The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-21
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factory.
There are fourteen prisoners in
our county Jail.
This paper and the Wheeling
Register for s1,75, one year.
We trust our Governor will never
permit a prize-fight in this State.
a stingy man is never a contented
man.
This town will show a good deal
of building improvement in the
Spring.
We are prepared to do better and
cheaper job work than any Office in
this part of the State. Try US.
Virginia is still trying to saddle
several millions of her debt onto
West Virginia.
IF man asks you for loan you
can get out of it by telling him it's
Lent.
If a woman asks friend if her
hat is on straight you may be sure
ii is new one.
Our farmers should meet at the
Court House and discuss the quest
ion of better roads.
Counterfeit quarter dollars are in
circulation in this county. Look
out for them.
Mr.. Frank stortz has purchased
a new type writer, of the latest i'm
proved pattern.
We have the finest catalogue of
society cards in this section of the
State. Call and examine it.
The lunatics confined in jail here,
were taken to the Spencer Asylum,
Friday.
A special meeting of the directors
of the Spencer Asylum will be held
to day.
Col. Chas. T. Beale, of Gallipolis
Ferry, had hard fall on an icy
porch, Friday, and was badly hurt.
The fellow who talks the most
against the income tax is generally
the one who has no income to tax.
Congress has passed a bill pro-
hibiting the sale OF liquor within
four hundred feet of a church or
school house.
The blizzard that has been with
us for week or more, is the worst
that has visited this section for
years.
The Federal election laws have
been repealed, and the Johnnie Da-
venports will have to look for an
other job.
Ifyou failed to get valentine
you can congratulate yourself. They
were hideous pictures-those comic
specimens on exhibition here.
The West Virginia Penitentiary
now has more inmates than at any
previous time in its history. There
are 44O. The pen is now crowded
to its utmost capacity.
Editor C. W. Bowyor, of the Mar
tinsburg Statesman, has been APP
pointed postmaster at that place.
This is a recognition of worthy
Democrat.
During the past week two prom
inent young men committed suicide
at Charleston, the first was Henry
Dryden, and the second was Ed.
Boggess.
There are ready for shipment, in
Poca river over25O, 900 railroad ties,
and half as many saw logs. The re.
turns of this property will help
Putnam materially.
The REGISTER invites its readers
to send in the news of their neigh
borhood. Make your letters short,
to the point, and confine them to
topics of general interest.
There are hundreds of people in
this county who do not take
county paper. How can they be
otherwise than ignorant of what is
going on in the county,
A subscriber, interested in good
roads, wants to know the cost per
mile of road under the alternative
road system. Can any one inform
him through the REGISTER.
A team belonging to the factory
ran away while at the wharf Mon
day morning, and started up the
grade and across 4th street at
lively rate. 1t was stopped just
above the new school house. No
damage done.
An exchange puts it this way,
and puts it correctly, too. eve