The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-07-26

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are agreeably surprised to find them
selves the possessors Of from 100 tc
200 bushels.
Mr.. Julius Richards, of Buffalo
New York, called upon your cores
pendent yesterday. He is canvass
ing Union District in the interest o.
H. H. Hardesty's Historical Alta:
and informs US that he is meeting
with success.
Willie, a son Of Mr.. Samuel Knapp
formerly Of Mason City, but now Of
Union, was bitten by a copper.head
snake last Saturday evening. The
wound continues to be very painful,
but is not now thought to be very
dangerous. Two rattlesnakes have
recently been killed in Union.
Esquire Higgins, member of the
Board Of Education Of Cologne, died
last Sunday week and was buried the
following Monday. In his death Ma
son comfy has lost a good citizen
and the educational interest one Of
its 6rmest supporters. We under
stand that County Superintendent
Kenny has been petitioned to ap
point David burst to fill the vacancy
Should it be the pleasure Of Prof
Kenny to respect the petition, it will
give general satisfaction. Mr.. burst
is gentleman of intelligence, a wide.
awake school man, and last, but no,
least, q sterling Democrat. Will he
do, Mr.. Editor
Mr.. F. A. Polsley, former citizen
Of Point Pleasant, but now OF Union
has developed into a considerable
horse and cattle dealer. Frank is a
general good fellow, with lots Of
friends.
We understand that Miss Ella J
Gibbons, Of Point Pleasant, has been
employed as assistant in the Leon
Graded School, for the ensuing term
A good selection on the part of the
trustees.
Fever, in its various forms, is at
present prevailing to an alarming ex-
tent along Thirteen Mile creek and
its tributarics, there being at present
not less than fifteen or twenty cases,
in all of which the sufferers are very
low. 1t doubtless has its origin in
the malaria arising from the decayed
vegetation along the streams, all or
some Of which have overaown their
banks, perhaps, a hundred times.
The Ohio Central is now almost
ready for track laying. Messrs.
Banks & Poteet, knight & Gyger and
Sullivan & Campbell, the contractors
through Union and Cologne, are rap.
idly pushing the grading to compile.
ton and the trestle work is nearly
all up, so we shall shortly be gazing
down the river, anxious to get a
glance at the iron horse. Let him
come on, we, with all West Virginia,
will welcome him with shout and
flourish of hats, though he comes
with all the paraphanalia of Jobs
War Horse, and when we catch a
glimpse of the black columns Of
smoke arising from the white naples
and willows that fringe our river
bank, then shall we welcome it as u
herald announcing the dawn Of IN
era in which our boundless timber
and mineral resources, which ages Of
the most active industry cannot ex.
tant, will be developed and the
countless millions of dollars now
locked up in mother earth or stand.
ing around the mountain businesses
of our own little State, will be put in
circulation, thus enriching our Val.
ley, and if the axiom that "Money is
the great civiliser," be true, then
shall we reach a higher plane, NOR.
ally and socially, than we have ever
known before.
Send us the Register. 1t Is to the
Republicans of Union and Cologne
what the Enquirer is to the Republi
cans Of the United States-a news.
paper.
Telephone the editor Of the Radical
that boards are not fashionable among
the Republicans Of Union and Co
logne districts this season. Rowsey
can rouse the Republicans in this
meek o the woods" if nominated fol
the House Of Delegates. ToBE.