The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-11-18
From AN over the State.


court of jackson county.
Mr.. Allen Caperton who lives near
Union, Monroe county shipped on
Monday last 30 head Of cattle that
averaged on the aggregate 1867
pounds.
The barn and contents of W. H.
Minear, of Valley District, was en-
tirely consumed by fire one night
last week. The contents included
horses, cattle and farming impIi-
ments- Loss, $4,000.
The barn belonging to Eli Rodg-
ers in Irish Corner, Greenbrier Co,
was entirely consumed one night
last week. Several head of valuable
horses, farming machinery and har-
ness were also consumed. The fro
was the work of an incendiary and
the loss is placed at s., 500.
The outlook for the wheat crop of
the State is very discouraging. The
acreage is larger than for. many
years, but the continued dry wealth
er has retarded its growth to such
an extent that it will be unable to
Withstand the rigors of winter, and
small crop is anticipated.
Jenkins, the MonongaIia young
man who was sent to the peniten-
tiary last week for stealing yoke
of oxen, and selling them to man,
and afterwards stealing them from
the purchaser and turning them out
into field of the rightful owner,
confessed to his crime as he said, to
save the county the expense of a
trial.
A farmer named Porter attempt-
ed to cross the c. & o. tracks in
Huntington Saturday in front of an
approaching train. His wagon was
caught amid ships and strewn along
the track and he was thrown about
ten feet up in the air and was nearly
run over besides receiving internal
injuries which may prove fatal.
The horse ran away and was caught
several miles out in the country.
Our awakening citywas very much
surprised Thursday morning by
finding everything bedecked with
four inch snow. This is the first of
the season for this section, and the
earliest for some years. Charles
to,cn AdUocate.
On last Sunday, haud car while
being operated by several boys,
jumped the track few miles below
town and young man by the namc
of Cross had his arm broken and
sustained rather severe INJURIES
Randolph Enterprise.
The center span of the Kenova
bridge is finished, and, this week,
the next span on this side will be
complete. Then only one moro
span, the one reaching the Ohio
side, is left, and this will be finished
in about two weeks. Then the track
will be continuous from Columbus,
Ohio, to-about fifteen miles beyond
Wayne c. ii. The track from Coal
grove to the bridge is in fine shape,
ready for a passenger train to fly
along at the rate of forty miles an
hour.-Huntington Commercial.
A Sunday schoolteacher was try
ing to impress her little scholars
with the idea that nothing was i'm
possible with God, that He could do
all things, when little urchin in
quired: "Kin God make a rock so
big he can't lift it2" He had the
teacher in hole. She either had
to admit that God could not make
such rock or else she had 10 admit
that He could not lift it after He
had made it, which, in either case,
was to admit that some things might
be impossible to Cod GRAFTON Sen
tinel.
Saturday last at midnight Acre
Rodgers who had been working at
Montana, Marion county, was going
home to see his mother at Irontown
and boarded a freight train at this
place for that purpose as there was
no passenger trains leaving for the
east after his arrival here. AtIron-
town he jumped from the train
while it was running at too great
rate of speed, it is supposed, as he
was found in the morning lying by
the track in dying condition and
soon afterwards expired. He was
badly broken up and bruised.-
Grafton Sentinel.
On Wednesday, night of last week,
the 18th inst, the fine iron-gray
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