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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
sTRUuK OILl
That is the News tile Wires Bring
From Dexter To-day.

This afternoon John v. Webb, of
this city, received a telegram from
]. F. Bowles, a Dexter merchant.
which said: @struck oil Company
telegrapbedl Great settlement
This is the well on the Savage farm
which has been in the process of
drilling for several weeks. The
tone of the telegram would indicate
that it was something big, but we
have not time for further investiga-
ton for today's paper
Clerk Smith received the follow
ing telegram from his brother, NJ.
C. Smith: "Have struck oil Pros
poets for a gusherl" Pomeroy
Telegraph, 18th.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
Have to Acknowledge 1t


Perhaps the recognized financial
newspaper of the world is the Lon
don Financial News. 1t is in close
touch with Bond and Lombard
streets and draws it's inspiration
from the opinions maintained by
the masters of money in London.
1t is an advocate of the single gold
standard. Nevertheless it recogni-
zes the almost irreparable harm that
has come to the world from the de-
struction of silver money. In re-
cent issue the News says:
at would be difficult to exagger.
ate the injury that has already been
done to investors by the ruinous de-
probation in silver. Debtor coun-
tries have made it the pretext for
defuult; banks doing an Eastern
business have had to write down
their capital 10 meet the losses in
which it has involved them; rail
ways earning their revenues in sill
yer and paying their dividends in
gold have suffered by the cruel ex-
actions of an ever-tumbling Ex-
change; India has had to resort to a
scheme of duties in restriction of
trade; Peru has failed to fill her en-
gagements with the corporation re-
presenting the interest of the old
bondhOlders. In fact, look where
we will, we come across the scars
and gashes of that depreciation
which was, in the first instance, set
going by the great Western move
ment making for the demonetiza-
ton of silver"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
agotiee to Creditors.

To the creditors OF Peter e. Roush, deceased:
I y pursuance of decree of the Circuit
| Court OF the county of Mason, made In a
cause therein pending, TO subject the real es-
tate of the said Peter i. Roush, to the pay
ment OF his debts, you are required to present
your claims against the estate OF the said Pc
ter +. ROush, for adjudication to John L.
Beller, Commissioner, at his office IT. the
said county, on or before the 22nd day of May,
1875.
Witness: r. f. Mitchell, Clerk of the said
court, this 18th day of March. 1888.
april Il cav. r. +. MITCHELL, Clerk.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
West Virginia win Return to Her First


Love.
West Virginia will return to its
first love in SO. The signs of the
times indicate it, and mark our
words, she will stand in her old
Democratic column in '96, and don't
you forget it.
The last Legislature of West yir-
ginia was overwhelmingly Republi-
can, what did it do? Itsent its vari-
GUS committees to the different in
stitutions in the State, and they re-
ported every one of them in -four
ishing condition and the manage
ment first class. These institutions
have been under Democratic rule
for the last twenty years, and what
speaks better for the party than this?
What was the howl of the Republi-
can campaigner and the Republican
press last fall? Extravaganza by
the Democratic rulers, squandering
the peoples money, high taxes,
high salaried officers, etc. They
claimed on the stump and through
the press before the last election
that they were going to cat the fee
system, etc. Did they do it2 No.
The action of the last Republican
Legislature of West Virginia speaks
for itself. What about the appro-
priation bill, etc? 1t was larger by
several thousand dollars, exclusive
of the appropriation to the Worlds
Fair, than it was two years ago.
We have been living under Dem
ocratic laws since the 18th day of
last August. The Wilson bill is far
superior to the Mckinley bill.
The people are beginning to under
stand that "the tariff is a tax"
How is it to day on clothing? We
can buy all kinds of clothing near
ly one-half cheaper than we could a
year ago. The press all over the
country, both Democratic and Re
publican, speaks of mills resuming,
of an increase in wages, etc. We
do not hear of bank closing scarce
ly anywhere, and, in fact, times are
getting better as fast as they can.
The Republican Congress meets this
fall, but, mark our words for it, they
will never dare go back to the Nc
Kinley law or they will get wiped
off the face of the earth in SO, for
by that time the people will have
the proof of the pudding.
Now as the tariff is about settled,
the money question will be one of
the leading features in the next
campaign. We should have as our
standard bearer a man in favor of
free silver, for the people demand it
and the Democrats stand a majority
of them for it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
Teste: r. Z. MITCHELL, Clerk.
Notice to Take Depositions

To Jacob Rugh. Take notice: That on the
Sth day OF Iunc, 1873, between the hours offs
O'Clock n. m and 4 o'clock p. IN, al the law
office of J. B. Menager, in the town OF Point
Pleasant, Mason county, West Virginia,
viii take the dispositions Of William Cross
man and others 10 be read in evidence in my
behalf in certain suit in chancery now
pending in the Circuit Court OF the county OF
Mason, state OF West Virginia, in which
am plaintiff and you are defendant. II from
any cause the taking OF said dispositions shall
not be completed on the day aforesaid the
same shall be continued from day to day or
from time TO time at the same place and be-
tween the same hours until the same shall
have been completed
CLARISSA J. RUGH.
BY J. b. Afenager, Sol.
my l-4w
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

Governor MacCorkle, as Comman-
derin Chief of the West Virginia
National Guard, has made applica-
ton to the Secretary of War for a
four years detail of Maj. S. NJ.
Whi'eside, Seventh United States
Cavalry, in the service of the West
Virginia National Guard If Maj
Whiteside is detailed TO West Yir
ginia he will be on the Governors
staff and his duties will be to visit
the various commands in the State,
to give instructions, etc.-Kanawha
Gazette.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

The surviving confederate sold
iers of Chicago have raised money
and erected a monument to their
deceased comrads in lakewood
cemetery, where seven thousand of
the men who wore the gray lie
buried. 1t is proposed to dedicate
this monument May Both.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

a correspondent of the Wheeling
Register, and a Democrat, writing
from Charleston, in urging a Con-
vention of the Democracy in June
next, says:
NO Democrat can have cause for
complaint if the crystalized views of
ninety per cent. of his party are
made the platform of the party.
When l urge the call for a conven.
ton 1 speak the sentiments of nine
ty per cent. of our party-that por-
ton without expectations of office,
without claims to leadership, with
out worship for stuffed imagines-
the plain, thinking people, who
''stand four square TO every wind
that blows"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

The Board of Directors for the
West Virginia Penitentiary held
their regular monthly meeting at
Moundsville, on Wednesday, and
besides transacting their regular
routine business, let the contract for
building the second story on the
engine room and shoe shop, occupi-
ed by Joseph Klee & Co, to Deter
and Hughes, of Moundsville, at
S3,572.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
Clarissa J. Rugh


r III e object OF the above entitled suit l. to
| obtain n divorce for said Clarissa J.
Rugh from the bonds OF matrinony existing
between her and the said Jacob Rugh, on
account OF the wilful desertion of the said
Jacob RuSh from the said Clarissa ]. Rueh,
for more than three years prior 10 the bring
ing of this suit And IL appearing by ami
davit filed with the papers in this cause that
the said Jacob Ru@h is 4 nonresident OF the
state Of West Virginia. IL f. 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
1885, and do what IS necessary to protect his
interest in this suit.
a copy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
nOME.SEEKERS, RXcIIRsInNs.

On May Fl and June II Agents
of Ohio Central Lines will sci
Home-Seekers Excursion Tickets to
points in Virginia at One, Fare for
Round Trip. Limit 80 days. Also
tickets to points West AID South
west on same basis. Limit 20 days.
See Ohio Central Agent
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
Il. C. BAILEY.
Commissioners Notice.
James Il. Menager, Administrator of the es
tate OF Peter y. Roush, deeeAsed.

VS..
{. G. Miller, A. J. Roush, y. II. Barbee, Ber-
th;I G. Roush. j. =. r. Il. Smith, trustee, Il.
7. Saul ana Mary Winkleblack and the un-
ceased.
In Chancery.
To all the parties in the above entitled
cause, and to all the creditors of Peter L.
Roush, deceased:
You and each of you will hereby take no.
of that certain decree entered in the above
entitled cause by the Circuit Court of Mason
County, West Nirginia, the lIth day of
February, 1875, that on the 22nd day of
May, 1879, at 10 o'clock, y. NJ, mt the
law office of John lG. Beller, in the town OF
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, the under
signed Comm Missioner in Chancery of the
Circuit Court of Mason County, West Vir-
ginia, Will proceed to take, state and report
an account in the above entitled cause show
ing:
ist. What real estate by metes and bounds
the said Peter Il. Roush died seized and pos
sessed of.
the nature, amount and parties thereto, and
in whose favor and the priOrities thereof.
Sd. What Indebtedness existed against the
estate of Peter Il. Roush, deceased, the ma
ture and amount OF same, and in whose favor
18th. What personal property said Peter f.
Roush owned at the time of his death, and
what disposition has been made OF the same.
9Th. To settle the accounts of james Z.
Menager, Administrator rs aforesaid, and to
report such other and proper matters as the
parties hereto may require.
Given under my hand this 10Th day of
April, 1895. JOHN Z. BELLER.
Commissioner in Chancery of the Circuit
j. Il. Menager, Sol.
April IT-4w
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
To the PnhIic.

For a good lunch stop at Jewett's
lunch room; fresh oysters served in any
style Boneless fish, chicken, soup, cof-
fee and ell other lunches the market can
afford Fresh bulk and caned oysters
received every other day. Don't forget
the place; Jewett's lunch room.
iuly / -ff
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
HRADLRSS RODY
or a Merchant Found In the River in
Lincoln County.


For months J. E. Melon, of Scieto
county, Ohio. had large storeboat
anchored at Green Shoals, on the
Guyan river, and during large tim
Der runs secured many hundreds
of dollars.
Nelson had been missing for some
time and he was supposed to be
spending his vacation at his Ohio
home. Thursday his body was dis
covered in Lincoln county in the
river with the head severed from
the body. Everything is excite
ment in that section. If the guilty
party be found a lynching will re-
suit.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

The coal miners strike in the Flat
Top regions of this State is still in
a very unsettled condition. At Pc
cahontas the Virginia troops have
the town under martial law. No
troops have been sent from this
State to the coal regions of Mercer
and Mcdowell counties.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

Joe Burns, boss at Lock IL, Sat
urday had the misfortune to let a
piece of heavy timber fail upon his
legs, badly MASKING the calf
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

George Coleman, of Belpre, Ohio,
has been selected as general fore
man in the Ohio River shops, at
Parkersburg, the position being a
new one, created by general mana
ger. George Burt.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

Reports from the Mud River Sec
tion of Lincoln county, where fine
trade of West Virginia bright to-
baeeo is raised, say that the cut
worms are running the crops.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

Fires were found very necessary
in private and business houses since
Saturday, and many who had taken
down their stoves had to put them
up again.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

Good times under the Democratic
tariffs action are returning and Nc
Kinieyism is among the things that
has passed into the past to afflict the
country no more.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
Order of Publication,

state of West Virginia, County OF Mason, s.:
Al rules held in the Clerks Office OF the
Circuit Court thereof, on Monday, the 10Th
day of April, 1895, the following order was
entered:
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

Nearly every day for the past
three or four months the news col
umns of the daily press of the coun-
try have contained items of news
concerning advances in wages.
These glad tidings have kept pace
with the rapid improvements com
merce and industry in general, and
every day has seen 4 steady in
crease in wages, advances which are
as rule voluntary on the part of
employers.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

Steward F. Reed, president of the
West Virginia editorial Association,
has fixed the next meeting for
August 6, at CIarksburg. The
citizens will extend the editors a
hearty welcome. On the same day
the Traders company will open the
hotel and there will be an excursion
to Camden on the Gauley.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

The ladies of Pomeroy are now
going to get out "Womans"
edition of the Daily Telegraph.
We hope they will meet with great
success. 1t will appear May 81.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
TRUsT SALE.


DT VIRTUE % a deed or trust. s=ccIited
. by Calvary jordan and Aiary Jordan, 70
J. II. Nash, Trustee. dated the i4ih day OF
May, 1883, and recorded in The efBce oil The
Clerk Of the County Court 81 Mason County.
West Virginia, in Trust Decd Book No. H.
on page 45S, to secure To John " Frazier the
payment OF ssp with interest from tho Eth
day OF May, Isss4, and the said debt secure
being due and default having been made IN
the payment thereof. shall at the request Of
said John W. Frazier secuft u by said trust
deed, sell at public auction OF the
18th day OF June, 1895,
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 10 satisfy said debt, interest
and cost. 200 acres OF land situate in tine
county of Mason on the headwaterS Of the
Ohio Eighteen Mile Creek. being tie same
land conveyed to said Calvary Jordan by
Morris and Wellington Hawkins, By tlelr
deed Of record IL said Clerks Office, to which
reference Is had, &c
Terms OF Sale, Cash on day Of sale.
]. II. NASH, Trustee
may l5-fw
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

England is arranging to build
thirty new war ships. 1t is costly
business to keep track of the mar
kets of the world.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

The Western Virginia Conference
meets this year on September 4th.
Bishop Fitzgerald will preside.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

a man who lives right and is
right, has more power in his silence
than another who has by his words.
Character is like bells which ring
out sweet music and which when
touched, accidentally even, resound
with sweet music.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

Farmers should keep posted on
the wool market, and not be in too
big hurry o dispose of their clip.
Remember there is 10 competition
in buying wool now. The syndi-
cate put stop to that a few years
ago. If you will hold awhile, you
may get better prices.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
Shoes Free
Little Giant Shoes,
found only at our store.

SNiAN1 OiAO ~ w
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, 1895-05-15

Postmaster General Wilson states
that the sale of stamps for the last
quarter amounted to 1905, 571,
which was the largest in the history
of the government. This indicates
a general revival of business.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
Silver.

The responses TO the circular sent
out by the Kanawha Gazette, to
Democrats in every part of the
State, asking their views on the free
coinage of silver, and the propriety
of holding a State Convention this
summer, and now being published in
that paper, show that nine out of
ten favor the free coinage of silver
at ratio of 16 to l; and also that
about the same proportion of Demo
Gratis favor the holding a State Con-
vention. If the State Committee
forestall the wish of the Democrats
by refusing to issue a call for a
Convention, they will have a pretty
row in the party. The committee,
however, will hardly go against the
almost unanimous demand of the
Democrats for a Convention, at
Charleston, this summer.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

1t is said leather has advanced
100 per cent. within the past two
months, and raw hides have gone up
accordingly. The protection press
don't know whether to call this a
blessing ora hardship. They really
don't know whether to blame the
administration or take credit for it
themselves.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

The end of the war between China
and Japan is likely to cause some
trouble between other European
powers. Japan, it is thought, viii
ask the advice of the United States
as 10 what she should do.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

The Democratic party is practi
cally solid for bimetallism. 80 per
cent of the members of that party
would vote AYE" on a proposition
to coin silver free at 16 to l.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

Special reports to the Manufactur-
er's Record show decided increase
in the southwark trend of popula-
ton, illustrated by large purchases
of land in Georgia, Arkansas and
other southern States for western
and southwestern colonists.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

Mr.. Gordon, of Kentucky, who
deliberately and in cold blood emp
tied two revolvers into his wife and
her paramour, killing them both,
was released yesterday from custody
'as warning to adulterers," to
quote the language of the Judge,
who might have added, land as a
precedent for the licensing of
wronged husbands to commit muir
der. As a precedent it ought to
furnish at least two murders a day
in "the dark and bloody ground"
for long time to come.-Register.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

Doctor Seth Low President of
Columbian College, New York, has
Just given to that institution ST.
100000 to be used in erecting addi-
tional buildings. 1t is pleasant to
see that some rich men know how
to spend their money as well as
how to make it. And what field
for such generosity yet remains
Thousands of educational institu-
tions all over the country are barely
able to live by lack of endowment,
institutions capable of accomplish
ing as great good as the one just
helped by Doctor Low.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

The toothorns of the Republican
party in this county are as silent
just now as the mud turtle with his
belly turned up TO stern summer
sun days. The "silver lining" be-
hind the dark clouds is binding
some of the frisky ringsters.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

Remember that the price of all
commodities that contribute TO
mans comfort and pay farmers
debts began tostagger and fall when
silver received the death wound in
1873. This is the rock bottom fact
that the "gold bugs" can't upset or
displaee, except by fiat denial with
out proof.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

John R. Mclean has purchased
the Morning Journal, of New York,
and 1t is reported that he will make
it an aggressive Democratic paper.
fhe large majority of Democrats
will earnestly hope that it will be
dissimilar to his mammoth daily in
Cincinnati; in that it's aggressive
ness will be directed toward the Re-
publican, rather than the Democrat
ic party.-Charleston Gazette.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

Gov. MacCorkle is doing more to
call attention to the wonderful re
sources of West Virginia than any
other public official in the State. In
an interview few days ago, the
Governor declared he had given up
a $4,000 law practice for $1,000 of
fee, and that having done so be pro
posed to devote his entire time to
the material development and in
dustrial progress of the Stato.-Ex.
A great many Democrats seem to
think the tariff question will not cut
much of a figure in the next cam
paign, but they will be mistaken.
1t is our opinion that the Republi-
cans will straddle the silver ques-
ton and make their principal fight
on protection "by the broad shield
of the American law" -Braxton
Democrat.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15

The State Auditors report shows
that the RAILROADS in this State paid
a total of sac, 55756 in taxes last
year. Ele appties 10 the State
have no
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1895-01-26
Tho Nicaragua Canal.

The project Of the Nicaragua Canal
has been debated in the United States
Senate very vigorously. One thing
should be remembered about that eli
mate, 1t Is death to almost every for
eigner who goes there. and laborers e.
pecially succumb. 1t Is said that the
Panama Railroad cost life for every
tic. What an Idea OF pains and aches
Is In this sentence. 1t Is mostly due to
earelessncss. Every laborcr provided
with st Jacobs Oil would be armed
against these troubles. Mems muscles
there are cramped with rheumatic pain
and they ache all over. That's just the
condition where this sovereign remedy
can do Its best work. The fearful NAL
ady Ia very much like the brcak-bone
lever In certain parts of America.