The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-03-22
The Weekly Register
LOCAL MATTERS.

town several days visiting friends.
Captain Lew George, wife and son,
are allspending a few days in Mason.
Colonel Patton has rented the bar
rel factory mansion and will move in
as soon as his family arrives from
Virginia.
We are sorry 10 hear that Mr.. A.
R. Darst has been partially paralyzed,
and hope he may soon be out again.
DR.. james A. Smith is home from
his visit to Charleston.
Col. S. NJ. Seymour and wife were
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. James H.
Couch, jr., last week.
Miss Trcssie Loring has returned
to her home in Belpre, Ohio.
Mrs. Captain Helm returned home
from her Cincinnati visit, Monday
morning. She was we'll pleased with
her visit.
Miss Carrie Samples, Of Middleport,
Ohio, and Miss May Pullin, of Rock
Castle, this county, are the guests Of
Mrs. Judge Guthrie.
Mr.. james L. Smith, of Hunting.
ton, was in town last week.
Miss Annie Whitesides, of Pomer-
oy, Ohio, is visiting the family Of
John L. Charles, Esq.
Mr.. Phillip Hess left yesterday
morning on the Bostona, for Cincin.
natl.
Mrs, Robert Coleman, of Cheshire,
Ohio, is here visiting her sister, Mrs.
Judge Guthrie.
Rem. Wright, son of Captain jim
Wright, who has been attending
school here for some time, returned
to his home at Scary, yesterday.
Prosecuting Attorney Jas. B. Men.
agcr went to Jackson county, Satur-
day, to attend court.
Henry Fry, Esq, went to Cincin-
natl on business trip, Sunday.
Mcssrs. j. w. English and ]. l..
Mcnagcr, returned from Jackson
court last week.
Miss Ottic Sisson returned home
last week, after u thirteen week 5
visit among relatives and friends in
Ohio.
MIR. Robert l.. Burlington is home
from st. Louis.
The many friends Of Rev. VIM. H.
Harrison, will be glad to learn that
he has returned to this county, from
the West.
Senator Barbee arrived home from
Wheeling, Sunday morning, on a five
days leave of absence. He thinks
the Legislature will adjourn this
week. The Senator is looking well
CAPT. CHARLES j. HENDERsoN.-We
take great pleasure in publishing the
following tribute of respect to Capt.
Henderson, from the river intelli-
gence of the Cincinnati Enquirer
"Charles j. Henderson (Joe) died
at his fathers home, opposite Point
Pleasant, yesterday, from injuries
received in the explosion Of the tow
boat Etna, of which boat he was in
command at the time of the fatal ex.
plosion. Captain Henderson was a
young man, highly esteemed among
the up'river steamboat men. He
was Cincinnati, Pomeroy and Kan.
awha river pilot, having been cap.
tain Of the Mount Glare, in the EN-.
ploy Of the Marmet Coal Company,
with whom he was always in great
favor. Altogether, no young man on
the river had more friends or better
prospects than Captain Henderson.
lie was married less than three years
ago TO Miss Damron, near Sciotoville,
and was brother-in.law to Will Dav.
ldSon, of the Potomac. Captain Lew
George, owner Of the Etna, was his
uncle, as was also Mr.. II. H. Miller
OF No. 5 Front street, this city. His
widow and fathers family have the
sympathy of friends and the river
fraternity in general, with the con.
soling remembrance that his life,
though brief, was noble and well
spent"
Capt. John Thornburg, of the steam.
or Pittsburgh, got off at this place
Monday, as his boat went down, and
says that Mr.. Hogeman, of Charles,
ton, the attorney for the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway, was on the boat
TN his return from Wheeling. Mr.
Hogeman said that he had instrpc