The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-15
sMeenings.

SWeepings.
] a food never did good.
We shall lie all alike in our
graves.
A man can do no more than he
can.
In time comes she whom God
sends.
Brag is good dog, bat Holdfast
is better.
If you cannot bite, never show
i your teeth.
Love of lads. and fire of chat, is
soon in and soon out.
The higher the ape goes, the
more he shows his tail.
Who marries between the sickle
and the scythe will never thrive.
Who buys, hath need of a hun.
dred eyes; who sell, hath enough Of
one.
Faithful are the wounds of a
friend; but the kisses-of- an enemy
are deceitful.
You'd do we'll in lubberland,
where they have half a crown
day for sleeping.
There is but one case of small
pox in or near this town, and that is
a negro tramp, who walked into
town few days ago. He was i'm
mediately taken charge of by the
health officers, and placed in pest
house, about half mile from town.
There is not the least danger here
and there is no danger of the dis
ease spreading, The papers who
have been paradiDg to the public
that Point Pleasant was afflicted
with small pox have done the town
an injustice. No one need be afraid
to como to town.
HURr.-R. r. Mcclure, from Mil
wood, member of the bridge force
of the Ohio River Railroad, while
at work on the Crooked Creek
trestle, near the electric light plant,
was badly hurt in the back yestor-
day by piece of timber falling
upon him. DR.. Barbee dressed
the injury, and upon his advice he
was taken to his home at Milwood.
1t is not often that our merchants
sell goods to Gallipolis people, but
on yesterday Tippett's Furniture
Store sold and delivered two wagon
loads of furniture to Gallipolis par
ties, which shows that furniture is
sold much cheaper here than it is
in Galiipolis.
The printers of Huntington are
demanding an advance IN wages,
and if it is not granted them they
will go out on strike. They re-
Gently organized Typographical
Union, and adopted scale of prices,
to which the publishers object.
Miss Honeybus, a West Virginia
school teacher, had a big boy pupil
cbastised for kissing her without her
consent. The boy probably wanted
to learn whether kiss by any other
name would taste as sweet.
A fine quality of marble has been
discovered in Pocahontas county
1t varies in color from black to red
and is susceptible of very bright
polish.
A commission has been issued to
Col. Il. B. Thomas, as postmaster at
this place, vice. F. d. Hoy, resigned
The Colonel will soon take charge
of the office, and we believe he will
prove to be popular postmaster.
Point Pleasant has most miser-
able wharf, probably the worst on
the Ohio river. The town council
ought to do something to put it in
better shape than it is. Pride in
the town ought to induce them to
build good wharf.
Don't let the monument question
die out. Keep agitating it. Perse-
vercnce will see it built within a
few years. 1t should have been
bnilt years ago.
Daniel Wetzel killed his first
snake yesterday evening in his
yard, which measured five inches
around and was eight feet long.
He belongs to the species known as
the BLACK Racers
The public schools close this
week, and the graduating exercises
take place in Hoaff s new opera
house next Friday night. a splen-
did program is prepared for the oc-
casion.