The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-04-17

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correspondent says: see the grub
question is up again in your last is
sue, The best days to kill them are
March 80 or 30-the 10Th the best
Also, April u, IS, 26; May 6, 8, and
%; June 5, 20, p, and 2G.
A letter from Huntington to the
Charleston Courier, says that ground
will be broken within the next thir-
ty days for the Ohio Valley railroad,
with which connection with the
Chesapeake and Ohio from Cincinna-
ii is to be made by bridge or ferry
at Huntington.
The citizens Of Jefferson county
have gotten up a petition, which
they intend sending to the Legisla-
turc, praying that the Baltimore aud
Ohio Railroad Company shall be fore
cd to cease their determinations in
charges for carrying freight, against
the citizens of the said county.-.Hor-
gan Mercury
The Chesapeake and0hio Railroad
Company is Offering unusual faciii-
ties aud inducements, to emigrants
and others desiring to locate on the
line of the road. Even to parties
merely desiring to prospect for homes
half-fare tickets are issued from all
the large Eastern cities. Major n.
II. IIotchkiss, Veteran Agent, is
working up this plan of inducing
emigrants to our Valley.-Kanauha
Gdsettce.
Mr.. SaundersliveS in Poca district.
Hc has n daughter. A young man.
wants to marry her. Oldham objects.
Young man, assisted by old mans
son, chokes and beats the old man
frightfully. a justice of the peace
issues a warrant for the arrest of the
matrimonial candidate, and the we'd
ding cards are consequently DELAYED
indefinitely. The old man will do
the counting" in this case instead
of the daughter.-Charle8ton Courier.
The ncighborhood of West Vir.
ginia citizens who live just opposite
GallipoliS, have no post office, and
all their mail matter goes to the
"West Virginia Box" at the Gallipo-
lis, Ohio, Post Office. The mail is
then brought over by private citi-
zen and kept until called for, That
community ought to have post Office
privileges and no doubt if the facts
are set forth correctly in a petition
and sent ON to Representative John
L. Kcnna, he will attend to the es-
Enlistment Of the needed post Of.
fcc.-C0uricr.
Last Saturday morning little
breeze was created by the news that
oil had been struck in paying guam
titles on Goose Creek, about four
miles from Cairo. The excitement
is still up, and the well is pumping
six or seven barrels a day, so we
learn. Some of our citizens have an
idea that there is oil nearer to Cairo
than Goose Creek. Wchopeso. We
hear of u well that was in operation
several wears ago, about ore mile
from Cairo, that pumped 80 barrels
in one day, but it was allowed to
stand idle, and the water ruined it.
Try that hole again somebody
Richie Democrat.
Is it not about time that our rail.
roadcommitte were doing something'
We are losing much valuable time.
Mr.. Prayer seems to have performed
nearly all the labors of the commit
tee thus far, but one man cannot do
it all. The balance of the committee
are good men, but their time seems
to be fully occupied with other mat.
tiers. If they cannot find time to de-
vote to this, then they should give
way and let others be appointed
Kanawha county has appropriated
81, 900 to the preliminary survey
Wood should follow, Supineness
won't build railroads, Let us go to
notwithstanding Journal.
The grave in which the manglcd
remains of the boy killed at Simp.
son last week, was buried, has been
opened and the body taken up three
times, during the past week, at the
instance of persons who were in
search of a missing boy, but so far,
the remains have not been recognize
ed. A man by the name of Gallagh-
or, from Wheeling, went to Simp-
son, on Tuesday, and viewed the re.
mains, but he did notrecognize them
as those of his missing son,-GrQton
Ssntiacl,
Empircism is destroying nearly as
many lives in West Virginia today
whisky. The stringent laws of Ohio
and Pennsylvania are driving all
thoir quacks into this State, and our
Legislators are too cowardly to pro.
toct the lives Of the people against
the nostrums of these charlatans.
II is about time the press of our