The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-07-22
Prom nil 0ser the State.

Fourth OF July celebration at Bcrls-
eley Springs.
Hon. VIM. L. Wilson has accepted
an invitation to deliver an address
at the Greenbrier ministerial Expo
sition in September.
| BY the bursting of the Grecnville
boom in the Little Kanawha last
Wednesday, 5000 logs and 10000
cross ties got away.
! Mrs. Archer, living at Red Brush,
Jackson county, was bitten by a
copperhoad snake few days ago,
and nearly died from the effects.
A Baltimore cattle exporter visit
ed Jane Lew, Lewis county, last
week and purchased 1000 head of
cattle for which he paid cents u
pound on foot.
Raleigh county's new court house
is well under way and it is ex-
pected to have it completed this
fall. 1t will be one of the cosicst
county buildings in the state.
Eastern capitalists purchased, last
week, 5000 acre tract of coal land
in Webster county for sl20 an acre,
which few years ago was purchas-
ed for 60 cents an acre. =
Great many summer tourists from
the cities are enjoying trout fishing
along Cheat river. Two gentlemen
captured 500 of the spcckled beau
ties in one day recently.
The Jeffersonian Pldindealer says
that there are at least dozen Nor
mon proselyters at Big Bend, that
county, who have been at work in
that section for long time, and ad-
vocates dose of tar and feathers.
Carl Yanson, painter of Clarl<s-
burg, who few years ago was on
frontier duty in the regular army
and had his hand almost severed by
a tomahawk in an Indian fight, has
just been granted pension of $50 u
month and $4,000 back pay.
Mrs. ]. w. Lockhart, of near
Wiseburg, began bleeding at the
nose last Thursday evening and the
flow could not be stopped until Sat
urday evening. A few hours later
she gave birth to a child, and later
died. She was a daughter of Vim
cent Archer.-JdckSon Herald.
John Smith and Sol Cook were
arrested in Charleston the other day
by "a C. & o. detective, charged with
the systematic robbing of freight
cars on the C. & o. They were
pretty tough characters and belong
to big gang that has been opera
ting along the line.
We are informed that the resi-.
dencc of man named Clinton
Givens, who resides on Keener's
Ridge, in Braxton county, was
destroyed by fire last Friday night.
One child was burned to death, and
the entire contents of the house lost.
= Ueston Democrat.
a mob of ID mad Huns ran
amuck at Long Run, Jefferson
county, Monday. They hacked
Spot Cary to death with pick and
nearly killed his brother Wilson
and Mrs. Johnson. The fellows
were arrested and it is expected
that they will be lynched.
y fellow by the name of McCar-
thy, of Harrison county, was ar
rested at Warrington last week for
horse stealing. Since his arrest it
has developed that he has carried on
the business quite extensively, and
has gotten away with n half doz-
en- fine animals.
A colored man by the name of
Perry Clark, was moving down by
the Academy Monday and while
whetting his scythe he was struck
with a giddiness which caused him
to fall on his scythe, cutting his
nose in twain and making an
ugly cut across his check Old
Guard
Huntington is good for half
a-dozen sensations week. Last
week an infant was cremated and a
colored man attempted to poison
his wife in order that he might en-
joy her $4,000 worth of property
with white paramount, two girls
had fight over the same lover and
several other minor sensations.
Huntington is getting an unenvia-
BILE reputation.
Four years ago Judge A. c. Shy
der, of Lewlsburg, purchased $500
acres of land near Nicholas Court