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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
o STEAL THE LEGIs-
IATURE.
Is sim Under consideration by
the Republicans ofThis State.


The republicans are still holding
to their disposition to steal theleg-
islature if they possibly can dot.
la addition to other contests, men
ton of which has heretofore been
made, they have undertaken to dis
pute the seat of Rine, d, in the
Tyler4WetzeI district, although
Rine had 10 majority. This con-
test has no more merit than the
one they have filed here in Cabell
county
1t has been the intention of the
republican managers to inaugurate
a lot of contests against democrat
senators-elect, but the ridiculous
attitude in which their SO called
House contests have placed them
may cause change of plans
TO illustrate their desperation,
they wanted Hunter, r. to con-
test in the Thirteenth senator
ial district, although he was de-
feated by more than one thousand
majority; but the idea has evident
|Iy been given up. They are de-
termined to maintain majority on
Joint ballot, if intrigue and rascal
ity can bring it about, but all
the indications ere they will fail.
The democrats will organize the
House of Delegates with a clear
majority of seven. and the republi-
cans will have to throw out the
democratic senators-elect in the
Ninth and Thirteenth districts and
seat the Federal appointees. Getz-
andanner and Piersol, to obtain a
majority of one on joint ballot.
They have no shadow of right to do
this, and if they do, democrats will
be heard from Huntington Ad-
vertiser.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
oAsroHEA.
Rear, N. n The Kind You Hare Always BGSght
81: :; q; ,}::5z77;z:z = &.
WEST VIRGINIA COAL.
what the Report of Mine In
suactO,. paul Shows

What the Report of Mine In
spector Paul Shows.
Mine inspector j. w. Paul, of
West Virginia. is now preparing
his report for the year ending June
80, 1898, and surprisingly fine
showing is made in West Virginia
coal. The total production for the
year will amount to over 14,O0O,-
900 tons an increase of nearly g.
100000 tons over the year before.
In Fayette alone the increase was
over 100000 tons over the pre-
ceeding year, and the output was
increased in every county in the
State except Mineral, Mason, Put
nam, there being some falling off
in the latter owing to several tip
pies being washed away OF other
wise destroyed. In Marion the in
crease was about 100000 tons.
The general increase was due
largely to the steady trade during
the summer. The lake shipments
for 1897 9S also exceeded those of
the previous year by about 4,0O0.-
600 tons. The market for West
Virginia coal in the northwest is
rapidly and steadily growing. The
shipment of coal to foreign coun-
tries is also increasing, aud one
firm in Marion county, before the
war, shipped at least 60 per cent.
of its output to Mexico.
New mines are being developed
in different parts of the State, and
the output for the present fiscal
year will not under normal condi-
lions, fall below Is, 100000 tons and
will possibly exceed that amount.
Mercer county during the last fiscal
year regained her prestige and
shipped over million tons of coal,
the first time the million mark has
been reached there since 1891, when
the Mercer mines had an output of
100000 tons. Over 1,U0o more
men were employed in the West
Virginia mines last year than dur
ing the year proceeding and the
number of days worked is consid-
erably in excess of 1896-97.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
Wherc is 1T?

The gold standard press of this
country tell US, daily, of the great
and growing prosperity among our
people. But when you start out
to find it, they will tell you in the
North that it is in the East and
when you go East looking for it,
you are told that it is in the South
and West and that the farmers of
the West have paid off all their
mortgages and have money left to
burn. But when you go into the
West or the South you find the
people there have tho same kind of
prosperity that we have in this
community: Farm products sell
ing below the cost of production.
Wage earners seeking employment
which they cannot find and mer-
chants anxiousIy waiting for Gus
toners that do not come. The la
boring and producing classes of
this country are enjoying the same
kind of prosperity that their breth-
rem of toll enjoy in all gold st4nd-
ard nations of the earth the
prosperity that makes the rich
richer and the poor poorer, and
those who love this kind of pros
perity should continue to vote for
the single gold standard.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
Beech Grove.

Correspondence, sth.
Mr.. E. S. Cartmill, of Winfield,
is here for a few days visit with HE
parents.
Miss Lena Rice has returned
home from an extended visit to
friends and relatives at Winfield
Mr.. B. Caldwell who has been
working at Anderson, Ind, has re-
turned home.
Mrs. Robt. Young who has been
very sick for the past week, is bet
ter at this writing.
Mr.. c. F. Hall was visitor near
Flat Rock, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. V. Yeager. of
Pleasant Flats, spent Sunday with
Mr.. @. N. CartmiIl and family,
Miss Bell Hall was calling on
friends at Heights recently.
Mr.. L. L. Caldwell, who is
teaching at Plain View. visited
his parents here Saturday and Sun
day.
Miss Gipsey Hall was the guest
of friends in Pleasant Flats Sun
day. GAY.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
YoUNG Ms BE AwAkE.
Henry 6Srady,s Sensible Advice
to young nIeniOf the Country.


Henry Grady's Sensible Advice
to Young Men of the Country.
Never gamble. OF all the vices
that enthrall men this is the worst,
the strongest and most insidious-
Outside of the morality of it. it is
the poorest business and the poor
est fun. No man is safe that plays
at all. 1t is easier never to play.
I never knew man, a gentleman,
1r man of business, who did not
regret the time and money hehad
wasted in it A man who plays
poker is unfit for every other bust
ness on earth.
Never drink. I love liquor, and
1 love the fellowship involved in
drinking. Ny safety has been that
1 never drank at all. 1t is much
easier not to drink at all thar to
drink little. IF I had toattribute
what / have done in life to any one
thing I should attribute it to the
fact that / am a teetotaler. As
sure as you are born i; is the best
and safest way.
If you never drink and never
gamble and m Try early, there is
no limit to the useful and distin-
guished life you may live. You
will be the pride of your fathers
heart and the JOY of your mothers.
[ don't know if there is any happi-
ness on earth worth having outside
of the happiness of knowing that
you have done your duty and tried
to do good. You try to build up.
There are always plenty of others
who will do all the tearing down
that is necessary. You try to live
in the sunshine. Men who stay in
the shade always get mil-dewed.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
VIM Stand Ne idIe?


Since it is true the question of
water works is before our people
let us, that is we who believe in
improvements. stand not idle but
push on, figure out some way SO
that we can enjoy these luxuries
and benefits. How many people
in this town now using electric
lights would be willing to give
them up? L could safely say not
single family, so it would be with
water works. One reason why
some of our people object to these
improvements is because they new
er enjoyed them; had they them
once you would have hard work
getting them back into their old
fogy ways. for it is nothing but
fogyism. permitting other towns
around us to outstrip us, which
they are doing. When you say no
water works, no street cars. no cleo
trio lights, no paved streets, &C..
you say no immigration, no growth,
&c.
This town has been in the hands
of fogyism for over one hundred
years, and it is time the vim and
push element should take hold and
say we will rise. We are told of
IA Cornstalk curse and it ap-
pelrs that even some believe in it.
Why, just the very idea-there is
only one curse hanging over this
town and that is nothing more nor
less than the way back yonder way
getting along amy old way" SO to
speak
1 am one of your humble citizens
who is willing to put his hand to
the pillow ana do all he can for the
progression of his home and town.
1 am no National bank, neither do
1 dress in fine linen and fare
sumptuously every day, but I can
do my part. So come on let us
not let this matter die out as we
have been doing everything else
that tends to upwardness. Let us
buckle on the armour and march
to victory on these matters.
Other towns have these things,
why not Point Pleasant3 We can
if we just will it. If we have
nothing to invite the outside world
how can we expect them to come
in our midst? We are not only
slow about these things, but we
actually drive people away from the
town wanting to come here to live.
One might say how s this? Sim
ply because there are no houses to
rent. Let some person or persons
put up few houses and you will
have no trouble in renting them,
for there is hardly day there is
not some one making inquiry about
a house to rent. More people, more
money to the town. For several
years [ have put off putting down
OF digging cistern, hoping the
day would come by and by when
we would enjoy water-works.
When a stranger stops at town
where they enjoy all these improve
ments, what is his conclusion? 1t
is not necessary to answer this
Now what do you say, are we going
to come forth from the tomb as it
we're, or still slumber? One has
said you signed the petition. True
I did, but was there anything in
the petition saying we should not
have water-works: not as L could
see. We want water-works but do
not want to go at it hap hazard
like some of our people, wanting to
buy old, worn-out, Gullipolis fire
engines. Yours, etc,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

Why can't some of our own cap
italists form a company, get a
franchise and build. water-works
for our town? If it will pay
foreign corporation, it certainly
ought to pay home corporation.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
Christmas Gift.

A nice Christmas gift, and one
that will make the recipient always
think of you during the year, is to
send copy of our Daily or Week
ly Register to some absent friend
The price of the Daily is So per
year. and the Weekly 81 per year.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

Mrs. Sallie Wiley, of Ramps
hire county, was riding to a funer-
al with her two sons in wagon,
the bed of which was covered with
straw, when one of them threw a
match with which he had lighted
a cigarette carelessly on the straw,
and all three were seriously burned
before the flames could be exiting
uished.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
Died.

Mrs. Weaver, widow of Capt.
John Weaver, formerly residing at
Graham Station, died at the home
of Mrs. Long, in Mason, Tuesday,
December 9th, 1898, and was bur-
led at Graham Station, Wednes-
day. She was So years of age.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

Although the products of our
factories are selling in European
markets in full competition with
those of the world, the present tar
iff was enacted to keep European
products cut of our markets lest
they undersell ours and pauperize
our laborers. s.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
Married

By Rev. S. j. Miller, Pastor of
Trinity M. E. Church, at the Par
sonage Wednesday, December It'll,
1898, Mr.. James a. Bryan and
Miss Julia E. Hawkins, of Pleas
ant Flats.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
She Dropped Dead.

Clarksburg. w. Va, Dec. s.
Mrs. Georgia Ford, daughter of
Joseph Osborn, dropped dead yes
terday at the residence of her broth
er, George Smith, who himself is
seriously sick with typhoid fever.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
WILL BE CoNTEsTED.

Hon. H. F. KIdd'S Election to be
Disputed With the View of
Stealing the Legislature.
Special to the Register.
PARKERsBURe, w. Va, Dec. g.
Hon. r. F. Kidd, Democrat, who
was elected State Senator from the
Fourth Senatorial District, the re-
count of the votes giving him al
majority over Morris, Republican,
received notice from the Repuhli-
cans to-day that his election would
be contested.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
Fell i'm the Fire.

A young child of Jas. Franklin,
colored, fell from chair into a
grate-fre yesterday, and was quite
badly burned before it was rescued
by its mother. It is in serious
condition and may not live.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

Mother-Johnny, you go right to
bed! Johnny-Yessum; but you
bet your life when I get big I'll
join club like pa belongs to, and
then 1 wont have t go t. bed at all
if I don't want to.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
'OnSQInptiOn
AND 1rs CURE

AND ITS CURE
To THE EDITOR 81 have an absolute
remedy for Consumption. By its timely use
thousands of hopeless cases have been already
permanently cured. So proof-poSitiYe am
Of ifs power that consider it my duty to
send fro bottles free to those of your readers
Svi,, have Consumption Throat, Bronchial or
lung trouble, if they viii write me their
e s,l and postofice address. Sincerely,
= A. sIOcUiG, II. c., 1s3 Pearl St, Hew York.
- M Editorial and Business Management o.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
Heights.

Miss Anna and Carrie Somer-
vile, visiting the family of Mr..
Lewis McMillen, for several days,
will leave for their home in Pleas
ant Flats, this evening.
Miss Maggie Berkely. from
Pleasant Flats, is the guest of Mr.
W. M. Duffy and family.
Mr.. Andy Watson has erected q
blacksmith shop in this place. and
will be operating it soon. He is q
good blacksmith, and should be
we'll patronized. M.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
0AsTo7EA.
Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought
''se OF ImEzzzzz@

The formation of S15O,OOO.OOO
flour trust is the latest evidence of
the efficiency of our antitrust laws
as at present administered.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
Warninr Nofice.

NOTICE is hereby given to all
IN whom it may concern, not to har-
Dor or trust any of my children, on
my account, as shall not pay any
debts whatever of their contracting.
LOUIS ScHwARz.
Sept. 10, 1898.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

AS the New York Herald puts it,
the President is great on "throw.
ing down the reins" of government
whenever he gets into a tight
place, and letting the government
team manage itself. That is not
the character of man to make wise
and safe executive.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
.' ss.ss ses OF &mz@zzzz@
Sweepings


Ill examples are like contagious
diseases.
Dry bread with love is better
than capon with fear.
Fools are always resolute to make
good their own folly.
Great minds are easy in prosper
ity, and quiet in adversely.
If you would compare two men
you must know them both.
Drunkenness turns a man out of
himself, and leaves beast in his
room.
1t is a good horse that never
stumbles, and good wife that
never grumbles
The argument that protection
brings competition has been
smashed into smithereens. The
Dingley tariff is SO high as to break
down nearly all foreign competition
with products now controlled by
American trusts. These trusts put
up tn price of their products at
home. and sell them abroad at far
lower prices. Protection ties the
hands of the people while trusts
rob them in plain view
"The flag of our republic should
float over free people, and must
never form cloak to hide slavery,
barbarism, despotism or tyranny.
America as we know it, with its
blessings of peace and stability,
must not be hazarded for new
era Samuel Gompers.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

The possession of the PHILIPPINES
will require large standing army
at all times. The American peo-
pie should beware of militarism.
This is the source of all the evils
that are running the Latin races.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

Since Mr.. Mckinley has made
it plain that he has no policy re-
garding our foreign acquisitions,
undecided Republicans will have
to turn to Mark Hanna.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

There seems to be no further dis
pute about the lower house of the
Legislature being Democratic.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

The bank checks passing through
the Clearing Houses in London
and New York in one month ex-
coed the value of all the gold and
silver coin in the world.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

An exchange says: I'VE are get
ting tired of this life insurance bus
mess. When a man dies nowadays
the first thing they ask is: WAS he
insured and how much?' The pa
pers also generally wind up the
obituary notice with the amount of
insurance. Soon the obituary
notice will read like this: Peter
Jones died and left wife and two
children; loss fully covered by in
surance.' Or if the deceased is not
insured it will read about as follows:
John Smith is dead. He leaves a
wife; total loss; no insurance. .
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

Col. w. j. Keister, of Ashton,
had an exciting time with a wild
hog on his place the other day
that he had allowed to run for the
past two years. 1t took after Mr..
Keister who had a shot gun and
gave him but little time to make
ready and fire, but he threw the
shot gun over his shoulder as he
ran and fred back at it disabling it
and checking it in its mad career
until others came up with shot
guns and revoIvers and put an end
to its existence Gallipolis Tri-
bune.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

The creditor combination who
own the debts of the world are in
terested in making money scarce
and dear and every thing that mon
eY buys. cheap.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

When the Legislature convenes
in January it may be able to decide
who is elected. AS it now is, it re-
minds US, somewhat, of the Dutch
mans law suit. "Igilty-typigelty
till the devil decites him not"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

Many New York mustered out
volunteer soldiers being out of en-
ployment these days of Mckinley
prosperity are enlisting in the reg
ular army. The President will
have no difficulty in recruiting the
regular force of Uncle Sam Up to
100000 men. Thousands of poor
fellows will jump at the chance
these days.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
"a -1ose Iiving
FREE sILvEK wILLLIvE.
IT VIII Be the Main Issue of the
Battle of 10OO-AII Its For
mer Friends are StIIl 10y
al to the Cause.

Battle of 10OO-All Its For
mer Friends are StIn 10y
al to the Cause.
The anxiety with which the Re-
publican newspapers announce the
death of free silver is only father
to the thought, remarks the Allan
ia Constitution.
By enlarging the Importance of
foreign issues it is their hope to
overshadow ali local questions, 50
that in the glamor of imperial glory
the will of the people at home may
be passed over. In recent speech
ex-Governor Altgeld antagonized
this hope in the following language:
ssThe breathing, living Issue IN
1900 will be free silver. Renegade
Democrats and robber Republicans
cannot kill it. II is not dead be-
cause the corrupt twin brethren,
Hanna and Croker, assert that it is
dead. Every man who was earn
estIy and conscientiously with us
in 1896 is with US to-day.
''The platform of 1896 will be
reafirmed. Free silver will be
stronger in the next national con-
vention than it was in the last.
There is a painful surprise in store
for men who believe it is dead"
The next two years will prove
quite as disappointing to the Re
publicans as the past two. When
Mr. Mckinley assumed the Presi-
dency it was fondIy hoped that sill
yer was dead. The recent election
has shown that silver has become
the corner stone of the Democratic
temple. The people are not SO
easily led astray as may be sup
posed, and they may be relied up
on to be wide awake in 1900.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14
Bar Association.

Prof. William P. Wiley, secre-
tary of the West Virginia Bar As
ISOLATION. announces that Judge
Henry Stockbridge. of Baltimore.
has accepted an invitation to de-
liver the annual address before the
association at it's annual meeting
in Charleston. January 18th and
18th. Other addresses on assigned
topics will be made by @. Wood
Daley, of Elkins; Judge T. P.
Jacobs, of New Martinsville; Geo.
E. Price, of Charleston; M. d.
Post, of Wheeling, and L. g Hern-
don, of WEIGH. The association
will, at the time of its meeting,
present several measures to the
Legislature, which will then be in
session at Charleston, looking to
changes in present statutes.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

Competent authorities estimate
that if William Waldorf Astor lives
out the ordinary span of life he will
be millionaire" before he dies
His daily income is now stated to
be s25,627. At present there are
nine American families whose for
tunes aggregate the almost incon-
ceivable sum of 50, 1884, 100000.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

Our Governor is looking for
trouble When a man starts out
on such hunt he is liable to find
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

Ill examples are like contagious
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

It is foolishness to go to sensible
people with an unreasonable prop
osition.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

Leasing lands for oil and gas, in
Mason county. is going ON quite
lively.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

There is said to be fifteen inches
of snow in the West Virginia
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

We are now having all the winter
weather that it is prudent to have. -
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

The big porkers have not been
to this Office, yet.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-14

The population of Point Pleas
ant is increasing quite rapidly, and
would more, if houses could be OBJ
tanned.