The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-10-10
OrieinaI ana Selected.

The Grant county jail is without
prisoner.
The Salvation Army will soon in
wade Huntington.
Chinese soldiers gets1 per month.
Poor fight and poor pay.
1t is rumored that Pomeroy will
soon have populist paper.
Mr. Norman Gibson is erecting
dwelling house in Henderson.
The river is slowly but surely
sinking down to its lowest stage
The steamer Dick Brown is rum
ming between Madison and Carroll
ton.
1t looks now as if the State Camp
Ground would be located at Mason
City.
Labor unions will fight the pro
posal to increase the size of the
army.
Youth is the title of a neat, new
monthly paper issued at Parkers-
burg.
Most of the river boys, who went
away on the pop rise, have returned
home.
Only twelve of the States have
sufficient canvas to cover their
militia.
Don't run after lie. just let it
alone and it will run itself out of
breath.
Three murders were committed
in Wayne county during the month
of September.
A Pomeroy girl refused to join a
card party because she would make
the thirteenth.
1t is reported that New York
company will soon start cheese
factory at Letart.
Wayne county newspapers are
Boosting of the largest tobacco crop
ever grown there.
The West Virginia Historical and
Antiquarian Society has had 5000
visitors since last April.
The net earning of the N. & w.
r. r. for August were S2S7, 800; an
increase over August 1898 of 81 ,635.
The coal man now wears smile
similar to "after taken," while the
ice man looks like "before taken"
The Government engineers have
located another ice pier at Middle
port. The appropriation has been
made.
The Council ought to require
persons to repair the holes in their
pavements before winter sets in or
somebody will get hurt.
Col. MoHitt, well known trave-
ling man, of Ironton, o., who was
we'll known ell over this State,
died on last Friday at that place.
MIR. John Gibson Damron, of
Gallipolis, died last Sunday morn
ing of paralysis, aged ~. He was
greatly beloved by all who knew
him.
Summer has crept away from us
at last and the days of the sere and
yellow leaf are upon us. Bat Oc-
tober is the most delightful month
of the year.
Gold is at premium in several
European countries-3.21 per cent
in Austria, 825 per cent in Italy,
1880 per cent in Spain and AZ per
cent in Russia.
An exchange says that there is a
village in Ohio where the people are
SO religious that they will not make
older on Saturday "for fear it would
work on Sunday"
Certificates of nominations of all
candidates must be filed with the
Circuit Clerk before the 10th day of
October, or at least twenty days be-
fore the day of election.
| en-. WhaIey will represent Point
Pleasant Lodge, No. 33, L. o. o. F.,
in the Grand Lodge, which meets at
Harper's Ferry. November 81, 1894.
J. R. Rayburn is the alternate.
A law in Norway prohibits any
person from spending more than
five cents for liquor at one visit to a
public house, and alcoholic stimu-
lants are supplied only to sober per-
sons.
The latest fish story is that a man
near Chauncy found dead catfish
in the Hooking river, on a sand bar,
with a Waterbury watch in its
stomach. 1t had probably died
from exhaustion in trying to keep
it wound up.
The number of school teachers in