The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-04-11
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Sixteen prisoners are confined 10
the Roane nunty jill.
The Btaxion county Mountaiaer Is
10 be made q Republic'n organ.
Mumps ID the fashionable disease
thrcughoutthe State this season.
The Winifrede Coal Company IRE
going 70 ship lhsiT coal to New Or.
leans.
Mr.. John s. Moore, Sheriff Of JeiIer.
son county, died last week, aged 81
years.
The liabilities Of w. D. Lewis &
Co., coal operators on the Big Kan
awha, whohaye failed, are placed at
$1,000
The hotel at Littleton and several
adjoining properties were burned last
Monday morning, caused BY defec-
tive tlue.
Col, Woodford and others Of Lewis
county, have been 10 Chicago buying
cattle IL gfals and feed on their West
Virginia farms.
The discovery Of a copper mine 10
Summers comfy Is the latest "6nd"
from the Third District. Nothing
remains 70 be discovered in that sec
tiun but god and . man who isn't q
politician. Sentinel.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Refrig-
orator line is having 300 cars builttu
run over the 9. and @. system Of rail
ways, now extending east and west
from The Atlantic TO the Pacific and
southwark 10 the Gulf for the trans
porlation Of perishable goods-meats,
fruits, vegetables, wines, ETC., by fast
trains.
Over In Jackson county John w,
Cain who was indicted for the muir
der Of Henry Brown got Of with a
nanslaughler verdict, and the Judge
imposed q fne Of $500, and sent him
10 jail for three months. Harrison
Dohehoo who was indicted for shoot,
ing with intent to kill, got two years
10 the penitentiary.-Ssntiaa
The Yves. Virginia Board Of Pub
lie Works on Thursday held q meet
ing Of inspection at the new State
House House, now in process Of cree.
ton on Capitol street. They ex.
pressed themselves as much pleased
with the character Of the work and
It's progress. And we'll they might
for it promises 10 be one Of the hand
sOmesi public buildings in the state
-Gharlst6n Tribune.
4 very serious mistake occurred in
the family of Mr.. Campbell, living
at the head Of Reedy, in Jackson
county. Mr.. Campbell had purchas
ed and took home with him a guam
tity of poison for the purpose Of kill
ing dogs. Feeling unwell he re
quested his wife 10 mix a dose o.
salts for him, and after swallowing
the portion he remarked that it did
not taste right, and upon asking fol
the bottle from which 1t came, dis
covered that his wife had given hin
by mistake large dose Of poison
He was Immediately dosed with
sweet milk and other remedies, anC
q physician sent for. AT last &C
counts be was perfectly blind and
almost helpless.
The Moundsville Herald says
Ninety.seven years ago, the 18th o
this mouth, in old Fort Washington
then at this place, John Baker wa
born. He was the father Of Captain
A. o. Baker, the clerk of our Circuit
Court; was a soldier in the war o
1872. We hive in our possession tht
old company roll in the hand writing
Captain james Ewing, who was 1sI
Lieutenant in said company. So faI
as we know there is only one Of th,
company that lives TO tell the story
II is no. generally known thai
there isa Mormon settlement il
Marshall,coanty, but such is a fact
The community number about II
families and they reside in the neigh
borhood Of Nauyoo P. D. They arr
an industrious, thrifty set, and while
they follow in main the teaching o
Joseph Smith, they are not polyga
mists. A friend at our elbow tell
US that no! long since one Of the gooc
old sisters Of the community was Of
flicted with some sort Of an ailmenl
that bafiled the physicians skill
Her belief was that il one Of Chi
Prophets Of her church would lay hi
hands on her she would be cured
and accordingly a Prophet was SEN
for to the City Of the Saints" ant
came, aud laid his bands upon her
she became better, but whether thl
cure was permanent our informan
does not say.