The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-04-15
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WI
a Novel Plans
The enswood News has an
entire ginal plan for collecting
taxes preventing sheriffs steal
ing fh ney of the people. lit
is as
ut ne that we have re-
form e mode of collection
of ta hich perhaps could be
best iplished by having dis
trict reTs so as not to have
toosIIin of the public funds in
the han Of one man, thus in
creasi he temptation to steal.
III. Il, ii 3 ftsfft q 5 and Ia justice
to compel sheritf's bondsmen
or sureties to- pay for his defalca-
tion. Would it not be best if this
office is to continue without
change, that sheriffs should be
compelled to pay into the State
treasury a certain sum OF money
proportioned to the amount to be
collected as an insurance fund
against loss through dishonesty or
neglect of duty. Any of the fund
over could be returned
at the end of the official term.
Let them insure themselves instead
of involving their innocent sure
ties in financial calamity. If this
was done perhaps the Office would
not be SO enticing as to lead men
to almost sell their souls iii order
to secure it. The fat places breed
corruption and they badly need
some streaks of lean to make them
less alluring aud the people can
put them there if they will"
Pulled In.
"Uncle" Alf. Douglass had a bar
rel of flour, forty mill sacks, and
various other articles stolen from
his Willow Grove farm home one
night last week, and found them in
possession of some Stringburger's
oyer in Ohio, and now Sam New
berry and one Chas. Sayre are
languishing in the Pomeroy Jail,
charged with the theft. Ravens
wood News.
The Supreme Court last week
decided the case of Mrs. Lew Parks
VS.. Ohio River Railroad from Jack
son county, in favor of the plain
tiff, affirming the judgment of the
Circuit Court, and she will get
$2,5OO damages for the killing of
her daughter. The suit for DANA
ges for killing Mr.. Parks is still
pending. Hon. Chas. B. Hogg, of
this city, was one of the Attorneys
for the plaintiff,
Good roads are glory to any
nation, as well as a true source of
material prosperity. Germany rec
ognizes this, and makes the care of
her roads an important part of her
public economy. Compare the
splendid roads in the Harz Noun
tains, for example, with many of
our highways, and the result is far
from gratifying to national pride.
Let us hope that better roads are
coming.-F. S. Goodrich.
Capt. Malone has gang of men
engaged in excayating the sand
hill near the Ohio River Railroad
Eating House. The elevation is to
be brought down too level with the
road bed, and the grounds turned
into park and flower garden for
the present. The dirt is being
used to fill the trestle on the side
track running to the X. & M. Rail
road.
Is it not about time for the Dem
ocratic Executive Committee, to
take some steps toward holding a
County Convention to appoint
delegates to the District Conven-
ton which meets in this place June
18th, to select delegates to the
Democratic National Conventions
WEI Jel sorry for the man who
writes the political editorials OF
the State Gazette. He is in a
terrible state of mind on the money
question, and don't know whether
to be silverite or gold bug. He
is in dilemma now, and is strad.
ding the question.
Mrs. Elizabeth Leonard died re-
Gently at Moundsyille, at the age OF
l11O years. She was German, and
came to this country early in this