The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1873-12-04


ISL Government to comply with our de-
mand had expired
Havana is strengthening her for!idca.
tons,
Naval preparations are being pushed
with still greater energy
A hunting party in Tyler, Texas, killed
forty deer in ono day.
Burlington, Iowa, has new spice fac
tory, and smells sweet, aud blossoms in
the dust Of it.
A mock marriage performed at an eve.
mag party at Fond du Lac, Wis, is now
held to be valid
The Spaniards know not the dire suffer.
ing they are inviting upCn their devoted
heads. Sergeant Bates is moving
There is prospect that the bankruptcy
proceedings against the I.ouisvile, Now
Albany and St Louis AIRLINE Railroad
Company will be compromised.
Tweed luxuriatcs in the Toombs, in
Stokes old apanmeuts-niCe carpets easy
chairs and lounges, lace curtains, and all
that sort Of thing, you know.
A Marion, Iowa, man WHO held $500
in gold all through the high figures, was
glad to sell it for what he could get the
other day
Georgia item-"BiI Bridges, of Dooly
County, attempted to knock down a pine
tree with bis horse and killed the latter
The Chicago, Alton and St. Louis road
earned more money in October this year
than in October last year
Sicklos is still in Madrid, and up to To-
test accounts had not attempted to whip
the Spanish nation sinslo.handed
The people of Great Britain and ireland
expended 100000 600 for intoxicating
liquors in 1872, aud only 22O 600, 600 for
the tea, coffee, sugar and ocoa which they
consumed,
A cas- making apparatus by which it is
8tated'gas may be produced at as low a
rate as six ecu tspor | 1000 feet is exhibited
in England.
Mrs Jay Cooke displays true heroism
She promptly relnquishes her dover ri sht
to meet the pccuniary Liabilities of her
husband.
Spain wants the case Of the VirginiuS
submitted to arbitration and the German
Emperor William the arbitrator
Oregon had touch ofeartbquake" on
the night Of the 22d 1t was felt in near.
ly every portion Of the State
The total value Of property in the city
of Memphis according to the report of the
Clerk of the County Court, is $3j,47S,-
OO4. divided as follows; Real estate, SIS,
S06,72j; merchandise, $l,2O7 542, other
personal Sl,4G3,7S7
Take my little awl, said lIardwick, Of
Stanton, Kentucky, as he plunged that
useful implement to the hit in the aldo.
men of bis friend Conley, There was no
quarrel, no enmity HardwiCk was simp.
" drunk and CoDIey simply died,
The New York correspondent of the
Minneapolis Tribune says that the Loril-
Iard's method of advertising their chewing
tobacco by putting money in the packages
has not proved effective; that the firm ex,
pended sos 900 in all, aud one ofproprie-
tors acknowledged to the correspondent
that the same amount expended in logiti.
mate newspaper advertising would paid far
better
The murder Of Colonel Crockett and tho
ouo hundred aud fifty gallant Texans un'
der bis command in the Alamo, after be
} had surrendered, by the cruel Moxicans
and the wholesale slaughter Of Colouo
, Jennings command under similar circum
Stances, were tho events which led to tbt
independence Of Texas The massacre o
the passengers and crew of the YirgiDiul
t will in a similar manner pu! aud eud t,
, Spanish supremacy III Cuba