The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-11-01

VLlEluLL ana VluCLWlucs
/ The name of the new postmaster
at Camden-o Gauley is Mudd.
The boys are Frightening up their
winter skates.
The straw hat has gone to meet
the summer girls suspenders.
Aud now the pawpaw and chest
nut season is drawing to close.
The public school scholars could
make pretty celebration Of Arbor
Day
The better the citizen the more
cleaning up there is done around
his home.
Make home the most attractive
J and desirable place your child can
become acquainted with.
lee formed an eighth Of an inch
thick at Petersburg, Grant county,
the 23rd ult
Teach your child self respect, for
without ityou can not look for it to
respect others.
The largely read man is necessar.
lily we'll informed man, but not
always an intelligent one:
There are two things woman
| fears-a dog when it's loose and a
man when he's eight.
An intelligent man finds almost
everything ridiculous, wise man
hardly anything.
Real estate agents in the city say
mora inquiries are being made in
their line of trade than has been for
several months.
The Algoma Company has just
completed 175 coke ovens, and is
the third largest operating in this
field. Mel oueH Recorder.
Frank ]. Harrison who died re-
Gently in Baltimore, and well known
in this place, had, we are informed,
S62 600 insurance on his life.
Times are either getting better,
locally speaking, or else the people
are becoming used to it and make
no complaint.
1t seems that the symbol of death,
skeleton with a scythe, has been
suppIanted by railroad man with
lantern.
Wv. Hennen. ex-editor of the
old Guyandotte Herald, has received
the appointment for the Office of
postmaster at Guyandotte.
Thieves went through the Grafton
postofice last week and secured
over one thousand dollars in stamps
and cash and a number of register
ed letters of unknown value.
The Pocahontas Times says there
are negroes in that county who be-
lieve there is bill before Congress
to deprive them of their suffrage
and that the newspapers are sup
pressing it.
Jas. ii. Miller, who was appoint
ed postmaster at Gauley under
President jackson in 1882, and who
has held the office ever since, died
at that place last week, aged SO
years.
The Cumberland NeWS tells of a
hen in that neighborhood that lays
three eggs day. We confess our
inability to compete with the journ-
alist who can originate such yarns
as this.
Tho county seat of Fayette county
will remain at Fayetteville, the
vote taken last Tuesday on Mont
gomery having been lost by few
hundred. We congratulate Fay.
etteville and sympathize with Mont
gomery.
Do not bury cabbages with the
heads in the ground. Try placing
the roots in the ground with tops
out, and cover with hay and corn
stalks. They will keep well and
also give q crop of sprouts in the
winter.
What has become of that enjoy
able society, "The Four O'clocks2''
The young ladies shouldn't let ii
die out, as it had very beneficial
effect upon the morals of our young
men, and they enjoyed going to the
open sessions. Revive the society.
The "Liberty BeIl," which has
been on exhibition at the Pennsyl-
vania building at the Worlds Fair,
started on its homeward journey
yesterday and will be exhibited a,
Cincinnati. 1t will then be taken
to Philadelphia accompanied by a