The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-07-19
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III LOlnt 4 AE&ActAnt lAot
Senator Voorhees, predicts that Con-
gress will sit a year or longer.
IT is estimated that the Worlds Fair
win bring Chicago sl4o.OOO,OOO.
No branch of agriculture win pay bet
ter than the growing of small fruits.
comet is now visible in the north
western sky after 10 o'clock at night
Central City by a vote of 1919 for and
10 against has decided to incorporate.
Edison thinks that the railway speed
of the future will be 100 miles an hour.
Two models of the statue of Senator
Kenna are on exhibition at Charleston.
The powder works at Kellogg have
been closed on account of lack of orders.
The Search Light is the name of a
new daily paper published at Pomeroy.
A Point Pleasant youth is so modest
that he bushes at tile sight of a garter
snake.
What has become of that overwhelm-
ing popular demand for the annexation
OF Hawaii?
The next encampment of the Ar ny
of West West Virginia will take place
in Charleston.
1t is reported that President Har-
rison will build residence at Elkins,
Randolph county.
The mail facilities between here and
Charleston are becoming rather ragged.
What's the matter?
E. E. Hood, of Huntington, has as
sumed the management of the CHARLES
ton Daily Star Tribune.
An Ohio boy was struck by lightning
Saturday while hocing corn. What a
terrible warning to other boys.
Arrangements should be made for the
flooding of all sewers and drains during
the dry terms, at least once month.
The numerous pretty school marms
in town this week make our streets of
evenings resemble n mammoth bouquet.
The Logan county Banner hasn't had
an item of news in it for two weeks.
The paper is "fulI up on legal notices.
Leave as few little bills" as possible
for your executors to settle. Pay them
in your life time, and file away receipts.
The time appears to be at hand when
man who is referred to as silver.haired
will regard it as an attempt to depreciate
him.
Almost daily people are seen throw
ing broken glassware on the streets; it
IS dangerous practice and should be
stopped.
Some of you are mean enough to bor-
row your neighbours paper. and then
grumble because the editor don't run it
to suit you.
The steamer 7. d. Dale, which was
sunk on Kanawha river some time ago,
has been raised and taken to Charles
ton for repairs.
Our merchants predict that the price
of potatoes will not exceed twenty five
cents per bushel when the crop comes
into market.
The delinqent tax list in Pendleton
county foots up 1897 for county pur-
poses. But eight Taxpayers are delin-
quent. This is a great record.
Attorney Hugh L. Boggs of Charles
ton has been adjudged insane and will
be sent to the Weston Asylum.
The U. s. Government has awarded
to firm in Lee, Mass, the contract for
10000 headstones to be placed over sol
diers' graves in national cemeteries.
Lady Collin Campbell says that kiss
ing ruins the complexion. Well, then
we suppose Point Pleasant girls don't
kiss, as their complexion is all right.
The Charlestown Spirit says that
Gabe Mitchell, colored man, fell off a
load of wheat while working. in har-
vest field near there and broke his neck.
During thunder storm at Weston
last Thursday lightning struck Il tree
and killed two men named Norris and
Casio, and severely iniuring three
others.
The Duke OF Veragua broke himself
up raising bulls for Spanish fights. The
fellow who raises pennyroyal bulls for
this beef market ought to be broke up
with club.
George Newhouse, boy Is years OF
age, was drowned at Huntington last
Friday evening. He was the main sup
port of his widowed mother. Ills body
was recovered.
Benz. BallingeT, a prominent young
man of jefferson county, had small
pimple on his neck which came in con-
tact with some weeds. Blood poisoning
set in and death ensued.
Unless you write or have printed on
your envelope the length OF time you
wish letters held. the postmaster will
hereafter, by a new ruling, hold them
thirty instead of ten days.
She got mad and called him "AIr.,"
Just because he'd "Kr."
Then out OF spite,
The very next night
This wicked MIR" "Kr." ''Sr."
A fellow who couldn't spare dollar
for his county paper, sent fifty 2-cent
stamps to down.c east yankee to know
how to raise beets. He got an answer,
take hold of the top and pull"
WELL" said the editor to the delin-
ourut "how do vorr feel about the fu-