The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-03-20

LITTLE sIxTEEY.-A friend wri-
ting to US from Little Sixteen fur
nishes the following items;
We have had some as nice wealth
er this month, as could be desired.
Wheat looks fine. heard many
old men say that they never saw it
look better at this time Of year.
Grass is growing rapidly, and
some farmers are buying stock,to put
on their grass and think it good
idea; it is at least, an easy way to
make money,
The Register says that about the
poorest paid people in the State are
School teachers. l differ with you,
Mr.. Editor. ! think they get plen-
ty. A farmer would hate to give
$40 a month to a first-class hand; and
do you not think it great deal har-
der to work out in the field from sun
up until shutdown than to go to a
school room and sit about six hours2
Teachers get So month too much
now.
l also notice a historical sketch in
in your paper, in which it is stated
that the Mason county soldiers of
1872 are all dead except James Ste
phcnson, of Point Pleasant. Mr..
Ezra johnson is still living; he was
in the war of 1912; draws a pension
from which he supports himself; he
is very old, and resides in Arbuckle
District.
The miners at the sohon Coal
Works, this county, have quit work,
Reason they were asked to take
three.fourths of their wages out Of
the Company store, and where they
demanded all cash to allow a dis
count of Is per cent. 1t is time that
the working-men of the country
should be protected by law, There
is too much of a disposition on the
part of corporations to crush the men
who work for them. People who
work should be paid fair wages in
cash, and then if hey want tospend
their money with the Company
stores, all right, but they should not
be forced to do so.
FATAL AccIDENT.-On last Satur-
day, a man named James Crawford,
who was in the employ Of Mr.. Swish
er, this county, while out on the
farm in company withothers, getting
out stave timber, met with an ac-
cidcnt which resulted in his death,
At the time he was sitting on n log
which some men were saving into
blocks, when u limb from a tree un-
der which he was, fell, striking him
on the head, hurting him so badly
that he died in afew hours afterward.
Mr.. Crawford was a citizen of Ohio,
and had just entered the employ of
Mr.. swishcr, the day of the accident.
The Southern Planter and Farmer
for March is to hand. 1t is an cx-
cellent number, containing sixty
pages of reading matter on various
subjects of practical interest to the
farmer. The leading article is s2j
premium essay on "The True Meth,
cd of Farming One Hundred acres
of Land"
Roanoke, the farm of Hon. John
Randolph, is an interesting article
on the management of that great ge-
MUS, whose life record recalls the
saying of Cicero: "That there was
but a hands breadth between agrcat
genius and a mailman" The Stock
Department, by DR. Elzey, is well ed
tied. 1t contains several valuable
articles, conspicous among them be-
ing the communications on Sheep
Husbandry by General Meem and
also by General Ransom. Write to
L. r. Dickinson, Richmond, Va,
Price, 50 per annum.
On May 9TH the Washington Re
public will be first issued, for circula-
ton in the Virginias, which will con-
tain all the latest political, SCOTLAND
other news of Virginia and West Nir.