The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-11-29

with regret of the destruction OF Mr..
sehon's property in your town.
Your correspondent has recently con-
vetsed with several prominent gem
tlemen who would now he highly
pleased If Mr.. Sehon was the present
representative in Congress, not that
they like Col. Gibson less but because
they like Mr.. S. more, and two years
hence we would not lie surprised if a
number of Sehon men should be
heard from in the Congressional Con.
ventfon then to be held.
Business Of all kinds is brisk. The
farmers have excellent crops and
have had u most favorable fall to save
them; late pasturage has continued,
and the result is that stock is in fine
condition. Everybody has employ
ment, plenty reigns and all are hap
Ply and contented. If the entire
Valley was incorporated and under
municipal control it would be long
time before the police record would
show many arrests for vagrancy.
The Ohio Genital Railway is rap.
idly approaching completion; the
ballasting is being done as rapidly as
possible, but there being no gravel
along the line the ballast has to be
prepared by pounding stone and this
necessarily impedes the work. The
stone used for this purpose is princi.
pally taken from the quarries near
Leon. The receiving agents are now
on the line Inspecting the work, the
construction c0hpany being now
ready to turn it over to the Compa
ny, but whether any portion of it
has yet been received, we do not
know. Work on the Western end of
the line is being rapidly pushed for
ward and will, when completed, fur
nish direct communication between
Charleston and Dubuque, Iowa, from
which point connection will be made
With all Western roads, including
those running into British America
and the Pacific coast. When this
road is completed the markets Of half
a continent is opened to the sale of
Kanawha coal and coke, and thor
oughfare opened up our Valley over
which the lumber from the vast tim.
Der regions of Northern Michigan
and Canada West must pass to the
Eastern markets. Not only this but
the Seattle from q thousand hills"
and the vastest plains on the globe
beside, will find the Eastern markets
by the same route, and yet there are
people living along the Kanawha
who by refusing to grant the right Of
way hid all in their power to hinder
the construction of this mighty arte.
ry of trade, and yet censure the an
thorities of Mason couuty for per-
hitting the Company to use few
miles Of what was at the time almost
an impossible road, When will The
American people cease 10 tnugnify
their own selfish interests above
those of the public good and welfare
Of an entire commonwealth?
On last Sabbath an immense audi
ence collecsed al the Baptist Church,
In Leon, to listen to the funeral ora.
ton delivered by Rev. R. W. Davis,
in memory Of Hon. Henry S. Burns,
Never does the writer remember to
have witnessed more impressive
scene. As the organ pealed forth in
subdued tones the heart.stirring
strains of John Howard payne's
NEARER TO Ny Home" nearly every
eye in that assemblage wis moist
with tears-all were mourncrs thus at.
testing the high estimation in which
the deceased was held BY his fellow
men. The text was selected from the
10Th verse of The Bath Psalm, and
from it the speaker delivered a ser.
mon in which he drew a striking dis.
tinction between reputation and
character, showing in conclusion that
in the latter, right mus. ever be the
guiding star and thet by its light the
deceased had ever walked. From
those who had known him there
could not come dissenting voice.
J. NJ. Burdette, the recently elected
Justice of the Peace, in Cologne Dis.
trict, will sit in Judgment in his first
civil case next Tuesday, in theaction
Of Smith VS.. Wyatt. Able counsel
has been employed on both Sides