The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-11-29

The City Sexton reports three
deaths for the month Of October IN
charleston--one white and two col
ored: for September there we're four
| in August three. In population Of
5000, this is q very low rate.
Rudolph Hooser and John Pauley,
the veteran explorers Of the Sandy
Valley, left here on Tuesday morning
for the Peach Orchard country to ex-
anime the iron ore in that locality.
Wayne Adroeatc
Our farmers are glntting the mar
kets with pork. Six dollars per 100
pounds is the price asked, but sales
are hard to make at those figures
We heard of one man who disposed
of his meats at 1910 per hundred
Charleston Courier,
A party of Cumberland sportsnen
have for the last week been hunting
with friends in Hardy county. They
captured during the hunt several
fine deer; among them buck that
weighed 1924 pounds, having nine
points on one beam and ten on the
other. II is supposed 10 he the pat
riarch Of deer-Ksyser Tribune,
ACharleston dispatch of the nth,
says: Judge Smith, of the Circuit
Court, passed sentence on one Fra
zier to-day, for six years in the State
Pcnitcntiary, for breaking into a
store at Clifton, and also sentenced
one Buzzard, for stealing tobacco, for
two years. Frazier is said to be q
notorious character, having several
aliases.
Several meetings have been held
| in the Kanawha Valley lately, look
ing to the building of a narrow gauge
railroad from Charleston to Parkers-
burg, from the reports Of which we
see that the distance is stated to be
about seventy-six miles, and that
the cost of the road, including sutfi-
cient rolling stock for running pur-
poses, will amount to about 100000,
and as the city Of Parkersburg is
deeply interested in the same, and
the county of Jackson they can be
fully depended upon forassistancc.'-
BrQrton MoantaiNeer.
Our friend and fellow granger Mr..
James R. Simmons, is now at the
head of the class in the way of big
corn, as he brought to us small
horse feed, the other day, on one ear:
1t contained over 1000 large and
fully matured grains Brnaton Noun.
tdineer. Bro. Taylor does not treat
this question properly. He should
have told US how many feet in diam
etcr and how many yards the ear was
lin lcngth. Our grangers don't count
the grains. We go altogether by
Inches, feet and yards, when we talk
about big eur Of corn.
The case Of William H. Aspinwall,
Love & Co., against W. Adkins and
others will be tried in Parkersburg
next January. 1t is to get posses
sion Of large boundaries Of land in
t.EtncuiII, Logan and Mayno, oonnties.
lit was tried here once and the jury
disagreed. One juryman was for
lgivinga verdict for the defendants,
and the other eleven for the plain.
tiffs. Singularly enough, u similar
case tried at CIarksbnrg three weeks
ago was halted by an opposite opin-
| ion Of jurymen. 1t was an ejecment
suit for 10000 acres Of land in Lew
lis, Gilmore and Braxton countless
| The jury could not agree; eleven
were in favor of verdict for the de-
Pendants (the occupants Of the lanD
and one for the plaintiffs. -Kaaa@ha
| Gazette.
/ Kanawha county has fifty of her
citizens boarding at Moundsville,
which is sufficient evidence that
scoundrels have very slim show for
their white alley in this section
There are eight counties in the State
thathave never contributed man
! to that institution.
The Adrerttser thinks the recent
oil strike reported near this city will
furnish additional argument for vot-
ing the means to finish the work be-
gun by the Government on the Ka-
nawha River The supply of oil, in
the heretofore developed oil territory,
lis becoming'morc and more prccari-
/ Gus. 1t is important, therefore, that
| the new fluid shall have reliable
and cheap route to market
The Narrow Gauge fever prevails
very noticeably along the line Of the
proposed road between Parkersburg
and Charleston. The Jackson Her
aid, Parkersburg Journal and Charles
ton Courier intimates that there is to
be no rest for the weary until the
project becomes "fait aceompli."-I
Here is the way in which the Journal
presents the inducements to the peo.
pie of Parkersburg to take hold Of
The enterprises ,--''-
"Thc connecting of Parkersburg|
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