The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-03-10


The violence done US by others
is often less painful than that
which do to others,
No soul is desolate so long as
there is human being for whom
it can feel trust and reverence.
Drummers whose business takes
them out over our county roads
are earning their salaries these days.
Aman's domestic relations sell
dom trouble him so much as the
relations of his domestic
Do not trust appearances; the
drum which makes the most noise
is filed with wind.
jackson and Walling have been
moved from the Covington Jail to
Alexandra, KY. The date of their
execution is fixed for March 2oth.
Dwelling in air.castles is pleas
ant. but it is bound to be expen-
sive, as rents in the clouds are
necessarily high.
IF the earth should dropi it would
make a pretty considerable hole
somewhere. It only weighs about
6,o49,s 1886, ,o0o, ,oOo 0o0 0tons.
The work Of getting the X. dsM.
in shape is going ON nicely, and a
big force of men are at work, day
and night. The road viii be ready
for trains next week.
Superintendent Vance has
force of men at work ON the Point
Pleasant and cialhpolis Railway,
putting it in good order, from the
damage from the food.
The colored people were quarter
ed in the co1ored school house, and
yesterday the Board of Education
had to resort to law to get posses
ion of the school building, as they
refused to go out.
The air gun in the hands of boys
is a very dangerous weapon Lit
tie fellows can be seen ON the
streets with them, banging away at
birds and other objects, in reck
less and careless way.
Let us hope the thousands who
will welcome President Mckinley
to the occupation Of the highest
place in the gift Of the American
people viii have as good reason to
rejoice four years hence as they
claim to have to-day
The banks continue to receive
gold ON deposit by weight but we
have yet to hear of the first In
stance where it was paid out by
weight. No matter how badly
worn and light its weight It pass
es to the people at par.
1t is announced that women un-
der proper escort may witness the
Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight This
is the first time that we knew
fights sport for women; and in
this connection We should Ike TO
know what wonld be considered
proper escort for such.
Fellows who delight I'M the sport
lof fighting game chickens, win
haye a hardrow to hoe, hereafter,
if they are not careful, as a law
passed by the late Legislature,
makes cock fighting punishable
by a fine of from s. to 500, and
mprisonment in aggravated cases.
1t is gratiffy ying to find that after
all our Street Commissioners is not
entirely dead TO any sense of shame,
and that some effort has been
made TO make the sidewalks. at
amy rate, fit to walk upon We
lean be thankful even for small
mercies
We always thought that the
lanti-hat crusade was not the end
of the interference with the liberty
lof the subject. Now a Kansas
Legislator has introduced an anti
corset bill, which strikes one as
drawing the strings pretty tight
about woman's personal freedom.
However it is probable that bill
viii be squeezed to death because
It hasn't staying qualities. It is
now quite in order for the punster
to rise and remark that of corset
fought to be defeated.