The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-21


to be applied 10 these two debts
should say that his money in bank
was entirely applicable TO AS debt
Every one who has the capacity ol
associating together two ideas
would say that that man has q
queer notion of offset. Or put il
another way, the county now owes
say 5000, and has in the hands
of its treasurer $4,000, and then
contract a further debt of 10000
is not the county in debt $40, ,000s
Can any argument or system ofap-
proved reasoning bring different
result from tlis9 What new prin-
lciples in mathematics has tho Ca
zelte, so that it can bring as the
school boy would sag, different
answer? These examples represent
Just tho situation of this county.
The county owes the dobt The
Commissioners reported. Ithas on
hands the levy for the year, 1896.
It has in hands the business of the
county for 1891 1t has NO funds
and cam have none, to liquidate the
business done for 1897, except
what is now chargeable to Mr.
Gardner for the levy of 1895.
Let the Gazette ask Mr.. Gard
ner what he viii do with the funds
now in his hands, and IL will be I'M
formed, just as commissioners
Boggess, Howard and Beiler We're,
that he will4pay it out on all or
ders issued by the Court for 1897
and prior thereto We would sug
gest to the Gazette that Mr. Card
ner now has in his possession,
hundreds of dollars worth of or
ders issued in 1897. which he has
paid out Of the levy for 1896 still
the Gazette would have the people
believe that the levy for 1886, is a
full offset to the debt and orders
issued prior to January 1897,
We would hint to the Gazette,
that when the levy for 1896 is set
tied for at the January term 1898,
il will find inthat settlement many
orders issued at the present July
term, at the coming October term
and at any special term that may
intervene (and the Court for some
cause has occasionform special
terms) from now until January
1898. Still the Gazette would
have us believe and say toIthe peo-
pile of this county, that the 1896
levy is am Offset and that the coun-
tyisnotin debt SIG, sos. 81, but only
87,249.s4. The policy of the Re
publican party in this county has
to be yindicated, and therefore
we can't much blame the Gazette,
for it knows nothing but Republic
canism, and facts, figures and law
cut no figure with it when the Re-
publican party is in question, or
when the light of day is thrown
upon the extrayigance and derel-
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JoHS =. BrLnER
Marriage license issued by the
County CLERK, Wednesday, July Id:
Geo. Pritchard and Lucinda Pike;
Columbus 4. Connolly and Martha.
Tillis.
Childrens Day exercises will be-
observed all day Sunday, July
25th, at Eckard Chapel. Thepub-
lie invited to attend.
Even dull girl issharp enough
to cutan undesirable acquaintance.
When Mckinley went to unlock
the doors to prosperity he must
have turned the key the wrong
way.
The quiet attitude of the coal.
strikers is thought by some to fore
bode danger to the peace OF the
country. Should many of the mil
ners continue work, or machines
be placed in the mines ii lis hard to
tell just what wiil happen
-Four states elect governors this
fall Massachusetts, Virginia, Iowa
and Ohio.
Nearly all the coal miners i'm the
country are ON a strike. They
must have been knocked out by
the wave of prosperity.
The closer tile time forthe high
tariff to go into operation the
harder grow the times
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