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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10
WEDNESDAY.

George X. Hambrick has been ap-
pointed Agent of the poor farm, and
will soon enter upon his duties.
Upon petition of Geo. A. Mayes
and others for public road in Han
ran district; road established with
gates, and damages allowed land
owner, Mary c. Holley.
Upon petition of a. s. RidiDger
ct al. for change of road in in c.
logne district, near John Furguts,
so as TO take same out of creek. L.
E. Musgrave, county surveyor, Jas
A. Blackburn and J. P. Jones ap
pointed to view ground and report
to court at its next term
Upon petition of Robert Stephen
son and others for public road in
Cooper district, viewers were ap.
pointed.
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sFr5m Fridays Daily, ,

Capt. H9d Condee, of Leon, was a
pleasant caller at this office, yesterday.
Mr.. Henry Brown, OF Leon, was in
town, yesterday.
G. shre9sbury, Esq, of Mason, was
in town yes. .erday.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

The Point Pleasant Band was or
gauized Monday night, with the fol.
lowing members: r. c. Chambers
President; B. F. Gibbs, Sec. and
Treas; Geo. Simpson, Robt. Norton
Phil. Lowry, Art. L. CotrilI, Sam
Wheaton, Ed. Lunford, Jim Green.
lee, Clint Hale, Jas. Smith and F
NJ. WhaIey.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

Bank clearings were 20 per cent.
moro last week than for the cores.
ponding week of 1894. There were
unmistakable evidences of further
improvement in the general busi-
ness of the country, in the volume
of the distribution as we'll as in the
matter of prices. In fact, the bet
terment in the business tendency
has reached a point where the least
observant Investigator must admit
it. The reported railway earnings
for March show an increase. The
advance in prices embraced silver,
cotton, wheat, corn, oats, petroleum,
cotton goods and pig iron. The
situation, on the whole, is manifestly
better than it has been for twelve
month.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

John McCardell, a farmer from
jackson county, became engaged in
a drunken quarrel at Parkersburg
with P. J. McNerney, and was ter
rIbly beaten and cut about the head
and face. McNerney was arrested
and held under $1,000 bond.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

In the court room a lawyer may
call man a liar, scoundrel, villain
or thief, and no one makes COM
plant when the court adjourns. If
newspaper man prints such re-
Elections on any mans character
there is usually either a libel suit
or dead editor. Must be because
every one believes the newspaper
man and no one believes the law
Canadian record.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

The two Finley children, who dis
appeared from Huntington two
weeks ago, have not yet turned up,
and Charles Ringo, the man who
recently married their mother and
who was in Jail on the charge of
numbering them, was acquitted on
that charge, and then held on n
charge of kidnapping the kids. The
authorities desire to hold him for
Washington, Pa, officials, who say
negro answering his description
is wanted for murder there.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

A thief entered the barn of Robt.
l.. Hutchinson, at Henderson, last
night, and took part of a set of
harness. This thing is getting too
frequent, and vigilance com mittee
in each neighborhood would soon
rid the county of these rascals.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

4 man died in Morgantown re-
Gently from the excessive use of to-
bacco, so they say. He had reached
the age of 110 years, and for so
years had been the victim of the
weed. Score another point for the
anti-tobacco society and let the
work 90 gloriousIY forward.
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Letter From Superintendent Dawson,

Letter From Superintendent Dawson.
We have received the following
letter from our friend Mr.. J. w
Dawson, Superintendent of the X
& NJ. Railway, which fully explains
itself:
Editor Point Pleasant Register:
Dear Sir: My attention was called
few days past to an article in your
daily to the effect that q Mr.. w. B
Jones, TX q NJ. Spotter," who had
reported several X & NJ boys fol
frequenting saloons and who had
caused them to lose their positions
had himself been spotted and ar.
rested for improper conduct, etc.
OF course / do not know from
what source you secured your in
formation, but simply wish to SCI
you right, as we do not care to have
the reputation of X & NJ employees
incorrectly advertised in such ,
way So far as l know, our boys
are not in the habit of frequenting
saloons; none of them were ever re
ported to me by Mr. Jones for S,
doing, nor has any employee of thil
company ever been dismissed OF
account of any charges made agains
him by Jones.
While Mr.. Jones did hold a pas.
over our line, he was not an EN-
| ployee of this company and was no
expected to spot our men or repor
them, as claimed in your article
and | would be glad if you woulC
correct it. Yours truly, etc,
j. w. DAWSON, Supt
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

Late Saturday afternoon DR.. C..
C. Hogg took charge of the case of
small pox on Sixth avenue. The
doctor deserves the thanks of our
community for his lack of personal
consideration in the matter, and his
desire to do his best for the poor af-
ficted.-Huntington Herald.
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B. & o. S-W. RY.
TIME TABLE.

Daily : Except Sunday. g Sunday only.
For detail information regarding rates,
time on connecting lines, sleeping, parlOri
dining ears, etc. address
L. H. REUTINGER, Ticket Agt-.
Athens, Ohio.
OR !. ". CHEsBROUGH. c. PA.
81 Louis, No
e. b. wABFEL, Asst. c. P. A..
Cintinnati. %.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

The crossing on corner of Mair
and 4th streets is being repaired.
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Henderson,.


Mrs. Henry Faudree, of Mont.
gomery, is spending the week with
Jos. Faudree, of this place.
Messrs. Reel and Sours have
moved their families from Point
Pleasant to this town.
Misses Della Roush and Leila
Wilson, of New Haven, accompanied
by Miss Tola Nutter, of Point Pleas
ant, were visiting Mrs r. E Nutter,
Saturday.
w. w. Lee will move into his new
house this week.
Pearl Forrest has moved into his
new house lately erected on the lot
purchased of r. F. Morris.
Thirty-two buildings have been
erected in Henderson, within the
last FIVE years. The r. f. Morris
Furniture Factory, Boiler Works,
and three thousand dollar resi-
dence of Capt. E. A. Burnside's, be-
ing among them. We have plenty
of room, are on higher ground than
our neighbor town Our town is
not surpassed in morality and be-
nevolence, and we expect in no dis
tant day to be numbered with the
cities of the State.
Frank Faudree has received
s175 insurance for damages done by
fire lately Insured with the Tip
pett & Hutchinson, agency.
Big snow storms and billiards
are now prevailing in the far west.
1t is a good country to go to, isn't,
it? West Virginia is good enough
for us. Many of our people who
have tried the west with its cyclones,
hot winds, grasshoppers, &c, are
returning home.
Some people are never pleased.
If we publish an article booming
the town, we have some of them on
our backs; and if we fail to say
something good about the town,
others will say we are not up with
the times Now what are we to do?
DIED.-At the residence of Capt.
Frank a. Work, Tuesday evening,
at o'clock, Mrs. Mary Mcdaniel,
aged 81 years. Funeral at 3 O'Clock
this afternoon, at the residence.
Interment at Lone Oak Cemetery.
HURr.-M Miss Ollie Hogg, ofPleas-
ant Flats, was thrown from a horse
Sunday, and badly, but not seri-
ously hurt. She was able to drive
] to town yesterday.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

VIM. Ii. Grant a we'll known citi-
zen of Middleport, died last Monday
evening at the age of 75 years lie
was connected with the Middleport
Flour Co, for many years. He
was buried at Middleport Wednes-
day at = p. m.-Pomeroy Democrat.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

Mr.. George a. Burt has been
elected Director and later Vice
President and General Manager of
the Ohio River railroad. Mr. Burt
is an ex General Superintendent of
the Panama Railroad Company; he
was General Manager of the Brazil
Mail Steamship Company, and until
the recent sale of the vessels com
prising the Panama Railroad Com
pany's Columbian Line was the
representative of the owners of
these vessels Railroad Gazette.
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Mest YIrginia viii Lead.

This little Mountain State of ours
is on an upward and onward march,
and at no distant date will be one
of the foremost States of the Ameri-
can Commonwealth. Her vast and
almost inexhaustable:coal beds, her
rich and valuable veins of minerals,
her forest clad hills of pine and
poplar make her one of the richest
States of the Union in resources.
Her climate is between the extreme
heat of the South and bitter cold of
the North. Her soil in many por-
tions is most fertile and finer fiocks
of sheep and cattle Craze nowhere
than are to be seen feeding upon
her bills. No State offers better
inducements to capitalists to invest
money within her territory than
does West Virginia. Point Pleas
ant is one Ct the prettiest and most
favorably located cities in her
boundaries. Its population is a
thrifty one, its people enlerprising
Its growth partakes nothing of the
boom, yet in a few years its popula-
ton has doubled itself. 1t can be
made one of the first cities in the
State. Let us each and every one
put our 81 luldor to the wheel and
labor to this end.
Argument has begun in the
United States Supreme Court in Il
case involving the title to 24O acres
of land in the city of Huntington,
which, with the improvements, is
valued at over a quarter of a million
dollars. The litigation arose over
the execution of a deed of dover
interest in the land by Mrs. Sarah
II. G. Pennybacker, some years sub
sequent to a deed by Penny hacker
and wife jointly. The first deed
transferred the land to G. P. Hunt
ington, and by him it was transfer
red to the Central Land Company,
by whom it was sold to numerous
persons in small tracts, the city of
Huntington to a great extent being
built upon the ground.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

The latest yarn comes from Kan
sas aud reads this way: ga man
in that country raised last year
1000 bushels of popcorn, and stored
it in his barn. One day some boys
accidentally set fire to the barn and
while it was burning the corn was
all parched, and it filed ten acre
field, surrounding the barn level
with the fence. In an adjoining
field there was an old mare that
had seen a number of Kansas win
ters, and thinking it was snow
storm coming, laid down and i'm
mediately froze to death, while the
thermometer stood &C in the shade. ="
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

Ed. Allen received yesterday,
three horses from John Hanley, of
Apple Grove, and two from Hunt
MauPin, of Arbuekle, to train. He
is getting quite reputation as
horse trainer.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

The fact that a representative of
a safe company has sold nine iron
safes in this city within as many
days, proves that either times are
not so hard as they might be, or
that the prospect for improved bus
mess is good
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

Ex Sheriff George Poffenbarger
has moved his law Office into the
room lately occupied by the State
Gazette, opposite this office, where
he will be pleased to meet his
friends.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

Lewis c. Hall of Monroe county,
drank some beeehwood alcohol one
day last week and died in Is min
utes from the poisonous effects.
His son, who also drank some of the
decoction, was stricken blind, and
nearly died from the effects.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

The citizens and officials of Brax-
ton county are signing petitions
which viii be forwarded to Wash
ington requesting the release of Ira
Greathouse, the member of the
Braxton county court who was re-
Gently sentenced to Jail for six
months for green goods con-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

The o. R. Railroad Company
have lately adopted the Ohio Cen
tral lines form of mileage books.
They are very neat books and their
arrangement is very good, and it is
said they are cheaper books than
the old ones.-Times.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

Senator Higgins bill taxing cor
porntions one eighth of ! per cent.
upon their capital stock when they
incorporate elsewhere and do busi-
ness in New York State passed the
Assembly. This bill is aimed at
corporations which get charters in
West Virginia and other States for
a nominal price TO escape a State
tax. 1t is estimated that the State
will gain s25O,OOO from the bill.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

1t is remarkable that people who
travel our country roads during the
muddy season are enthusiastically
in favor of the county putting the
roads in proper condition, but do
not scheme to accomplish this much
needed improvement. 1t goes with
out saying that respectable roads
enhance the value of real estate,
and there is no counting how much
they add to the comfort of travellers.
If convenience-if the increased
value of realty-if modern ideas 60
for anything-more money should
be expended this year on our roads
than during any prior year. AT
present it is almost next to imposs
ible to travel at all.-Morgantown
Post.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

1t does seem rather inconsistent
for some men who get SO a day
for telling farmers what they al
ready know, at farmers institutes,
to prate about high salaries of
county officials.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

Chas Edgar Brown, recently ap-
pointed by President Cleveland,
Postmaster at Cincinnati, is a ma
tive of West Virginia, and was born
and reared in Preston county. He
went TO Cincinnati some ten years
ago, and at once become Z. Demo-
cratic leader. His West Virginia
friends send their congratulations.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

The petty sovereign of an insig-
nificant tribe of aborigines every
morning stalks out of his hovel,
bids the sun good morrow, and
points QUITO him with his finger
tho path he is to take for the day.
Is this arrogance more contemplate
than ours when we would dictate to
God the course of his providence
and question the wisdom of his
dealings with us? =
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

Mr.. Lewis Baker, our Minister to
Nicaragua, formerly editor of the
Wheeling Register, has secured a
leave of absence for sixty days and
is coming home. 1t is intimated
that he may not again return to his
post, but will tender his resignation,
being perfectly satisfied with two
years of Central American life.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

Charleston Masons viii build a
$4,000 temple this season.
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NJ l. Martindale was thrown from
run away horse yesterday, at
Ashton, and received a sprained
ankle; be also had a little boy on
behind him but fortunately he was
not hurt.
Mumps are so bad among the
school children in PomerOy, that
the schools had to be closed.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10

1t is said that on Good Friday
next, April 18th, the heavenly
bodies which gravitate around t5e
sun will be in exactly the same po-
sition they occupied in the irma
ment the day Christ was crucified,
and that it is the first time that sncb
a thing has occurred since that time,
nearly nineteen hundred years ago.
Much excitement exists in Hunt
ington on account of several cases
of smallpox that has developed
there. The authorities are doing
all in their power to confine it, and
prevent its spread. Our town au
thorities cannot be too watchful, il
they would keep this dreaded dis
ease out of our town and county.
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Out of the Rut.

LOWELL, June 26.-The deadlock which
has existed in the common council for
nearly six months was broken last night
when two eouncilmen, one from each
party, announced that they would vote in
the interest of the city's business. Will.
lam F. Curtin (Dem.) was chosen presi.
dent. Excepting to small number OF
city laborers in the street department no
official clerk or department employe, fire.
man, policeman or schoolteacher had re-
ceived their wages for over tAree months.
This was caused by a failure to organize
the common council owing to a political
tie, no appropriations for current expenses
being made, and available funds being
needed to meet city debts. The redistriob-
ing of the city removes the possibility of
future deadlocks.
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New England Weatnsr-Cron Bul,etin


The past week has been warm and favor
able on the whole for the growth of all
crops Light rains were general in the
latter part of the week in nearly all Sec
tions and did much good. In Massachu-
setts hailstorm passed over Worcester
county on Sunday afternoon, but did very
little damage. Light frosts were reported
in some places, but were of very little con-
sequence. The farmers in the northern
states and in Massachusetts, are having a
great deal of trouble with the potato bug,
and this little pest is doing great deal of
damage to the potato crop. Some haying
was done last week. and this work will
now be pushed forward until finished.
Hoeing was not so general, still a great
deal Of it was done. The corn prospects
are good, and almost all Of our correspond
eats remark about the growth and looks
of 40 present crop potatJ Jes, odts and
rye are not yet suffering for the want of
water. Byron P. Ruggles of Hartland
Four Corners, VT, says: Horn flies on
cattle do not increase in number and
cussedness 20 the extent they did last
wear "
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EaMaii's HOPES.

HONOLULU, June 24.-The fret !egisla
ture under the republic was called to-
gether on the 11th inst The presidents
message was read 1t deals with many
questions of local interest. In speaking
of the annexation with the United States,
the president says "While the annexa-
ton Of this country to the United States Of
America has not been accomplished, it
still remains the policy of the government.
Its consummation will be earnestly
sought, with an abiding faith that sl"h
result will be lasting benefit to our
cOuntrv -
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Shot His Bride.

BOSTON, June 25.-Pasquale Garofalo,
an Italian cobbler, better known by his
alias of Frank Brown, shot and seriously
if not fatally, injured his 1S-year-old wife,
to whom he was married Sunday, at her
fathers home DIT the corner of London and
Porter street,, East Boston, yesterday,
afterward making his escape. His victim
was removed to the Massachusetts gen.
eral hospital The motive for the crime
was jealousy.
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Not Burdened with Riches.

CHICAGO, june 25.-The viii of the late
Secretary of state Gresham was admitted
to probate yesl erday. The will is written
in Judge Gresham's own handwriting,
upon one sheet of paper and is dated Dec.
Is, 1888. It appoints his wife sole execu-
triH. TIE schedule Of property owned by
Mr. Gresham shows that he was worth, at
the time Of his death $4,000 in real prop
erty and sll,000 in personal effects. The
other hcirs are his son OTTO Gresham and
Kate Gresham Andrews, his daughter.
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It's Twenty-Fifth birthday.

CARIBOU, Me-. June 26-New Sweden
yesterday celebrated the quarter-centen-
NAL of the foundation of the Swedish ool-
ony. w. f. Thomas, Jr., ex-United States
minister to Norway and Sweden, and who
25 years ago brought the first colony of
Swedish immigrants to Maine delivered
the principal address. The town was filed
to overflowing with Swedes and other citi-
zens from adjoining towns.
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Battle of Ten Seconds.

LOWELL, June 26. - Dick O'Brien of
Lewiston, pugilist, put out Jack Nc
Donough of st. Paul in 10 seconds last
night. McDonOugh didn't have time to
strike a blow, for in opening O'Brien
landeda b)ly blow driving McDonou2h
to the rHnt-, and then swinging clean =
on the jugu!tr dropping the westerner.
McDauoUgl claimed be was not put out.
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Was Jealous of His Wife.

PROVIDENCE, June 24.-John Dougherty
40 years old, laborer, living at II Kane
street, is under arrest on charge of at
tempting to kill his wife, Bridget. Mrs
Dougherty was so severely beaten by hel
husband that she will probably die
Dnnrhertv ryas iealOns of his wife
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1IcCarthy's Manifesto.

Justin Mccarthy has issued "a manifesto
to the people of Ireland stating that the
defeat OF the government has placed Ire.
lands bit5eIest enemies i'm Office. For a
brief space before the election the miami
fes.o sUs, Downing street and Dublin
castle win ha occupied by men pledged to
the policy Of coercion in Ireland This dc-
feat was cOmpassed by the factionis,s,
who still divide Ireland and by the votes
of the Chambariains, the Bussells and
other falls. friends of land reform Adv0-
eating the continuance Of the alliance
with the Liberal party as Ireluud's only
hope oi redress, the manifesto appea s
earnc-, v tu IrIslmen at home and abroad
for ful-s with which to 1igl their en-
emie- In the coming election campaign.
A great deal of interest during the pres
ent crisis ceuJers IN the course which MIR.
Gladstone VIII decide to adopt. His sec
retary, when questioned on the subject,
said that the great Liberal leader does not
intend to Issue a manifesto. He will re-
main in town for few days, and Will
then 60 to Iawardeu. Mr.. Gladstone
spent the morning in disposing of an ac-
emulation uf letters. and in the after
noon he visited the British museum.
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PRINCESS HELENE.
DUKE OF AosTA.

Princess Helene of Orleans is the second
daughter Of the late Count of Paris, who
died last september, and is in her oath
year. She is golden-haired, blue-eyed, tall
and very lovely. She is magnificent
equestrienne swims like fish, shoots
with unerrng aim and is most skilful
with the sculls and foils-and all this
without sacrificing any of her dainty
femininity of Partisan elegance.
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NEW BEDFORD, June 24.-About two
miles from this city an electric car, con-
tanning 90 people, while going down 8
steep hill at terrific speed jumped the track
and turned over, injuring 30 of the ooou-
pants, and at least one will die. The Car
was demolished and the passengers thrown
in every directiOn
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Serious Charge Against Preacher.

NEW HAVEN, June 22.-City Attorney
Matthewman yesterday issued warrants
for the arrest of Rev. Rufus T. Cooper
(Methodist) on charge of gross in
decency and unnatural conduct. Cooper
surrendered at police headquarters and
was relea sed under $500 bonds