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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

A new show window has been
built to the "Fair." 1t is large and
roomy, and handsomely decorated
1t attracts great attention, and few
go by but who stop to take a "peep"
into the window.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

Rev. Williamson of Winfield has
been secured to fill the pulpit of the
lower Presbyterian Church, in this
place, regularly hereafter, on the
first and second Sundays in each
month. He will preach his first
sermon on the second Sunday in
August.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

Summer Millinery at one third
the original cost. Trimmed hats
25 and so cents.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

Grapes are rotting upon tho vines
to q considerable extent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

The foundation for the new eat
ing house for the Ohio River Rail
road at this place has been excava.
ted, and now the building will be
pushed rapidly to completion.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

Furniture and Undertaking, Point
Pleasant. may 20 If
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

We don't want to hear men com
planning any longer that they can
not get work TO do. The fact is
that is the last thing some of them
want to find. 1t was demonstrated
yesterday, that such is the case.
Capt. Dan Woodward was in town
yesterday trying to secure forty men
to assist in lighting up some coal
barges, and by the hardest kind of
persuasion he could only secure
ten, and had to go to Gallipolis to
secure the remainder He offered
% cents an hour for labor, but not
withstanding the large number of
idle men around the streets he could
not get them to go to work. This
winter many of these men will be
applying to the town for aid and as
sistance for themselves and families
1t is about time the council passed
a vagrant ordinance, and if men
won't work when they can get it,
they should be sent to the stone
pile to do duty. There is no excuse
for any man being Idle in this town
now.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

Biggs * Rappold, -Undertakers and
Embalmers, and B. f. Biggs, General
Hardware, Paints, Oils, Sash, Doors, &c
Pomeroy, Ohio. may 30 6m.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

A Justice of the Peace at Bar
louisville, has sentenced an eight
year old boy to ten days in Jail for
poisoning dog.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

A good many of our leading
statesmen are avoiding the silver
question by going to Europe.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

Over one hundred trimmed hats
from 81 to 81, at Montgomery &
WilIiamson's.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

1t is only by labor that thought
can be made healthy, and only by
thought that labor can be made
happy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

Joseph Stafford has been selected
to take charge of the New Ohio
River Railroad eating house here,
which will be completed and opened
in September. Mr.. Stafford is a we'll
known hotel and restaurant man of
Parkersburg.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

The summer vacation will soon
be over. Some people will come
home rested; others will come home
TO rest. Both classes will have
gotten what they went for, and
will be satisfied.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

There is no doubt that an ener-
getic produce and commission house
would do we'll here. 1t is against
the interests and reputation of our
town that anybody should be com
PEELED to haul home anything for
the want of a buyer. The produce
of the whole surrounding country
on both sides of the rivers should
find a market here, at Point Pleas
ant. The surplus not needed by
our people could easily be shipped
to, and find good market in Pitts
burg, Parkersburg, Huntington,
Charleston and the Kanawha min
ing regions. The man who takes
hold of this business will do we'll
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

Hog cholera is prevailing in many
in this State. Our farmers
had better keep an eye on the care
of their hogs.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31
Foot Mashed.

VIM. Schievely, an employe at
Lock IL, yesterday, accidentally got
his foot caught under large rock,
resulting in the MASKING of his foot
very badly.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

and 2.
Rev. Williamson of Winfield has
been secured to fill the pulpit of the
lower Presbyterian Church, in this
place, regularly hereafter, on the
first and second Sundays in each
month. He will preach his first
sermon on the second Sunday in
August
Joseph Stafford has been selected
to take charge of the New Ohio
River Railroad eating house here,
which will be completed and opened
in September. Mr.. Stafford is a we'll
known hotel and restaurant man of
Parkersburg
The colored people of the Baptist
persuasion had an out door meeting
in Miller's Grove yesterday, but the
attendance was not large, probably
because an admission fee was charg-
ed at the gate to cover expenses.
The summer vacation will soon
be over. Some people will come
home rested; others will come home
to rest. Both classes will have
gotten what they went for, and
will be satisfied.
The Daily Register may not be of
as much Importance as the big city
dalies, but one thing it does, it keeps
you posted in all the local news of
your town and county every day,
and that is more than the city pa
pers do, and therefore it is OF more
interest to you.
The foundation for the new eat
ing house for the Ohio River Rail-
road at this place has been excava-
ted, and now the building will be
pushed rapidly to completion.
1t is an excellent thing when
mems religion makes them gener-
Gus, free hearted and open handed,
scorning thing that is paltry and
sneaking.
Over one hundred trimmed hats
from 81 to 81, at Montgomery &
WilIiamson's.
1t will pay you to read the new
advertisement in this paper this
morning. They are all good firms
to deal with. A firm that advertis-
es is always reliable and safe to do
business with.
The street cars commenced run
ming this morning at o'clock,
between this place and Gallipolis,
and will continue to do SO from now
on.
Probably what makes it more an
noying and painful is, whatever he
does for man, the mosquito presents
his bill before beginning work.
Summer Millinery at one third
the original cost. Trimmed hats
25 and so cents.
1t is fine thing to ripen without
shriveling; to reach the calmness of
age, yet keep the warm heart and
ready sympathy of youth.
Hog cholera is prevailing in many
counties in this State. Our farmers
had better keep an eye on the care
of their hogs.
When you have job of printing
that you wish done quickly, ac-
curately and cheaply, bring it to
the REGISTER office.
The Phoenix Hotel proprietors
have put new platform in front of
the Office.
We understand that at last an oil
well is TO be put down in this county.
1t is located near Clifton.
DR.. Jamison would be obliged
if the friend to whom he loaned
"Combs Constitution of Man" some
years ago would return it.
A Justice of the Peace at Bar
louisville, has sentenced an eight
year old boy to ten days in Jail for
poisoning a dog.
Grapes are rotting upon tho vines
to considerable extent.
West Virginia is the prospective
leading oil producing State of the
country.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

The colored people of the Baptist
persuasion had an out door meeting
in Miller's Grove yesterday, but the
attendance was not large, probably
because an admission fee was charg-
ed at the gate to cover expenses.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

HARPER Bros,
The Low Priced Furniture Dealers,
Point Pleasant West Va.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

DR.. Jamison would be obliged
if the friend to whom he loaned
"Combs Constitution of Man" some
years ago would return it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

The dog days are with us.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

When you have job of printing
that you wish done quickly, &C
curately and cheaply, bring it to
the REGISTER Office.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

We understand that at last an oil
well is to be put down in this county.
II is located near Clifton.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-31

The Phoenix Hotel proprietors
have put new platform in front of
the Office.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-15
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Miss Susie Sinclair died at her home
near Marshall last Saturday from can
Ger.
The recently completed real estate
assessment in Fredericksburg shows an
increase of Is per cent. in value.
The wife of Robert l.. Bowen, drug
gist, OF Petersburg, died very suddenly
yesterday while conversing with friends
in her husbands store.
The board of trustees of Hampden-
Sidney College adopted a resolution OPP
posing the proposed removal of the
Union Theological Seminary.
Mrs. Peyton Manuel died at her
home, "Flatbush," near Nokesville, on
Monday, from the effects of cancer,
with which she had been afflicted for
some time.
Rev. E. P. Wilson, venerable Meth
odist preacher, died suddenly at his
home in Hampton yesterday. He had
been superannunted minister for sew
eral years.
Mr.. Buer Hamilton, OF Lincoln,
Loudoun county, was killed on Satur.
day last by being struck by an old
pump which was being drawn out of a
well on Isaac Nichols's property.
There is some excitement at Clifton
Forge over threatened visitation OF
smallpox. One new case of the disease
appeared yesterday at Lowmoor and
there were rumors of four other new
cases there.
In Fredericksburg yesterday in the
case OF Commonwealth VS.. Perry for the
alleged seduction of Miss Switzer, q
young girl, under promise of marriage,
there was hung jury and Perry will
have to be retired. He was bailed in
the sum of $500.
Mr.. Joseph B. Lowe, a well-known
citiz of Loudoun, was found dead in
his bed at MS home near Hamilton on
Thursday. The discovery was made
more horrible by the fact that rats had
gotten to the body and terribly disfg-
ured the face.
King George, Richmond and North
cumberland counties have taken the
necessary steps for holding elections to
determine upon subscribing to the Vir-
GINA, Fredericksburg and Western R.
K. It now looks like Lancaster and
Westmoreland will in few days do
likewise.
William Guy, aged 80, of Fox Hill, a
village near Newport News, was killed
By lightning at his home on Thursday
night. He was sitting before the fire
place when the flash descended the
chimney and killed him instantly. His
wife and daughter were in six feet of
him, but they were not hurt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-15

Sodality and Young Mems Sodalitv
Lyceum, and, as his browning work
built for them the substantial and beau.
tiful Lyceum Hall. He also purchased
Yeates's Garden in order to make q
much needed addition to St. Mary's
cemetery. There was great sorrow at
his departure and a handsome sum Of
money was raised and presented to
him, which he Immediately devoted to
charity. Upon his death, which occur.
red at st. Thomas's Manor, Maryland
two months after, the beautiful me.
mortal altar of the Blessed Virgin Was
erected by the young men as a token
of their affection and gratitude.
Of his successor, Rev. Henry Cutler
we need not speak. Taking charge
under peculiarly embarrassing crcum.
stances, he has greatly endeared him.
self to all who know him. Though an
Irishman by birth, he is the son Of
revolutionary soldier, who fought at
Bunker Hill, and that be has worked
faithfully and successfully is demon.
strated by the splendid church to be re.
dedicated tomorrow, and by the excel.
lent condition of mis- congregation.
1t would lengthen this article too
much to name all the assistant pastors
who have worked in st. Mary's parish,
many of them very Jealous and able
men, but we must not omit Rev. James
J. Kene6ck, young Virginian, who
is doing work among the young men
which will forever endear him to the
CONGREGATION.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

bout 100 Cuban rebels were killed
in fight with Spanish troops near
Holguin yesterday.
The family residence of the Duke
and Duchess of Fife, Mar Lodge,
Braemer, was totally destroyed by ire
yesterday.
United States Senator Lindsay. of
Kentucky, made speech in Frankfort,
XIV. on Thursday night Against the
free coinage ofsilver.
The evidence in the trial Of Captain
Howgate was closed yesterday. The
Jury was excused until Monday, when
the case will be argued. 1t will proba-
bly, go to the jury Tuesday.
In New York the increased tax rate
under republican rule and the record
of the late Legislature make democrats
hopeful Of regaining the State. and Sem
ator Hill, it is said, has already begun
to plan the campaign.
The French-Eversole war has again
broken out at Hazard, in Perry county,
KY, and John Sexton, one of the
leaders on the Eyersole side and son
in-law of the late Judge J. II. Combs,
has been asSassinated.
When a burglar entered the house of
Frank c. Callahan at Bridgeport.
Conn.,, Thursday night, he met, to
his horror, a young lion which was kept
as pet. The animal attacked the in.
truder, who, in his fright, dashed
through window and escaped.
| Secretary Carlisle spoke 10 large
audience in Louisville last night and
was rendered an ovation. He reiuted
the silver argument and showed that
the fall in the price of the metal was
due to overproduction. He said the
United States could not maintain free
coinage because the fiat of the govern
ment cannot impart value 10 coin or
other commodity. Silver miners, he
said, are still growing rich while other
producers are struggling to meet their
obligations.
Public Printer Benedict, yesterday re-
fused to treat directly with the griev-
ance committee of the local book-bind-
ers' union, who insisted that an allow
ance of 10 books should be made on q
days stint OF 60 books for "head-band-
ing" Threats of a strike in the gov
ernment printing office have been made
if the demand was not acceded to. MIR.
Benedict and Mr.. Espey expressed the
opinion that there would be no strike.
Mr.. Benedict now has one binding M:
chine in the office which does the work
OF ten men, and if strike is precipi,
latcd he will undoubtedly put in ma
chimes.
At Natchez island plantation, few
miles below Natchez, yesterday morn
ing. r. w. Dawson, shanty boat fisher
man and all around tough character
shot and killed Frank Macklin. manager
of the plantation, o negro woman, and
severely wounded a negro boy. The
negress left Dawson, with whom she
had been living. and went to work or
the island plantation, whereupon Daw
son moved his boat to the island and
opened negro gambling house aud be-
came such a nuisance that Macklin
ordered him away In the alteration
which followed the double murder en-
sued
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-15

The Catholics were certainly the
fourth, possibly the third, religious de.
nomination to have services in Alex.
andria, the churches built in ad.
vance of them being Christ Church,
protestant Episcopal, then the estat.
| lished church of Virginia) and the First
Presbyterian the Methodist Episcopal
Church had also services in the last
century in the old warehouse at the
southeast corner of King and Union
streets, and were probably, the third,
though if any credit is to be given to an
old, but rather obscure tradition, q
Catholic priest lived and officiated at
an earlier period somewhere about
Yates's Garden, or in the old place once
known as Spring Garden opposite
Bethel Cemetery on the lane leading to
the National Cemetary. II there was
such priest, he must have been either
chaplain in the French army which
aided us in our Revolution (Which is
very improbable), or fugitive from
the terrors of the French Revolution,
(Which is more likely. That there were
Catholics here then is, however, GER
tain, as Col. John Fitzgerald, q gallant
Irish Catholic who served as an aide de-
camp to Washington, lived in Alexan-
dria in the old house which stood where
Burke & Herbert's bank now is;
and as the Catholics predominated
in that part of Maryland along
the Potomac, it is most probable
that priest visited him occa.
sionally from that State. Another
wellfounded tradition fixes the site of
an old log house used as residence
and church by a Catholic priest in
Petersburg" somewhere below the
present Jail, and recent researches show
that he was Rev. John Thayer, some
what eccentric Congregational minister
of Massachusetts,, who went to Rome to
convert the Pope, but came back to
Boston a Catholic priest and officiated
there for some years; afterward he went
south and finally went to Ireland,
where he died in the early part of this
century.
Georgetown College was founded in
1889, and as some Maryland Catholics
soon after removed to Alexandria, q
priest CAME from there at stated times
to attend them. There were probably
different persons engaged In this mis-
sion, but the one best known was Rev.
Francis Neale, a, native of Charles
county, Md, for whom CHURCH was
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-15
To-day,s Great Race.

NEW YORK, June 15.-This is Sub.
urban Day, the greatest racing day OF
all the year. Always great race, al
ways won by a great race horse, it has
never failed to attract thousands to
the beautiful course at Sheepshead bay.
The black four-year old Domino will go
to the post this afternoon the warmest
favorite that has ever started for any
Of the great handicaps that have been
run in this country. The public will
not hear of anything but the midnight
idol carrying off the prize, and next to
Domino, the horses best liked are Sir
Walter and Rubicon. Several Offers OF
8 to 5 against Domino were made by
professional betters last night, but were
not accepted. Isaac Thompson offered
to lay q lump sum Of so, 900 to $4,000
against Domino without taker, and
several offers of $1,000 against the field
were made. In the Louisville pooling
Domino sold for $35, while Sir Walter
was Sl2: the others went for Sc and s..
Lazzarone won with Sir Walter
second ard Song and Dance third.
| Time 2:07 5.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-15

LAY Down IN Coal on FLAMES
A dispatch from Perry, Ga, says that
I. D. Hancock, who on Monday kill
ed his wife, met terrible death yester-
day. Hancock's murder of his wife
was most brutal. For apparently no
reason he went into the field where his
wife was and Drained her with hoe.
He eluded the posse that were search
ing for him. Yesterday he calmly
walked into his mothers house. With
out word he walked up to a rack
where gun hung, and was placing the
muzzle against his head when his
mother caught it. With the aid of a
brother she took it away from him.
He begged his mother to give him
strychnine. He acted like crazy man,
and, breaking away to his own house
and locking himself in there, he calmly
spread coal oil over the kitchen floor,
set q match to it and lay down to burn
to death. His brother saw the smoke
and tried to break in but failed. The
house burned to the ground, with the
murderer in it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-15
Thrashed the Eloper.

CHICAGO, June 15.-George B. Goo
kins, o professor of music, was assault
ed at the depot yesterday by E. ]. Ul-
Ter, manager of a medicine company, as
he was clipping with Mrs. Uller, the
wife of the latter. Uller and his wife
are from New York. Mrs. Uller, who
has been taking music lessons from
Gokins became infatuated with him
and was at the depot with him await
ing o train when found by her husband.
Uller, after thrashipg Gookins, went
for warrant for the arrest of the cou-
Pile, but the train left before he could
secure it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-15

ACCOUNTS FROM all psrts, not only OF
the South and West, but of the North
also, are to the effect that the feeling
for free silver is on the increase. The
comparatively few capitalists, and the
wellto- do and employed people are OF
course opposed to it, but it is just the
reverse wit the many WHO are poor,
idle and lazy. The latter act upon tt 9
idea that as no change could make their
condition worse, some change might
make it better, and for that reason they
will vote to coin fifty cents worth OF
silver into one dollar piece, as they
would for any thing else that would in
crease the present disturbed and un'
settled state of the country. The silver
craze affords a golden opportunity to
the demagogues, and if they don't avail
themselves of it, their reputation for
astuteness will not be sustained.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-15

LIGHTNING FIRES A GAS WE'LL
Lightning yesterday struck and set fire
to the Big Moses gas well, on Middle
Island Creek, w. Va. The well was
the largest gas-producer in the world,
part OF its owners to restrain it. Last
night the flames were shooting two hun
dred feet into the air, and the country
was light as day for miles around.
The we'll was producing about twelve
million fest of gas per day. The roar
of the flames could be heard ten miles,
and people flocked from miles around
to see it. The Big Moses was struck
last September, and since that time has
produced gas which, could it have been
utilized, would have been worth 81
DOC, 900,