The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-05-23

Marine Dock Company, have con-
tracted with the Bay Bros, to
build decked barge 125 feet long,
36 feet wide and 81 feet depth of
hold. The barge is to be completed
by the LIST of June next.
Henderson is on the boom. Just
now a gentleman named Barton,
from Charleston, is erecting build
ing for boilor works, and also for
making steamboat cylinder timbers.
These works will employ quite a
number of hands. 1t will be great
convenience to stcamboatmen, and
in connection with our splendid
machine shop, there will be no rea-
son why all this kind of work
needed on steamboats, locked here
could not be done as well here as
at other points.
There is being built at John
Schuler's Docks, tie barge for d.
M. Miller, OF Parkersbnrg. 1t will
be 125 feet long and % feet wide.
Point Pleasant has now three
Dry Dock Companies, as follows:
Armstrong Bros, Colo & Heather
ington and John Schiller.
The steamer Dick Brown, made
the run from Charleston to this
place last Monday, in three hours
and forty minutes, and made twelve
landings. How is that for fast
timer
The Kanawha coal men have
about 100000 bushels of coal in
barges at this point ready to go out,
as soon as the waters will permit.
Not since the flood of 1884 are
the people showing as much anxiety
about the water as they are at this
time. Both rivers at this point are
rising rapidly. The rains have
been general all over the country
whose tributaries enter into the
Kanawha and Ohio. Reports from
head waters state that big river
is coming, and possibly will cause a
flood. OF course nothing approach
ing the 1884 flood need be looked
for, however the waters may give
the dwellers on the low lands much
trouble.
BODY FoUND.-Yesterday morn
ing DR.. Barbee received telegram
from Letart, summoning him to
that place to hold an inquest over
the body of a man found drowned,
and caught at that point by young
boy named Willie Black. He went
up on the morning train and held
the inquest. The body proved to
be that of Hon. Edward S. Mahon,
who was drowned at Ravenswood
on the 18th of last January. The
body was in badly decomposed
condition, but from his clothes,
shoes and marks on the body it was
fully identified as that of Senator
Mahon. After the inquest the body
was turned over to a committee
from Ravenswood Masonic Lodge
and taken to that place for burial.
A reward of S25 had been offered
for the recovery Of the body, which
sum was paid to Willie Black, who
discovered it floating in the river at
Letart, while oqt drifting.
There could have been no better
time for planting than the farmers
have had this spring. Should we
have favorable summer there will
be an abundant crop of everything,
which will bring relief to the people
who are just emerging from a finan-
cial panic, and an industrial depres-
sion induced by vicious Republican
legislation.
1t may not be known generally
that by change in the school law
at the last session of the Legislature,
county superintendent of schools
and presidents, and certain men,
bers of the boards of education will
be elected in November next, in
stead OF May, and will hold their
office for four years from July LIST,
1895.
The new brick block on Main
street opposite Hooffs Opera House,
being erected by Mr.. John G..
stortz, is about completed. The
putting in of the fronts is about all
there is to do to it. This will be
one of the finest blocks in the town.
Delmonts and McCarty's Dancing
aud Singing Comedians, at Hooffs
Opera House, Friday night. II is
said to be an excellent Company
Admission 10 and 15c.; reserved
seats 25c.