The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-11-26

tnls ;piAce nave oeen on q strlke.-
Result, che furnaces are cold.
The rise in tie river came just in
theaick Of time, We are getting
lid Of our salt. Send on your barges.
The City Of Ironton took 600 barrels
to-day, and barge is also being loa-
ded..
The furnaces started up again on
Monday, the miners having gone toI
work.
MIR. Joseph Robson lost a little
girl on Saturday, 22d, by scarlet fe-
yer. Our people are considerably
alarmed. s.
Mr.. Outlay has undertaken to-
clean out Mr.. 3. G. Harpold's we'll
for $3.50.
Ma; D.. H.. Harper has gone to
Pennsylvania, where he expects to-
spend the winter.
Miss Alice Harpold is trying to or
ganize . young peoples Reading So
Ieiety. The,object as ne understand
it, is not only to cultivate the intel.
llect, but develop the inordl nature.
Et cpltiYatias the isligioes clemens
ALSO. This.sisa very laudable under
taking and should be encouraged by
all who feel an interest in the. we'll
being of society. J.
We see from the papers, that a
meeting has been announced, to take
place at the Swami House, in the
city of Parkersburg, West Virginia,
on the 18th Of next December, for
the purpose of organizing sheep
breeders and wool growers associa.
tion of West Virginia. We are glad
to see this; it is a move in the right
direction. No State in the Union is.
better adapted to sheep raising than
this. The natural advantages are
great; great deal of our land is too
steep for cultivation, yet it produces
the finest grass. For years cattle
have been so low that the farmer
scarcely received q return for the
cost of growing; hogs have been
equally uncertain. The testimony
of men who have turned their atten-
ton to sheep growing is, that a man
with reasonable care will make 80.
per cent. on his investments.
On Thanksgiving night the swarm
of flying meteors will again come fly.
ing out of the northern heavens, and
Prof Proctor predicts that then there
will be brilliant display in the sky.
1t may not happen, he said, because
perhaps the meteoric cluster may
have been dissipated, but he felt
pretty certain that there will be a
display.
We suppose, taking the length
and breadth of this country, water
was never known to be so source
From every direction we hear that
wells are dry, springs, brooks and
even rivers are dry. People are haul
ing water, in many places for miles,
for stock and ordinary purposes
about the house.
1t is proposed to make some alter
ations and additions to the State
House at Charleston. For that pur-
pose the Board Of Public Works has
asked for sealed proposals from con
tractors and builders until the 18th
of next March.
A local preacher said, "The little
good any of US can do must be done
with our hearts humping against
our fellow men," And every young
woman in church looked at every
other young woman and smiled ap-
provingly.
The people of Charleston have
been RECALLED, the past week, by the
lectures of Gen. Sam. Cary, the dis
tinguishcd leader of the Greenback
party that died in Ohio the 14th of
last October.
More produce has been brought to
Point Pleasant this season, than for
a long time. We have. some wide.a.
wake merchants, with an eye to
trade, and they get it.
The first regular instalment Of
winter was precipitated upon us
rather unceremoniously, last week,