The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-02
state News.

State News.
Two boys, while hunting, last
week in Gilmer county, discover.
ed between some large rocks, the
skeleton of a man.
The fire at Huntington, this
State, on the 10th ult, according
TO the Advertiser, foots up a loss
Of S42,475, on which there was an
insurance Of $1,000.
Last Friday a colored boy named
Mansfield Hayes while wading
after a duck in pond near Pick,
away, Monroe county, stepped in
to a sink hole and was drowned be.
fore assistance could reach him.
A Sandhill district man, recent
ly got married, and after stop.
ping at the store to get a dollar
changed, presented the preacher
with fourteen cents for his serv.
ice.-Aloundsriiic Reporter,
The Tyler Independent notes an.
other shooting accident by the
careless handling of u shotgun,
by which Isaiah Pasco, near Long
Reach was shot through the hand
aud u small boy near by also
prppered with shot.
A young man named Morris
down in Wayne county was get.
ting ready tOg goa hunting. Nrver
having read a nOwspaper he blow
in the muzzle 10 see ifthe gun was
loaded. The ball passed clear
through his neck, The doctor says
his recovery is very doubtful.
An unknown man was struck
and instantly killed BY train No.
5 between Keyser and Cumber.
land last Saturday. No papers
we're found on him to show his
identity. His remains were pick
ed up and buried at Cumberland.
The sistersville Independent com.
! plains that the exorbilant prices
asked for lots in that town is dri.
wing peopleaway and preventing
others from coming in. II says
that so much as $500 is asked for
an eligible lot, and we confess that
is rather Il steep price.-ScntinaI.
Incendiaries attempted to burn
Bakers Towering mill at Beverly
last week, but u fortunate discoy.
cry enabled the citizens to put fire
out before any serious damage was
done. There is a disposition out
there to excite a vigilance com.
miltee to work unless dcpreda-
tiOns cease.
I. A. Kaulbersch met with quite
a serious accident Saturday night,
While up Kanawha getting q barge
Of coal he fell from the barge and
sprained his ankle which will pre-.
vent him getting about for some
time. Luckily he has an accident
policy which will pay $50 per
week. GaltipOlis Tribune.
Huntington is already clearing
away the debris and preparing to
rebuild-the young Chicago of
West Virginia. And she is show.
ing herself us kindly as she is
enterprising. The unfortunates
have been cared for promptly no
homeless ono left unsheltered.
There are older cities that could
not have done so well.-Iatcliigcn.
Ger.
A, NJ, Skinner, the man who
underwent surgical operation at
the Central Hotel last week, died
on Saturday and was laid out,
and it is reported the silver quar-.
tiers placed on his oyelids were
stolen by a colored boy. This is
warning not 10 be so expensive,
and display more cents in such
GarksLurg New.
Arrangements are being made
BY A. 4. MOssman assistant in the
U. S. Coast and GeodeliC survey,
to erect an observatory on Pigeon
Knob, about six miles cast of this
place. This Knob, which is the
most elevated point of land in this
part of the State, was visited some
two or three years ago by assistant
Mossman, and designed us q suila.
uIv P'uGo IOT I'LL OUSeTVutOry.-
Lincoln Clipper.
The South Branch Gazette Of
Hardy county, is responsible for
the following;
We are informed that after tho
snow last week there were seen
six miles above here, crawling on
top of the snow, thousands Of the
common cut worms. The snow
was black with them, and they
were about an inch long and seem.
cd as happy as iftheyTorein a corn
field Now, we say lido snow cut
worms,