The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-07-28

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RSieasant call from oar much esteemed
fiend, Capt. /. Behau.. editor Of the
afiddIeport Press. We we're glad 70 learn
from him that the Press is in healthy
financial condition. The Captain publish
Is good paper. which does most effective
work in the Republican cause. Every Re-
publican in Meigs county should subscribe
for it.
we waro also pleased to meOt in town.
Sunday, Judge Maxwell Of tho Supreme
Court of West Virginia.
Geo. letters, Esq. of Wheeling, was
also in town last Friday. he was on his
way home from Charleston where had been
attending session of the Supreme Court
IMPROVED. We hays neglected here
tofore to notice the improvement Mr.. a.
r. Howard has made in his Mason County
Journal. We are plessed 70 note the
evidence Of the healthful existence of the
,9omae1. which appeared twO or three
weeks ago in.an entire new dress, and en-
iarged a,columu to the page. The Journal
is now as neat paper as there is in tho
State, aud appears to be enjoying pros
perity. And If brother Howard would
drop all "low-aung" articles, and use dig
nifty in his original matter, his paper
would become as respectable as any paper
Of same politics, IN the State.
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HAExEss.-Farmers who areip need Of
harness, brides, collars, or saddles SSasa
90 well to remember that Messrs. S. j.
shindle & Co., Of this place, have now
on hand full stock of sach articles, Of
their own manufacture. andwhich theyiare
Offering at prices 10 per cent, below any
other establishment on the oEio or Kana-
wha rivers 1fyoa want to sasc money
give them .esl.
ARREsTep. man whose name we did
not hear was committed to Jail on the 10th
charged with stealing a gold watch from
Charles Il. Beale, Esq, Of Clendenen
township.
Sheriff Shrewsbury, accompanied By his
Deputy, E, A. Polsley, started Monday
evening for the Assylan at Weston with
Mrs sallie Troeger.
Dtsp. In this place, On the i5sh IF
July, 1870, Of cholera infautan, Robert
s., infant coz of Frank n. aud Carrie :
RawsOn, aged s months, 8 weeks and
day.
S5Oo.OO PRtza sronY -Me Little
Corporal Magazine offers this sum for a
prize story. Those interested can send
twelve conts to the publishers, sewell 4
Miller, Chicago, ILL.,, for the August
number of the Magazine, which gives all
particulars
EAGLE MUS. This Mil, generally
known as the "Comstock Mill" has been
purchased by S. T. Wilson 4 Go. The
Mill will DO started on next Saturday. -
Mr.. Wilson is an experienced miller, and
knows how to do good work. We wish
them success.
One Of our exchanges goes for those min
listers who forget to send marriages and
deaths to the paper, snd says:
"Thero are marriages aud deaths
constantly taking place, but the ministers
81 3 so inactive or iudiGerentto these mat
! tiers that they are passed by heedlessly
| and when the editor does get them they
are 50 old that the maiden name ofthe lady
is forgotten, aud the Wondering bones Of
the dear dead is all chat remains TO bring to
| memory departed relative. Can the
ministry not remedy thiss
A LITTLE boy by the name of John Cox
living in this place, came very near being
drowned last Friday. Il appears that BIO
was bathing in the river With some other
boys. and being on the guards Of tho
wharf boat, some Of his comrades pushed
. him into the river, and bocopthg strapgled
was unable to swim. do would have
drowned, butfor the ehelyartiyal Of Mr..
II. @. Jones who welt to scue in. .
skfff and suocsedsd in 81 y out as
b was sbe4s to sink fol sme,
GOV. Stanton; as We leaFs IRON the
ID 4 sOe,,vllr ) -RApuhlicans