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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22
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I IIE>tnNS II 10 view
The stars and the eagle,
Z Pluribus Unum--
And blessed assurance
Ofsomething to chew.
The ice man is a cool, calculating
fellow.
Take yourself away from business
cares, and go bass fishing.
1t seems funny that when one
girl gives another cold stare she
should get hot about it.
Home grown Strawberries are in
the market this morning at zoe, q
quart.
In the Western and Pennsylvania
coal fields large number of men
are out on strike.
There are fifty vacant business
houses in Huntington, besides in
pumerabie residences.
Everybody feels sorry for Capt
Reeder, in the loss of his hotel
property by fire.
Woman needs emancipation from
the rule of dress much more than
she does from the rule OF man.
Husbands who remain out late
these nights should remember that
there is danger of being frost bitten.
Madam Rumor still has full pos
session of her tongue, that unruly
member.
A mustard plaster is not very
poetic subject; but, ah, how warmly
it appeals to a mans feelings.
Two things that never fail to at
tract crowd in Point Pleasant
fire and a dog fight. These things
always bring the people out.
People seeking homes would do
we'll to visit Point Pleasant, a town
whose growth and advancement is
steady and substantial.
The real motive of bank official
wanting to start for foreign parts
when he's made rich haul is that
he's better off.
The suggestion to make road
from 9Th street to the wharf, meets
with the general approval of our
citizens.
The German government propos-
es to shut out American dried ap-
pies, for the reason that they con-
tain oxide OF zinc.
If the angels keep up with the
fashions they will wear their wings
this year on their heads instead of
their shoulders.
The gross earnings of the Ravens
wood, Spencer & Greenville R. R i,
in 1891 wero $40, OG3 IS and gross
expenses SIS, 784.48.
Appearances are deceptive; for
you can't measure a mans religion
by the length of his face, or tell
what he will do in horse trade by
the noise he makes.
Let everybody agitate the monu-
ment to the heroes who fell in the
battles at this place in October 1774,
and whose remains now lie buried
and neglected in lot on the Kama
VIVA river point
tits reported that a newly-mar-
ried young lady, after being at
housekeeping few weeks, inform
ed her husband she wished to see
their grocer, as she "wanted to tell
him to make the coffee stronger and
the butter little weaker"
The meeting at Mason City Sat
urday afternoon, to discuss the
Camp Grounds question, was well
attended and quite enthusiastic.
The church was filed. Rev. Hanna,
in we'll directed address, reviewed
the subject from its inception TO the
present time, and corrected the re-
port as to location of the West Vir-
ginia Camp Grounds on Elk river.
The West Virginia Camp Grounds
and Cnntanna Assembly arc located
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

The Ohio River Railroad Com
pany at their meeting in Parkers-
burg, Thursday, through its direc-
tors, ordered the President to have
put on the road at the earliest pos
sible time, buffet cars on all through
trains between Wheeling and Hunt
ington.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

Johnson's Oriental Soap is the most
delicate facinal soap for ladies use in ex-
istence, absolutely pure and highly
medicated.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

Our town has not now the bust
ness it should have, and the illiberal
law that fines a man for selling a
few groceries on Sunday, or gives a
man a plate of ice cream, is having
the effect of driving the trade of this
place to more liberal towns. 1t is
right and proper TO enforce the
Sunday law strictly against saloons,
and to this no one will object. The
mayor, however, has to enforce the
law as he finds it. Let the council
modify the law at its next meeting.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

A lady at TooIeys, La, was very
sick With billions collie when NJ. G..
T'sIeF, prominent n, erchant of the
townigave her a bottle of Chamber
lainsI Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Rem He says she was well in
fort ses afteA taking the first
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

An electrician says the time is
rapidly approaching when ship
will be able to telegraph to either
shore of the sea she is traversing
without cable or any direct con-
nection.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

Bishop Peterkin, of the Episcopal
Church, has purchased fine piece
of property in Morgantown, for
which he paid $4,000 and has made
an offer for an adjoining piece. He
proposes establishing hall for the
use of young men of the church who
wish to avail themselves of the edu
cational benefits offered by the
University.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

D1ED.-At her home on Five Mile,
Friday, May II, 1895, Miss Rosie
Henshaw, and was buried in c. G.
Miller's cemetery.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

The main part of the Virginia
House, destroyed by fire Friday
morning, was built in 1924, and was
at one time the most popular hotel
in the Kanawha valley. AS time
passed away, however, and the
town improved, and new hotels
sprung up, it became rather isolated,
and lost its former popularity.
Whether the owners of the prop
erty will rebuild, we are not in
formed. There was an insurance
of $1,000 on the building.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

Fireman Westenheimer, of the
Hooking Valley freight train No.
50, was caught between two ears at
the depot at Gallipolis yesterday,
while coupling, and his collar bone
broken.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

a New Jersey Judge sentenced a
man to five days in Jail for drunk
eness and thirty days for smoking a
cigarette in the court room. Cigar
cite smoking may not be six times
as bad as drunkenness, but it was a
righteous sentence just the same.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

Capt. Reeder had $500 in money
burned up in the fire at the Virgin
ia House. He bad contemplated
opening Saloon in the house, and
had gotten the money together to
pay his license, and had it hid away
and when he attempted to save it
he found the FIRE had cut him off
from all access to it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22
DANIEL MORRISON.
A Sketch OF an old Retired River M

Daniel Morrison, an old time fiat
boatman who resides one mile above
Syracuse, has had a remarkable life
experience in many respects. He
was born in Columbiana Co., near
New Lisbon, o., July 10, 1909.
He made his first trip 10 New Or
leans at the age OF 30 years, with
four fatboats dashed end TO end and
loaded with clear pine lumber. In
the years 1882 and 1888 he made
nine trips to that Southern city. On
one OF these trips 81 of his men died
from cholera, and he assisted in ia
king care of them through their
sickness and in burying them when
they died. He also made their cof-
fins. In 1872 he made his seventy
second and last trip New Orleans.
He never lost boat.
He relates the following incident
which occurred one night on the
Mississippi: 81 had been plotting
day and night for some time, and
was relieved one evening by man
who was not accustomed to the mys-
terious ways of the Mississippi. I
was almost dead on my feet from
exposure and want of sleep. slept
sonndlyall night and did not getup
until daylight the next morning,
when L went out and asked the man
who was in my place how he was
getting along. He replied, 'Oh, l
am getting along all right, Dan, but
this is the greatest country for fid
dim and dancin' [ was ever in.
The joke was on him when it was
discovered that the boat was in one of
the large eddies, for which the Miss
issippi is noted, and had been float
ing past the same house time and
again, where they had been dancing
all night to the music of violin.
He supposed that they were float
ing down the river all night, and
that they were dancing at every
house he passed.
On one occas IN Mr.. Morrison
swan across she Ohio river nine
times without stopping to rest.
He does not use tobacco in any
form and never was under the in
fuence of Intoxicating liquor but
once. He says this left no desire
for a second trial.
In his younger days he took
great pleasure in hunting deer and
fox chasing. He takes great de-
light in telling hunting and boat
ing stories in which he figured
years ago, and his memory would
do credit to a person many years
his junior.
The old gentleman is afflicted
with kind of erysipelas on his
lower limbs, which becomes quite
painful during warm weather.
Otherwise his health is seemingly
unimpaired, and he will undoubted-
ly add several more years to his
remarkable career. He has a wife
and 8 living children. He has lived
in Meigs county Al years, never
having moved in that time-Pom-
eroy Telegraph.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

1t will astonish you how quick John
sons Magnetic Oil will kill all pains, in
ternal and external; Sl.0O size 80 cts;
so ct. size % cts.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

The school year has closed already
in some places and will soon close
in others. Then the youngsters
will be free to get outdoors and in
work and occupation learn the OBJ
ject lessons which constitute much
of the best of their education. But
it is wearisome to think of the re-
examinations for certificates that SO
many of the poor teachers will have
to undergo in order to get schools
again. 1t will take away the pleas
ure of vacation. There is no sense
in these repeated examinations
that school teachers in constant
practice must undergo. Why does
not the law require doctors, lawyers
and preachers to be e.examined
and get new diplomas every year
or two?
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

The newspaper is the chronicler
OF civilization. 1t is a daily and
sleepless Waterman that reports to
you every danger which menaces
the Institutions of your country
and its interests at home and abroad.
1t is law book for the INDECENT, a
sermon for the thoughtless, a library
for the poor.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

A Monica Pa church distributed
hand bills containing the following;
and doubtless the people "awoke:"
awake, awake. Procrastinator
awake. You say time enough yet.
What? Time enough yet, when you
are standing on the very brink of
hell? Your coffin may now be at
the underwriters office. Get q move
on. Slide, Kelly, slide.
Wonder what effect such dodgers
would have on the Point Pleasant
people if the churches were tie have
them distributed about town.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

a six year-oId son Of VIM. FauIk-
ner in Harrison county was killed
by being thrown from a horse,
which stepped on his head crushing
his skull.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

Cases of 40 years standing where OPP
erations have failed have been cured by
Japanese Pile Cure.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

Sheriff Shaw, of Preston county,
and brother of Rev. Shaw, of this
place, who was shot by horse thieves,
some time ago, is now about fully
recovered.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

The largest farm in this country
is situated in Louisiana, it being 100
miles one way and 20 the other.
The fencing alone for it cost $780,
600.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

Complaint is made about the prae-
tice Of plucking flowers from the
graves in the old cemetery. We
believe there is an ordinance against
this which should be enforced.
The police should keep an eye on
the old graveyard.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22
SITT1I1I0NS LIVER
BEGULHT0R

II does its work well, and tones Up tfls
whole system. It's Better than Pills"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
has awarded contracts, it is said,
for sixteen new bridges on its sys-
TENS in West Virginia. All the
bridges will be of steel, and one will
cost $500, 600.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

Thieves last Wednesday night
blew open the safe in the Anderson
Bank, and got away with $4,000 in
cash.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

We were mistaken yesterday in
stating that the Virginia House,
burned down yesterday morning,
was owned by ]. w. Reeder. he
had been negotiating for it, but
never purchased the property. 1t
is still owned by Capt. Jas. B. Nor
gan and Capt. John X. Thompson.
1t was insured.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

Arrangements have been COM
pleted for a trial of speed between
Marquette, Jim Wilkes and Tilford,
on Thursday, the second day of the
Fair. This will be a holly contest
ed trotting race, and one of the
most exciting that ever came off in
this county, and will no doubt draw
thousands of people to witness it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

DEAD.-Ella Settles, colored, and
wife of Chas. Settles, died at her
home in this place, yesterday, after
a long illness. Her funeral will
take place from the colored Baptist
church this afternoon at 2 p. m. In
terment in Lone Oak.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

Ed. Hanley, Richmond, Va,
white man, sustained serious injur-
les up the N. & w. railroad last
night. He was on train and roll
ed off from box car on which he
had fallen asleep. His right leg
was broken near the hip and he
has internal pjuries.-Huntington
Herald.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-22

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-05
OUANTRELL RECALLED.

How the Cruel Guerrilla Chief sewed the
Wind and Reaped the Whirlwind.
LAWRENCE, Kan. July 4-The re-
cent dedication of the monument in this
city in memory of the $50 citizens who
fell victims to the guerrilla gang led by
the infamous Quantrel recalls visit
made to Canal Dover, O., where the
mother of the guerrilla chief resides, or
did at last accounts.
While his career and death are not
such as Christian mother can be proud
of she has at least the consolation that
she did her part in his youthful training
and sent him from home happy youth
whose ambition appeared to be Of high
order.
During my visit the mother showed,
not without a little motherly pride, the
letters written nearly 40 years ago by
the young Quantrell, when he was a
poetica1 schoolteacher in Kansas. They
indicate nothing of that intrepid, blood
thirsty spirit aof Lara or the Corsair,
which the events of bleeding Kansas"
and the war developed. But first let me
give his boyhood history as his mother
tells it. The old and well worn family
Bible in the neat little parlor tells that
he was born July 81, 1887. His father
came from Hagerstown, Md, was a
timer and published The Tinman g
Guide, an authority on the business He
had literary turn of mind, and after
marrying Mary Clark moved to Canal
Dover and gave up his solder and shears
to assume the ferule and frOwn of school
superintendent. Young Quantreu was
we'll educated and was teacher in the
public schools when but Is. After his
fathers death, in 1854, he had the vest
ern fever and worked at anything to
sustain life until he began teaching
again at Fort Wayne, also taking a
course in natural sciences.
He had formerly taught at Mendoza,
Ills, but became involved in an intrigue
with girl, which destroyed his further
usefulness in that district IN 1853 he
was in Kansas with cattle dealers from
his old home in Ohio, and it was dur
ing this time that he wrote home some
remarkable letters In one letter he says:
''The Democrats here are the worst men
we have, for they are all rascals. No
one can be a Democrat here without be-
ing a rascal. But the day of their doom
is fast approaching, and, like the Jews,
they will be scattered to the four winds
of the earth, with a guilty look which
will always betray them y
A strange change must have come
over Quantrell when he joined the south,
although in later letter he declares
that the antislavery people were the
main movers in trouble and were the
most 1aw1ess. Then he adds: "Old J..
Brown should have been hung long ago.
In fact, hanging was too good for him. -
Quantrells most intimate friends as
cribe the relentless ferocity Of the man
in war time to his rejection by young
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-05

GOVERNOR MORRILL, said in his ad-
dress before the temperance convention
yesterday that the Topeka police COM
missioners ''tell me that in six months
during which they have so earnestly
labored, not a soul in this city has once
offered them any assistance. nor have
they in all that time received word Of
commentator and encouragement"
This certainly must be mistake. 1t is
the boast of the people of Topeka that
under the present police administration
the prohibitory law is better enforced
than it has ever been in this city. The
police board have the commentator and
support of nearly the entire population.
They have started out to make things
clean and decent and have succeeded in
every particular If they have not been
offered active assistance it is because
they have not needed it. Great credit is
due the board for its good work, and we
have yet to hear the first censure of any
action they have taken for the suppress
sion of liquor selling and other law
breaking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-05
KANSAS PARAGRAPHS.

The music of the Horton colored band
ia not necessarily chromatic
There is a nyce young cyril at Usage
City who spells her name Alyce.
The Fourth was a hollow, resonant
mockery to Atchison people with all the
joints closed.
The cob pipe factory at Quenemo will
close down the rest of the week while
the smoke clears away.
If this growing weather continues the
trees in Burlington's city park will cast a
shadow as big as a mans hand.
Horton has the prize grateful man. He
got job at the penitentiary and declares
he was better served than be expected
If one wants the finest kind of trade
last they only have to send the editor of
the Pratt Republican some ice cream.
Burlington's one bootblack is having a
hard time to make enough to buy
"dope" in spite of the frequent rains.
Lightning struck the church at Union
town the other day and now the scoffers
want it explained according to theology.
A "Peaches and Cream" social at
Burlington will make the dimes come
out of peoples pockets like rats from a
sinking ship.
Some of the women teachers at the
Chase county normal are accused of hav-
ing tie passes between Cottonwood Falls
and Strong City.
This weeks Bronson Pilot was issued
July 3, one day ahead, in order to give its
employees opportunity to make them
selves unfit for work today.
A Westphalia woman called at a doc
tors office and in reciting her ailments
said she thought she would be all right
if she took an epidemic"
Quenemo Republican: A young lady
in town had the nerve to tell her steady
that Eve calls a week were an intrusion
on her time and he would have to let I'D,
The Atchison county institute has been
dissecting cats and the Globe says any
one having lost cat with blue ribbon
around its neck can get the ribbon by
calling at the institute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-05
SALOONS 4 GOOD THING.

The population of Atchison is some-
thing like fifteen thousand six hundred.
Certainly fifteen thousand of these peo-
pie indignantly resent the statement
that Atchison Is go drunken and licen-
tious that women are afraid to go to
prayer meeting in the evening. But the
fifteen thousand have not been heard
from; they sputter aud fume in secret,
but they have made no public demon
strstion. The one man who says that
Atchison is so drunken and 1icentious
that women cannot attend prayer meet
ing in the evening is being widely quo
ted; principally by editors who know
that the statement is untrue, and who
think it will be we'll received because it
was made by a preacher. Every dollars
worth of property in Atchison has been
injured by this statement: will fifteen
thousand people remain quiet under
damaging libel? They should not; as a
business proposition, this damaging
falsehood should be refuted in some ef-
fectlve way.-Atchison Globe.
The most effective way to overcome
any damage to Atchison is to shut up the
saloons. No decent man wants a saloon
around The blear- eyed, drunken, foul
smelling loafers that invariably congre-
gate about all but the "high-toned" sa-
looms do not help town. They injure it
It doesn't help the business of town
for the merchants to be drunk part of
the time. They are snot capable of at
tending to their business while they are
drunk and for some time afterwards.
It doesn't help the dry goods, grocery
and hardware stores of a town for the
working people to spend their money at
the saloons. The more money the work
ingman spends for liquor, the less he has
to spend with the merchant. The mer-
chant must be weak minded who can't
figure that out
1t doesn't help the town for the young
men to get drunk. They injurs their
health and lose their situations on ac-
count of It.
This is all aside from the moral dam
age done. How can the Atohison Globe
editor or any sane mau defend the ga
loon. 1t may be admitted that in some
communities it is almost impossible to
eradicate it, but that doesn't prove that
1t is a good thing. A man may have
! cancer, but he is a fool if he makes a
labored argument to prove that cancer is
good thing to have. and that it makes
business better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-05

THE Connecticut house of represen ia
tives seem to be an unusually pr ogres-
sive body considering that the inhabi-
tants of that benighted portion of the
country are generally far behind the age.
1t recently passed bill granting munic-
ipal suffrage to women, which was
promptly killed by the senate. It has
now passed bill prohibiting the mar
riage of persons who are deaf and dumb,
imbecile or epileptic unless the woman
shall have attained the age of 40 years.
This measure must also ran this gauntl ct
of the stupid senate. 1t may not pass,
but it evidences an awakening of public
sentiment along the lines which tend to
an improved citizenship.