The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-10-18
STATE NEWS.

TWO hepnolleans are elected TO the
House of Delegates.
Mr.. Andrew Bowman, of Martins.
burg, was killed by the cars at Kear-
neysville last week.
The Baptist General Association of
West Virginia will meet in the Bap-
fist Church in Hinton on Thursday,
the 9th Of November, and continue
four days.
Now that the election is over, let
us all forget politics and go to work
and labor together for the prosperity
of our glorious little State.-KanaWha
Gazette.
The Ensign car works, at Hunting
ton, W. Va, are now employing four
hundred hands, and are contemplate
ing engagements that will more than
double their capacity.-Er.
The Fayette county Grand Jury
found three hundred indictments,
mostly for unlawful retailing of liq
uOrs.
An exchange in West Virginia has
the cheek to say: Soon will the SEN
timental young lady meander
through the forset in quest Of dainty
colored leaflets and languid ferns to
stow away in bucks. And then the
frost will appear and the hog will be
s"opoaaoaeJiby tile' hind legs Win d
corn-cob in his mouth.
The Fairmont West Nrgtnian gives
the following snake story. 1t is well
enough to state that the paper is Re-
publican in politics:
We learn that Mr.. Henderson
Sturm, Of Lincoln District, recently
killed on his farm &c rattlesnakes
and 10 coppersnakes. Mr.. Sturm was
engaged in hauling stone from an old
field, when he came across the snakes.
This is something very remarkable
for this section of country, as it is
generally supposed that no such dead
ly reptile as a rattlesnake existed
this side of the mountains.
A man was found near Pennington
this State, last week, with both legs
cut off by train sometime during
the night. He was dead when found.
From some papers in his pockets his
name is supposed to be Carmichael,
from about Long Run, W. Va. 1t is
supposed he was intoxicated and had
lain down on the track. He was not
bruised anywhere about the body,
which proved he was not walking Oh
the track when killed.
The NJ. E. Church, South, Confer
ence recently held in Parkersburg,
made the following, as part of their
appointments:
PARKERsBURG DISTRICT.
J. F. Medley, P. E. Parkersburg,
f. B. Carroll; Lubbock, j. II. Burns;
Spencer, G. II. Dowell; Reedy, c. S.
Wamsley; Ravenswood, J. W. Lam.
bert; New MarLinsville, E. W. Rey-
nulds; Union Mission, supplied BY j.
W, Kiger; Pleasant Ridge, A. S.
Bowles; Point Pleasant, J. W. Wight
man; Grantsville, e. r. Powers; St.
Mary's supplied by G. G. Fountaine.
Tho following are the appoint
ments Of the West Virginia Confer.
ence, recently held at Clarksburg, for
the Charleston District:
II. C. Sanford, p. E. Charleston
Station, J. A. Fullerton, Charleston
Circuit, c. IL. Shackleford; Mill Greek
G. W. Matheny; Ripley, A. D. Perry;
Sandyville, to be supplied; Hartford
and New Haven, J. Engle; Clifton
and Mason City, T. Cotton; Point
Pleasant, II, Scott; Leon and Letart,
IL. II. Miles; Raymond City, j. T.
Davis.
The Mountain Herald: On last
Thursday evening about 7:25 o'clock
as the first section No. 10, Engine
124, west bound freight train was
coming down the grade some three
miles east Of Hinton, the engine
struck COW, was thrown from the
track and ran over a high embank-
ment, killing the fireman, Mr.. Chas.
Bratton instantly, and injuring the
engineer, Jas. Alexander, so severely
that he died the next day. The en-
tire train was wrecked and the con.
tents of the cars scattered along the
track for several hundred yards. Mr..
Alexander was married and had a
familyin Hinton who are overw helm.
ed with grief at his terrible and sud-
den death. His remains were taken
east for burial and the corps of poor
Charlie Bratton were forwarded to
his sorrowing parents in Allegheny.
Rev. Hayes Williams, one of the
ministers attending the conference
in session in this city this week, de.
veloped a high degree of insanity last
Thursday. That evening he got on
the Sidney and took passage for
Wheeling. Shortly after leaving
Parkersburg his strange actions at
tracted attention, and it soon became