The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-09-08


s.as to the cause. The Dingley bill
put a tariff of fifteen cents bushel
ON wheat and now the foreigner
can't ship his wheat here We
did not tell him he was darned
fool, for he was not talking to us,
but he was, or else thought the
farmer was, but in that he was
mistaken, for the farmer turned to
us and said, al seen in the paper
that Gov. Atkinson was turning all
the lunatics out of the penitentiary
and now I believe it. That Teller
is one of 'em."
eve denounce the arbitrary in
reference of federal authorities
in local affairs as violation of the
Constitution of the United States
and crime against free institu-
lions, and we especially object to
government by injunction by a
new and highly dangerous form of
oppression by which federal judges
in contempt of the laws of the
States and rights of citizens, be-
come at once Legislators, judges
and executioners. Chicago Plat
form.
By dispatch in another column,
it will be seen that Minister has
been enioined from holding ser
vices and prayer meetings in the
miners camps in Marion county.
It has come to pretty pass when
Minister cannot preach the Cos
pei in this christian country. The
Judge who issued this injunction
is a Republican of the bitterest
partizan stripe.
Again the sprightly little Daily
Register, is stirring up the ami
mails in the down town Republi
can Office. Yesterday the editor
of that sheet was out putting,
blowing and kissing like a viper.
Blow and brow-beating. is all there
is in our friend, anyhow.
The license fight is still on
in Charleston, and saloon men are
arrested every day, and fined the
regular fixed fine of $50 in each
case of violation of the city ordi-
nance, and the saloon men appeal.
IF the court decides in the city's
favor, it will have more money than
it will know how to handle.
The tri-State reunion will be
held at Huntington, Sept. Ia, Is,
16 and II, 1897. Gov. Atkinson,
ex-Gov. w. A. McCorkle, Hon.
Chas. 81. Grosvenor, Hon. S. B. Ell
kins, Hon. Warren Miller and other
prominent men, will be in attend
ance and address the old soldiers.
Things are beginning to freeze
up on the Klondyke and there is
estimated to be about half enough
provisions there to feed the people
through the long winter, during
which no work can be done. How
ever there are lots of people who
will continue to rush down there
in the insane thirst for gold.
cat the same time that New En-
CHAMBERS are seeking means to sup
press the village hoodlum in that
section, thoughtful men in the south
are considering how white women
in the rural districts in that sec
ton may be better protected from
the danger of assault by colored
brutes," says the New York Even
ing Post.
John Gutermuth, the missing
Wood county man, has been To-
Gated in Oakland, California. The
fact that his relatives will sue for
an accounting of funds belonging
to his fathers estate explains the
mysterious" character of his dis
appearance.
Mr.. John Fowler, of West Col
umbia, sold recently 40 head of
March and April lambs, which
averaged Ssh pounds. They were
purchased by Mr.. j. FL. johnson,
now living on the G. Sehon farm,
near town.
Notwithstanding the fact that
wheat is a much better price this
year than for some time past, yet
the farmers will have to pay about
double for all they eat, wear and
use.
IF Republican prosperity was re-
sponsible for the rise in the price
of wheat for a few days last week,