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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12
Attention Farmers!

Your farm products are wanted. In
our Meat Market Department we need
Cattle, Sheep, Lambs and Calves.
Can also use a limited quantity of
Corn just at present
In the CASH GROCERY there is a
constant demand for EGGS and
CHICKENS, while am also using ais
demand requires, Butter, Corn, sc.
In return we are offering GRO
CERES at lowest possible prices.
Milk Crooks, Jugs, Jars, Churns,
&c, at from to cents per gallon
less than hereto fore sold. Vessels of
gallon or more sold at 4 gallons for
25 cents.
We are Agents for Point Pleasant
and vicinity, for Bradley's World
Famous Fertilizers, for which we viii
accept Cattle, Sheep, Lambs, Calves,
Chickens and other farm products. in
payment. When in need of FertiI-
izers let us hear from you The end
we have in view is to furnish mark
ct for any farm product you may
have. It viii take time to work up to
this point but with your assistance we
hope to be able to buy anything the
farmer may wish to sell.
The Cash Grocery,
Opposite Phoenix Hotel.
H. H. DAVIS, Prop.
nov. % Icy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12
pRoPs BEE.
state Senator Hyde Expires Sud-
denly. A Prominent Citizen


denly. a. Prominent Citizen
and Banker of Piedmont.
PIEDMONT, w. VA, May s.
State Senator Peter Hyde, of
Piedmont, died suddenly of heart
trouble in a hotel at Winchester,
Va, Thursday night Rev. @. For
est Moore and Prof. ii. S. Richard
son, of Piedmont, and County
Clerk Joseph v. Bell of Keyser,
went to Winchester and viii ac-
company theremains home. The
funeral will take place here prob
ably Sunday. Mr. Hyde was a
very prominent citizen, business
man and politician. When the
constitutional commission adjourn
ed at Charleston, of which he is
member, Mr.. Hyde made a trip
through Virginia and was expected
home to-day,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12
The RaiIroad Question

At a most critical time, and
when it was most called for, Soma
tor Foraker, of Ohio, has introduc-
ed into the National Senate a
modified form of the Patterson
bill amending the Interstate Com
merce law. By the provisions of
the new measure the railroads hope
to establish a freedom of contract
between themselves which will
maintain just and reasonable rates,
and thus offset what are generally
regarded as the ruinous effects of
the recent Supreme Court decision
and check the decline in values
that decision would bring in its
train, as well as hold matters sta
tionary until the attitude of Con-
gress is better understood.
The situation with which the
railroads are confronted is the
most serious they have encounter
ed in the history of the country
and the press is almost UNANIMOUS
in the opinion that the proposed
modification is wise and just, re-
garding the issue it involves as of
equal Importance with the tariff,
the money question, the shipping
bill or any other subject now en-
gaging the attention of the nation
al Legislators.
Besides the railroads themselves,
shippers, railroad employees, the
public and all interested in the
welfare of the country are con-
cerned in the successful settle
ment of this vexed question, for
there can be no stability, no re-
turn of prosperity, until some such
measure has been enacted as will
give these great interests the
power to agree, not to increase
rates but to maintain rates that
are just and reasonable alike to
those properties and to shippers.
On these grounds it is to be hoped
the action of Senator Foraker will
meet with the encouragement and
support it merits and which will
carry it into active effect.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12
Heirs to a Large ESTATE.

1t is claimed that Robt. Edwards
on May %, 1779, leased to Aaron
Burr, John and Robt. Cruger for
90 years lot of land in the heart
of New York City, on Hudson
river, part of Jersey City and
Troy, N. Y, and about Cincinnati,
now since the lease expired worth
$5o0,OOo.O00, and among those
claiming heirship to the property
are the following, several of whom
are recognized as Gallipolis people:
Mrs. Jane Cook and her children,
Hon. Samuel T. Cook, Vim. Cook,
Mrs. w. g. Brading, Mrs. Hannah
Berridge, Mrs. Lydia Wey, Mrs.
Ella Berridge and Miss Jeanette
Cook; Mrs. Sallie Rose and James
Edwards, children of Robt. Ed
wards, deceased; Miss Jane Ed
wards, daughter of Jas. Edwards,
deceased; Mrs. Marian Shaver and
her children, VIM. Abram, James,
Thomas and Mrs. Susan Ferguson,
John Harger, and Mrs. Anna Mar
tin, children of the late Mrs. Jean
cite Harger, deceased. There are
other heirs of the late VIM. Ed
wards, residing in the interior of
the State.-Gallipolis Tribune.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12
(Sovernor'sP rocIamation.

By virtue of an act of the
Legislature, passed Feb. 16, 1897,
entitled, an act to provide for the
time and method of taxing or
catching black bass, green bass,
rock bass, pike or pickerel, or wall
eyed pike in the Potomac river,
authorizing the Governor of the
State,of West Virginia to proclaim
the provisions of such law as eff
fective, after they shall be adopted
by the States of Virginia and
Maryland.
Whereas, the Governor of the
State of Maryland and the Cover
nor of the State of Virginia have
certified the adoption of said pro-
visions of such act by their respec-
tive States, and in compliance with
the request of the legislature of
the State, 1 hereby proclaim that
the provisions of the said act will
become law and exist in full
force in said States, on and after
the Goth day of May, 1897.
Ct. w. ATKINSON,
Governor.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12
HARDJV ARE
Our stock of


Cannotbe beat in the State.
We also carry a full line
of Tinware, Glass Ware,
Queensware, Flows, Doors
and Sash by the car load.
Lime and Cement, Stoves,
in fact as complete a
line of Hardware as you
will lind in any city in the
State double the size of
Point Pleasant.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12
NOTICE.

The stockholders OF The Gallfa OIL Com
pany are hereby notified that on Monday,
May 81, 1897, i viii present the following re-
olutIon at meeting OF the stockholders OF
said company; -, a.. ....,-,..,., ,rss
Gallia OIL Company that the capital stock or
The Gallia OIL Company be increased by is
suing and selling I'd shares, of 50 EACH OF the
capital stock OF The GaIlEa Oil COMPANY.
may5-4W HOLLIS g. JOHNSTON
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Phoenix, Arizona, is usually con-
sidered wild and only semi-civil-
lied, yet it has adopted an ordi-
nance forbidding splitting on the
sidewalk. A funny thing about it,
though, is that the first man ar
rested under its provisions was the
man who drafted the bill. H
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Women keep gaining point by
point. The Supreme Court of
Missouri has just rendered a de-
cision that women are seligible to
all Offices in that State, where
there is no specific statute forbid
ding it. This makes them eligible
to nearly all State and county
offices.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Here is man who fully obeyed
the Biblical injunction to multi
ply and repIenish the earth: AT
Fayetteville, Joseph Haines, aged
SO, died and left % children, 115
grand children, 1913 great grand
children, and Is great-great-grand-
children total of 357.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Frank Neutzling, of Pomeroy, is
languishing in the Middleport Jail
awaiting trial on charge of shoot
ing at his sweetheart Ella Dennis
Friday night last. A spectator
was wounded in the foot.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

1t may be some encouragement
to the clever young men who are
some day to adorn the Point Pleas
ant bar to learn that Joseph 81.
Choate's wealth is estimated at
100000, all made in the practice
of law.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Electricity is now used in tan
ming hides. In the process, the
skins are hung on frames in a vat
and a current passes through the
liquid by means of electrodes pla-
ced on opposite sides of the vat pa
rallel to the skins. Il.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

The following Fidueiary Accounts
are before me for settlement:
The final settlement of George w.
Parsons, Executor OF @. w. Parsons.
deceased.
C. w Parsons, guardian for Ethel
Baumg made by Geo. w. Par
sons, his executor.
RANKIN WILEY.
Commissioners of Accounts
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

There will be a festival at Miller's
School House, Saturday night,
May 18th, for the benefit of the
minister conducting services there.
A cordial invitation is extended to
the public.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Spain is having world of troub-
lie in trying to negotiate new loan
and Weyler has sought to aid her
by announcing that Cuba is paci-
fed. That hasn't helped matters
any, for the pacifcation of the
island is not apparent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Col. Morris, of GalIipolis. and
former proprietor of the Park Ho-
tel. of that city, has leased the new
Remington House at Pomeroy. o.,
and will open it up to the public
about the 1st of June.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Cuba seems to have dropped out
of sight since the Greeks and the
Turks got together. Weyler would
better take the advantage of the
situation and slip back to Spain,
while the public is not looking.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Inter-States Advertiser is new
Democratic weekly started at Blue
field, this State, with Henry B.
Kits, as editor and proprietor. 1t
is neat geographically, able editor
tally and is bright and newsy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Until free silver the great issue
wins-the sacred duty of every true
reformer of all parties is to unite
in solid free silver phalanx and
fight the single gold standard at
every turn, in every election-city,
county, state and national.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

DIR. E. McElfresh, of Henderson,
DR.. E. L. Gillian, of Letart, and
Dr.. 81. a. Barbee, of this city have
been appointed as members of the
%. S. Pension Board.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Its true we are making great
er efforts, offering nicer goods for
the money than ever before but
the satisfaction of an increasing
trade repays us.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

If the Chicago suggestion, that
"lynching be applied to faithless
officials" be carried out generally
it is to be feared that it will be diff
ficult to obtain quorum in many
a legislative body.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

If the Democrats had slapped
that duty on tea and raised the in
ternal revenue taxes on tobacco and
beer all of which are known as
..free trade" taxes, what howl
would have gone up from every
Republican organ in the land and
from the brassy threats of the how
lers in Congress over the wicked
ness of the Democrats in taxing the
poor mans tea pot.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

THAT sUCH rs TIE CASE rs oUR Trade IS
LaRGER THIS YEdR THAN LIST

Our full line of eolored shirts
representing the finest fitting aud
Iaundried goods in this country,
in the newest patterns to be
found at marvelously low prices.
Rossmore and the famous
Knox hats IN the spring styles
now in. We are sole agents for
above. All the latest styles de-
signed in the John B. Stetson's
unexcelled goods to be found.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

We have confidence this
yea, we feel satisfied that our
line is the best obtainable,
hence we feel certain of sue
cess.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

The wheat crop of this county is
the most promising in years. There
has been more sown this year than
last, promising good yield. The
corn planting this year will not be
as great as last year.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

A man in balloon four miles
above the earth can plainly hear
the barking of a dog. Wonder if
the people in that air ship heard
all the noise made about them2
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Call in aud see those overplaid.
the dressy Clay worsteds we are
selling for $3.50, everyone worth
$1,000. We have them lower or
higher in price. But the above
are gems and will please you.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

It is now said the ladies have
been seeing the air-ship in the
moonshine districts. But we don't
believe it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12
The inter failure of the election

The utter failure of the election
of Mckinley to bring prosperity
has demonstrated that confidence"
as the sole element necessary to
promote and secure the public well
fare is a delusion and fraudulent
pretense. The people of the United
States now know there is no magic
in the name of mckinley and
Protection" to work miracles and
revolutionize the laws of trade and
nature.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Before a man is held account
able to the law, he ought at least
to have some opportunity to ac-
quaint himself with its provisions.
Therecent legislature enacted some
most stringent laws in regard to
many important matters of public
interest, but it seems impossible
tc find any person or any authentic
account of their existence.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12
A fine copy of "Ben Hur" vii
Inchs-6no

A fine copy of 'sBen Hur" will
be given as a prize to the boy OF
girl who sells the greatest number
of tickets for "Ben Hur" in Mono
logue by Charles Montaville Flow
ers, in Trinity M. 3. Church, Mon
day night, May II. General adj
mission % cts; reserved seats 50
cts, on sale at Mohr's.
Misses Alice Neale and Virginia
Lewis, will open an ice cream par
lor, in the Col. Waggener store
room.
Adam took small apple. His
descendants steal large watermel-
ons. This is the age of improve
ment you see.
Sometimes man gets credit for
having sense enough to say moth
ing when the truth is he hasn't
sense enough to say anything.
A boy never expresses the love
he feels for his mother, and seldom
feels the love he expresses for
other women.
The Chapters of the Daughters
of the Confederacy" in Virginia
now aggregate 100 members.
Memorial Day will soon be here
and it is high time that some
preparations are being made to
celebrate it fittingly.
We get the pretty custom of
celebrating gold and silver we'd
dings from Germany.
Bracelets are now made in imi-
tation of bicycle chains, and there
are several varieties.
The town that grows and pros
pers is the one that tries.
We don't believe luck cuts any
figure with pluck and energy.
May is crying too much for a
well regulated young lady.
Tobolsk, Russia, claims to be the
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12
We don't believe luck cuts any
igure with pluck and energy.

May is crying too much for a
well regulated young lady.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Who could help being enticed
to buy when we can show you
patterns in cloths that look like
suits that just fit you
like fashion plate.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

A Russian proverb says that one
pound of learning requires ten
pounds of common sense to apply
it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

The most retroactive feature of
the Dingley bill is the provision
for paying back to the big manu-
facturers their campaign contri-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

One fool makes many, and the
Chicago man knows how to rope
them in. The man who can't af-
ford to take his home paper sends So
to a firm in the Windy City, in an
swer to an advertisement sent in a
circular, for patent fire escape.
He received New Testament.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

It is said now that Gen. Golf, of
Clarkshurg, will succeed Chief
Justice Fields on the Supreme
Court bench, who is about to re-
tire. Thus the General goes up
one step higher, to the great graft
fcation of Republican aspirants
for the United States Senate, who
were afraid he would aspire to the
position.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

The United States Supreme
Court has lately rendered decisions
of interest to the public. One of
these declares that State and
county authorities may seize the
books, time locks and personal
property of bank In order to
facilitate the collection Of a State
tax ON the banks capital. An
other decision says that the law
requiring the trains of railway
wholly within given State to
stop at county seats through which
they pass is valid. Any State may
therefore enact such a law.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

a healthy man or woman aver
ages 20 steps minute in walking.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12
NOTE.

To all lady bicycle riders
of our city and vicinity
Bring your bicycles to Fill
son Bros. and get them
pumped up and oiled dur
ing the season, Free of
Charge.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

The town that grows and pros
pers is the one that tries.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Before the election the laboring
man was told that the only way to
maintain their wages was to de-
feat the free and unlimited coin
age of silver. The laboring man
blindly did what he was told, and
acting on that advice helped to de-
feat silver. The laboring man
blindly did what he was told, and
acting on that advice helped to
defeat silver.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

8'1,1-l,l-1-1-11l-1ll, l.l-l,l-l-l-l-ll-s
The Red Cross
In the old days used to be on the
shields of the knights. Now you
viii find It on the face of
JoInson's BeIIadonna Plaster
which cures all the pains, aches
and distresses that can be got ct
from the outside of the body. Even
the ieaping agony of neuralgia dies
away under It's touch. Yes, and
muscular rheumatism, too. Better
than ofntments or Hniments. Its
friends are al who have used r.
JOHNSON q JOHNSON
Manufacturing Chemistss New York
- 800 go - - 90
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

The new tariff will be as high as
the Mckinley law. Everybody
knows that the Mckinley law in
creased the cost of all necessaries
of life. The new law will do the
same thing. The object of the
law is to raise wages and provide
revenue. But will it do either?-
Nobody will be benefited but the
protected manufacturer.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

FILsON BRO. $ HARDWARE.
HICKS
| test Prediction.
~

find in looking into the
heavens withmy large tele-.
scope a cloud that is away
below all it's companions,
and by a careful study l
find written on this cloud
the word Pyramid, and by
a still closer observation |
find the name
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

1t seems impossible to concede
that a tax on the sale of one
original package is unconstitution-
al, and tax on the sale of another
original package is proper and
lawful. We fear the Supreme
Court has laid down a principle
that will return to plague them
hereafter.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Prof. Peter Steenbergen's Anch-
or High School will close next Fri
day. 1t has been popular and
well taught school.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Reports from Rio Verde Valley,
Mexico, say that Al persons were
killed in a hail storm that did tre-
mendous damage to the crops.
On one hacienda II farm hands
were killed by hailstones, some of
which weighed three pounds each.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Gold is going out of the United
States Treasury at the rate of
seven million dollars per week.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12
The authorities OF Ritohie coun-

The authorities of Ritchie coun-
ty raided the "speakeasies" of
CORVALLIS and Cairo. At Corn
wallis five wagon loads of illicit
sellers and the contents of their re-
sorts were taken and started for
Harrisville. Enroute, it is report
ed, everybody got full and every
prisoner escaped.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

About 10000 widows are mar
RED every year in France.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Sometimes man gets credit for
having sense enough to say moth
ing when the truth is he hasn't
sense enough to say anything.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

The Greater New York Bill is
now law. The new city covers a
territory of 3594 square miles, 80
miles long and 16 miles wide, with
an estimated population of about
100000, second in both respects
only to London.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

For the past two years there has
been no graduating class ftom our
High school What is wrong9
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

Adam took small apple. His
descendants steal large watermel-
ons. This is the age of improve
ment you see.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12

The year 1897 has been thus far
one of the most remarkable in our
history in respect of destruction by
fires, floods and tornadoes.