The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-04-12
NEWS TTEas.

oily the KID IN this country
Two or three nf him have been lynch.
ed in the Southwest, several more are
in different peniteutiaries, and an,
other has Just received a FIVE years
sentence at.AlbanY.
Expressions of the San Francisco pa.
pers indicate that the Pacific Coast is
in an agitated state of mind.
The Wisconsin Legislature has
propded for biennial sessions. That
Is what all'the States are coming too.
The Democrats Of Iowa have decid-
edupon u campaign of ten week S
duration, holding their State Conyen-
tioR August 10.
A man is never too old TO learn,
and Charles Francis Adams has Just
completed his education In the game
Of "Bunko.n He might now repeat
the language of his famous dispatch,
in 1872, when he was n candidate for
President-"Pull me put Of that
crowd, if you please"
Forty thousand acres of land in
Arkansas have been secured for an
Italian colony. The immigrants are
to come fronthe Tyrol principally,
and viii be agriculturalists. About
a thousand BALKANS have already set.
tied in thai region.
All the demands Of the working
men of Philadelphia for increased
wages have been made in so reason.
able and temperate a manner, and
with such apparent justice. that pro.
prietors have granted them without
protest, and the City of Brotherly
Love continues to. deserve its name,
Who will be the successor of Dan
voorhees, in the United States Senate?
Will Voorhees, succeed himself, or will
Hendricks or Macdonald succeed
him? Indiana Democrats will insist
upon one of the three.
Judge Advocate General Swain is
in a somewhat crushed condition,
with the Attorney General, the Pres.
ident and the Secretary of War all
against him on the question of the
legality of the Mason court martial.
st. Louis is greatly agitated overan
old man under arrest in that city who
some persons say is Bender. The
Governor of the State will probably
feel justified in having him shot in
the back of the head on suspicion.
Strikes among workingmen in this
country is assuming alarming pro-
portions. Trades unions are being
organized in all the large cities, with
a determination to stand by each 9TH
er, and fight against capital. In the
New England cities, many cotton
mill owners have been obliged to shut
down altogether.
In the nelghborhood OF Denver the
newspapers seem to regard it as a re-
markable circumstance when a week
passes without hoodlum killing a
Chinaman.
The Supreme Court of the United
States upholds the right of the State
Of Texas to- tax telegraph messages
within its own limits, but denies its
right to taxmessages which originate
or go outsidsthe State, as that be-
longs to interstate commerce, and
denies also the right of the State to
Tax messages sent by agents of the
Government as an unconstitutional
interference with the execution Of
the Governments powers. Texas has
taxed all messages one cent each.
Among the matters to be advcrtis.
ed in the newspapers, hereafter, are
trust sales where the value of the
property exceeds three hundred dol
lars; the financial exhibit of the con
ciVlo!i y! every county, and a list o.
hduciaries whose accounts are hefore
any commissioner for settlement
Richie Gazette.
The notorious outlaw, Jesse jaime,
has at last gone the way he has sent
many soul, unfortunate enough tc
come under his desperate and murder.
Gus hand. He was shot and killed
by Robert Ford near St. Joseph, Mo.
and the Sd of this month.
Little Allie and Bernard. the in.
FAINT gymnasts coming with Miles
Orton's Circus are said to be extreme,
ly pretty and graceful and are the
special admiration of ladies ant
children from whom they are the
recipients Of frequent floral gifts, a.
| well as more substantial presents.