The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-02-06
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Alssorts.
Tile piicahentas Tine report TIE
discqsety or iine specimens gold.
beaiitig quartz inthat cpunty
Tie Republicans If Iowa have
eelerted Senator Allison 10 tie
United States Senate.
The Supreme caurt Of illinpis
has decided that contracts Nude on
Sunday are valid. u
Boone county reports The dis;
coyeryuf q new u foot vein 0fcoal.
There were $50 births and 1856
deaths in Kanawha county in
The quesliono bridging the Ka-
nawha, at Charleston, has been re.
Eferred to the Government en-.
gineers
Fifteen million bushels Of coal
went out Of the Big Kanawha lat
year, which is 100000 bushels
more than the year before,
Ex-senator Wayne Ferguson, Of
Wayne county, Is said to be a candi-
date for Auditor.
Fonr hundred and fifty.two rail.
road trains leave Boston every day
in the week excepting Sunday.
One Of the hoys who once served
as . pagein the Houseof Represen.
tatiyes ut Washington returns now
as a member ftom Wisconsin.
Ex-senator Yulee, who is nov
bnildinga finer residence at Wash.
ington, is said TO be the richest
citizen Of Florida. His fortune is
estimated a! about 100000.
Ex Governor John I.etcher died
at his hume in Lexington, Va,
last Saturday morning.
Calhoun, R5ane and Jackson are
expected tn follow Giilner'sexamp.
le in subscribing tothe railroad,
The Virginia Senate has passed
the resolutions skiing General Ma.
hone to resign his seat in the U. S.
Senate.
The famous desperate. "Billy The
Kid" was shot and killed by a far.
mer, near Fort Worth, Texas, last
Sunday
Mr.. Mackey, Of South Carolina.
whohad been contesting for a seat
in Congress and just received it,
died last Monday morning.
Fred Douglass married Miss Hell.
en- Pitts, a white woman, in Wash
ingtnn last Thursday night. He
is 81 and she 80 years ofage.
Gilmer county voted last Thurs.
day on a proposition to subscribe
$50, 0O0to the Weston, Spencer &
RavenswoOd Railroad. The pro.
position cariedbya large MINORITY.
A clergyman asked a Boston girl
to marry him, but she sNeetly tr.
piled that she would rather he
would marry her, as she was al-
ready engaged to another young
man.
Cincinnati has declared quaran.
tine against Louisville on account
ofsmallpox in thatcity.
Hon. c. p. Snyder hasintroduced
several bills, ,and Hon. EustaCe
Gibson made his maiden speech in
the House the other day.
Az tho Diamond coal bank,
Middleport, Thursday afternoon
Thomas Tnrnbull was instantly
killed by tho accidental falling Of n
mass Of cual.
Senator Payne, aged "A, IL an
irony on "yonng Democrats" Isn't
he2
The bill in Congress appropria
sl,OOO,0CO for the Misrissippi has
becomc a law. Glad oft
Gm,ld's annual income from
dividends and interest IN his holdI
ings amount TO S5,0O0,0OO.
Thpasnbitious politician in West
Virginia nov sees tllat hisonly way
to future prominence is ON a rail.
road boom.
Tho average Republican hates
the name Of "Constitutiun." Men.
ton the word to him and sec him
squirm. Index.
Jefferson Davis writes to General
Bradley Z. Johnson, in Baltimore,
that his health il 80 poor this
winter as to obligo him to decline
an invitation to visit that city,
The leader Of aquartrr ofa century
ago finds that age bears down on
him heavily.
l! liz reported lhat measures are
IN foot To take effect in the near
future, to put Bethany Colleges on
an improved and permanent Iinan.
cial basis. II is also proposed to
rebuild and repair the damage
caused by the disastrous fire Of o..
tnber, 1870,
State Superintendent of Free
Schools Butcher has received the
welcome news that the town Of
Keyser has voted $4,000 to build