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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

The dance arragned for last Fri.
day evening at the City Hall did
nod materialize. Reason: weather
too hot.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

John E. Musgravc, son Of our
valued friend Asa Musgrave, Of
Robinson district, had the degree
Of Bachelor Of Arts conferred upon
him at the commencement of the
State University at Morgantown,
last week.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Our hotels are doing a good bust.
ness just now, the Kline House in
particular, being scarcely able to
accommodate tho people who make
demands upon it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

The town Of Mason City, last
Saturday, voted $1,000 stock to a
wooden mill to be located in that
town. This is the kind of enter
prise that a makes a town, Just
so with US, if we expect enter.
prises TO be located in our midst,
we must show a liberal spirit
Money given in this way always
pays q big return.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Scene at one of our hotels
Sweets tothe sweet" said a drum,
mer one day, pushing towards a
waiter.girl a bouquet of faded
flowers. Girl-"Bects to the beat, I"
replied the girl, pushing toward
him a dish of bects.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Please remember that Golfers
Agent Is here and sulicits your or.
ders for any Of his standard publ.
cations, on small monthly pay.
ments. Second sott of Levers
works now ready.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

A we'll meaning person gives
hints telling how to live on seven.
ty.fve cents week. We shall con.
tinue to live on eighty cents q week
if we have to run in debt. There
is such u thing as being too eco.
nomical.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

FEsTrvAL.-Tho ladies of Oak
Grove will give an Ice Cream Fes.
Iival on the 18th day of July, 1883,
for the benefit Of the U. B. Church.
Doors open at 2 o'clock, p. M, All
are invited. Adnittance free.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Now is the time for "bco stings."
Charley Simpson was stung four.
teen times yesterday, while pass.
ing some beo hives.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

The County Examiners request
us to state that those who are en-,
titled to four year certificates, will
be awarded the same at the exam.
ination for teachers to be held In
this place next Tuesday, June 2Gth.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

In the Supreme Courtof Appeals,
now in session at Wheeling, on
Thursday, a Wit of Error was re.
fused In the case Of Craig VS.. Nc.
culIoch, from this county.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Several of our citizens drew
small prizes in the late drawing of
the Louisiana State Lottery, which
will no doubt encourage them to
try their luck again.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Married, in this place, on Mon.
day evening, Mr.. H. F. Bailey to
Mrs. Lizzie Collins.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

The recent heavy rains has done
great damage to the wheat, by
breaking it down and tangling
it up.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Died, on Saturday las. in Robin.
son District, an infant daughter Of
G. T. and Frances Gaskins.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

In the case Of W. R. Gum We.
the administrators of Henry Elias,
tried at tho last term Of the Circuit
Court of this county, u writ Of error
was allowed last Friday BY the Su-
premo Court on the petition Of the
administrators.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

A girl shouldn't wear a black
belt about her waist when she's
got u white dress on and is walk
ing with young man in the night
time. 1t makes it appear from a
rear view as If her fellow had his
arm around her waist.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Lawn parties are now very fash
ionablo.
Some Of the alleys in town are
very filthy.
Rev. T. H. Lacy was in town
Thursday.
The river is now at a splendid
boating stage.
A daily paper is soon to be start
ed at Patkersburg.
A relic hunter-a fellow trying
to capture a widow,
Wool growers say the price Of
wool is ruinously low.
This Office is prepared to do all
kinds Of job printing.
The Colored Band will hold a
Festival Friday night.
Strawberry short cake is a pop
ular dish in this place.
The small boy is saving up for
the anticipated circus.
A number of coal lows are pass.
Ing down the Ohio, daily.
Wheat harvest will commence
next week in this county.
Who has got enterprise enough
TO run street sprinkler
Peace and poverty seem to pre-.
vail throughout the county.
What is a house without a baby
well comparatively quiet.
The Marine Docks is an impor.
tant enterprise in this place.
neighbOring town Of Hender.
son, is growing quite radidly.
Now is the time to get a nice summer
hat, at cost, at Mrs. L. ]. Martins.
And now has come the season Of
green apples and DOCTORS bills.
The people of Gallipolis still
come to this place to buy goods.
The Extension will soon be the
most beautiful part of the town.
A crazy fellow from Putnam was
locked up in Jail Friday evening.
The grass crop, it is claimed, will
be the largest ever cutin the county.
There is u lively competition be.
tween the hack lines in this place.
The colored folks of this place,
had an excursion to Gallipolis Sun.
day.
You can't get this paper for less
than Sl5O per year, aud it is no
use TO ask it.
Quite party Of young ladies and
gentlemen from Gallipolis, took in
our town Friday.
Some Of the town folks had a
very enjoyable picnic on the Fair
Grounds, Wednesday.
The Board of Health might find
it to the benefit Of the town to
"smell around" a little.
Miss Nina 10th, of Cincinnati,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Joseph
Friedman, in this place.
Mr.. &C. v0nGiIder has return.
ed from his trip to the sea shore,
much improved in health.
Why don't our collector gather
up the untaxed dogs in this place,
and put them out of tho way2
Farmers tell us that the potato
crop this year, promises to be the
largest ever raised in the county.
Alcohol it is said applied to a
sun burn will cure it, hence there
are so many sun burned stomaChs.
Our stores ought to close these
hot evenings at Z o'clock. Give
your hard. worked clerks a little
rest,
The steamer Luella is on Che
Ducks undergoing repairs. She
will look Ikea new boat when she
comes of.
StOrtz's new hotel building, now
in course Of construction, when
completed, will be the largest and
finest building in town.
There seems to be a decided
change for the better in society
circles in this place, and hope it
will continue.
Capt, G. W. Cox and wife, of Gal.
lipolis, Ohio, were in town Sunday
afternoon. They wont up Kan.
awhG on the train.
The much talked of lay.on.of.
hands is nothing remarkable. We
were cured Of infrmities that way
when u small boy.
Mrs. E. G. Harpold, accompanied
by her children, Of St. Louis, Mo-,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

APeabody Institute will be held
in this place, commencing Angus.
18Th, 1888, to be conducted by Prof.
james A. Smart. State superin,
tendent Butcher will also be pres.
ent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Jas. B. Menager was In Charles.
ton this week attending to a writ
Of habeas corpus issued by Judge
Guthrie. 1t seems that the Rev.
W. II. Shaw has possession Of a
child by the name Of Nancy Short.
Shaw refused to deliver the child
to its mother, Elizabeth Short, and
she has instituted the above pro.
ceedings TO obtain possession Of the
child. James II, Couch, jr, ap.
pears for Shaw.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Some very valuable property is
offered at Commissioners sale, in
to-day's paper, by Commissioner
Howard.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Farmers may have a great many
things to complain Of this spring,
but scarcity Of rain is not one Of
them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

BurrER.-Butter when made
right is a nice thing on the table.
Now here in this market, there is
no encouragement f6r woman TO
take the. pains 70 maksgood butter,
because when she brings it to
market, she finds it will bring no
better price than the carelessly
made butter or "stulT," if you
please, that is offered to our mer.
chants. Now to properly cncour,
usr the making Of good butter, and
to rid the market Of unpHlatable
butter, our merchants should grade
the quality Of butter, and pay only
such prices for butter asst deserves.
By this means all would strive TO
make good butter, and those who
could not do SO, would keep out Of
market altogether.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

A fno line Of Corsettes and TaCes, 1t
cost, fifteen days only, ut Mrs, l.. J. Mar.
tins
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

There is a little saying to the eff
feet that persons dwelling in glass
houses should be careful about
handling stones. A few persons
whose lying dispositions are get.
ting away with them, might with
profit remember "dees ole sayin's."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Mrs. l.. j. Martin will sell Millinery at
actual cost, for the next fifteen days, for
cazh.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

1867 Prizes amounting to,".:",s9O5,5OO
Application for rates to clubs should
be made only to to the office Of the Com
pany in New Orleans.
For further information write clearly,
giving full address. send orders by Elk.
press, Registered Letter or Money Order,
NJ. A. DAUPIiTN.
or NJ. A. DAUPHIH,
COZ Seventh St, Washington, d. @.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

SALT WArER.-A Mr.. McDermitt,
on Thirteen Mile creek, recently
dug a well to supply his mill with
water. He reached the depth Of
sixteen feet when he found a strong
flow Of water, but which after using
ii to make steam, found itsostrong.
Iy impregnated with salt as tocom-
pell him to abandon the use Of it
for that purpose. The party who
gave us this information says that
the brine has been fully tested and
it is much stronger than the salt
waters along the Ohio; and he says
several parties are talking Of form
ing company to fully develop the
brine. If an abundance Of salt va.
Ter of good quality can be found at
u distance Of sixteen feet, it will
certainly work revolution in the
manufacture of salt in this county.
At least it will greatly lessen its
cost Of manufacture. Every day
brings forth new evidences Of the
richness Of this county and State.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Louisiana Slate Lottery Company.
eve do hereby csnifj that ne supervise he
arH'ngtnlcnis for dH hT Monthly and Semi
Ai1tual Drawings Of The Louisiana STATE
Lottery Company, and in person manage aud
control The Druwings hcmNltcS, and that hs
Sdme are conducted wih honesty, fairness,
and in good faith tOwaM all parties, and wc
authorize Me Company to ue this Certificate,
miM fdc-similes Of ottr signatures attached,
IN It's advertisements"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20
LOCAL MATTERs.


8 CAPrs DAN MoRTos.--Last week
I'VE had the pleasure Of meeting
Capt. Dan Morton the veteran boat
builder Of the West, who was the
guest Of Capt. j. J. Bright The
old Captain is quite entertaining
iahis reminiscencesof steamboats,
and steamboat building on the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He
was an apprentice % Capt. Knox,
Of Marietta, who Is yet living in
his S7th year and experimenting
boat building at Harmar, Ohio
Morton said he began to build boats
in 1881, the first one that he laun.
ched being the Emory, whom doubt.
less some Of ourold readers will re.
member. He liadtho honor ofbuild
ingthe fastest boat Of her day, the
Jacob strader. The Captain was
comforting with the proprietors Of
The Point Pleasant Mill and pla.
ming Company, in reference to bull.
ding Marine Ways on their proper.
ty on Kanawha, which they have
in contemplation and will doubt.
less build in the near future. He
was the builder Of the Marine Ways
at Cincinnati, Madison and ST..
Louis, and will suporintend the
building Of the Ways at this place.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Incorporated in 1865 for IS years by
the Legislature for Educational and
Charitable purposes-with a capital Of
Sl,000,000-to which a reserve fund OF
over S550,00O has since been added.
,Hn overwhelming popular vote It's
franchise was mhde a part Of the present
State constitution adopted December ID,
a. D., 1870.
The only Lottery rrer rO,cd on and en-.
dor%d BY The people Of any State.
Nnerer scales or pOslponS.
It's Grand Single Number Drawings take
place monthly.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
WIN A FORTUNE. SEVENTH GRAND
DRAWING, CLASS g. AT NEw ORLEANS,
TUESDAY, July 10, 1883 ! l5Sth
Monthly Drawing,
CAPITAL PRIZE s75,o00.
1000 Tickets mt Five Dollars Each,
Fractions, In FlfthS In proportion.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

Mr., ]. F. Mcdaniel, Of this coun.
ty, has just obtained a patent for a
very valuable invention, known as
the improved single.tree, for sin
gle or double harness. 1t is SO ar.
ranged that when driving, and the
horse becomes unmanageable, he
can be Immediately let out Of the
shafts without danger to the occu.
pants. We have given tia critical
examination, and we believeit will
become very popular. It's use may
save many a life.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20

The demand for houses II our
little city is greater than The up
ply. Why don't some Of our mon.
eyed men take advantage Of this
golden opportunity to make a corn.
ct in croditable tenant houses by
building q block or two2 It win
be a profitable investment for the
capitalist and a benefit to the town.
Our big boom is coming. II only
needs a little enterprise TO start IT,
1t has 50 long been the custom Of
our moneyed men TO lay low and
watch for ten per cent, soft snaps,
that The progress Of our place, has
perhaps been retarded.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-20
CAPITAL PRIZE E76,O0O.
LIST OF PRIZES,

100000 Tickets mt Five Dollars Each,
Fractions, In FlfthS In proportion.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
Athletic Games Tor German Boys.

German boys are to be taught to play
games. The Prussian Minister of Edu-
cation has determined it, and it will be
done. Herr Won Gossler's circular on
the subject, Just published at full length
by the Cologne Gazette. is very able
and remarkable document. For some
time German public opinion has been
much exercised about the physical con-
dition of the boys in the higher schools
of the country. They were excellent
scholars, but rather poor specimens of
boys-istless, inactive, unenterprising,
often appallingly short-sighted, the raw
material of professors perhaps, but not
of soldiers and men of the world. Ger
mans have awaked to the necessity of
better physical training, and, true to
their character, they are setting about
it in their own thorough and methodical
fashion, with a Minister leading the van
and the whole admirably drilled bureau
cracy in column at his heels. There
can be little doubt that the action of the
Government, prompted as it is by gen.
-eral widespread public feeling, will re-
suit in remarkable change in the
character of German education. To in
door-drilling and gymnastics, already
pretty universal, outdoor exercises,
especially games requiring skill and
agility, are to be added. Spontaneity is
no longer to be sacrificed to discipline
If ever German boys learn to play cricket
and footban-both, by the way, recon-
mended by the Minister-or any equiva-
lent games, English schools viii have to
look to it. English education is at
present as far ahead of German in the
training of the body as German is ahead
of English in the training of the mind
Pail Mall Gazette.
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same fate. At Tristan d'Achuna the
islanders (English) kill every seal or
sea-elephant that can be found. One
vessel stopping at Nightingale Island
killed i, 800 seals in a few days, and
were chagrined upon returning the en-
suing year to find them gone.
Besides the aforementioned furs, the
common rat is contributor to our
comfort in more ways than one, while
one of the most elegant furs is that of
the mole, which would also possess the
advantage of being so expensive that
few wear them. Tiger-skin vests are
worn by some. and bring, where the
skin is not ox-hide painted, one hun
dred dollars. White bear-skin is equal
iy valuable. The trapper must be some
what familiar with the taxidermist's
art to carry on his trade successfully.
The process of preparing skins, how
ever, is simple, and when received by
the manufacturer they have generally
been only stretched and dried, with
solution Of alum or arsenic applied to
the under side. The dealers treat them
to camphor, and when they are to be
made up they are placed in barrels or
tubs of rancid butter and trampled by
the bare feet of men, sprinkled with
! sawdust, scraped over knives to take
off the flesh, and after repeated changes
they are ready for the furrier, who cuts
them into shapes desired. Unscrupu-
lous dealers often make up handsome
garments by carefully matching small
pieces Of fur, and so skilfully is this done
that the customer seldom finds it out
until the garment is, perhaps, made
over, when the fraud is exposed. A
great many furs are dyed, as the musk
rat, beaver, otter, etc, and the value of
the seal-skin entirely depends upon the
skill with which this is done, the diff
Guilty being to dye the fur without hav-
ing the dye reach the pelt. 1t is said
that the best skins are dyed in London.
and that they can be dyed properly no.
where else; but American dealers think
otherwise, and to the American dyer is
due the discovery of the process by
which the fur-seal fur presents so rch
n brown tint without burning the fur,
at the same time leaving the pelt soft,
pliable and last ng. Certain of the
monkey tribe are used, and the fur of
some of the silvery white ones is ex-
tremely rich, bringing fair price for
trimmings. The monkeys from the
west of Africa, with long, flowing hair,
are in great demand, while other skins
are rarely used. The skins may be
quoted at 40, 900 yearly, or from 500, 900
to $4,000 worth. These, with the
skins of various animals that are not
fur-bearing. would show an enormous
interest. giving somewhat of an idea
of the dependence of man upon his fell
low animals.--M Y. Ecenipq Post.
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Straw In Place OF Hay.

Col. F. D. Curtis has been expert
menting in feeding farm animals upon
straw in place of more costly hay, and
finds profit in it, provided suitable
amount of grain be given with the straw.
Last winter he found himself short of
hay but with plenty of straw, and he
gives in the New York Tribune his ex-
perience in substituting the cheaper for
the dearer fodder. The straw was fed
chiefly in col | weather, as the animals
had better appetite then than after the
weather became warm in spring. A
horse ate eighty-four cents worth of meal
and sixty cents worth of straw in seven
days, that would have eaten two dollars
worth of hay in the same time, If hay
alone had been his food, thus making a
saving Of more than one-fourth. Mich
cows, working oxen and young cattle all
did well with straw and corn fodder as a
part of their ration. The butter made
was Of excellent quality and the milk
yield highly satisfactory. He found that
bright straw for horses driven on the
road is superior to hay, as they will not
so readily over-fill themselves as with
hay. Plenty of grain must be given
with straw to animals at hard work. He
believes that farmers can afford to sell
portion of their hay, and then purchase
grain to feed with their straw and make
a profit by the exchange 1t is no new
thing to feed straw in winter to farm
animals, but it was not till such exper-
imenters as Professor Sanborn and the
agricultural chemists showed the philos-
ophy of the practice, that farmers have
felt free to adopt it as sound policy
NeD England Farmer. -
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
Thrashing.Floors.

1t was in the north of China, that we
| first saw the thrashing-foor of the East
and of the Bible. When we were travel
ing to some out-stations in Mantchuria,
the road bounded on both sides by end
less fields of gigantic millet, there would
come farmers house and farm-yard, or
small hamlet, and on the skirt of it,
the trodden spot of ground hard and
smooth as stone. But it was not till
some weeks later, as we were Journey
ing slowly up to Pekin, and the harvest
was now gathered, that we saw it in use-
The grain was laid on the floor, and o
pair of oxen were driven leisurely over
the ears, treading out the corn. Another
form of thrashing was the stone roller,
which was drawn over the ears by oxen or
mules; and there was another still, where
fiat board furnished with some pro-
jections, was drawn in the same way,
the driver or children, perhaps, sitting ON
the board to lend it additional weight
Sometimes the grain was piled up in g
large heap in the center of the floor,
unsifted and then men with the winnow-
ing shovel Ohe Bible FAM would toss the
grain into the air, or else into a fat
basket, from which the man who held it
flung up the corn, and the wind carrying
/ the chaff away filed the air with dust.
One Bible phrase after another was re-
called to US. 1t was easy to see how the
Phihstines could rob the thrashing floors
at Keilah, those open spaces in the field
on which the absence of any dread of
rain induced the farmers to pile up their
wealth of grain; or how the open floor,
open to the sky and smooth, became the
natural place to test the dew upon
Gideon's fleece while all the rest of the
ground was dry; or how, when the two
kings, Ahab, of Israel, and Jehoshaphat,
of Judah, summoned the prophet, the
place to set the royal thrones was on the
smooth and empty thrashing floor Just
before the gate of Samaria; or how no
better pla,e than this could be found on
which to build the altar that David raised
when he had purchased the site of the
temple from Araunah, the Jebusite, and
found in the thrashing instruments-the+
wooden fans and boards and oxen poles
the wood for the sacrifice. 1t would
be easy for the oxen to stop in the midst
of the abundance they were treading out
and eat; and the merciful Jewish law
provided that they should eat if they
would; there should be no muzzling of
them; s.thou shalt not muzzle the OK
when he treadeth on the corn. GOOD
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