The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-10-04
Original and Otherwise.

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entity.
The recent rains have been OF great
benefit to the farmers.
The railroad land should be laid of
in town lots; they would sell readily.
Hon. Jack Frost mas Internationally
repealed the iniquitious Mosquito Bill.
Chinese 1aborers are being struggled
into the United States as students and
actors.
The REGISTER never publishes family
misunderstanding and sensational
stories.
There will be a special term Of the
Circuit Court for this county, held in
November.
The armed MALTA of the State are
now in camp at Kanawha City, above
Charleston.
a labor text for the times: Don't
strike; four-fifths of loaf is better than
none at all.
When money gets easier we hope our
patrons will not forget to call and settle
for this paper.
Willard Morgan, one of the most
notorious moonshiners inthe State, has
been captured.
Rev. j. D. Harris, of Ravenswood has
been adjudged insane and sent 10 the
Spencer Asylum.
Boston Globe.-A large crop of
wretchedness has already been raised
on the Cherokee strip.
Parents, visit the school DURING the
year and encourage both teacher and
pupil by your presence.
SO many drummers on the road again
is strong evidence that the businos4
prospects is improving.
The leaves are beginning to turn and
fall. Another result we suppose, of the
change of administration.
Our town has been unusually quiet
the past week and local happenings of
interest are decidedly scarce.
After being idle eight weeks. twenty
cotton mills in and near Alaraance, n.
e., have resumed operations.
P.J. Moran, an employee of the B. &
o. r. R., had his foot badly mashed, at
Parkersburg, while coupling cars.
a Charleston girl, Miss Rhode Beat
tie, made rush with the Cherokee
boomers and secured town lot.
feter G. Anderson, of Ravenswood,
ate his dinner recently and lay down
for nap, from which he never awakened
Commissioner Joseph Miller and fam
lily are now settled in Washington hav-
ing left their West Virginia home last
week
Council is being petltioned to put up
two more electric lights-one at the
bridge and the other at the X. & NJ.
depot.
Near Brenham, Tex /. a woman, while
asleep, walked out of second-story
window and then returned to her bed
room uninjured.
The end of the road working season
is here and it is to be hoped that all
means and opportunities have been
used to good purpose.
A force of 200 men are now at work
grading the Roaring Greek Railroad
which is to run from Elkins to the head
waters of Roaring creek.
SANDY" Lock, an engineer on the
Ohio River Railroad, was quite painfully
scalded last week by the bursting OF a
steam pipe on his engine.
Tlfe South Branch Intelligencer has
been made stock company with G. F.
Poland as editor and manager. The
paper is sixty-three years old;
Although we are likely to have warm
weather yet before Christmas, yet recent
SHOWS and frosts in the north remind us
of the grim ruler of the inverted year.
The Lincoln Citizen threatens to sus-
pend publication if its patrons do not
pay up. The people of Lincoln county
owe it to themselves to keep the paper
sailing.
Two Norman Elders have been
preaching in different parts of Putnam
for long time. They went to Winfield
to try their hand but could not get a
shelter.
A tobacco plant produces 100000
seeds. A single cigarette produces
about the same number of seeds of
disease, and there's not much tobacco
in it either.
The first man that says there are any
hard times in Point Pleasant will be
either lynched on the spot or exiled to
Gallipolis, where he will have better
field for operation.
If some of our summer hogwallows in
the middle of the country roads are
kept over till winter, our over-worked
road surveyors will be compelled to
ferry people over in mud scows.
AS means OF Distinguishing between
mushrooms and toadstools an exchange
suggests the very practical method of
eating them: If you live they are
mushrooms; if you die they are toad
stools.
Pawpaws have been ripe for some
days, and so for that matter have buck
eyps We have known men tn eat naw-