The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1873-09-11
STATE NEWS.

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the steamboat Boone were on hand to tes'l'
ry as to what they knew Of matters connect,
ed with the case. Hannah is q married
man, and Mrs Hannah is pushing the
prosecution Of both parties The code
PENDANTS we're sent to the Blue Eagle, 10
default Of 800 bail each to answer Tor
their appearance. 1t was reported, how
ever, on Saturday evening, that Mrs. Sal.
" bad been manumitcd at the instance Of
several prominent personages of the city,
upon her threat to place what she
knew Of divers and sundry matters where
it would do her the most good Not hav.
ing access, though, to the bail-recOrd oil
the Justice, our reporter did not ascertain
the reliability Of the report Courier
These are evidently the same parties we
made mention Of in our last issue
A Hilton correspondent Of the Green
Jrir Independent says:
1t is not generally known that salt wa
ter, Of great strength, bubbles up out Of
the earth but few hundred yards from
the depot at this place. The first settlers
of this country made all their salt here
Everything requisite for the cheap manu-
faclure Of salt here, and fine opportunity
is offered to capitalists for profitable IN
yestmcnt in this line Of business.
A little son of DR.. D. Mayer, Of this
city was the subject Of severe accident
yesterday forenoon, by which he sustained,
beside numerous bruises, broken leg =
He seems to have run out to q passing
wagon loaded with lumber on State street
near the new NJ Il. Church, and attempt
ed to, or did, climb upon the lumber when
sudden jolt threw bin back to the ground,
with the unfortunate result before lndca'
ted Courier 9Th,
A few days ago woman left the poor
house with her baby, week or two weeks
old, aud came to the city in search Of en-
pIoymcnt, she said. She claimed to have
friends in Philadelphia, and on Monday a
ticket was purchased for her, aud a small
sum of money given her to buy provisions
along the road. Within fifteen minutes
afterwards she was laying out, dead drunk,
her poor little child lying beside her near
Iy starved for the uourishmont it could not
obtain from its drunken mother, The NO.
man was provided by some charitable PEG.
pie with a place for the night and the
child was taken care Of We believe she
was sober enough last evening to be ship,
ped to her destination over the Baltimore
aud Ohio railroad - Wheeling Register.
As the friends assembled at The funeral
of Mr.. Lukehart, the gentleman who died
Of cholera Sunday morning, in the 9Th
ward. they were surprised to see the corpse
looking 50 lsEks: Indeed there seemed
.sShave Sbces 30 apparent ybange since
death, The features presenting the picture
Of life and health. Asftbe services pro-
crossed it was found thata thick persplr-
alton broke out upon the corpse. Tue
services then stopped and physician was
He assured them that per-
sons dying with cholera usually under
went little change in their features after
death, and that the perspiration was Ow-
ing to the corpse having been kept in ice
until the time Of the funeral IAtcNtgen.
GER.
On Wednesday white aud colOrcd
boy got into fracas about some trivial
matter, and the white boy struck the COL
Orcd one a severe blow 10 the eye cutting
a watchfob under it, As the black boy
was about to strike back, gentleman in-
tcrfered, and parted them, when the black
boy started off muttering, "lf dat is de
way de radicals serve de cullud folks, he
wasn't going to be radical any mo- no
w."-Aryus.
DROWNED On last Wednesday morn
iug, about eight o'clock colorcd deck hand
named BurriIl Fuqua, employed on the
steamer j, G. Crossey, which is refitiOg
at the Middleport Dock Yard, fell from
that boat into the river and was drowned
lie was on the lower deck, standing upon
stool, reaching up after pan of liGlnals
which some one was handing down over
the guards, when the stool became over
balanced, and threw him into the river
He was not able to swim and Immediately
sunk The body was grapplcd for and
found in about an hour and q half A
Coroner's inquest returned a verdict in &C.
cordaDce with the facts above stated
His home was said to be in Virginia =
Clifton Journal.
PERsoNAL,-Col CT. Beale, Of Mason,
President Of tue new Agricultural Society
Of that county, arrived in town yesterday
from below He says that the people OIL
Mason are fully alive to the Fair business
and will doubtless send a good deal Of stock
here to exhibit at The State Fair, which
begins on the 3Oth inst, on the grounds