The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-03-09
The Weekly Register
.LOCAL MATTERS. ,

has been OH an extended tour through
the South, visiting conferences, and
lecturing in the interest of his Mis-
sionary work in Brazil, spent several
days last week at Mr.. /. v. Newman's.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Melton, who
have been spending some weeks with
Mrs. Hawkins, left last Saturday on
the Telephone, for their home below
Charleston.
We had a pleasant call last Friday
afternoon from Miss Mollie Smith, OF
Huntington, and Miss Ella Fergus
Dn, of this place.
Mr.. Will Spencer has been quite
i'll with measles; we are glad to state
that he is getting better.
Rev, Mr.. sledd is expected back
this week.
Judge Guthrie returned home Sat.
urday.
Miss Ida Hooff is visiting friends
in Gallipolis, this week.
Marcus Friedman is to leave US
he goes into the Point Pleasant store
forawhile and then will open another
store on the Kanawha. Sorry to lose
you, Marcus. Rarens,oood Negs.
Hon. d. II. Willard, of Point Pleas.
ant, is registered at the Hale House.
--GarLeSton Leader.
NAMoLoID.-There is a case Of var.
ioloid in town. The facts in the mat.
ter are about as follows: On the down
trip before the last, of the st. Law.
renee, a colored man got off here
Soon after getting off he was taken
sick with what he supposed to be
measles. On last Thursday DR.. Neale
visited the house where the colored
man was staying, to see another pa
tient. His attention was incidental
ly called TO the man supposed to have
the measles. The Doctor ut once pro
nounccd it 10 be varioloid, the paien,
having been vaccinated. Steps were
at once taken prevent further com
munication with the house, nurse
was procured for the patient, and DR.
Neale says he is getting along pretty
well. 1t is confdentiully believed
that its further spread can DO pre-
vented.
I'VE publish to-day an invitation
,and urgent request from the citizens
7of Pleasant Flats, addressed to Dr.
Campbell, asking him to locate in
that section for the practice Of medi
cine. There is nofairer or more pros.
porous part Of Mason county than
the Pleasant Flats, and no better PEG.
pie anywhere. Will. we should re.
.gret to part again from DR.. Camp.
dell, we know that he has many
warm friends in the community
which presses him to come among
them.
The Saturday Visitor appears in q
new dress, and is to be devoted to gen.
'eral news and literature. 1t starts
after the order of the New York Her.
aid, when first originated, by virtual.
ly disclaiming party and politics
The Visitor is neatly gotten up, and
OF good size, while the Herald was
originally u one cent paper and issued
from cellar, yet it served to enrich
the editor. May similar prosperity
reward the enterprising spirit Of our
worthy contemporary.
1t is proposed to run a Railroad
from Wheeling TO Parkersburg along
the river, and thence across through
jackson county to Charleston, Kan.
awha county. When this is done
Point Pleasant will be inclosed with.
IN the circle of u railroad circumfer.
ence, with no point distant more
than forty miles. But then that
forty miles we fear will never be
1raversed by railroad.
MARRtED.-On the 9Th instant, by
Rev. VIM. L. Bailey, in the County
Clerks office, Ben. f. Wamsley to
Sophronia J. Morrow; all of Mason
county.
On the Sd instant, by Rev. VIM. L.
Bailey, Hezekiah S. Patterson to Eu.
nice J. Lepert, at The residence of Mr..
Shelton, in Clendinen District, this
county.
DEAD.-John B. steed departed this
life near Mt. Pisgah, in Mason coun,