The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23
ALL OWE rnE srATE.


Hon. VIM. l.. Wilson delivered
an address at Lewisburg fair to an
audietee of $4,000 people
Gnssie Thompson, pretty little
Huntington clerk, and James Fry
of ceredo, eloped to Cincinnati
Friday morning to get married.
George Cooper, IL, lad of Hunt
ington tried to get on a inooving
locomotive. The physician took
one leg off. and thinks one will re-
cover.
LcwIake, while engaged in dig
ging potatoes on his farm in Taylor
county a few days ago unearthed
an ironpot which contained $3.50.
a so and several $50 gold coins
asIl a nu1sgef gopper coins were
among the lot.
Silas Wisman, of Lowesville,
raised grand crop of potatoes this
year Mr.. Tibbs, the butcher, was
down IN that section the other day
buying cattle, and Mr.. Wisman
showed him 4 potatoes that weighed
81 pounds; Is that weighed "a
pounds, and dug hills in his pres
ence which contained 80 potatoes,
aggregating "a pounds-and it isn't
very good year for potatoes either.
-Fdirmont Inder.
A sad accident occurred near
Knottsville this county on last Fri
day in which w. III. Williams lost
his life. Mr.. Williams hitched his
horse TO sled and had gone some
distance above his house to do some
hauling when his horse became
frightened and ran toward the
house. Mr.. Williams was thrown
from the sled but his leg by some
means caught in the sled and his
body was dragged along the ground
to his house when his horse was
stopped by Mr.. Clark Lewellen who
was near by. The unfortunate man
when picked up was unconscious
and only lived few Graf
ton Leader.
Mr.. Anderson Hawley of this
county, is the possessor of a fine
mare now 21 years of age, which a
day or two since gave birth to a
beautiful colt, her first. Mr.. Hawley
informs us that this beautiful mare
of his has never been sick day in
her 81 years of life and is, while
very spirited, one of the most docile
animals ever seen.-Raieigh Inder.
on last Monday Mr.. Philip Bo.
yer startedin buggy, accompanied
by his sister, Mrs. Lawson Camp
bell, and herlittle two-year old boy,
for Anderson, this county. While
on their way to Anderson the horse
became frightened at yoke of OK
en- in the road and began to kick,
kicking Mrs. Campbelrs little boy
on the forehead, killing him in
stantly. Mrs. Campbell escaped
unhurt, but Mr.. Boyer was slightly
bruised. The buggy was broken up.
Monroe Wdtchmdn.
On Tuesday, August 18th, 1891,
at the home of her grandson near
Nutterville, this county, Mrs. Chris
tina Nutter departed this life. She
was, undoubtedly, at the time of her
death, the oldest person in Green
brier county, if not the oldest in this
section of the State. Mrs. Nutter
was born in Shenandoah county,
Va, on the 9th day of January,
1870, and consequently, was 101
years, 6 months and 81 days old.
Her parents came to this section in
1876. Her maiden name was Odell.
She was the mother of nine chill
dren, FIVE of whom survive her, and
the youngest of whom is 81 years
GreenJrier Independent.
Edward Tilbury Jones met with
serious and probably fatal acci-
dent at his home at Forks of Glady,
one day last week. He was shoot
ing with a shot gun, and snapped a
cartridge several times, and con-
Guiding that the primer was not
good, he took out the primer with
some sharp instrument to replace it
with good one, and while work
ing at it the load was discharged,
the load going into the ground, but
the heavy brass shell striking him
in the forehead over the right eye.
Drs. Talbot and Ill. Yokum remov-
ed the crushed part of the skull,
which is about the size of silver
quarter of a dollar. Elkins Ne,cs.