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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

Hon. Chas. E. Hogg, who has
been absent in the country for two
or three weeks past, has returned
to town, and is again hard at work
in his office.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30
New Millinery Just received at
Mr. y j MARrIY

vennor gives his views Of Tie
weather for the future, as follows
"a cool June, a very hot July, a
mild August, a windy September,
a calm October with some snow
early in the month, an ordinary
November and a boisterous Decem.
ber."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

The steamer Morning Star, is at
this place waiting to get her boiler
put on. This boat blew up a short
time ago.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

A woman got on the war path
Monday and threatened to cowhide
certain gentlemen in this place
for some ulicomplimentary remarks
he had made about her. Quite a
number witnessed the fun.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

CEMETERY CoAMlTTEB.-Atatate
meeting Of the TOWN. Council,
Messrs. D. W. Polsley, D. S. Snyder
and F. D. Hoy, were appointed a
committee to view and select suita.
bic grounds for a Cemetery and
make their report at the next meet
ing Of the Council. We hope this
committee will not do US other
committee have done heretofore,
but that they will go earnestly at
their work, and lose no timein pro.
curing the grounds necessary for
cemetery purposes.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

1t is matter Of REMARK and sur
prise, that 50 many old people are
passing away. Many Of the oldest
inhabitants Of Point Pleasant have
died lately. Some Of them were
among the Oldest inhabitants Of
the town, meu who came here in
their infancy aud helped to make
hetown what itisto.day. What is
true of the deaths Of the town is
also true of the county. The old
pioneers are fast passing away. 1t
makes US sad to know that these
old people are dying off so rapidly,
but such is life, and Death is no
respecter Of persons.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

We understand the colored Bah.
lists contemplate purchasing the
NJ. E. Church building on Wand
street. II 1t is sold the Mothodists
will build u fine church in another
part Of town.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

McCown, Spencer & Co. have TUE
bargains Of the season in their so cent A
inch Nuns yeilings, in Cardinal, Blue
and Crushed Strawberry.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

The Jim Montgomery, on her first
trip out, parted a hog chain. The
boat iSds found to be TOO short to
handle we'll, and will he put on the
docks and heightened some fifteen
feet.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

Died, in Charleston, West Vir.
ginia, on Saturday, May 26th, 1883,
Charles the infant son Of Mr.. aud
Mrs. Ed. Wilson, formerly Of this
place.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

The members Of the M. e.
Church, South, are erecting a nea.
twostory parsonage, on the lot in
tie rear Of their church building.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

Parties wanting marble work
done would do well to read the ad.
vertiSement Of Mr.. B,L. Gardner,
Gallipolls, Ohio, in this issue.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

have returned from Wheeling.
Our town was full Of commercial
drummers this week.
John Nj. Adkins will Opeh hi'
hardware store next week.
The steamer Chesapeake Is oh
the Docks at this place.
Let every reader Of this paper
send US a new subscriber.
Mr., 7, stribling has Just returned
from a trip through Pennsylvania
Tepid milk and water cleans oil.
cloth without soap.
Sprinkle sassafras bark among
dried fruit to keep out the worms.
We are prepared to do any kind
Of job printing.
The editor Of the Winfield IRE.
tressiblc, was in town Saturday.
The weather still rehuins cool
and vegetation is backward.
The machine shop will soon be
in the hands Of men that have the
money to run it.
Some of the girls Of this town do
too much flirting. AS you value
your good name, stop it.
Our merchants should do more
advertising. II would add greatly
10 their sales.
The Attorney.deueral's opinion,
published in this paper, will be
pleasant reading for the farmer.
Putnam County Circuit Court
convened in regular session last
Monday.
We arc told there is to be anotll.
er whiskey saloon opened in town,
in the Simon Stortz building.
G. B. RayButn, ESD who recent.
ly had the misfortune to break his
leg, was in town Saturday.
That man who has nothing to do
but spend his time is certainly very
poor.
Mr.. Jerry La Duke wifi accept
our thanks for a photo Of the bridge
piers.
The growing wheat is coming
out splendidly, and Il 6ig crop is
expected.
Why don't the court house com
missionGrs Gteau out tho court
house wellY
Some of the deep bitches in this
town ought to have u ruling sldhg
them.
Spring suits and new bOrnets
have caused an increase in church
attendance.
We have added quite d number
Of names to our subscription list
this month.
Miss Ada Bakers school in sub.
district No. 5, Lewis district closed
last Friday.
Butter is now down to 10 cents a
pound, and eggs still remain at Is
cents dUzen.
Some valuable property is adver-
tised to be sold at the Court House
door, JUNE I'd.
Dr. Lew franklin and wife; oil
Lewis county, are here on a visit
to his parents,
We pity a man who don't take a
county paper. He must be an ig,
noramus, indeed.
l. is found that scandal will
travel about four times as fast as d
telegraph messenger boy.
Our farmers were discouraged q
few days ago, but are now showing
bright and smiling faces.
Matt. 8. Gibbons, formerly editor
of the Radical, is now engaged in
the grocery business ut Clifton.
There are a large number Of small
Improvements being madeb by many
persons, about their residences.
Capt. Burrows, Of the Claribell
has purchased a fine residence in
Gallipolis, to which city ho will re
move his family.
When the men who are now en-
gagged on the bridge work arr
through with their job and go Il
other climes, our town will look do
serted.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

Mr. E. E. Baker, the popular liv.
cry man, called around and took
the editor out buggy riding Friday
afternoon. IfyOuw want a fast horse
and a good rig, got it at Bakers
stable.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

GRisD cHEAf ExoGasios 10 %.
LuMBus, OHIO. On Saturday, June
%, 1883, the Columbus, Hooking
Valley and Toledo Railway, will
run cheap excursion to colum-
bus, Ohio. Excursion train will
leave Point Pleasant station at 5:24
a. M, and arrive at Columbus at
II a. N. Returning will leave Co
lumbus, Union Depot, at S p. M.
Fare for the round trip from Point
Pleasant only 81. Excunionists
will be admitted to the Peniten.
tiary free; they will be allowed to
see the prisoners at dinner and
will then be conducted through the
shops while the prisohsFs are at
work; the party willleaye the pris.
on by way Of the sleeping apart.
ments. There will be ample time
10 visit the Blind, Deaf and Dumb,
and Insane Asylums. Remember
the round trip rate is only 50. For
further particulars see small bills.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

Bangs, Waves and Jet Head Bands at
COST ut MRs, L. J. MARTINS.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30


RENEMBER,-Spend your money
where you make it. Buy your
goods and get your work done at
home. Encourage your own mer.
chants and workmen. Advertise
your business, Be each for the
other and all for public improve.
ment Our interest belongs where
charity begins-at home. Our own
town tirst-other towns afterwards.
Bear these things In mind and you
and your neighbors will prosper.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

A CARDIFF. Eaitor Please al
low me through the columns Of
your paper to return my sincere
thanks to my many friends in Pt
Pleasant, for their kindness and at.
tention to my husband in his late
illnesg also for their attendancs ~
his funeral. May they live long,
enjoy good health and never
no sorrow, is the wish Of the be.
reaved family.
Mrs. p. yo1tERf,
AND FAMILY.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

BEST Goods. LOWEST Prices, at
sw. Mus. L. j. MARTINS.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

A shooting gallery has enlisened
the town this week. II is a nui-
sance that should not be allowed
upon the streets. Alldaylong and
at nights great crowds gather on
the pavement in front Of the gal.
lery, and tits with difficulty that
ladies can pass along the street.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

The continued heavy rains and
extremely cool weatheris becoming
u great drawback to the farmer aud
many Of them ar5 Respondent, be,
cause they fear a failure Of the corn
crOpand great damage 10 the wheat.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

FAST colSa Lawns @8l, Z, 81, lel and
l5c., at McCown, Spencer & Co.'S.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

The poles for the Telephone liue
Between this place aud Ripley,
jackson county, have been con.
tracted for, and will be put in place
ut an early day. We suppose we
will have u Telephone Exchange
in this place. The price will he
S50a year for the instruments the
Company keeping up all repairs.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

Ladies' fine Hose at REDUCED pri.
tes at MRs, L. J.MARTIN'S.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

Now let everybody clean up their
premises and sprinkle lime plon.
tHully about In all damp places.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

All necessary arrangements have
been made BY The 6. AR. Post, at
this place, for the proper observ-
ance Of Memorial Day today and
if the weather should be fair, an
imposing time will be had.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

It's the talk 81 ths town; aud
may soon prove 70 b true, that
Point Pleasant Is 70 have d large
sheetiron mill located within her
boundaries From what we eau.
learn ii appears 10 10 the same
firm that was talking Of locating
their works at GallipOlis, and over
which the people Of that city came
near going into ecstacies. The cir.
cular Of the Board Of Trade, trying
to take advantage Of the towus
along the Ohio that were overflow.
ed last February, it is not likely
Owin in the end. II shows too
much greed and svlashness on It's
face.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-30

KCg Beer, Tobacco and Cigars, all Of best
quality and at lowest living prices,
nlay6.ly.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-13
Why a Kerosene Lamp Bursts.

Girls as we'll as boys need to understand
about kerosene explosions A great many
fatal accidents happen from trying to pour
a little kerosene on the fire to make it
kindle better; also, by pouring oil into a
lamp when it is lighted Most persons
suppose that it is the kerosene itself that
explodes, and that if they are very careful
to keep the oil itself from being touched
by the fire or the light there will be no
danger But this is not so. If can or a
lamp is left about half full of kerosene oil
the oil will dry up-that is ''evaporate" -
little and will form, by mingling with the
air in the upper part, very explosive gas.
You cannot see this gas any more than you
can see air. But if it is disturbed and
driven out, and blaze reaches it, there
will be terrible explosion, although the
blaze did not touch the oil. There are
several other liquids used in houses and
workshops which will produce an explosive
vapor in this way. Benzine is one; burn
ing fluid is another; and naptha, alcohol,
ether and chloroform, may do the same
thing.
In New York workshop lately there
was can of benzine or gasoline standing
on the floor. A boy sixteen years old
lighted cigarette, and threw the burning
match on the floor close to the can. He
did not dream there was any danger, be-
cause the liquor was corked up in the can.
But there was a great explosion, and he
was badly hurt. This seems very mysteri-
Gus. The probability is that the can had
been standing there good while and good
deal of vapor had formed, some of which
had leaked out around the stopper and was
hanging in sort of invisible cloud over
and around the can; and this cloud, when
the match struck it, exploded.
Suppose girl tries to fill a kerosene
lamp without first blowing it out. Of
course the lamp is nearly empty or she
would not care to fill it. This empty space
is filled with a cloud of explosive vapor
arising from the oil in the lamp. When
she pushes the nozzle of the can into the
lamp at the top, and begins to pour, the
oil, running into the lamp, fills the empty
space and pushes the cloud of explosive
vapor up; the vapor IS Obliged to pour out
over the edges of the lamp, at the top, into
the room outside; of course it strikes against
the blazing wick which the girl is holding
down by one side. The blaze of the wick
sets the invisible cloud of vapor on fire,
and there is an explosion which ignites the
oil and scatters it over her clothes and over
the furniture Of the room. This is the
way in which a kerosene lamp bursts.
The same thing may happen when girl
pours the oil over fire in the range or stove,
if there is cloud of explosive vapor in the
upper part of the can, or if the stove is hot
enough to vaporize quickly some of the oil
as it falls Remember, it is not the oil,
but the invisible vapor, that explodes.
Taking care of the oil will not protect you
There is no safety except in this rule ::
Never pour oil on a lighted fire, or into a
lighted lamp.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-13
Sacred Animals in India.

In every large city there are walled tanks
where sacred crocodiles await the contribu-
tions of the pious. In Benares they sub
sist upon the rent of realestate legacy
and occasional donations of the wealthy
produce-merchants. But even the poorest
of the poor contribute to the support of the
sacred baboons The bhunder-baboon and
the Hanuman have every reason to regard
themselves as the primates of the animal
kingdom, and man as humble relative,
gifted with certain horticultural talents for
the purpose of ministering to the wants of
his four handed superiors. Northern India
is dotted with Hmahakhunds, or monkey
farms, where thousands of long tailed saints
are provided with shelter, respectful attend
ants, and three substantial meals day, on
the sole condition that they snail renounce
their sylvan haunts and bless the neighbor-
hood with the influence of their holy pres
ence. Sick monkeys are sent to the next
bhunder- er-hospital, generally well-endowed
and wellmanaged institution with special
dheradar or responsible major-domo The
little town of Cawnpore has eight such in
frmaries, Benares twenty or twenty-five,
some of them with subdivision for incu-
rabies and chronic dyspeptics !-Popu1ar
Science Monthly.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-13
The Folly of the Day.

There is dreadful ambition abroad for
being ''genteel." Wekeep up appearances
too often at the expense of honesty; and
though we may not be rich, yet we must
seem to be respectable" though only in
the meanest sense-in mere vulgar show.
We have not the courage to 60 patiently
onward in the condition of life in which it
has pleased God to call us; but must need
live in some fashionable state, to which we
ridiculously please to call ourselves, and all
to crafty the vanity of that unsubstantlal
genteel world, of which we form part
There is constant struggle and pressure
for front seats, in the social amphitheatre;
in the midst of which all noble, self-deny-
ing resolve is trodden down, and many fine
natures are inevitably crushed to death
What waste, what misery, what bankruptcy
come from all this ambition to dazzle others
with the glare of apparent worldly success
we need not describe. The mischievous
results show themselves in thousand ways
jim the rank frauds committed by men
who dare to be dishonest, but do not dare
to seem poor; and in the desperate dashes
at fortune, in which the pity is not SO much
for those who fail as for the hundreds Of
innocent families who are SO often involved
in the ruin.-The Home Journal.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-13
Marriage Traffic.

Manageable girls who belong to wealthy
families, if disposed to render due obedi-
ence to their parents, are often obliged to
fight hard battle between duty and af-
fection. Not one-half of the women who
marry give their lives into the keeping of
the men of their choice In almost every
instance the man she loves best in the world
is one who is not looked upon with favor
by the parents Can there be Il more try
ing position for a loving young woman
She has been tenderly reared and beloved
by her parents with an almost idolatrous
devotion; they have staked much upon hel
comfortable and brilliant settlement in life
but when her lover comes, and she knows
her heart can never be given to another
notwithstanding their deep contempt for
him, she sees what terrible disappoint
ment she will be to them if she follows the
promptings of her heart. Then her trials
begin, for she knows that her first duty is
to her parents. She. must not embittel
their later years by any act of hers. After
much thoughtful consideration she gives
up all her thought of a marriage that would
grieve them, and heroically sacrifices her
self in obedience to their wishes. She
does not dare hope much for the future,
but she believes she will be happy in the
consciousness that she has done her duty,
and the man she marries (poor innocent)
knows nothing of this little by-play, and
believes he possesses his wifes undivided
heart; but the bitter awakening will come
in time, and the result is an unhappy home.
A man should marry, when young, some
maiden who loves him for himself alone,
rather than wait for maturer years that
have brought wealth that weighs so heavily
in the social balance, and ultimately will
drag his soul into the very depths of shame,
when he realizes he has bought and paid
for a heart he never owned-a life that has
dragged out merely an existence by his
side, uncomplainingly, perhaps, for years.
Thus the traffic in human hearts continues
from age to age, and the world never thinks
of blaming the fathers and mothers, but
censures those to whom little blame be-
longs, who are more sinned against than
SHINING. 1t is singular that parents cannot
understand what it is to be young, and how
hard it is to govern the affections.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-13

After breakfast the men depart, going
their several ways on horseback across the
praries in search of cattle or game, some
times not returning for days; and the
women spin, weave cloth, and cut and make
the garments for the family. All laundry
work is done at the riverbank, beside an
open-air fire, and clothes are hung to dry
upon lengths of grapevine, which, stretch
ing from tree to tree, serve as lines
While performing these duties at the river
side, the women keep close watch over
the children who play about, and warn
them away from the waters edge, as alli-
gators huge ones at that-abound,
and to them nothing is more palatable than
tender human flesh.
The most distinctive features of this
Southern home are those to be seen at
night, after the labors of the day are over.
As there are no lights in the house, and no
arrangements for fires, fire is built in the
open air few yards in front of the house,
and about it the family gathers. 1t Is the
business of the two youngest boys OF the
family to collect light-wood knots and
sticks of pitch-pine, and to light the fire
shortly after sunset. After supper the
older men light their pipes and gather about
| it, while the young men, having cared for
their horses, bring from the crib measure
of shelled corn and in steel mill, which
resembles a large cofee-mill, grind it into
hominy and meal for the next days use.
Once through the mill for hominy and
twice for meal is the rule and tedious,
back-aching work this same grinding is, as
we know from experience. This being
done, and the house-work also accomplish
ed, the young men and women join the
group at the fire, and then ensues the only
hour of recreation of all the hard-working
day. AS no books or papers ever penetrate
this remote section, conversation is limited
to subjects of Immediate local interests, in
terspersed with occasional stories told by
the elders. By eight o'clock one of the
men fetches a tin wash-basin full of water
and piece of soap, and resuming his seat,
proceeds to wash his feet When he fin
ishes he hands to his nearest neighbor, who
in turn fills it with water, and goes through
the same operation. Thus the basin is
passed from one to another, until all, men,
women, and children, have washed their
feet, and thus prepare for bed. This is
custom almost universal amongst the ag
ricultural population of Florida, and, when
adopted, is considered to be of the utmost
Importance. Tooth-brushes are an un-
known luxury, but feet-washing is indis
pensable. By nine o'clock the fire has
died out, the household is sleep, and the
night is only broken by the uneasy move
ments of bunch of corralled cattle, the
screech of an owl, or the hoarse bellowings
of aIliUators HnrDer's Bdznr.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-13
Pompeii Still Yielding up its Wealth
of Wonders.

New excavations have been made at
Pompeii, bringing to light some curious
things. A house was recently unearthed,
on whose walls the pictures were as bright
as when they were first painted. The walls
themselves were clean and fresh. In this
house was found a shrine in the form of
little temple, such as every one has read
about in Bulwers ''Last Days of Pompeii.
Beneath the temple also were found six
statuettes of bronze of exquisite workman
ship, four of them Homeric deities. The
chief figure is an Apollo with his Tyre, and
along with it are an Esculapius, Il Mercury
and Hercules using partly Latin names,
as most do. The discovery leads an intel
ligent foreigner residing at Naples to re-
mark that every now and then there are at
tainabe ocular demonstration of the way in
which Herculaneum and Pompeii were over
whelmed. The notion that they were
drowned in floods of lava is pretty much
overthrown Instead of that, it is held to
be settled that the destruction was effected
in two ways: First, by the ejectment from
the volcano of pumice stone and fine ashes;
and secondly, by drenching rains, which
Immediately followed, forming torrents Of
thick, mud paste, and overwhelming thus
with rushing rivers of mortar the territory
on every side of Vesuvius. 1t is thought
likely that this mud hardened about as fast
as moistened plaster of Paris, and thus
buried Herculaneum to depth of sixty and
Pompeii to adepth Of twenty-five feet. The
truth of history must be vindicated, but it
was doubtless all the same to the inhabitants
whether they were buried under sticky
mud or fiery molten lava.