The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-10-16

SoEaaheS Will tuc OfueE Ol INC
court establishing the same.
d. w Maupin who had been com
missioned a Notary for this county,
entered into bond and qualified as
such.
John c. Porter and G. b. Long
appointed Special Commissioners to
let to contract the erection of two
stone piers on each bank of Crab
creek ON Ohio river road to the
lowest and best bidder aud report
their proceedings to this court.
The Surveyor of the road leading
from Mason City to Hartford City
directed to drain said road from the
lane leading to Mees' Mill by cut
ting drain along the sides of said
road SO Us TO drain the same with
the drain running across said road
near Adams street in the town of
Mason.
John. W. Ball, Surveyor of Road
Precinct No 3, Hannah District,
ordered to open and complete the
change of road established upon
petition of w. j. Keister and others
at July term, 1889.
Upon the petition of c. Withers
for public road in Clendenin Dis
trict,s beginning at stake in the
line of the lands Of j. II. Eblin N.
SO degrees Z. distance of 8 rods 10
point in the mill stone road near
chestnut-oak stump, said road to
be twenty feet wide. Road estab-
lishcd as above described, with leave
to J. II. Eblin to erect two gates
across same, and damages allowed
him for his land.
J. w. Steenbergen released from
the payment of erroneous taxes as
sessed against him for the year
1889, upon his ferry right in Glen
denim District.
The public road in Hannah Dis
trict, known as the "Old Hannah
Road" beginning at Wash Holley
school house and ending at the
Written farm attached to Road Pre-
cinct No. IL, over which T. A. Hol-
ley is Surveyor.
Friedman & CO., have in stock
the finest dress goods ever shown
in this town; and you will stand in
amazemcnt at the low prices ut
which they are offering them. They
desire us TO say that there is no use
of longer going to Gallipolis, for
goods, when you can get the same
articles here at home at "a much less
price.
RIVER NEws.-owing to the ILL
ness of Capt NJ E. Brown, he was
unable to put his steamer I. D. Dale,
in the Kanawha river last week.
He expects to have the boat in the
trade during this week.
The towboat j. S. Mercer has been
sold to the Armstrong Bros. of this
place, and will be placed in the coal
towing trade from tho Kanawha
River to Cincinnati and Louisville.
On her way up from Cincinnati
the Charley Mcdonald and her tow,
without double-tripping, where put
through the "high places at several
of which much lighter boats were
stuck, by Captain Henry PownalI
and Pilot Aaron 1Williamson.-Pom-
eroy Telegraph.
Last Fridays Cincinnati Post
says: "The yarian Brothers, of
Lctart, Ohio, who bought the Boone
with the intention of taking her
South with tow of produce, found
her cabin in a worse condition than
anticipated, and have decided to
wreck her and use her hull as a
wharf boat, and build a small tow
boat for the machinery.
The tow, boat ]. NJ. Clark, owned
by ]. P. Capehart, of Syracuse, is
here waiting to go on the docks.
She recently knocked hole in her
hull, while going over Eight Mile.
The Point Pleasant Machine Shops
is repairing the machinery of the
Steamer Louise.
Capt Charley Dashner, head En-
gineer on the steamer Bostona, went
out fishing in the Ohio, Saturday,
and captured two "Blue Cats" one
weighing AZ lbs. and the other "a
lbs.
The low prices and the fine goods
offered by Friedman & Co., is doing
much towards centering tho trade
of this county to our town, where
it naturally belongs. They are
energetic business men, and ac-
comodating to the extreme. Call
and see them.