heretofore a mystery.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

Free
from shoddy, but with lots
of fit, style, and wear in
them, are the best sellers,
because the best wearers.
Such are
Little Giant Shoes,
found only at our store.
The false and the low
prices and vague decept-
ions of merchants are the
chief characteristics of the
advertisements printed in
Point Pleasant newspapers
nowadays.
The honest merchant
who really has the except
ional low values to offer is
at a loss to know how to
advertise the facts. so that
the oft-bitten public will
believe him.
Remember we can and
do sell better goods at all
times for less money than
any store in town, but new
er have we sold goods so
cheaply as now.
Not only do we want to
sell what we've got, but
what you like and want
So that after you have
bought and paid for any
article you are under no
obligation to keep it, unless
it pleases you and meets
your requirements exactly;
otherwise bring it back
and get your money.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

France, Russia and Germany are
ording it in the East as if they had
cked China themselves. They
Notified the Celestial Govern
at they do not approve Of
proposed concession of rail
ght of way to an American
Late, which offered in return
hce money to pay the idem-
Japan.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

ersburg society is all torn up
vorce sui just brought in
t Coup of Wood county,
Catharine Campbell
husband, Geo. E. Camp
a dissolution of the marital
Judge Boreman held Camp
$4,000 bond, because he was
pig of his property and about
the State. 1t is said some
ngs will be disclosed if the
es to a hearing.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

at the front door OF the Court House Of Ma
son County, West Virginia, to the highest
bidder the following property conveyed by
said trust deed, or so much thereof as may
be necessary TO satisfy said debt, interest
and cost: 200 acres of land situate in the
county of Mason on the f1eadwaters Of the
Ohio Eighteen Mile Creek being the same
land conveyed to said Calvary J4cdan by
Morris and Wellington Hawkins. by their
deed OF record IN said Clerks office, 70 which
reference is had, &c.
Terms OF Sale, Cash en- day OF sale.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

The American people consume
more bananas than all the other ma
tions on earth. Last year they
managed to do away with nearly
eighteen million lunches or about
one bunch of twenty dozen bananas
to every four persons. And the
trade is still growing. This is only
the imported bananas.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

Hon. g. w. Atkinson seems to be
getting along very nicely in the
race for the republican nomination
for governor. Politically Yves does
Hot agree with US, for he is q Re-
publican of the strictest sect. p
s9nally we would like to see
get Republican nomination
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29
To Be Hung.

Layfayette Prince, painter, who
worked here for several seasons, and
is well known to the people about
here, and who was convicted of
murder at Cleveland, o, is to be
hung next week at the Ohio Pen
itentiary. A special dispatch says
he embraced the Christian religion
last Thursday, and was baptized in
the prison fountain, by the prison
chaplain.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29
DARWIN WHALEY.

Wheat is on the up grade and it
would not surprise us if it reached
a dollar a bushel before the end of
the week.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

The decision of the Supreme Court
in the telephone cases enabled the
Bell Company to extort millions
from the people. The decision in
the income tax case is still worse
it allows the rich to evade the pay
mont of some forty millions of dol
lars, which will, of course, fall upon
the poorer people
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

1t is said that a little cayenne
pepper busted upon the cabbage
will prevent the ravages of the cab
bage worm.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

When the gold bugs hear the
name of W. H. Harvey they liter.
ally foam at the mouth, and at the
sight of "Coin's Financial School,
they 90 into commissions, because it
can't be answered. So far it has
had a circulation of ,OOO,O 900 copies.
all the gold bugs can do is to cuss
Harvey, as up to date no replies to
his little books.-Exchange.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

ogg, was thrown from
rday, while turning a
patty was not hurt.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

The editors of the United States
could kill prize fighting in short
time, by simply refusing to print
about the fighters
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

Patent leather manufacturers are
going to put up prices from so to
100 per cent on account of an al
legged raise in hides. The dudes
will take notice.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

1t is remarkable how much peo-
pie generally are saying about the
financial question without knowing
Enything about it. But that's a
privilege we all have. If we were
lenied the pleasure of talking on
sabiects of which we were ignorant,
his would be q pretty dull world.
Wheat is still advatcing, to the
great delight of the fars'er who held
is crop for better prices. I. sold
Point Pleasant this week at from
to 75cts. per bushel, according to
Wages are being advanced
cry section of the country, and
igh protection organs are grit
z their teeth.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29

Notices were posted at all the
mines in the Kanawha and New
River Valleys, Wednesday, request
ing each mine to send representa-
tives to mass meeting, which, will
be held at Montgomery Jupy,sSlg 1t
is thought the,yszS------'- o..
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-29
Il. c. BAILEY.
Order of Publication.

State of West Virginia, County OF Mason, IS:
Atrules held in the Clerks office OF the
Circuit Court thereof, on Monday, the 18th
day of April, 1895, the following order was
Clarissa J. Rugh,