The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-04-30

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Monday evening loaded fat With freig
aud passengers. There we're some six
seven lunntics on board, 10 charge Of D
Camden, en- route for the Asylum at We
ton. It's the largcsttrip ever brought o.
Of KauaWha by GallipOliS aud Charles
ton packet.
Lettle girls should avoid excessive rope
jumping. There have beca two deaths
recorded the past few days from this cause
One girl jumped three hundred times iu
succession and was found dead 10 bed next
morning, and tho other felltO the sidewalk
corpse while attempting to excel the
fvats Of q companion.
Charles Y. Bealc, Of Mason county,
having rendered bis resignation as a mem,
Der Of the Board Of Regents Of the lnstitu'
ton for the Deaf, Dumb aud Blind it was
accepted and George ". Craig. of Mason
county, was appointed in bis stead Mr.
Craig will make most efficient member Of
The Board.
SUSPENDED. The Brooke County lNdc.
pendent, published By F G. Glass, at
Wcllsburg, has suspended on account of
its subscribers failing to "cOmo down with
the stamps" We are sorry to lose the
Independent, as it was one among the best
Of our exchanges
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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE "A women BY the
name Of Mitchell, attempted to commit
suicide at Clifton on Wednesday by hang
ing. She had made two or three attempts
before this to end her existence on this
earth. Mr.. RayboId, this time, discovered
her hanging and took her down. She was
badly chokcd, .aud that is all.
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The Bedford salt company at Clifton,
resumed work last week. The Bedford is
ono Of the largest Furnaces in the county
and this resumption Of work will be a great
blessing to many 10 that section of the
county. We hope all the other Furnaces
will follow suit.
The City COuuciIof GaIIipolis submit
ted the auti.tippliug house ordinance to a
direct vote of the people at the regular
spring election, aud after warm contest
the people decided in favor of the od0p ton
Of tho ordinance, 1t goes iuto effect June
l8t, 1871,
As general lhlng, u uI'Con'''uo ~
vertising Injuries business man as much
as if he we're to take down his sign II
really intimates that the proprietor is about
to retire, and the public treat it as SUCH
or they may regard it as evidence that
something has gone wrong which requires
privacy to settle. Whatever construction
is put upoa it, tho result is disastrous to
the house.
Pelders are now jaunting though our
oouuty, taking pleasures in showing the
ladies the very finest and cheapest specimens
Of goods ever offered for sale by PeddIers
or any body else. Our advice is to have
nothing whatever to do With thom' except
10 tell them to depart. Ifyou want goods
look over our advertisements and purchase
from none but regular houses, and then
YOU will never be cheated
Col. G. B. Waggoner, the efficient and
pouular Clerk sfthe Circuit Court Of this
county, has been appointed by the Board
of Public Works one Of the three Commits
sioucrs to assess the property OF tho Va'
,ious railroads doing business in this State
The Colonel left on the Chesapeake Mon
day morning for Petersburg to attend
preliminary meeting oflho Commissioners
which was to have been held Tuesday
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The National publishing Company at
Cincinnati will publish a history Of IT, the
Grange Movement; or the Farmers war
| Against Monopolios. twill give q full
and authentic account Of the struggles {. o.
the American farmers against what 1t calls
the oxtortions Of the railroad companies,
with a history Of the rise and progress OF
tho Patrons Of Husbaudry, their objects,
n,esout condition and prospects, aud
sketches Of the leading Changers By I'd, !,
vnrd Wilson Martin, author Of Behind al
tho Scenes in Washington" etc. The
WV :, illustrated with sixty Guo eugrav'