The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-10-30


held in readiness to go out, but so
far they have been disappointed.
The upper Ohio is breaking records
with a vengence.
On his way to the penitentiary
few weeks ago, Joe Davis made a
confession to Sheriff j. E. Frazier,
in which he says Marble" Moses,
son of Rev. Moses, of Teays Valley
District was implicated in the rob-
berry of Scion Recess store. Sheriff
Frazier in company with the oldest
son of Mr.. Reece left for Hunting
ton the first of the present week
where they found young Moses.
They arrested him and lodged him
in Jail here Tuesday last.-Putnam
Democrat.
This has been fatal year among
the clerks of the Circuit Courts of
this State, six having died, viz:
Messrs. Byrne, of Braxton; Wilson,
of Cabell; Latimer, of Jefferson,
Knight, of Peasants; Mills, of
Wayne, and Saunders, of Wyoming
County Clerk Pearcey, of Dodridge
county, has also died during the
year.
No mystery about it. When the
Shakers offered some go to give
away a bottle of their Digestive
Cordial to any one who might call
at their New York Office, there was
great rush and a great many PEG
pie thought they were crazy
Subsequent events prove it to
have been very clever advertising
transaction, for although they give
away thousands of bottles, it was in
the end profitable; nearly every one
that took a free bottle came back
for more and paid for it with pleas
ure, saying they had derived better
results from its use than from any
other medicine they had ever used.
There is nothing so uniformly
successful in the treatment of stom
ach trobles as the Shaker Digestive
Cordial, and what is better than all,
it relieves at once.
LaXOI, the new form of Castor Oil
is so palatable that children lick the
spoon clean.
Rev. J. W. Simpson reports
large and attentive congregations
at Rayburn Chapel on Saturday
night and Sunday morning On
last night ia this city, his congre-
CATION was unusually attentive.
He baptized little Julia Wiley in
connection with his morning ser
vice.
A deal has been consumated in
Central City whereby the Ohio
River Railroad Company now own
and control all of the switching ia
cilities north of their main line in
that town.
Capt. Geo, Wright, of Poca, was
in town Tuesday, and told friends
that the Kanawha river is lower by
three inches, than it has been since
1898. The channel between here
and Point Pleasant does not meas
ure over ten inches Winfield r.
repressible.
Large quantities of potatoes are
being shipped into this locality
from Michigan and other sections,
which is having depressing effect
on the price of the homegrown ar
ticle
The long continued lack of rain
has brought the streams to an un-
comfortably low stage and unless
relief soon comes much fever may be
expected. Boil the water you
use.
The farmers of this section are
after the fertilizer people. There
is strong and growing impress
sion that many OF the firms man
ufacturing the stuff are swindlers
both in quality and weight.
The management of the Gallipolis
Street Railway, should forbid smok
ing on its cars. 1t is not very nice
or genteel to have tobacco smoke
blown into their faces. This is just
a gentle hint on gentility.
Advertising is science. Those
who have a complete system in the
matter OF placing their bargains be-
fore the public will be the winners.
Printers ink pays under almost
any circumstances, but especially
when Systematically and judicially
used.
The Ohio River Railroad Com
pany is having a big ditch cut un-