The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-09-18

Make up your surplus apples INTO
cider for vinegar. There will be a
good demand for it, after awhile.
This county ought to have better
roads from the amount that is ex-
pended upon them.
The Ohio Republicans claim that
they have a walkover and yet it ap-
pears that Campbell makes them
nervous. Any how, they have
urged Senator Quay to go to Ohio
and manage the campaign for them.
The last eleven months of the Nc
Kinley tariff brought in s113,OOO,-
600 of revenue. The first eleven
months of the present tariff brought
in sI47 100000 of revenue. There
should be a lower rate of duties.
The oil fields of the State attest to
the wonderful wealth of our noun
tain country. No State can boast
of such diversity of productions as
West Virginia possesses.
The farmers have good crops and
are happy, Notwithstanding the ex-
tremely dry season they have ex-
perienced.
The craze for Coins Financial
School which has had such sweep
in the West, has struck New York,
where the book is having an onor-
nous sale.
The attendance at the University
of West Virginia this year is the
largest in the history of the school.
The new officers of the school are
leaving nothing undone to make it
a success and they deserve it.
In the 2:2O trOt Friday at Column
bus, Ohio, Marquette won first, sec
second and fifth heats, and race, in
2:18I, 2:1S and 2:1S4. Purse 81, 900.
The big tent on the camp grounds
at Mason City, has been removed
to Middieport, where it will be
used for Grand Army purposes.
West Virginia is the land OF corn
and apples. The people of the State
have never known such a crop. 1t
is safe to estimate that fully one
halfo the apple crop in this State
will go to waste.
The President of the Ohio River
Railroad Company indicates his in
tention to run the line on into Gin.
cinnati, crossing the Norfolk and
Western bridge at Kenova, thence
down.
Col. Jas. f. Partridge has been
appointed travelling auditor of the
Ohio River Railroad to succeed Mr.
W. II. Yates, who held that posi-
ton at the time he was accidently
killed. Col. Partridge is equipped
for the position and will make a
splendid official,
There are seventy-five people at
the Kanawha City nail mills at
work preparing for the starting of
the mill on the Goth.
Point Pleasant is extremely for
tunate in having its various pulpits
filled by able, conscientious and
popular ministers. Every church
in the place is proud Gifts minister.
The County Board of Health will
not at present quarantine against
Wheeling on account of small pox,
but has placed a policeman at the
o. R. R. station to keep a weather
eye out for all corners and goers.
The building booms throughout
the country during the present sea
son have furnished continuous en-
ployment for mechanics of all kinds,
and as a result business has materi-
ally improved. Point Pleasant, for
a town of its size, has kept apace
remarkably well with the times,
and during the summer many thous-
ands of dollars have been expended
in permanent buildings of a sub
stantial character.
The president of the State Board
of Health seems to have delegated
to himself supreme authority, when
he by proclamation raises the
quarintines that have been es-
tablished against Wheeling, on ac-
count of the smallpox. The presi-
dent will find out that the towns
and cities have something to say in
this matter, and his proclamation is
not likely to be Obeyed just yet.
The marriage of Moulton Houck,
General Passenger Agent of the T. |
& o. C.. railroad. to MISS Mabel