The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-09-30

lives were lost.
An Odd Fellows asylum is to be
bull. hy tie brethren Of Jacksonville,
Fla, for the benefit Of those IN the
order who seek the State for their
health.
Senator DAVIS declines to preside
over the approaching Massachusetts
Republican State Convention.
Al the members ofthe Cabinet are
now in Washington except Secrctar-
les Fish and Robson. Although
the President will vacate his cottage
at Long Branch this week, he may,
before returning to Washington, Wis
it his farm near st. Louis.
rcnnesscc's new school law pro
vides that for like services OF male
and female teachers like salaries
shall be paid.
The greenback platform is not an
imitation platform, nor a Reputation
platform, as falsely asserted by the
organs of corruption.
The election in Maine, gives the
Legislature to the Republicans, also
gives the Democrats Il minority
quite strong enough to check par
tisan legislation.
,--r1rv- ue..,I. IS IIo~. Will;ana A.
Graham of North Carolina. leaves
hut two survivors ofthe Senate Of she
9th Congress. They Gov. Allen
of Ohio, and Senator Conrad, Of Louis
lana.
President Grant believes that the
issue of the next campaign will be
on the currency question.
A horse disease similar to that of
1872, called the cpizootic, now pre-
walls il New York city, and will I'M
dou6tedly be carried West. Owners
Of horses should take precautionary
measures against it. The New York
Herald reports ten thousand horses
sick aud dying.
Mexico has law which won't per-
nit man with wooden leg to mar
~ unless he informs the girl Of the
fact. And the girl always responds:
you are just as dear to me as If you
had fifteen wooden legs
By new Geographic instrument
one thousand and ninety-two words
we're recently telegraphedfrom 0stend
to Brussels. This was at the rate Of
nearly eighteen words second.
Here is a new source of alarm
They say that the gulf cylone which
DESTROYED so many Texas towns, is
vending its way in this direction at
the rate of from two to forty miles an
hour. Look out for squalls.
Andrew Johnson's old tailor shop,
sign up, still stands in Greenville,
Tenn, and somebody proposes TO take
it to the centennial.
1t is Prince Albert of Bavaria,
who is dead, not he Of Massachusetts,,
surnamed Ames, and Prince Of
Mississippi. He still lives and
breati.e5 out Justify for moore troops.
In fact he would give his kingdom
for 4 troop.
Ex-Governor Lctcher has been
nominated for the Legislature in
Rockingham county, Virginia, and
it is expected that Ex-Governor
Smith, better known as extra Billy.
will receive the same honor in Fa-
quicr. Virginia evidently believes
in utilizing her men of reputation,
and not discarding them when they
are old.
The mode of furnishing criminal
in Thibet isrigorous, slightly. They
bury him to the neck in the earth,
so that all movement is impossible,
keep his mouth forced open with 4
spike, and then drive all kinds of
horrible insects to take refuge in his
mouth, ears and eyes.
The Savannah, Tenn, TRANSCRIPT
says ofthe newspaper editor who tells
his readers that negroes have been
shot in the South for voting the Re-
publican ticket: "Dog on his hump
backed, cock-eyed skin Of him, he is
a liar some more, and his grandmoth-
er amt no gentleman" Terse If not
polite language that.
a man and woman at Robinsou's
Hall, New York City; Thursday night
fell headforemost to the floor from the
ceiling while attempting the trapezc
movement Both were fatally injur-
I'd.