The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-09-23
NEWS ITEMS.

The Grand Duke Alexis has beef
divorced from the lady he secret.
married.
Tilton lectures in New York tn
night of Becc!1ers reception, the 29il
inst.
Bret IIarte's new novel is Gale,
Gabriel eonroy." Gabe is a simple
oldminer.
The Fitch-Sherman-Khediy
irecliace is still in the New SQri
custom house. 49,
JEFF Davis invariably draws q 20,
000crowd and that's how he resemble
4 boat race. r
Bushrod Washington, great CRANE
son of Georges brother Lawrence
lives at Watscka, Ill.
Those msy believe who choose, that
Miss Newbigan, of Ncpcan, Kansas,
has lived FIVE months without food
Governor Osborn says that the sur,
plus grain raised in Kansas this year,
II loaded in cars, would make 4 tram
sixteen miles long.
They wanted Red Cloud to become
civilizcdIikewhitemen. lieglanccd
his eye over the country and laughed.
He thought it was joke.
General Joseph E. Johnston says
the report that the Khedive had ten
dcred him command of the Egyptian
armies is without foundation.
Eugene sues for jcwclry and paint
ings left in the Ghateax Of Fen;ain-
blue and Picrrcfonds IN her sudden
departure from France in September,
20.
Rev. McTarcn, late rector Of Trim
ity Church, Cleveland, and q gridu-
ate Of jefferson College, has been
elected to the "De Koven' BiShopric
Of Illinois.
Vice President Wilson is well again.
When a nan goes through as many
riggles as Henry has, travels around,
writes political letters, and finally
takes i spell of illness, to attract the
public eye, VIC begin to think he's
afflicted with Presidency bad.
Last returns from the California
election shows the Legislature stands:
In the Senate, 10 democrats, ) indie
pendent democrats, 3 independents,
/ republicans; in Assembly, 6odem-
ocrats, independent democrat, { in
dependents, llrcpublicans, and dem
ocrat and independent tied n Icba
county.
ColonclEGcorgc Hancock, oncofthc
leaders in the Texan war for indie
pandcnce, died last week at Louis
vile, Ky. When the Texans, III
though victorious in several battles,
found it impossible 10 carry on the
war with an empty treasury and no
means Of obtaining arms and ammu-
milton. Colonel Hancock rendered
General Houston about sGoOC0 in
gold. ~s-rzz e q
Commodore PcrFy'> flagship, the
Lawrence, sunk in Erie harbor sixty
two yerrs ago, WAS raised on Monday
and the bottom found to be in goc'd
state of preservation, Snc is to be
cxhibiteda at the Centennial.
Let no man guilty escape, ifitcan
avoided" said Mr. Grant, whereon
Mr.. Wilkinson, Collector at st. Jo-
seph, Missouri, third-tcrm editor and
influential politician, having proven
s15,O00 short, and finding it could
not be avoided, cscaped.-Iior'd.
The National Rcprjlican, Of Wash
ington, better known as the Kitchen
Orc. Says: The numbcr Of editors
of Northern he, .:...;;,,,'@aa newspaper
whom it were base natta-y to cal
idiots is constantly increasing
Since the organ simply means that
every man who diSasreeS with it is
an IDIOT, it may be Inferred from that
remark, that Grants chances for 4
third term are on the wane among
the Northern faction of his party.
An attempt is about to be made
in San Francisco to supersede the
Bank of California BY q new house
which promises to contine itSclfStrict-
" to commercial banking. If the
projectors of this institution are skill
ful enough to occupy all the vantage
ground the recent crash has given
them, the attempt may succeed. 1t
is impossible, however, toundcrstand
from the dispatches how the Bank Of
California is actually situated. 1t
NAV retain toomuch vitality for the
success of competition. r
Mississippi has had another taste
Of blood and anarchy. The elections
are close at hand. Morton wants to
dip his "bloody shirt" in fresh pool
ofblood, and republicanism has start
cd the current afrcsh. The villain
Gus crew that are torturinS the poor
negroes, are doing this to promote
their own wicked designs. They
want some capital for thecampaisns;