The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-09-15

here don IKE 10 throw OUT money u tue
river without realizing some benefit.
Peaches are selling at $3.50 per bnsbcl,
and apples at % cents. Water melons
arc played out,
Quite delegation Of Feather Rem
ovators arrived in our town from the
Old keystone; they looked quite hardy
and all seemed to have on new suits
This Feather Ronuyating business must
pay. How are you -boys2 Glad to see
you. H.
Tnn MIppLEpoRi MARINE Dock COM-
rASY,-This Company, to tho shame of
the Point Pleasan4 Marine Railway Com
pany be it sud, has six tow-boats, aud one
packet-boat, running from Pomcroy to ST.
Louis, and points between the places nam
cd, carrying coal, salt and other freights
down the river. In returning they tow
back large quantities Of iron ore from the
great Iron Mountain of Missouri, large
numbers of empty barges. They have
two docks at Middleport employing $50
hands the year round. They build and
repair steamboats, ao,l barges from which
they derive large profits. They pay out
during the year over S3.oOO,0e0, To
show what profitable investment it is to
the shareholders We refer to the SO per
cent dividend declared by this Company
early in the Spring. And from Q correct
list Of enc of their boats, tue Henry Clay
Wilson, We find that in the four months
past, she has towcd between Pomcroy and
St Louis, ninety five thousand barrels Of
salt. fprty-tBo hundred tons Of iron, one
hundred and fifty thousand bushels Of coal
and ono hundred and two empty bargeS.
sixty-four Of which belonged to tho Com
pany.
We ask the entcrprising members Of The
Point Pleasant Marine Railway Company
to examine into the prosperity Of the Mid
dlcport Dock Company, and see if it will
moi arouse them to their senses. This i'm
monse amount of capital could be circala-
ted here to advantage. Go to work and
build the ways, and by SO doing you will
benefit ali around you, besides making mo-
noy FOR your own pockets.
INSTITUTE. We are requested by Prof
A. D. Williams, State Superintendent of
Frco Schools, to say that an Institute will
be held at Point Pleasant, commencing
Sept. Goth, at lOo'clock a. NJ, and Tues
day continuing through Wednesday, Thurs
day aud Friday. The exercises in the day
time will consist Of instructions as to meth
cd of teaching, important aud interesting
not alone to teachers and school officers
but to the public generally. Each night
there will be an address upoa some practi-
cal and pertinent educational topic. Let
the public come ont aud hear, and then
Judge for themselves. Tho instructors
will be, Prof. Thompson, Supt. Gould,
Miss Harm aud Prof. A. D. Williams,
BALtov's MoNruIY MAeAzrNn FOR DC,
ToDER.-Tho appearance of Ballou's Mag
azine for October reminds us that the
evenings are growing longer and that the
people will read to occupy their leisure
hours. Now such magazine as Ballou's
is Just what is wanted at the Preside. 1t
contains SO many good stories, so much
poetry of real merit, and so many cngtav-
ings Of interest, and all for 10 cents single
copies, or $3.50 per year, that we do not
wonder at its circulation being the largest
Of any magazine in the country. 1t de-
serves it, for it's entarprisiug and full Of
life. 1t is for sale at all periodical stores
in tho country. Themes & Talbot, 60
Congress Street, Boston, are the publishers.
Remember, that Hon. W. T. Wiley.
speaks at the Court House, Tuesday nezl
at two o'clock p. N. Let there bo full
house.
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der tho contract lately awarded them by