The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-01-08
The Weekly Register
LOCAL M.ATTER,S.
Now WRIT II 1879.

This Is the week OF prayer.
Nineteen below zero. Ughl
The Legislature meets to-day.
The coal merchants are the busiest
men in town, just now
Scttled-the question Of next sum-
mers supply Of ice.
The Court Of Appeals meets in
Charleston to-day.
The Register was not published
last week.
This is good time to commence
taking your county paper
Sleighing has been good fox the
past week.
Several persons have been hurt BY
falls on the sidewalks.
Coasting is good, and the boys i'm
prove their time.
County Court next Monday week,
A term for thetrial Of causes.
One dollar and fifty cents an hour
is what it costs to sleigh.ride.
The Cincinnati mail reaches this
point every day, including Sunday,
Bundle up your ears, or you may
lose them.
Coal is scarce and commands from
9to 10 cents per bushel.
On our first page will be found a
corrected county and city directory,
and also the times Of holding Courts.
The Grecnhrier Independents mad
at the Supreme Court. Someof its de-
cisions must have hurt Bro. Harlow.
Quite number Of our young men
have "Swore off" using tobacco and
intoxicating drinks. Hope they'll
stick.
A boy in the employ of George
Lewis, jumped from L wagon last
Thursday and di>located the can on
one Of his knees.
We direct attention to our revised
terms, both subscription and adver-
Using, ON the first page. These
terms will be strictly adhered to.
We direct attention to the card Of
the new law firm in this paper
Any business entrusted to Messrs.
Gum q Wiley will receive prompt
attention.
Some men are always looking for
something pointed in Il newspaper;
and yet, if their names are used to
sharpen the points, they are too dull
to see where the fnn comes in.
l.ook at the neat and tasty column
of professional cards on our first
page, These cards are IS q year, if
paid cash in advance, or IS il paid
at the end Of the year.
The boys say there is no fun in n
slcigh-ride unless you are upset and
thrown into u snow drift four feet
deep and are compelled TO walk home
with mad girl and a skinned nose.
This week VIC stop sending some
thing over one hundred papers. II
you don't get your paper, you'll just
remember that you arc in arrears for
subscription.
We got a Christmas gift from up
per Presbyterian Church-a sack of
candy and u little chromo-all this
for being agood Sunday School schol-
ar.
Quite a number of people are out
Of coal, and if the rivers remain
closed a week or two longer, there
must of necessity, be much suffer
ing for the want of fuel.
Mcssrs. Gum, Howard and Simp-
son, left for Wheeling last Friday
At Pomeroy DR.. Ronsh met them.
From Pomeroy they go to Athens,
where they will take the Railroad
and go rM Columbus to Wheeling.
This has been the coolest weather
witnessed in this section since the
winter of 1867. In that winter
the thermometer reached 200 below
zero, and was the coolest weather
ever known in this latitude.
John L. Timms, Esq, has gone to
Winfield to instruct the Clerks in
their duties. During his absence
his office will be in charge of Mr.
w. Z. Kimberling, and any fducia-
rics who may desire to settle their