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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

They have lively time OCCASION
ally at a domicile on the river beach
in the extension region, the place
being the rendezvous it is said of
sundry toughs mailing from other
towns and the roughs of this neigh
borhood. The extension folks may
possibly make it warm for sumo of
them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

The clerks of the various Boards
of Education of this county, are re
minded, that under the law it is
their duty to prepare the poll-books
for the coming election. This is an
important matter, and they should
attend to it at once.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

Read every advertisement in this
paper. 1t will pay you to do SO.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

Farmers who have wool to dispose
of should read Chas Mack & Sons
advertisement, in this paper, before
disposing of their clip. This firm
offers higher price for certain
woods than anyone else. They pay
cash down. Address them at Gal
lipoIis, Ohio.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

West Virginia is coming out of
the woods and forging to the front
rapidly, and old Mason is leading the
procession.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

Ifyou want a stylish summer hat,
either straw, or of other material,
you will find them in abundance at
j. Friedman s Co.'S. No such stock
in town.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

Tennessee claims to raise the
Prettiest girls, the fastest horses,
and the best whiskey in the Union.
The thing of course is to win the
first, loose the second, and swallow
the third.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

We want to say to our thousands
of readers, that no store in this town
carries "a better stock of goods than
docs the firm of FL. G. Nease & Co..
and no firm is more deserving of the
patronage of the people. You all
know Mr.. II. G. Ncase, our late
Sheriff, who is at the head of this
firm.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

The electric light has been put
into the Episcopal Church. We
suppose it will be adopted by all
our churches, and public buildings.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

We arc not in the habit of extolf-
ing any firm in preference to an
other, but under tho circumstances
we must be permitted to say to our
readers that Friedman & Co. carry
the largest stock of dry goods and
clothing over offered our people;
and they are deserving of your pat
ronage. They are always up with
the styles.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

We are a few hours late in issu.
ing our paper this week. a rush OF
job work is our excuse.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

The western fruit crop is again
reported to be irretrievably ruined,
In spite. Of the liars, however, God
still confines to make little apples.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

It is said shat women dress ex-
travagantly to worry other women.
But the man who dresses extrava-
gantly generally worries his tailor.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

For SALES half breed young
Jersey cows, and 4 Jersey heifers,
all will have calves IN the Spring.
Cheap for cash. w. IL. ToMLfNsoN,
Point Pleasant, w. Va
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

The stores that have adopted the
electric light look brilliant after
night. The light adds much to the
attractiveness of the stores.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15
POINT PLEASANT. WEST va.



SEVERE SroRM.-A very disas.
trons storm that has been brewing
for several days, struck this county
last Saturday evening about half
past o'clock, and ragged with una
bated fury for over an hour. The
black clouds and sharp lightning
were ominous, and our citizens were
greatly alarmed lest the terrific gale
that was sweeping over the country
would develop into a regular cy-
clone. The rain poured in upon
the engine and machinery in the
Electric light station to such an ex-
tent that it was impossible to keep
up steam in the boiler, and, as re-
suit, our town was stranded in dark
ness From the associated press
dispatches, We learn fgreat damage
to property and considerable loss of
lives in the northeastern States.
IMPRovENENrs.-The new house
of MossInan and Spencer, in the ex-
tension, is completed, and ready to
let.
VIM. II. II. Mulford's new build
ing, in the extension, is about com
pleted.
Messrs. r S. Bickel, Lum Hard
wick, Geo. Mourning, EImore Ker-
wood, are all actively pushing their
several buildings in the extension,
to early completion.
DIR. Barbee las two new buildings
nearly completed. and another in
active progress towards completion,
in the extension.
Messrs. a. b. Hamilton & Co., of
the Equity Roller Mills, in the ex-
tension, opposite the mill are erect
ing a large stable and barn for the
nSe of their teams, &c, also are pre-
pairing for the erection of quite u
large addition to the mill.
There is much complaint about
the condition of the road running
along the kanawha River, ON the
South side. This road has been
impossible for months on account
of slips in the narrows. The Coun-
ty Commissioners went over the
road some time ago and saw its con-
di;ion, and were told that it would
take 5000 or more to fix the road,
and returned and allowed $50 to
the surveyor to put the road in
shape, aud with which he made ont
10 remove one slide. There is moth
ing gained in these niggarcIIy ap-
Preparations to such important roads
Farmers ought to be entitled to a
road sufficiently good to haul their
produce to market.
---
- IT. L. -
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

The finest, the best, and the neat
est fitting ladies' shoes, are to be
found at Friedman IL Cos. Their
prices are the lowest.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

Ladies', Friedman & Co. offer you
this week some beautiful designs in
summer dress goods, just in. Moth
ing like them have ever been shown
in this place. The prices are so low
that you can all afford to have a
new dress.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

~. S. Claim AttorneY.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

Mr.. David burst, of Willow Tree,
was in our office Monday, and in
formed us that the fly was destroy.
ing the wheat in his section of the
county. He says many fields will
be completely DESTROYED.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-15

Bishop Peterkin will visit Point
Pleasant and preach at Christ P. E.
Church, Monday night, the Goth
inst.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
PRETTY FACES IN WATCHES.
Wives md Sweethearts Now Carried Around
in Chronometers.

Wives and Sweethearts Now Carried Around
in Chronometers.
New York Morning Journal.l
TRY and bring out the soft expression Of
the eyes, and be sure to have the hair deep
brown as in life, won't you?"
A swell young grain broker stood in a
John street jewelers. talking with the head
of the house. As he spoke he snapped the
chain from his heavy gold watch and placed
the time-piece on the counter.
"We will make perfect likeness of the
young lady, have no fear of that" said the
jeweler. With another injunction to be
exceedingly particular about the eyes, the
Produce Exchange man LETT the store.
photographs in watches are becoming
very populaf," said the manager of the
house to journal reporter, who stood at
an adjoining counter. "The young gentle
man whose order we have just taken wishes
the portrait of his intended wife placed in
his chronometer. The face of the young
lady will be photographed directly on the
inner case of the watch.
During the past month we have taken
orders for over 300 photographs. Here is
one of e1-Mayor Seth Low, of Brooklyn.
Isn't 1t an excellent likeness?"
"What does it cost to put mans best
girl inside lis watch?"
'About S15. All our work is done by
French photographer uptown, and once a
pretty face is placed in a watch by his
method it will remain as long as the watch
lasts. And another thing" said the jeweler,
with sly wink, ''once fellow places the
picture of his sweetheart or, if he is mar
ried, his wife in his watch, the chances are
SO to that it will never find its way to a
pawnbroker's."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
Grandma's Eyes.

They wonder why loved her so;
They marvel where the magic lies
That knits me to her, they who know
That Gladys has her Grandma's eyesi
They say she's but thoughtless tot;
They say tits true she never tries
To pleasure me-but, try or not,
She can't but please with Grandma's eyes.
They say her sisters are as sweet;
1t may be SO. as they surmise,
But who but Gladys comes to greett
Me gayly with her Grandma's eyes?
She'd have the Moon? I'd give the SunI
What wonder that my heart denies
No draft that's made on it by one
Who always asks with Grandma's eyesf
She lights up all this world of voc,
She silences cen sorrows cries;
She follows me, where'er go,
Forever with her Grandma's eyes.
Ah, who that knows what powers proceed
Prom simple things, in what strange guise,
Can doubt a little child may lead
An old man with her Grandma's eyesi
With Gladys grow young again!
/, who am gray-so fast times flies
Am young, yet how my heart aches when
She looks at me with Grandma's eyes!
NV Child Wife smiles once more on me.
Glad tears within mine own arise.
AS with my Grandchild on my knee
Ieaze into her Grandma's eyes.
Mary Norton Bradford
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
CLOCKWORK LAMPLIGHTER.
A Curious Invention 10 be Attached to Street
Lamps.
Boston Herald.i

Boston Herald.i
For some time past pedestrians on State
street have remarked peculiar attachm emf
to the lamp post at the corner of State and
Devonshlre streets, and many have been the
surmises as to the contents of the little iron
box and its usages. Superintendent Allen
of the Lamp Department said it was an ar
rangement for lighting the gas at certain
hour each night and turning it out certain
hour in the morning. In fact, it is a newly
invented machine designed to do the work
of the lamplighter, with the single excep-
tion of cleaning the lamp. 1t has a clock
work arrangement, which is so regulated
that it conforms to the moons changes and
lights the gas and puts il out early or late
according to the fullness of the moon or the
change in time of rising or setting.
The machine is about the shape of a pear,
and contains clock of the eight-day pat
tern, which in turn is attached to a fulmi.
nate cylinder in which are 400 small pit
holes filled with a waterproof illuminate
compound or enough to last whole year.
In place of the alarm on the clock, is a
spring which is attached to a cylinder, and
when the hands of the clock point to the
designated hour, the cylinder is turned by a
ratchet having the same number of teeth as
there are pits on the circular of the cylinder,
a spring is loosened, the gas turned on, and
a small hammer strikes one of the pit holes,
and the result is that the gas is lighted at a
uniform hour all over the city, or wherever
the appliance is attached.
By simple mechanism after the gas is
lighted, the reverse is the order, and at the
same time at which the clock is set in the
morning, the gas is turned off all over the
city. A man is only required to visit each
street lamp by the new arrangement once
week to clean the lamp, and at the same
time to wind the clock; or, if he should
happen to miss day, the work will be per-
formed just the same by this automatic
lamplighter, as the clock runs nine days.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
sWEETMEATs on 4 STRING.
Peanut Vender Whose Customers Are
Very Far Above Him.

Detroit Sunday News.l
A dealer in peanuts, bananas and confec-
tionery. who is located at the corner of Grand
River and Washington avenues, has q val
liable clientage in the girls who find en-
ployment in the big building of the Western
Knitting Company, under whose shadow he
does business. Those who pass that corner
during the morning or afternoon may have
been moved to sympathy for a man who
never seemed to be selling anything, and
whose business appeared too be to dull even
to pay a small interest on his investment.
However. those who have passed at the
noon hour can readily understand how this
shrewd dealer in sweetmeats, who SO we'll
understands the feminine weakness for con-
fectionery, can afford to buy lots on the
boulevard and build houses to rent. When
dinner time comes the pennies and nickles
fairly shower down upon this fortunate
dealer from nearly every window on his side
Of the building, and they are followed by
strings to which he attaches bananas, cara
mels, chewing gum, etc., according to the
taste OF the purchaser. Since he has q
monopoly of the patronage OF something
less than 500 girls, it is no wonder that he
contemplates winter residence in Florida,
and a retirement, within few years, to Q
Life Of ease and luxury.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
RELICS OF SALEM WITCHCRAFT.
A Few Mementoes Still Preserved of the
Prosecutions of 1892.

A Few Mementoes Still Preserved of the
Prosecutions of 1892.
New York SUM-
In the busy little city of Salem are pre-.
served few relics of the horrible year oi
1892, when number of the best citizens oi
the town were hanged on the accusation oi
some poor, deluded persons, mostly girls in
their teens, who asserted that they had been
bewitched and tortured by the prisoners.
The relics are displayed on large stand in
the center of the main Office of the Register
of Deeds. The first thing that attracts at
tention is a little bottle containing a half
dozen witch pins. These implements are
nothing more than the ordinary pins used
two centuries ago, when pins were still
manufactured by hand. The interest at
taching to these specimens come from the
fact that they are the very pins that were
used at Salem to stick into the accused per-
sous to see whether they were witches. If
the unfortunates were hurt by this treat
ment it was a sure sign that they were
witches unfit to live.
Beside the bottle of witch pins is the
official seal of the Court of Oyer and Ter
miner, before which the prisoners were
tried. 1t is little iron stamp fitted with
black wooden handle, and its impress is
seen upon The only warrant for the hanging
of one of the prisoners that has been pre-
served. This warrant. as it was written out
by the Clerk of the Court, fills the greater
part of sheet of paper about foolscap size.
1t is written in a Grabbed hand but is quite
legible. 1t is addressed to the Sheriff, re-
cites the crime for which one of the female
prisoners had been tried and convicted, and
orders the Sheriff to hang her on a certain
day. On the lower part OF the page appears
the Sherie's return, written in round,
bold hand, certifying that he has carried
out the mandate of the Court. Photographs
of this interesting document are on sale.
But the most interesting relic is the court
record of the trials of these unfortunate
prisoners. These papers are kept in large
volume so arranged that every document
may be read without being touched. Here
are the affidavits OF the ignorant girls and
boys who tell of the tortures the alleged
witches made them suffer. Here is the de-
tailed examination of the prisoners, giving
question and answer. The record was neatly
written, and is still as legible as though it
were recently committed to paper. 1t was
doubtless written out each day by the clerk
from his notes after the adjournment of the
court. 1t tells the story OF great delusion,
and probably no original documents that
have come down from our forefathers are so
reDlete with tragic interest
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
CHARACTER In TYPEWRITING.
The Writing Expert Not TO be Baffied by the
Little Machine.

The Writing Expert Not TO be Bafled by the
Little Machine.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat
The use of the typewriter does not battle
the writing expert. Men and women who
use tpyewriters show nearly as much indi-
viduality IN their work as they would do
if they used pen. 1t is harder to detect,
but that is all the difference. ANY business
man who is used to reading correspondence
from concerns which employ several type
writer's can tell at glance which one of
the half dozen wrote the letters he receives.
Signs of carelessness, haste, ignorance of
punctuation or the profuse use Of punctua-
tion marks, wide or narrow margin around
the writing, some peculiarities in capital
izing-all these things carry meaning to
the expert examining typewriter copy.
But the personal characteristics of the
typewriter are better concealed by the type
writer than the person using pen. Nerv-
BUSINESS can be discovered, but the qualities
depending upon temperament cannot. You
can tell hopeful, Respondent, generous,
close-fsted man by the work he does with a
pen, but when he does it with the machine
he hides himself
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
UnkoMnn Heroen .

Not to the brave upon the battlefield
Alone, the palms of victory belong;
Nor only to the great of earth the song
OF praise and pBan should the singer yield,
Greater the souls that, single handed, WELD
The battle-ax against the hosts of wrong,
Unknown, un-noted, in life's reckless throng,
And only in Gods day to stand revealed,
How many such, in patient. humble guise,
Beside US walk their grief appointed wayi
Nobly enduring; worthiest to shine
As fixed stars in Fame's eternal skies.
For these. for this / Ireverently lay
On their dear dust this little leaf Of mine.
s-OpeTIdnd
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
SHE SNUBBED THE PRINCE.
A Very Little Lady Who Refused to Kiss
Albert Edward.

Albert Edward.
st. Louis Republic.l
A friend of The Man About Town has q
daughter who enjoys the unique distinction
of having refused to kiss no less person.
age than the Prince of Wales. 1t was al
Nice, and the child, who is just old enough
to have a mind of her own-she is about z
was out OF doors playing with some other
children. The Prince came up at this mo-
ment, saw the pretty child and asked for a
kiss.
Deed don't kiss gemnen, answered
the baby Indignantly, as she rejoined her
parents and told them that that man out
there wanted a kiss"
The way the Prince is being snubbed by
American girls, big and little, is refreshing.
to say the least.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
Thank. that No. Expected.

Because begging deaf mute in Dorches-
ter last Saturday kindly said "thank you
at the end OF the route, after his heart and
his pockets would hold ne more, the donors
were greatly incensed. Is not politeness
always in order?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
762-A MIXED RELATIONSHIP.

The executioner's Ak was raised and the VIC
TINS head was preparing to roll as gracefully
as possible from his shoulders, when the king
suddenly relented, and. signing to the heads.
man to suspend the ceremony, he thus addressed
the prisoner:
Answer me truly this question, and your life
shall be spared. never had a brother
but the father of the brother OF this mans
maiden aunt Is the brother Of the uncle Of nv
only sister. What relation Is this man to mefs
why. your majesty. said the prisoner, read
justlng his head. this man must be
~ and he whispered the words which
saved his life.
What was the relationship between the king
and the individual referred TOT
]. 81. FEzANDM
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
766ZcURrA1LMExr

AL is q temple or a church
1t need not cause you any search.
Curtail, and leave to ventilate.
To cool, refresh-or, may state,
The instrument with which It's done.
The nezt is familiar tone
Which we in music often see
So called by those of Italy.
BITTER SWEET
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
Not a Common soIdler.

Memphis Appeai.I
"Yes," said Squire Garvin rehectively,
II was in the army four years, and most Of
the time was an officer. General? No.
Colonel? No. Captain? No; but out
ranked one fellow; be was Fourth Corporal,
and / was third
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
AcRosrIC.
Words of sir letters.

l. A plant eaten raw. To arraign. A
particular combination OF pulleys 4 A fla
ment. 5. WoolIy. g. Corrected.
PrtmdEs-Clamorous chiding. ETnaD-Led.
Both-Giddy. A. B. GNNER.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
763-REBUs.

763-REBUS.
Were you aud to follow
A spirit from the skies,
And. de5ming nature hollow,
Up into ether rise,
Our action, I've notion,
A painting grand would show,
Ger which . great commotion
Was raised some time ago.
w. WILSON.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06

L W 1O4eAAs OShObCA y.
, ORGE0US are several
of the ladies' Turkish
, bathing establishments
of the fashionable type,
and in them you can
see the neatest things
extant in wa S h er-
women. They are
chosen for healthy pre-
sentability to be gin
with, and are dressed
in becoming uniforms,
from the prettily cap
ped and costumed girl
who ushers you into
the ante-room to the
muscular, bare armed
one who attends you
in bathing and rub
bing departments. The
bairbf of the lururv X
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
764-ASAGRAM.

A state of hopelessness might be
In truthful way personifed,
By fancy's pencil bold and free,
In picture of "a person tied"
NELsoNIAN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
Constipation,

IF not remedied in season, Is liable to
L become habitua and chronic. Dras-
tic purgatives, by weakening the bowels,
confirm, rather than cure, the evil.
Ayers Pills, being mild, effective, and
strengthening in their action, are gener.
ally recommended by the faculty as the
best of aperients.
Having been subject, for years, to
constipation, without being able to find
much relief, at last tried Ayers Pills.
deem it both duty and a pleasure
to testify that have derived great BEN
eft from their use. For over two years
past I have taken one of these pills
every night before retiring. Iwculd not
willingly be without theme. W.
Bowman, 26 East Main St., Carlisle, Pa.
at have been taking Ayers Pills and
using them in my family since 1851, and
cheerfully recommend them to all in
need Of safe but effectual cathartic."
John NJ. Boggs, Louisville, KY.
"For eight years was afflicted with
constipation, which at last became so
bad that the doctors could do no more
for me. Then began to take Ayers
Pills, and soon the bowels recovered
their natural and regular action, so tnas
now I am in excellent health. rs. u.
Loughbridge, Bryan, Texas.
Having used Ayers Pills, with good
results, I fully indorse them for the pni,,
poses for which they are recommende1.
IT. Conners. NJ. D., Centre Bridge "a
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06

761-NUMERIcAL.
89Zl0
Are troublesome, when
They cling TO your garments in spite;
/, 4-5.2,
8, II. it's true,
Are things bound together so tight
A sort of gun,
With which one may have fun
Without exact aim, is complete:
An 8to IL
Is not tot,
If bestowed on maid that is sweet.
BITTER SWEET,