The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-02-25
The Weekly Register
LOCAL M.ATT1ER,S.

winter at her grand-father's, Mr.. G.
C. Miller, near town, returned home
on the Telephone last Saturday.
Richard Spence and family leave
for their future home in Kansas, this
week. They will be missed by their
many friends in this county, but all
ioin in wishing them a healthful,
prosperous and pleasant life in their
western home. The people ofvalley
Falls, and Jefferson county, may con.
rratulate themselves, that in Mr..
Spence and family they will find our
be.t citizens, and family worthy Of
their fullest confidence.
Col. C. T. Beale, of Mercer's Bottom,
called at our Office Saturday after
noon, He told us that for sixty-fve
wears he has lived in the same house,
on the same farm, in this county
a h t
Mr.. B. is the most extensive, as we'll
as one Of the most successful farmers
in the State, and above all is a
staunch Democrat, the claim Of the
county correspondents to the League
Notwithstanding.
Mr.. Samuel Roush has been a five
wear subscriber to this paper. His
time run out on the 21st Of January,
1880; and on Monday he called and
paid for the Register for FIVE years
mpre-to January Dist, 1885. The
paper is sent for five years for $500
in advance, and we suggest to our
patrons this is the best way to take
it, as it is cheaper and saves you an
noyance. Send in $500 and take
the RegiSterfor five years.
Miss Laura vaught, sister of Rev.
10. A. Vaught Of this place, who
has been visiting her brother for
some months, left for her home in
Kentucky last Friday morning, per
steamer Potomac.
Capt. W. o. Roseberry and family
movcd,o the farm recently purchased
Of Richard Spence, Esq, Monday last.
We are glad to welcome the Captain
back to old Mason; the county of his
boyhood days.
Lieutenant W. C. Whaley, of the
Mason County Rilemen, left Tues
day night for Charleston, on business
connected with the military.
We acknowledge call Monday af,
ternoon, from Miss Nora O'Leary, of
Mason City, and Miss Lille Cole of
this place,
Miss Mary Miles, of Gallipolis, is
'visitingh her sister, Mrs. Geo Hooif,
in this place.
Miss Lizzie Maddy, of Huntington,
is visiting her grandfather, DR.. S.
G. Shaw, in this town.
Mrs.Fuller, of this place, is visit
ing her daughter at Belpre, Ohio.
Henry J. Fisher, Jr., has gone to
Cincinnati on important legal bust
ness.
&C. Bowyer and wife are visiting
friends in Parkersburg.
Frank Barrett, Esq, of Winfield,
was in town Monday night.
Rev. Griffith has gone to Smith
vile, to hold quarterly meeting.
We had a pleasant call from Mr..
VIM. Rectanus, Of Mason City, Tues
day. He reports business good up
in that burg.
STABBING AFTRAY.-On Saturday
night, about s o'clock, an ARRAY &C.
Cured between John S. Miller and
Prof. W.. Kenny, Principal of our
Graded School, in VIM. Smiths store,
which resulted in Mr.. Kenny being
stabbed in the left breast near the
region Of the heart. The knife went
through two heavy coats, two shirts
and a suspander, making a wound
about an inch wide and some two in
ches deep. The clothes is what
saved Mr. Kenny from instant death.
lie is now confined to his bed, and
his attending physician says that
while the wound is a severe one, it is
not necessarily fatal. Mr.. Miller de-
MES the cutting, and says he only
struck Mr.. Kenny with his open
hand. Mr.. Kenny did not discover
that he was cut until some fifteen
or twenty minutes afterward, when
IN the Episcopal church, at the Irish
relief meeting being held there, and