The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-03-15

| RIVER NEWs--bcu. Noolo, mate
of the Andes, died at his homo in
Parkersburg, on the 11th inst
aged AZ years.
Capt. Aaron Williamson, of the
Telegraph, and Mr. Pete Holloway,
of the City of Madison, arc at home
ON visit to their families.
Miss Minnie NageI, of Paducah,
has instituted suit against the Gin
cinnati & Memphis Packet Company
for So, 900 damages, for putting her
off on the wrong side of the river.
Harry LasIey, who is I'd engin-
Ger on the tow boat jennie Camp
bell, on Monday came very near
meeting with serious, if not fatal
accident. He was down under the
doctor oiling, when the engineer
turned on steam. He was discov-
cred and the engine stopped, and
saved from horrible death. As it
was he was badly bruised about the
head.
The steamer Telegraph, an eIc-
CANT side-wheel packet, plying be-
tween Pomeroy and Cincinnati, has
been considered the fastest boat on
the upper Ohio. One day last week
her speed was tested; the run was
from Ripley to Cincinnati, and it
was made in three hours and ten
minutes. She made two landings,
Point Pleasant and New Richmond;
at-the latter place one hundred and
fifty kegs were taken aboard Gal
lipolis Journal.
The tow boat VIM. Waggencr
was caught in the wind storm Of
last Thursday morning near Lock
No. 2, on the Great Kanawha, and
sunk. leaving only a portion of her
pilot house above water. No lives
lost
The Steamer Samuel Miller has
delivered her tow of coal at Yazoo
City, Miss, and started on her re-
turn trip Monday. Crew all well.
The Cleveland World in regard to
improving roads, says; eThe diff
Guilty with the country regions of
the United States to-day centers
more directly in the fact of poor
roads than anything else.
almost everywhere there is a
gloomy embargo of pioneer roads
placed upon the great rural region
for almost eight months of the year;
and this in the midst of the pulsing,
throbbing nineteenth century civil
ization and enterprise.
Things are much worse in this
particular than they werc genera
ton ego when the old-fashioned
winter was in vogue with asix
weeks sleighing in March," and
the roads well frozen from early in
December till April. Then it did
not make so much difference. But
now there must be a reform and i'm
provement in the roads, or the de-
preston in the rural communities
will be certain to continue.
GOOD roads should be constructed
speedily, no matter at what cost.
TIE returns will come rapidly when
the improvement is an accomplished
fact.
"The rural inhabitants must not
be relied upon entirely to do this.
The urban population is as much
interested as the ruralists and the
former really ought to appreciate
the advantages of good roads more
keenly than the latter.
"This slavery and oppression in
fiicted by bad roads is a direct ten
dency in the direction of serfdom.
cit will certainly get worse and
worse and the agricultural de-
preston will be more and more
manifest until the only possible
remedy is radically applied.
APPLE GROVE ITEMS The farm
ers of this vicinity are making great
preparations for their crops.
Mr.. Hugh Daigh is quite ill at
the home of his sisters, Mrs. James
Brown.
Mrs Mace Maupin, of Arbuckle,
West Va, after a weeks visit to
her parents here, has returned to
her home.
Mrs. w. T. Barker and her niece,
Miss Katie Hereford. will omen mn