The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

ously deny the alleged offence and
SO the right and the wrongof it
must await the laws delay.
However the affair terminates it
lis a most sad and unfortunate one.
The Hanna prices for horses in
this county now is about $25 q
head, and they have got 70 be good
ones to bring that, How the
farmer is being paid for being
fooled into voting for the sigold
standard, that he might get better.
prices for his products. tr I'd
And now Col. McLeans Of Win
field, is mentioned as suitable,
Republican to fill the office Of Sec
rotary of State. Coy. Atkinson.
could not find purer or better
man for the position, in his whole
party.
AS an evidence of returning
prosperity, "a certain farmer of this
county, took Thanksgiving dinner
in town with friends, when he
returned home that evening he
found that he was the owner of
thirty-two pigs, half a dozen hens
had Matched, and one of his COWS
had twin calves This farmer is a
Republican and voted for McKin-
ley.
There were $4,000 polling, places
in the United States at the recent
election. Texas had a larger num-
Der than any other State, 4,O22.
Delaware had the fewest.
About the only way this govern
ment will get any redress from
Spain for the property of Ameri,
cans destroyed in Cuba will be to
use force.
Col. Geo. w. Beekman, rich
Baltimore man, will have the body,
of George w. Harding, who was
killed by train near Kanawha
Station last week, taken to Balti-
more. Hardin's family is we'll to
do. He was out of money and try
ing to make his way home on
freight trains when rher met his
death. ia So
Never criticise a man who does
wrong that's anarchy; never say
anything when robbed-thats re-
pudiation; never howl when kicked
that's socialism; never help the
needy and distressed-thnts dis
honesty.
Miss Birdie Baird, sister Of Mrs.
John j. Jacob, wife of the ex-Gov-
ernor, died at Wheeling and was
buried at Cumberland, Md. She
was known all over West Virginia.
Charles Wcrninger, on Blenmer-
hassott Island, found petrified
pine knot SO perfect that the grain
is still to be seen. He found a
stone chisel, perfect in form, evil
IDENTIFY dating back to the days of
tho mound builders. Ord
Nine-tenths of the people of this
county are in excellent circum-
stances. True, they don't have
much money, but they have plenty
of everything else.
Old Weatherwise has inspected
tho corn husks and says there will
be some very cold weather between
this and Easter, if he has made no
mistake. The old gentleman grows
more cautious as time creeps on.
PARKERsBURG, Nov. %. When
this part of West Virginia wassti!l
Augusta county, Va, day was
celebrated here by settlers, known
as "Birth-of-Liberty Day. I'LL
commomorated the action of the1
Colonial Court of old Augusta
county in repudiating the British
stamp act. Tho day was observed
Tuesday by some of the older PEG
pie of this section.
We have heard men mentioned
for mayor, who ought not to be
permitted to run at large, much
less run for office.
"You think Noah had a pair of
every kind of animal and insect in
his ark, do you? Where did he
keep his bees, for instonce?"
"He kept them in the ark hives"
Weather prophet Foster, of ST.
10, Mo, predicts mild weather for
the opening of December. Thanks