The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-06-14

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feint Pleasant. w. Va.
Since the town has been ouaran-
tined against the small. pox infected
districts, and with the aid of the
lies telegraphed from neighboring
towns, to the effect that our town
had several cases of smallpox, bus
mess has almost become paralyzed
II is hard on our merchants and all
other business men. Sales have
fallen off fully fifty per cent. and
collections are almost an impossi-
bility, and particularly is it severe
on the REaIsTER, for the greatest
source of our business and our rev
enue is cut off by the quarintino in
force against the Pomeroy bend
and all the upper part of the coun-
ty. Therefore, all persons indebt-
ed to this Office, residing in town,
and along the Kanawha, are request
ed to make an effort to pay what
they owe as
An oUrRAaE-Ga lIipolis unload
ed her small pox patient, McCune,
on Point Pleasant, Thursday after
noon, the health officers giving him
a certificate and shipping him over
the river at Gallipoiis, aud buying
him a ticket at GaIlipolis Ferry
Station, whence he came on the o.
R. Railroad to this place, and at
tempted to board a X. & NJ. train
for Gharl, on. The Agent refused
him a ticket and the conductor
would not allow him to get on the
train. Our health officers arrested
him, took his pass away. and then
hustled him across the Ohio River
bridge into Ohio. Our people are
justly indignant over this outrage.
CAurIoN.-It is earnestly to be
recommended that during the prev
aIence in different parts of the sur
rounding country of a dreadful and
dangerous contagious disease pee,
pie should shun meetings, festivals,
races, amusements and gatherings
of all kinds Stay at home except
on errands of positive necessity and
thereby avoid danger. 1t is the
everlasting padding around" that
spreads disease.
If any man should be careful in
times like these in giving out small
pox reports, it should be DR.. Probst,
the Secretary of the State Board of
Health, of Ohio. Recently he pre-
tended to have made a close and
thorough inspection of the small
pox districts, and stated that there
were three cases in Point Pleasant
and one at Leon, all of which is alb
solutely false, as there is not case
of smallpox at either of these pla-
ces.
Reliable information was receiv-
ed here Tuesday that two more
deaths had occurred that morning
from smallpox. This makes a to-
tai of five deaths at Pomeroy, up to
date. Two deaths have also occur
red at Mason City. If it is not
smallpox, as some claim, it is to
say the least, very contagious as
well as fatal disease.
WANT PRoTEcr1oN.-Do Dogs, last
week, made the third visit, this
Spring, to the flock of Mr.. E. F.
Roseberry, of Robinson District,
and destroyed the last of his sheep,
but one pet lamb, besides mangling
u valuable boar. How long must
farmers put up with the dog with
out protection?
We want it known, notwithstand-
ing the faIsehoods telegraphed to
the daily papers, from Pomeroy and
GalIipolis, that there is not case
of smallpox in this town, and from
the precautions taken by our board
of health to keep out the infection,
there is not likely to be a case. So
people who do not live within the
prescribed districts. need have no
fears of coming to town.
While our Board of Health is at
work trying to get our town in good
sanitary condition, we would re-