The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-06-14
STATE ITEMS.

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1t is said Rome Beauty apples will
be u failure this year.
Charleston offers hundred thous-
and dollar house free to the State, if
the capital is located there.
Parkersburg has what is called n
forty days Murphy move. All the
members pledge themselves not to
touch intoxicating drinks during that
time.
The Morgantown Post calls for the
bloated jug-holders of the West Vir-
ginia press to step forward and sub
scribe money to carry on state fair.
The Charleston Courier says: All
the miners on the river gave notice
to their differentemployers that they
would expect higher wages after the
LIST inst.
The Huntington Commercial; ], NJ,
Noble refused 100000 for his prop
erty which is claimed to contain eth
Ter gold or silver.
We are Informed that there never
was such a crowd seen in the townof
Weston, as was seen IN the day that
MeSsrs. Kenna and Frccr, spoke up
on the Capital question.-COuricr.
A gentleman residing in Shenan-
doah county, now on II visit to this
county, informs us that the people OF
Shenandoah, as well as other coun-
ties in the Valley, would vote almost
as a unit to unite with West Virgin
ia. We hope that some plan may be
adopted whereby they may be graft
fed. The Blue Ridge is the only
natural dividing line between the
two States.-Statesman.
1t is a henlous outrage to shoot to
death II radical outlaw, but innocent
citizens of the Southern States can
be murdered by the score, their wo'
men outraged and their homes re-
duced to ashes, and this is only doing
Gods service. Even in this comlnu-
nifty to bring the outrager and muir
dercr of an innocent child to justice
has ben denounced as the act of a
moJ.-SateSman.
At the breaking out of the war a
man by the name of Ice was brutal
ly murdered near Fairmont in this
State, by q scalawag, who claimed to
be an officer in the Union service
The ignorant tool he used to accom-
plish the atrocious deed has been in
dicted for murder, in Marion county,
and is now in Jail. We call, there
fore, upon our good Governor, Math-
ews, who is experimenting just now
upon the feasibility of causing the
lion and the lamb to lay down togeth.
er in all our borders, to interpose his
good offices in the case so as to give
the murderer of poor Ice his freedom.
Union lambs oughtn't to be punish
ed for merely killing Southern
sympathizer.-Sateman
The examination of the pupils at
the Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb and
Blind, at Romncy, took place this
week, and we are informed by gen.
tleman who was present that both
teachers and pupils acquitted them
selves with marked credit. He says
the institution is u much more ex-
tensive one than he expected to find
1.-THE building being a large, impos-
ing one, and well adapted to its uses.
Several branches ofindustry are car.
ried on by the pupils, sucha as cutting
out and making mats and putting
bottoms in cane-bottom chairs by the
blind, and shoemaking and tailoring
by the deaf.mutes. In their educa-
tional studies many Of the students
are well advanced, some having reach.
cd analytical geometry, having pass.
ed creditably through all the studies
which properly precede this. His
attention was particularly attracted
by the performances on the black
board of one little fellow from Wheel.
ing, named Marsh, deaf mute, In
q space of probably not exceeding
five minutes time he drew an accu.
rate outline map of West Virginia,
and all its eccentric crooks and an
giles, defining the boundry Of each
county and locating the county seat
thereof. The names were written in
n good, clear hand, and the work was
executed with great rapidity And
he was able TO promptly answer all
questions that were were put 10 him
courorniu1 HE wnrk From his mn.