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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-28

Mr.. D. w. Brown, Pension At
torney, procured the allowance of
the pension of Annie Gibbs widow
of Sheldon Gibbs, late of Go. d,
18th w. Va. Inf, at IS per month
with some $3.50 or $3.50 back pay.
Also the travel pay and bounty
for Peter Siner, late of Co. B, 4th
W. Va. Inf.
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Peking. Dec. 22.-The United States
minister here. Edwin H. Conger, has
entered a protest against the proposed
extension of French Jurisdiction at
Shanghai. This, added to the vigorous
British protest on the same subject,
will undoubtedly stifen Chinese re-
sistance to the French demand, but
unless the Chinese are sustained they
will be compelled eventually to yield.
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PRxsICIANs.
Sl0l.l0 REWARD /!

r WILL. pay $1oU. 90 reward for any
information that willlead to the
arrest of the party or parties who
broke into and robbed my store at
Apple Grove, on several different oc-
casions, as follows: SEQ for the in
formation, $50 upon an arrest being
made on such Information, and $50
upon conviction of party or parties,
making in all 800.
JOHN S. HkNLY,-
may19tf Apple Grove, w. Va.
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PERSONALS.


From eanesdey' Daily.
Mr. g. K. BIackwood. of Lock z.
was business visitor ia town yes
terdss
Hon. Jas. Capehart, In Florida
for some time on business and
pls nre, returned last night
~. 6. Yeaton. of Paikers-
bur- WIS registered at the Phoenix
Hoi yesterday
Sheriff J. 3. Frazier, of Put
nan county. was in town yester=
day
3. r. Juhling, of Spilman,
was business visitor in town yes
#terda3
ID B. Taylor, formerly an
engineer on the o. r. r. r was
in torn last night. renewing old
acq ntanees
essrs Sim Hannigan and Is.
Wlso have been working
on Ohio River lock aud Dam No.
4. returned home last night to
spend the holidays.
Misses Mary and JEANETTE and
John McCnlloch, attending school
in Cincinnati. are expected home
today, 10 spend their holiday vaca-
ton.
We are happy to announce to
the many friends of Mrs. Chas.
E. McCulloch, who has been
dangerously i'll at her home on
Kanawha, that she is very much
better.
Mr.. g. w. White, of Debby,
called at this office yesterday and
renewed his subscription to the
Weekly Register to Dec. 7th, 1899;
and did more, brought dollar for
new subscriber to the Register
for year Now, if all Democrats
would do as Mr.. White has, the
Register would soon have boom
ing subscription list. Mr.. White
will accept our thanks.
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Breakers.

j. T. Robinson has returned
from Utica, N. Y, and will open
a laundry at Mason City.
Geo. Ginther isin The wholesale
cabbage business at Hartford City.
land delivering it BY the car load to
Al points of the compass.
Uncle Eli Lewis, tho hackman.
is still sick his home and Chas.
Conway is holding the lever on his
Hartford and Mason rapid transit
Dan Harris. who fell through
the top of a house md hurt his big
toe, up in Pennsylvania, is home.
and the doctor thinks he will get
we'll
Some people at School House
want the o. R. R. to attach bar
room to it's accommodation trains.
The trouble with some people is
they areneveT satisfied With vast
ing their own time.
New Haven is the only town
having no hotel.
There are only three BARRIERS, in
this county, around the bend, Win
ters, at Mason City. johnson. at
Hartford, and Roush, at New Ha-
ven. But they have scraping ac-
quaintance with a great many peo-
pie.
Sliding Hill, between Hartford
and New Haven, is giving the O..
r. r. a great deal of trouble this
winter, as usual. The public road
running along that hill is giving
the people great deal of trouble
too, which is also as usual.
Chris Click, for years in the mer-
camille business at School House,
is closing out and will retire
Andy Fruntz. formerly of Mas
on county, has opened store and
established big corn cracker at Mt.
Alto, in jackson county.
Some years ago the government,
at great expense, built two ice piers
on the w. Va. side of the river.
above Hartford City. People won
dered then as now why they were
built there, as they we're not prop
erly located aud too far out on the
bank to be of any practical benefit
to river men as protection from
ice. No steam boat or barge ever
took refuge there until last week.
The Syracuse Coal & Salt Co,
having no other place it could reach
dropped some barges in behind
them. Fortune smiled ON the COM
pany and luckily the ice went cut
without damage Thus there was
at last a practical demonstration of
the piers worth. The engineers
locating the piers will doubtless be
glad to hear that they have been
used once, any way,
Capt. Alex. Blaine, formerly of
this county. but of late years wharf
master at wildwood, died at his
home in Cottageville, Thursday
morning. at an early hour. Fun
eral will take place today. (Friday.)
Mr.. Blaine was sc years of age and
good man. He belonged to Lee
tart L. o. o. f.
The reason the coal dealer has so
much more Christmas money than
any body else. is because of his
weigh of dealing with people.
A great many of the boys along
the towns are studying and practic-
ing the science of hypnotisu, and
some are becoming alarmingly pro-
6cient.
There has never been around
here SO much mistletoe gathered in
years for Xmas as has been this
season.
The Liverpool salt works has
closed down temporarily, at Valley
City.
Some industrious meddIers are
about trying to induce another
strike among the coal miners.
The ball players these days are
standing around swapping lies
about what they didn't do last
summer.
Most of the schools will contin-
ne work through the holidays.
IrEMIzER.
Hon. III. q. Davis.
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cur RATES.
Ohio Roads Make n Reduction to
Compete With West VIr-
ginia Coal.

COLUMBUS. Ono, Dec. 22.-The
new coal teriff from the Ohio field,
the result of the Hooking Valley
Railroads reduction in freight
rates to meet the competition of the
West Virginia fields, is as follows:
To Columbus, rate cut from 10 to
so. cents per ton; to Michigan S1.25
to % cents; Chicago 81 so to 81. 25.
These cut rates will be met by
other competing railroad lines.
! Tue Episcopal clergymen of the
diocese will meet in convention at
.Clarksburg the first week in Jan
uary.
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ing subscription list. Mr.. White
will accept our thanks.
From Thursdays Daily.
Hon. Jabez Beard, of South
Side, was in town yesterday.
Messrs. Emory Fry and Riley F.
Gibbs, of Letart, were pleasant call
ers at this office yesterday
President j. q. Raymond, of the
State University. Morgantown, was
in the city, yesterday.
Mr.. j. G. Whit, of West Col
umbia, was business visitor in
town yesterday.
Attorney Alex. Wartenberg, of
Winfield, was a professional visi-
tor in town yesterday.
AIR, JOS. f. Gibbs and Mr.. G. s.
Mari, of Letart, were in town yes
terday.
Supt. w. G.. Christmas and Col.
r. 81. Harris, of the K & NJ, were
in town last night.
Mr.. w. F. Legue, of Ambrosia.
called at this Office yesterday. and
renewed his subscription to the
Weekly Register.
Mr.. George T. Adkins, of Nease,
was in town yesterday, and called
and renewed his subscription to the
Weekly Register.
Capt. P. q. Holloway, of the
steamer Nisbet, is here to spend
Christmas with his family, his boat
being on the ways at Cincinnati
Messrs. Harry Frank and N. L.
Bryan. of Gallipolis, were distin-
guished visitors in our city yester-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. KirkendalI, of
Creole, Ohio, are here to attend
the Thomason-Bright wedding,
which takes place today. Mrs.
Kirkendall is sister of the groom.
from Fridays DanE
Mr.. Oscar Parsons, Of Ripley. is
in town.
Col. D. sealey, of Charleston,
is in town.
Hon. Jas. b. Couch, of Charles
ton. was in town yesterday. on le-
gal business
Mrs. Will o,Brien returned yes
terday from short visit to Charl-
eston.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. A. L.
Nourse, Thursday, December 22d,
1898, daughter.
Miss Yslma Kisar, attending
school at New Lexington, Ohio,
returned home yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Ben Smith, of Spencer, was
in town last night, the guest of
Col. j. P. R. B. Smith and family.
Mr.. George Stephenson. here
visiting relatives and friends for
the past week or two, left for his
Indiana home yesterday.
Mrs. MoIlie Hutchison and
daughter, who have been visiting
Dr. D. w. Petty and family, have
left for their home at Los Angeles,
California.
Miss Irene Bowyer and Miss
Virginia Wiley, attending school
at Stannton, and Miss Sue Neale,
attending school at Lewisburg. will
arrive home this morning to spend
their Christmas vacation.
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coroner's Inquest.

Chicago. Dec. 22--The Coroner's In
quest was begun in the case of Mrs
Michael Ro1Iinger, who. the police as
sert, was murdered and cremated by
her husband.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-11-04
Mrs. surratrs Grandsons.

The whirligig of time sets things in
strange juxtaposition. In June, 1863
President Grant removed William P
Tonry from office because Tonry mar
ried Annie E. Surratt, daughter of the
famous Mrs. Surratt, who was hanged
after trial for completely in the plot
against the life Of Abraham Lincoln.
At Chiekamauga, when the Fifth
Maryland Volunteers were eneamped
there, they were under command of
General Frederick D. Grant. In that
regiment were two men-one Reginald
l. Tonry, sergeant in Company C, COM
manded by Captain Thomson, and the
other Albert S. Tonry. corporal in
Company L, commanded by Captain Boy
den. They were the sons of the man
who had lost his position because he
had married Mrs. Surratt's daughter,
and they were grandsons Of Mrs. Sur
raft.
Mrs. Surratt's two sons, John and
Isaac, are both living and both are in
the service of the Bay Line Balti-
more.
The Baltimore Sun, which makes rec
ord of this curious minor fact in his
tory, also calls attention to the pres
ence Of Colonel Marshall's son, Mark
ham, on General F. d. Grants staff.
Markham's father was one of General
R. E. Lees favorite aides.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-11-04

turrets. She was built at the Union
Iron Works, San Francisco, by the
same firm that built the Oregon, and
we make no doubt the machinery of
the monitor will do as good work as
did that of the battleship.
The Monterey is 256 feet long, Sc feet
beam and draws Is feet of water. She
is of 1000 tons. She is fitted with twin
screw, vertical, triple expansion en-
gines, which drove her on her trial
trip at a speed of 1876 knots.
The Monterey carries two 12-inch
guns in her forward turret and two
10-inch in the after one. On her SUI
perstructure, between the turrets, are
mounted six 6-pounders, four 1-pOund-
ers and two Calling guns.
The number of officers she can ac-
commOdate is nineteen, and her crew is
172 men.
The keel of this monitor was laid in
July, 1889, and the ship went into COM
mission on February 10, 1898.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-11-04
Estate of Mary Ann SwintOn.
Notice of License TO Sell Real Estate.

STATE OF VERMONT, I Be it remem-
0DIsTRICT OF ADDISON, So. bered, That al Il
session of the Probate Court holden at Mid
dlebury within and for said district, on the
10Th day of October, A. ID. lS9S.
Present: Hon. j. NJ. Sla' e, Judge.
Whereas, d. II. Bennett, administrator of
the estate of Mary Ann Swinton, late of
Bridport, in said district. deceased, has
this day presented to said Court his petition
in writing. setting forth that it will be neces-
sary to sell part of the real estate of said
deceased for the payments of the debts and
charges of administration, and therein max
ing application to said court for license to
make such sale.
1t is ordered, that all persons interested in
the estate of said deceased be notified to APP
pear before said court, at the Probate Office
in Middlebury, in said district on the l4th
day of November 1898, at 10 O'Clock a M, by
publication Of this order three weeks success
sively previous thereto, in the Middlebury
Register, a newspaper printed at Middlebury
aforesaid, to show cause, If any they may
have, why SAID license should not be granted.
43 By order of court,
Attest. JAMES NJ. SLADE. Judge.
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Estate of ROllin j. Jones.


CtTATE OF VERMONT, BE 1t remem-
ODIsTRICT OF ADDISON, IS. bered, that AT a
session of the probate court holden ut Mid
dlebury within and for said district, on the
18th day of October, A. ID. 1898.
Present: Hon. lrmes NJ. Slade, Judge.
Whereas, Horton W. Jones, administrator
of the estate of Rollin j. Jones, late of Corn
wall in said district, deceased, has this day
presented to SAID court his petition in writing,
setting forth that 1t will be necessary to sell
part of the real estate of said deceased
for the payment of debts and charges of adj.
mnistratlon and therein mai ing application
to said court for license to make such sale.
1t is ordered, that all persons interested in
the estate of said deceased he notified to APP
pear before said court, at the Probate office
in Middlebury, IN said district, on the 18th
day of November, A. D., 1898, at 10 o'clock IA.
m, by publication of this order three weeks
SUCCESSFULLY previous thereto, in the Middle
bury Register, a newspaper printed at Middle
bury aforesaid, to show cause, if any they
may have, why said license should not be
granted
By order of court.
AZ Attest. JAMES Nj. SLADE,
Judge of Probate
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PLANS FOR PAR|S'S SHOW
Interview With an American
Commissioner to the
Great Exposition.
TO BOOM OUR EXHIBIT.
Mr.. Peck Says That We Must Strive
Now to Make UP for
Lost Time.

lie Succeeds the Late Moses p. Handy ms
Commissioned and Intends That This
Country shall Be Wei Represented-He
Is n Chicago Man VIII Has Had Expert
ence with the Expeditions at Chicago, At
lauta, Nashville. Omaha and Elsewhere.
Ferdinand Peck, of Chicago, Com
missioner-General for the United
States to the Paris Exposition of 1900,
in conversation with a reporter, said:
France appropriated 1000, GOO to
defrav the cost of her exhibit at our
Colun b3n Exposition, and We ought at
least 10 have Aat much money in order
to make e -.oEl.e at Paris common
surate vii. "aHOnal prestige. We
have las -a . all ether nations,
too, in l,.. ne invitation OF
France to pa t. aN6 on that ac-
count have 1T, al a great dis
advantage. .l Cur slow
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-11-04
War Signal Experiments.

The war signal experiment, in which
William A. Eddy of Bayonne, N. j.,
was to photograph the flag signals
from a camera in midair, took place.
General Greedy had some time before
sent the United States army signal code
to George Ewald and Herman Beck,
who had made the flags for the CEN
trail signal station operated by Mr.. Ed
dy. The main kite was operated by
Stuart NJ. French. The first signal
was raised by George Ewald at a m.
The second went to still higher point
at 10: 45 a. m, and the third was raised
by means of four Eddy kites, and was
entirely successful, the moving signal
operating perfectly. A thunder shower
which came up drove everybody to
shelter, but the four kites remained
aloft in the rain and partly dried while
still n the air after the shower had
passed.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-11-04
Estate of Sarah w. Chapman.
Notice of Probate Of VIII.

GTATE OF VERMONT, ! Be It Remem.
ODIsTRICT OF ADDISON, IS. I bered, That at a
session of the Probate Court holden at Mid
dlebury within and for said district on the
Goth day of October, A. ID. 1898.
Present: Hon. James NJ. Slade, Judge.
Whereas, a certain instrument in writing,
purpOrting to be the last will and testament
of Sarah W. Chapman, late of Bridport, in
said district, deceased, has this day been
presented to said Court of Probate and duly
nled in the Probate ONCE Therefore, 1t IL
ordered that all persons interested IN the es
tate of said deceased be notified to appear
before said court at the Probate Office in
MiddlebuIy, in said district. on the l4th day
of November, A. ID. 1898, at 10 o'clock, a. m,
by public alton of this order three weeks sue
cessively in the Middlebury REGISTER, 8
newspaper printed at Middlebury, aforesaid
to show cause, If any they may have, why
said instrument in writing should not be al
lowed, as the last win and testament of sale
deceased BY order OF Court,
43 Attest: JAMES NJ. SLADE, Judge.
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A LONG FELT WANT.
Many Readers Will Appreciate
This Information.

1t is hard always to be pleasant
Good natured people are often irri-
table.
If you knew the reason you would
not be surprised.
Ever have itching piles?
Not sick enough to go to bed, or
not well enough to be content
Nothing will annoy you so.
The constant itching sensation
Hard to bear, harder to get relief.
Keeps you awake nights
Spells your temper-nearly drives you
crazy.
Isn't relief and cure a long felt want?
1T is to be had for everyone in Doan's
Ointment.
Itching Piles, Eczema or any itching
OF the skin
Here is the proof OF the above: Mr.
Louis Snow OF 80 Prospect street, Web
ster Mass. says: 1--WE were 50 lvorablv
impressed with the results obtained from
using Doan's Kidney Pills that we rea-
soned. if what was claimed for them
was so thoroughly carried out, why
should not the representations made for
Doan's Ointment be equally as true Act
ing on this reasoning. we procured
box OF the Ointment for a case OF bleed
ing hemorrhoids, or piles. in my family.
which had resisted all ordinary efforts
to cure. Its soothing effect was ielt
after the first application As the treat
ment was continued the affection grad
ually ceased, and finally disappeared.
We consider both Doan's Ointment
and Doan's Kidney Pills valuable rem
edies, and have no hesitation in recon-
mending them"
Doan's Ointment, for sale by all deal
ers. Price, so cents. Mailed by Eos
ter-Milburn Co., Buffalo, n Y. sole
agents for the United States Remem-
Der the name-Hoan sand take no sub
btitute.
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THE MONITOR MONTEREY.
II Was De.igued Especially to Attack
Land Defences.


Land Defences.
The original monitor was introduced
to the world in 1861. She was in every
way different from any craft ever be-
fore floated She was low in the wa
ter, and her armament was mounted
in turrets, the first guns to be so en-
placed. This feature OF the ship was
looked at askance, but in time It was
accepted and improved upon and even
tually so developed that the modern
battleship resulted.
The original type, the monitor pure
and simple, has always been thought
we'll of by many United States officers,
Notwithstanding its rejection after a
trial by foreign navies. Whether we
be right in thus clinging to our old
time friend is a moot question. Ger
tain it is, however, the monitor has al
ways done good work.
The principal object sought by Erics-
son in designing the monitor was the
construction of vessel especially to
attack land defences and to stand
against the guns of Notifications.
The old nickname of the first mont
tor was the Cheese Box"-a round
turret, placed on a platform nearly
awash. Such a ship, although not in
tended for sea service with a squadron
has again and again been sent out into
deep blue water and weathered many
as severe gales as ever blew.
Seaworthiness, however, does not
make the monitor an all round suitable
sea fighter, for this last she distinctly
is not. Her guns are only about six
feet above the level of the water, and
to work them in a sea way would be an
impossibility.
Nevertheless, the monitor is on the
whole a good sea boat. She is safe,
if uncomfortable, and she can make
long voyages successfully.
Several years ago the old Miantono-
mob crossed the Atlantic Ocean and
made a cruise in the Mediterranean,
and the original Monadnock steamed
from New York to San Francisco, IN
der convoy, without mishap.
The Monterey is a steel, low free
board monitor, with two steel barbette
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-11-04
CARD.

We, the undersigned, agree to refund
the money on a tifty-cent bottle of
Greene's Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure
your cough or cold. We also guarantee
a twenty-five cent bottle to prove salts
factory or no pay.
w. II. SHELDON,
d. A. BIsBEE,
ISAAC STERNs,
c. n. NORTH, ShOreham,
d. IL. BENNETT, Bridport,
j. ii. FLETCHER,
F. ii. DEAN, Monkton.
AVERY & PRESTON, Ferrisburg.
30w26
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GIVE THE CHlpRENADR DRINK

called Grain.O. 1t is a delicious, appe-
tizing, nourishing food drink TO take the
place of coffee. Sold by all grocers and
liked by all who have used 1t, because
when properly prepared 1t tastes like the
finest coffee, but is free from all its in
furious properties. Grain-O aids diges-
ton and strengthens the nerves. 1t is
not a stimulant but health builder, and
children, as well as adults, can drink it
with great benefit. Costs about one
quarter as much as coffee. Fifteen and
% cents. 4lw4
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-11-04

Toni must admit that have been
quite attentive to both girls, but Of
course I can't marry them both.
Dick (cheerfully)-Of course not.
There's some consolation in that.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-11-04
STURGEON FISHING.
Capturing Half-Ton Fishes Is No PinhooE
Recreation.

Recreation.
saw a sturgeon in Victoria, on the
cannery floor, says a writer in the To-
ronto Globe. measuring twelve feet by
the tape and weighing more than six
hundred pounds. Any one wishing to
deceive the public by aid of preyari-
eating camera should pose beside this
twelve-foot fish The men who skill
fully and laborious.y reduced it to Sec
lions with an axe said it was not an
uncommon fish, though the biggest on
the floor; that they often found them
far larger and weighing as much as
twelve hundred pounds.
Two men lifting q half-ton fish into
their boat is the exciting feature of
sturgeon fishing. The sturgeon, if not
fastened in his thick hide, is apt to
resent it. He shakes his head in en-
phatic dissent; and a head three feet
long and as big as a log, when vigor-
ously shaken by a half-ton body, is a
thing to be avoided. The tail, too, is
source of danger, for it not only slaps
with energy, but can cover large sur
face with one application. The man
new at the business is apt to get hurt
the first time he helps to coax a wrig-
Cling sturgeon of standard size over d
gunwale.
! On the floor of the cannery the stur
geon is great inert mass of fish. The
first operation of the butcher is to chop
of the head and tail with an axe, and
for these free gifts of nature the In
dams and Cinnamon are eagerly watt
ing at the door The fins are cut off
with a knife, and these are not allowed
to go to waste AS the refuse is snow
elled along the planks to the river
there is little allowed to pass the coast
native and his cousin of the braided
hair. Cinnamon potter around the
place and help 10 clear away the ref
use for the sake of what they can
CLEAN, and have a weakness for taking
parts not intended for the river. When
such Monaghan tricks are discovered
the Cinnamon are all driven out with
more noise than ceremony, but they
take their expulsion with Oriental in
difference, and in few minutes are all
back again.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-11-04

The Spanish feet resembles an ONE
lett is 80 we'll beaten.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-11-04
A CHILD Enjoys

The pleasant favor, gentle action, and
soothing effect of Syrup of Figs, when In
need of laxative, and If the father or
mother be cOstive or bilious, the most
gratifying results follow its use; so
that 1t is the best family remedy known
and every family should have a bottle.
Syrup Co.