The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-09-21

appropriate ceremonies.
4 Tomorrow eve Is the commence
!ment of the Jewish new-year.
The West Virginia conferenc,
\ meels at Monndsville, October 9th.
4 Martinsburg has new Republi
3can paper named the Herald.
q Our public schools opened Monda,
Past, with good attendance.
A couple of colored gentlemen go
:ainto fight Saturday, about d hal
sdollar, and they were arraigned be
sfore the Mayor, who fined them eacE
ass and costs.
q One of the Illicit sellers of the "ar
sdent" was arrested Saturday upor
sthe complaint of a woman.
There has been rise of a few fee
GU our rivers; ana navigation has
4 been partially resumed.
j About all our citizens who have
s;been off at the watering places, have
sreturned..
Circuit Court adjourned Saturday
5evening until Monday, October 18th
swhen Judge Guthrie will be present
sand preside.
1 Contractors are getting their mer
Sand carts all along the line of the
sAtlantic and Northwestern R. R.
sand work is to be commenced al
aonce.
I Judge Brannon after he adjourned
scourt here, left for Illinois on bust
| ness.
I 1t is generally believed now tina,
athe Railroad bridge across the Ohio
awill be located at It'll street.
4 They have a station on the 0. &
sW. Va. Rw'y opposite this place
sbut notwithstanding this, all freigh,
sfor this point is reshipped at CALI
spolis TO our station, with an add
stionSl charge Of Is cents per 100 lbs
*iadded to it. This looks very much
3like stealing.
Il The forty-eight hours rain of las,
sweek was of great help to our farm.
Gers, and will enable them to break
Cup their lands for fall seeding.
d Frank Wallace, hailing from Pitts
sburgh, stopped over night in GU,
stown, and visited the residence of J
Wv. English, Esq, from which he car
sried of a gold watch and some Jewel
Fry; he escaped to Ohio, was captured
::,,and brought back; was tried in our
sclrcuit court last week, found guilty
sand sentenced to two years in the
aPenitentiary.
q In the case of State vs. Simon
fstoriz, for selling intoxicating drink,
ato minor, the jury failed to agree.
4 W. G. W. lager VS.. Lewis Bum
agarner, opon petition and interplead
Yer, to try the right of property levi
led upon by the Sheriff, which was
aclaimed by Col. ]. n. Clarkson, wa:
stried by jury in the circuit court
'SFerdict for the plaintiff, Mr.. lager.
4 VIM. R. Tippett has been appoint
Fed Postmaster at Track.
4 Fires were very comfortable for 9
s.rew days last week.
Il Little Jim Kidd has been covering
'ghimself all over with glory. In the
%big trot at the Marietta Fair he got
Slhe second money, and in matched
Grace at the same grounds, for 500
sShe distanced his competitor.
d Our wagon makers seem to b,
sscrowded with work now. Mr.. Flow
Gers is building a nobby two.seatet
Sexpress for Mr.. c. NJ. Cole, which
Swhen completed will be the neatcs
Ching of the kind in town.
n Rev. j. H. Jackson, of the NJ. T
aChurch, South, will hold Divine ser
Svices in this place next Sunday NOR
Sning and night. Prayer meeting OF
sThursday night.
B Judge Ira J. McGinniss was mar
9ried to Miss Kate Hite, of Cabel
Hcounty, September lat.
Small boys are in the habit o
aof jumping on trains as they slow W
Gin passing through town, from which
"a serious accident might happen.
The patience of the housekeepe
B was fairly tried last Thursday, wher