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ifiie Weekly Register,
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OBO. W. sxran, ? IJditor.
WEfft VA.
The l^nlnlmiirc.
A bill has been introduced in the
Hooselo appropriate $5G(60p.50to
complete tbo Capitol building at
Charleston.
A'very important bill, known as
Ni/^bubeen preseqted in the
Houfe, Intended to seotire opera
lives and laborer! engaged in and
aboot coal mines and in all manu
factories the payment of their wa
ges at regular intervals and in law
ful money, and should become a
law.
The Senate baa passed a bill pro
vidlng for the opening of the Uni
versity at Uorgantown, to both sex
es. It ought to be defeated in the
House.
Several petitions have been pre
sented to both houses praying for
the repeal of the law providing for
the State Board of Health.
A resolution was offered by Mr.
Bayre,In.the House, requesting our
Representatives in Congress to
support the passage of the bill now
before Congress proposing to refund
the tax imposed by the general
government on the several Stales
and Territories as a war tax. If
this becomes a law West Virginia
will receive from the government
8208,480.
House Bill No. 185 provides for
the appointment by the Governor
of a Superintendent of Public
Printing, at a salary of $1500 per
year. It would prove to be a good
law, and would save to the State
e iveral thousand dollars annually.
Representative Owings, Brooke
county, has introduced a bill pro
viding fur the abolishing of the
State Normal Schools. He ought
to have a leather medal.
In the Senate on Wednesday, Mr.
Murris offered a bill having for its
object the changing of the law
which now requires the formality
of a vote every two years for pow
er to levy for school taxes. It pro
poses to dispense with the formali
ty by requiring a vote in 1885 on
power to levy until otherwise pro
vided by law. Should this bill be
dims a law, boards of education
will lay the levy annually without
any.further action by. tbo different
districts. ??
House Bill No. 158, offered on
Wednesday list, makes it unlawful
for stock to run at large, and pro
vides that owners of stray cattle,
or other stock, whichdamngo prop
erty, shull be liable for such dam
ugo, which is to be ascertained by
referees,, one to be chosen by each
party, and a third by these two.?
The decision of such referees shell
bo final and have the force of a
judgment, except that an appeal
shall be allowed when the damages
assessed exceed ten dollars.
House Bill No. 101 provides for
the stamping of articlos manufact
ured by convict labor with the fol
lowing words: "convict labor," in
a conspicuous place, and makes it
a Gne of not less than Ave dollars
nor more than twenty-five dollars
for any failure to so stamp such
articles by any contractor. What
good this law is intended to accom
plish we do not know. As long as
convict labor is permitted to com
pete with free and honest labor it
makes very little difleronco about
any distinguishing marks. Peo
ple will buy wherever thoy get the
most retunrs for their money, and
u.tk but fow if any questions about
the source whence tbo articles
came.
A bill Vasbeen Introduced in the
Houso to punish sollers of immoral
literature with a fine of 8250 and
imprisonment one year in jail.
]t ought to become n law.
The bill cutting down the rates
of newspaper advertising has pass
ed the Senate. Senator McCreery,
its p&tron, will soon Gnd his politi
cal grave. Such a lair is unneces
sary as well as unjust.
The great qnestion now before
the Legislature is the question of
exemptions. Whether to exempt
at alll What to expmptl When
to cxemptl Whether Governor
Jackson's supplemental asseesinent
order shall be approved! Or, shall
the rights and demand* of the pro
ducing classes be respected!
The House Judiciary Committee
has reported adversely to the pro
hibition amendment, which
equivalent toils defeat.
The bill to appropriate 137,000
for thtf repair of the Capitol build
ing at Wheeling, is regarded as an
attempt at a big steal on the part
of the city of Wheeling, It is isid
that 18,000 will be mere than suffi
cient to make the repairs.
A bill has been introduced in the
Senate to obange the manner of se
lecting jurors. It provides that in
criminal cases the defendant may
?trike four jurors from the panel of
twenty and the State four, and that
tha remaining twelve shall try the
. case if tbay be qualified.
r wrvi*M uMiU'W'
Swrettry McCullocb, in hi* an
ii i)nl report, called the attention of
tribution o( foreign trade, he sub
milted the following statement:
?'Of the merchandise imported at
seaboard, lake and riter dur
ing the fiscal year 1884, an amount
equal In Value to $162,201,729 was
iroported in American vessels, and
in value to 8626,878,213 in foreign
vet sell. The merchandise exported
in American vessels had a value of
<112,620,723, and tbe merchandise
exported in foreign vessels was
valued at $687,739,872. Of the cuts
bined import* and exports of mer
cbandiM, about 17% per cent, was
conveyed in American veMolt, and
about 82$ per cent, in foreign voe
sels."
Tbeie figures are not peculiarly
applicable lo 1884, but rather rep
resent a condition that has existed
for many years, The matter at
fact is that almost tbe whole of oar
foreign commerce is transported in
foreign vessels, and the profits of
tbe Carrying business for tbe raoet
part accrue to foreigners. In r^
gard to tbis condition, Secretary
McCullocb speak' as follows:
"The great and profitable carry
ing trade between the United
States and Europe has been par
mitted to pass into the hands of
the ship-owners ?f other nations.
So complete is their control of it,
io large Is the capital invested in
it, and so sharp and persistent
would be the contest if we should
attempt, without Government aid
to share in it, that our capitalists
would not compete for it. There
is, in my opinion, no prospect
whatever that tbe United States
will ever share to n considerable
extent in tbe foroign carrying
trade without Government aid. 1}
U for Congress to determine wheth
er this aid shall be granted, or
whether our foreign shipping in
terest shall remain in its present
death-like condition. Tbe let-alone
policy has been tried for many
yeard, during which our ships have
been Bwopt from the ocean, and no
pay every yoar millions of dollars
to foreign ship-owners for freight
and fares. Ought this condition of
things to be continued?
"Entertaining theso viows I do
not hesitato to express the opin
ion:
"First, That, without Govern
ment aid to United States steam
ship lines, the foreign carrying
trade will remain in the handB of
foreigners.
"Second,. TK?t- ae we oughtMs
have an interest in ikhe business
which we, create, fcnd Ks tho restor
ation of our shipping interest is
important, if not essential," to the
extension of our foreign trade, sub
sidies in tho form uf liberal pay
ments for the transportation of
muils, or in jome other form, should
bcoflereda* an inducement to in
vestments of capital in steam
ships."
Tho Turin".
When the time arrives that the
Democratic party has to shapo the
tariff policy of the country, it will
doubtless occupy a position, inter
mediate between, absolute free
trade and high protection. While,
as an abstract principle of justice,
tho dootrine that people ought to
be allowed to buy where they can
buy the cheapest, and sell where
they can sell the dearest, is axi
omatic, still there are other con
siderations to be kept in view, and
others principles not less true.
Thoro aro manufacturing interosts,
upon which a large portion of our
people either directly or indirectly
dopend, which must recoivo a just
amount of consideration, but not
an undue amount. High protcc
tion iii grossly unjust to a largo ma
jority of the population of this
country, as ubsoluto free trndo is
dangerous to the manufacturing
interests. Thore entrusted with
tlie duty of fixing the revenue pol
icy, must divest themselves of all
selfish, sectional or class considera
tions, and aim to adopt a conferva
tive cnurfo that will accord equable
protection to all, without reacting
harshly on nnv.?Statuman.
Khnrtoau IIit* Fullest.
News has reached the war oXce
at London that Khartoun, which
was being held by General Gordon
had been captured on the 25th of
January, and that a portion of the
BritUh army was at the mercy of
Mahdi. Colonel Wilton, who was
dispatched with a imull force to re
lieve Gordon, found the oily cap
tured and the general a prisoner of
war. lie arrived there two days
after the fall.
Great gloom prevails throughout
General Stewart's camp at Metco)'
neh and fears fire expressed that
unless soon re-enforced, the fata of
the army will be sealed.
Intense, excitementjjnvaili at
London. Gladstone faaa oolltd a
meeting of the cabinet, and it is
thought will tender his resignation.
The Nicaraguan treaty is dead.
The Senate refused to ratify it by
a vote of 32 to 23?sot the neces
sary two-thirds.
nor contemporary, "not one of the
Government building* in Washing
jsjsgwf**
r% fVU.fr tr"^' in"/mm ?t""iU
be exercised ?t thie"time to avert
calamity of a conflagnUon at the
WfrffiF vUum
rwcoids.^e^ld^eittlft'areVbm
to move ont, and at socK a Wa'e,
when forgotten corners are pried
into, muaty papers overhauled and
matches perhapa carelessly used,
extra precaution! are never out
of place.
It woold be a great long if tome
of the old Treaanry account*, books
and papers should be burned up
just as new bookkeepers are com
ing intooffice.
We have seen nothing *to war
rent the statement so frequently
made by the Republican organs
that the Democrats are hungry
and thirsty for office. But we
should regard it as a phi'dont and
useful act if the Democracy would
lake time by the forelock and at
once appoint a Are palrote to guard
the non-fireproof and notoriously
unsafe public buildings at Wash
ington from the "accident" of fire.?
N.Y. World.
Stale DeluimMlou.
Fairmont Index.
The following paragraph is ta
ken from the New York Tribune of
January 21st, 1883:
"Private" Dalzell has juBt re
ceived the following letter from an
old soldier living in West Virginia:
"Will?you be so kind as to let mo
know what would be the best part
of the West to form a colony of old
soldiors? Many of us hero must
leave or get out of the oppression
of Bourbon rule in West Virginia.
We wish to go to some of the Wes
torn States or Territories, and feel
ing that you will interest yourself
in our bebulf we come to you for
information. The old veterans
hero are generally ignorant but
honest, and they cannot endure the
rebel domineering any longer; be
sides, the laws are very oppressive,
and a soldier has no cbance in the
courts. Thefe is no uso for them
to Ro to law against their rebel
neighbors. They have no chance
to get their rights. Republican
soldiers will leave this State in
grpat numbers; they are panic
stricken, and no wonder. It would
be as easy to stop a cyclono in-its
course as to turn these brave mon
from their intontion."
What Republicans expect to ac
complish by this kind qf'State de
famation has been a source of won
der to a great many intelligent
people. Mulignant lies like the
above can only serve one purpose.
Their constant iteration by tlio
miserable wrotchos who mimu/iic
ture and givo them circulation,
may have the effect of preventing
northern capital in a great meas
ure from coming into onrStato,
where it is so badly needed to build
railroads and develop our mines,
but such blows struck at our ma
terial and business inlere?tf hurt
Republicans just as much as Demo
crats.
The lie is now gone broadcast
over the land, and no doubt many
people in the north wb'o read it
will believe that there is no protec
tion for the life or security for the
properly of the Union soldier in
this Statfl; that our whole people
are a set of Rebel misoreants who
spend most of their time in deriv
ing a system of oppressive and out
rageous laws to barrass and perse
cute the Union men who live
hero; consequently wheu they look
around for locations for new homos
for themselves or their friends, or
some profitable investment for
their capital, they give West Vir
giniaa wide berth.
It Boen).? to be useless to refute
one of those Jiof>. Every citizen of
this State who can rend, knows
that there is not a Slate in tbo
Union in which there in lew par
tisan bias in the administration of
justice iban in Welt Virginia; that
ihere never was any proscription
or persecution hore except by the
Republican parly against Demo
crats, and that that system of
proscription so offended and out
raged the natural feeling of justice
which is lodged in the mindsofour
honest mountaineers, that tbey
arose in their might and burled
that party from power in order
that our young Slate might have
perfect freedom and equality before
ibe law for every citizen within
Iter boundaries. Yet notwith
standing these facts, the same old
lies are roiteraled now and then
for the singlo purpose, It would
seem, of deterring men of means
from becoming interested in the
development of our immense re*
sources.
It is to be sincerely hoped that
'.'Private Dalzoll" will find a suita
ble location somewhere for these
miserable liars, and that tbey will
mil gather themselves and th^ir ef
fects together ind'otHlgrate lo it.
Tbey are no benefit to aby body
here, and Republicans as well as
Democrats can well spare tbem and
tbeir dirty work.
There are no new developments
this week from the Euglish Dyna
miters
j[real expectations can makeiit.
"Congress baa resolved not to do
nyuh (more ..than paw appropria
tion bills. The eiWcutHfe depart
ments are moving along in a des
pairing way with iheir routine
work. The sad-eyed, government
clerk await* with fear and tremb
ling the day of political judgment,
hoping that Cleveland may over
look all his sins nf omission and
commission, and retain him in the
trust he has m> long abased. Dem
ocratic politicians havo gone-in
large numbers to meet the Presi
dent-elect in New York. Repub
lican politicians without a leader
or a cause are doing nothing.
Society dear, simpering,, mealy
mouthed society continues to smile,
and smile and be a vidian. In
deed it must be chronicled' that
society has smiled too. miwi^nd.
too often this winter. The punoh
has been too beady, and there have
beon some rows and orgie* in high
life. These thing.* do not get into
the papers, they are personal mat
ters, and not of sufficient impor
tance to be spread before the world,
but the result of certain disgrace
ful episodes at dancing parties and
receptions is that the punch will
he brewed milder in certain West
End houses in the future.
Mr. Beecher was herd during the
week as a lecturer and there is t(o
doubt that he was cut by his old
Republican admirers. It is true
that the Democrats helped to fill
the breach, but the Democrats are
not numerous or rich yet. The
hall was not much more than half
full, and forthe first time in j*ars
the great orator saw many vacant
seats before him. If he will come
again next year he will have a bet
ter house; he i? an entertaining
lecturer, and, as a prophet is super
ior to the Editor of the New York
Sun.
Mr. Cleveland has sent invita.
lions to a largo number of promi
nent Democrats to meet him in
New York, and so far as heard
from none have sent their regrets.
There was almost a quorum nf
Congress in New York on Friday.
A Virginia delegation has gone to
urge the appolutment of Mr. Bar
hour as Postmaster General. Mr.
Barbour ih well fitted for the place,
-and his appuinlmant would iuean
the utter extinction of the pestilent
little Muhone. , ,
The Democratic stutesmen who
have returned from New York
seem to be ono and all impressed
with the huncsty of purpose, and
good common sense of Mr. Cleve
land. It iB ob^orved also that they
have caught from Mr. Clevoland
the contagion of holding their
tongues. They persistently refuse
to disclose any private con versa
tions held bettvoen President-elect
Cleveland, and his party associates.
The Republicans are looking and
praying for factioual fights and po
litical blunders in the new admin
istration. Many Democratic lead
ers have been to see Mr. Cleveland
in the last six weoks, and they
have all come away pleased with
the coming president and determ
ined to do all in their power to
make hiaadministrutinn successful.
There In proapooL of a ?till further
reduction uf postage, by increasing
the weight uf first class mutter that
may be curried for two cents, from
a half nuuee to two ounce*. The
Committee appointed by tho pub
lishers of the West, and Northwest
to urgeiipon Congress the propriety
and justice of reducing the postage
on newspapers, report progress
which is encouraging. The House
committee on PottoQices it in fu
vor of reducing postage from tiro
cents n pound to one cent. The
prosent tax of postage on newspap
ers is a vory heavy one, ainuulint
to a little lets than two million
dollars per annum. The postage
was put on abent ten years ago by
certain men in Congress who took
this method of revenge for harsh
criticism received from the preis.
One of them nan Mr. Hamlin of
Maine who thought that the large
city papers would be the chief suf
ferers, but the result was that tho
tax was felt most heavily by the
weekly papers. The large daily
papers avoided some of the expense
by employing Express companies
at cheaper rates. It it thought
that a uniform postage of one oent
per ponnd will result ic giving the
governmet all the business, with
only a slight decrease in the pres
ent revenue.
General Grant is said to be in
bad hq?jlh? He has undoubtedly
broken down greatly in the past
two years.
Three weeks from to day Graver
Cleveland will stand up and be
sworn, and the Demooratic party
will onoe mere hold the reins of
government.
ernocrit: ?
"*nifJ th*' jfflett incumbent
competent and faithful In thed I
ffftMbof dut.v Mil bl&meles* in iw
jjlleil action, ?b?ll be indb*rl?T
ZnVr1?^
S ih.! * 'borjiughexamiaatiun
in ^ Pwiit holders of the office
Khali hI"0*"/ l.he P"bliCMr.
wa. ,ni ^1 ?!de s>- "k.JJful ex.
S?1 ^a,re fo"n,j
jf nt Or unfaithful, or by indlreo
the" SSL * 1#Uer or spirit of
n.li?) " who are unt
needed, or who bn.vc already en
17? ^ 1 le,m 4l'?ce, xhall
Lh'm i" ",lan<l on lbe ?'<Jer of
heir going, *ball goat onoe. The
?low B<>nCH,?'n0l.^"ntf'fled "ilh 'he
nregent ri.^l <jP"ati<>n of th,
Sfertk " TfkB la"' If *6
mast'pi>y' n'',iM
ders to ri?i 07r'P?W?nIce hoi
rnaknh, , .".r.rwign' reform "'H
make but imle progress in the
? W use of the
or iiurifv th not clea""e
Wee All ^ ^re"'u corrupt tier
"an ?tah ? < tha,Jan u,,Part'
in !? i Wv # " desirable, bu t
an attempt to accjimplisb it until
L wL\?i d,8trit,ut'l"i i?mude
taWreen the partus in the ratio of
tjieir respective vutere will be fu.
Senator Payne.<Jid not pretend
i,re#id???L ,iK th?'enli,n?Hof tlie
/' n '? Ut ,h""e remnrks
Itaccurd w''h Mr.
C evelandg underitnod sentiment*
on these questions, that we think
no mistake will be made if this
quotation from the Senator's speeeh
Pre.ddeent',f8,Caref'J!-mtiine of lhe
Iv the l lre H'oy. Certain
apty.-L n?objotionno iu<*
An IiiealcuTablc"Boon.
Sfato Journal.
nlJh5 jhin River Railroad has
IfrnmlL ne- mure f,,r lhe Vdiloy
from Ihls point l0 Wheeling than
the steamboats have accomplished
IflnU ko oentury. The extension
would be an incalculable boon, to
the people of Wood, Jackson and
Ma on counties, and yet there are
and owners who are so blind to
their own interests as to obstruct
delay and perhaps jeopardize the
! L lhe "'ad- Such men
j should be prohibited by law from
!overriding on a railroad trai?
Thjyworebnmawmurv too late
and belong ainot^Jhe fossils of by.
Phages. .11 J?
as? *? m4 i a
SlWlff1 -Mr.
in Alle,en> "a* asleep
?m ' ^,r<[ ar" c"'"red hi" l"'tl
room and stole his w?tcli and all
and want^f ',C in his Pncke".
en anH .r, m'herl;1,110 lhokit?h:
n?.? ?PprnPtri>,,d10 'heir own
i#v, n c j?LC'lke4 ??d pies they
Mr Shilff' ?R " (raII"n of milk
?;? Shaner can giro no cine to the
th loves, as he knew nothing of
heir presonco in the house until
'enn?' ?rning. The suppo,"
n of Mr. Shaflor is that thev
j^!"6,1." by a window, stole quietly
into his room and drugget] him
with chloroform. The walch wus
a valuable nae?./Cinguml Journal.
Gen. T. E. Sickles, ohief engineer
if the syndicate which built the
Ohio River Road, Is dead. He wan
advanced in years, and will he re
membered by many ?f our ci'ii?n?
aa going over tho. entire route be
fore the road was built. It was
probably through hi* advice that
the road >va< built,a? the syndicate
acted on bin suggestions as to
whether the road would pay. He
died from blood poi'nningsnppowl
to have been caused by his goine
into a tunnel where dynamite had
been used in blasting.?State
Journal.
General Grant lias presented the
Government with nil of the many
gifts, curiosities, <to, which have
been given to him since the war
in honor of his great achievements.
They will be carefully preserved in
Washington. If the actual intrin
sic value of the articles be not con
sidered this may probably bo con
sidered (be greatest gift ever made
to any nation by one person.
Arkansas eloected her U. S. Sena
tor last Saturday, on the 31st bal
lot, Hon. Jas. K. Jones, who now
represents the Third District of
that State in Congress, was ohosen
to succeed Hon. David Walker.
This makes three Jones' in the
Senate, with Oregon, lllinoise and
New Hampshire to report.
A detachment of colored militia
from South C'Molina, headed by a
genuine colored brigadier-general,
will be one of the notable features
of the inauguration day parade.
Who would have predicted suoh a
thing twenty yean ago?
the Blaine worshippers in Plym
outh church have insisted on ad
vertising Beeobertosuch an extent
that his ooogergatious now are
larger than ever.
We feel authorized to state that
Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet is still in
the shop and'rcqmros a few finish
iug touches.
Uorernor Jackson's'
receiving compliments. ...
the newapaper line. Utjao..
it is OD0 of the cleirwt ?nd mutt
cnmprehealive Stale paper* that
has appeared for yearn. It give*
an innghtjnto the publio work
ings of ill* Stats that should be of
vital moment to everf oitlidn.
A Great Revival.
Wetxel Democrat.
A great revival of religion hat
been prevailing in Gallipolis, 0.
Over one thousand oon versions are.
reported. Two bouses of bad re
pute and a number of saloons ire
cloeed and business generally sui.(
pended. This we leiro from the
New York papers.
Will Bo Badly Astoulahed.
State Journal.
the Black Diamond R. R. will
materinlize into a full fledged, ac
tual road a good deal'^aicker than
even the boxful suppose. As for
the croaker* they will be so badly
astonished that they won't know
themselves.
In a Dllctua.
WeUol Democrat.
In awful view of the faot that
prohibition will be submitted and
carried 'we see the winter of our
discontent coming on. In this
soul trying hour we are reminded
once more of the plaintive wnil of
Sally Ann Barber one bitter Janu
ary morning?"Oh, I/ird, whatever
is a body goin' to do for garden
seeds?"
PIcUMiirr In Sclioola.
New York Commercial.
It is the great error of otir mod
ern school system, both public and
private, that" mere acquisition Is
regarded and treated as the object
of study. The min'd is assumed to
be a meal bag which must be filled
with the meal of learning, and not
an instrument of great delicacy
which is to be adjusted and brought
into the most eOicientcondition for
use.
A Jfew Reform Movement.
Pnrkersburg Sentinel.
Senator McCreery seems to have
embraced a now reform movement,
and begins his career in this noble
departure by trying to jump on to
newspapers. There is more than
ono political grave in West Vir
ginia filled with gentleman who
fatally imagined that they could
down the press, and If this gentle
man is wi'e he will quietly go out
and dio while he is yet innocent.
Will Be Suiuncd V lib Jiotlilns |
Mnrtlnslii^rg Stslesnian.
We havo sufficient confidence in
the honor and integrity of the ma
jority olt tho Democratic members
"f the Legislature, to beliuve that
they will conform their %ction in
ihe matter of tho property exemp
tion hill, to the known wishes of
their constituents. Very few of
tliem would havo been elected, if it
had not been understood that they
would do all in their power to keep
the tax law, as it had roferenoe to
the farmers and manufactures, just
as it had been ever since the State
was organized. The people have
grown up under it and will be sat
isfied with nothing less.
The Pooltnaater'D Life.
Klngwood Freeman.
Did you ever upend (he day In a
country postoffico? Nnl I out be
hind a big glass msb with the post
maiter, and aa we sal and dialled
girls and boys came trooping in
inking for loiters for "our folks."
The )K)?traastor was urbanity per
sonifiwl, and with a sooilehe would
xar again, and again, and again,
"Nothing today for you."
"Do you know tbatsomoof these
children's parents, to my certain
knowledge, haven't had a letter in
three years? And yet they come
here every mail without fail and
chirp out, 'If you please, sir, any
thing for our folks?' And do you
supposo they aro dismayed, aflor a
Sear's continued daily icquiries?
lot at all! Day after day they bob
up serenely, and it makes but lit
tle difference whether President
elect Cleveland enforces the civil
service programme, the 'our folks'
will be on hand regularly at the
distribution of every mail, and
they will not be dismayed if they
do r.ot receive even a circular for
forty years to come."
One Year Ago.
Wheeling Intelligencer.
One yoar ago the.Ohio Valley
was not in the happy, prosperous
condition it is to d^y. The usual
ly placid river had swollen into a
destructive torrent and there was
nothing but desolation on every
hand. Houses were destroyed, and
in some caws whole villages were
wiped out by the resistless waters.
The hills were peopled with her
inhabitants who had dwelt in the
happy valloys, and woe and hanger
were their onlv companions. In
this city one third of the entire
population were driven from shel
ter, and many were fed by the
hand of charity that responded
generously when the cry of help
went up from the sufferers. Car
ried on the besom of ibis flood were
thouands of dollars worth of prop
erty never to bo reoovertd. The
details of this disastet are still
fresh in the memory of the people,
and need not be recalled. But
what a change in a year. Tbo
people art) comfortably housed again
and enioyed a fair share of prosper
ity, villages that were destroyed
have been rebuilt, and the entire
length of the valley has recovered
from the devastation wrought by
the waters. It is something to Im
thankful for, even if the times hart
been a little hard.
..v..... ?uuj? ^?iu? ?im uuiu ineir
breath while the result is being as
certained.
Fi*e men were sentenced to daath
in the U. 8. Court, at-Fort Smith,
Arkansas, on the iSlrt nit., for
murder committed in Indian Ter?
ritory. The condemned men will
be executed April 27th.
Khartoun has fallen and now Tor
English grit, treasure and blood to
right the horrible mistakes of the
past.
The prohibitionists are getting a
little anxious Their proposed
amendment resolution is nut mak
ing teiy rapid progrsM.
Thef, jfrg\s]itu*%md7 a good
deal of time unmaking laws of pre
vious Legislatures. The tinkering
is exp*n?i?e, but the members
have to put in their lime some way
or other.
General Logan, being the nnanl
moos nominee of the Republican
members of ihe Illinois LegWatiir?,
h?s entered upon another long
struggle, the Legislature being" a
tie politically.
For Sale.
FARM of 280 acres in Mcrctr'tt
Bottom, Mason County, known as
part of tho late Edward L. Manager tract;
d. r'c'' bottom land, balanco
rolling hill land, well timbered; two or
chards of apple trees, excellent fruit; 2
houses, end outbuildings; OS scree of
wheat sown will be' sold with farm.
>\ ill be sold cheap. Apply to
MRS. JANE E. Hll.r.,
Ashfon, Mason Co., W. Va.
foblMw.
SELECT SCHOOL.
MRS. C. M. COLE, will open her
usasl Spring Term, one week after
the close of the Public Schools.
l-Rica raa month?pay aui.b xokthlv.
Small children $1 00
Third and Fourth Readers - 1 25
Fifth Reader and Third part Arith
metic it 1 50
With a redurtion, whon one or two more
pupils attend from the same family,
feb. 11-4W
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
NOTICE is hereby given thatapetition
has been tiled in the Circuit Court
of Mason county, West Vinrfnia, liy The
Board of Trustees of tho Methodist Epis
copal church in the town of Point Pleas
ant, West Virginia, praying that an or
der be entered by said Court permitting
them to sell the church anil parsonage
lot on the corner of Viand and Fifth
streets, in Point rieasant, West Vir
ginia. and also the lot recently purchased
of C. P. T. Moore and wife on Viand
Street, in said towu, adjoining tho lot
purchased for tho church building, And
which petition wilUie heard on the 17th
day of February, 1885. Anjr person in
terested may appear ami resist such ap
plication.
The Board of Trbiteesof tho
Methodist Episcopal Church
in the town of Point Pleasant,
West Virginia.
By COUNSEL
Simpson A Howard,Sols. [febll-lt,
LOTTERY.
CAPITAL PI11ZE, $70,000.00
tS" Ticket* only f?>. .Sharet in
Proportions^
ms
Louisiana State Lottery Company.
" ffit do hereby certify thnt ve m/mnV the
eumngonfuU fur all lit ifouthly imd Semi
/(rimml Drmriiigi of The ioui'iiniiff Slate
l/ittery Compauy, ?>?</ in jxrwn mma<ie.and
fwilroJ the Dramngi theuurlrei, and thai thl
tame art amluctnl with honrtty, falrnea,
and in good fnith toward all /xirlirt, and irt
authorise the Company la 1/* Ihit certificate,
with facsimile* of our iiffnatura attached,
ill ill adrertueinrntt."
CommlialMMira.
Incorporated in 1808 for 25 years by
the Ix'sislature (or Educational and
Charitable purposes?with a capital of
$1,000,000?to which ? reservo land of
over $530,000 has since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its
franchise was mado a part of the present
State constitution adopted December 2d,
A. D., 1870.
The only Lottery em rotei and ewbrted by1
the people of any State.
It never tenia or pottponcs.
ltd Grand Single Number Drawing* Uki
pl*ee monthly.
a sfuctoid oppoBTtnrmr to wr* a fob.
TFHK- THIRD GRAND DRAWING. CLASS
C, IN THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW
ORLEANS, TUESDAY, MARCO IWh, 1884
178th Monthly Drawing.
CAPITAL r&XZS *78,000.
100,000 Ticket* it Fir* Dollar* Each
Fractions, In Fifth* In proporUoa.
Lirr op prices.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE $78,000
1 do do 25,000
1 do do 10,000
2 PRIZES OF $6000 12,000
5 do 2000 10,000
10 do 1000 10,000
20 do 800 10,000
100 do 200 20,000
300 do 100 80,000
500 do 60 25,000
i 1000 do 25 25,000
9 Approximation Priietof$75046,750
9 do do 500. 4,500
9 do do 230. 2,25#
1907 Prises amounting to $205,500
Application for rate* to clubs should
bo made only to to the offloe of the Com
pany in New Orleans.
For further Information write clearly,
giving full address. PONTAL
N'OTEN, Express Money Ordere, or
New York Exchange In ordinary let
ter. Currency hy Express (all sums of
$5 and upwards at our expense) ad
dressed
M. A. DAlTIIIPt,
? New Orleans, U.,
?r M. A. DACmiH,
0*7 Venutk KL. D. O.
Make P.O. Money Orders payable and
addrea Registered Letters to
??w ouun iitk>.ul aim,
*?? Ortnat, UahUaa.
Jeb, 10-4W.
by ?id Henry P.
noth to Man t Mc
mid notes to r
wldch said II
transferred bv
?nd Maria S.' McCnll
ami by him assigned and transferred to
P. 8. Lswis, who is the present holder
thereof.. Said notes being now payable
and default having been made in thepay?
S-SSSraffifiSi
Houeeusf Maeonxxiuniy, Wert'VlrSnla;
On the 10th day of February,
"A tract or parcel of land lying and be
as follows: Commencing at a stake in
theewterof astonepllu on the ehore
of the Ohio river, A 50,17 wost from
the lower aide of the Sixteen (18) Mile
Creek, thenco n. RS? e. 132. so to a stake
in the military line near the Charleston
5SMV?W,SHs
road and proceeding along the'mllilary
line a. 2? IS w. to a stake In .the urea
our a email branch and leaving the
military line a. 88* w. I2tl 75 to a itake
in the center of a stone pile on the shure
of the Ohio river, (passing a (take on
the west Bide of tho Onyandotte road at
41) thence with.the meanders of tho
river 21, 28 to the place of beginning,
containing 280 acreo and JO porch more
or less. It being the anrne tract or parcel
of land conveyed to wild Henry P. Ellas
by Samuel A. Nash, assignee, Ac., by
deed dated Pebraary Sttth, 1875, and of
record in the Clerk'e office aforoeaid, In
deed book No. 28 pHgvs 08, 00 anil 100.
m tti^? Jhe ,0'I?WV ?t?to In
said District, to-wife llclng a tract or
parcel of land known and described as
tot No. three (8) on tho plot of the farm
J., ?elll|8ort Of record in the
Clerk's Office, aforesaid, being tho part
of the fann of Haid B. 8. Mennger.situate<l
on Sixteen and Eighteen Mile Creeks
anu the Ohio river in said Mason couo
ty, said premises consists of all Uie land
between lots No. two (2) conveyed by
said Edward 8. Menager and wife to
Henry H.Menager by deed dated Au
gust let, lBfltJ, of record in the Clerk'a
office aforesaid, in deed book No. 20 p.
107; and lot No. 4, conveyed by said Ed
ward S. Menager and wife to Albert P.
Meneger. by deed dated August 1st,
1806, and of rocord In the Clerk's of
flee aforesaid, In deed book No. 20 page*
111 and 112. The front of said premise*
Is tho Ohio rlvor andthe back line of
said premlsos is the straight line which
joins tho back lines of add Lots, Nos. S
aud 4, and containing 243 aorea tnore or
less, and being the same tract or parcel
of land conveyed to Henry I'. Kiiaa bv
April 9th, 180U, recorded lit
wild Clerk's olllce in deed book No. 80,
page* 111, 142and HI to all which doeda
reference in hereby made, bald tract*
or parcels of land will be sold upon the fol
lowing TEK)fS,lo-wit: Oue-lhirdof,the
purchase money cq?h In Land; ono-tl.ilrd.
thereol with interest, in ouo year; and
tho remainder thereof with interest lit
two years from the day of sale, taking
from the purchaser his notos, with good
security, for the deferred pavments and
retaining the legal tltlu to said real es
tate as a further security. Said farms
contain about 300 acre* of excel lent Ohio
river bottom land, dwelling house, out
buildings and orcliurd thereon. Title
good, but selling as Trustee, will convey,
only title as snub.
JAMES B. MEXAGER, Trustee.
Janlj-tw.
Trustee's Sale of Valuable
Real Estate in Cologne
District.
BY virtue of the authority vested.In
inr, John E.Timuis, the ttudenilgiied
trustee, by a certain ilceil oi trust, mail*
by A. J. Donohew mitt M. M. Dontihow
hu vile, on the 13th day of October,
1882; aud of record in the Olerk'a Office
of the county court of Maiion county,
West 'Virginia, in trust deed book No. 0,
folios 3U4-B5, to secure the i>ayinent'of a
certain promissory note for (lie sum o(
three hundred and fifty dollars, therein
described. executed by said A. J. Dono
liow, to M. F. Kimberling. said note be
ing now payable, anit default having
been made in the payment thereof, and
being required by the said M. K. Kim
berlmg, to make aale of the real estats
conveved 'by the aald A. J. Donohew
and M. M. Donohew his wifo, 1, John G.
Timms, trustee as aforesaid, will sell at
public auction, at the front door of tliu
Court House of said Mason county, On
ihe28lli day of February, 1HS5,
the real estato described in said trust
deed, to-wit: Being two tracts or rarccls
of land lying in the county and Stato,
aforesaid, on the waters of IS Mile creek, '
the first of which is bounded and de
scribed as follows. Beginning at a (mail
pine, on the south side of the rood, and
running 8 83 poles to Van Matre's line,
and with his fine ? 3fl| poles to the road,
thence with the meanders of said road
about N 02 W16 poles, N 63 W 10 poles,
N 02}' W 18 poles to the place of begin
ning; estimated to contain -6 acres, bo
the sumo more or less; and tho second
tract is bounded as follows, to-wit: Ly
ing on the dividing ridgo between the
Kanawha Ten Mile and Little Mill creck,
beginning at about 08 pole* East of
Cherry corner in I). F. Sayre's line, 80
poles to a white oak, oorncr to Samuel
bant, and with his line 172 poles to ?
mulberry, hU corner in the run bottom,
thence up the creek 48 poles to a sugar
tree, corner to Daniel Van Matre's, aud
with Ills lino W 135 poles to a chestnut
oak iu Shield's line, thence with Ills Una
N 190 poles to the place of beginning, es
timated to contain 111 acres more or less,
subject, however, to a conveyanco'off
said tract of 69 acrea, heretofore owned
by L. O. Canter, the former owner of
?aid tract of land, to Matilda McCarthy
and Kiliabeth Shatnblin, which will
leave SO acres of said tract of 111 acres
of land hereby convsyed, which, with
the S acres aa heretofore conveyed will
make 01 acres of land conveyed by said
A. J. Donohew and wlfo by this trust
deed.
Terms of ssle-SPOT CASII.
JOHN E. TIMS1S, Truitpe. I
Jan. 21,178J-4W.
Hake 100 per tent
profit introducing the
CHEAPEST AL
BUM ever aold. Con
taining place? lor 75 Cabinet mid
Curd Pholofruplu, lianihoraelr
Ivounrt in merrocco leatherette, with sift
tide uid edge*. Uxll incite* in ?Ue. Re
tail price w ortti k.vuo. Com
Sip!i' Album aeht (or examination (or
U.Sil. Thnaame Album
bound in >llk piuah sent
lor Aiidreai IV
mu & McMnkln, Cincin
nati, Ohio.
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