The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11
dLEANINGs.


to have aspirations for Statehood
The number of registered voters in
Philadelphia is lSO,S2S, a decrease oil
$3.50 from last year.
The cost,to Maryland of support
ing 1900 troops for twenty-one days,
daring the labor riots, was but So
s6l.76.
A Paris comic paper has been syls-
pended for printing a picture Of Gam,
beta holding his sides laughing.
A most singular and fatal disease
has broken out among the horses in
some sections Of New Jersey. So far
it has bafiled all efforts to control it.
Gov. Garber,of Nebraska, estimates
that every family that removes Into
Nebraska is worth at least $1,000 to
the State.
1t is assorted that many Of the bar
rels of -four shipped from Boston to
Maine contain demijohns of whisky,
and that IT is to carry the liquorthat
the shipments are made.
An -English -,sriter estimates that
England will want this year 1900
900 quarters of wheat outside of her
production. Seldom, if ever, was SO
wretched harvest known.
The SIS circulating notes of the
First National Bank of Tamaqua, Pa,
are being retired on account Of the
issue of the late dangerous counter
felt of that denomination. No more
So notes will be issued to that Bank.
AS soon rs tho New York elections
are over, how the official heads will
fly in that State. Civil service re-
former Hayes will tolerate none of
Conkling's foolishness.
The failure of j. B. Stevenson &
Co., grain and commission merchants,
at Montreal, is announced. Liabili-
ties 100000.
The President and Secretary Of the
interior have decided to dismiss the
charges against Gov. Axtell, of New
Mexico, as vague and unsupported
by proof.
Mrs. Kate Chase sprague paid 81
600 yard for some lace, few years
ago, and now her husbands business
papers sells for D cents on the dol
lars.
Tilden is in London and the Cock
neys believe he's the man whose wife
used to pick little bits of lint off Mr..
Beecher's coat-collar.
The Boston Herald believes that
John Sherman will have to step out
before civil service reform will get
much of toothold, as "he does more
to defeat the Presidents intentions
than any other man."
The Iowa Methodist Conference re-
solved to entreat all ministers and
members who use tobacco to desist
for conscience sake; and to vote for
the admission of no one to the confer
ence who uses tobacco without a
pledge that he will abandon it.
Mr.. Thurlow Weed, the veteran
journalist, has written letter APP
proving the spirit of President Hayes
Southern and civil service policies,
but severely criticising the methods
of the latter.
Under the new Constitution OF
Pennsylvania a tax has been impos-
ed on the unfinished Catholic cathe-
dral at Erie, on the ground that it is
not an actual place Of worship The
case is in the Courts.
Georgia, on December 5, will elect
members of the Legislature, and will
ratify or reject by the popular vote
the new constitution prepared by the
convention recently held in Atlanta
The new Legislature will elect a
United States Senator to succeed
John B. Gordon.
Wherever we place our feet in Cal
ifornia we stand on the dried bed of
an old Pacific. Wherever we step in
New England we stand on the dried
bed of the old Atlantic.
Alexander II. Stevens says in re-
gard to the Texas-Pacifc railroad
that he is decidedly in favor of it,
and has been for the last FIVE years;
in fact even before the war he favor.
ed it as the route to the Pacific, which
I1 - H. LoooEt H. CouIl,