The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-08-24
Condensed Items.

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Serious floods have occurred in Ari.
iona.
General Toombs is in exceedingly
poor health.
The New York apple crop is said
to be extremely light.
Capt. James D. Langhorne, former
~ Of Boletourt county, Va, has re.
Gently sold silver mine in Colorado
for $4,000.
The New York Times says: It is
plain that the debt question is the
least Of me forces at work in Virgin
ia politics.
An aeronaut assembled from Mont
pelier, France, on Sunday last, and
has not since been heard Of. 1t is
supposed he was lost at sea.
In spite of the advance in the bank
rate, it is understood that some furth-
er sums will be taken from London
for New York, this week.
State militia to the number of ten
thousand have alread given notice Of
their intention to participate in the
Yorktown Centennial.
Miss Anna Hardness, the daugh.
ter Of d newspaper carrier in Boston,
has taken the first prize as yiolinist
in the Paris Conservatory Of Music.
Grants regimen. the Twenty. first
Illinois, will hold q reunion at Ef.
fingham, September 10 to 81, and the
General has promised to be present.
The result Of interviews by the
San Diego Sun with leading apiarists
upon the subject Of the honey crup of
California this year is not encourag-
ing.
1t is estimated that the Secretary
Of State, Treasurer and Comptroller
of Tennessee, will get each about
$4,000 as fees for refunding the State
debt.
Ex.Congressman Martin F. Con-
way, of Kansas, who once shot Sena,
tor Pomeroy, and has long been con-
fined in an Insane Asylum at Wash.
ington, has been released.
DR.. Bliss pronounces DR.. Ham.
mond's statement of the Presidents
condition as "unprofessional, ungent.
lemanly and indecent" But if DR..
Hammond's statement proyestrue?
Mr. Vennor, the Canadian weather
prophet, announces that no further
prediction in the weather will be
published by him until the issue of
his almanac, 1872, during October
next, and that all communica tons
to newspapers have been stopped
II is about time. .l.
Coins in which holes have been
punched will no longer be taken or
given out by the banks. The Gov
eminent has fixed the following
value upon such coins: Dollars, 65
cents; half dollars; IS cents; quarters,
10 cents; dimes, 5 CENTS. Business
men will govern themselves accord.
ingly.
In few days the passenger trains
on the Richmond and Allegheny
Railroad will run into Lynchburg,
the road and bridges between that
city and Richmond having been
completed,
In the White river bottoms, twen-
ty miles southeast of Vincennes,
Ind, Luke Mosby, from the ambush
Of hedge. fired two rifle balls into
the body of Lawson Hewett while
the latter was blowing in the field
last Friday afternoon. Hewett was
killed. They had each lost corn.
cribs by fire, and had each accused
the other Of incendiarism.
An Old Lady writes us: 81 am 65
years old and was feeble and nervous
all the time, when l bought bottle
Of Parker's Ginger Tonic. l have
used little more than one bottle and
feel as well as at 3d." See other col
umn. .m
The sixteen Southern States paid
into the Federal Treasury last year
taxes amounting to S2S,4S0,373 10.
Of this sum, Virginia paid s5,7Sl,,
4095S, and West Virginia, 370,672 Is.
Twenty-eight and half millions oil
dollars is large sum of money to be
drawn annually by taxation from a
portion of the union, embarrassed
and CRIPPLED in resources as the South
is in consequence of the late war
1t speaks volumes for our section and
its people that they have been able
to pay this enormous tax, and yet
make such rapid advance in materi.