The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
Original and Otherwise.

We are told that blue birds have
made their appearance here.
The Standard Folding Bed Co.,
will resume work next Monday.
Business is beginning to look up
and money seems to be getting ca,
sior.
Complaints are coming in about
the bad condition of the county
roads.
The streets and crossings of this
town are in a terribly muddy con-
dition.
The prospect for much building
in this place, in the spring, is most
excellent.
The Peytona Herald Gays that
the weeds are sprouting down in
Boone county.
We understand Cole &. Heather
ington will build the new Gallipo-
lis whartboat.
George Tabscott, of Greenbrier
county, died on the 18th inst, aged
eighty nine years.
The body of an unknown man
was discovered in a mill race at
Harper's Ferry. last Monday.
We are under obligations to the
Wheeling Register for large and
handsome calendar for 1894.
The K. & NJ. Flyers between eau
ley aud Toledo, are equipped with
Wagner parlor cars.
With as good clay as we have ar
ound Point Pleasant, it is singular
we do not have brick yard here.
GRADUATED sugar dropped on last
Wednesday to 81 cents per pound,
the lowest price at which it was
ever sold.
1t is reported that the c. & o. R.
R, is about to begin the construct
ion of branch road along the
Guyandotte river.
The Senate Committee on Rules
has fixed on the 18th of this month
as the date for vote on the Wilson
bill.
Under the new law County Su-
perintendeDt of Schools will be
elected at the next general election
in November.
Our people found our former Sun
day mails a great comfort and con-
venience. There is no use of doing
without such conveniences when
they eau be had for the asking.
Commissioner Miller reports that
the total amount of beer tax col
lected in the District of West Yir-
ginia in the last fiscal year was
s14O,917.4O.
Senator Faulkner's marriage to
Miss Virginia Whiting, at Hampton
last week, was the most brilliant
affair of its kind in the history of
the Old Dominion.
The Gauley and Gallipolis ac-
commodation on the K. & M. Rwy.,
which arrives here at lilo a. m.
and returns at 2:O5 p. M, is the
most popular train on the road.
NJ. D. farrell, of Wayne county,
has been appointed by tho Cover
nor, a member of the Board of Di-
rectors of the West Virginia Re-
form School.
Judge J. W. English, of this city,
having resigned the position as
President of the Supreme Court,
Judge Brannon was designated to
fill the position until further order
Owen Peasants, who killed Mil
lard WelIman at Guyandotte some
time ago, and who received life
sentence, was taken to Moundsville
last week.
Gallipolis will sell bonds TO the
amount of ss5, 900, the money to be
used in constructing a system of
water-works for the city. The bonds
will be offered for sale February
Is, 1894.
Even Andrew Carnegie says the
Wilson bill will not destroy the
manufacturing industries of the
country; but the Wheeling hteHi-
gencer says that Carnegie doesn't
understand the subject at all.
Gov. MacCorkle has appointed
D. c. Hoffman, of Monongalia co.,
as a delegate to the National Dairy
Association, which meets on the
first Wednesday in February, at
Cleveland, Ohio.
The Gallipolis Journal: Rev. d.
Argent had fine congregation on
Sunday morning at the Presbyte-
rian church. Rev. d'Argent is do