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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-20
The Weekly Register
LOCAL M4TTERS.
The rivers are rising.

sore G1Co VIZ P'N '%S"
County Court in session,
Bring out the street scrapcr.
Wild geese are flying South.
Hurry up that telegraph line.
Business is looking up in town.
This is the season for mince-pies.
Now is the time to pack your pork.
The boat Robin is on the Docks,
Streets and sidewalks very muddy,
Weare nolonger weather prophet,
A gossip speaks ill of all, and all of
her,
The Ohio wharf is a disgrace to the
town.
Wheeling is to have new Sunday
paper
To get posted-subscribe for the
Register.
Some Of our street crossings need
attention.
Corn is worth from IS cts. to 40 cts,
per bushel.
A mans best fortune or his worst,
Is his wife.
Mason county has the finest cattle
in the State.
The trees are nearly denuded of
their foliage.
Beef, by the quarter, sells at 5 and
Gcents per pound.
Hard cider gets the temperance
fellows sometimes.
Wehaven't heard from our Thanks
giving turkey yet.
The frosty mornings remind us
that winter is near.
Never buy anytllinguntil you have
the money to pay for it.
Some of our merchants are display
ing their Christmas toys.
a little crookedncssreported in the
Post Office at Huntington.
Will the churches hold religious
services on Thanksgiving day2
merchants wouldadvertise more,
they would do a larger business.
Eggs are very scarce in this market,
and command Is cents per dozen.
The Courier, at Charleston, has sus-
pended for short time, to settle up.
This is the busy season of the year
Everybody going into winter quar-
tiers,
1t is easy to sit on dry goods box
and find fault with your neighbors
work.
The town cram full of people at
tending court, and hotel keepers are
happy.
Diptheria is still very bad among
tho children in some parts of the
county.
The Federal Court at Charleston
has played the devil with "moon-
sinners"
The schedule of time has been
changed on the C. CORR. See adj
vertisement.
Read advertisement of wanted to
trade land near Charleston, for lot
in Point Pleasant.
Gov. Mathews says you must OBJ
serve the 2Sth as day of Thanks
giving and prayer.
Mr.. John S. Lewis cautions sports
men from trespassing on his lands
without his consent.
A fine lot of sheep were shipped
from this place Sunday morning by
the Mssrs. Eastham.
Mr. Richard Spence expects to
leave for the South, with his produce
boat, to-day.
Ponder over Van Gildor's big adj
vertisement in this paper. He be-
lieyes there is virtuein printers ink
You'll lose your nickel soon enough,
iswhat we heard a young man tell
another WHOM hurrying to saloon
toimbibe.
People are complaining about coal
thieves. Locks may save the coal,
but the best remedy is to convert the
thief into shot bag,
A large crowd witnessed the nup'
'alS Of Mr.. +. D. Hoy and Miss Hell
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-20

Our friend setszer has purchased
the residence formerly owned by Rev.
U. Pribble; what does it mean? Is he
setting his sails for a voyage on the
sea of Matrimony2
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-20

Weare sorry to chronicle that a
little three year old daughter of Rev.
]. o, A. yaught, is very low with
pneumonia. At this writing the
child is thought TO be improving.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-20

The wife of the jailor of Cabell
county recently knocked negro
prisoner down, who attempted to cs-
cape. And it is said she didn't faint
afterward.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-20

ave beg your pardon, you unmiti-
gated ass Is the way Point Pleasant
papers talk to each other Wheeling
Register,
You're another; Point Pleasant pa
pers don't do any such thing.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-20

About two hundred children at,
tend the public school in this place.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-20
3 Ohio
~ - -
RAIL ROAD.
90
A TICKET OFFICE,

For the sale OF Through Tickets to all
points on the c. & o. R. r., and to Wash
ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York,
Boston and all OF the Southern Atlantic
Cities and Florida.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-20

tsr7 A DAY to Agents canvassing for the
ID Fireside YiSitOr. Terms and
Outfit Free. Address P. o. VICKERY,
Augusta, Maine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-20
B. F. BIGGs,
UNDERT AXE R
PoMERoY. OHIO.

I CAN send Hearse and attend Funerals
i in Point Pleasant and vicinity by II q.
m. and return same day for LESS MONEY
than any Of my competitors. All Collins
ordered by Luella or IIumming-Bird will
be sent on return trip.
Also, dealer in Shingles, Lath, Doors,
Sash, Builders Hardware, Glass, Paints,
Oils and Varnish. b. +. BIGGS,
april l7-ly. Pomeroy, Ohio
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HUNTINGTON TO RICHMOND
On and after November 10Th, 1873, Mail
and Express trains will leave Huntington
as follows:
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23
THE EUROPEAN CRISIS.

The coming Conference OF the Powers
will probably be held at Berlin instead of
BadenBaden.
A telegram dated Constantihople,
10th, says: Raouf Pasha and Gen. Ignatietf
started for St. Petersburg to-day. Hobart
Pasha will leave for Crete Tuesday. The Wis
it of the Grand Duke Nicholas to the Sultan
has been abandoned for the present. The
report is again current that the Austrians are
about to occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina
This is uncontirmed, but it is understood that
Austrian plenipotentiaries will, with the
consent Of Russia and Turkey, bring the
question of the future position of those
provinces before the Congress.
Advices from India, said to be trust
worthy, are to the effect that the Moham-
medans are greatly excited about the over
throw of Turkey. Serious trouble is appre-
hended unless the Government takes some
anti Russian action shortly. 1t is believed
that 100000 Moslem volunteers to serve
against Russia could be raised without diff
ficulty. An Athens dispatch says the insur-
rection continues active in Thessaly, Epirus
and Crete. Fresh outbreaks in Macedonia
are reported.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23
A Brides TrOusseau.

When the daughter of a millionaire
marries, it is considered papa's duty to
spend thousands of dollars in providing
her with bridal tr0ussea@. Society
says he ought-"it encourages trade
you know!''-and so the fond father
gives an order which is filled by foreign
dressmakers, bootmakers and stocking
weavers. A correspondent of the Home
Journal tells of a young woman, the
daughter of millionaire, who didn't
do this, but had q simple rousseau pre-
pared in the city where she lived. REQ.
pie called her and her parents ''stlngy
but then people were mistaken as tney
generally are when they criticise eg,c'
and never seek the cause. Had lne
roses in the young girls garden spoken
they might have taught people a ii''0
wisdom; but then roses are the HOVER,
of silence, you know, and they coulu
not tell how they had heard that pre's
child ask her parents how much hei
rousseau would cost, and the answer VI
the fond father, who named sum lafs0
enough to purchase the outfit OF an ell
press.
Well, that supplemented girl wen. v
her affianced husband and said, Ai0
you willing that papa should give me
very simple trousSeaus He wants "
give me one fit for queen, but anu
she hung her head-"I should rather
have the money it would cost"
The young mans astonishmeat wa
great, but was not behind the magnV
las where they sat, so can not CIV
YOU the rest of the conversation. "nen
the gentleman discovered however, lna'
she wanted the money, so that in ever !:
city through which they passed on 'neH
wedding journey, she could leave , 90
tain sum to be given to the poor OF va s
city, he called her an ''angel," insls'es
upon doubling the sum she had resoNc-
to save on her troasseau, and after tnen
marriage journey ed with her from SO. =.
to North, East to West, and in ever! -, -.
where they tarried for day, left in ins
hands of some clergyman ample suns u
money to help Gods poor
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23
Some Tough Yarns.

There is place in Maine so rocky
that when the Down-Easters plant corn
they look for crevices in the rocks, and
shoot the grains in with musket; they
can't raise ducks there nohow, for the
stones are so thick the ducks can't get
their bills between them to pick up the
grasshopperS, and the only way the
sheep can get at the sprigs of grass is
by grinding their noses on a grindsSne.
But that amt circumstance to a
place on the Eastern Shore; the land is
so poor that it takes two kildears to say
Kildear," and on clear day you can
see the grasshoppers climb up mullen
stalk, and look with tears in their eyes
over 50-acre field; and the humble
bees have to go down on their knees to
get at the grass; all the mosquitoes died
of starvation, and turkey-buzzards had
to emigrate.
But there is a county in Virginia
which can beat that; here the land is so
sterile that, when the wind is at the
northwest, they have to tie their chill
dren to keep them from blowing away;
there it takes six frogs to see q man, and
when the dogs bark they have to lean
against the fences; the horses are so
thin that il takes II of them to make 4
shadow, and, when they kill a beef,
they have to hold himup to knock him
down.-EIohaRge.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23

Cincinnati, large hardware firm, Is an
nounced. Liabilities not stated.
BY the explosion of gasoline maya
zine located under the Post-oflice at Harri-
son, o., on the evening Of the sth, +. kupp
and Katie Amer were killed and nine other
persons seriously injured. The building
was set on fire and extinguished with some
difficulty.
A colliery explosion occurred near
Glasgow, Scotland, on the Sth, by which
II miners lost their lives by being buried
alive.
A dispatch from Trieste says the
Austrian steamer Sphinx, from Cavallo,with
$500 Circassians on board, caught fire and
went ashore near Cape Ellis. Five hundred
lives were lost.
The San Domingo revolutionists have
defeated Baez's main army, capturing many
prisoners and all their artillery and ammu-
nition..
A colored woman, charged with in
stigating boy to set fire to barn in Rock
ingham County, Va, was taken from the
Jail and hanged by q mob. ....
"A report comes from Constantlnople
that Suleiman Pasha, who, at the time Of the
signing of the armistice was the Command
erin. Chief of the Turkish armies, has been
drowned us punishment for his part in
conspiracy to dethrone the Sultan.
Atlanta, Georgia, was visited by a
tornado on Sunday, the 10th. The Epsco-
pal Church was struck while morning SER
vices were in progress, and almost
entirely demolished. The officiating
minister, with great presence OF
mind, told the congregation to throw them
selves down between the seats, and by so do
ing doubtless many lives were saved. Eight
cen persons were more or less injured, but
none killed. Other churches were seriously
injured, as was the City-ha and many pri-
vate buildings. pa
The authorities of Hot Springs, Ark,
have issued an appeal for assistance to. the
sufferers by the recent conflagration in that
city, large numbers of whom are destitute
of food and clothing. st. Louis, Chicago,
Little Rock, and some other cities have sent
contributions.
A mail and baggage car, together
with its entire contents, was burned on the
Lake Shore Railroad on the morning of the
18th. The train was the westward-bound
express, and most Of the mail was destined
for Chicago.
The Farmers and Traders Bank OF
Lexington, KY, has suspended on account
of the financial embarrassment of certain
parties connected with the institution. The
condition of the banks affairs is not stated.
There have been several heavy fail
ures in the provision trade of Philadelphia.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

A HARD Money League has been or
ganized in the Northwest, with head
quarters at Chicago. George w. Allis'
of Milwaukee, is the President, M. l..
Scudder, of Chicago, Secretary, and H.
G. Gage, of Chicago, Treasurer. The
announced object of the organization Is
to secure concerted action against the
Greenback movement, and to eradicate
what the projectors call "false ideas OF
finance" but not to oppose the working
of the Silver bill.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23

Mrs. GwIN, wife of the ex-senator,
the "Duke of Sonora" has entered suit In
a San Francisco court to recover properly
valued at $40, 900, 900, that includes some oil
the finest residences in the city.
Mrs. ELLEN KENNEDY died in Chica-
80 on the 9th, aged 1O6.
ISAAC BAssETT, the present Assistant
Doorkeeper of the Senate, was taken TO
Washington in 1882 by Daniel Webster, and
began his official career as page.
Mrs. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the widow
of the late President Lincoln, is living Sc
cluded life in an interior town In France.
GEN. GRANT was at Athens on the 9Th
and was formally presented to the King and
Queen Of Greece.
TRAINS on the Union Pacific, Denver
Pacific, Kansas Pacific, and Colorado Cen
trail roads were completely blockadcd by
snowdrifts on the 9th, many OF the cuts be-
ing level full.
Hon. CHARLES L. WILSON, proprie-
tor of the Chicago Evening Journal, died at
San Antonio, Texas, on the 9th, where he
had gone for his health. ,.. .. .. ....
SECRETARY SCHURz asks Congress
to appropriate $4,000 to improve the yell
lowstonc National Park.
The Archduke Francis, father of the
Emperor Francis Joseph Of Austria, is dead.
THE President has nominated John
w. Hoyt, Of Wisconsin, for Governor OF
Wyoming Territory.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

TIE President has appointed Hon.
Albert G. Porter, of Indiana, First Comp
troller of the Treasury.
THE President has nominated Mr.. G.
II. Branscomb, formerly Consul at Man
chester, England, as Consul to Chen Kiang,
China. This appointment is credited to
Missouri, wrongfuly it is claimed, as Mr..
Branscomb has not resided in the State for
several years past, and his nomination was
brought about through Eastern influences.
tits understood that the Missouri delegation
will oppose his confirmation.
GEN. JOHN MCNEIL, of st. Louis,
has been appointed Indian Inspector.
JOSEPH j. KELLY, of Dewitt County,
Ill.,, has been appointed National Bank EX-
aminer for Illinois and Missouri.
CHARGES have been preferred against
Linderman, Director of the Mint, of furnish
ing information to spectators in San Fran
cisco, and directing the affairs of the Mint
so as to enable them to profit in their specu-
lations by such dishonorably acquired
knowledge.
The New Hampshire Greenback
State Convention nominated Samuel Flint
for Governor.
JUDGE ASA BRIGGS, formerly United
States Senator, died at Norfolk, Va, on the
9th.
The Louisiana Legislature, whose
term expired on the 18th, was reconvened
by the Governor for 10 days.
D,prrp &c ,ln ;bor,,p
Colonization Society, has purchased ves-
sci in Boston with which he will transport Il
large number of negroes from Charleston to
Liberia.
GEN. SHERMAN says that there ought
to he at least $4,000 to 10000 men in the
army, and declares that sat this moment
there is almost absolute certainty of re-
newcd war with the Sioux"
ALL but two of the House Committee
on Indian affairs favor a transfer of the In
dian Bureau from the Interior to the War
Department.
Mis-. JOHN W. ILIFF, whose husband
recently died in Denver, Col, leaving her q
fortune of $500 200 and $4,000 head of cattle,
was formerly a saleswoman in the Singer
Sewing Machine Company's store in Chicago.
She is a bright, energetic, accomplished lady,
who struck out West to better her condition,
and seems to have succeeded in her purpose.
EX-SENATOR WADE left no will. He
was worth from $4,000 TO 100000.
The London Court journal reviveS
the rumor that Lord Dutferin will be sue
ceeded a. Goyernor-Gencral OF Canada in
September next 10y the Marquis Of Lorne.
AN autograph letter from Gen. Grant
to a distinguished Republican of Knoxville
saws that nothing could induce him ever to
become 4 candidate for President again.
4 MONUMENT to the memory of Gen.
Il. L. Lee i to he erected at Richmond 10y
Mr. Joseph Milmore Of Boston. The chief
ornament OF the structure will be a full
length statue Of Lee in bronze; the base will
be made Of Maine and Virginia granite.
GIN. 7. VI. b. IoUNG, OF Georgia,
the southern Commissioner to Paris, j. very
enthusiastic over the prospects Of liberal
display Of Southern goods at the ENposi-
iiou.
DE. MARI WALKER has made formal
application for an appointment on the
Washington Police force.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23

TIE House Committee on Public
Lands have agreed to report favorably
n bill which provides that the notices OF
contest now provided for by law, under
the homestead presumption and tree-cul-
ture laws of the United States, shall
hereafter be printed in some newspaper
printed in the county where the land in
contest lies, and if no newspaper be
printed in such county then in news
paper printed in the county nearest to
such land.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23

THE Senate Committee on Indian Al
fairs have agreed to report favorably on
the bill authorizing the Secretary of the
Interior to make certain negotiations
with the Ute Indians in Colorado. The
negotiations in question are for the con-
so .idation of all bands in one agency, to
be located on or near White River, and
for the extinguishment of the right OF
Ute Indians TO the southern portion OF
their reservation in Colorado.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23
WIT AND WISDOM.
STILL whisky runs deep.

STILL whisky runs deep.
The silver discussion is about ore
MIsFoRTUNEs never come singlym
Same way with twins.
A BABY, according to the French, is an
angel whose wings decrease us its leps
lengthen.
CAPT. HUNT GRUBBE commands a
British war vessel. 1t is q nice mama
for announcement at small tea.partv
LITTLE boy, when your mother turns
you across her knee, you're trans parent
Boston Post. Because, you see, she puts
panes into you..-Neoo York Mail. And
she takes away your wind-oh!-Gr Graphic;
IAN taking my holidays now. When
the rest of the world begins to take its,
holiday I mean to 60 to work. The
longer I live the more see the rash.
ness of putting off your holiday till
summer. You might die, you know
Mark TWain.
I HAVE seen men who, at the mar.
rage altar, thought they were annex.
ing something more valuable than
Cuba, who found out afterward that
they had only got an album, Godey's
magazine, and a medicine-chest.-TaL
mage. ... ... ,..n..
Poor young thing! She had tainted
away at the washtub, and her nose went
kerslop into the soap-suds. Some said
it was overwork, others, however,
whispered that her beau had peeped
over the back fence and called out:
Hello, there; Bridget! Is Miss Alice
homs?' ..... e ....... ..ai
elf England goes to war;" said an
eloquent man in Blocker Street bar
ber-shop to-day, tour grain exports
will be suadrupled- quadrupled, sir; a
golden stream of wealth will flood our
Golfers, and" here he glanced into an
opposite mirror and recognized thefeat-
ures of a man to whom he had been ow-
ing 1926 for eighteen months.-Utica,
| Observer.
THERE is many true word spoken in
joke. At the time Jenny Lind was
singing in America the London Punch
began an article on the subject by say
ing: "It appears that songs and pieces
of music are now sent from Boston to
New York by electric telegraph" No
doubt Punch thought this very funny,
but time has changed the so-called joke
into prophecy.
THE Graphic heads an editorial,
"Don't Get Rich" We are doing our
level best to obey this injunction, but
our labors are availing us little. Throw
ing money into the river by the arm
fuls doesn't appear to lessen our pile
bit. We send it to the poor by the cart
load, loan the Sultan all he asks for,
smash our water-pipes so as to give
plumbers something to do, never ques''
ton the butchers bill, and yet we lit
orally roll in wealth. Under such cir
cumstances, what's fellow to doP-W
CITY DerrScb.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23

THE body of Mrs. Nicholas Weiss,
who died and was buried near Fort
Wayne, Ind, 10 years ago, was recently
disinterred and found TO be petrihed, the
features being natural as in life. Her
weight in the flesh was 200 pounds, but
the Petrifed corpse turned the scales a;
Loco.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23

SPEAKER RANDALL gives it as his
opinion that Congress can adjourn July
1, the average duration of long sessions.
He says the impression that the Appro-
priations Chmmittee is behind is mis-
take, that the work of that Committee
is as far advanced as usual, and that no
extension of the session will be necessary
on that account. Others are confident
that there can be no adjournment before
August.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23

The Treasury Department has issued
a circular relative to the purchase OF
silver bullion for coinage purposes TO
be delivered at the MINIS ut Philadel-
phia, San Francisco and Carson, in
quantities of not less than 10000
ounces.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23

THE Riverbill introduced in the House
by Representative Gibson Subsequent
" introduced in the Senate by Senator
CockrelD, provides that the President
of the United States shall appoint five
engineers, designating one of the num-
Der for President of the Commission,
who shall prepare plans and estimates,
which will secure channel for sea-
going vessels at all seasons of the
year from Cairo to the mouth OF
the river. When these plans are
approved by the President of the
United States, the Secretary of War is
to expend such sums as may be appro-
priated by Congress to carry on the
construction under the direction of the
Commission, which is also to have the
direction of such surveys as are now in
progress below st. Louis. The Secre-
tary of War is to give the Commission
all boats which shall be needed.
After the approval of the general
system of works, detailed plans
are to be prepared, a majority of the
Commission to decide upon them. The
Commission is to furnish the Secretary
of War with all these plans and he is to
advertise for bids for the work in parts
or as a whole. One section of the bill
provides for the salaries of the members
of the Commission, which amounts are
left in blank. The last section provides
for an appropriation of $2,50o,OOO for
the speedy construction of the general
system contemplated by the act. The
bill is based on the well grounded opin-
ion that Capt. Eads will be selected
President of the Commission.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23

no present way of increasing the
amount, all taxes being paid in coupons
representing interest on the bonded debt
of the State.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23

CARDINAL FRANCuI has been confirm
ed Pontiiical Secretary of State; Cardinal
Simeoni, Project of the Propaganda;
Cardinal Merichini, Camerlengo; and
Cardinal Bartolini, President OF the
Congregation of Rites. 1t is said that
the Pope and Cardinal Frarchi have de-
termined on policy of reconciling, AS
far as possible, interests of the Church
and State in questions pending with the
various Governments.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23

ACCORDING to the Mark Lane EgpresS,
the grain accumulated at Odessa and
Nicolaieff during the blockade of the
Black Sea ports amounts to about 1, 1885,
600 quarters. 1t is estimated that the
loss to commerce by the blockade at
Odessa alone has been from $50, 100000
to $50, 100000.