The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-12-20
State News.

There are three surviving widows
of Revolutionary soldiers in West
Virginia, one Of whom is Mary Kim
Bile, Of ST. Mary's, Pleasant county
Sentinel.
Green King. of Marion county, shot
and seriously wounded F. H. snod-
grass, of the same county on acco int
Of alleged intimacy between Snod-
grass and Kings wife.
Oliver Beirne, of Greenhrier coun-
tv, is the richest man in the State
He has come into the possession Of
about 100000 left to him by
friend in Louisiana.
Tyler county people have organ
lied Fair Association and secured
charter with capital stock Of $685.
900.
Erastus Chapman, born in Putnam
county, and former resident of the
same, was sentenced for one year to
the Ohio Penitentiary from Meigs
county last 'week.-lrrepressible.
The postofice at Hunting Ground,
Pendleton county, West Virginia, has
been abolished and the mail for that
point will be sent to Franklin.
Sammy G. Cargill has accepted a
situation in the office of the Lowmoor
Iron Furnace, Allegheny county, Va,
and started for his post Of duty Wed.
nesday morning.-Democrat.
We have a rumor from Gilmer
county that duplicates Deputy Sher
iff Oliver McQuain, of that county,
with forgery in his official capacity
as deputy sheriff. The rumor says
that Mccain left for parts unknown
as soon as his forgery was detected.
He has heretofore stood high in the
estimation Of the people Of Gilmer
county.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Morgan, sr., Of
Poca Bottoms--whose golden we'd
ding we chronicled nearly two
months ago-have been seriously in
disposed for two or three weeks, and
although able to leave their beds, are
still on the sick list. We sincerely
hope their restoration may be both
speedy and complete.-PM. Democrat.
PAINFUL AccIDENT.-Mr. Lee Mer.
rill,residing near Rivesvile, met with
q painful accident on Monday last
He aud Mr.. J. N. Arnett were butch.
ering beef for Jasper Hayhurst, and
while in the act of hanging up the
carcass, it slipped. and Mr.. Merrill,
to save it from falling; reached quick
ly around With his right arm to re-
new his hold, only to grasp the blade
Of sharp butchers knife which Mr..
Arnett held in his hand. The keen
edged instrument cut to the bone the
width of the hand, severing IN artery,
and making an ugly wound. The
injury is one which will likely de.
prive Mr.. Merrill of the use Of his
hand for some time.-Imiez.
The whole county of Barbour was
not long ago apparently turned top
sy-turvey, so to speak, by the trans
actions Of a set Of rascals known as
red men, and after herculean efforts,
in which the army Of the United
States did not assist butseemed need.
ed,succeeded in sending two of the mis-
creants to Jail for year. Now upon
the petition of pretty much all the
county, the Governor pardons these
two men. AS nearly as We can make
out, about the only grounds given
for requesting him TO do so, is that
only two, just two and no more, were
caught. We suppose that If one had
been captured, he would have been
boarded at a first class hotel; and If
none, roast beef and plum pudding
would have been put in places fire.
quented by the rascals. This is not
u new idea. We believe it origina-
ted in China, where it is said, it is
not wrong to steal, but terrible
crime to get caught at it.-Ritchie
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