The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1873-04-17

1914 -.
Delegates John NJ. Reynolds aud Lewis
Bumgsrnsr are now At home q
The farmers Inform US that the wheat
Geld, Of this county are looking unusually
promising for this season Of the year,
The weather for the last few days is
making the farmer dig into his work, and
everywhere the ground is being prepared
for corn. v,.
Lumber is being hauled to various PoF-
tons Of the city, which indicates that sew
.nl,buildiug' are to be erected
PERSONAL. Senator Walker, of Jack
con, this District, aud Senator Scott, Ofthe
Richie District, were in town several
days, last week
DEAD. We regret to announce the
death on Thursday night last, Of the only
son Of Mr.. Il. l. Gibbs, aged about 'ey,
en- months.
E. SehOu, Esq, has been appointed By
the Board of Public Works, one Of the
Directors ofthe West Virginia Peniteutia,
~. The appointment is good one, !.
Dr.. L. +. Campbell left on the Clara
Scott Monday evening for the Valley of
Virginia, bis old home, on business, aud
will be absent ten days or two weeks.
The Chesapeake is now carrying the
mail between Parkersburg aud GaIIiPoIis,
the Matte Roberts having been sold Let
u. hope now, for more regularity in this
mSil.
We are informed thaton Monday night
available horse belonging to J6Gi 3
King, Esq was caught in halter while
in bis stall, and strangIed to death.
Ample provision has been made for
furnishing the public with all the Acts
passed at the last session Of the LegisIa
ture.
The roads were badly washed through
out the adjoining country by the recent
heavy rains, aud many streams oVerHowed
their banks.
The new Spring stock of goods of Sets
aor, SehOn l. McCulIoch have arrived and
ere opened aud r2ady for sale, They
have one Of the largest aud most complete
stedes ever opened in this city, aud at ez
e,eliugly low prices Give them call
Mr.. Jehu s. Miller is out in this paper
ias warning to everybody to keep of the
imd, under his charge, being the same he
recently leased from Henry | Fisher
EY.
The peculiar advantages offered by our
city, for all kinds of manufacturing where
timber or iron is the body Of the material
cannot be surpassed BY any point in the
United States, but it has never been aP-
greciated by,eer native capitalists.
A gay and festive cuss named Hughes,
lately cloped with two married women in
Nashville, Tenn. This is the most re-
msrknbIo circumstance Of the kind on rec
ord. In this section Of country, one real
live woman is all any man, no matter how
reckless be may be, can get away with, and
be happy.
Through tho energetic efforts of SeEa-
tor P. G. Eastman, the sum Of three hun
dred dollars has been obtained from the
Peabody Fund for the use aud benefit of
tho public school of Point Pleasant; Conse-
queutIy the pressat session will be pro-
lOnged two months.
FRuIT,-It was generally believed that
the peach and apple buds we're almost Gu
tirely destroyed during the cold weather
Ofthe past winter. Those who have taken
pains to examine the buds inform us that
neither the peaches or apples are materi'
ally injured, and hence we may IOok for o
largo yield of.those delicious fruits,
NICE -Erom observation, we are ncli.
ned to believe that young gentlemen and
their lady,loves think it quite nice to sit
on the doorstep these beautiful moonlight
nights, and listen to the MARBLE Of the frog
and the voice Of the kiIl.deer as it miages
with the music of the whip. po-wil aud.the
roar Of the April wind. And, we think