The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-07-17
The Docks have come.

Sweet potatoes will soon be in mar.
kot.
Jackson county is entitled to the
banner for clopements.
Fruit this season is cheap and Of
excellent quality.
The wells and springs are being ef.
fccted by the dry weather
The timber men will soon find a
good market here for ship timber.
A piece of lemon bound upon a
corn will relieve it in a day or two,
Blackberries in quantities are com.
ing to market. Dcwberries are over
due.
After pretty stiff fight, the law OF
Ohio said the Docks belonged to Point
Pleasant.
Tho value ola number of dogs will
be asccrtained when the collectors
come around.
The blackberry crop is said to be
bountiful, but the gathering is any.
thing but pleasant this weather.
Married, in Point Pleasant, July
4h, 1878, by Rev. Trippett, Mr.. c.
W. Dickcl to Mrs. Margaret Baker.
The Senatorial Convention at Win.
field, Saturday. How to get there
and back is the question.
Cow Morris, Esq, Deputy U, S,
Internal Revenue Collector, is in
town, on business connected with
the Revenue Department,
Who vas dot mon vat walks der sdhrced,
IND pows nit etry Won he need,
IND shakes NIT safen oud Of eight?
WI pless you, dots der candidate.
Now letPoint Pleasant follow the
example of Cincinnati by selling
Lager at 5 cents a glass.
Wonder if this Court will order a
publication Of the receipts and ex-
pcnditures Of the county?
DR.. Barbee has gone into the pole
cat business. He captured whole
family of them the other day.
Ifyou want to go to Old Point Com.
fort, you can do so for IS round trip
on the C. & o. Railway.
We are informed that the potato
crop will be a failure to a great ex.
tent in this part of the county.
Miss Noma Gibbons of Ironton,
Ohio, who has been visiting in this
place for the past week, left for her
home Monday evening,
Mr.. II. Lerncr, of Mason City, this
county lost two valuable horses last
Saturday, one from sun.stroke, and
the other by drowning.
Warm weather is no longer myth;
il is upon MS in dead earneSt: and
very few people are found sitting
around on boxes summing themselves,
The crops in good many portions
of this county is suffering for rain.
In some places, we are told, the corn
will be almost an entire failure.
There has been quite rise in the
Kanawha river, making water suiIi-
cient for the large boats to run be.
tween Cincinnati aud misplace. :
Hon. Sep. Hall, of Wetzcl, was in
town during the greater part of last
week. He was looking after the in
terests of the Pittsburgh Stave Com
pany.
There is no use talking, we must
have money, or we can't run the
Register. 1t takes money to make it
60 those indebted will please call
and pay their bills,
Frank W. Sisson, of this place has
the contract for building the bridge
over Ten Mile Creek, The stone
work was awarded to VIM. Mercer, Of
Mcigs County, Ohio.
River men will bear in mind that
the Middleport Docks are now in the
mouth of the Big Kanawha, and are
owned by company of responsible
citizens of this place.
Mr., John Winklcy has returned
from the Sixteen Mile, on Kanawha,
and will be at home for a few days.
Persons desiring to have wells put
down would do well to consult him