The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1873-04-10

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LOCAL MATTERS.
Easter comes on the 18th Of April.
The boys are trading tops for fishing
liues.
Lent is making it dull for the butch
eFs
Moss green aud violet shades are an
nouuood as becoming cOlors for spring
wear.
Charleston is complaining other innum'
cradle CANNES, and wants a sausage factory
erected to use up the raw material.
TIE early flowers are beginning to sbo"
themselves; and young lady has Promis-
cd this Office boquet
Our exceedingly good.naturcd friend
b. S. Stevenson, Esq of Clifton, was in
this city few Days ago,
Senator Caldwell (uot of Kansas of
Writ, spent few hours in our city last
Sunday, on his way home.
Several of our manufacturing establish,
ments are working their full compliment
ofbsnds, with orders ahead of their cap
acity.
Oar lady readers may be interested in
learning that the large number Of deaths
from small poz has materially increased
the supply Of false hair.
One who knows says that it is about as
wise to get mad at an editor and stop
your paper as it is to refuse to get your
mail because you don't like the Postmas
ter.
Over in Ohio a shoemaker eIoped, a day
or two since, with the wife Of a sash and
blind dealer. The husband being a sash
and blind man couldn't see what was go. !
ing on.
II. R. Howard, Esq has returned
home from Charleston, aud will now have
Arrest from bis arduous duties as Clerk Of
the Judiciary Committee Of the House of
Delegates until next October. Senator
Eastman is also at home.
Law CARD.-We direct the especial at:
tention of our readers to the card of out
young friend, George S. Couch, Esq
II this issue Of the Register, He is can.
didate for legal patronage aud we trustl
,thsthe will receive his share Of the same.
On Monday evening the public debate |
came of as announced. A verytsrge aa
dicuce Of'ladies and gentlemen were pres,
ent The participants, Messrs. Guthrie,
Sisson, Timms and Adams, defended thai
particular sides of the question gith 'abai.
ty and force. AllvhO we're present. speak
of the debate as the most interesting that
's' yet been gwen by th literary So'i'-
ty. :
Put your finger oil the paper that fur
1nishes more local news than the Register!
You can't do i; can you?S well, then,
Putyour hand away aoSu iiehe dark re-
ccssss of your breaches pocket and dra"
forth two dollar bill and subscribe for it
one year.
Misses Lrsoy & Sis'on have just open
ed out their spring stock Of Millinery
goods, consisting Of bounets, hats, ribbons,
flowers, laces, g.. They have all the va
rious styles of bonnetS aud hats, aud a
very largo stock from which to select
Let our lady readers call and SEQ them,
Col c. A. Shepard, of Pomeroy, died
in that city, Tuesday night, of typhoid fe
yer. He served With honor as Captain
in the Fourth Virginia for three years;
he pIso served as Lieutenant Colonel in
the 1871 0hio during tho last year Of the
var.
The question Of shortening the hours of
study in the common schools is being ex-
tersivoIy agitated in the Eastern States =
Sooner OF later the discussion will reach
our own doors, People everywhere are
beginning to reject that there is such
skinr as oyertaxinr the tender mind of