The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-03-06
0rigiual and selected.

NOW y the time 10 trim your
grape vines.
This is the finest weather of the
year for colds.
Wanted-A key to open the lock
that fastens the door to now enter
prises in this city.
The protracted services closed at
Big Elm last evening with one ac-
.cession
There were sixteen marriage
licenses issued by the County Clerk
during the month of February.
In attaching stamp to an en-
velope, moisten the corner of the
envelope instead of the stamp.
Jas. N. H. Beale, has been ap
pointed administrator OF his fathers
estate.
Don't discard your thick clothes
on the strength of the rise in tenn
porature. Don't get gay.
Don't jump on a man while he is
on his feet. 1t is not always
healthy.
We hear that there is quite a num-
her of cases of chicken-pox in Hen
derseR
W. II. Alexander, a coal miner
from Mcdowell County, was rob
bed and murdered by three negroes
in Cincinnati, yesterday.
The following marriage license
was issued by the County Clerk
yesterday: Thos. A McCasley to
Emma Henry.
The Supreme Court of California
has decided that a holder of a
through railroad ticket has a right
to stop-over privileges.
Oil or no oil, is the burning ques-
ton. We want the Old Town dis
trict fully tested. Oil is there, and
no doubt, in paying quantities.
March comes in like a pet lamb.
We trust, however, it will not con
tinue to reverse the proverbial
order of the month.
In all parts of the State birds have
suffered greatly from the very cold
winter Many of them have frozen
to death.
Farmers who have no barns to
shelter their stock should build a
shelter, and the stock sheltered will
help to build barn.
The latest in girls hats is to cover
a wooden butter dish with velvet, put
a couple of feathers on it and wear
it with the hollow side down.
The severe winter seems to have
diminished the supply of fish. The
demand is far in excess of the sup
ply, aud since lent is about here
will increase rather than diminish.
Sheriff Frazier, James Frazier,
guard, and Deputy W. L. Mccoy,
of Putnam County, were here for a
few hours yesterday with two
prisoners for the penitentiary.
1t is the local paper that mentions
the thousand and one items in
which you are Interested during
the year, and which you do not
find in the city papers.
If your religion is based on know
ledge as well as feeling, an convic-
ton as well as emotion, you are
beyond reach OF harm in this world
and close to the gates of Heaven.
Arrangements are being made to
have a union meeting, some time in
April or May, to be held in HoofF s
new House, and conducted by J. E.
schooIfeld, of Danville, Va.
Thieves attempted to gain an en-
trance into the Ohio River Railroad
depot, at this place last night, but
were frightened away. They tried
to force open one of the windows.
In another column we publish
the will of the late John w. Deem,
of Fair Haven, o. Quite a number
of the benefciaries of the will reside
in this town.
Work will be resumed on Lock
Il, so far as cutting stone, breaking
concrete, &c, is concerned. AS soon
as the freezing weather is over,
work will be resumed setting rock.
The citizens of Lewis and Robin
son Districts are contemplating
erecting a Union Hall, to be
used for holding literary meetings,
festivals and public speaking.
Oscar Borgess. and wife have
named their baby boy Amos,
Adolphus, Hiram, Joseph Boggess,
after each of the employees of the
trimming room of the Standard
Folding Bed Company.